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Here we go again. Let me ask you a question. If I asked you what's been happening in China recently, would you a answer that there have been some high-profile meetings between uh Donald Trump and Putin and the dictator of China? You know, would you tell me that there are robots walking around in Shenzhen and that there's a big train station that was built in the mountains, a fancy highspeed rail station that was built in the mountains of Chongqing? Or would you answer that there have been an incredible amount of revenge against society attacks, mass vehicular homicides, stabbings, foreign nationals being attacked, and half of southern China underwater, towns and villages swept away by floods? Which would you answer?
I'm guessing A. But guess what? Both are true to some extent. Of course, A is fluffed up and overexaggerated, and B is completely hidden. Since my last video, there have been an incredible amount of these revenge against society attacks. I spoke about it before. China's murder season is currently at its peak. In fact, over the course of a week, we had three mass vehicular homicides. It started in Chungdu where a guy slammed at high speed into a mass amount of pedestrians who were crossing a crosswalk. Absolutely horrific. He then went on to indiscriminately target people riding ebikes. Penc random pedestrians and kept on running over people until his car was so damaged and so messed up that he couldn't kill anyone anymore. The next day we had another one. And then following that, yet another one. how we pronounce them. And you know, we had these three in succession, but you know what? There have been so many more. And again, yesterday, another big one with a Tesla just ramming into a bunch of people. It's insane. These are mass casualty events with dozens of people murdered and injured. and in big cities. We're not talking about in the middle of nowhere, but of course, people don't hear about this. We've had stabbings almost every day. And just a few days ago, some Japanese nationals were stabbed in a Japanese restaurant in Shanghai. Randomly, a dude comes in, sees their Japanese, stabs them, targets them because they're Japanese. Of course, we all know why that happens.
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And now back to the show. So why is it that we only hear the good stuff coming out of China? We only see this very curated picture, but we don't hear about the bad things which are very bad and happening all the time. Pretty simple. China spends between 2.5 to 10 billion US a year on outward facing propaganda. That's 10 billion US. They use it in all sorts of forms. I mean obviously they have social media campaigns. They pay for all the bots and all the people to the nationalists and so on to go out there and leave comments and try to steer the conversation and they're using AI these days so it's more convincing. So you don't get these bad grammar chinglish arguments. You actually get some pretty convincing sounding stuff underneath anyone who posts something critical of China or the CCP. Of course they also pay for these high-profile influencers to fly over to China and they take them on these guided tours. They pay a lot for these so-called travel shills that go over there and say like, "Wow, China's living in the future. Look at this highspeed rail. There's a robot toy and there's the 22nd floors, the ground floor." You know, that type of thing. But all sorts of other things. They spend that money on infiltrating media overseas, writing articles in well-known publications that are pro-China, paying people to do that, swaying opinion in every which way that's possible, funding nos that cause trouble and go and protest on the street and sew division. They've got a massive, massive operation to divide the West and paint China in the most positive light possible and make everybody think that China's somehow better and got everything switched on where in reality it's absolutely false. China's economy is stagnant and is going down. There's a lot of trouble. Chinese people are suffering greatly at the moment. And unfortunately because of all this propaganda we don't get to see that because the flip side of the coin is that although they spend a lot of money to push this very positive image of China and to you know try and suppress any criticism of it overseas, they also suppress and censor the hell out of any bad news in China. I mean, these floods for instance, it's so badly covered and hidden in the Chinese news that people living a province over have no clue that it's going on. And this is by design. You see, the Chinese government needs things to stay harmonious. They are so terrified of a revolution and they're terrified of the people fighting back against bad government governance and corruption and you know all the rest of it that they make sure that when something bad happens in China, it's so downplayed and so hidden that the people that live like 10 10 miles away from where this incident happened don't even know about it. Because think about it. If you're living in a mountainous region and you hear that just a couple of miles away there was a flood that wiped out an entire village and it's because of bad infrastructure, corruption, shortcuts, and the fact that the Chinese government didn't, you know, sort things out properly, you're going to become unsatisfied. It could cause some unrest. So, they hide the negative news. And of course, they hide it from the rest of the world. That's an even bigger priority for them because well, China's on a massive charm offensive and has been for the last decade or so under this whole tell a good China story well or whatever Xi Jinping said. So yes, you get to see the good and you don't get to see the bad.
