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How much did you guys leave out of that original story 3 years ago that hasn't already been told? I thought I remember you both posting something about almost dying from fake booze years ago.
seems like something like is what's happened to gweilo60 after he uploaded a couple videos the ccp did not like. now he is spouting all kinds of party propoganda. he owns property there so they can really twist his arm..
People respect you two because of your ethics and integrity. Yet you schill for Nord VPN and lie about how great they are. NORD was hacked less than a year ago and admitted to personal information being stolen, yet here you are saying how amazing they are. Do you two really use NORD? I didn't think so. I refuse to donate to your cause until you stop schilling and talking about how great NORD is. You need to inform your subscribers how they were hacked when you schill for them, or you need to drop the company. I hope that pay generously, because my bi-weekly donations sure did....
When this video, was first posted, it was available in HK. After I watched a few minutes, I paused it, and didn't get to unpause until the next morning. By then, the video was blocked. - The youtube channel is not blocked in HK. - this particular video is. - can move around the issue with a VPN. This did not used to happen in Hong Kong, but now it appears they are starting to block anti-CCP content.
CCP is no longer honoring the Basic Law, Hong Kong autonomy is sadly no more. Social credit scores, dna databasing, home searches all happening by HK police now.
The temple is not for any God in our religion, it's in memorial of people who died in exploitation of Taiwan's east cost. We had a tradition that if any person do something really grateful but eventually sacrificed, local people would worship that person as a new God/Godness because he/she deserves our respect and piety. Living in Taiwan is definitely adventurous because this small island is full of natural disasters, and this makes we Taiwanese appreciate anyone who are willing to help us. We are very wlilling help people who are in ergent need, vice versa. Hope the spreading of Covid-19 could calm down ASAP. ---a comment from Taiwan
I hope Trump helps Taiwan by recognizing the Taiwanese Government as the legitimate Government of China and I hope Xi Jinping's regime collapses forcing Taiwan's Government to take charge and begin the social education of the people to bring them into the 21st century. Good luck Taiwan and I wish the greedy representatives of the world hadn't turned their back on your amazing country.
@@Disgruntled_Old_Man Taiwan's usual friends support independence, but probably not the OG vision of owning the mainland. Pooh will seem nicer if he leaves TW and HK alone, and stops government racism esp against muslims and black people
The roadside temple you visited is probably worshipping construction workers who sacrificed their lives while building the road in the mountainous terrain. The temples and religions are very interesting parts in Taiwanese culture.
@somercet1 - The root of the word is "workship" AFAIU. You practice ritual, study, rememberance and all that. You put effort into honoring. "Veneration" doesn't seem to have such a strong implication of putting considerable effort into the act of honoring.
That is true. Taiwan has numerous Chinese traditions. It also has extensive Japanese style Shinto. And being a former European outpost, it also has Christians. Finally it has indigenous stuff from pre-Chinese tribal people.
@@Dowlphin Just want to correct you on the etymology of 'Worship'. It's not from 'Workship', its from West Saxon 'weord' meaning 'worthy' and -scipe meaning 'condition of'. Roughly translating as the act of 'being in the condition of being worthy, showing dignity and respect, having distinction'. Nothing about work or having to perform actions, per se.
emplemon has similar ads. I wonder where it might have started it also seems like they have a lot more time on their hands because of this pandemic. They appear to be a lot more active in the comment.
I laughed when he booted up the iMac and was typing on the old Mac. Wonder if that thing still turns on? I had one in high school and that thing was expensive. Only 20 MB of hard drive I think.
I just hauled two weeks' groceries upstairs into my apartment, likewise in a leather jacket. It took all my willpower to not complain. If only I had some sort of racial bonus!
China makes me so sad. I loved visiting there, thought about moving there 10 years ago. The ancient culture is fascinating, the landscape is gorgeous, the people can be very kind. And now the CCP has made the country into a dystopia.
For those unaware, the Communist Party had a specific policy to destroy any and all examples of "ancient" , non-Marxist culture in China. The "Cultural Revolution" and the "Great Leap Forward" sought to wipe anything distinctly Chinese from their history and culture to create a new, modern, Marxist-Leninist society. Mao wiped away any trace of the primitive Chinese and replaced it with European Bolshevik culture. So there is almost nothing in mainland China that remained of ancient Chinese culture after the 1950s, unless it was able to be reincarnated as to advance Communism.
@ munchkin42... Yes, but Taiwan is a different country, not a province of the People's Republic of China. Nationalist Chinese maintained the actual ancient Chinese customs, tradition, culture, religion, language, values, etc. But you cannot find them in mainland, Communist controlled China.
@Serial Thrilla... The CCP discarded millennia of Chinese philosophical tradition to embrace the ramblings of a failed 19th century European Rabbinical student and amateur economist! In the irony of ironies, the CCP today attempts to spread Communist Chinese power and influence under the guise of "culture" through establishment of "The Confucius Institutes" throughout the world. Yet during the Cultural Revolution the CCP tried to destroy everything related to Confucius, including desecrating his and his family's graves, and eliminated any traces of Confucius that could not be warped to reinforce Karl Marx's European Bolshevik philosophy!
Then you wonder why that one white chick in that Hong Kong protest was arguing against freedom in the middle of the protest. The people shouting for safety over freedom are always the ones who have more money in their pockets. Remember that.
My wife of 28 years is from Tainan Taiwan and she is the kindest internally strongest and best mother I have ever known. While living in Taiwan I found the people to be quite innocent warm and gentle yet extremely competitive among themselves.
@@boots7859 Don't jump on the China = Communist wagon. Once they might have been Communist and it's in their government's name, but they are far from socialist or communist now. Sure they're an authoritarian one-party state, but they have more in common with far right now.
@@ShanghaiGoat Far right LOL ? I think you mean left, the left is for censorship look at google and facebook, the right is for gun ownership and limited government. The left ( Bernie SAnders) is for socialsim and the government controlling the money, next step communism.
I really like that you didn't cut out parts that wasn't necessarily on topic, gives it a more relaxed feel. Also i really hope Taiwan gets to reintroduce real Chinese culture to the mainland one day, the CCP would have to go though.
It's being taken back all the time. It's where they had to get the tea drinking ceremony from, not that many can actually do it properly. They just end up making soup and it's gross.
It is pretty much the same as the stories from my grandparents and parent about their life in Soviet Union satellite state Czechoslovakia. Mottos like "Who doesn't steal is stealing from his family" shaped the whole society. People used to take even the most basic things like paper clips, cutlery from cantine, plates, whatever could be taken, was taken. And the corruption was rampant, but instead of cigs it was mostly for the ability to buy "western" stuff in tuzex shops. This required different currency than the local one and it spun a whole black market around it too.
I suspect that officials in these cultures like widespread corruption because it gives them the extra arbitrary power to go after someone they don't like while making them appear to be doing their jobs. But history has shown that the greatest wealth is always created under a rule of law that applies equally to everyone and where everyone has equal access to enter the economy using their highest skills. Corruption bleeds a nation by a thousand cuts.
Same thing, Russia. But in our case we still haven't been able to get real democracy / market economy going, so we're kinda stuck in that mafia-authoritarian thing we call home. High taxes, low welfare, low wages, limited free speech and propaganda. Government officials and their friends all have rich palaces in Europe and America. You're lucky, brothers.
@@midge_gender_solek3314 ..I feel your pain..There is no Reason that Russia Should have to suffer this, other than politics and an embedded legacy of corruption.I think Putin is trying to stitch a great nation back together after the fall of communism but his training is KGB... a lack of Democracy is not an issue for him.Your country has the brains and nearly unlimited resources to become wealthy.All it lacks is the moral backbone of its people, that (in my opinion) have been so completely Squashed by the communists that it will be a long road home..Thankyou and god bless russia..Cheers..!
Reminds me of when I lived in Belgium--there, every business keeps two sets of books. As the saying goes, "tax evasion is the national sport". And little wonder why. It's not because people want to be malicious or greedy. It's because tax rates are literally so outrageous, no one could afford to have a business if they actually paid it all. No exaggeration.
In Norway we have free healthcare and schools and high taxes on everything, but i think most people think it´s good to have free healthcare and schools.
