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Excellent episode, Gentlemen. I highly recommend checking out the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] coverage assessing China's Human Capital. There's quite a bit of old and new information being presented.
@@waynetaylor2784 Pretty soon, the medicine in Australia will be traditional Chinese nonsense. Like Bone of Bat wing + Tiger Wang = Skyrim type of stuff.
It's very true, I can't imagine how many people are unnecessarily suffering and dying from other causes in China right now because of the zero covid policy.
I worry how long it might take Japan to reopen. I understand why, I would take forever too to reopen if senior citizens made up such a huge demographic, but I know a few people who've been waiting a long time for business to resume to get back home. Godspeed Japan
Well, actually no one cares about them. Even the fan of some vtb in China is more than them. What they're saying is also pretty funny, because whether what they say cannot deter the fact that we Chinese what to wipe out COVID, and we'll continue no matter what two or three people look at it.
As an expat living in Shanghai currently, I can only and absolutely confirm your information you are broadcasting here. Thank you for your great reports and shows every week. Keep doing this good job and to show the world what’s happening here right now.
Did you see the Tik Tok of the lady asking to stay locked in their home instead of going to a Covid camp? She asked them to put a lock on her door so she can't leave because it is safer than a Covid camp.
Was that the one were the Police Officer got really mad and said her family would be punished for 3 generations over her refusal? It was on a recent China Insight video.
As much as I hate to say it, much of China is still 3rd world. Yes, the big cities are modern but the rural areas are poverty-stricken. Even some of the big cities are too.
@@bean420man the cities themselves are already turned into prisons just like every prisoner story i heard which pretty much makes and shanghai is one example.
You can feel this kind of bureaucracy in literally every corner of China. In this multi-class system, every officials will only follow the order from their superior leader, and no one is going to take responsibility for the lower layer, so the value of bottom people is ignored. Thus you can see an emergency patient was refused to be hospitalized simply because she didn't have a negative proof of covid, and she died during the waiting process of the testing result. This and other similar news went viral on the network, and people felt desperate not only in empathy of her, but also we knew this kind of thing is bound to happen again, and any of us could be the victim.
Probably depends on city but I felt very comfortable driving in Dalian. Normal drivers were very calm and polite. However taxi drivers are the worst of all. So every time you see taxi be on alert.
Its true!. I have thought about this one long and hard. As a Westerner, you get into a car, you KNOW you are in a car and be have accordingly. You leave room for stopping distances, drive differently for different road and weather conditions. Chinese drive cars like they put on a jacket and go outside. They behave in a car exactly as they would behave when walking and pushing through a crowd as a person. When a gap opens in front of them, they move into it. It makes for really dangerous, inconsiderate and frankly stupid driving.
Happens like that in every country that goes communist. My family came from the old USSR. Where people got thrown into gulags for _thinking_ the wrong thing. ''Quarantine'' centres are the new gulags. Horrible! :(
*goes authoritarian. Both China and Russia has always been extremely authoritarian countries and communism just became the aesthetic to move it to the next level. Russia went even further after communism with authoritarian neo-liberalism and now fascism.
This traffic jam reminds me of an experience that my family had on an airplane in China. My mom, brother, and I were boarded and seated on a Chinese airplane. They continued to board people onto the flight after all of the seats were full. The airline employees had no idea of what to do. We just sat there quietly for hours while everyone around us argued. Nobody standing in the aisles or seats would get off the plane and the airlines did not offer any compensation to folks who would take a later flight. It was crazy. Finally some Chinese folks got off the plane and we took off.
Reminds me of the time I was in a check-in line at Nanjing airport in 2010 waiting to board a flight to Beijing. The gate was due to close in about 10 minutes, when a tour guide and about 200 people suddenly appeared at our check-in desk. The tour guide had no idea what flight(s) these people were to take or what airline they were with other than the fact that they were all going to Beijing. So she dumped the group in our line and disappeared. When the tour group saw that the gate was about to close, they all rushed the check-in desk. Forget about getting in line - that is not SOP in China. It was every man and woman for themselves and we struggled and jostled with these people to get the attention of the check-in staff to get out seat confirmed. The staff were just overwhelmed and walked away and security had to be called to sort out the melee. Needless to say our flight was delayed but we did get aboard that plane and got back to BJ eventually that night! A remarkable memory for me of my time in China.
@@davidneufeld26 My brother actually told me about this when he was in China on business way back in the mid 90's. Said they were all walking along the parking apron to board their aircraft (can't remember now what airport he was at, but I believe it was a regional one up north) as it was parked along with other aircraft well away from the terminal with no jetways (no busses either; said they had to walk a good quarter mile out too, hauling their carry-on luggage), when there was a commotion on the ground alongside another parked aircraft they were passing. His minder/translator explained that someone had observed another passenger on that flight tossing a handful of coins up into the engine intake cowling of the jet as he strolled by (the engine wasn't running at the time fortunately) and they had to bring in a ladder in order to get up to the engine and clear it (he described the aircraft as a T-tail with the engines mounted on the fuselage at the rear, so probably an MD-82 by the sounds of it as China Northern were using those at the time I believe). Said they were still at it trying to clear the fan blades of coins as his own aircraft taxied past; my brother told me that he always hated flying in China after observing that, and updated his will frequently.