But I want to go back to those Japanese nationals that were stabbed in Shanghai. I mean, why would that happen in the first place? Well, I think especially if you watch my channel or the China show, you will know that China pushes the hatred of Japan on its populace. It loves to feed this and stoke the flames of hatred. From a very young age in kindergarten, children are taught to stab effiges of Japanese soldiers. They're taught that all Japanese people are devils and evil and, you know, cheats and liars and they should be treated as subhuman and that they're evil and all that stuff. And then of course this continues throughout education. You turn on daytime TV, all you see are these revenge against Japan, you know, sort of historical fantasies. They call it the War of the Resistance dramas where they show the Japanese soldiers acting badly and then some pluckucky peasants will come and destroy an entire platoon with some sticks and kung fu and some stones or whatever. Absolute hogwash. It's rubbish. Anyway, this unfortunately leads to things like that attack. I mean, we've seen like Japanese children being murdered in China because of this. An entire bus full of Japanese school children attacked by a knife wielding maniac who only managed to murder the Chinese teacher, the hero who stood in the way of him and the children stood between the two. Good job, by the way. Um, so yeah, these things happen.
But this got me thinking about something that I hear a lot. You know, if you point out that, oh, this Chinese-made, made in China piece of junk that I bought on Amazon broke after a week of being made, a lot of people will say, well, you know, Japan was like that in the 70s and the 80s. Japan used to copy our stuff. Japan used to make cheap knockoffs, and look where they ended up. They ended up really being able to make the best quality products, the best cars, the best electronics, and so on. So people do this stupid conflation between China and Japan and they say that China now is like Japan in the 70s and the 80s, but it's wrong. And China will never be like Japan for a few reasons. And I want to start out with the fact that Japanese society and the government are honest. It's based on an honor culture. If a Japanese person promises to do something, there's a good chance they're going to do it with some exceptions, of course, but you just need to look through history and you can see plenty of examples of this happening. When the Japanese government signs an agreement to say that they're going to do this or this or this, they stick to it for the most part. Again, they signed the treaty after World War II. They stuck with that. They sign all these different things. They stick whatever the Japanese government says they're going to do, they do. China is the complete opposite. In Chinese society, there's a very well-known saying, which means if you can cheat, then cheat. This of course pervades Chinese society everywhere. You see the unfortunate situation where Chinese people ripping off and cheating other Chinese people. And of course, this applies to any kind of foreign business deal and so on to, you know, the cheating, the loopholes, the shortcuts. It's all there. But the Chinese government themselves are cheats and liars and have never kept their promises. Unlike Japan who signs something and sticks to an agreement, China when they sign something, they never stick to that agreement. Quick example, when China entered the World Trade Organization, they promised to crack down on counterfeiting and bootlegging. In other words, stop all these factories making knockoffs of well-known international brands. Well, guess what? They never did. China still produces what 80% of the world's counterfeit goods. If you're buying a fake LV bag, it's coming from China. If you're buying some fake Ray-B bands, they're coming from China. China didn't live up to its promise to enter the World Trade Organization. Quite frankly, should have been kicked out a long time ago. When it came to the South China Sea, oh, we're not going to militarize the South China Sea. What did they do? They militarized the South China Sea. When it came to Hong Kong, the agreement with the UK, one country, two systems for 50 years, that didn't last very long, now did it? Now it's one country, one system. They broke their promise there. Oh, what about them saying they will stop the flow of fentinel or fentinel precursors into the United States. Well, guess what? How many times have they promised to do that? It is the Chinese government doing it. Yeah, they've got their stupid excuses that, oh, it's some bandits or something. They are in control of this. The Chinese government can control anything within China. They can shut down entire industries overnight if they want to. But of course, they allow it to happen because they want it to happen. They want division and they want chaos to be happening in the USA. So they haven't stopped the flow of fentinel and they never will. Every single time there's a meeting or a trade deal or something, it's like, oh yes, we will help fight this problem that we have caused. But you know what? They never do. So we're dealing with a completely different structure.
