Why China Sucks at Soft Power - China's Reckoning (Part 4)
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@King of kings shut up
Fuck youtube
Like my comment if China is sus
Hatdog
I skipped this, but you’re welcome
"the only country to not experience this trend was japan, because it already maxed out" *spits out coffee*
That was funny
Haha you think Japan hates China, wait until you see Southeast Asia
I don't get it.
@@ibnu9969 some of SEA hates China because of the sea thing but Korea, Japan and Vietnam hate it even without any conflict
@@robertabella1806 not really. Korea Japan and Vietnam hates China becaus of wars in the past. Few years back the rest of Southeast Asia actually get along pretty well with China for centuries, as historically we're very good trade partners and tributaries with China. But since China suddenly got rich.. yeah it's amazing what money can do to anything.
fun fact: the three singers in the beginning of the video singing Beijing welcomes you, one is from hong kong and the other two is from taiwan. by western standard non of them are chinese.
As well, by Taiwanese standards (and those of many in HK) - none of them are Chinese.
@Brian B jackie chan, richie jen and jolin tsai
@@zmei2082 what are they’re thoughts on current China and Hong kong
@@warcriminal4183 Jackie Chan considers himself to be Chinese with no hong kong independence intention. I dont know about the other two
Other than the HK one, none of them are chinese.. assuming they are Taiwan citizens ofcourse.
Fun fact : Taiwan is NOT a part of China.
Let's understand something in context: this generation of Chinese leaders experienced their youth during one of the most chaotic events in modern Chinese history - the Cultural Revolution. As many of us who've grown up know, youth is the time to be learning about how to properly engage with respective audiences (e.g. understanding that talking to our friends is not the same as talking to our bosses). Well, this generation didn't have those lessons drilled into them during those years. Instead, what did they learn at that time? To take pride in their country, Chairman Mao, etc., and to call out or make an example of anyone who says or does anything that can be perceived as going against that grain. Now that they've ascended to positions of power, we're seeing those unlearned lessons play out in much more impactful ways.
Way too verbose to contribute
The question then arises - What today's children will learn, and when some of them ascend to power - how will they behave?
@@spamham5979 Xi's family got purged during this time, his father got public humiliation, her sister killed herself and himself was forced to work in the countrysides. It was a crazy period when China was the enemy of the 2 superpowers which both threatened to nuke them, the Chinese youth were raised to be prepared for WW3, so it's nothing for them to hurt relations by responding against western aggressions since they have survived the times when both the capitalist bloc and communist bloc wanted their deaths. Actually, countries like Russia, Iran and Serbia are happy about that and see this as an opportunity to get revenge from the USA, they are also acting more confidently.
Not to mention a generation that learned to condemn teachers elders and authority figures only to be reprimanded and told to go to the country side when Mao got it's wish and eliminated his political enemy.
@@trollmcclure2659 The last month's events and the astonishing drawing together of the West and its allies has definitely come as a shock to them, it seems
Funny thing about bringing up Wolf Warrior in this video:
The franchise got criticized about how the main protagonist can one man army everything and when the director was asked about this, his response to that was something along the line of “well, how come when an American movie does that, it’s fine, but when we do it, it’s not?”
Guess their movie industry is stuck in the 80s or a poor copy of Arnie blockbusters era Hollywood.
I don't know if American's would consider those movies to be particularly good for the basis of a diplomatic policy.
@@ryanhealy9026 IDK "One man army changes the world.. somehow" could describe alot of American mishaps aboard... Mostly it just seems to confuse and tick off most other countries so I wouldn't recommend it though.
Typical response out of weakness: when questioned, point finger at someone else.
@@gstlb Well thats not the full quote, he probably said something about fantasy and selling, but the only part you pay attention to is that.
"the only country to not experience this trend was japan, because it already maxed out"
fucking savage
Boom roasted!
Democracy 4 and its GDP Meta be like 😳
@@aturchomicz821 fuck that
Nihon (The Japanese word for Japan) means 'Sunrise Land', which was a giant middle finger to ancient China. So yeah, they've been maxed out for a while
@@lewismassie How so? Curious
"Beijing welcomes you."
*In front of the Great Wall*
I'm getting mixed messages here.
After the Ming Dynasty, what was outside the Great Wall also became China.
@@TCWG87 and much more after that lmao
"Beijing welcomes you."
Behind the great wall
Me: why can't i use twitter in Beijing?
@@user-on6ul5ke8b fuck Twitter,why must somebody use Twitter?
@@user-on6ul5ke8b why people can’t buy a huawei phone in the us?🐸
The image of a guy saying "Beijing Welcomes You"in front of a structure designed to keep people out is a pretty good analogy for the way China works as a whole nowadays.
Everybody deal with china only because of their economic power . Which is not good for any nation as everyone will take your benifits and in time when you get weak nobody is there to help you.
It was designed to keep people outside, but now it functions to keep themselves inside.
Oh- lol! I didn't notice that!
@@yaxiongzhao6640 Just because the US does it doesn't make it any less right.
@@yaxiongzhao6640 you guys can't hear a criticism about china without bringing up US. It's in your brainwashing. Nobodies talking about the US, who takes in more immigrants than anyone in the world and provides them with the best benefits, but we are talking about China and what it is doing wrong. If China wants to be the dominant global superpower like the US has been they are going to start to have to admit to these things and fix them.
this abandonment of soft power abroad is idiotic. This is actually the perfect time for China to adopt a friendly attitude when US reputation abroad is in tatters. That way China could hold sway to its neighboring countries like the South East and East Asian countries and create a strong bloc to remove US dominance on the Asian continent.
and by being the dominant and benevolent power (at least regionally), it is inevitably raise its status both domestically and internationally.
I'm convinced of the video's hypothesis of china doing this as a front for their insecurity because Russia under Putin is doing the exact same thing and everyone can see thru it
Also, remove? Mitigate is more like it, u can't remove US involvement in east Asia when Japan and Korea are its 2 biggest most vital economies
You are correct on it but I think Beijing missed the timing due to internal issues. When Beijing Biden took over WH; it truly was the best time to make peace instead of doubling down on expansionist policy while breaking yet more trade agreements with the US~etc. It fact it has gotten even worse... since they saw some opportunity to overcome even the US at that time... with US's uncoordinated withdrawal from Afganastan, Burma's successful military coup (Beijing was supporting supply/coordination and now even giving them submarines...) and democracy countries can't really do much about countries that outright rigged their election by detaining challengers (e.g Belarus, Venezuela Nicaragua etc... sanction can't be the only solution)
Needless to say; I felt Washington was only trying to make Xi step down to restore the past relationship w/o fixing many of the rooted problems which didn't work out. The people at large probably won't be satisfied with that.
I am somewhat concerned if Russia will end up annexing part of China "Again" like the past during the Chinese Civil War, World War etc...
Japan abandoned its military was able to recover well despite being the only country that was nuked during WW. Their pacifism stance is/was the oldest policy that remain unchanged since the WW and Japan greatly benefited from it.