Well, if people aren't paying taxes like they should in Belgium, it is hard to compete as a business that are legit. It is not a matter of the taxes being high in most cases, it is that the competition plays by the same rules. This is probably a bit simplified, but if this has been done for a long time, it can be hard to change it! Culture can play a lot into this as well, I guess, too, since you mention a saying regarding it :)
In India it depends on who you are and where you work...If you work in a government job. taxes are directly removed from your salary. but if you are working in private you can evade tax. some do some don't(Some steal lots of money and then run abroad with government helping them and there are people who Flex about paying High tax money... but yeah corruption still is a very big problem here. (The politicians are the main corrupts )
True, I worked in a Fortune 500 company, paid more taxes than nearly every Chinese makes salary and yet went from office to office, from Guangdong to Shandong, back and forth. When I asked if that's legal, they said don't worry. :D
You guys have massive effect with your videos, even if it was just me who found your channels 6-9 months ago watching, I've talked to countless people in all types of conversations and different types of people whenever China gets brought up I am able to go further with credible information and can bring light to people who maybe don't have the time that I have to spend finding information about political/international subjects as an 18 year old about the true state of China and the CCP as well as the difference between Mainland China, and ROC/Taiwan
Apart from they arnt credible information , two guys that lived in a country that weren't high up in any field is really when you think about the least credible information. Try look up on news articles or experience China yourself. I feel like this channel has gone down hill it's sad they were great before now it's just so biased it is a form of brainwashing
@@jetaku17 What you mean is that you liked them when they were in China and only spoke positively. Now that they are out of China, they can speak freely and tell the truths that they weren't able to while living in a dictatorship. Of course they will be telling you what they couldn't before. They are very fair overall. You can't just claim that China is all good and no bad. You can ignore it, but it will still be there. I lived in Hong Kong when the press was still free and learned Chinese. I travelled to China for business and leisure. I know what it is or was like, they are quite accurate. Each one is just one tiny piece of reality. The only issue is if someone who listens only to recent ones thinks that that is everything. The thing about reality is that some people don't experience parts of it and deny it when told so. Also, you can see it every day but pretend it doesn't exist. It's an amazing capability people have.
Yes repeat what they say think what they tell you go forward and spew it to more uneducated people who don't just laugh in your face. Brainwashing at an entry level but works apparently
@@SiameseCats4ever Competing versions of reality. Only those who know different versions truly understand. They are the quiet ones, while the ones who know little yap on about their reality. Truth is everyone is a bit right and a bit wrong. Some more than others.
They did and now I have one. I got a my own motorcycle after I did this exact trip on a scooter around Taiwan. The roads and scenery are amazing, I'll have to go back.
Definitely one of the places I want to visit. Have a couple friends there. So far I've never traveled out side of north America. Only once to Canada to visit family. I have to get my passport first though.
Taiwan, a country I don't know much about admittedly. But the fact one of the few things I've heard is praise and respect for the government really makes it stand out. I posted this off of a huawei, 3...2...1... Bricked pho...
Great video but also great ad! You guys do the best vpn ads. I don't even feel like I'm watching one haha. Also we used to make fun of my dad for saying things like "quit faffing around" because we doubted it was a real word. But I think you're the first person I've heard say it besides my dad.
Js790 I think you are in a better position as an atheist to have a moral compass. You have not bent your mind around a set of beliefs in order to benefit from religous membership. You are true to yourself. In my experience those that flaunt their religion are already in the act of deceit. There are exceptions of course.
Actually athiests are more likely to be a bad person, because their sense of "right and wrong" are defined by what the people around them think is right and wrong. Their moral compass has no consistency, because without good and evil being defined, good and evil just become "whatever you think in the moment" This is especially true when they realize that they can get away with being evil if no one is watching. If no one makes a fuss, it isn't bad right? If someone is true to their faith, they will have a consistent moral compass, and still do the right thing, even when no one is watching.
@@Mechagodzilla128 Nope. Totally wrong. Atheists are most likely good people precisely because they don't need a religion to tell them to be good. If you need the fear of being punished with hell to do what is good, then you're not genuinely good in the first place. And also, you're extremely naive if you think religions are what make people good. In fact, most tragedies in human history happened in the name of religion. Religious people are capable of the worst in human nature, just as anybody else. Not only that, they're capable of harming other people in the name of their religion. There could be atheists that could harm others just the same but they'd never do it in the name of Atheism. And guess what? Statistically, atheist are much less likely to be bad than religious people because they're not bound by your sense of pretentious morality. They don't have to be good just because someone is watching. They're good because they want to be.
@@Mechagodzilla128 Well there are multiple factors in how religion or lack of it can affect things but I think main factor is that people are practical creatures. There are religions that teach how killing is bad, yet people who claim to be believe in those ignore it in fights, wars, executions, even holy wars are thing aka when it does not suit them. There are also things for instance in Bible about women being objects and having/beating slaves is ok and so on, people who follow Bible in choose to ignore those parts because they judge it by their inner compass and by compass of society they live in. By that extension you can say that religion does not have that much of influence on these things because people just adapt it when it suits them(that why LGBT, women rights, etc are ok in Christianity eyes while in old Christianity they would be problem, people adapted religion). One of issues with religion is that there is time lag between change of society and change of religion and that can lead to some nasty stuff like stoning people and believing that they do right thing because their religion says so. Base of our inner moral compass is given to us by evolution, we evolved as social species, so things like empathy are held up and things like murder are looked down to since social species that didnt do that died out. Atheism on other hand does not affect these things because its absence of religion and has nothing to do with moral compass. You can say they are also affected by their inner moral compass and compass of society. That compass is still there "when no one is watching" so they are equally likely to do right thing as religious person. I would say that religious person that is held back just by that their god may be watching is not really good person, but I dont believe that people are like that and I dont think they would change much if they found out that their god is not looking. Likeliness of people from both groups being good or bad in both cases mostly equal since main factors are same, with only main difference without religion, good people do good things and bad people do bad things, but religion can make good people do bad things.
@@AKAKiddo on the contrary as an atheist one's morals are usually anchored in customs and cultural norms which is subject to change. On the other hand religious people anchor their morals in their beliefs which are consiered sacred and hence not subject change. In other words while atheists are perfectly capable of being moral there is no guarantee that their morals will remain the same.
In Australia, certain indigenous-community-help organisations will take false "stock photos" of damaged houses (I.e. they're called to investigate faulty plumbing, will "take photos" of a destroyed/graffiti'd bathroom, recieve funding to fix the mess in the photo, and only have to spend the amount to fix say, a blocked pipe) Meanwhile children are literally dying from malnutrition and lack of healthcare in remote communities (Namely the ones that are less well known about, most will have at least a medical centre) The entire indigenous help system here is more or less an utter scam, and the recent destruction of a sacred site by a mining corporation (With explicit federal government permission) proves that the government doesn't give a single fuck about the aborigine people, and it completely nullifies the apology made by our former PM on the fed's behalf.
I just wanted to say to you guys, thanks for the videos. As an Australian I have a big interest in China and what is happening there, and you guys having lived there for so long are a great source of information. Thank you please keep spreading the truth about China. And as a by note, I am proud that our governemnt is finally starting to stand up to China, China has just put a travel warning out not to travel to Australia because of racist violence which is nonesense and its just China trying to strong arm Australia into backing down. Finally our government has a backbone!
Lived in a lot of places in the West and Midwest of the US. Perhaps the most blatantly obvious place where getting anything done depended more on who you knew than the actual law was New Mexico. But still compared to the Philippines or Mexico the low-level corruption was minimal.
In a restaurant once, they used to have a metal pitcher to fill up the corn pots. The dudes would use the same pitcher to scoop out mop water at the end of the day, wondered why the corn water was soapy first thing in the morning so complaints were made and got this changed. Dinner plates were near the floor under the slicer, mop water was thrown on the ground and splashed on the plates every night. Filters for vents were cleaned with chemicals near the end of the night and stuck back up above the char grill, would drip on the food below cooking. The assistant manager or employees would drop racks of ribs on the ground the manager would pick them back up but just rinse them off with water then re sauce them. He picked up chicken off the ground many times and did not even rinse them. Bloody pork was served. Breaded catfish, garlic bread, deli paper, coke/soda, fruit punch, green beans, mac n cheese, deep fryer oil all were added to the "bean meat" anything creative they could think of to stick in there but that's not so bad right. Deep fried steaks have been served. The worse is a owner came up to show the guys how to use a slicer even though they had been doing it for years. He cuts his thumb. Blood goes all over the slicer, blade n all. The assistant manager comes up wipes the blade with a dry towel then starts slicing meat, no sanitation. Just saying even if one does not participate in this one is around it so much and not able to change it, it just becomes normal. My self personally have not cooked in a restaurant for almost 10 years.
I love the Taiwanese scenery! You should switch the show from mainland China to Taiwan without changing the "ADVChina" name, since Taiwan is the real China.
The phrase ”real China” will probably annoy some Taiwanese since they don't want any connection with China, neither name or ethnicity. Ppl who immigrated from the mainland to Taiwan in the 40s may still think they are Chinese, but Millennials and Generation Z just want to get rid of the name of China, which is currently still on their Passport.
Xiaozhou Ye I understand what you are saying, because I have seen someone from Taiwan vehemently claim, “I’m not Chinese, I’m Taiwanese!” That said, their official name is still the Republic of China, right?