I've never seen this in China before, but I know that lots of Chinese people buy their airplane tickets at the airport, not beforehand from some airline website. Although there's nothing wrong with doing this, some of them also tend to break in lines, jostle around etc to catch flights minutes before it flies XD Also, it also slows down the line considerably, making it anxious for other people in the line who can just watch as the clock ticks by
Love you guys ❤ ... I look forward to every Friday for the podcast but I sure miss the bike videos! Can't wait until you guys can do a tour of India, Japan, etc.
It is an entrenched cultural problem. Sure there there are rules in China, but they never count if nobody is standing near you to enforce them. People do not carry the rules in their heads. If they happen to get caught, it is not because the person did wrong, it was simply bad luck. The mindset is that any rules do not really apply.
Hey y’all iv been a fan for a minute now n I’m always looking forward to your new info so anytime I see you uploaded I always drop what I’m doing n get into it. Tuning in from Kansas yall! Take care n continue making progress!
I love you guys. You really remind me of my buddy and I. We lived in China from 2010 - 2020 and we literally talk about the same stuff you guys do all the time.
Who said it failed it actually works. The purpose of this program is to ensure the people to be more obedient to the CCP and fear her. In that context it really works
Something you've touched on before is how china has downplayed quote western medicine end quote to promote chinese medicine, but do you think this lack of common medical knowledge has helped create this situation where nobody seems to know how viruses work or are people just doing insane stuff like swabbing everything because they have to be seen doing anything
Been awhile since I lived in China but I was always amazed at traffic laws. I knew they had them but I had no idea what they were since whenever I was in a can they would slow down from 50 to 35 and honk when they approached an intersection. If no one honked back they sped up in the intersection. From the looks of this video they haven’t really improved much despite the addition of way more traffic.
I mean, in the West, they teach you how viruses work in school, and yet no one seemed to remember how viruses work when COVID came around. The best example is everyone has forgotten what viral load is, or how natural immunity works (I know people who have gotten booster shots the week after recovering from COVID). So I don't think it's a Chinese thing that people lack common medical knowledge. World wide, very few people understand basic medical knowledge, including people in medical professions. The random swabbing is just a case of trying to deflect the blame away from the obvious source, the Wuhan biolab, which is more or less confirmed as the origin point.
CCP spraying every surface with disinfect solution or maybe it could be plain water is a thing of beauty. Someone should come up with a parody Chinese spray music video.
For me it's like back in the day where Mao sad 'kill all these damn birds - they eat ur wheat' but instead of someone questioning it, 36 million people died because of starvation.. These birds keept the Grasshopper who make the wheat unusable away.. But to safe the face we do everything 👍 good idea
@Moonland Almond bit long but it's 100% true.. The sad thing is - everyone knows it but no one says something. It's so sad that US and everyone else is just saying 'stop it China' and are not doing something aktiv against it :/ I really hope Taiwan will stay independent - Hongkong is sadly lost and if we don't act quickly China will rule the hole world 🙄
The covid seafood thing first started as an attack on Australia (trade war) also years ago there was a hepatitis outbreak in Adelaide Australia and it was traced back to a factory in China and the Chinese authorities stated that the worker who had hepatitis was removed from the processing/packaging of the frozen fruit was removed from having contact with food processing. China certainly learned a lot from that situation and is using it to deflect covid responsibilities.
Hey the us is dealing with kids ages 5 to 13 with hep c in most of the states but they dont know where it came from but they also just released a covid vax for kids. 🤔
In the same boat. I built all of the strongest relationships of my adult life in China. Returned home for vacation at the end of 2019, then Covid happened and I never returned. I miss my life and all of my friends, but I also feel lucky. That old life is gone, and will never be the same after this.
People have to go through situations like this sometimes to understand what they want and don't want. After this the Chinese people will never be the same. They may come to understand why government shouldn't be all powerful.
Jus at all times gotta be very wary of ur surroundings, even here in Australia alot of dum drivers n I avoid crashes everyday by getting outta the way of em otherwise I would've crashed or died ages ago.
13:08 - it’s a similar situation with Russia and NK for that matter - it’s leadership is stuck in the past. Some Russians complained that they didn’t like the democracy they went through after the USSR collapsed - Russia never had democracy, it was still the same bunch of cronies running the country.