1) Other nation's citizens don't see Japan as a threat anymore (excluding mainland communist-china and Korea)... Japan's greatest soft power was their gaming & animation LOL.
Ps. benevolent + Beijing don't mix well.
US's reputation had fallen but so had the credibility of China due to Beijing's actions and numerous broken promises. Both sides will have difficulty restoring them so I am actually more interested to see how the other 3-9th global power will react.
USA was the undisputed global dominant power which was able to dominate its benevolence towards China... for it was the only country that redirects all war-reparation fees to free education for the Chinese in USA after War and despite its dominance... didn't try to do land grab like the former European power, USSR/Russia/etc.
That clearly isn't something China is capable of when it has already unofficially annexed so many lands from other neighboring countries and even provided weapons to Burma's military who started a coup killing thousands of civilians. Beijing is no longer the welcoming China it once was under Den's leadership =/ May he rest in peace and not see the present-day China.
It's not that China abandoned soft power, they just suck at it. It's hard to get soft power when nobody likes you.
Well, they now seem to not working on soft power at all, and rather just buy their allies.
This all got reversed when a single dictator took power for life by nixing constitutional term limits. Now it’s all about protecting one man power in the guise of the party and the people.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
That's a classic mistranslation, the original word"虚则实之，实则虚之" have far more meaning than weak or strong, please check your source before quoting anyone's words.
@@qwe17583 Then what would the Correct translation be?
Lols, It is exactly what it is in the art of war, in layman term it's called bluffing, don't let these Chinese fool you, they always make all these "Chinese quotes" have some special meaning the West never understand so they feel they are more "superior" in philosophy when in reality they can't beat the sh*t out of the West. So when you ask more they will say "oh, you will never understand these and that" "oh, Chinese culture is very deep beyond other civilization's understanding" in this case "it cannot be translated", sometimes it is true but most of the time it is what it is. The purpose is to confuse the enemy, and there are different levels of confusion, yet i don't think you can do more in translation for this quote.
Edit: Chinese is my first language, so i know when poeple are bullshitting or not
@@qwe17583 Play the part of a lion cub, when you are truly lion, and a Wolf Warrior, when you but a wolf cub...
There, got the right translation for you.😎
@@JohnKuang-rf6fb Right... well, I will stick with the above translation, and to heck with any lost meanings. I get what the quote is talking about, so nothing else matters.
"How strong is this [Chinese] national honor if they have to ban joking about it in video games?"
- Ruben Sim, gamer, reaction to China UGC Guidelines
GAGAGAGAGAGA! I will now count to 3 and then I am still the unprettiest TH-camr of all time. 1...2...3. GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! Thank you for your attention, dear in
they ban it to protect you from the angry Chinese people，thats why
@@lianghao7128 lmao. Unlike the fragile Chinese nationalists, we won't start a tantrum if you insult us, since we don't have to defend lies.
Imagine asking this about a certain other group of people.
@@AxxLAfriku I did not expect to see my god here
I think out of all the speculation, we gotta go with Occam’s Razor. China has become so inflammatory in its rhetoric because simply, it’s leader changed and so did their policies. Deng Xiaoping was actively trying to open the country up and of course, had to show that China was now approachable. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao pursued a policy of non-confrontation and thus, had appeased the West. Xi is a nationalist, thus China has become nationalist with him, enough said.
A major issue with looking at China is how many people view the Communist Party Administration as a contiguous entity, when its changes through the last couple of decades might as well make it seperate governments.
I’ve noticed the same thing.
Why does opening up has to mean follow u blindly, why we open up but u don’t open to us
@@ericjiang7986说得好 中国会和世界交朋友 除了美国和附庸
Everyone has insecurity, it’s a matter wether u take ur insecurity as a motivation and strive forward. At least China moves forward lol😂 if ppl don’t have insecurity, they stay in the same place and never advance. Don’t tell ppl Elon Musk is overachiever and argumentative just because he is insecure of being bullied in high school and act like a small dog that barks. That just make u sound like a jealous dog that barks😂
If u do a statistics, average Chinese know more about the west and travel more to those countries than a western person know about china. That’s why every western person so nervous and wanna know what China is on this show. So who is more open? Really
Fun fact - Polymatter prediction of Being Olympic boycott came true. As of today US, UK, Canada have boycotted the games, atleast in diplomatic capacity.
prediction? lol - just a plan in action.
And then the US applied visas for its officials to attend the Winter Olympics?
Only one nation to not observe this trend is Japan which is already maxed out....
Someone was right when he said Japan does today what you are going to do tomorrow 😂😂😂
So crippling economic stagnation?
@@_thisconnected_ oh, fug...
Japan's issues with China have little to do with anything that's changed about China. They've always hated each other, since Japan literally invaded the country earlier. Japan also hates S. Korea, and vice versa, so does that mean the West is gonna turn on S. Korea next?
@@ArawnOfAnnwn no countries hate China, Japan, and South Korea more than each other
@@ArawnOfAnnwn There is more to it than that. Japan invaded many regions in Asia. Philippines and Vietnam also endure much sufferings. Vietnam had about 2 millions dead from starvation as a result of Japan's occupation. Vietnam is a close friend of Japan and it also works closely with its former enemy, the US, to build constructive relations. Other Asian countries look more to the present and future and not delve into the past. The enemy today can be a friend tomorrow and vice versa. When one keeps condemning another (especially not directly responsible) of the past, things usual don't end well and without constructive results. That's human nature. Japan today is not the Japan of the past. Similarly with Germany. With China, it's more about the relentless anti-Japan propaganda, dispute in the East Sea, and the broad range of human rights violations. For S. Korea, it's more to do with the opening of old wounds and grievances and the boycotting of Japan.
Next video on Wendover Productions:
The Logistics of Being Insecure
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I don’t like this title. I’m being targeted
LOL
Hey dont call me out like that :(
Is it merely insecure!? Or, is history repeating itself? As I recall, America had done worse things when it had first had the taste of power. They overthrew the Hawaiian kingdom, bay of pigs incident, and so on.. From the 19th century to the 21st century America did the same.. Now that China is doing it, some dogs are barking..
There's a reason why a) every Chinese social network requires users to bind a legal ID so any online speech can be tracked back to the person, and b) foreigners without a state ID is effectively banned from any internet services operated in China because providing a state ID is a legal registration requirement. It's all for internal stability.
I've read books written by foolish tech evangelists. "The internet will be free!"
Or not. Instead of a network to connect it might be a web the governmnent uses to ensnare.
需要的是手机号
@@xinyi1549 手机号必须用身份证实名注册…
wait, you think you are not being tracked down in other countries?
@@andresgarciacastro1783 well, at least at least no other country effectively eradicated cash payments so you are forced to register your ID whenever you take any transit or go to any store... and most websites / social platforms do not force you to connect your account to your real-life ID...
As a Japanese-Canadian I welcome everyone to the winning team.
japan is in such a shit state that the mere thought of it "winning" is laughable to all. canada is just irrelevant.