12:45 Taiwan is like Japan, their distribution of financial services is so efficient that they are not pressured to upgrade to digital payments. In Japan where adoption of digital payments is so slow because their current system is so efficient. Where as inefficient countries like China or India really need digital payments to offset those inefficiencies. In India, alot of people dont have citizenship documents and papers or even bank accounts that they need to digitize everything now with only their biometrics as identifier
HEY guys...longtime follower here and love the content...but my comment is for your self made commercials...I LOVE them...they are sort of dorky with retro elements but being someone that used and built computers before there was an internet...I appreciate them. Keep it up! I always get a good laugh...but seriously...today's was super with a screen shot of a padlock. HAHA!
I just got some face masks from China yesterday. It was made from some weird mesh with 1mm wide holes and the elastic to put around your ears would only stretch to about 1inch square. The total mask size was just enough to cover my mouth but not my mouth and nose. Complete rubbish and that is exactly where it went.
Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that your videos encouraged me to learn Chinese. Despite the current events, I still think it is a beautiful language.
@M T the true expression of chinese culture is decided by the chinese btw not by the West. Btw chinese history cultures is everywhere if you visit China,
@@jetaku17 Do not pay attention to them. They think China is some sort of hell. They want a "sanitized & christianized" version of China. Appareantly that would be traditional.
Another great video shot in beautiful Taiwan (much more interesting than those industrial roads in Vietnam) on amazing roads that I've ridden on myself and actually remember these actual roads. I have to go back and do it on a real motorcycle next. I remember that you guys started your Taiwan trip just after I had left the country in 2018.
I think there is no lock down in Taiwan. They have advanced health system that will monitor incoming foreigner or mainland Chinese for COVID-9 instead. That is why they have only 440+ cases and 7 deaths due to this pandemic.
Corruption here in India can be found in every sector where people need official document with the stamp of state or central government, in my city people used get driving licence without even showing up for any test or exam. Corruption in construction and infrastructure development projects are another big issue.
Slipping in fake booze into a biz built on verified product seems extremely counterintuitive. Are you sure the Western liquor dealer wasn't set up? (either by the powers that be or them pressuring his Chinese partner into it)
@@paulbarufaldi1075 My theory is that the established system is so alien to the way things are done in the free market(the new way), that system doesn't have faith that they will understand or succeed in the new way. Maybe with all the young people coming to Western countries for education they can change the elder commies? So maybe halt higher level sensitive research in Western Uni but encourage business and liberal arts ed?
Well the sad fact is - it's all lies. I am the foreigner they are talking about - when did I get "busted" - never? Where are my "Chinese partners" - I don't have any. Ironically, we use NFC chip based technology on every bottle that shows the entire custody chain of the product through our own bespoke smart phone app, from distillery to consumer. The only system like this in the world. But, these two are obviously getting desperate for some attention from the mainland audience (who were bored of them both years ago) and are trying to soil my name to get some attention. Rather desperate.
@@paulbarufaldi1075 Well I guess that makes me the only exception to your theory? Well, I'm not the only exception. The vast majority of foreign owned companies that I know manage to keep their integrity AND comply with local laws.
I think it's a feat in many authoritarian countries that regulations/permits are knowingly impractical but violations are being ignored, merely so that if the authorities want to crack down on you they can always cite violations and whatnot.
@@ADVChina Would you consider doing a video on possible reasons for the difference of say Taiwan, South Korea & Japan and their post WWII economic development which has produced much more democratic & humane politics as opposed to Chinese politics which have become more authoritarian (and worse) since China has become more economically prosperous? Why is China unique in that prosperity in China has brought out the worst in Chinese politics as opposed to what has happened in Taiwan, South Korea & Japan?
That would be funny, but they made this Taiwan video almost a year ago. The chances are that the crazy, racially heat-adapted cyclist we saw had since been religiously watching every ADV China, SerpentZA and Laowhy86 video for many months wondering if/ hoping that he would see himself on a video. But he could have given up even just this past week, bed-ridden by the CCP Wuhan Flu, he took a break from the internet whilst he recovers. So despite his loyalty and efforts he will not ever see himself in the video... Let alone see your comment! Damn you, CCP!
Thanks for going back to driving. That's why I watch. I don't mind the stops, restaurants, hotels, whatever you encounter, just the sitting in a studio and talking is not my cup of tea. Great stuff! Love it.
I'm Chinese so I can confirm how prevalent this culture of corruption is. It is almost a social norm. If you are too law-abiding or honest, you are then seen as a naive, pathetic and even stupid person. Being flexible and not following the norm on paper, you are then seen as smart, clever and sensible. I think my parents are actually honest and law-abiding, but they have been worried about me since I was young because I'm so stubborn not to be 'flexible' in my life. My family is middle class and by far I'm just a student and I don't really need to worry about making a living, which makes it much easier for me to ignore and defy this culture. But what about the others? What about those people who want to get better off themselves and support the ones they love? Once you start to do it and get used to it, it will be hard to abandon this habit. A similar problem also very much dominated the other Northeast Asian countries during their developmental phase. I really hope the more China is developed the less prevalent this problem will be in the future. And if I work in China one day after I finish my study, Chinese society will be cleaner and I don't need to face temptations.
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How is it hearsay to tell your personal experience? Good for you but like everyone doing business there, you know that you pay officials to stay in business. If you don't they would just close you. How does it feel to be part of a corrupt system to make money? I am curious as I never experienced it myself since I am able to make money without having to walk on my morals.
As an American with 3 decades teaching at the secondary and university levels, I was recruited to teach at a Chinese academy for the 2018-2019 academic year for some serious money. I left my position as a university lecturer in Europe to give it a go. Strangely, my contract was with one campus where I only taught once a week. 4 days a week I was at the sister campus on the other end of the same town. The Chinese director ran both of them and both were listed under the Ambright American partnership. Over time I found out the two were very different in important ways. The International academy I spent 4 days a week was for profit on a larger, renown public campus. The 1 day a week campus that I was contracted was a new NGO owned by the Chinese government with a massive amount of investment designed for thousands of students, yet having only 16 attending. Strange to say the least. A higher education official who covered for the director's activities retired, and his replacement started investigating this arrangement. Near the end of the year, the handful of us who worked both campuses were called in for questioning. The others called in were young and nervous, while I was not being a couple decades older, planning to leave given the monkey business, and having a real F.U. attitude. I was finally questioned last, pissed already for wasting my time and called in to have some young Chinese official in his early 30s trying to be intimidating. He spoke English but refused to use it insisting on using his female interpreter and another female taking notes. Let's just say having first taught overseas right after the fall of the Soviet Union and dealing with Russian mafia, I was confident I could deal with their little game. I refused to sit where told, across the table from the official and instead took the chair and sat right next to him. That startled the shit out of him. I think it lasted only two minutes at the most. They showed me my contract for me to verify that is indeed the one I signed and wanted to confirm I resigned. Yes and yes, that was all, "you may leave." Since I had to wait over an hour for just this, I stayed and asked him if those were his only questions. He seemed a bit irritated now. I think I made my point. I taught the last 6 weeks teaching only 4 classes once a week at my contracting school getting full salary. When the academy tried to say they would pay me less, I bullshited the director messaging her, we called her the empress, that this official keeps wanting me to answer more questions but I was ignoring him and saying nothing. It was false, but I knew it would rattle her cage. She even offered to pay in full for the whole contract without any further teaching needed if I just left. Not trusting her, I agreed to not teaching any additional classes but would not leave until the deposit hit my Chinese bank account. I spent the last two weeks not working at all, just traveling and enjoying seeing more of China and flew out the day after my full contract was paid, which was weeks before the other staff. I had many great experiences with the Chinese people because I strongly dislike the expat bubbles. The CCP and the corrupt system is another story. Keep up the good work guys! P.S. I was embarrassed by the low quality of foreign teachers in China. I would not even call them teachers, just foreign faces pretending to be.
I had similar experiences, except that I refused to go to the other campuses. I also left with full payment as I threaten to report the school board that was blackmailing other teachers for free teaching hours after they went to teach to other campuses and got told that they broke the law. What a shit show China was compared to every other countries I teached in.
@@whiskeyjack915 Let's really celebrate the end of the CCP Virus extreme quarantine measures by having big "Congratulations to the Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's re-election! If you want to piss the CCP off, that's how you do it. That's what I shall be doing this weekend.
Hi guys, thank you for your service. I have a residence, employment visa and apartment in Shanghai. I'm currently in South Korea. Do you have any estimate on when China will reopen their borders to foreigners?
it is is open already, but there are fewer flights and enforced quarantining at your own expense. Try not to enter China at Beijing, however Hong King is restricted just now.
