Certain comments below can say what they like about China, Communism, Socialism, capitalism etc. I am 71 yrs old and at the moment in the UK. The Institutions and the country are falling about me, and the speed/rate is increasing by the month. I came back from Canada to look after my Dad with his Dementia 7yrs ago and have observed the downfall. The politicians do not help, they make it worse with their freebies and fingers in the pies.
The U.K. has seriously declined and fast… the Brexit politicians and the ‘we need austerity for 14 years’ need to be investigated as something is seriously amiss!!
@@ForAllLifesAdventures All the Institutions in the UK have complaint Depts, and they are all side-stepping formal complaints, or just not answering them, and these include the police, social services , Judicial System, MP's etc.
You would be so surprised and if you have time you can check out a couple more of my videos (or others) it is not what you expect because the media doesn’t give the full picture. 👍
I watched the video about Carlson and Sach sometime ago. I have also watched a video in which Sach and Mearsheimer debated their respective world views including their fundamental differences about China. This video has been hotly discussed on RUclips and is highly recommended.
I also watched the video and it was excellent. Sachs won hands down for me and Mearsheimer is nothing more than just another warmonger with the same ideas as the rest of them and he looked staid compared to JS. A great video though.
Another great video. Thanks. Somehow there seems to be more and more great bookshops opening up in China. Are Chinese people really this inquisative? If so, it augurs well for our future.
It boggles my mind how such a bookstore make money, considering the minimal foot traffic I see. The cost of operating such a high end bookstore must be quite substantial. I go to Barnes and Noble (LV) and though quite nice enough for me, it can't come close to the store featured in the episode.
I was there on a hot day and mid week - traffic is often in the evening and weekends. Books written in Chinese are very cheap and bookstores offer so much more than just books. In China education, reading and learning are a national pastime so bookstores always have people in them and weekends are super busy. I am not sure if bookstores have special rates, I might try and find that out as it seems a possibility. On the whole bookstores, public libraries and learning places such as museums etc are very popular in China and it is all part of the national psyche to be constantly learning and improving - education is seen as a way forward and as a way to increase income and support the family. They also offer study space, power and power which allows people who need it the space to concentrate. The bookstores are great in china and I hope they keep it that way!
I agree, Tucker is a China hawk and he can’t see past that… but, I have to give him credit, at least he is rocking the boat so that some people might wake up and that is better than nothing!
They already know about the infrastructure in Asia but you give too much credit to their intelligence to think they would demand revolution. Just give them their big mac's and guns and they will be happy.
Wow, really nice bookshop. I just realize that all the major and even a lot of smaller independent bookshops in my city are all gone. There is not a single bookshop in my nearest Westfields since "Borders" shut down
I think there will come a point where people run out patience and money, there ain’t nothing more frightening than the angry masses and if you throw in 440 million guns…. 😧
The Page One bookshop chain was founded by a Singaporean entrepreneur. I used to enjoy visiting the original location in Singapore, which still exists. The fact that there are now branches in China testifies to my geopolitical theory that China is starting to resemble one large Singapore. This should be no surprise though: Deng Xiaoping visited Lee Kuan Yew in 1978 while he was working on a blueprint for his reforms, many of which were modeled upon Singapore. After he returned home, Deng famously said, "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." - and the rest is history.
I like that saying about the cat and it sums up the Modern China approach. Singapore is a great role model and often sited by the U.K. leaders as what the U.K. should work to be - which is laughable and also ignorant of the history.
@@ForAllLifesAdventures Indeed, Singapore is a great role model. And it took a genius of the likes of Deng to co-opt the former ideological enemy (capitalism) as the country's primary economic tool. But not everyone in the party agreed with Deng, and if you read the comments below this video, not everyone agrees even now: ruclips.net/video/-DS3zNEx2-s/видео.html
Follow Professor Kishore Marbubani of Singapore. His Geopolitical views are very balance and trying to educate the American Politicians that they should treat China as a co-partner rather than their adversary.