@@gorogobanab8802 hi wumao
@@jacobgagnon1820 hello Russian bot
@@gorogobanab8802 yall gotta get better tactics. You all regurgitate the same thing :) im canadian mr wumao
@@jacobgagnon1820 I'm sorry for your nationality then :'(
Not a cheery video but as a Canadian I can say that it's nice to see our boys down south still showing us love
The Canadian people, and similarly the Australian people, are the closest thing that Americans have as brothers in terms of culture, demographics, and politics.
I mean we are basically US-lite
@@Slenderman63323 the less radical, more happy US
@@FallingPicturesProductions I am not sure anyone is close to us in politics. What other country has two fucking "parliaments" lol. People complain the American political system doesn't work but don't realize it was built that way.
@@meganh9460 Quite a few countries have two Houses of Parliament, Congress, or whatever else they call their national legislatures. It’s called a Bicameral legislature and can be found in places like France and Italy
First 25 seconds: definitely the music at my barber shop 🤣
Where you from where they play that?
Same bro, same.
I got goose.bumps … cringe
I'm in hong kong and they always play music like this
The program my Turkish barber has running certainly gives off similar vibes.
So,for new people who might not study in depth on what this guy discussed. The housing bubble has started popping with evergrande going bankrupt,like he predicted. The Olympics has been boycotted,like he suggested. The water issue has grown very pronounced,like he discussed,with 80% of water in the country now polluted and the government pumping toxic water into the soil to fill up missing veins of clean water so that sinkholes can be prevented. Basically,he has been entirely correct on almost everything so far.
Nice summary.
Yes they all got boycotted but we still stay strong😂and the rest of world still buy goods from us. I think it takes a while for Vietnam Thailand Mexico India to catch up the manufacturing advantage tho😂
@@bobs_toysas predicted Silicon Valley bank and First Republic Bank went broke. As predicted US stirred up Ukraine War for the sake of “justice” as predicted As predicted Sleepy Joe made a mess in Afghanistan. As predicted Europe is in a economic mess after the Ukraine War. As predicted riots in 2020 by BLM and trumpees. As predicted riots now in France. As predicted As predicted yes the only way is for u to find who is worse now. 😂 rotten orange contest right. But I think we still stand out in the rotten orange contest.
As predicted ppl treat Chinese like the Jews. Everything is the insecure Chinese trynna to steal away ur money
9:35 i truly appreciate how explicitly you make the difference between facts and speculation. This is one of the reasons why this channel is so good
Honestly, as much as Curiosity Stream and Nebula has been advertised to me, this series is the first to make me consider subscribing to it.
Same. Being teased about those extra videos every single time has finally convinced me to go for it.
Absolutely, same here!
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For me it was the Macau video. It’s unlisted right now, but that was an amazing video.
For me it's the wendover documentaries, really considering subbing to it
00:19:
"Let's share the sun and air"
Think I'd rather breathe water than Bejing air...
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It actually got better in recent years
Oh just watch one of the previous videos in Chinese water supplies lol.
I thought you weren't supposed to drink the water there
Please don't breathe bejing water either
Some of the anecdotes mentioned here are eye opening.
Narration skill is really awesome and off the charts. Kudos🎉🎉
Can't believe I am not the subscriber yet.
You're clear and relatively concise research in this matter is truly impressive and have earned another subscriber for current affairs
"uniting south east asian nation closer together" as a Chinese Indonesian i can assure you even i dont like the current ccp president so yeah its indeed uniting.
In your opinion how do most Chinese expats see Xi?
@@MA_KA_PA_TIE
first im not an expat im a Chinese descendant. some of my great grandparents are already living here before ww2 and Indonesian independence so i cant say with confidence with what they are thinking.
second i can only speak for myself and at the very least my elder brother which we often discuss politics and stuff like that.
third this is a bit embarrassing i cant even speak a lick of modern mandarin heck even my parents cant speak the modern one they generally speak the traditional dialect called ke so we in general cant speak with them but if its Taiwanese its a different matter.
now regarding expats i cant say for sure how or what they are thinking with social credit scores watching over them i dont even want to ask them even if i can ask them. its not good for them. but if i can guess its either heightened their believe or the opposite my guess is as good as yours.
South East Asian countries are torn between either China or the US. By design, there is no unity in asean member states. We don't even have a unified response to the coup and following massacres in Myanmar, or even the ethnic cleansing genocide preceding it. Let alone unity in negative sentiments against China. I know this because I'm Indonesian too.
@@VEVOJavier if not for the US China would consume all of South east Asia just as Japan did in the 40's. Since yano Indonesia "has been apart of china since ancient times"
@@MA_KA_PA_TIE There really isn't a good generalization. I think there are a few camps in the US.
1. Many expats feel more strongly associated with their country after leaving China, since their "Chinese-ness" becomes a more defining trait when they are outside China. Thus, they tend to rally around national symbols in order to support their own sense of self worth. Whether this extends to supporting Xi varies from person to person. Some support him begrudgingly since he just happens to be the leader and they don't really question it too much. Others genuinely like him due to his hardline stance. It's like in this video, his defiance of western nations comes across as showing how strong China is, and I guess that translates to a sense of self worth as well.
2. A few, particularly in businesses that have been negatively affected by Xi (I happen to know a few in the Software industry like this), really dislike him due to the reputation damage they have caused to China, and how it makes their own lives harder. But I find they generally avoid doing any action or talking too much about it in order to avoid conflict with other Chinese people. I've only had conversations about this with some of my closest friends. Thus, they try to cope and worry about everyday things instead.
>Chinese diplomat watching: "Oh, no! We're unpopular in Spain?! Surely we've gone too far!"
But in all seriousness, thank you for this series, it's been most informative and complete!
Wait until tonga gets angry .
It's a problem when most countries people view your country negatively. China has zero cultural exports, and it's too aggressive in such a short span. Its reputation is going downhill. Fast
@@shivanshna7618 Well, Anger does not make any country stronger. Anger or goodwill cannot make bullets or bread free.
History clearly tells us a lot.
@@ideaedward2314 it's meme of Tonga time
@@Chironex_Fleckeri Let me tell you something that this video doesn't tell you. After the 2008 financial crisis, Obama immediately decided to contain China. The United States continued to encourage neighboring countries to offend China and only showed China’s reactions in the news, without showing the reasons for China’s reactions.
...because Japan had already maxed out.
Japan: "We are four parallel universes ahead of you!"
A fantastic series of reports. And this one is especially extraordinary. Thank you for your amazingly informative and precise reports!
This series has been a gold mine of insight
For veiws ofc
@@user-vv7ir1pl4j ? The least he deserves is views for this incredibly detailed and extremely low in bias series.
@@iniesta8856 Some people are very victimized by the CCP's propaganda, and refuse to accept any evidence that goes against the CCP. It's sad.
I suspect @Subjective doesn't believe what was said in the video, and probably thinks he's taking CIA money or some crazy BS.