This would not be the right place to get information about China, they don't live there an df don't like the place. If you really want to give living in China a a crack best to go to some less biased TH-camrs
I am glad you guys are speaking up about China. Perhaps one day the government will change and you’ll be able to go back there without threat of harassment or imprisonment
Honestly they probably would because they need more contents to bag on China more. I feel for their extended families, wives, children who will see this and feel they must hate their ethnicity. Though on little kids
If you think he's crazy going up, on a half-decent road he'll be pulling around 60mph on the way down. On tyres 23mm wide.🤘 That guy did sound German initially, but he did say perfect without much accent (I'm British). I'm a little on the fence, but I'll go German.🤔
Racial bonus and Stonks references made this episode over the top good. Two obsure and funny culture references, one to D&D and the other to Wall Street Bets reddit. Yes!
I read on a blog from a teacher who had been teaching in a primary school in Taiwan. She explained that there shouldn’t be foreigners teaching in that school and when officials Came to inspect the school all the foreign teachers had to hide in a cupboard. But the officials knew full well foreign teachers were teaching there because there own children attended that school. And they wanted their children taught by foreigners for the betterment of their English language skills.
So funny how they keep remarking how friendly they are in Taiwan cause they are trying to tell that in China people are not friendly, I see lots of friendly people in China wherever I go, they are very friendly indeed with foreigners
@@rdissmart i like china and i like taiwan and will be as unbaised as i can I once watched a documentary about Taiwan's brainwashing, Young man 2 or third generation Taiwanese was asked byba reporter why he hated China, the typical answer, they want to take away freedoms not nice people, no manners, China wants to take Taiwan by force etc. Then the reporter asked a few questions about where he heard this information, schools, tv, talking to friends The reporter asks him have you been to China and he says yes once Shanghai The reporter then asks what did you think of the place, it was good clean, nice people etc The reporter asked if he felt unsafe , guy no The reporter asked did you feel the chinese were rude, he said no but maybe because it was a big city, The reporter asked did you feel like you were being watched or you had no freedoms or people you met has no freedoms, guy says no The outcome of this documentary is that brainwashing is powerful, ever after seeing with you own eyes your brain can still convince you otherwise Btw chinese people are no more racist then other countries, you will allways get racism with a country that isn't multicultural
I am living in Germany where big car industry and politics are trying to avoid the law to sell their dirty and cheap cars as "clean" still they get financial help from the politics. So yes, corruption still exists here at big scale too
It's a persona, ment to mean cool Just like his suit ment success. They always say dress for the role you want. Hopefully he gets there eventually seems like hard work
Here is Canada, larger companies will not pay their employees the full hours. It's not just done to one employee but a bunch of them across the entire region. The employers will pay the employees a few weeks later but the money that they did not pay out is collecting interest for that time. It's called "Banking Hours" and it's criminal. Loblaws is infamous for the practice and has been busted a few times.
Feel like I have to be Captain Obvious for a little while. If you have a big channel like these guys have and you want to release content on a regular basis. How do you do it? Well one option is to sit at home and talk in front of a backdrop. That can quickly become stale unless your content is really, really good. Or you can travel around like they do in this video. But. Unless you have unlimited funds you can't travel around all the time just to have fresh content. So. You do the occasional traveling and you film a helluvalot during that time. Then you chunk it up in smaller pieces and release it whenever you feel like it's suitable. Unless you're talking about recent events it doesn't really matter if it was filmed a year or two ago. It's still new and fresh to the viewers.
do you have a video that explains (or can you explain) what you said near the end of this video about 'forced to make overseas transfers' @ 16:38 please?
Oh god, if only they didn't set the people alight, stab people, kills people, through explosives, beat everyone who has a different view. If only, then I would support them
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How much did you guys leave out of that original story 3 years ago that hasn't already been told? I thought I remember you both posting something about almost dying from fake booze years ago.
@treos2 Just click the arrow key then, it skips 5 seconds ahead and if you hold it down long enough it starts to skip 10-20-30 seconds ahead.
seems like something like is what's happened to gweilo60 after he uploaded a couple videos the ccp did not like. now he is spouting all kinds of party propoganda. he owns property there so they can really twist his arm..
People respect you two because of your ethics and integrity. Yet you schill for Nord VPN and lie about how great they are.
NORD was hacked less than a year ago and admitted to personal information being stolen, yet here you are saying how amazing they are.
Do you two really use NORD? I didn't think so.
I refuse to donate to your cause until you stop schilling and talking about how great NORD is.
You need to inform your subscribers how they were hacked when you schill for them, or you need to drop the company.
I hope that pay generously, because my bi-weekly donations sure did....
When this video, was first posted, it was available in HK. After I watched a few minutes, I paused it, and didn't get to unpause until the next morning. By then, the video was blocked.
- The youtube channel is not blocked in HK.
- this particular video is.
- can move around the issue with a VPN.
This did not used to happen in Hong Kong, but now it appears they are starting to block anti-CCP content.
CCP is no longer honoring the Basic Law, Hong Kong autonomy is sadly no more. Social credit scores, dna databasing, home searches all happening by HK police now.
@@charliewernette HK brought it upon itself. Why should only one side respect a deal?
@@velkarra471 Because they agreed to it.
Velkarra 🖕🏻
Feel sorry for you Jeffrey Lee it's probably going to get a lot worse if the Ccp has its way.
The temple is not for any God in our religion, it's in memorial of people who died in exploitation of Taiwan's east cost. We had a tradition that if any person do something really grateful but eventually sacrificed, local people would worship that person as a new God/Godness because he/she deserves our respect and piety. Living in Taiwan is definitely adventurous because this small island is full of natural disasters, and this makes we Taiwanese appreciate anyone who are willing to help us. We are very wlilling help people who are in ergent need, vice versa.
Hope the spreading of Covid-19 could calm down ASAP.
---a comment from Taiwan
Yes their Beliefs, their Freedom.
I hope Trump helps Taiwan by recognizing the Taiwanese Government as the legitimate Government of China and I hope Xi Jinping's regime collapses forcing Taiwan's Government to take charge and begin the social education of the people to bring them into the 21st century. Good luck Taiwan and I wish the greedy representatives of the world hadn't turned their back on your amazing country.
Thank you! We really like getting to know more details. Taiwan seems amazing
Taiwan make great hand tools too. Long live Taiwan!
@@Disgruntled_Old_Man Taiwan's usual friends support independence, but probably not the OG vision of owning the mainland. Pooh will seem nicer if he leaves TW and HK alone, and stops government racism esp against muslims and black people
The roadside temple you visited is probably worshipping construction workers who sacrificed their lives while building the road in the mountainous terrain. The temples and religions are very interesting parts in Taiwanese culture.
@somercet1 - The root of the word is "workship" AFAIU. You practice ritual, study, rememberance and all that. You put effort into honoring.
"Veneration" doesn't seem to have such a strong implication of putting considerable effort into the act of honoring.
That is true. Taiwan has numerous Chinese traditions. It also has extensive Japanese style Shinto. And being a former European outpost, it also has Christians. Finally it has indigenous stuff from pre-Chinese tribal people.
@@777jones Taiwan is the origin for austronesian people, like Madagascar people
@@Dowlphin
Just want to correct you on the etymology of 'Worship'. It's not from 'Workship', its from West Saxon 'weord' meaning 'worthy' and -scipe meaning 'condition of'. Roughly translating as the act of 'being in the condition of being worthy, showing dignity and respect, having distinction'. Nothing about work or having to perform actions, per se.
your VPN ads are hilarious. Your guys' sense of humour is in the right place
I went to the comments just to commend matt on the aesthetics of the ads!
@@verticalmatt
emplemon has similar ads. I wonder where it might have started it also seems like they have a lot more time on their hands because of this pandemic. They appear to be a lot more active in the comment.
I laughed when he booted up the iMac and was typing on the old Mac. Wonder if that thing still turns on? I had one in high school and that thing was expensive. Only 20 MB of hard drive I think.
@@uwsinned that is nuts
I think there's a law preventing you to complain about the heat while wearing a leather jacket.
I just hauled two weeks' groceries upstairs into my apartment, likewise in a leather jacket. It took all my willpower to not complain. If only I had some sort of racial bonus!
It makes perfect sense to wear leather jacket in heat since it makes you cool
@@tomas.bednar ayyy lmao
It's called the law of thermodynamics.
There is but it's selectively enforced
China makes me so sad. I loved visiting there, thought about moving there 10 years ago. The ancient culture is fascinating, the landscape is gorgeous, the people can be very kind. And now the CCP has made the country into a dystopia.
Ancient culture? You mean the 1950s?
@@JesusTouchedMyJunk @Jesus Touched My Junk, no they mean the history of China as a nation
For those unaware, the Communist Party had a specific policy to destroy any and all examples of "ancient" , non-Marxist culture in China.
