China's Hidden Misery
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remember we all share this beautiful earth together and you sir can easily connect our two worlds to push empathy please
I'm thinking you mean well .... China don't bring nothing to the table except for their garbage
Communism = Misery
This is sad because Business Basic also state that China will fall and from the outside it never did. But for a economic experts like him he's more than spot on. It was the truth...
Of course he did not know any of this. He literally make that prediction based on politics and the expense. Like China spent WAY too much money and budget to carry North Korea and Russia while they are being cut from the public market...
Any even average economic experts can see that this is more expense than income... So where's the money coming from...?
The people... They are now robbing people to make it look rich...
The same way as using your entirely saving just to look rich... No you still used your money...
@@infinitykiyen6270 don't take much heed with experts .... during pandemic experts said masks don't work .... science suggested differently
i had a Chinese professor in university, who happened to be my absolute favorite sociology prof. in my department. the day he found out he obtained his US citizenship, i just so happened to have class, and he cried announcing it in front of our class of about 25 students. this was around about 2016. it impacted me in a huge way; i really do not even have the words to express how much so. he also said he would NEVER go back to China. this video reminded me of him... i've been watching you for 5 years now and i've learned so much from you and CMilk. please keep creating this excellent content... you are a true citizen journalist in my eyes, and i appreciate all the work you've done.
An originally chinese woman I know who lives and works in germany obtained citizenship in an eastern european country. She didn't care whether it was european, south american, north american or australian citizenship, she even tried some better off african countries just to get out. Her work visa in that eastern european country led to her eventually finding a husband and getting citizenship after more than a decade (no, she didn't marry just for citizenship) and she is really glad she got out and away from the ccp. She misses her family, but if she was in china she would likely be one of those unmarried, unemployed, overqualified people over 35 with massive debts from buying an unfinished flat.
Who's CMilk?
Now he replaced your neighbourhood with high rise units with a whole bunch of other people who look like him and you no longer belong...
Then he got beat by 🏀 Am in an act of freedom
@@MuTen_09 Laowhy86, the guy who SerpentZA makes ADVChina with.
So, basically, learning Chinese was like wearing sunglasses in John Carpenter's "They Live"... 🤔
Obey. Consume.
Great movie ... a must watch
I like the way you compare something so similar. We speak our language; they speak their language. But once we learn their language, we finally understand what they are saying. Either good or bad.
Out of bubblegum.
I was thinking the same thing.
In China, the tunnel is not only collapsing, but the light at the end is an oncoming train.
There's still people talking about China's collapse huh?
Brutal lmao.
@@J_X999 Time to talk about “India’s collapse” then? As now India is the most populous country by population 😂
@@ricardohoang8452well India isn't collapsing but developing
@@sumanmajumdar7884 I know, but jx is triggered up there because everyone memed about his country’s CCP 😂
Foreigner: I wish I could become fluent in Chinese.
Foreigner five years later: Be careful what you wish for.
You notice most people in China are not smiling or laughing.
Ever heard of Dashan? (Mark Rowswell)??
Unlike the USA where people are smiling or laughing evey day while their government commit crimes around the world. It's called power of propaganda. MSM and "entertainment industry" working on it 24/7. Goebbels was amateur compared to that...
Yup, and I'm sure if they ever are smiling, they're mean smiles of contempt, and anger.
What do you mean. People are so happy there. Communists in the U.S. would love it there.
Why is that?
I know a fellow here in Canada working for a Chinese firm in China. He does his work on the computer so he is here or back in China half the time. He told me he has not been paid for around 5 months, I was flabbergasted. Can't you talk to a lawyer I asked ? He just laughed, he said I continue to work and hope to get paid one day or stop working and not get any of my pay. That is the harsh reality he is in at this present time.
Man I had a construction boss like this before, he didn’t pay me for a whole month and when time came to pay he was telling me that I’m lying about the whole month of pay and that he only owed me two weeks of work, I never got to see that 2500$ because of that
@@tu1469 In Canada you can go to some gov't office and show that you have done this work and they go after the guy. Do you not have that in the States ?
@@tu1469 Personally in that happened to me I would be meeting that guy in a alley way if you know what I mean.
@tu1469 where was this? In the United States we have state labor boards. the employer has to provide proof of pay or a penalty of wages plus 5000 a week is levied
If wage and penalty are paid at that point, the state shuts down the business.
@@JohnDoe-tw8es Not how it works. Dec 8 a whole 600m$ tower's worth of interior tradesmen were scammed out of their paycheques. 30,000$+...
System is built to scam now.
We absolutely need people like you, who have been to China and lived there many years, to show us what's really happening behind the curtains. Thank you 🥸👍
I am Chinese, I can only say that this blogger is intentionally smearing China
One does not need to live in China to see that it’s an absolute dumpster. I commend anyone brave enough to try and live in China. Just their food safety alone would make me want to run to the opposite direction as fast as possible😰
I used to run a business there. Horrible place - I spent like half a year living there in different periods of a year. Horrible food, horrible people, cheaters and con men…
I am Chinese and I hope you keep your superiority and arrogance. I hope the upper echelons of your government are in the same mindset 👍
USA we’re so awesome. Yay! Said the person in denial who doesn’t know the truth about economics.