@@iniesta8856 extremely low bias? Are you kidding me? It’s extremely biased.
@@iniesta8856 Bruh he says China makes it hard to ally with them, but America is allied with monarchies that executed American civilians in public.
Incredibly insightful series. Thanks PolyMatter
I think the one misconception about the United States that is underestimated is how much Americans hate their own government. If we dislike our own government that much you can imagine how much we dislike any foreign government. In actuality what may be seen as a decline is more of a movement towards more non-intervention style of diplomacy. Gen X and Millennials are very skeptical of war. China has its own problems that aren’t the US problems. We have our own country to contend with. The only way that there would be an issue is if someone attacks the US. Then your @$$ is grass.
Currently, both USA and China are run by Boomers with zero-sum game mentality. Once the Milennial generation come to power, China and the USA can be best buddies. Why so? US milennials are more receptive to socialism and Chinese milennials are more receptive to Western ideas and philosophies. Both Chinese and American millenials despise the Cold War zero sum game mentality of the older generations.
It was literally quite heartbreaking when a video about china's space mission was put side by side an Indian cemetery by Chinese diplomat stating 'China sending people in space and India sending people to heaven ' it was very devastating for us as Indians...as its the time we need sympathy more than ever! 😔
I'm sorry that some people did that but to be fair that wasn't a Chinese diplomat
And that's why it was deleted after few hours, if I'm not wrong.
Were you heartbroken last year when India officials directed all kinds of insults to China and blocked exports of raw materials required to make medical supplies to China?
@@yawenmo7774 they never did it not to mention India is only major nation left who didn't criticized china for 2019 leak even once . upon that tons of free supplies were send to China In late 2019 and Early 2020
@@yawenmo7774 Never heard of what you are saying. I am positive that we sent tons of medical supplies (and China also returned the favor when India was hit).
Continuous stream of Xi Jinping smiling at various objects
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is this channel one of those funded by america's billion dollar's china smear campaign?
@@winstond4445
They really have no need for it shit writes itself and there are more than enoug volunteers
@@OrdoMallius yes clearly the TH-cam algorithm benefit those that smear china, courtesy of the imperialist US's funds and policies.
China, in its weakness, cries the loudest about how proud and strong it is.
Thanks for these videos, they are very interesting and very informative.
"if you don't feed your wolves, they're gonna put you on the menu"
- Meek Mill
Drake > Meek
@@orale_ Me > Your mom
@@anamurmuzu4252 a fine women you are
@@orale_ Yes, one of the fairest on the land
To push the algorithm
This really reminds of the way XianXia and Wuxia novels have protagonists that are always overpowered and on power trips and kill people who slight them.
These Protagonists however uses "Golden Fingers" without it, they are simply just arrogant pieces of trash.🤣
Wuxia puppy warrior diplomacy.
Noticed this too how their media has such predominant themes. Things like class, lineage, wealth, a lot of very materialistic and power based themes are ubiquitous. It does create for an underdog story but at the same time you can see behind the themes the running culture in the mainland.
Yeah, sometimes I consume Chinese media (novels/manhuas/dramas) and wonder if the working condition/day-to-day living in China is so shitty that they're always looking for this catharsis
Never thought someone would talk about this here, I honestly feel bad for authors there. Some good authors I have found write some great things but in just one second it's ruined by some China great or Han Chinese superior and MC racist like a Nazi to others. There was a fun sign in novel I was reading, it had cliche shit I didn't like but put up with but then out of nowhere the author put Japanese representatives in the chapter where he paints them as being disgusting without the people having done anything at all. The MC automatically judges them just by looking at them. I know what Japan did in the past was worst but Christ this was a mythological setting and should have no relation with real world history but somehow author brings it up. Any sympathy China had built crashes away bit by bit with shit like this.
Prescient regarding the 2022 Olympics. Great series. Loved it. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
This video series has been so amazinly insightful. Thank you so much
This is incredible and I've seen it in my own Chinese mainland relatives. Nationalist sentiment has been increasing fervently and now I know why
To be balanced, it's also because western narratives on China are 98% negative during a period of peace and prosperity, and where the socialist Chinese government vastly outperformed western ones during the pandemic.
@@zeestein To be honest with you though, do you know that the Chinese are infamous for not publishing true numbers on anything, also would there be so many negative articles if the population, in general, didn't view china so negatively because of its own actions?
See you guys in 500+ replies
@@zeestein I would not put all your beliefs in the Chinese reporting of accurate numbers. Time will tell...
@@theredhunter4997 "Chinese are infamous for not publishing true numbers..."
That why China is outperformed. Didn't you see it?
You already didn't believe China.
Seriously this is the only channel that is making me consider Nebula.
Belive me nebula is worth it
Basically around 1 dollar a month
I've found that it is slow and buggy :/
Kind of unfortunate, as I wanted it to be good
Agreed
What did Big Joel ever do to you
Watched all parts of this series, and can say that watching it after a year published, these videos and analysis were very assertive. Well done!
As a Chinese，I think the Americans need more of this type of videos. Since these videos serve as illusion that trap the mind of Americans in a state where they believe they are still the best. Keep it up！
Yeah, Americans need these videos, cause Chinese people have Chinese controlled media to believe the same😂😂
@@pranavingale6850 Western media are just a bag of lies...If you need all the lies to feel life is good then suck hard on it.
"Nationalism creates immense pressure for the government to act tough, increasing the cost of restraint. The one thing it cannot afford to do is be perceived as weak or indecisive." That is exactly on the point! All of the 3 major problems (mentioned in previous videos) contribute to the national wide insecurity and seems to be sustained by it, which almost felt like a vicious cycle (aka. positive feedback loop).
I really enjoy this series, and hopefully you can make more video about this.
and taking that into account means someday china gonna declare war on atleast taiwan and maybe even the US
Every country in the world play nationalism
@@davidliu2483 No. every country has nationalist but not every country does irrational, dangerous things just to feed the ego of its own people. You don’t see Germany going Germany first and wanting to leave from the EU
@@supergamergrill7734 Germany gain the a lot of benefits from EU such as labors from eastern europe and a large market for german products. USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, India are all being more nationalist in their actions, so why is it wrong for China to have some extent of nationalism in forign action. The younger generation of China has been more nationalistic than the chinese government. We have friendly relation eith Pakistan and a lot of African countries. We are willing to make trade deal with EU which benefited both sides. We are playing more Multilateralism approach. China is just fighting back because USA and his fellow aillies (except Europe) don't want to be friend with China since the Trump administration.
@@davidliu2483 The thing is. One is patriotism and another is natiolism. America has patriotism where most of its citizens know its shit status and try to change it (Or atleast 50% of the country). China has full on natiolism where it believes any wrong doing is either propaganda or not that bad.
China has repeatedly used its power to bully smaller nations. The difference between China and America is that our citizens call them out and Chinese can’t And refuse too.