The "Cultural Revolution" and the "Great Leap Forward" sought to wipe anything distinctly Chinese from their history and culture to create a new, modern, Marxist-Leninist society.
Mao wiped away any trace of the primitive Chinese and replaced it with European Bolshevik culture.
So there is almost nothing in mainland China that remained of ancient Chinese culture after the 1950s, unless it was able to be reincarnated as to advance Communism.
@ munchkin42... Yes, but Taiwan is a different country, not a province of the People's Republic of China. Nationalist Chinese maintained the actual ancient Chinese customs, tradition, culture, religion, language, values, etc. But you cannot find them in mainland, Communist controlled China.
@Serial Thrilla... The CCP discarded millennia of Chinese philosophical tradition to embrace the ramblings of a failed 19th century European Rabbinical student and amateur economist!
In the irony of ironies, the CCP today attempts to spread Communist Chinese power and influence under the guise of "culture" through establishment of "The Confucius Institutes" throughout the world.
Yet during the Cultural Revolution the CCP tried to destroy everything related to Confucius, including desecrating his and his family's graves, and eliminated any traces of Confucius that could not be warped to reinforce Karl Marx's European Bolshevik philosophy!
'Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." ~1st Corinthians 15:33
"Show me your friends, I'll show you your future."
_Money doesn't corrupt the character. ... It merely amplifies it._
That's one thing the Bible got right.
Then you wonder why that one white chick in that Hong Kong protest was arguing against freedom in the middle of the protest.
The people shouting for safety over freedom are always the ones who have more money in their pockets.
Remember that.
@@nathanlong8295
That's women in general... one of the chief reasons they've historically been barred from leadership in most countries.
My wife of 28 years is from Tainan Taiwan and she is the kindest internally strongest and best mother I have ever known. While living in Taiwan I found the people to be quite innocent warm and gentle yet extremely competitive among themselves.
So, it kind of appears the difference is the political system? Couldn't this video apply to most if not all Communist countries?
@@boots7859 Don't jump on the China = Communist wagon. Once they might have been Communist and it's in their government's name, but they are far from socialist or communist now. Sure they're an authoritarian one-party state, but they have more in common with far right now.
@@ShanghaiGoat Far right LOL ? I think you mean left, the left is for censorship look at google and facebook, the right is for gun ownership and limited government. The left ( Bernie SAnders) is for socialsim and the government controlling the money, next step communism.
@antwinettec You're forgetting the Nazis?
@@boots7859 True as a young democracy Taiwan has more open free elections resulting in local peoples wishes represented and fulfilled by politicians.
How China Will Corrupt You
*First two minutes:* ｂｏａｔ
I really like that you didn't cut out parts that wasn't necessarily on topic, gives it a more relaxed feel.
Also i really hope Taiwan gets to reintroduce real Chinese culture to the mainland one day, the CCP would have to go though.
It's being taken back all the time. It's where they had to get the tea drinking ceremony from, not that many can actually do it properly. They just end up making soup and it's gross.
If it weren't for Taiwan we wouldn't have shitzues
I honestly prefer if the videos were more focused. I have a hard time getting the information I want out of the video
You know nothing about "Real" Chinese culture. What Taiwan has of Chinese culture was literally stolen from the mainland by corrupt KMT thieves.
Why would anyone want to visit China ever again ?
China (in Trump voice): “You are fake booze.”
Nasty
haha they do actually make fake booze here. *fake beer and other alcohol exists here*
Alex Darr After China slapped a 80% Taffiff on our Barley exports to
them their beer will/ is turning to shit! 🇦🇺
CHY-NAH
Jai-Na
Kudos to Winston for wearing trousers as well as his jacket in the hot weather, wearing shorts can lead to skin grafts.
Skin... grafts. ..?
And his gloves, doitwithdan always wore his gloves until 1 day he was running late and wrecked only to skid on asphalt on his hands
Ah, yes. The quarter mile sandpaper slide. I remember it well. Fortunately, the loss was not my epidermis, but the chaps I was wearing.
I don't understand why they wear jacket in hot and humid weather. do they enjoy torturing themselves?
Nima V They’re on motorcycles
It is pretty much the same as the stories from my grandparents and parent about their life in Soviet Union satellite state Czechoslovakia. Mottos like "Who doesn't steal is stealing from his family" shaped the whole society. People used to take even the most basic things like paper clips, cutlery from cantine, plates, whatever could be taken, was taken. And the corruption was rampant, but instead of cigs it was mostly for the ability to buy "western" stuff in tuzex shops. This required different currency than the local one and it spun a whole black market around it too.
I suspect that officials in these cultures like widespread corruption because it gives them the extra arbitrary power to go after someone they don't like while making them appear to be doing their jobs. But history has shown that the greatest wealth is always created under a rule of law that applies equally to everyone and where everyone has equal access to enter the economy using their highest skills. Corruption bleeds a nation by a thousand cuts.
Same thing, Russia. But in our case we still haven't been able to get real democracy / market economy going, so we're kinda stuck in that mafia-authoritarian thing we call home. High taxes, low welfare, low wages, limited free speech and propaganda. Government officials and their friends all have rich palaces in Europe and America. You're lucky, brothers.
can confirm the same story in yugoslavia
@@midge_gender_solek3314 ..I feel your pain..There is no Reason that Russia
Should have to suffer this, other than politics and an embedded legacy
of corruption.I think Putin is trying to stitch a great nation back together
after the fall of communism but his training is KGB... a lack of Democracy is not an issue for him.Your country has the brains and nearly unlimited
resources to become wealthy.All it lacks is the moral backbone of its people, that (in my opinion) have been so completely Squashed by the communists that it will be a long road home..Thankyou and god bless
russia..Cheers..!
Same in Latvia, there is still a corrupt country even though there is democracy.
Reminds me of when I lived in Belgium--there, every business keeps two sets of books. As the saying goes, "tax evasion is the national sport".
And little wonder why. It's not because people want to be malicious or greedy. It's because tax rates are literally so outrageous, no one could afford to have a business if they actually paid it all. No exaggeration.
In Norway we have free healthcare and schools and high taxes on everything, but i think most people think it´s good to have free healthcare and schools.
Well, if people aren't paying taxes like they should in Belgium, it is hard to compete as a business that are legit. It is not a matter of the taxes being high in most cases, it is that the competition plays by the same rules. This is probably a bit simplified, but if this has been done for a long time, it can be hard to change it!
Culture can play a lot into this as well, I guess, too, since you mention a saying regarding it :)
In India it depends on who you are and where you work...If you work in a government job. taxes are directly removed from your salary. but if you are working in private you can evade tax. some do some don't(Some steal lots of money and then run abroad with government helping them and there are people who Flex about paying High tax money... but yeah corruption still is a very big problem here. (The politicians are the main corrupts )
True, I worked in a Fortune 500 company, paid more taxes than nearly every Chinese makes salary and yet went from office to office, from Guangdong to Shandong, back and forth. When I asked if that's legal, they said don't worry. :D
Well, at least they gave you a straight answer. 😄
You guys have massive effect with your videos, even if it was just me who found your channels 6-9 months ago watching, I've talked to countless people in all types of conversations and different types of people whenever China gets brought up I am able to go further with credible information and can bring light to people who maybe don't have the time that I have to spend finding information about political/international subjects as an 18 year old about the true state of China and the CCP as well as the difference between Mainland China, and ROC/Taiwan
you can just say the different between China and Taiwan
You speak for me my man!
They read the communist manifesto in school. If u want further info
Apart from they arnt credible information , two guys that lived in a country that weren't high up in any field is really when you think about the least credible information.
Try look up on news articles or experience China yourself.
I feel like this channel has gone down hill it's sad they were great before now it's just so biased it is a form of brainwashing
@@jetaku17
What you mean is that you liked them when they were in China and only spoke positively. Now that they are out of China, they can speak freely and tell the truths that they weren't able to while living in a dictatorship.
Of course they will be telling you what they couldn't before. They are very fair overall. You can't just claim that China is all good and no bad. You can ignore it, but it will still be there.
I lived in Hong Kong when the press was still free and learned Chinese. I travelled to China for business and leisure. I know what it is or was like, they are quite accurate.
Each one is just one tiny piece of reality. The only issue is if someone who listens only to recent ones thinks that that is everything.
The thing about reality is that some people don't experience parts of it and deny it when told so. Also, you can see it every day but pretend it doesn't exist. It's an amazing capability people have.
It's gonna sound really strange, but I actually enjoy the ads.
The production value is off the chart!
This one was particularly amusing.
*P H E W STONKS ARE UP*
They do a better job than most creators at making them entertaining, that's for sure.
ancient china lives as long as there is a Taiwan!
