This is my first time listening to this using RU-vid music, it's so weird seeing Jordan's face and hearing him speak, cuz I'm so used to just hearing his voice (Spotify).
Goodness, at first I thought this was about Xi's connection to the Chinese drug-running triads (get to that later - I read about it days ago, get to that book later) but this is another level so wild because I never even knew about this (autonomous Wa state group) until now hearing about it. And I've studied international relations for a couple decades now, so the way CIA/DEA works as descrbed makes sense. I couldn't find a single town in this region mapped in Apple Maps (or google, like he mentioned) - even Wikipedia I had to dive many levels deep to even get a feel about the history of these regions. Patrick, you've never lost nuance in your reporting; I think anyone interested won't either. Even though you might have made several enemies by being so candid about those you interviewed, and I wouldn't go anywhere near China because of comments, if I think about those who would; there is room for those equally concerned and now informed who could now if with an "innocent" clean slate.
Patrick I'm not saying you should retire, only that you've attracted too much risk from the CCP. The "China Show" channel here who are one of my YTEfavorites could tell you how that goes. You have valuable knowledge for all of us, but don't go near their shores, I pray.
we've never been able to get this channel off the ground dude. Some videos get 100s of thousands of plays and some get like 2,000 views. It's bananas. Content too varied, probably.
@@raevj I mean... who actually "likes" the CCP??? Even the Chinese people I know don't like the CCP, most even hate the CCP, lol. But even then, I don't really accept "not liking a particular gov't/form" as an acceptable explanation for making "his biases obvious and completely transparent"... first off, its just weird to say. Second off, you wouldn't really say that about any other "normal" government, lol. In fact, I'd say "hate" of "government" is almost standard universally (especially for people describing their own gov'ts). In other words, I need better actual reasons. lol
Wondering if the influx and mass immigration of immigrants from this region, particularly to Canada - British Columbia lower mainland comes to mind. If they could set up production centers of this product and ship it easily to Australia, Japan the United States and others...?
55:00 Wei is half-Taiwanese ... if you're American, that isn't Chinese. You didn't tell us what the other half is. You make me wonder why. Half CIA? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 But "Dude, you ask the best questions." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