Please remember one thing. The Japanese government is a proper functioning government with political parties and voting and all that kind of stuff. The Chinese government is the Communist Party of China. The same government that riled up the farmers and the peasants to go and kill all the intellectuals, kill the landlords, take everything over, destroy education, destroy history, burn down temples, all the nasty stuff that they did. and then allowed those same peasants that rose up to starve to death where up to 80 million of them starved to death under Ma's stupid policies. It's also the same government that was in charge during the 1989 Tianan Square massacre. The exact same government. Some of the exact same people are still in government positions that were in government positions when that happened. So, we're dealing with the Communist Party, which again is another cheap knockoff because China can't even have its own government. It has to be copied from the Soviet Union and it has to be a derivative knockoff of Karl Marx communism which of course is not a Chinese idea. It's a Western idea. So we're dealing with a bad government that doesn't keep its promises. And we're dealing with a society that is completely different to Japanese society. And the reason why I'm going so in depth into this is I'm sick and tired of this argument that China is just like Japan was in the 70s and the 80s.
Japan innovates. And yes, in the beginning they took a lot of things that the West made and started to make cheap copies of it. But then they started to innovate. Think about the things Japan has actually invented. The Walkman, the Sony Walkman, the highspeed rail. Was it 1964? The Japs call it the bullet and it looks like a bullet. This super express that thrusts aside all existing ideas of train speed. >> They put it out. Everyone was like, "That's crazy." But they put it out and guess what? It's fantastic. The Shinkansen has been around since the 60s and set the bar for every other highspeed rail ever around the world. All sorts of different formats. If you think about, you know, JBC created VHS, uh, Blu-rays, Sony. In fact, the CD was a joint venture between Philillips in the Netherlands and Sony. And many of the things that we use today came from Japan in the 80s and 90s. I mean automation with robotics in uh you know in automotive factories for instance which led to the reliability the legendary reliability of Japanese cars and now that's passed on to the rest of the world. So Japan actually invented things created new formats contributed to the world and China has not done that you might think they've done that but this is slight of hand. Everything that China produces, especially on mass, is a derivative of something else. It's a cheap copy or it's something that has just had features added to it. Quick example, if you think China's futuristic or something cuz they got some robot toys running around, please, those robot dogs that you see everywhere from Unitry, just a complete cheap knockoff of the Boston Dynamics spot. Everything from the design to the motors to the everything. In fact, it's run by a Raspberry Pi, which is an off-the-shelf single board computer that you buy for teaching your kids how to program or whatever. I love Raspberry Pies. They're great little things, but of course, full of malware, very easy to exploit, very poorly put together. The robot toys that you see, the humanoid toys walking around, they're remote control toys. They're not anything fancy. This is stuff that has been around since the 70s. China is now mass-producing them and pretending as if it's something new. All of this stuff is a derivative and a poor implementation of something that Boston Dynamics has done before or Honda did with Azimo or whatever. Highspeed rail, they built a lot of it, but none of it is new. This is all licensed technology or stolen technology or forced intellectual property transfer from other countries. They get the engineers to come out, build a little bit of track, teach them how it works. They build the carriages. They teach them how they copy that stuff, kick the engineers out, and then they just build it all themselves. Massive highspeed rail network in China, which is fantastic, by the way. I'm all for it. I like the highspeed rail. But the unfortunate thing is that it's all built on debt. It's a big propaganda event. It's a big It's all theater. At the end of the day, it's running at such a loss that it's crazy. No sane government would have done that because it's just a huge waste of resources. But it's the same with everything. China loves wasting resources. They do it in other things, too. People say China is a leader in green technology. Nonsense. They build a lot of wind turbines and a lot of solar panels. Yes. Guess what? They stole the wind turbine technology and designs. They famously stole the software to run the wind turbines by bribing one of the engineers with prostitutes so that he would give them the source code, which he did. So, they stole that, too. Solar panels, of course, another foreign invention that's stolen and mass-produced very wastefully, I might add. You know, they pump this stuff up, but it's garbage and it doesn't get recycled properly and it ends up in the trash in the landfills anyway. So, they build a lot of it. So, people say, "Wow, they're the leader in green technology." Nonsense. They're the leader in pollution because you can build a ton of solar panels on one hand and you can also burn more coal than the entire developed world combined and you can belch out more pollution than the entire world combined at the same time. But you don't get to say you're the leader in green technology. But that goes back to that whole propaganda thing because that's what you see is you see oh solar panels, wind farms, renewable energy. What you're not seeing is the mass amount of pollution that China's belching out that affects the entire globe, the over fishing of the seas, the fact that you cannot drink the water in China because the ground water is so polluted, the hazy disgusting AQI in the cities there, and the lack of caring about the environment when they do all of their manufacturing cheaply with using slave labor.