I think people are moving to online materials etc… but I still love a bookshop and the feel of a paper book. Page One is a great chain of bookshops here in China ✌️
Another video which has just been out a few days is a debate between Jeffrey Sachs and John Meirshimer (sorry for wrong spelling) agree with your comments about JS but JM is an anti China hawk , its worth watching as i believe JS wins with common sense while JM losses due to narrow American predictable attitudes of superiority
I watched that..JS wind hands down and was much smarter and more realistically accurate than JM. JM is a China Hawk and still a warmongering elite under the skin, for me JS is the one person that is talking the most sense. A great debate and I enjoy watching intellects duke it out at this level. Very informative. 👍🏼 a great recommendation… any others are most welcome 🙏
Tucker was once the propaganda prop. He was under the propaganda spell until he left those propagandists. Suddenly he realized he was under their spell when he was free from those propagandists. And he started to get real.
Yep, it’s good to swim one change like that - he has a lot more to learn and he is a China hawk but he is ignorant on China so he might change his stance… at least he is asking questions now, unlike the media he left.
What a spectacular bookshop! Many such bookshops with a pleasant atmosphere here in the UK have suffered the demise of the retail apocalypse (especially facing the onslaught of competition from digital media) - and in truth, it’s hard to imagine the long term commercial viability of that shop there in China given the lacklustre footfall evidenced in the video. Perhaps there are special considerations made under the Chinese system to financially support culturally important enterprises even if their turnover cannot meet the presumably expensive rent for such a beautiful shop location? Tucker Carlson is like an overgrown kid sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, I do actually like him, but he gets all giggly and excited about silly things that seem new and innovative to him - for example, shopping trolleys in Moscow supermarkets, which require a coin deposit to unlock them as if that’s something unique and magical. And as for dirty old and tired infrastructure, yes,clearly airports - which do create a first impression of a country - tend to be bright and shiny, modern and clean with lots of lovely glass and steel in countries which have recently built major hubs, - yet look tired and dated in countries with 70+ year old buildings. Heathrow is a good example of a hybrid case. A recently built Terminal and also another newly refurbished one look pretty damn good, but the older ones look like dogshit. China and other recently developed countries have lots of shiny new buildings primarily from the 90s onwards, so of course things may look nicer and newer there. However, entropy will not discriminate in favour of China and it eventually conquers all. (In fact, some might argue that the consequences of excessive corruption engendering ‘tofu dreg’ buildings of poor quality is indicative of an usually rapid form of such decay.)
@@yaqiwang5242 I’ve had a sense of it by travelling throughout Asia but i’ve not been to China unfortunately. I was super impressed by the way the modern buildings in some cities in Vietnam, for example, lit up with amazing LED lightshows at night. I never expected to see such things there. It was ultra modern and astonishing (as I’m sure some parts of modern China are like that too… and probably at an even grander scale!)
Interesting, I missed this comment Stephen? Maintenance is important. Expanding so rapidly will have some challenges to what was built in a growth that was always difficult to regulate… this is coming now as the country matures. A bit different from just let everything rot. Heathrow T5 is a good example (I used work around that industry) it was a good investment but too small from the off - the other terminals are poor.. and don’t look to closely around the U.K. at the other airports, although they are mostly privately owned!
@@ForAllLifesAdventures Hi Iain, thanks for the reply. Yeh, you must have missed the comment before, but no worries, you’ve acknowledged it now. Hope alls well with you. Cheers f’now 😀
Tucker Carlson is someone who moves with the wind, he'll only challenge something if it benefits him to do so. He challenges mainstream media simply because at the moment it's within his own self interest to do so.
I think you might be right, like lost he is in it for the kudos and money - but at least he is edging around the mainstream media and maybe that might encourage some people to explore more. I am not a fan of him, he is an odd character, but I am all for people kicking back against the system in some way 👍
Iain, you are correct saying that "Capitalism, Socialism, and communism pay dividends in different ways." - but perhaps in a different way you intended? China is a primary example that socialism (let alone communism) does not work. China only started to prosper after Deng's capitalist reforms. The contemporary "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is an eclectic blend of market capitalism and Confucian pragmatism, governed by benevolent technocratic authoritarianism. And yes, it works! Meanwhile, American so-called democratic capitalism is steadily failing because it is turning into "plutocratic Maoism with American characteristics".
you exclude us sanction during mao era, mao great reset &land reform laid the foundation for china now by rejecting many unequal treaties before ww2. Can you imagine building country again from ashes with colonial debt burden amount 300 billion USD today?
@@criztaliz3413 Yes, I certainly can: Many countries have successfully re-built from post WW2 ashes without having to endure the abominations of the Cultural Revolution or the famine of the Great Leap Forward.
