The UK Can't Compete with China's Infrastructure.. Here's Why (depressing). 

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Very informative! To me, CHINA represents: C: Clean energy initiatives H: Historical and cultural heritage I: Impressive infrastructure projects N: National self-confidence A: Advanced human civilization This encapsulates the country's commitment to sustainability, rich history, remarkable development, strong national pride, and significant contributions to global progress.

Harvey you are a young man and I am impressed with how smart you are. Regarding differences between the UK and China, I can add to this debate. I lived for 30 years in the UK but moved to HK a while back and am very happy with my life here. The public transport is fantastic so I don’t have to buy a car to get around town. It‘s really safe here as well. I believe by and large the government is trying their best to look after the local population just like every city across China. It’s sad to see how low the UK has fallen but the government only know how to do America’s bidding and cannot seem to get out of it’s rut. There is no manufacturing industry to speak of in the UK anymore and all the world leading companies like ARM have either been sold off or like Dyson have moved abroad. The only world class industry the UK has left is the British education system which means a lot of the British schools have successfully set up shop in HK and across China. I think if the UK wants to improve the living standards and raise their economy，they will have to stop following whatever America demands and forge closer business ties with China and the BRICS nations. However I don’t think that is likely to happen and the UK could very well become a 3rd world country as evidenced by the already crumbling infrastructure and the shocking state of the NHS.

As a Canadian I never understand why UK tax money has to go to supporting the royal family, especially when they don't do shitt. Royal family still visits Canada like we are a colony. Feels like we are still in 1800s when this is 2024.

The reason why China is willing to incur losses to build railways in remote areas is not for the immediate benefits of the transportation expenses, but to enhance communication and connectivity between remote areas and advanced regions, with the wealthy regions driving the development of poor ones, thus enabling people to get rid of poverty from the root. This aligns with two famous Chinese proverbs: giving fish is not as good as teaching fishing, and if you want to get rich, build roads. This long-term development strategy is based on China's one-party system, where the Communist Party can focus on developing the country rather than boring elections and party politics.

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. 。 Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

Britain is politically the little brother of the United States. When the United States ordered a ban on Huawei, the British government obeyed. After banning Huawei equipment, the UK's 5G network speed was at the bottom of the G7. So now there is no signal on the British subway.When the Russo-Ukrainian war broke out, Britain was forced to buy high-priced gas from the United States. So the cost of living in the UK is very high.UK looks like a developing country when you see this modern infrastructure in China.

China's robust and effecient tranportation system is the reason low priced good quality products plus no matter what product you want to make you will find parts within 100km area or even nearer China is proof of a good leader is what makes a country great regardless democracy, communism, socialism or any ism

Infrastructure building and maintenance should be a government responsibility.

Well said. Keep it up. West needs to pull their heads out of the sand. Open their eye and let them see what is going on, instead of keep listening to the government’s lies about how good they are doing.

The ability to move around at affordable cost is a basic human right that most Western countries don't offer.

There's no long-term plan - it's just about instant profit - which leads to decay.

Perhaps this can be explained as "path dependence". Historically, Britain has always relied on external conflicts to transfer internal conflicts. It is happy to create confrontation and chaos between countries on the European continent, create ethnic conflicts in colonies to suppress colonial resistance, and suck blood from colonies to feed the British mainland. Until today, Britain has lost its original ability: it has no ability to continue to create chaos in other countries (although they still do so, but they fail more often), and it has no ability to suck blood from colonies (the colonies have been dismembered by its son, the United States). Therefore, when internal conflicts broke out in Britain, it was powerless.

There's money for Ukraine and Israel and wargaming in South China Sea. No money for trains buddy. Sorry, wrong system.

Britain's biggest problem is that it has never looked itself in the eye and has always put the blame on others, especially in politics, social issues and policing. Votes don't solve the problem it's just a vicious cycle

China's democracy is safty, affortable food, cloth, housing,transportation. The most basic needs for normal people.

