What Does Democracy Mean To The Chinese? [Street Interview] | ASIAN BOSS 

Asian Boss I think it’ll be interesting to have the same interview to Chinese immigrants overseas. To compare the results.

Pat C good idea!

You guys generally do a great job but life is ugly and we must confront the dark side of it and not be bystanders on the world stage.

@@euphony5552 I am a Chinese overseas, I pretty much agree with everything they said in the video. PS: I left when I was a teenager, it's been 10 years since I left China. I still go back to visit every couple of years. The drastic improvement amazes me every time I go back.

You should ask them what they think about Huawei CFO meng wanzhou arrest in Canada and what do they think about the sudden arrest of many Canadians in China as retaliation against Meng's arrest?

Or even a different region of China, like the north west region, East Turkistan.

​@@snowballeffect7812 Turkistan isn't even in China

@McK Ode They literally ask at the end of a lot of the videos what region we would like them to ask next. I don't think he's being disrespectful at all.

Hvad Hvem in west, America, France, Germany, Italy, Canada etc... too.

@@jianghaowang2854 i think he's referring to xinjiang

No, Babasaheb scrapped caste system by burning Manusmriti that too like 50 years ago. The constitution itself is Anti-casteist and gives equal rights to Everyone irrespective of caste, colour, religion, etc. Congratulations 🥳 you just made a fool of yourself

@@61.pranamyajoshi23 yesss you r right.

@@61.pranamyajoshi23 As long as you believe it from the bottom of your heart, we outsiders are totally fine with that... scrapped it or not, you are still the largest democratic joke of the world...

@@61.pranamyajoshi23 only in paper, people still practice caste.

@@intheendshewillknowiwasntb5841 What matters is citizens' rights under the law. If everyone is equal under the law, then the caste system is not a valid critique of Indian democracy.

Don't really have negative views on China and it's people, just the government tbh

@@Miguel-vz1mq interesting view, but not practical in reality in the case with China, where good governance has produced results for its people who are enjoying the benefits and a future where the people have confidence in. There is a direct link between the govt. & the people it serves which the west may not understand the level of trust between the Chinese people & their govt.

@@Wbliss Good for the Chinese then, but what about its neighbors though? I mean, ASEAN countries are willing to negotiate the South China Sea, but the Chinese government just does what it wants and uses its military as a solution And just a quick question, do you know about the whole Chinese Government debt trap it uses against other smaller nations?

@@Miguel-vz1mq debt trap？ The Western world colonized Africa and Southeast Asia for hundreds of years, only plundering, not even a few complete roads left after they left. Now China is investing in Africa, building roads, railways, ports, modernizing them, just a few minor trade disputes (of course China is not here for charity) and now the West is calling it a debt trap? So what has the West been doing for the past hundred years?

@@Super_Hao I'm not talking about the West, I'm talking about China here. How the hell do you justify targetting countries that you know can't pay certain amount of debt just so you can take their territory? I'm in no way saying that the West are some kind of Heroes and China is the villain, China's action speak for itself, and what it's doing right now is no better than the West

You got the point. During the cold war the slogan of USSR is democracy and the slogan for the western world is freedom. How ironic

good point

Good point!

So true

Clever.

that's the translation..... he actually mean Freedom is tasty in China.

@@NavinKumarIndia I can understand Chinese and that guy defiantly said 'freedom is relative' and not whatever the f you just said.

Yes, a very intelligent young guy. I feel good future for China

@@NavinKumarIndia Why you twisted it? What is your intention?

@@NavinKumarIndia bot, did you even understand Chinese language? You can just stick with your toilet

How well they are educated

But they all have one thing in common. The people can choose their government.

@@adlerzwei are u sure and how about America

adlerzwei wow , trust me , that is a illusion .

@@malikanuur4298 Americans have a big election every 2 years. ;-)

Example: western citizens have the freedom to vote for their president, Chinese citizens have the freedom to feel safe late at night.

Wrong translation... 层次（ceng ci）!= social status

So pretty much like the United States

it’s the same thing in america

RareFaction oh sorry what does it mean I just read the subtitles

Jacobius Pineconalhotra she said “different aspect”, I guess you can interpret it that way too. But the main idea is that in China sometime there’s more freedom and sometime there isn’t any.

@Monsieur Tarzan Is that so?

It's also people's government because unlike in the western countries, the elites do not have much power over the government at all and they can be easily got in prison for a crime (what isn't common in the west, where the money rules).

@Mr.Beant 🤣

All theses corporations work for the USA government. Any attempt of revolution can be repressed in the west.

read your comments, feel very moved

There are rude people are in USA too,call them right wingers mostly MAGA trump supporter and you would literally gets shot down while studying in USA school in some random day. I don't know what's the wrong with western countries. Germany despite being developed countries for so long still have homeless people but china have already lifted people from poverty and it's a miracle for 21st considering how a big devloping country is able to lift 800 million people out of poverty in just few decades 👍.