"Cultural Devolution". Perfect. I'll remember that one for future conversations.
Don't forget the great leap backwards
Yes repeat what they say think what they tell you go forward and spew it to more uneducated people who don't just laugh in your face. Brainwashing at an entry level but works apparently
@@jetaku17 Ironically many people that speak about how China brainwashes their citizens, are brainwashed themselves by others.
@@SiameseCats4ever
Competing versions of reality. Only those who know different versions truly understand. They are the quiet ones, while the ones who know little yap on about their reality.
Truth is everyone is a bit right and a bit wrong. Some more than others.
Y’all make me want to get a motor bike...
That is a particularly conspicuous username.
Can Bot yes it is... 😉 has meaning and experiences behind it, kind of conspiratorial... But...
Real as day to me. 🤔
Those are rentals as this is all from months ago when they were in Taiwan,
Cock-Milk isn't riding a bike.
They did and now I have one. I got a my own motorcycle after I did this exact trip on a scooter around Taiwan. The roads and scenery are amazing, I'll have to go back.
welcome everyone come to Taiwan!
so beautiful with honest government and nice people
Very beautiful!
Definitely one of the places I want to visit. Have a couple friends there. So far I've never traveled out side of north America. Only once to Canada to visit family. I have to get my passport first though.
Taiwan, a country I don't know much about admittedly. But the fact one of the few things I've heard is praise and respect for the government really makes it stand out.
I posted this off of a huawei, 3...2...1... Bricked pho...
Now I really do want to visit Taiwan. So beautiful country and nice people.
"Stonks are up" I died!
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You literally have the same iMac DV SE Graphite that I have sitting on my table... you have a good sense of old Macs 😂
Great video but also great ad! You guys do the best vpn ads. I don't even feel like I'm watching one haha. Also we used to make fun of my dad for saying things like "quit faffing around" because we doubted it was a real word. But I think you're the first person I've heard say it besides my dad.
You can be atheist and still have a moral complex. Bad people are bad, religion or no religion.
Js790 I think you are in a better position as an atheist to have a moral compass. You have not bent your mind around a set of beliefs in order to benefit from religous membership. You are true to yourself. In my experience those that flaunt their religion are already in the act of deceit. There are exceptions of course.
Actually athiests are more likely to be a bad person, because their sense of "right and wrong" are defined by what the people around them think is right and wrong. Their moral compass has no consistency, because without good and evil being defined, good and evil just become "whatever you think in the moment"
This is especially true when they realize that they can get away with being evil if no one is watching. If no one makes a fuss, it isn't bad right? If someone is true to their faith, they will have a consistent moral compass, and still do the right thing, even when no one is watching.
@@Mechagodzilla128 Nope. Totally wrong. Atheists are most likely good people precisely because they don't need a religion to tell them to be good. If you need the fear of being punished with hell to do what is good, then you're not genuinely good in the first place. And also, you're extremely naive if you think religions are what make people good. In fact, most tragedies in human history happened in the name of religion. Religious people are capable of the worst in human nature, just as anybody else. Not only that, they're capable of harming other people in the name of their religion. There could be atheists that could harm others just the same but they'd never do it in the name of Atheism. And guess what? Statistically, atheist are much less likely to be bad than religious people because they're not bound by your sense of pretentious morality. They don't have to be good just because someone is watching. They're good because they want to be.
@@Mechagodzilla128 Well there are multiple factors in how religion or lack of it can affect things but I think main factor is that people are practical creatures. There are religions that teach how killing is bad, yet people who claim to be believe in those ignore it in fights, wars, executions, even holy wars are thing aka when it does not suit them.
There are also things for instance in Bible about women being objects and having/beating slaves is ok and so on, people who follow Bible in choose to ignore those parts because they judge it by their inner compass and by compass of society they live in.
By that extension you can say that religion does not have that much of influence on these things because people just adapt it when it suits them(that why LGBT, women rights, etc are ok in Christianity eyes while in old Christianity they would be problem, people adapted religion).
One of issues with religion is that there is time lag between change of society and change of religion and that can lead to some nasty stuff like stoning people and believing that they do right thing because their religion says so.
Base of our inner moral compass is given to us by evolution, we evolved as social species, so things like empathy are held up and things like murder are looked down to since social species that didnt do that died out.
Atheism on other hand does not affect these things because its absence of religion and has nothing to do with moral compass. You can say they are also affected by their inner moral compass and compass of society. That compass is still there "when no one is watching" so they are equally likely to do right thing as religious person. I would say that religious person that is held back just by that their god may be watching is not really good person, but I dont believe that people are like that and I dont think they would change much if they found out that their god is not looking.
Likeliness of people from both groups being good or bad in both cases mostly equal since main factors are same, with only main difference without religion, good people do good things and bad people do bad things, but religion can make good people do bad things.
@@AKAKiddo on the contrary as an atheist one's morals are usually anchored in customs and cultural norms which is subject to change. On the other hand religious people anchor their morals in their beliefs which are consiered sacred and hence not subject change. In other words while atheists are perfectly capable of being moral there is no guarantee that their morals will remain the same.
In Australia, certain indigenous-community-help organisations will take false "stock photos" of damaged houses (I.e. they're called to investigate faulty plumbing, will "take photos" of a destroyed/graffiti'd bathroom, recieve funding to fix the mess in the photo, and only have to spend the amount to fix say, a blocked pipe)
Meanwhile children are literally dying from malnutrition and lack of healthcare in remote communities (Namely the ones that are less well known about, most will have at least a medical centre)
The entire indigenous help system here is more or less an utter scam, and the recent destruction of a sacred site by a mining corporation (With explicit federal government permission) proves that the government doesn't give a single fuck about the aborigine people, and it completely nullifies the apology made by our former PM on the fed's behalf.
I just wanted to say to you guys, thanks for the videos. As an Australian I have a big interest in China and what is happening there, and you guys having lived there for so long are a great source of information. Thank you please keep spreading the truth about China. And as a by note, I am proud that our governemnt is finally starting to stand up to China, China has just put a travel warning out not to travel to Australia because of racist violence which is nonesense and its just China trying to strong arm Australia into backing down. Finally our government has a backbone!
truth?hahahahhaaha
imagine thinking cutting alcohol to make more profit is somehow china's fault. what a waste of 20 minutes.
Lived in a lot of places in the West and Midwest of the US. Perhaps the most blatantly obvious place where getting anything done depended more on who you knew than the actual law was New Mexico. But still compared to the Philippines or Mexico the low-level corruption was minimal.
In a restaurant once, they used to have a metal pitcher to fill up the corn pots. The dudes would use the same pitcher to scoop out mop water at the end of the day, wondered why the corn water was soapy first thing in the morning so complaints were made and got this changed. Dinner plates were near the floor under the slicer, mop water was thrown on the ground and splashed on the plates every night. Filters for vents were cleaned with chemicals near the end of the night and stuck back up above the char grill, would drip on the food below cooking. The assistant manager or employees would drop racks of ribs on the ground the manager would pick them back up but just rinse them off with water then re sauce them. He picked up chicken off the ground many times and did not even rinse them. Bloody pork was served. Breaded catfish, garlic bread, deli paper, coke/soda, fruit punch, green beans, mac n cheese, deep fryer oil all were added to the "bean meat" anything creative they could think of to stick in there but that's not so bad right. Deep fried steaks have been served. The worse is a owner came up to show the guys how to use a slicer even though they had been doing it for years. He cuts his thumb. Blood goes all over the slicer, blade n all. The assistant manager comes up wipes the blade with a dry towel then starts slicing meat, no sanitation. Just saying even if one does not participate in this one is around it so much and not able to change it, it just becomes normal. My self personally have not cooked in a restaurant for almost 10 years.
I love the Taiwanese scenery! You should switch the show from mainland China to Taiwan without changing the "ADVChina" name, since Taiwan is the real China.
The phrase ”real China” will probably annoy some Taiwanese since they don't want any connection with China, neither name or ethnicity. Ppl who immigrated from the mainland to Taiwan in the 40s may still think they are Chinese, but Millennials and Generation Z just want to get rid of the name of China, which is currently still on their Passport.
Xiaozhou Ye I understand what you are saying, because I have seen someone from Taiwan vehemently claim, “I’m not Chinese, I’m Taiwanese!” That said, their official name is still the Republic of China, right?
In what way is Taiwan China, I want to see you try explain it lol
Gents, thanks for the low-down. You help all of us STAY AWESOME.
12:45 Taiwan is like Japan, their distribution of financial services is so efficient that they are not pressured to upgrade to digital payments. In Japan where adoption of digital payments is so slow because their current system is so efficient. Where as inefficient countries like China or India really need digital payments to offset those inefficiencies. In India, alot of people dont have citizenship documents and papers or even bank accounts that they need to digitize everything now with only their biometrics as identifier
Love all your channels amazing work
"When in Rome, do as Romans do".