The Chinese have never viewed the UK as a rival, competition, adversary or a threat in contrast to how the UK thinks of them. They were simply amused on how the UK govt acted like the big boy talking down or demanding things from them forgetting their current position in the world.

We live in a rip off society in the UK .Due to our politicians not giving a toss about us.

China is a mirror to the west who is still stuck in their deep sweet nostalgic parallel dimension

You are a wonderful young man and I really appreciate your videos.💯💯💯👍👍👍

You are right. Infrastructure construction in China is regarded as welfare or public facilities. It has no necessary connection with profitability. The improvement of infrastructure provides convenience for people, saves time and improves efficiency. This is the real meaning! If a government requires profitability for any investment, then this country is not a country, but a company!

The issue with UK is the politician are too busy dividing the people with us and them. And the people are too busy fighting each other. Because people are deprived of money they are to busy arguing about immigration rather than voting for the right people.

Young man, you can see through things from the surface to the bottom. I really enjoying to hear your insights! Thanks

Don't get me started on the Underground. I used to use it a lot, and there were days when the train stopped for ages at a station because they were waiting for the next driver to turn up. Picadilly and Northern line trains are incredibly noisy (especially underground) and the amount of shaking is unbelievable. Certainly not a smooth ride and the carriages are so small it feels claustrophobic inside. And without fail, season tickets went up in price every year.

The different between the Goverment priortise their citizens and the Goverment priortise their pockets..

your compraring the uk to china 🤣 uk cant even compare with european countries. its literally like a 3rd world country

The problematic process and domestic politics is part of the cause. There's an invisible issue: Where's the money that could be invested into the infrastructure? The answer is the money spent on the bombing of Libya, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq, and supporting Ukraine.... China doesn't have those expenses and saves the money for railways and roads. Military actions are expensive. The western public are brainwashed by the media and journalists with fanatic pseudo-religious of human rights and democracy, trying to fight against evil regimes to liberate oppressed people. So all the money for infrastructure is gone without objection of the public. Not only is the fund for infrastructure missing, a bigger consequence is that the suffering of the huge population in war areas is not sensible by western public. They only see the waves of illegal immigration from those war areas that change the landscape of European society, creating more conflicts without knowing the association to the journalist fanatic belief that only they understand humanity and concept of liberal democracy, evil CPP is too dumb to understand, even there are better infrastructure under CPP's governance.

Love your videos.

Truly shocking, how run-down the so-called 'garden' is. China's where it's at, these days.

one of the best video I have ever watched: well articulated.

US and EU, they dream that they are the center of the world while their hegemony is collapsing.

Thank you! If the average citizen were aware of the shitty services we have in exchange for very high taxes... 😿

As a Chinese student studying in the UK, I can deeply feel that the UK has fallen far behind China in many aspects. Moreover, in terms of development trends, the UK has been in decline while China has been rapidly progressing. However, most British people still live in the lies fabricated by Western media and maintain their sense of superiority, which I believe will not make the UK any better. If there were more bloggers like this in the UK, I think the UK would still have a chance for revival. I hope the UK gets better and better.

Thank you for your analysis. Very insightful.

Choose an Indian as prime minister, what can you expect? Look at New Delhi. That's the future of London.

In the eyes of the Chinese, high-speed rail is not a business. And he explained why. Socio Economic growth. Railway loss is nothing compare to growth ratio of socio economy. People dont understand economics at all. Infrastructures are backbone of development. And china making their backbone stronger. And UK busy spending money on w@r.

My daughter used to swim in Bournemouth beach. Now populated Harvey. You can see poo floating!!🥵

so true. the tube tickets price is really high. budget airlines often offer very low prices

I think that the difference lies in the thinking behind the policies, in China the government wants to better the lot of the people, they believe that the point of governance is to bring the living standards of the population up, whereas in the UK the general population are seen as economic units, we have experienced Austerity for 14 years following the global financial crash. I think that the difference lies in cooperation and competition, China promotes cooperation and Britain competition.

You are such an intelligent young man and you are making a huge difference to the world as I can see.