Software engineer from China told me there he worked six days a week and on Sunday came to the office for a few hours for meetings.
well that feels like the US...
@@rp3351 no software engineer in the us will work 7 days a week w/o a pay, comrade
@@rp3351 Do you have a job? My wife works in IT, makes $300k, all weekends off plus many Fridays. Three weeks vacations and all pied national holydays. I had my own business and I worked more, buy I retired at 45 with $100k income. We live in California. Now, if you only know how to push a broom you better stay were you are. Good luck to you.
@@rp3351 Yeah but we get paid for it; we don't work 6 days a week and come in on sunday while putting only 40 hours on our timesheet.
When I was a window fixer in the UK 15 years back we used to do the same.
Where the hell was that third "These Chinese families are trying to enjoy a quiet picnic day out" location? The people went on to the horizon.
The joys of a country with a population of a billion-odd.
That is the case for anyone going on a holiday in China. If you’re lucky, you can take off days that are not designated holidays, but most people can’t. The Great Wall these days is pretty scary due to crowding. I first went there 30 years ago - I was pretty much all by myself. Then went back in 2018 and 2019. It was a traffic jam - wall to wall people. And climbing the wall is sometimes very steep. The crowds make it scary as hell.
it's an overpopulated hell hole
I live in the San Diego, California area. In the local news was about the new majority of amnesty/illegal alien seeker -- Chinese Nationals -- at the California-Mexican border. They fly from China to Ecuador to the Tijuana, Mexico airport (for visa reasons). A shuttle picks them up at the airport and for $400 USD a "coyote" drives them sixty miles to the end of the border wall. The border patrol has set up a mobile processing center to issue them immediate asylum visas. In minutes they are on their way. I found it hilarious when the TV reporter interviewed some of them. They all appeared well dressed and polite and spoke English. They stated they had been employed in IT and business had collapsed in the past couple of years and were now headed up to Silicon Valley to earn the big money in USA IT. There was a line of shuttle buses dropping off these Chinese immigrants.
I saw that story. The one lady had on higheels and fur collar on her outer jacket, for walking thru the desert....
Pretty disgusting what the current president has allowed to happen to our country with this mess isn't it? It's either they rush the fence or pile into boats and run into our neighborhoods. ICE has no more power, the police can't do anything nor do they want to anymore. All while Newscum thinks he's going to be president one day because of how he runs the hell hole that is California.
The reason we must import all these techies from overseas is because we can't homegrow them in our own country. Why can't Westerners fill these jobs? Is it because wht people aren't smart enough?
We used to do it. The Italians had their renaissance with Westerners like Leonardo DeVinci. Kepler was a Westerner, Issac Newton was a Westerner. The American space program landed a man on the moon with almost entirely Western scientists.
So what has changed? Its the Western education systems that have changed. Liberals ruined American public schools, almost deliberately. We spend more per capita on children's education than any other nation on earth yet can't manage to education enough Doctors and engineers.
Yet nations, who spend a small fraction of what we spend on education, produce more doctors and engineer than we can. THIS should be a source of great national shame for Western nations. But it isn't. Why is that? Remember that, the next time you vote.
Cpt, next time vote for the candidate that promises to fix the mexican border and the immigration law. If your authorities can be fooled this easy, there's something fundamentally wrong with your country.
Chinese aren't the majority of asylum seekers, that's still Venezuelans who are probably still coming from worse situations than many of those Chinese.
I won't buy from Temu. If things are that ridiculously cheap, someone, somewhere is paying a high price. I remember getting off a train at a station in Guangdong. It was terrifying seeing all of the cripples begging and the complete lack of compassion by the locals. I felt like I had entered one of the 9 circles of hell.
but you walk past the hordes of homeless beggers and panhandlers on the streets in the US?
@@seawater1322 You know there are more than the US and China in the world...
The reason the locals ignore them is because they know why there are lots of people with no limbs - organized crime - gambling debts is a usual reason, cut off a hand or two, a foot and then sit and beg. It's mainly for laowais who take pity on them. There are plenty of them in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Xi'an - not all of them are auto-amputees, of course, given the state of PRC workplace safety, the loss of limbs or life is a real problem. Scams are rife, if you fall victim to a scam, it's your fault for not noticing. It is a national past-time. There's no point going to the police, it will go either of two ways, a shrug and whatever, or, that's-no-moon of interviews and paperwork and then getting followed all the damn time by the local PSB and still nothing gets done. If you want the "real" China, go to Taiwan. HK used to be good, it's dead now. When Taiwan is taken, then Japan is the closest to a nice place to visit (unless you're Chinese or Korean)
@@seawater1322 You must be Chinese haha. Beggars can make plenty of money in America by begging, not to mention the benefits they can get from the government.
You did!
As a Chinese, i can say that you understand China even better than the most Chinese. And thank you.
but I see more miseries in America. Just go to any downtown street or subways in America. The smell of sh*t comes right into ur nose
yes，I’m a Chinese too.and he’s telling the truth about china,the real situation of China
As a chinese, I can say that he is bsh*tting
Fact, a Chinese born woman who was in Hong Kong for years and now lives in England with her British husband.
She went back to her home city in china on holiday last week and struggled, did not like it at all being there.