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics works because of the idea of Socialism. The very idea of socialism is to be Social, irrespective of the mechanisms for implementing it. Its opposite would be the absence of social values or antisocial. I object to the attempt to tarnish the word "Socialism" and glorify the word Capitaism, which by Its definition, glorifies Wealth above all else.
@@johnli6782 Well, I object all the attempts to glorify socialism and communism, in a complete defiance of their bloodied history everywhere they have been tried, while tarnishing the word "capitalism". Capitalism has demonstrated, again and again, its amazing capability to bring the most people out of poverty in the shortest possible time. And China is the prime example of this.
Sachs is all over You Tube he's very good
He is very good and speaks a whole lot of sense.
Outstanding, I love it. What a book store. Lets you see how beautiful our world can be.
I agree… it was a great book store to visit Ron and on that blue sky day the view from the window was outstanding!!
Certain comments below can say what they like about China, Communism, Socialism, capitalism etc. I am 71 yrs old and at the moment in the UK. The Institutions and the country are falling about me, and the speed/rate is increasing by the month. I came back from Canada to look after my Dad with his Dementia 7yrs ago and have observed the downfall. The politicians do not help, they make it worse with their freebies and fingers in the pies.
The U.K. has seriously declined and fast… the Brexit politicians and the ‘we need austerity for 14 years’ need to be investigated as something is seriously amiss!!
@@ForAllLifesAdventures All the Institutions in the UK have complaint Depts, and they are all side-stepping formal complaints, or just not answering them, and these include the police, social services , Judicial System, MP's etc.
Nice bookshop. Beijing seems to be a very welcoming and pleasant place, better than I imagined.
You would be so surprised and if you have time you can check out a couple more of my videos (or others) it is not what you expect because the media doesn’t give the full picture. 👍
Wow, crystal clear video.
It is a great view and I am using a new wee camera I bought so I think that is helping the quality.
@@ForAllLifesAdventures 👍
I watched the video about Carlson and Sach sometime ago. I have also watched a video in which Sach and Mearsheimer debated their respective world views including their fundamental differences about China. This video has been hotly discussed on RUclips and is highly recommended.
I also watched the video and it was excellent. Sachs won hands down for me and Mearsheimer is nothing more than just another warmonger with the same ideas as the rest of them and he looked staid compared to JS. A great video though.
Tuck Carlson should visit China & spend some time travelling around to see the country. He'll be blown away.
@@pc5826 I agree - I actually said the same thing in a previous video a few months back. 👍
Wow! Really nice bookstore with a fantastic view & it's free! A nice Cafe with lots of seating! Thanks for the tour! Take care as well!
Thank you. It was an outstanding book store and the view was stunning as you could see..!
Another great video. Thanks. Somehow there seems to be more and more great bookshops opening up in China. Are Chinese people really this inquisative? If so, it augurs well for our future.
It boggles my mind how such a bookstore make money, considering the minimal foot traffic I see. The cost of operating such a high end bookstore must be quite substantial. I go to Barnes and Noble (LV) and though quite nice enough for me, it can't come close to the store featured in the episode.
I was there on a hot day and mid week - traffic is often in the evening and weekends.
Books written in Chinese are very cheap and bookstores offer so much more than just books.
In China education, reading and learning are a national pastime so bookstores always have people in them and weekends are super busy.
I am not sure if bookstores have special rates, I might try and find that out as it seems a possibility.
On the whole bookstores, public libraries and learning places such as museums etc are very popular in China and it is all part of the national psyche to be constantly learning and improving - education is seen as a way forward and as a way to increase income and support the family.
They also offer study space, power and power which allows people who need it the space to concentrate.
The bookstores are great in china and I hope they keep it that way!
Tucker's views about US are quite valuable, but he's dead wrong about China
Carlson is big time anti China.
Tooker is same as that mórón think tank John mersheimer. They both want to join with Róõsïą to war with China...
Forgive him as he know not. He hasn't been to China. He should there and see for himself.
I agree, Tucker is a China hawk and he can’t see past that… but, I have to give him credit, at least he is rocking the boat so that some people might wake up and that is better than nothing!
@@ForAllLifesAdventureshe love Russia because he love white , he don’t like china then
They already know about the infrastructure in Asia but you give too much credit to their intelligence to think they would demand revolution. Just give them their big mac's and guns and they will be happy.
Bread and Circuses as you say… sad isn’t it!!