HEY guys...longtime follower here and love the content...but my comment is for your self made commercials...I LOVE them...they are sort of dorky with retro elements but being someone that used and built computers before there was an internet...I appreciate them. Keep it up! I always get a good laugh...but seriously...today's was super with a screen shot of a padlock. HAHA!
I just got some face masks from China yesterday. It was made from some weird mesh with 1mm wide holes and the elastic to put around your ears would only stretch to about 1inch square. The total mask size was just enough to cover my mouth but not my mouth and nose. Complete rubbish and that is exactly where it went.
probably made in America by Trump
So from now on don't buy Made in China; that's the best way for the average person to do their part.
@@FoodforThought12345678dsds direct from Shanghai. I have been Shanghaied.
I bought some n95 perfectly fine, just buy from a reputable company, most of the masks around the world are made in China, there are good ones
Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that your videos encouraged me to learn Chinese. Despite the current events, I still think it is a beautiful language.
The country is beautiful, take it from me, out of Asia it's the best for cultures, the other best would d be japan more for tech
I’ve been binge watching these from the beginning and the improvement in camera quality is pretty striking. Looks great!
I can't believe you're so prepared with the wallet in the ziplock bag
Would you please explain why? Humidity?
@@skuo118 I'd also like to know. I have no idea why he put it in that bag.
Rain, or if dropped in water.
Literally the best ad for VPN anyone has ever did
This video had the old sort of feel to it , missed those.
Thanks Guys. Your videos are such a great way to see and learn about Asia without having to do the travel. Many thanks
Always informative.
edit Long live Taiwan and HK
@M T the true expression of chinese culture is decided by the chinese btw not by the West. Btw chinese history cultures is everywhere if you visit China,
@@jetaku17 Do not pay attention to them. They think China is some sort of hell. They want a "sanitized & christianized" version of China. Appareantly that would be traditional.
Another great video shot in beautiful Taiwan (much more interesting than those industrial roads in Vietnam) on amazing roads that I've ridden on myself and actually remember these actual roads. I have to go back and do it on a real motorcycle next. I remember that you guys started your Taiwan trip just after I had left the country in 2018.
"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday heat."
So that is what is meant by "going out in a blaze". 😄
Words cannot express hope much I appreciate you guys and your content. Peace
When was this filmed? I thought Taiwan's borders are currently closed to foreigners?
Borders? I’m pretty sure Taiwan is an island.
I think there is no lock down in Taiwan. They have advanced health system that will monitor incoming foreigner or mainland Chinese for COVID-9 instead. That is why they have only 440+ cases and 7 deaths due to this pandemic.
Cameron Spendlove - I believe this is one of their vids produced quite sometime before the pandemic.
August 2018, I think.
@@musmaki4109 do island nations not have borders to you or something
Corruption here in India can be found in every sector where people need official document with the stamp of state or central government, in my city people used get driving licence without even showing up for any test or exam. Corruption in construction and infrastructure development projects are another big issue.
I look forward to visiting Taiwan when it is possible :)
Visit China too then you can compare and make up your own mind, instead of being told what to think
whipping out the old floppy disk on the ad... Cracked me up!!
This nord vpn ad takes me back. My college had that snorkel mac and a few iMacs, blueberries i think. Also had pizza box mac not in this video
dude said he must have a racial bonus hahahahaha idk why but ive never heard that before and it fits perfectly lmao mmo
Slipping in fake booze into a biz built on verified product seems extremely counterintuitive. Are you sure the Western liquor dealer wasn't set up? (either by the powers that be or them pressuring his Chinese partner into it)
@@paulbarufaldi1075 My theory is that the established system is so alien to the way things are done in the free market(the new way), that system doesn't have faith that they will understand or succeed in the new way. Maybe with all the young people coming to Western countries for education they can change the elder commies? So maybe halt higher level sensitive research in Western Uni but encourage business and liberal arts ed?
Well the sad fact is - it's all lies. I am the foreigner they are talking about - when did I get "busted" - never? Where are my "Chinese partners" - I don't have any. Ironically, we use NFC chip based technology on every bottle that shows the entire custody chain of the product through our own bespoke smart phone app, from distillery to consumer. The only system like this in the world. But, these two are obviously getting desperate for some attention from the mainland audience (who were bored of them both years ago) and are trying to soil my name to get some attention. Rather desperate.
@@paulbarufaldi1075 Well I guess that makes me the only exception to your theory? Well, I'm not the only exception. The vast majority of foreign owned companies that I know manage to keep their integrity AND comply with local laws.
I think it's a feat in many authoritarian countries that regulations/permits are knowingly impractical but violations are being ignored, merely so that if the authorities want to crack down on you they can always cite violations and whatnot.
"Cultural Devolution" dammit Winston that's genius. I'm stealing it, if you don't mind 😏
Go for it! Don't forget the great leap backwards as well
@@ADVChina Hahaha that's also genius! Thanks!
@@ADVChina Would you consider doing a video on possible reasons for the difference of say Taiwan, South Korea & Japan and their post WWII economic development which has produced much more democratic & humane politics as opposed to Chinese politics which have become more authoritarian (and worse) since China has become more economically prosperous? Why is China unique in that prosperity in China has brought out the worst in Chinese politics as opposed to what has happened in Taiwan, South Korea & Japan?
That scenery is absolutely breathtaking. Great video guys!
Stonks are up! Thank God 🙏 for that.
You guys, you know you have a solid friendship when you start arguing about trivial nonsense, british, german whatever lol
Hey guy on bike, tell us where you are from if you read this! 😁️
That would be funny, but they made this Taiwan video almost a year ago.
The chances are that the crazy, racially heat-adapted cyclist we saw had since been religiously watching every ADV China, SerpentZA and Laowhy86 video for many months wondering if/ hoping that he would see himself on a video.
But he could have given up even just this past week, bed-ridden by the CCP Wuhan Flu, he took a break from the internet whilst he recovers. So despite his loyalty and efforts he will not ever see himself in the video...
Let alone see your comment!
Damn you, CCP!
They were actually doing their Taiwan trip in 2018 just after I did almost the same trip on a scooter by myself.
@@movinon1242 I know I would
Thanks for going back to driving. That's why I watch. I don't mind the stops, restaurants, hotels, whatever you encounter, just the sitting in a studio and talking is not my cup of tea. Great stuff! Love it.
Your commercials! 😂 soo good
I'm Chinese so I can confirm how prevalent this culture of corruption is. It is almost a social norm. If you are too law-abiding or honest, you are then seen as a naive, pathetic and even stupid person. Being flexible and not following the norm on paper, you are then seen as smart, clever and sensible. I think my parents are actually honest and law-abiding, but they have been worried about me since I was young because I'm so stubborn not to be 'flexible' in my life. My family is middle class and by far I'm just a student and I don't really need to worry about making a living, which makes it much easier for me to ignore and defy this culture. But what about the others? What about those people who want to get better off themselves and support the ones they love? Once you start to do it and get used to it, it will be hard to abandon this habit. A similar problem also very much dominated the other Northeast Asian countries during their developmental phase. I really hope the more China is developed the less prevalent this problem will be in the future. And if I work in China one day after I finish my study, Chinese society will be cleaner and I don't need to face temptations.
Trying to explain to my Chinese wife how much UK tax i had to pay was heart breaking.
Your awesome video already changed some people in China. That is very nice!
Best commercial ever! 😂
The iMac 😂
Thank god, stonks are up!
damn stonks...
0:46 So have you met the guy after to confirm if he's british or german ? :D
I want to see your facts. Attacking someone’s livelihood for the sake of your publicity is a bit of a poor show. If you have proof, let’s see them please. Hearsay is a terrible and outrageous thing when not justified.
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How is it hearsay to tell your personal experience? Good for you but like everyone doing business there, you know that you pay officials to stay in business. If you don't they would just close you.
How does it feel to be part of a corrupt system to make money? I am curious as I never experienced it myself since I am able to make money without having to walk on my morals.