They're nuts in China with their driving behaviour. When I was there you could buy stretch fabric licence plate covers, usually in camouflage for some reason, to blank out your plate, go figure. Or they'd partially cover them with old DVD discs. The most scared I've ever been on a road in my whole life was an 8 hour freeway journey (normally about 2-3 hours I think) from Huizhou to Shantou for the Tomb Sweeping holiday with a Chinese family. F**K! The emergency lane would be used as a traffic lane. And those who have black SUVs with blacked out windows speeding and driving how they want. Maybe they are CCP officials or not and just bluffing: part of the giving themselves face thing and others being afraid to stop them. Everyone belting along, then diving into gaps between cars, then the traffic jams up and stops. Then rinse and repeat. And then a few days later back again with the same traffic. One can go on and on about Chinese drivers.
don't forget the culture that allows individuals to do this. that is a large part. most people in some other cultures even if told to wrap electric fence around someone would not do it. though it is unfortunately failing in many western countries. I just wanted to point out it is not just the structure that is in place but also the years of warped (admittedly from my perspective) culture.
Honestly, I just assumed they were forcing people to get sick to force herd immunity. Kind of like in the 90s parents would take their kids to "chickenpox" parties to build their immunity.
@@whoelsebutmeofcoursei And 600k deaths? Lol nope, the best way is having a lockdown, restrict the border, get everybody vaxxed and then open up. That was what my country did, tbf, we stumbled a bit during the vaxx process but now everything is back to the "before time", with less tourists, of course.
Yes, they did this in Wuhan City if you remember the massive pool parties and packed concerts for everyone around 25 and under. Massive herd immunity ensues.
Did someone actually thought writing this would show anything other than clear brainwashing? The mental state someone needs to write such a thing is well beyond me.
@@r2dad282 Communism destroys... starts out fast and "wonderful" before crashing hard. Keeps happening in history with massive loss of life. Nobody seems to learn Communism is always the way dictators try to conquer the world with bloody failure....
What makes the mass testing route even worse is the threat that if you don't attend, the local government will could turn your health code red and register you as a false positive, which affects your neighbors as well. Also, some communities will bar your entry if you didn't have a test in the past 48 hours. It's not bad where I am, and things tend to be a bit more lax for foreigners, but the Chinese people have it rough.
Many years ago I saw a political cartoon depicting two scenarios of people at a queue. In the left panel it showed people in the US lined neatly and patiently waiting. In the right panel it showed people from China all bunched up at the counter wanting service at the same time.
And of course the very best condition you would want to be when fighting off an infection is to be starving - you couldn’t make it up - nor would you want to.
Leaking info in China 😅😅 in witch century did you live - do xou really think they woudl say 'dead by covid' or let alone 'dead by starvation' rigth now when everything is so sensitive
@@trinityiris It's heartbreaking!! I can't imagine. Just seeing the videos of people screaming on their balconies is painful to watch. I can't imagine what they are going through. It doesn't make sense that at the same time they are destroying their population they are making advances on Taiwan. It sounds like it's all a power play by certain government officials to stay in power.
@@LynnsRUclips they are sadly using the pandemic as a way to begin social/population genocide in China. they need a way to mask their food shortage and this is it. it is so sickening and sad. if it were about keeping people safe from the virus, they would've began these harsh practices 2 years ago. it isn't being talk about enough and even if we do get people to bring attention to it, China will be China. i feel so bad for them, they are trapped in the system there now. it will likely be years before they start letting people leave
I have seen that Chinese internet even removed the covid-related video from North Korea, because North Korea told their people to be clame if they got covid, just drink enough water and have a good rest and it would recover in a week.
@@r2dad282 It was only locked down for domestic flights, I'm not sure if that has been lifted yet. The biggest challenge is having a good enough reason to leave, family matters are not usually sufficient since the policy change last Thursday.
The Chinese police could make a fortune here. Use motorbikes to go up the line of stationary vehicles on the wrong side of the road and slap on a $100 fine on each of them. Tell the drivers that they would come back in 30mins and put on an additional fine if they were still there. Keep doing it. When they get to the top of the queue fine the car there with $1000 and tell them their details will be given to all the drivers behind them and if they want to come after them for their fines then it is their problem not the police. In other words scare them into pushing their car into a ditch. Then rinse and repeat. Very profitable. Eventually the drivers will know being stupid is super expensive.
Little late asking, but does anyone know the current situation concerning the towns 20-40 minutes outside of city centers (the end sprawl basically) and the smaller towns in the countryside? I only ever see lockdown footage of the tier 1 cities with maybe a tier 2 somewhere in the mix though I couldn’t quite tell.
Good on the WHO for finally getting a conscience. I mean, let's not forget that they were the ones who originally said "There's no human to human transmission!" but hey, credit where credit is due lol
It’s just insane! Question, how and how long did it take you to learn Chinese? I have two Chinese friends and I study via a RUclips site but I work too much and can’t seem to find enough time .