China will never be like Japan. Japan has had this culture of perfectionism and honing a craft for hundreds thousands of years. I mean think about I mean just think about the steel working in Japan. All the ceremony around creating for instance a katana you know the samurai sword and folding the metal and how long it takes and all the generational knowledge passed down. Think about all the arts, all of the ceremony in Japan. There's always been a focus on making something the best that you can. In China, there's more of a culture of make a quick buck, do something as easily and cheaply with the most amount of shortcuts. And so, you're not going to get an 80s and '90s Japan who started to produce these incredible feats in technology, these incredible feats in the automotive field, etc. China's just going to continue to make cheap derivatives but with lots of frills. And I'll finish off by giving one last example. If you buy a base level Toyota from Japan, it's not going to have any frills in it, but it's going to last. It's something that if you drive and maintain, you'll be able to give to your grandkids. It's not going to let you down. When you need the safety features to work, they will work. If you buy a fancy Chinese EV, you're going to get into it and it'll have massaging seats and big screen entertainment and fancy ddads and a karaoke microphone and you're going to be like, "Wow, look at this. It costs the same or less than that cheap entry-level Toyota, but I get all of these features." Well, there's a reason. Number one, China cheats. The government subsidizes these companies so that they can throw in all that extra stuff and sell it at a low price. This is to force other automotive manufacturers out of the market so they can overtake the markets. But they take a lot of shortcuts. That stuff's not going to last. It's going to start breaking pretty soon. Your massaging seats, see how long they last. Maybe they uh start to emit a little bit of smoke. Maybe the car catches on fire. Maybe when you have an accident, the airbags don't work and the doors don't open. Well, there's plenty of evidence out of China showing that this this is what happens with these things. At the end of the day, all of these little duads are not important. They're there as fluff. It's what Lord Sugar used to call a mug's Eiffel. And uh unfortunately, the way things are going if people keep adopting this nonsense, we're going to be in the same situation we are with automotive parts right now. If you work on cars, you know what I'm talking about. You order a new, I don't know, a coil pack or a new uh idle air control valve or whatever it is for the car you're working on and it's a part made in China. You put it in, it doesn't work straight out of the box half the time. And if it does work, it's worse than the broken original part. I mean, it's pretty crazy. It's pretty dire. I hope the world wakes up to this stuff.
Anyway, I'm not a pessimist. I do have a lot of um faith in the world seeing China for what it is. But just remember when you're inundated with all of this propaganda, all of this China is so great. Look, China is so cheap to live in. China's so amazing living in the future, robots, flying cars, all this nonsense. Remember, they have $10 billion a year to put that in front of you. And they spend even more silencing the bad stuff. Anyway, I just wanted to end it on that. Stay awesome. Can't wait to see you in the next video. And please catch me on the China show if you want to be up to date with what's happening in China every week. It's every Friday. Stay awesome.
You know, I really want to quickly finish this off, but there's one last thing I want to say, and that is I think the people of China need a little bit of respect here. I'm not talking about the government and the sensors and those nationalists and all that nonsense. I mean the actual people that are struggling there because man when I post something on X for instance and I point out a problem in China just something random like I'll say look uh you know there's a problem in China where if an elderly person falls over nobody helps them up. I'll get a ton of comments saying oh yeah what about America? What about the West? Give me some example that was in the news like once 20 years ago or something. And I always ask these people who do this, like, do you actually not care about the people of China? Do you obsess? And are you so obsessed with America and the West that the problems of American people and Western people are more important than the problems of China, the Chinese people? Do you really disrespect them that much? Do you hate the people of China that much that their problems don't exist and shouldn't be acknowledged? Because you know what? It's the Chinese people who suffer the most in all of this.