As an American with 3 decades teaching at the secondary and university levels, I was recruited to teach at a Chinese academy for the 2018-2019 academic year for some serious money. I left my position as a university lecturer in Europe to give it a go. Strangely, my contract was with one campus where I only taught once a week. 4 days a week I was at the sister campus on the other end of the same town. The Chinese director ran both of them and both were listed under the Ambright American partnership. Over time I found out the two were very different in important ways. The International academy I spent 4 days a week was for profit on a larger, renown public campus. The 1 day a week campus that I was contracted was a new NGO owned by the Chinese government with a massive amount of investment designed for thousands of students, yet having only 16 attending. Strange to say the least. A higher education official who covered for the director's activities retired, and his replacement started investigating this arrangement. Near the end of the year, the handful of us who worked both campuses were called in for questioning. The others called in were young and nervous, while I was not being a couple decades older, planning to leave given the monkey business, and having a real F.U. attitude. I was finally questioned last, pissed already for wasting my time and called in to have some young Chinese official in his early 30s trying to be intimidating. He spoke English but refused to use it insisting on using his female interpreter and another female taking notes. Let's just say having first taught overseas right after the fall of the Soviet Union and dealing with Russian mafia, I was confident I could deal with their little game. I refused to sit where told, across the table from the official and instead took the chair and sat right next to him. That startled the shit out of him. I think it lasted only two minutes at the most. They showed me my contract for me to verify that is indeed the one I signed and wanted to confirm I resigned. Yes and yes, that was all, "you may leave." Since I had to wait over an hour for just this, I stayed and asked him if those were his only questions. He seemed a bit irritated now. I think I made my point. I taught the last 6 weeks teaching only 4 classes once a week at my contracting school getting full salary. When the academy tried to say they would pay me less, I bullshited the director messaging her, we called her the empress, that this official keeps wanting me to answer more questions but I was ignoring him and saying nothing. It was false, but I knew it would rattle her cage. She even offered to pay in full for the whole contract without any further teaching needed if I just left. Not trusting her, I agreed to not teaching any additional classes but would not leave until the deposit hit my Chinese bank account. I spent the last two weeks not working at all, just traveling and enjoying seeing more of China and flew out the day after my full contract was paid, which was weeks before the other staff. I had many great experiences with the Chinese people because I strongly dislike the expat bubbles. The CCP and the corrupt system is another story. Keep up the good work guys! P.S. I was embarrassed by the low quality of foreign teachers in China. I would not even call them teachers, just foreign faces pretending to be.
I had similar experiences, except that I refused to go to the other campuses. I also left with full payment as I threaten to report the school board that was blackmailing other teachers for free teaching hours after they went to teach to other campuses and got told that they broke the law. What a shit show China was compared to every other countries I teached in.
@@whiskeyjack915 Let's really celebrate the end of the CCP Virus extreme quarantine measures by having big "Congratulations to the Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's re-election! If you want to piss the CCP off, that's how you do it. That's what I shall be doing this weekend.
As a cyclist, I'd like to know where that climb is, in case I ever go to Taiwan. Looks fun to me. Awesome view.
"Chevy Racer"
actually found it. It's 24°31'29.1"N 121°51'01.8"E as can be confirmed with Google Maps. Full credit to them obviously.
@@aoelp Cool. Thanks. Now all i need is a plane ticket. :D
how is the english situation in taiwan? do regular people speak english?
It's amazing you still have computers that old laying around 🤣
Thank you for another motorbike episode. I really enjoy these. You both are making the COVID crisis more bearable .
While I support and recommend using VPNs, I can't see being unable to stream Solo as anything but a positive. 😄
Hi guys, thank you for your service. I have a residence, employment visa and apartment in Shanghai. I'm currently in South Korea. Do you have any estimate on when China will reopen their borders to foreigners?
it is is open already, but there are fewer flights and enforced quarantining at your own expense. Try not to enter China at Beijing, however Hong King is restricted just now.
This would not be the right place to get information about China, they don't live there an df don't like the place. If you really want to give living in China a a crack best to go to some less biased TH-camrs
The guy was definitly German!
Morality comes from your experiences, not your religion. Another great vid. Thanks
You've heard of Fake News, now get ready for... Fake Booze!
Also this episode had probably one of the funniest sponsorship skits yet lol.
I am glad you guys are speaking up about China. Perhaps one day the government will change and you’ll be able to go back there without threat of harassment or imprisonment
The replaced government will surely be worse, LOL
Honestly they probably would because they need more contents to bag on China more.
I feel for their extended families, wives, children who will see this and feel they must hate their ethnicity. Though on little kids
*Well done guys!*
If you think he's crazy going up, on a half-decent road he'll be pulling around 60mph on the way down. On tyres 23mm wide.🤘
That guy did sound German initially, but he did say perfect without much accent (I'm British). I'm a little on the fence, but I'll go German.🤔
Halfway between British and German is Nederlander, of course.
SerpentZA is from Suid-Afrika, right? So, even the English is Dutch/Afrikaans accented.
I need to catch up on your video guys. Gotta love that view guys at the beginning of your video. :)
India, where I live, is more or less the same
Ya about the taxes it's TRUE but not all pvt firms do it. I think there is huge difference in percentage
Your ads are awesome super enjoyable for being ads
Lol...ur nord vpn ad is so funny with that crt and 3.5" floppy...
@0:22 "Mad dog is the Englishman who goes out in the noonday sun"!
Racial bonus and Stonks references made this episode over the top good. Two obsure and funny culture references, one to D&D and the other to Wall Street Bets reddit. Yes!
I read on a blog from a teacher who had been teaching in a primary school in Taiwan. She explained that there shouldn’t be foreigners teaching in that school and when officials Came to inspect the school all the foreign teachers had to hide in a cupboard. But the officials knew full well foreign teachers were teaching there because there own children attended that school. And they wanted their children taught by foreigners for the betterment of their English language skills.
Of course the super Chad riding his bike up the hill is German. Uncle Adolf would be proud!
I had hoped given the video thumbnail this would be about how china has developed a serum to make you into the incredible hulk
So funny how they keep remarking how friendly they are in Taiwan cause they are trying to tell that in China people are not friendly, I see lots of friendly people in China wherever I go, they are very friendly indeed with foreigners
Chinese people can be friendly but racist I’m Taiwanese I have some Chinese friends they are much much racist toward foreigners
@@rdissmart i like china and i like taiwan and will be as unbaised as i can
I once watched a documentary about Taiwan's brainwashing,
Young man 2 or third generation Taiwanese was asked byba reporter why he hated China, the typical answer, they want to take away freedoms not nice people, no manners, China wants to take Taiwan by force etc.
Then the reporter asked a few questions about where he heard this information, schools, tv, talking to friends
The reporter asks him have you been to China and he says yes once Shanghai
The reporter then asks what did you think of the place, it was good clean, nice people etc
The reporter asked if he felt unsafe , guy no
The reporter asked did you feel the chinese were rude, he said no but maybe because it was a big city,
The reporter asked did you feel like you were being watched or you had no freedoms or people you met has no freedoms, guy says no
The outcome of this documentary is that brainwashing is powerful, ever after seeing with you own eyes your brain can still convince you otherwise
Btw chinese people are no more racist then other countries, you will allways get racism with a country that isn't multicultural
I am living in Germany where big car industry and politics are trying to avoid the law to sell their dirty and cheap cars as "clean" still they get financial help from the politics. So yes, corruption still exists here at big scale too
Winston: "It's hot. I think I'll wear jeans and a leather jacket." :-)
It's a persona, ment to mean cool
Just like his suit ment success.
They always say dress for the role you want. Hopefully he gets there eventually seems like hard work
Here is Canada, larger companies will not pay their employees the full hours. It's not just done to one employee but a bunch of them across the entire region. The employers will pay the employees a few weeks later but the money that they did not pay out is collecting interest for that time.
It's called "Banking Hours" and it's criminal.
Loblaws is infamous for the practice and has been busted a few times.
Are these old videos; I'm a bit confused about your whereabouts, guys.
This is archived footage. Anyting they use discussing the rona is demonetized so I think they are opening up some new topics.
Feel like I have to be Captain Obvious for a little while.
If you have a big channel like these guys have and you want to release content on a regular basis.
How do you do it?
Well one option is to sit at home and talk in front of a backdrop.
That can quickly become stale unless your content is really, really good.
Or you can travel around like they do in this video.
But.
Unless you have unlimited funds you can't travel around all the time just to have fresh content.
So.
You do the occasional traveling and you film a helluvalot during that time.
Then you chunk it up in smaller pieces and release it whenever you feel like it's suitable.
Unless you're talking about recent events it doesn't really matter if it was filmed a year or two ago.
It's still new and fresh to the viewers.
do you have a video that explains (or can you explain) what you said near the end of this video about 'forced to make overseas transfers' @ 16:38 please?
12:11 I hope she didn't pay much for that tattoo
Lol that's her shirt. Asian women don't like dark skin so they wear more shirts
It looks like it could have been done with a homemade gadget, or by an amateur, or both.
what happened to moral fiber. what happened to pride in ones work.
Went out the door with these videos
Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our Time
Liberating from two slave masters is not something I expect to see in my lifetime. (Or after.)
Oh god, if only they didn't set the people alight, stab people, kills people, through explosives, beat everyone who has a different view. If only, then I would support them