Refreshingly honest. Depressingly true. Why? What's the difference between UK & China? Intelligent competent government.

Absolutely yes with regard to your argument on profitability! Who is the fool who said about the loss? Isn’t the infrastructure for the benefit of the people more than the profit for individual or governments?

You can’t compare. Uk is already down the drain long time ago 😂😂😂😂

Chinese high speed rail is cash profitable because it generates income from 11 sources, including being the owner/developer/leaser of massive real estate developments at every station. Plus advertising, overnight high speed freight, right-of-way for cables, catering...

I last worked in China in 2015 I said would I would never go back, now watching your videos and watching the UK in rapid decline I'm going to put out a few applications for jobs in China

Sure the west include US and EU can criticize CHINA, because there still a lot thing for CHINA to improve, we Chinese people always criticize our government for some weird policy. However, when we criticize our government, what we want is CHINA BECAME BETTER, not BECAME vassal state of the west. What's more, it is ridiculous that the west criticize CHINA and other countries with excuse of HUMAN RIGHT, did they forget the invade CHINA, they colonize the world, they caused ww1 and ww2, they did genocide(to native citizens of undeveloped countries, anglo-saxon to native american, japan to chinese)， human experiment（GERMAN US JAP），biochemical weapon，color revolution，Subvert the regime in south America middle east Asia, the west cause millions of refugees, killed so many people ,how could they pretend they are gentlemen

We private our water boards Harvey. We getting contaminated water through mouth tap! Private equity have squandered tax payers money, take debts and pay their shareholders (most foreign organisations) dividends. Leaving us to pick up the tabs!

USA 🇺🇸 same problem running down trains station.👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

China has more then 55 cities with metro systems By 2030 will be in over 78 cities

Same in Melbourne . Stopped somewhere no further announcement and we had to seek for alternative transport. So bad.

China is a modern nation uk is a gas station from the 80ss😂😂😂😂😂 .

Military overcapacity countries blame overcapacity in countries that produce affordable cost-effective products😢

The britishness pontificating about china is very entertaining

The Chinese said they don't run the trains for a profit but to get people to work on time.

No politics system is perfect, the west have their advantage so did China in some area ,hope foreigners can stop demonise what different to them.

it's not the infrastructure that's the most significant. From what i can tell, China gives the average person on the street real security. Regardless of time of day. Well, i suppose that goes hand in hand with infrastructure. If the state cares about infrastructure for the people's benefit, then it would care about people's sense of security.

In China, the government puts the people's needs first while in the west, the governments are more interested in making money for their big corporations at the expense of the common people. Thanks for the video.

英国政府致力于竞选和争权，不会管老百姓的生活便利，中国虽然一党执政，但它会考虑老百姓的生活质量。你分析的很到位❤

This so-called loss had been "explained" by the World Bank in comparing the logistics costs based on GDP. In the early 90s, China was reported to spend 29.2% of her GDP on overall logistics and 3 years ago, this percentage was reported at 14.2%; meaning China as a whole had saved the equivalent of US$2.7 Trillion based on her 2023 report. And this saving is simply being enjoyed by the nation as a whole. Do the West perceived that national saving is irrelevant unless the so-called profit must be made by a private entity?

A lot of the high-speed railway lines actually make money, which subsidize unprofitable lines

wow , great discussion. Thank you

USA is a great nation that can achieve the unachievable. Unfortunately they spent their effort in the wrong goal. China does what’s most important to the livelihood of the people, USA does what’s most important for winning the election.

Next video do Zimbabwe cant compete with UK

Harvey, underground is about £15 not $!!!

thanks for sharing

It is unfair to compare London, which took hundreds of years to build, with Beijing, which only took 70 years to build.

Not just the UK, American, and most western countries should learn from China. My coworker daughter moved from Florida and is living in South Korea he always comes to work everyday showing off how beautiful South Korea is and how much his daughter loves it there, Safe, Clean, and efficient with beautiful infrastructure 😢 makes Americans envy😢 it can get very Dangerous here in America not safe in schools, not safe at night not safe even in a supermarket.