The EU was also willing to do a trade deal with China till they started being dicks so they cut them off. A lot of places aren’t friends with China because either A. They are bullying them or smaller nations, B it F them over like how China got Africa into so much debt it can’t pay back or C They act all high and mighty while calling other countries trash.
They called Trudeau "boy" LMAOOOOO im dead
I mean they're right, I think he was lost on his way to the boy scout meeting and ended up in office
@@cuddlemuffin.9545 "It's True deau" (though)
Probably cried himself to sleep after that
I heard he was called, "little potatoe". Anyway, either way he's Canada's joke on Canadians. Bad joke That is
Shitpost status: legendary
The quality of this video from PolMatter really incentivizes me to checkout nebula just to see the bonus video. Can we get a part 5 to how things have unraveled a lot more with the housing market as you predicted and analysis of other current events in China like the coal shortage.
China and soft power reminds me of "Why isn't everyone having a good time? I specifically requested it!"
Every other country: Man I really think China's acting up recently
Japan: Amateurs
Haha 😂
Japan : oh god why is my people not reproducing
To be entirely fair, before recently, Japan’s rivalry with China was Japan’s fault
@@wandering2320 and it's Japan's invasion helped ccp to steal the country.
Vietnam: Laughs in thousand years of invasion, since 111 BC
"the Chinese embassy in Brazil accused its president of having a 'mental virus'.
which, let's face it, is a very accurate statement.
Knowing the context on this Tweet, I think that it actually made Brazilians see China in a more positively. This was a response to Bolsonaro's son synophobic Conspiracy Theory of China having intentionally created the Covid-19 virus in a laboratory. Frankly, I clapped to this Tweet, and it made me see China in a more positive light. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The ones that are aligned with Bolsonaro already see China in a completely negative way, it can't get worse than that. So, they attacked them, and this made the ones that are against Bolsonaro see them as allies. Seems like a reasonable strategy to gain the support of Brazilians. It worked for me.
@@capivara6094 it would be funny to see your faction get elected and then have the Chinese embassy shit on them too xd.
@@capivara6094 so true this video only shows china’s reactions but never what started it.
Sort of. But let's admit it, it's very inappropriate for a representative of a foreign country to say that.
@@windywendi The stuff that Bolsonaro said was even more inappropriate. The ambassador gave the due response.
Absolutely fantastic video series.
I have an apocryphal joke. A Taiwanese and a Chinese soldier, at war, took a break from the fighting to talk. Why Do you fight asked the mainlander? I fight for land said the Taiwanese. Why do you fight? The mainlander replied, I fight for the honor of my country. Taiwanese then said, it’s true then, we both fight for what we lack.
The level of "high view knowledge" in this series is astounding. I would *love* looks like this for other nations, even my own (US).
A bit peeved that a lot of interesting content is blocked behind Nebula, but overall a very good video.
He does have a handful of videos on the US (not counting tons of videos about specific companies he's made). In particular, I'd recommend the one "Self Driving Cars Won't Save Cities, But This Will" and also the one he did about the SAT (but you may as well watch that one together with the one about China's standardized test).
I wouldn't call it that high level, it is mostly superficial. Tiananmen Square Massacre is more like Beijing Street Riot Quelling.
Like anyone else, he needs to give people reasons to support him. And this is way better than any other common promotion.
Nebula is amazing, it gives creators a platform to do what they want without having to worry about TH-cams idiotic rules and algorithm. It's a thing that's been needed for years and many people, including me, happily pay for that. It almost feels bad to get such a cheap way to do it though IMO.
Out of all the paid subscription/membership services various TH-camrs offer, Nebula is FAR more reasonable. The quality of content is far superior and the price is extremely reasonable. In fact, I honestly think the current subscription price is underselling the quality of the content. I'm seriously thinking of getting a subscription given PolyMatter's great content.
Here you can see, including your own nation th-cam.com/video/QXFProJC5FY/w-d-xo.html
China knows what is coming
China is akin to that one kid in the class who tries to appear perfect but is really dying on the inside 😂
Lol yeah. Or it's the kid who has a rich dad that tries to buy friends for his uncool son. Pizza parties, sporting event tickets, the family pool, soda
@@Chironex_Fleckeri Definitely not the kid with a rich dad. Kid from a poor family who had to work through school and has a chip on his shoulder
@@appa609 the poor kid who worked for everything and has a chip on their shoulder? That's the Chinese people. The government spends money like it's going out of style. Constant infrastructure projects that have no economic assessment, constantly picking up one initiative only to be drawn by another one. Bribing foreign politicians.
You're thinking of America
@@abhinavpatil759 Bro China is like that a hundred times more than America is, take it from someone who has lived in both places. The US's current infrastructure bill is a rare once in a lifetime type bill, whereas it's a maybe once a decade thing in China.
This series taught me more in 1,5hr than anything I read in the mainstream news in the last years.
A video full of prejudice. It seems that a defenceless China is friendly in their eyes. No, it is the defenceless China that can be easily controlled by them that is friendly. Don't only see one side of China, China is not only friendly, it is also powerful and can not be bullied.
Why is China getting tougher after 2010? Because even if China joined the WTO, even if China is willing to make friends with the world, the European countries and North American countries are not willing to share even a little profit with China, and try to make China succumb to their bullying with very strong means.
For example, in photovoltaic, telecommunications, networking and chips, if there is even the slightest chance that Chinese companies will overtake them, they will do their best to suppress them. They just want the Chinese to make cheap socks for them.
After ten years of being bullied, China has had enough. The Chinese people have had enough. As a result, China's diplomatic posture has become increasingly assertive in recent years. Because some people don't know what friendly is, they just want to keep China under their control.
Excellent videos, great work and thank you.
Beijing 2008: Beijing Welcomes You (Welcomes)
Beijing 2022: Don't you dare to boycott ! (Threatens)
Lol
Heard a reason why Japan is reluctant to cancel it's Summer Olympics is that if China doesn't cancel it's Winter Olympics, then it'll be the latter & an authoritarian country (instead of a democratic one) that has the honour of marking humanity's overcoming of the pandemic by hosting the world's 1st major sporting event after it
@Destroying liberals with facts and logic I would like to visit it just for a week. I want to see how it's like there.
@Destroying liberals with facts and logic That's also one of my fears. I'm afraid they would see my comments on videos about Taiwan. Who knows maybe they are spying on us.
@lyf hax You're fine. Honestly, much of how the CCP overreacts to everything is actually quite overblown. The CCP doesn't care about some random person making a comment on the internet. You won't be blacklisted unless you're someone important (e.g. a diplomat or a celebrity), and even then, it's got to be something you did in a way that really got under their skin.
My uncle, who lives in China, goes online to trash local officials every night (and he doesn't have a VPN). He doesn't care, because he knows the government won't come after him. In his own words, he's nothing but a "senile old man with nothing better to do; they'd just be wasting their time, energy, and resources coming after me."
I literally JUST finished watching the other three parts and then this arrives perfect timing 👌👍
Definitely a great series 😍
same.. divine timing >_
Agree mate, I was so excited for this and then it came at a right timing !