Coukd not find her way around a small city she grew up in. Had to pay for everything with a phone. (That makes tracking people easy and all the other things the Chinese government want to know about the people)
In fact the young people do NOT actually know what cash is!😧
She said it was depressing to be on holiday there.
It's depressing how Hong Kong has fallen in the last few years alone. Wish they managed to remain independent or under British rule, was much better for them. Many such cases!
Instead of thinking how harsh daily lives in China, this video made me realize that my country is a few steps away from this
What's your country?
Swissiefiggiland @@ChimChimChums
Yep Australia isn't far behind either
@@ChimChimChums Indonesia
@deradler7571
You’ve never left home if you really think Australia is ANYWHERE NEAR China's disastrous condition.
You’re simply out of touch with how bad it is in OTHER countries if you’re that delusional.
I lived in Sanya on Hainan Island for three years. It was supposedly going to be the next Macau. Huge "Vegas" style resorts were being constructed, but gambling was still not allowed. It was all based on a promise.... you build it, and we'll allow it. It never happened. But I worked in one of these resorts. I opened a fine dining restaurant on a beach, beautiful views, beautiful resort! The restaurant had floor to ceiling glass windows overlooking the beach and the South China Sea. The windows looked from the outside like a solid black panel. it wasn't mirrored, it was just like a solid black panel. You couldn't see into the restaurant, but the view from inside the restaurant was spectacular. You could see out, but you can't see in. So when it opened we had high rolling guests trying to get the table by the windows. The only problem was that groundsmen, gardeners and all other myriad of local employees didn't understand the concept. They would come, look around furtively and then piss up against the window..... and table 12 will have view they never thought possible! The real China!
Wow! 😂
Dinner AND a show!
Just needed to rebrand it for fetishists. I mean, you did say they were going for the Vegas thing 😂
great story :)
Who knew a two way see thru was a huge asset
I lived in China for many years. I can speak Mandarin and some other dialects but the longer you live there the more you see the real stuff the pressure to find a job for the local people is utterly insane.
Please don't repeat yourself like a robot. Is this the American or Taiwanese version of credit points?
No you didnt
Again , stuff that never happened
However, I have actually spent 5 months living in China. Absaloiutely brilliant. All the western BS propaganda I Heard like the clown who runs this channel simply didnt exist.
You could say the same for South Korea, Japan, Singapore or Taïwan. Doesn't prove anything, it's the asian way...
The USA is no paradise either
Just look at The Tenderloin in San Francisco
@@rowlandpaes9213 US is decaying a bit more everyday while China is building itself...You can't compare a growing child with a dementia crippled granny...
3:21 That line reminded me of the line my wife and I had to stand in to get into the Social Security Office (this is in the good old USA) to claim her social security benefit now that she turned 70 years old. We spent several hours in line, even though we got there an hour before they opened. There were very old people in that line (yes, older than us), some in wheelchairs, one with his caregiver trying to keep him warm, as the temperature was in the 40s. Once inside, we waited another two hours before being called. Then the clerk told us that they didn't have the staff to process her claim that day and to come back another day. We made two more attempts, following all their instructions to the letter, each time involved waiting several hours, only to be told the same thing, "We can't help you today." One clerk, after all the waiting, told us we should have made an appt by calling in first. I said I tried to do that but I got a recording that said their phone system was not working. He goes, "Yes, I know. It doesn't work." Several months later, when we were in Los Angeles (which is a thousand miles from our home state), we used a SS office there to (finally) be able to get her SS started. The worst part was that at the SS office near our home, they just didn't care. They had two weapon carrying officers at the entrance, I guess in case one of the more frisky 90 year olds got out of line. I wrote my local Congressperson about it and got a nice reply, but no help.
You should've been able to sign up for SS, online. The only reason why I had to go to the office was to submit a form to have tax taken out of my SS payment. And even then, there was no need to stand in line - just walk inside and drop the form into a box at the back of the room.
I never had any problems with Social Security. It was quick, easy and simple and doable online if you chose.
There's not a single thing on Earth or an amount of money that you could offer me that would make me want to go to China.
Thank you Serpentza for these honest talks for the last years, I wish news had such a direct and experienced format more too...
honest?? lol
Dear Brother! Communism has been tried many times and it ALWAYS ends up as Totalitarianism. Thank you for your excellent reporting. Bravo.
The West is going in that direction.
@now591 Only because of modern liberals and leftists. They actually think it's gonna be a good thing.
That's the irony isn't it, @@now591? Long-suffering Chinese people fleeing the corrupt communist east only to arrive in the corrupt socialist west.
Then again, nobody is as based and strident in their anti-communism as people who have survived communism, maybe the real ir9ny will be Chinese and North Korean refugees saving the west?
and they always say... 'but that wasn't real communism... we'll get it right next time!'
It's a little more nuanced than that - Communism (or Marxist-Leninism, or Juchism, or Bolivarianism) simply has no cure for bad leadership. Also, average leaders (like Brezhnev) aren't punished for mistakes so things get progressively worse. Ideologically, the leaders of a post-revolutionary state just can't be bad - saying so is considered counter-revolutionary or heretical. China was getting better between about 1990 and 2010 - for a little while, for a lot of people, life in China may have seemed better than life in the West. But just look at how quickly things shifted in the other direction.