I say good luck learning, it's a lot more to memorizing the language then learning it, you can try to speak English through syllabus but Chinese characters provides no hints to its pronunciation . Best method is to memorize those commonly used words as much as possible. As a Chinese myself speaking it daily there are at least 60% of the Chinese character i cannot recognize at all and no one will blame you because most can't as well
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Excellent episode, Gentlemen.
I highly recommend checking out the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] coverage assessing China's Human Capital. There's quite a bit of old and new information being presented.
Yep
They don't call me the "Oracle" for nothing
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@@waynetaylor2784
Pretty soon, the medicine in Australia will be traditional Chinese nonsense.
Like Bone of Bat wing + Tiger Wang = Skyrim type of stuff.
As a Chinese acquaintance said to me "The CCP doesn't care what you die of, so long as it's not covid."
That wouldn't make sense if covid was brought to China from another country, which is still the narrative from Chinese media.
That's really dark! They are people, they should be allowed to live.
@@Rekhan4242 *Chinese people
@@Rekhan4242 there are no people in communism, only cattle
It's very true, I can't imagine how many people are unnecessarily suffering and dying from other causes in China right now because of the zero covid policy.
Watching you two for 5 years now. You are the ccp's worst p.r. nightmare. Keep enlightening people, thank you. Back🇯🇵Nihon
'murica don't need any, it can do it itself 🤣
Been following for 4 years. Best entertainment.
I worry how long it might take Japan to reopen. I understand why, I would take forever too to reopen if senior citizens made up such a huge demographic, but I know a few people who've been waiting a long time for business to resume to get back home.
Godspeed Japan
@@justcody4615 Asia in general is very conforming and risk adverse
Well, actually no one cares about them. Even the fan of some vtb in China is more than them. What they're saying is also pretty funny, because whether what they say cannot deter the fact that we Chinese what to wipe out COVID, and we'll continue no matter what two or three people look at it.
As an expat living in Shanghai currently, I can only and absolutely confirm your information you are broadcasting here. Thank you for your great reports and shows every week. Keep doing this good job and to show the world what’s happening here right now.
Won't you get in trouble for using VPN?
@@PuerRidcully what’s a VPN? 😉
Fully agree with that - also an expat in SH
@@ON-gi2yb hahaahahahah
*Immigrant
Did you see the Tik Tok of the lady asking to stay locked in their home instead of going to a Covid camp? She asked them to put a lock on her door so she can't leave because it is safer than a Covid camp.
She probably had a beloved pet that she didn't want killed by the turds in the white suits.
Of course, if you don't have covid when you get there you'll have it before you leave.
Not to mention the theft and damage to property by the Da Bai.
@@Oleandra-13 Really? I know they are going into houses and disinfecting and killing pets but they are stealing too.
Was that the one were the Police Officer got really mad and said her family would be punished for 3 generations over her refusal? It was on a recent China Insight video.
I’ve been around and only seen that kind of traffic dysfunction in 3rd world countries. Kabul very much comes to mind.
As much as I hate to say it, much of China is still 3rd world. Yes, the big cities are modern but the rural areas are poverty-stricken. Even some of the big cities are too.
Same in Baghdad. Visited in 2021, and took me well over 2 hours to travel from my hotel to the airport. About 15-20 kilometres
I argue China is very much still a 3rd world country.
@@bean420man the cities themselves are already turned into prisons just like every prisoner story i heard which pretty much makes and shanghai is one example.
in Russia it happens also sometimes
You can feel this kind of bureaucracy in literally every corner of China. In this multi-class system, every officials will only follow the order from their superior leader, and no one is going to take responsibility for the lower layer, so the value of bottom people is ignored. Thus you can see an emergency patient was refused to be hospitalized simply because she didn't have a negative proof of covid, and she died during the waiting process of the testing result. This and other similar news went viral on the network, and people felt desperate not only in empathy of her, but also we knew this kind of thing is bound to happen again, and any of us could be the victim.
During my trips to China, if there's one thing I've learned, no one knows how to drive there!!!
Probably depends on city but I felt very comfortable driving in Dalian. Normal drivers were very calm and polite. However taxi drivers are the worst of all. So every time you see taxi be on alert.
The lads did a vid about driving in China a few years back. Basically everyone is selfish and never thinks of anyone but themselves.
Its true!. I have thought about this one long and hard. As a Westerner, you get into a car, you KNOW you are in a car and be have accordingly. You leave room for stopping distances, drive differently for different road and weather conditions. Chinese drive cars like they put on a jacket and go outside. They behave in a car exactly as they would behave when walking and pushing through a crowd as a person. When a gap opens in front of them, they move into it. It makes for really dangerous, inconsiderate and frankly stupid driving.