But the UK has countless castles, Big Ben, London Bridge, and Stonehenge, ya’ll. 😉

Good video, Harvey. Keep going.

great little video, and very inforamative, being a Londoner I can say you right about everything, my only criticism you put everything in dollars, why? you are talking about the UK, why not say pounds....other than that keep up the good work..Peace and JaYoe

Very few country could learn from China. China was bullied and humiliated first by England nearly two hundred years ago and by many countries. Chinese suffered so much and had been working and fighting so hard to develope the modern China while the West had enjoyed so much from the colonial rule all over the world, robbing resources everywhere,,,,, so would western people work and fight hard to build their own countries? China not only build their own infrastructure but had so many projects around the world… China has been helping many African countries while the rest had taken advantages from many African countries for hundred of years .. one may see a very astonishing China ,yes..but learn of her history is just as important…

說得好👍☺️

Well said Harvey! 👏👏

China #1 GDP in World since 2021

We are going down that's for sure we keep let people come here and don't have enough resources now

awesome video!

China is willing to built roads and rails as most of them will generate 12% economic growth which meets World Bank recommendation. Usually govts pay the railway CAPEX (capital expenditure) directly or like Hong Kong develops the land around the stations to pay for MTR metro system. OPEX (operational expenditure) is maintenance & operating costs which needs to be covered by ticket revenue. Any revenue shortfall will require govt support for the rail operator.

Thank you for your informative video🙏👍🙏

hi, I live in Oxford and Guangzhou, sometimes in Shanghai. Hope we can meet and share experience.

I completely agree with your point about high-speed rail potentially bringing economic benefits in other areas. Afraid of flying, I only travel by high-speed rail wherever I go; it's incredibly convenient. The beneficiaries are not just me, but the entire nation. I am eagerly looking forward to the new high-speed rail under development, which will reach speeds of 1000 kilometers per hour. This way, the 1300-kilometer journey from Beijing to Shanghai will take only 1.5 hours!

No point keep comparing UK with China, if most of the people still live in their la la land believing in their own superiority, without realising how the greedy capitalism has consumed the society? If you privatise all the key services what can you expect? Before these profiteering companies put in any penny of investment they must first look at the ROI. In the current climate the investor lobbyists are influencing the public policies but their primary objective is to appease the stakeholders not the public. Previously the capitalists are happy to make 10% returns but today they want to make 20% in half of the time. Therefore in a highly privatised environment, no investors will park large amounts of money into long term infrastructure projects. Blame it on your own gov who started to privatise all the key essential public systems such as transport, communication, energy etc it is quite hard to believe the public actually accepted reasons from the gov that privately owned and operated services would be more efficient and cost effective. To me if a gov cannot be efficient and cost effective, that gov should have been voted out for a better one!

How much is a train driver paid on average in the U.K.? In China? What is their holiday entitlement in each country? What are their pension rights? the UK’s railway networks weren’t built almost overnight, like much of China’s modern infrastructure. My London neighbourhood was mostly built in the 1870s when local railway stations opened all over the country. You are not comparing like with like! ,

中国有一个非常强有力的中央政府，而不是西方这样的选举和议会制度。中国的政治体制是与中国2000年的文化密不可分的，从秦始皇开始，中国在大部分时间是一个统一的帝国，这与共产主义没有关系。而且从中国的文字和语言（中国各地方言之间的发音的差异绝对比俄罗斯语和乌克兰语的差异大）在2000年来一直强化这个统一性。

we can't all be lucky enough to be wealthy and leave the uk. Poor people have to suffer it.

Everyone asks about profitability,but it's an asian culture to invest in social welfare schemes without amounting the profit, Bcoz in longer period it will obviously profitable for the society

We need thinkers to lead our countries, not talkers, and the biggest joke has been the US politics in recent years. The objective of any government should be, firstly, to improve the economy and standards of living in the country, so that people's lives and livelihoods are taken care of. I am glad to see more and more African nations having good thinkers as their leaders, and more and more leaders speaking out against the west's hegemony. China is doing it right. Singapore is doing it right. Vietnam and Malaysia are starting to get it right. Let's hope the west gets it right too, so that the World is a better place to be in.