Thank you. A beautiful book store. Soothes the heart and quiets the mind
It is such a stunning place to enjoy a coffee, book and write some.
Wow, really nice bookshop. I just realize that all the major and even a lot of smaller independent bookshops in my city are all gone. There is not a single bookshop in my nearest Westfields since "Borders" shut down
I live in San Francisco and even our Westfields left the city, the former Westfields mall has changed the name and most stores have closed.
Bookshops are a must in any society… they should be given special treatment to stay open. 👍
Very good said
Thank you 🙏 ✌️
Yes. There WOULD BE. And there WILL BE.❤
I think there will come a point where people run out patience and money, there ain’t nothing more frightening than the angry masses and if you throw in 440 million guns…. 😧
Thanks for the sharing 👍👍👍🌹
Thank you for watching and to take the time to leave a comment ✌️
The Page One bookshop chain was founded by a Singaporean entrepreneur. I used to enjoy visiting the original location in Singapore, which still exists. The fact that there are now branches in China testifies to my geopolitical theory that China is starting to resemble one large Singapore. This should be no surprise though: Deng Xiaoping visited Lee Kuan Yew in 1978 while he was working on a blueprint for his reforms, many of which were modeled upon Singapore. After he returned home, Deng famously said, "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." - and the rest is history.
I like that saying about the cat and it sums up the Modern China approach. Singapore is a great role model and often sited by the U.K. leaders as what the U.K. should work to be - which is laughable and also ignorant of the history.
@@ForAllLifesAdventures Indeed, Singapore is a great role model. And it took a genius of the likes of Deng to co-opt the former ideological enemy (capitalism) as the country's primary economic tool. But not everyone in the party agreed with Deng, and if you read the comments below this video, not everyone agrees even now: ruclips.net/video/-DS3zNEx2-s/видео.html
@@befeleme yeah, I have had seen some of these conversations and you always get the fringes angry and thinking up alternatives.. it’s a fact of life.
Have not watched Tucker Carlson since Jon Stewart called him out on CNN in 2004. Still the same 20 years later?
He is evolving and it is interesting to watch as he is definitely not the same tit from back then!
Hey, you do have a good understanding of China. Cheers
Thank you, I have so much to learn. 👍
Follow Professor Kishore Marbubani of Singapore.
His Geopolitical views are very balance and trying to educate the American Politicians that they should treat China as a co-partner rather than their adversary.
I have seen a couple of shorts videos from him but I will explore more. Thank you for the recommendation. ✌️
All countries east of India are nicer than Yankee land.
👍
Page One! Though they started here, I hardly see them in Singapore anymore. Too bad Singaporeans don't read too much.
I think people are moving to online materials etc… but I still love a bookshop and the feel of a paper book. Page One is a great chain of bookshops here in China ✌️
Singapore's Rent & Labor costs would be way too high for a large scale bookstore like this ? I believe ?
Another video which has just been out a few days is a debate between Jeffrey Sachs and John Meirshimer (sorry for wrong spelling) agree with your comments about JS but JM is an anti China hawk , its worth watching as i believe JS wins with common sense while JM losses due to narrow American predictable attitudes of superiority
I watched that..JS wind hands down and was much smarter and more realistically accurate than JM.
JM is a China Hawk and still a warmongering elite under the skin, for me JS is the one person that is talking the most sense. A great debate and I enjoy watching intellects duke it out at this level. Very informative. 👍🏼 a great recommendation… any others are most welcome 🙏
JS's thesis sounds like Darth Vader's.
@@minervasheryl4748 explain? I would like to know because it sound alike you and I watched a total different debate or you don’t know Darth Vader!?
"If the peasants knew what the elites are doing to them there would be a revolution overnight" paraphrasing George HW Bush
Very insightful for him!! 😜
Books on Gender? No way? 🤣🤣🤣
😂 it was on Japanese style but it was very flamboyant and clearly wedged in that district of what’s gender… 😬
Tucker was once the propaganda prop. He was under the propaganda spell until he left those propagandists.
Suddenly he realized he was under their spell when he was free from those propagandists.
And he started to get real.
Yep, it’s good to swim one change like that - he has a lot more to learn and he is a China hawk but he is ignorant on China so he might change his stance… at least he is asking questions now, unlike the media he left.