@@agalah408 the hilarious thing is some people out their claim that Asians are more intelligent I don't see any evidence
Happens like that in every country that goes communist. My family came from the old USSR. Where people got thrown into gulags for _thinking_ the wrong thing. ''Quarantine'' centres are the new gulags. Horrible! :(
*goes authoritarian. Both China and Russia has always been extremely authoritarian countries and communism just became the aesthetic to move it to the next level. Russia went even further after communism with authoritarian neo-liberalism and now fascism.
Hear Matt say "they test crayfish why"? I say to myself "because they are fucking idiots." And they are, same mistakes over and over.
This traffic jam reminds me of an experience that my family had on an airplane in China. My mom, brother, and I were boarded and seated on a Chinese airplane. They continued to board people onto the flight after all of the seats were full. The airline employees had no idea of what to do. We just sat there quietly for hours while everyone around us argued. Nobody standing in the aisles or seats would get off the plane and the airlines did not offer any compensation to folks who would take a later flight. It was crazy. Finally some Chinese folks got off the plane and we took off.
Just be glad no one threw any "lucky" coins into the engines before they boarded.
bug people
Reminds me of the time I was in a check-in line at Nanjing airport in 2010 waiting to board a flight to Beijing. The gate was due to close in about 10 minutes, when a tour guide and about 200 people suddenly appeared at our check-in desk. The tour guide had no idea what flight(s) these people were to take or what airline they were with other than the fact that they were all going to Beijing. So she dumped the group in our line and disappeared. When the tour group saw that the gate was about to close, they all rushed the check-in desk. Forget about getting in line - that is not SOP in China. It was every man and woman for themselves and we struggled and jostled with these people to get the attention of the check-in staff to get out seat confirmed. The staff were just overwhelmed and walked away and security had to be called to sort out the melee. Needless to say our flight was delayed but we did get aboard that plane and got back to BJ eventually that night! A remarkable memory for me of my time in China.
@@davidneufeld26 My brother actually told me about this when he was in China on business way back in the mid 90's. Said they were all walking along the parking apron to board their aircraft (can't remember now what airport he was at, but I believe it was a regional one up north) as it was parked along with other aircraft well away from the terminal with no jetways (no busses either; said they had to walk a good quarter mile out too, hauling their carry-on luggage), when there was a commotion on the ground alongside another parked aircraft they were passing.
His minder/translator explained that someone had observed another passenger on that flight tossing a handful of coins up into the engine intake cowling of the jet as he strolled by (the engine wasn't running at the time fortunately) and they had to bring in a ladder in order to get up to the engine and clear it (he described the aircraft as a T-tail with the engines mounted on the fuselage at the rear, so probably an MD-82 by the sounds of it as China Northern were using those at the time I believe). Said they were still at it trying to clear the fan blades of coins as his own aircraft taxied past; my brother told me that he always hated flying in China after observing that, and updated his will frequently.
I've never seen this in China before, but I know that lots of Chinese people buy their airplane tickets at the airport, not beforehand from some airline website. Although there's nothing wrong with doing this, some of them also tend to break in lines, jostle around etc to catch flights minutes before it flies XD
Also, it also slows down the line considerably, making it anxious for other people in the line who can just watch as the clock ticks by
Guys, to add an additional layer to this, the party is terrified that it has lost the Mandate of Heaven IMO.
The beatings with continue until morale improves 😩
Love you guys ❤ ... I look forward to every Friday for the podcast but I sure miss the bike videos! Can't wait until you guys can do a tour of India, Japan, etc.
They should do Cambodia. Visa on arrival was just reinstated.
Nice to see a channel that understands the big picture in China. The system is the problem. Always has been, always will be.
People are the bigger problem than the government
I saw that type of traffic jam in a Tier 1 city with a fire truck sounding its siren. I also only saw 2 birds once I got close to the great wall
It is an entrenched cultural problem. Sure there there are rules in China, but they never count if nobody is standing near you to enforce them. People do not carry the rules in their heads. If they happen to get caught, it is not because the person did wrong, it was simply bad luck. The mindset is that any rules do not really apply.
atheists
They're literally living under a dictatorship everything is illegal
@@nikkingman Insomniac, dyslectic atheists. They lie awake at night thinking that there really is no dog.
Glad you guys are safe.
This incompetency is what sets it apart from other countries, I would actually be worried if they were competent.
Hey y’all iv been a fan for a minute now n I’m always looking forward to your new info so anytime I see you uploaded I always drop what I’m doing n get into it. Tuning in from Kansas yall! Take care n continue making progress!
I can't stop thinking,
"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"
Great to see sponsors supporting your channel. It's hard to find good sponsors for content that upsets Chinese ultra nationalists
To hell with the latter.
I love you guys. You really remind me of my buddy and I. We lived in China from 2010 - 2020 and we literally talk about the same stuff you guys do all the time.