I wish China had implemented the policies of Taiwan; they could have become one of the greatest nation in the world.
But that would require the CCP to face competitive elections which they would inevitably lose, and it would require that their leaders submit to the rule of law rather than rule like princes, so they can't
Truth is their government in their zeal to stay in power are keeping themselves from true greatness. Don't steal...become a real investor in your future China and you could be leading the world They have the land mass and population to get it done. Taiwan is the perfect example of what is possible but instead of looking at what Taiwan has done their plan is to invade. In their current form anything China touches goes to crap.
they had great policies that put them on track to be one of the top economies in the world. then the guy who was behind it died and the guys that came after him had no clue. and this current guy is only concerned with staying in power as long as he can.
Impossible. All the people who were educated or had ANY class or culture were hunted down or forced to flee TO TAIWAN.
the (tofu) dregs of society were left behind.
How could they ever do that when they chased all their best people away to Taiwan ?
the (tofu) dregs of society were left behind.
a government comprised of bandits.. that's the ccp
Ty WINSTON. I’ve been watching u for years now.
Most of your critiques would hold for most places around the world right now.
Exactly. The problem is not just a bunch of countries, it's a global messed up system.
@@Ibtissam-be8dz Yes, humans needs to unite to overcome this messed up system !
@@herono-4292 And do what? Lol
@@slavic_commonwealth find a better leader to rule politic, educate people, child, adult in many domains like science, philosophy, literature, history etc etc
yes inequality is rampant the world over
This was stark. I really get on with how you talk.
A Hong Konger who got away told me how Chinese people are incredibly self contained and isolated from each other emotionally even in families. Its the horrible legacy of their history and current situation, the price they pay to appease their leader - one man, who has them trapped. It's a living nightmare and the lack of charity, pity and empathy is hard to contemplate.
My native chinese mom who grew up in China told me about how horrible the CCP is and how they brainwash the Chinese in mainland china.
She said that before xin jinping and Covid, China wasn’t as bad, but now it’s terrible
She also said she doesn’t recommend being friends with any native Chinese in this generation Z and younger generations( because they’re most likely brainwashed)
European civilization needs to learn that lack of charity because we are literally killing ourselves and invading our lands with enemies with all that charity.
My parents and in-laws both taught English in China. They were told to never mentions the '3 T's, (Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen), and never show the college student pictures of their houses in America because it would make the students feel bad! I speak Mandarin and have been to China several times, the people were great, but very naive.
I've been to China, six times to work there for 2-4 weeks at a time. My coworkers there were very accomodating/friendly. Some still communicate with me via wechat.
Why you not get out of China, never go back to teach English. We Chinese mum also don't want our kids to be learnt English anymore!!!!
Interesting, who you think to be naive may think that you very people are naive, and that you are naive to conclude them to be great.
@weiyuzhu9373 Some people from a free country can be naive, but those who live in an information access-restricted country are more likely to be naive.
I do feel bad for the gunfights, gangsters, disorder, vagrangts, racism and high crime rate in America. Thinking that somebody is suffering, I literally can't stop crying.😭😭😭
Thank you tor your work. I lived Xi’an from 97-99. I came back and was amazed at the distorted and positive view many Americans have of China and how Americans believe the news coming out of China. It is a desperate and malevolent society that does not value the individual Chinese citizen.
America unfortunately is becoming the same way... People are consumer or political pawns. The people in power only care about you if you're rich/well connected.
I am so glad that now more foreign vloggers are now in China and show a more balanced view, instead of all these negative China bashing videos.
I asked my friend who works in Beijing if these long USA embassy lines are true. She verified you. She walks by embassy every day to work
But most of them stand to get a tourist visa.
We we traveling to China for holiday again, thanks for sharing and will stay far from EV.
Most US embassies around the world have lines.
I went to the one in Shanghai and you needed an appointment to do interviews (needed a new passport for our newborn). The line was only like 10 people, who also either all had appointments or was just there to pick up the passport. We were in and out in about an hour. Not sure why the Beijing one is soooooo long.
@@Multi1qaz2wsx3edc4rf Which they overstay and go underground in California or NY.
Yes this true. I used to live in China for many years and had a Chinese husband. I learned the real life there and learned Mandarin. All my foreign friends left.
@DawnLi-iw8qb
Are you still married to your husband? Did you live in southern China or northern China?
As always. Anothet great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for shining light on this. It is indeed shocking and disconcerting. I met a young lady from China while in Chiang Mai. She was religious and meditated every morning out in the cold air in the garden, wrapped in warm clothing. We talked a little, and she told me how everything China had gained over the five thousand years of civilization is being destroyed. It was very sad and hard to believe. Perhaps it's time for some radical change for the Chinese people.
Communism is the worst form of slavery ever created! I can confirm as the one born and raised in USSR
My teacher also regrets learning Chinese. He wishes to forget the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, told to him during his stay there.
Yes, if China has a dark history, you can regard it as China’s entire life.
You could make a similar video going round the poorest and most desperate people in the US.
Thanks!
Winston, thank you for telling and highlighting the truth where MSM does not.
Been there. Seen that. The differences between the big cities and the rural communities really are profound.
The shining light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
I was living in China for a year and yes I learned to speak it as well. Its living hell for poor people.
Most countries aren’t happy we all just survive.