Lucky you, I waited centuries for this
@@mobashshirkareem976 Same
u guys r awesome to give us this great info
as a naturalized Chinese American, I have to say your contents are very well researched. Really drives both the problems of China, its reasonings, and causes (internal and external). Well done. The last few years have been quite disappointing for me as a person who loves both nations and can only watch them hate each other more with each passing year.
as a Chinese in side China. why you listen to someone just Google something and keep talking west propaganda?
Americans hate China. Because Trump started to attack China such as 'Chines e virus'. and the US need China to be an enemy. that's all.
Stop being an idiot.
and China start anti US too. just a normal reaction.
以牙还牙而已。
@@louiswu6300 and there lies the problem with talking to either people here in America who's never lived in China, or people like yourself who has never lived in America. America needs an enemy to unite themselves through their problems, happens to be either Russia, or China depending on the day. I completely agree (China's doing the same thing, whether you like to admit it or not and this has been the way many years before Trump. where we are now is not a Trump started problem). BUT both sides like yourself make the problem sound so simple: "x reason, that's all". This is why I appreciate that video, and clearly, you didn't learn a thing from it, because you are unwilling to believe it. You don't have to remind me of the west propaganda. I can tell a true propaganda vs not. I see it everyday. Also for your information, the propaganda goes both ways, for example Chinese media make Covid sound way worse here in America than it actually is. I don't expect you to believe it, which really means there's nothing more for us to talk about until you acknowledge that both sides does the same thing, especially when you just go around calling other people "idiots". Grow up child. Or don't grow up, stay in your small world of "only inside China" forever. I really don't care.
@@louiswu6300 Your words would have made sense if china only verbally abused US. But that's not the case. It's showings hostility to US allies, india and even some asean nations
@@arimpact blablabla. but reality is the west trash China 1000 times more then the China's fight back.
don't say both. China is way much better then US in playing dirty.
i feel sick about west media. spread hatred, racist, political correctness.
even an Olympic games. full of political purpose.
in front the covid19. we human should stand together, be untied. but what the hell US at the beginning to the end attacks China.
criticising China won't help US out of trouble.
But your politicians just find criticising China to be a shield, a cover to avoid your illness.
i am living in Beijing. i have a lots Americans neighbors here. normal Americans are nice and peace. but the medias and your politicians are sick. they don't face the problem in US. they only can find China to escape or delay the illnesses.
US is in sick. Actually China don't care. Because propaganda can only brainwash yourself.
@@louiswu6300 You never lived in the west, you really think you know what western reality is like? Also, Of course media and politicians are bullshit in the US. Dont talk about it like you are smart for figuring that out. Everyone in US already knows that obvious fact. But Tell me, do you truly believe in China’s media is being so “fair and balanced”(that’s also a joke in the US about their media, figure it out yourself). because if you do then thank you for proving my point earlier about the brain washing we received, especially in 北京. Yes there are a lot of Caucasians (new word for you to learn) in china, especially in 北京，深圳，or
whatever other 一线,二线城市in China. Hell I was from 北京too before coming out, within 三环. Everyone has some white friends in these places. And of course, individual people are nice to each other, thats no different in West Or East. But you are embarrassing yourself if you think somehow: 1. Blah blah blah, You are special for having white friends or neighbors, and 2. They will say anything other than positive things when in front of you or online. 3. The government of China isn’t spreading the same nationalistic views concept wise in the past 10 years especially.
GROW UP.
Unfortunately large militarized countries that have huge impending financial and social problems, tend to think about war as a solution to otherwise unsolved problems.
That's probably the point for militarizing in the first place
@βӀąçҟ ղìցցҽɾʂ ąɾҽ ʂӀąѵҽʂ not really. The US does have a more technologically advanced military, but not enough to get a 1:4 kd ratio that is required to break even with the Chinese. Washington can only hope to navally dominate Chinese trade-routes and hold off the hoard of Chinese conscripts until the people of China see how the government has failed and revolt (like how Germany beat the Russian Empire in WW1).
@@freddy4603 I doubt that will ever happen cause America and China have nukes
Chinese leaders know that they can't win a war that they started.
I guess it's good the USA has a huge-ass navy, then
After working for over 2 decades with and living 1.5 decades in China from my perspective these are absolutely well made videos digging deep into facts.
Additionally I don't see poor propaganda in it. Well done.
It's absolutely rare for any video to be this accurate and unbiased. I've seen all sorts of videos from all sides with all types of propaganda-- dig whistling or even blatant racism, pro-dictatorship, denialism, and so on.
This video is spot on.
Yeah i agree, this is a video that i would recommend to anyone with an interest to near history and Chinese political situation
I åm chinêsê ånd I wånt tó têll yóů :
Yóů cån't find åny rêdêmptión ór hópê in Chinå, it's å cóůntry withóůt thóůghts.
å dêgênêråtê pópůlåtión, å sóůllêss pópůlåtión.
This cóůntry hås pródůcêd nó nåtůrål sciêncê, nó sóciål sciêncê, nó hůmånistic thróůgh its históry.
Chinêsê pêóplê håvê nêvêr thóůght ónê thing tó clêår in thêir thóůsånds yêårs históry.
Thê êlitês in chinå's históry årê åll êgóists ånd nårcissists, thê cůltůrê thêy crêåtê is růbbish.
Thê Chinêsê hås thê cåpåbility tó livê with thê big liês hånging åbóvê thêir hêåds, CCP dêcêivês ånd ênslåvês thêm, thêy årê willing tó dó êvil fór CCP, fór bênêfit. Thêy årê idióts dåncing ůndêr thê cóntról óf CCP.
Thêy årê mórålly dêpråvêd ånd dårê tó dó ånything.
I têll yóů hónêstly, this cóůntry drivês mê cråzy.
@@ssdfrsohuiu4544 Don’t blame the people for the government’s actions
@@ssdfrsohuiu4544 very funny lies, keep it on
"Beijing welcomes you, unless you're the two Michaels." There. I fixed their song for them.
Oh my god, the opening gave me so much nostalgia. We use to listen and sing Beijing Huanying Ni, so much in Chinese class.
That part about the number of engineers in top positions explains a lot. Explains nearly everything, in fact.
The courruption isn't even hidden all this fake cities being built and the land policies, even the river diversion project instead of just raising the water price easily. These people need to be in n power and have to have connections and legacy left behind doesn't matter if it will ruin future generations of the country. They are so rich they could honestly raise water prices but God knows if that GDP is even true or are the numbers screwed up in there.
I think it would be a cool idea to make a similar series about the US. What are the long term, structural problems with its superpower status?
i think he literally answered why he made one on China specifically, i don't think he'll be making a series like this again.
@@fahimrind9714 It would be nice to see an objective & deep analysis like this one though
Issues with infrastructure, decentralized political system making it difficult to pass, two party system, (these factors makes it hard to do anything long term), military industrial complex. Just to name a few of the many problems that needs to be addressed.