I always laugh when everyone claims how superior China is
Many South East Asians believe so
i remember originally seeing the steel shut in doors way back in 2020 and talkies were vehemently trying to debunk it. Reminds me of Dishonered.
Who said it failed it actually works. The purpose of this program is to ensure the people to be more obedient to the CCP and fear her. In that context it really works
These two bullshit artist are selling that covid is real.
Something you've touched on before is how china has downplayed quote western medicine end quote to promote chinese medicine, but do you think this lack of common medical knowledge has helped create this situation where nobody seems to know how viruses work or are people just doing insane stuff like swabbing everything because they have to be seen doing anything
Been awhile since I lived in China but I was always amazed at traffic laws. I knew they had them but I had no idea what they were since whenever I was in a can they would slow down from 50 to 35 and honk when they approached an intersection. If no one honked back they sped up in the intersection. From the looks of this video they haven’t really improved much despite the addition of way more traffic.
I mean, in the West, they teach you how viruses work in school, and yet no one seemed to remember how viruses work when COVID came around. The best example is everyone has forgotten what viral load is, or how natural immunity works (I know people who have gotten booster shots the week after recovering from COVID). So I don't think it's a Chinese thing that people lack common medical knowledge. World wide, very few people understand basic medical knowledge, including people in medical professions. The random swabbing is just a case of trying to deflect the blame away from the obvious source, the Wuhan biolab, which is more or less confirmed as the origin point.
Thank you..great show..nobody does it better..
The Great Leap Forward analogy is so accurate.
*Great Leap Backward
CCP spraying every surface with disinfect solution or maybe it could be plain water is a thing of beauty. Someone should come up with a parody Chinese spray music video.
You dont need it to work when you control the media and can just say it is working.
Thank you for your content.
It worked as designed, controlled and killed people.
Want to know something strange.
I got a tiktok ad midroll on this video.
Wow, it's amazing that you guys didn’t die driving through this traffic.
The way that some Chinese drivers are.
For me it's like back in the day where Mao sad 'kill all these damn birds - they eat ur wheat' but instead of someone questioning it, 36 million people died because of starvation.. These birds keept the Grasshopper who make the wheat unusable away.. But to safe the face we do everything 👍 good idea
@Moonland Almond bit long but it's 100% true.. The sad thing is - everyone knows it but no one says something. It's so sad that US and everyone else is just saying 'stop it China' and are not doing something aktiv against it :/
I really hope Taiwan will stay independent - Hongkong is sadly lost and if we don't act quickly China will rule the hole world 🙄
One Nation, One Party, One Leader ONE "BIG" DISASTER!!!
The covid seafood thing first started as an attack on Australia (trade war) also years ago there was a hepatitis outbreak in Adelaide Australia and it was traced back to a factory in China and the Chinese authorities stated that the worker who had hepatitis was removed from the processing/packaging of the frozen fruit was removed from having contact with food processing. China certainly learned a lot from that situation and is using it to deflect covid responsibilities.
What I wonder is, there's already been a caronavirus pandemic in China. They did try cover that up but they didn't say it came from elsewhere.
@@robspunk They blamed Italy, the U.S. Army, travelers, meat from other countries... They sure did say it came from elsewhere!
Hey the us is dealing with kids ages 5 to 13 with hep c in most of the states but they dont know where it came from but they also just released a covid vax for kids. 🤔
@@tomrogers4667 the majority of hepatitis cases are kids under 5, so there is no logical connection to the covid vaccination.
We have in Australia hepatitis 3 I think it is, back again. Children have died. I haven't heard from where did it come.
I've lived in China for ten years. I miss it. My family and friends...all my friends are there in China. I appreciate your content. I miss my China.
In the same boat. I built all of the strongest relationships of my adult life in China. Returned home for vacation at the end of 2019, then Covid happened and I never returned. I miss my life and all of my friends, but I also feel lucky. That old life is gone, and will never be the same after this.
Wait wait, are you clam man? 🤗
You should go back.
Yeah. You should go back right now.
I'll wait just a little bit more time@@The_ZeroLine
People have to go through situations like this sometimes to understand what they want and don't want. After this the Chinese people will never be the same. They may come to understand why government shouldn't be all powerful.
You guys are brave to be riding through traffic like that. I've seen too many videos of riders getting smooshed by big trucks in countries like that.
Best gore comes to mind
@@K1LLERSQU1D And the best part is they always finish a job =))
Jus at all times gotta be very wary of ur surroundings, even here in Australia alot of dum drivers n I avoid crashes everyday by getting outta the way of em otherwise I would've crashed or died ages ago.
@@K1LLERSQU1D Reddit had a good gore subreddit but it was taken down
love seeing this footage! great video guys. that high five at the end was really nice too 😂
13:08 - it’s a similar situation with Russia and NK for that matter - it’s leadership is stuck in the past. Some Russians complained that they didn’t like the democracy they went through after the USSR collapsed - Russia never had democracy, it was still the same bunch of cronies running the country.