No other countries besides India have 1.3 Billion people smashed together in high density cities. India is 1.4 billion, most gathered around the Ganges River.
But the veil hasn't been put over most of those countries.
We are all serving life sentences in this hellish prison called earth. It's just different levels for different people
Earth is paradise. Hell is man made.
Pretty happy in New Zealand!
As someone who lived in China for five years and was unfortunate enough to learn Chinese, I can confirm everything you said.
if the life in China is so miserable, how can you live there for 5 years? if i were you, i would leave China right after i arrived.
@@pipiqiqi4010 you can't compare life of an average local citizen to an expat with a foreign income.
Can you swear? I know there are many cyber troops in Taiwan and the United States who are constantly attacking China.
@@Miyconst I don't know your job in China, but your salary in China was must much higher than the average Chinese people. so, you think their life is misery, as a same logic, there are some people earn much less income than you, so their life is misery as well?
@@pipiqiqi4010 I'm guessing he's just someone similar to our boy Serpentza here. He was only full of praise and good things to say about China while living 10+ years in that country but once he was kicked out, he found out that being anti Chinese gains more followers and channel views. i.e. it pays to be anti China.
Thank you for making these videos, and thank you to Ekster for sponsoring them. 🙏
Yes! 20+ yrs ago that was what Chinese students in US said it’s terribly hard to get a visa to go to US!
That’s why none of the students I knew wanted to return to China if they cd; others by all means got ways to stay on…Imagine one of them used the status of a student to stay in US till this day!
Her family has insisted that she continue to find way to stay on in US, don’t ever go back to China!
What will that perpetual student do once they get their PHD? 😂
@@jilbertb She kept doing / prolonging her study in different majors as she cdnt get legally hired with a work permit!
Another couple quickly gave birth to a child so they cd stay on!
I don’t hv news of the others, but I know quick a few stayed on without work permit….
On many levels, living in South Korea was very similar for me, once I had learned the language. Not nearly as bad as China though, at least not for the most part. But when people don't know that you can understand what they are saying about you, they say a lot sometimes.
Human nature can be a terrible beast.
An expat does not need to speak much Putonghua to sense the disconnect and alienation that the Chinese people have living as one in a billion people! It is just that it is easier to let the sadness slide than it is when you hear them speak from the heart!
If China catches this guy his goose is cooked
You're right, you can't tell the truth because it'll get you killed in an authoritarian regime.
Stay out of China, Chris Pratt-man!
I can't imagine they're not trying to find him. He's got balls, that's for sure.
He lived in China for quite sometime and used to make these videos while in China. While they were not at this level, he was expressing his displeasure. The CCP did trouble him and he had to leave.
Luckily ccp members rely on a lot of Hothfield advantages, when they are out of China they stick out like a sore thumb. Most civillians can notice and report these agents. Is like the cia in other countires but somehow more incompetent. Long story short china's external Influence is nothing but economic, and nothing to worry about
500 ….dollars… a year. Let that sink in. Let that f*cking sink in. Madness
So we could live pretty lavishly then
I thought it's a mistake. Maybe he mean a month. 500 usd a month is not that big as well even in a country with lower cost of living. It's insane if it is really 500 usd a year
@@JN-R21 You truly underestimate misery.... he's probably correct, most of the people barely scrape by.
I had a programmer online in China quote me $12 to create an invoice in manderin for a project I was working on. I paid him $100 as I didn't want to rip him off as I was being paid $500. Now I understand why he was so grateful.
@@JN-R21Nah, $500 a month is quite a lot for many countries.
Who would've thunk the Chinese are as tired from exploitation as we are?
Hope the legless man can leave China too. He's stronger than most people with both legs.
I mean, you can think whatever you want about the video but that cut into the add was a masterclass of dark comedy. Holy hell.
Its like the Hero puting on the Special Glasses in They Live!
Ignorance is bliss but it's not healthy
You're brave and a blessing!!!!!
Perspectives like these make me truly happy and fortunate to be able to live in the United States.
Yes, ego-satisfaction is what keeps America ahead of China. You can solve the problem with just one plane ticket. If you don't want to be lied to by a lying bastard.
I'm Brazilian and I think I am about the same age as Winston and I remember in my early 20´s when I was not sure what I was gonna do with my life, a lot of people suggested I went to China since many people were moving there expecting life-changing opportunities. I got really close to going. I am so glad I didn't because back then we didn't know everything we know now thanks to channels like this.
还好你没来中国，否则你会觉得被欺骗了，这些都是中国20年前的视频😊
@@xu1244wu mao
Pois é, será que nossa visão da china próspera foi só uma construção da mídia?
Por pior que o Bostil seja parece que em todos os países existe uma sanha governamental por mais e mais controle!
@@xu1244 yes, after COVID it's even worse.
China has poverty and is crowded? EVs catch on fire? Wow. Shocking.
Those lines to the US embassy were truly eye-opening.
I just came from CMilk’s video. If they can’t show the rich or poor, what are they showing that’s approved? Is it the working class or what?
I go to China for work. I mean for visiting some suppliers. I see the rows of prostitutes in Beijing. I see the workers’ working conditions. I see the men pulling carts barefoot… speaking Chinese or not, it’s hard to not see. What I can not assess easily, is whether it’s getting better or worse.