@@shesh32 politics is not about choosing best, but choosing least worse, which currently is ruling, there are chances of improvements , but now they to started appeasement 😓
I think a series on China (like this one) is more needed because China is not open, and their politics is very opaque, and their structure and organisation are inscrutable (meaning, "cannot be screwed with", right?). Whereas the US system is open and reported, and while there are some secrets, all the pundits would have sussed out the secrets and put it all out there.
This will be a great video for people learning international relations and diplomacy! Amazing work guys!!
A video full of prejudice. It seems that a defenceless China is friendly in their eyes. No, it is the defenceless China that can be easily controlled by them that is friendly. Don't only see one side of China, China is not only friendly, it is also powerful and can not be bullied.
Why is China getting tougher after 2010? Because even if China joined the WTO, even if China is willing to make friends with the world, the European countries and North American countries are not willing to share even a little profit with China, and try to make China succumb to their bullying with very strong means.
For example, in photovoltaic, telecommunications, networking and chips, if there is even the slightest chance that Chinese companies will overtake them, they will do their best to suppress them. They just want the Chinese to make cheap socks for them.
After ten years of being bullied, China has had enough. The Chinese people have had enough. As a result, China's diplomatic posture has become increasingly assertive in recent years. Because some people don't know what friendly is, they just want to keep China under their control.
Since you said China is now aggressive, let the rest of the world does not like. Then why have so many European and American politicians visited China in recent months? Because they know as long as they come for cooperation, China will always be friendly! Just look at the smile on the face of US President Joe Biden at the recent US-China meeting.
Absolutely fantastic content !!!
yup, the thing that ties all of the issues together
you can't fix a problem if you're too proud to even acknowledge it
ussr basically
Not just proud, but also too frightened to acknowledge the problems.
classic first stage
The more isnecure a government, the more it spends on internal security.
@Josh what are you talking about dude lol
@@charliecrome207 just read again if you can, dude
@@charliecrome207 what can you expect,even their top ambassadors are illiterate cretins
@@akumaking1 ???
@@charliecrome207 what did they talk about? They deleted their comment lmao
The job of a diplomat is to make friends not enemies, to prevent being isolated and to isolate others.
Bismarck is spinning in his grave at China wolf warrior diplomacy.
Probably, it's pretty dumb, but sometimes it's hilarious.
There are a lot of reasons why Bismarck is spinning in his grave.
To know why China spends so much on internal security, you just need to know Chinese history.
Yup, and the answer is... exactly what the video implied. The CCP can't keep those GDP numbers growing forever, and when the inevitable recession happens, it'll be the people questioning why the government spends so much on this and that.
@@crishhari5903 lol as if it didn’t suffer when they have a strong central government, if you do know Chinese history you would know that in both Ming and Qing an over centralised government contributed to their downfall. And you can’t take these historical situations and put it in today’s world and use it as a reason for an authoritarian government. Every country has once had an authoritarian government/king/court or whatever you wanna call it. But culture have developed to recognise the universal rights and freedoms of individuals. You cannot violate these rights just to maintain stability and your own power.
@@greenhat7618 are you serious? That's the number 1 method to maintain power for government irregardless. Whether democracy or dictatorship, they will violate human rights to keep power. Or at the very least (best case) forgo the wishes of some of the population.
The question is to what extent. When you think about it, it is actually quite fascinating. In a democracy , as long as you please 51% (less in many first past the post system) of the population, the rest can go screw themselves. In a dictatorship, upset 50% of the population and you'll likely get civil war or a coup.
My view is that in democracies, roughly half the population is being gently ignored, just enough to not cause major unrest. Good luck if you are on the wrong side.
In a place like China, the government will try really hard to please as many people as possible. Flipside is they will deal very harshly with the minority that threatens the government. And it works because most people just want a comfortable life.
@@greenhat7618 Lol, as if they didn't have non-stop civil wars when the center was weak. China most development happened when there was strong central government. All of China golden era is when central government was strong and none when central government was weak.
Even in present time, I think China has done quite good for themselves under a strong central government. They are just behind US.
@@crishhari5903 China, under "strong" unified central government CCP control, has suffered THE WORST deprivations and catastrophes of its entire history, bar none. The "Great Leap?" The "Cultural Revolution"? No "civil war" even comes close to the body count under Mao and Crew. Strong government doesn't necessarily mean "security", just as decentralized government doesn't necessarily mean "lack of security". Learning new things is fun, isn't it?
0:17
"Let's share the sun and air"
Beijing's serious air pollution: *I don't think so*
It's pretty clean there
@@voltgaming2213 the air isn’t 😂
@@kingtannerxvi4363 is better now
Amazing work! Thank you
hi I'm especially interested to watch your videos about China, so I checked the two websites "nebula" and "curiosity streams" to see if contains the series of China related videos, but I couldn't find it clearly. would you please help me to know how could I do for receiving the whole series of your China-related videos?
Me: I need to get ready for my day
Polymatter: China's Reckoning Pt 4
Me: My day can wait!
In my case midnight...SLEEP CAN WAIT!!!
@@MrArthoz Time to wake up! Xi knows what is coming th-cam.com/video/QXFProJC5FY/w-d-xo.html
As a Brazilian, the Chinese diplomat's tweet was quite mild given the situations created by our utterly incompetent government. On the other hand, anti-China rhetoric had been increasing here in Brazil even before this Twitter incident. Mind you that our Mule-in-Chief said that COVID is a biological warfare weapon... so, yeah, maybe it's time to see that this isn't only on China and maybe would happen despite any Chinese action.
As a Brazilian I do not blame China at all for that tweet it must be quite frustrating to deal with 4 brain damaged children pretending to be a president.
I am Greek. China bought our main port. If anything goes wrong, it is on us. We sold it to them.
China might be behind many things. Our collapse is on us though.
I wish you the best good people of Brasil.
As a Chinese, I'm almost shocked that China is not blamed by everyone for everything related...it feels weird, mate
Surprise! Surprise! An open-minded!
hmmm If you really want to know deeper of this world, with just a bit of open mind, and patient, go learn the Chinese, don't believe anyone, not even me, go to China, talk to the people there, and witness it then understanding it by yourself.
But, be warned, once learnt you will never feel happy, because you will see it hatred, madness and their sins. You will learn the other side of this world by your own, but then all here, all those so professionally made shinny...programs, you will have very different taste of them, especially those "extremely low in bias series"~ hahahahaha
So knowing the actual is very dangerous, but some Chinese, we see it as a favour sign.
Chinese were being so....quiet, to relax and too peaceful, time to wake up fulfil some long overdue responsibilities to the human civilisations I guess.
Kill the west
@@francozheng5617 even harder to believe that those time was just a couple years ago, now people just, cope with it, and find another one
Does China not realize how much of its wealth comes from exports? By being rude, it's just discouraging other countries from trading and from immigrating to fix its demographics problem.
Compare that with Canada, a country generally great at making friends. Our birth rate has been under 2.1 since 1972, but our rate of population growth never changed, since we're highly desirable to immigrants. In fact, China's losing a fair number of well-educated young people when they send students to Canada, and they stay here after graduation.