Well done!

Great China 🇨🇳 ever great 👍 in the world 🌎 Taipei or Taiwan it’s too China 🇨🇳 it’s never ever been independent & country from mainland China 🇨🇳 👍

very well put together video :)) What job do you do over there?

This is just my personal perspective. I studied in the UK since September 2023, and was away from Hong Kong until July 2024. When I returned back to my homeland, just by comparing London Heathrow Airport and Hong Kong International Airport, there is a major difference in them. HK international airport is a lot more cleaner than London Heathrow. Not gonna lie, the infrastructure of Hong Kong International Airport is way more well designed than London Heathrow. I have been to London Heathrow more 5 times, and there were trash everywhere and no one is cleaning them, while HK international airport is more clean, and almost spotless. As for streets comparison, in the UK, I often see homeless people wherever I go. During my time in Plymouth, I saw at least 5 homeless people everyday, even when I go to Co-op or Tesco. As for HK, even though there are homeless people, it's less than UK's. I only witnessed like 1 homeless people per month. As for public security, in the UK, I often heard people that there were accidents happening there and there, and worst, I even witnessed a kidnap and a murder outside my boarding school, and the police doesn't give a shit about it. As for HK, I never witnessed anything like that. In conclusion, UK needs improvements, they are lacking behind in every way when comparing to Hong Kong.

But Britain is very diverse and inclusive.

We will see in China can maintain its infrastructure for the decades if not centuries that the UK has looked after its infrastructure . Much of the Chinese development is short lived and badly maintained

There is no end to my astonishment over what China has become. My country shares a border with China but up until I started watching vlogs about the country I thought of China as we heard of how it was 40 years ago. China is building a part of the BRI through my country and I am helping set up a web channel for it but I had no idea that China had become this modern and technologically advanced. Vlogs like this have opened my eyes. Intelligent and compassionate westerners who have made China their home are bringing it forth to the rest of world. I don't know if they are doing it on their own or if they are being paid to do it. Whatever the case may be, what they are presenting to the world is very very real. and is right in front of of our eyes. And our eyes have suddenly widened over what they are showing us. Harvey, I thank you for opening my eyes to my wonderful neighbor and helping me look at it in aa whole new light.

THE AUDACITY TO BUILD WHILE WE GLOAT IN DELUSION OF SANTA CLAUS''

怎么会有国家试图和中国比基建呢？比其他的吧，这个真的没法比！

China practices socialism caring for the masses and not the elites . The rich can afford luxury on their own expense. China high speed rail is like their superb multi-lane highways around the country and operating at a loss. The State owned companies have many projects running at a loss also. But because of these infrastructures, China has progressed at a fast rate that shocked the world.

Hey, no hate here because I love your videos and your cinematography, but, people often compare the prices in China with the ones of the West, without mentioning the difference in salary between the two countries. I live in London, and love China, been there twice, and it is cheap for me with a good London salary to travel there, but how much does a £4 journey compare to the average Chinese salary? I guess the cost in proportion with a normal in China is still better than in the UK’s, but it would be nice to see a video of you touching on this topic! All the best 💪🏻

Let’s be fair…. The UK has older infrastructure and their failure rate would be higher VS. China’s train routes are recent and new. However, I do agree with you on safety and not having to worry about getting robbed and jumped is a big plus. Here in New York, I see garbage and trash scattered all over the station and cars. It’s quite disgusting.

Harvey hope you can make a video of healthcare experience in Chinese hospitals. I think it may provide some useful information for reforming our NHS.

Thank you for highlighting the disgraceful state of UK infrastructure. I live in a rich London borough & it has taken London Transport 12 years to upgrade the subway station &, finished, it is still found wanting in many respects.