Hard to believe your take when prostitution is illegal in China. You will not find any prostitue openly. You have to basically search for it in secret places. You see people with bad conditions in every country, even here in germany. In regards to china, economy is going up. In every small ass village there is a high speed train to every big city without any delay. Streets are clean too.
My life; because my parents went north; at least in the beginning; was one of the best small town beginnings a 30 year old man could have... NOW I understand why I'm so much wiser then most. I've actually been alittle bit of everywhere, money was never a big factor because basic needs like farming was still being done. I caught the LAST bit of western freedom in terms of liberation and it's shameful Im not running for office. It really is
This content was brought to you by Ekster. Dutch-owned, made in China. Adding to the "misery" since 2016.
The guy with no legs pulling a cart by walking on his hands broke my heart.
And how about the plight of homeless people in the west? It's getting serious and who does some thing to help them? Nobody.......This is really disgusting. How about school and church shootings etc etc....
@@jeandescamps1542 That's the 0.01% of the US population you see in a news story. It's sobering to realize this. Most people are kind and just want to live a happy life.
@@jeandescamps1542oh so because other countries have issues, this guy is suddenly ok? Go tell that to him. I don’t think he cares about the homeless in the US.
@@jeandescamps1542 your comment shows you lack empathy. What aboutism just stop
This is good reporting. I will share this investigative report.
Thank you for opening my eyes on my China
what you said sticks to nearly 99% of the countries.
I appreciate your channel, because you show the human costs of ccp policies.
Every country has its misery. Like US full of people sleeping in street . Its a populated area.
True. You could quite easily make a similar looking video in the US. The poverty and misery in some parts is quite a contrast to 'the greatest country'. I lived quite well though working there, but happy to be back in Europe now.
Misery in the US has always been publicly recorded. Americans are the ones who record it most. The same for the majority of countries. In China, you can't say or do anything that the government thinks makes them or their jurisdictions look bad.
The internet itself is censored extremely heavily and many oppressed minorities such as the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Xinjiang Hui, Tibetans, Hainan Utsuls and other marginalized ethnicities can hardly even communicate with the outside world. The emergency services during earthquakes are horrible too for a country with money and technology. China recently starved people to death during forced lockdowns as well.
This is what the US is going to look like in a few years. The writing is on the wall.
It already does.
The writing is on the GREAT WALL in letters so big, you can see them from space.
CN future looks like north korea, can't compare the bleakness
The US will only look like that if we allow it. We certainly can't continue business as usual, so no matter what anyone thinks about Trump, for now he's the only one offering change, so the choice is pretty easy to make.
@@robertharvilla4881 It would set a dangerous precedent letting Trump in office again. Never in our history has an insurrectionist been re-elected, and I would not say it is safe to do so. History has shown that those who are given power, never give it back. The "two bowls of crap" strategy used by both parties is most disparaging, though. The two party system is broken. Perhaps a three party system would keep the competition strong by threatening the other two with losing if they screw up. I dunno. I'm going to look into it as a feasibility study.
"Can you stop imitating me, Xi Jinping?!" - Satan.
Dante in Hell: “Who’s that weird guy over there?” Virgil: “That one? He’s Satan.” Dante: “What? No! But…, …what’s wrong with him?” Virgil: “Oh that’s a sad story. He’s suffering from megalomania. He actually believes he’s Xi Jinping…”
That line of homeless streamers looked straight out of some cyberpunk dystopia nightmare 0_0
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My Chinese boss told me of how his father would call white customers in his restaurant "roundeye" with a smile. He finally said it to someone who knew Chinese and he shrank under the floor tiles in embarrassment. He would point out to us how the white customers at a carry-out near the World Trade Center would get false bottoms in their plates to reduce the volume of food the customer received by half.
That embassy line is worse than the DMV!!!
Thanks for the videos
Those EV explosions are scary!
I managed to finish the total 10 minutes, to confirm that your narattive had been carefully made tosound as complete and convincing, but all arguements you raised have better answers, which neither falls into your narrative.
Wisdom will help one to recongnize all the tricks
Actually, China itself has its own official version of such misery, which is 'China is still a developing country' China never claims that its metropolitan cities represent the common status of the entire country. The number of people queuing in front of the US embassy equals those flying back to China; they are simply not the group who illegally flee to the US. Anyone who does a little research will find out the reason.
For those fleeing to the US, most of them have had bad luck or bad records in their past lives and want a fresh start. Some even have criminal records, which prevent them from applying for a visa. Now, some of those individuals already regret their decisions and plead for help to return home.
Every society has its good and bad aspects, especially a society of 1.4 billion people that has only developed for a little over 40 years. The chaos caused by the previous government seizing all wealth and relocating it to an island, combined with the difficulties of managing such a large population in extreme poverty, resulted in decades of poor decisions by the new government. Consequently, development was slow during the first three decades.
going through some comments here, turns out, you are just a bunch of banquet diners consuming negative news about China like it’s a drug, waiting eagerly for the author to serve more.
Bye- forever
To be fair you could make a very similar video about parts of the US.
And the US leadership's attitude towards Trump and anyone right of center is similar to what China is doing.
Yep
They become University Students and then turn their overseas campus into a enterprise zone .