The govt has figured it's better for its long term survival to blow away its relations with the outside world in exchange for making it appear tough to a domestic audience.
Now imagine how scared they need to be of their own people to justify blowing up its relations with the source of its wealth this comprehensively.
Very insightful.
You should do another series called “America’s Reckoning”, because we’ve got some huge problems in this country as well.
One for every great power
Difference is that America can fix problems as it is a democracy, and can’t just say the problems don’t exist. That’s why the BLM problems went out.
@@just_dmitri3192 I mean, racism doesn't exactly disappear in a year g
@@just_dmitri3192 Just because it’s a democracy doesn’t mean it can fix its problems easily. The BLM problems hasn’t been “fixed” and it’ll be a huge problem for decades to come. Health care, infrastructure, education, gun violence, societal cohesion, inequality and many other issues have been going on for decades even centuries yet they haven’t been addressed at all. So you can’t say a country is better at fixing problems just because it’s a democracy. China and its political system are great at handling some problems while America and its political system are great at handling others.
@@just_dmitri3192 By that logic China should have collapsed already (or is guaranteed to collapse).
A country doesn't have to be democratic to tackle problems. Given how divided the US is on some issues, there is no guarantee it will solve them.
absolute tune at the beginning
Ur profile pic made me sad bro, it reminded me of a tragic moment
@@ssroudyss9432 yuh poor alexei. at least s4 is coming soon
7:45 They got us in the first half.
Chairman Poo wants to be a Grizzly Bear, but he is really just a Panda acting tough.
It's very fitting that you upload this video, because just a few weeks ago, a diplomat from my home country told Chinese ambassadors to "get the fuck out" of our disputed islands. On Twitter! Even if the diplomat has since apologized, the sentiment is still felt among our people.
Savage, which country are you from
@@sagoda3467 I think the Philippines
@@PyroFloe Sounds like something Duterte would do
@@deanchur Sadly the PH pres is the reason why the diplomat apologised.
@@TomCruz54321 literally the entirety of SEA has some sort of beef with china lol
Great analysis🙌🏻
Well explaned!
This series was very interesting. I'd love to see more similar stuff in the future. Maybe you could do shorter, one video long "serieses" where you go over different countries in a similar way, such as France, the UK, Russia, India, Finland, Germany etc. It would be very interesting.
Isn't it kinda hard to cramp up all these points to one video???
Not every countries has those kinds of vital threats though.
@@meneither3834 yes they do. They are just different
@@stevenoviedo541 cite me a major threat to Switzerland's existence.
@@meneither3834 Landslides and avalanches will get worse with climate change as they already have in other mountainous countries like Bhutan. Plus the French peaking Jura region has a separatist movement.
Poly, this is simply THE BEST geopolitical series in the internet
Thanks for all this years of amazing content!
real admiration man
Cheers from Brazil! (Unfortunately one of the countries that most depend on China)
A lot of places depend on China but China also depend on a lot of places as well. It makes sense why they do what they do but it’s still kinda stupid. You need to engage in trade with everyone but you also go around pissing everyone off.
I really recommend Caspian Report. It's a bit dyer but it is world class.
I would also recommend whatifalthist for geopolitics and philosophy
@@Breathtaker5000 What about AlternateHistoryHub?
Please, please, please engage the politicians in your country, and stop them from doing so.
Really good stuffs here
Thanks for this insightful documentary.
"That's because it's already maxed out" I lost it xD
To be fair to China on that particular point... Japan started it
japan is always extra
@@admthrawnuru I don't think so. People living in where China located today, had been insulting Japan thousands ago.
@@firewoodloki that’s no argument. Most of the anti-Japanese sentiment from Chinese stem from WW2 not centuries ago.
@@wandering2320 Really? How about the Chinese government hide the fact that Japan has been donating millions to China every year since 1980? Chinese should be thankful to Japan in all sense with anything after WW2.
"The Chinese embassy in Brazil accused its president of having a 'mental virus'"
On that one, I'm somewhat inclined to agree. Not because I like the CCP or anything, but just because it's Bolsonaro.
Lmao china accidentally being based
7:53 "but only because it had already maxed out" - that made me laugh
Wow. Thanks!
“One of the few counties not to experience this trend was Japan, but only because it had already maxed out.”
さすが日本, always ahead of the times, aren’t ya?
Because Japan lost it's leadership in Asia and the Chinese hate Japanese too.
Japanese haters are like that, they know China hated them for the things in the past, and now they can't invade China again so they be jealous and hating.
But their reasoning for hating China is different. A lot of different countries start hating China nowadays for its government, but Japan always had bad sentiment with China no matter what, politically or in history. They’re not wrong this time but you can’t trust them to have a fair view
@@wandering2320 Right on the money. Actually, Japan's government is wrong, it is in no position to say anything, consider it NEVER has FORMALLY apologized to China, still attempting to suppress comfort women monuments around the world, shady human right violations under the table (e.g. 99% prosecution rate of its citizens). Even North Korea has more right to criticize China's government than Japan. Japan hates China is due to its hatred and jealousy, it failed to invade China, so hey why not start hating them before they hate us.
But other than this, you are correct.
@@happyface4234 Bruh again with the apologize thing. Lol everyone hates your China now because it's fucking dumb trying to provoke everyone. Sure, Japan isn't the fairest book of them all but cut me the crap about the past. What Japan was then is what China is trying to achieve now. Murderous, and provocative. It's just a matter of time till they start shooting.
I can't get Jackie Chan singing out of my head
Lol the Chinese government already did hahahaha 😂
i remember china blue back in the day. a pretty good song from my boy jackie
That was so good, and the lady had a pretty voice
I think he has an album from back in the eighties
Now we need an Evergrande Update! (Even if it's on Nebula Curiosity Stream)
This series is just GREAT!! Congratulations!!
Wolf warriors diplomacy doesn't just mean acting like a wolf. It comes from a quote from the films director/lead when asked why a single soldier can take down an entire army. He says, "if an American can do it, why can't we?:
"Because hitler can do it, why i cant do it?"
Hans, famous germans
Sorry for my lame jokes haha
But seriously the phrase is just like a child sibling fight like " why my brother can do it while i cant?"
@@alexanderludwigthaddeusvandarc Although it is childish, it is not unexplainable nor that unreasonable.
US diplomats do not go out of their way and slander their host countries. You're basically burning bridges and good luck trying to get anyone to work with you in the future. Even during the Trump era, it was really mainly the president doing it, and it still caused damage. When your entire diplomatic Corps does it, then it is effectively policy and you can't blame the individual anymore.
@@comradeofthebalance3147 its irrational and invalid argument about what the artist said, if it just follow other style than its meant to be unoriginal, if theey want to create their own identity they should find something unique to create their own identity. And its not wrong to follow other path, its just unoriginal
John Rambo's radio callsign in the second movie was "Lone Wolf"