Thanks guys
Great format 👍
Cheers for the vid boys. Great actual proper job journalism. Well done. Love your insights man.
Thanks for the update
All these videos, regardless of what they’re about, really make me appreciate Alabama.
_Sweet home Alabama_
_Where the skies are so blue_
_Sweet home Alabama_
_Lord I'm coming home to you_
They're nuts in China with their driving behaviour. When I was there you could buy stretch fabric licence plate covers, usually in camouflage for some reason, to blank out your plate, go figure. Or they'd partially cover them with old DVD discs. The most scared I've ever been on a road in my whole life was an 8 hour freeway journey (normally about 2-3 hours I think) from Huizhou to Shantou for the Tomb Sweeping holiday with a Chinese family. F**K! The emergency lane would be used as a traffic lane. And those who have black SUVs with blacked out windows speeding and driving how they want. Maybe they are CCP officials or not and just bluffing: part of the giving themselves face thing and others being afraid to stop them. Everyone belting along, then diving into gaps between cars, then the traffic jams up and stops. Then rinse and repeat. And then a few days later back again with the same traffic. One can go on and on about Chinese drivers.
don't forget the culture that allows individuals to do this. that is a large part. most people in some other cultures even if told to wrap electric fence around someone would not do it. though it is unfortunately failing in many western countries. I just wanted to point out it is not just the structure that is in place but also the years of warped (admittedly from my perspective) culture.
I subbed to this channel back in the day because you guys were riding around. Now that you're out of China, when is ADVUSA?
Would you like a sort of adv style Ireland? Kinda thinking about doing an 'Episode'.
@@ape557 I'd watch at least one. Probably more if they're even a little decent. Hit me up if you decide to do it.
Been a while since I watched you but it's good to be back watching your videos
Riding a motorcycle is the best plan for travel thru a disaster - it's a great lesson for all.
Honestly, I just assumed they were forcing people to get sick to force herd immunity. Kind of like in the 90s parents would take their kids to "chickenpox" parties to build their immunity.
Oh, right the 90s...yeah, there haven't been antivaxers over the past decade doing this, of course not!
Should that be easier by letting people going out, get around, and meeting each other than isolating them?
That was what Brazilian president believed was right to do
@@whoelsebutmeofcoursei And 600k deaths? Lol nope, the best way is having a lockdown, restrict the border, get everybody vaxxed and then open up. That was what my country did, tbf, we stumbled a bit during the vaxx process but now everything is back to the "before time", with less tourists, of course.
Yes, they did this in Wuhan City if you remember the massive pool parties and packed concerts for everyone around 25 and under. Massive herd immunity ensues.
Glad I never wasted a day of my life living in China
They know that. That is why they are coming to you instead.
Did someone actually thought writing this would show anything other than clear brainwashing? The mental state someone needs to write such a thing is well beyond me.
Too bad--China circa 2005-2015 was a great place to visit.
@@r2dad282 many were pretty hopeful of the PRC before Xi Dada.
@@r2dad282 Communism destroys... starts out fast and "wonderful" before crashing hard.
Keeps happening in history with massive loss of life. Nobody seems to learn Communism is always the way dictators try to conquer the world with bloody failure....
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Thank you guys for the great work
you lift my spirit
Hi from Taiwan! Thanks as always for your awesome insight and cool opinions!
Great content
What makes the mass testing route even worse is the threat that if you don't attend, the local government will could turn your health code red and register you as a false positive, which affects your neighbors as well. Also, some communities will bar your entry if you didn't have a test in the past 48 hours.
It's not bad where I am, and things tend to be a bit more lax for foreigners, but the Chinese people have it rough.
At first I thought you were talking about California
@@mateor7302 It's often hard to tell the difference between stories about China, the Soviet Union, and present day California.
Love you guys ❤thank you for your work
Brilliant points extremely well presented ❤️❤️❤️
I will definitely check out Hone. That looks interesting!
I dig the hone advertisement. A very important topic. Stay active guys💪
I really enjoy your videos , thank you for your work😊
Love the videos
Yes Honehealth!
Thanks!
Never Give up Never Surrender. Full Speed Ahead!
ha! we had to do the same thing... quarantine and get down to the lobby to gather for testing twice a day. But this was 2020 and in Japan.
You guy's are champs!
Hey, I'm really curious when you guys will go out on the bikes again on your channel?
The show is not over yet
Many years ago I saw a political cartoon depicting two scenarios of people at a queue. In the left panel it showed people in the US lined neatly and patiently waiting. In the right panel it showed people from China all bunched up at the counter wanting service at the same time.
Had great fun in China. Miss it very much. Also very concerned bout my friends in Shanghai
Gotta love that Asian counterflow traffic. Was big in the Philippines a few years back.
GREAT!