What is communism without subversive entryism
I visited China a few times. I always stayed with the tour. Not very smart to try it on your own. Many people were quite personable. I did meet one man who could tell I was a "foreigner" was quite rude and insulting. He was the exception.
Old American guy that married a beautiful young Chinese woman yeah learning Chinese is useless for you just let her translate and you can keep the fantasy because I respect my wife's home after being there a few times you know the stares are not what your wife tells you, oh they just never see such a tall foreigner like you, but it's the stare of hate and jealousy my friend
Although you are right that there are very unfortunate situations taking place in the country, having 1,5 billion people in a country will automatically mean that there will be poorer areas where people struggle to make a living. The country is 5 times bigger than the us, and therefore will also struggle with making universal policies, beneficial for all in the country. Just adding some nuance here, and thank you for your reports.
It becomes quite noticable which governments actually care about their citizens general well being and who doesn’t. The higher a country’s population, the more to spare and less to care if you loose some. It’s just sad.
I don't think that's how it works, I don't think they see people as disposible. The wider the base of a pyramid, the taller it gets. Large states have more layers of intermediary between ultimate national power and people.
Joe Biden was elected with 306 electoral votes, none of which came from my state's 6, even though I voted for him. As far as US Presidents are concerned, my vote does not exist. That's something that's actually kind of nice about America, we ARE utterly detached from the federal government, but because of the "United States" thing we do have a certain level of direct connection to our state governments. I'm one of 300,000 people who voted in my state's Republican Primary, which is actually a pretty powerful vote to cast in a country of 340 million people. That vote shapes my neighborhood, my education system, my roads, my parks, half my taxes, the local problems, crime, housing policy, etc.
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Captivating video as always. Channel with purpose. Been watching this dude a long time.
For freedom...sacrifice and blood have always had to been shed. Freedom isn't free...it has to be fought for and died for.
what are you really trying to say? China has had countless wars and rebellions. Been invaded over and over. People die in the streets for political movements. you sound like a typical red neck sitting in an arm chair with a whittle and a moonshine still in the spare room.
I suppose to go there and play music with trip with my orchestra. I’ll not. Thanks for posting this
sorta like putting on the sunglasses in John Carpenters "They Live".
What a film!
A lot come to SG to study and then never leave.
I enjoy watching Serpentza because he opens a small portal into the workings of the CCP, who spend millions of dollars trying to cover up. This alone makes me eager to see the next episode.
Me too. 👋😊
Unfortunately what Winson is saying is true. I have been to China many times from 2011 to 2019. During that time, I saw a nation go from being exciting and on the upswing to one that is on the down slope and in despair. It seems to me that things will only continue to get worse in China, and as they do they will blame the USA for their downfall.
yeah, indeed it really relates with US in some certain degrees, such as the tariff and sanctions on the made in China products since trump administration, and restriction on the Chinese EVs, medicines, solar panels.......
@@pipiqiqi4010So the US can't even protect themselves without being blamed?
@@paolamaria1992 you can protect yourself, but you can't hurt others. as i know, there is not any sanctions or restrictions on the US companies in China so far.
@@pipiqiqi4010 How is choosing not to give your money on your biggest rival an immoral action? Everyone dreams of tearing down the US and when they retaliate suddenly they are the bad guys. Enough with the weaponized victimhood. China would have done the same if they didn't desperately need those US dollars.
@@pipiqiqi4010 Everyone is a rebel until the US retaliates, then they're poor victims of colonialism. Give us a break, you want war, you get war
In the 1970’s I was a young us marine stationed in the Philippines. I saw the extremely long lines around the us embassy in Manila. I can not understand how Americans seem to despise us citizenship
US is to developing asian counries like
Developed country is to US citizens
Only Filipinos are desperate to go to America
Let's compared a failed state "the Philippines" with supposedly the greatest country on earth. And yes it is a failed state as if for some reason it got sanctioned but the only sanction was its people couldn't work overseas people would starve there. A lot of Asians have no idea that the US is not some 80s movie where people live in luxury and all have high level jobs which seem to demand little of the workers. If Asians knew the real US, the amount wanting to come would drop considerably. The PI is a different story, its a basket case for some reason and at least half the country would move to the US if it could.
It's so funny to watch the author channel. I mean, it's understandable that China has social problems with such a large population.
I wonder why the same problems exist in the US, where there are basically cities of homeless people. After all, it's the top 1 country in the world and the population is 5 times smaller?
Actually, if you go to the Jade Temple in shanghai, or the people's park in the evenings, or even outside the north gate of the forbidden city in beijing, you'll see that misery. Because they will ask you for money. Its on full display at these three spots and in many others I could point out.
I speak and read Mandarin, although I am now super rusty, since I havent been in china for about 7 years and we are very wary about my (mainland chinese) wife returning to china, in case they have her on any police lists (she's not exactly a fan of the government). But I dont think its a curse. China is a fantastic place, if you leave out the government and crazy stuff that goes on. Being able to understand chinese opens up a huge new window into the world. Also, reading Journey to the West and the Plum in the Golden Vase in the original language is awesome! Every country has flaws, its just that, like everything else about China, they do them on a bigger scale.