What a spectacular bookshop! Many such bookshops with a pleasant atmosphere here in the UK have suffered the demise of the retail apocalypse (especially facing the onslaught of competition from digital media) - and in truth, it’s hard to imagine the long term commercial viability of that shop there in China given the lacklustre footfall evidenced in the video.
Perhaps there are special considerations made under the Chinese system to financially support culturally important enterprises even if their turnover cannot meet the presumably expensive rent for such a beautiful shop location?
Tucker Carlson is like an overgrown kid sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, I do actually like him, but he gets all giggly and excited about silly things that seem new and innovative to him - for example, shopping trolleys in Moscow supermarkets, which require a coin deposit to unlock them as if that’s something unique and magical.
And as for dirty old and tired infrastructure, yes,clearly airports - which do create a first impression of a country - tend to be bright and shiny, modern and clean with lots of lovely glass and steel in countries which have recently built major hubs, - yet look tired and dated in countries with 70+ year old buildings.
Heathrow is a good example of a hybrid case. A recently built Terminal and also another newly refurbished one look pretty damn good, but the older ones look like dogshit.
China and other recently developed countries have lots of shiny new buildings primarily from the 90s onwards, so of course things may look nicer and newer there.
However, entropy will not discriminate in favour of China and it eventually conquers all.
(In fact, some might argue that the consequences of excessive corruption engendering ‘tofu dreg’ buildings of poor quality is indicative of an usually rapid form of such decay.)
You should go to see with your own eyes. The difference can’t be attributed to aging only.
@@yaqiwang5242 I’ve had a sense of it by travelling throughout Asia but i’ve not been to China unfortunately. I was super impressed by the way the modern buildings in some cities in Vietnam, for example, lit up with amazing LED lightshows at night. I never expected to see such things there. It was ultra modern and astonishing (as I’m sure some parts of modern China are like that too… and probably at an even grander scale!)
Interesting, I missed this comment Stephen? Maintenance is important. Expanding so rapidly will have some challenges to what was built in a growth that was always difficult to regulate… this is coming now as the country matures. A bit different from just let everything rot. Heathrow T5 is a good example (I used work around that industry) it was a good investment but too small from the off - the other terminals are poor.. and don’t look to closely around the U.K. at the other airports, although they are mostly privately owned!
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@@ForAllLifesAdventures Hi Iain, thanks for the reply. Yeh, you must have missed the comment before, but no worries, you’ve acknowledged it now. Hope alls well with you. Cheers f’now 😀
Nice video but cut the music.
Any reason why?
Tucker Carlson is someone who moves with the wind, he'll only challenge something if it benefits him to do so. He challenges mainstream media simply because at the moment it's within his own self interest to do so.
I think you might be right, like lost he is in it for the kudos and money - but at least he is edging around the mainstream media and maybe that might encourage some people to explore more. I am not a fan of him, he is an odd character, but I am all for people kicking back against the system in some way 👍
Iain, you are correct saying that "Capitalism, Socialism, and communism pay dividends in different ways." - but perhaps in a different way you intended? China is a primary example that socialism (let alone communism) does not work. China only started to prosper after Deng's capitalist reforms. The contemporary "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is an eclectic blend of market capitalism and Confucian pragmatism, governed by benevolent technocratic authoritarianism. And yes, it works! Meanwhile, American so-called democratic capitalism is steadily failing because it is turning into "plutocratic Maoism with American characteristics".
you exclude us sanction during mao era, mao great reset &land reform laid the foundation for china now by rejecting many unequal treaties before ww2.
Can you imagine building country again from ashes with colonial debt burden amount 300 billion USD today?
@@criztaliz3413 Yes, I certainly can: Many countries have successfully re-built from post WW2 ashes without having to endure the abominations of the Cultural Revolution or the famine of the Great Leap Forward.
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics works because of the idea of Socialism. The very idea of socialism is to be Social, irrespective of the mechanisms for implementing it. Its opposite would be the absence of social values or antisocial. I object to the attempt to tarnish the word "Socialism" and glorify the word Capitaism, which by Its definition, glorifies Wealth above all else.
@@johnli6782 Well, I object all the attempts to glorify socialism and communism, in a complete defiance of their bloodied history everywhere they have been tried, while tarnishing the word "capitalism". Capitalism has demonstrated, again and again, its amazing capability to bring the most people out of poverty in the shortest possible time. And China is the prime example of this.
@@befeleme Good. We understand each other.