Damn, thought I would be first for the first time in 6 years watching these guys
@@gringopapi6985 I got the high ground tho :D
This is so sad! Are there any numbers leaking out of people dying of starvation and other things because of the lockdowns?
no official numbers yet but residents say people are dying in troves. elderly folks especially
And of course the very best condition you would want to be when fighting off an infection is to be starving - you couldn’t make it up - nor would you want to.
Leaking info in China 😅😅 in witch century did you live - do xou really think they woudl say 'dead by covid' or let alone 'dead by starvation' rigth now when everything is so sensitive
@@trinityiris It's heartbreaking!! I can't imagine. Just seeing the videos of people screaming on their balconies is painful to watch. I can't imagine what they are going through. It doesn't make sense that at the same time they are destroying their population they are making advances on Taiwan. It sounds like it's all a power play by certain government officials to stay in power.
@@LynnsRUclips they are sadly using the pandemic as a way to begin social/population genocide in China. they need a way to mask their food shortage and this is it. it is so sickening and sad. if it were about keeping people safe from the virus, they would've began these harsh practices 2 years ago. it isn't being talk about enough and even if we do get people to bring attention to it, China will be China. i feel so bad for them, they are trapped in the system there now. it will likely be years before they start letting people leave
Low T commercial, fairly appropriate considering the subject matter at hand. 🤣
You guys are legends
It's like watching a tall man panic drown in a shallow pool of water.
When I went to China back in 2003, the traffic was utterly insane and RULES BE DAMNED!!!!
I have seen that Chinese internet even removed the covid-related video from North Korea, because North Korea told their people to be clame if they got covid, just drink enough water and have a good rest and it would recover in a week.
@liang With the omicron variant and lack of obesity, that is not far from the truth.
@@albertmagician8613 seems now the CCP becomes more conservative than North Korea when it comes to covid.
I got a video in jilin with people on bikes driving around the red lights camera when the lights are red!
Zero CCP is needed
You can call it the Great Backleap forward
great video
We have been in lockdown in a small town in Zhejiang province for 3 weeks now.
finally... long awaited...
Swabbing crayfish?! This is like all the crazy stories of the Mao era happening in our time
Nice new content here
Keep up the awesome mahi tane Toa🙏🏻🥰👍🏻🇳🇿🇹🇼
My mother in law is going to try to my house in the US from China on Wednesday. She has to go through Shanghai so I hope it all works out...
Lol! are you sure?
@@ianmoone316 not very funny but ok
I heard Shanghai airport is locked down, but maybe that doesn't include connecting flights where people don't leave the terminal? Good luck!
@@r2dad282 It was only locked down for domestic flights, I'm not sure if that has been lifted yet. The biggest challenge is having a good enough reason to leave, family matters are not usually sufficient since the policy change last Thursday.
Here faster than a metal door can be welded shut!
The Chinese police could make a fortune here. Use motorbikes to go up the line of stationary vehicles on the wrong side of the road and slap on a $100 fine on each of them. Tell the drivers that they would come back in 30mins and put on an additional fine if they were still there. Keep doing it. When they get to the top of the queue fine the car there with $1000 and tell them their details will be given to all the drivers behind them and if they want to come after them for their fines then it is their problem not the police. In other words scare them into pushing their car into a ditch. Then rinse and repeat. Very profitable. Eventually the drivers will know being stupid is super expensive.
Little late asking, but does anyone know the current situation concerning the towns 20-40 minutes outside of city centers (the end sprawl basically) and the smaller towns in the countryside? I only ever see lockdown footage of the tier 1 cities with maybe a tier 2 somewhere in the mix though I couldn’t quite tell.
Big love from Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Good on the WHO for finally getting a conscience. I mean, let's not forget that they were the ones who originally said "There's no human to human transmission!" but hey, credit where credit is due lol
If you ever want to see a group of pigeons trying to solve a 100 sided Rubix cube - Come to Shanghai.
I will say it again you 2 have taught me the truth about China. 👍
I'm glad you've got a new sponsor! Well as for me, I'm starting to lose hair so I'm guessing my problem is not low testosterone 🤣
Actually low testosterone can also lead to hair loss. It's about having not too much or too little.
@@clinton4161 Then why do women have hair?
@@edgregory1 Why do women never bald too?
It’s just insane!
Question, how and how long did it take you to learn Chinese?
I have two Chinese friends and I study via a RUclips site but I work too much and can’t seem to find enough time .
I say good luck learning, it's a lot more to memorizing the language then learning it, you can try to speak English through syllabus but Chinese characters provides no hints to its pronunciation . Best method is to memorize those commonly used words as much as possible. As a Chinese myself speaking it daily there are at least 60% of the Chinese character i cannot recognize at all and no one will blame you because most can't as well
@@DantalianTheWise
Yes it’s a tough language.
I’ll just trudge along. Thanks