The visa thing hasnt changed. Remember when the americans accidentally bombed the chinese embassy in serbia and there were lots of people throwing bricks over the US embassy walls in beijing? The joke at the time was that because the embassy was closed, throwing a brick over the wall was the only way to deliver your visa application. At the shanghai expo in 2010 (2011?) there were 6 hour lines for the US pavilion (and for the china pavilion). I went twice and didnt see either of those pavilions! Its interesting though: they used to always have cops on motorbikes every time there was a gathering of people in lines like that.
Youre right about the conversations though: we dont talk anything but the basics with my wife's family. To do otherwise is dangerous for them and theyre country people and have low expectations. Their simplicity means they are, strangely, reasonably happy.
Not being a 50-center here but begging is not really a sign of anything. We have them all over the place here in Sweden. Of course, they are all non-swedes. But still, kinda funny that because of the EU, we are even importing beggars.
During the bombing of china embassy in Serbia, all the hypocrites China Chinese graduates are insulting USA, i say them hypocrites because though they insulting USA, everyone of them wants USA green card! They want to work and live in USA.
You know a lot about Chinese literature. Journey to the West, do you mean the monkey god motley crew to India to collect the scripture? Plum in Golden Vase is a erotic novel right? Both are very old stories.
I remember that “accident”. I’m not vilifying the US, but that cruise missile landed exactly where it was intended to. You can’t possible believe that out of all places in Belgrade, it just happened to hit the embassy of the one country which needed to understand that those missiles work.
As a Chinese person who's been reasonably well-travelled (been to about 20 countries at this point), I'd say that what's said here is very true, but it's also true for most places. Once you look any further than skin deep, you'll likely find that the place (whatever place it is) is filled with sadness and misery. That doesn't mean though that nothing is worth seeing. After all, you would be mostly insulated from the harshness of reality thanks to your tourist wallet.
So is China worth a visit? Yeah I think so. Just don't stay here long term because that's when the misery creeps up on you. Not that other countries don't have their miseries too, but China is one of the few places that forbids you from talking about it. This country has truly normalised surveillance and censorship, and they do it *openly and unapologetically*, in blatant contempt of the joke of a document it calls its constitution. I believe this is what these people queueing outside embassies are fundamentally looking to escape from.
tryin to flee from China.
This is literally Japan and Korea. it is a burning hell hole.
Hay Winston, I live in Chiangmai Thailand 🇹🇭 and love it. Often, I run into Americans who have lived in China, and they continue to tout that China is not the horrible place the West makes it out. I tend to believe you.
I wonder how China managed to piss this guy off so badly that he decided to set up a RUclips channel solely dedicated to posting anti-China videos? I sincerely hope for America's sake that his newly adopted country the US doesn't piss him off as much,otherwise watch out for Winston's new RUclips channel featuring anti-US rant videos!😂
You’re a great orator; more skilled than most RUclips commentators.
You will face the oppression of modern formalism and ideology, so it is right to escape
Looks like he is talking about life in U.S under Chiniese discuise.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for exposing all the misery of life in socialism. That is why the bloc and the Soviet Union itself fell apart. Including my native Yugoslavia. The breakup of Yugoslavia was fostered and encouraged by Greater Serbian imperialism with the growth of Serbian and other nationalisms immediately before the breakup of the SFRY. There was a feeling in the air that something was brewing and that there would be a fuss, but no one wanted or was allowed to say it publicly. Unless it was on the party line. Just like this report from China.
"To be on the party line" to be eligible and not capable kills socialist states. What appears to be the internal strength of the party is actually a disease that is killing the country. The party itself is one big pathological cancer that eats and kills the country from the inside. Due to party consistency in all communist countries there are such economic absurdities that normal people in the west cannot believe it. The most tragic thing is that most of the politicians of the western countries today support the children and followers of the old communist regime because they (in order to stay in power) enable them to plunder their country in exchange for the support of the west. The West says that Eastern Europe should be democratized and democratic customs and law should be introduced. Literally while he is talking, these satiated Western politicians often support the coming or staying in power of criminals from the communist secret services (or literally their children) personally responsible for the death of hundreds and some even thousands of people whose only sin is that they thought wrong.
Tusk in Poland was a secret collaborator of the secret political police. His file was destroyed, so there is nothing about him. Except that code
the "former" sees great loyalty to the "other" Tusk, who is now playing a liberal.
In Croatia, there are a whole galaxy of child criminals; the father of former president Mesić participated in the liquidations in 1945 and was later known as an "expert" for German and Ustasha widows. President Josipović's father was the commander of the concentration camp on Goli Otok and personally responsible for the murder of the entire family (including a two-month-old baby whose head was crushed with a hammer) in Ševo, Italy. The fathers of Prime Minister Milanović (now the president) and Plenković were in OZNA and engaged in hunting "people's" and "state" enemies. Both were awarded for dedicated and self-sacrificing work.
And now that wonderful liberal West publicly supports their sons and portrays them as exemplary democrats. While those of us who are trying to achieve real democratization and become a true democratic Western society are simultaneously called Ustashas (according to left-wing newspapers) and communists (according to conservative newspapers). Because we are in the way of the robbery of our country, which is made possible by those wonderful nice "democrats".
Thank you once again!
I've got to say, the similarities between what people in China are allowed to talk about and what we in the west are allowed to talk about, is getting pretty scary.
We are wayyyy too much expandable people