谢谢你

Welcome back to home😊

China need more people like you.

Hm. Almost sounds like everyone should have a basic foundation rights afforded to them, that should not be infringed, and beyond that the freedom to do as they please as long as they do not infringe the aforementioned rights. Like, I dunno, a constitutional republic or something.

but it's objectively worse and these people just don't see it. Ofc if you're taught in school that everything your country does is the best and other countries are bad you're gonna believe it

@@SgtSuissie how is it objectively worse? Do you realize that in American schools, we're taught that our country is the best and everyone else lacks the freedoms we have? Americans and westerners in general are coming from a POV that the way we live should be the standard of the entire planet when that's just not how it is.

@@TIENxSHINHAN jokes on you I'm swiss. China has literal concentration camps for muslims. There's so many inhuman things this country does. I don't know how you wanna excuse that

it reminds me of colonization. i can feel the spirit or the better word mental core of european people.

Chill. You used a VPN to comment this and still say you are free? Lol

He hás free healthcare, you don't

​@@Gnnesh Are you saying that not a single app or website is banned in your country!?

@@hasanpasha01 I can't think of anything.

@@CWFpresentes there is no such thing as free healthcare, sir. Its all paid by tax payers money. US has one of the lowest taxes in the world.

jojo k , Democracy is subjective...Western system of electioneering system is just one and another form of Meritocracy (Chinese system) is another...The question is, which one is better? To me anything that can provide decent lifestyle like wealth is the utmost...Having nothing and bragging about free speech is just a deceptive form of Democracy an easy tool use by politicians to fool the ignorants...

I agree a lot with your use of the term "Chinese way". I'm a Korean, born in America, I don't have a strong definition of what that really is, but I could decipher the general attitude portrayed here. The biggest discrepancy in the way of progress in America, seems to be that the protests and general unrest are more of an aggregation of personal issues and personal attitude problems, rather than a fault of the system we are part of. I hear a lot of students loudly spout fallacious arguments about how x should be treated better, then go on to treat everyone else terribly. I hear a lot of country people from my hometown yelling about how hard it is to make a living, when those specific people were given the same education and life choices as us, and decided to drop out of highschool or whatnot. There are actual problems with the system, don't get me wrong, and I can't speak for all of us. But, even my father who works in the hood and owns a convenience store... He voted Trump, who just caused the government to close because he wanted some wall funded. And now the government shut down and the people who used to frequent his store won't have food stamps soon. And my father is the one complaining. And as I lay in bed here at a liberal college, the people protesting outside are talking about equal rights and debate about confederate statues, while graphs about how 1% of americans take 90% of the money it makes sit in corners of the internet. Theres a giant lack of focus on anyone but themselves, and theres a giant issue with learning and defining what life is. We should learn to live with the consequences of our life choices rather than spit at the system that raised us. Maybe this is all just me, but living here is suffocating to be honest.

Atleast democracies don't discriminate people on the basis of religion and unlike china

@@abinashdeka8550 whites discriminating the blacks? Democracy?

you support literal totalitarianism in china but let me guess you probably hate erdogan right? as a german

respect

that translation"depends on their social status" is also totally wrong. that girl actually said "there are different aspects". Sigh...

@EZ - 12CA 796485 Cawthra Park SS She was contemplating her word use and it did not came out very coherent, but the gist is that she thought the review and rating system (审核, in western context it would be something like the M18 rating system, in Chinese context it would be more of outright censorship under the whim of the state) serves as a form of control and moderation (she used the word 清理, which literally means declutter or cleanup) of the social environment (社会环境, a Chinese political term which means external factors that affect an individual, for example the media, social norm and etc). In short she was overall approving of the state's measures and thought it helped clear bad things from entering the public.

Omg how's your wenzhounese!!?? you're a "chinese" speaker right??

@@eb.3764 Not all Chinese is from Wenzhou. China is huge.

rockerdrake man, if you understand Chinese, you will find out their people are so naive. They can’t receive tons of news from local even news that is about their governments policies. Did you follow their news recently? About how their government encourages people to invest and that is a big mistake. It is not only let the market losing balance but also let the people distrust the government if their money just disappear in any ways. And my friends from China didn’t know the news! They even said if it wasn’t happened to their region then it must a fake news. That is interesting you know. How convenient their government working in several way to do money laundering. That is the problem why their TI is so low. You should be glad if something happens to your own benefits that your country handling. You can make sure what r they doing anytime. You don’t need to make any conspiracy. The only thing you need to do is search the data’s from the government. That is called democracy.

@ⵜⴰⵏⵉⵔⵉ Taniri every liberal democracy in the world faces the same problems with partisanship. Public opinion is disputed, divided and confronted to the point of mutual hate. Every party controls its own media and often lies and slanders the rest. When the opposition takes the government in a new term they only undo the previous government's policies and make shallow politics that fit their segment's convenience instead of worrying about the well-being of the country as a whole. It's pretty much like that in all of Europe and America. China on the other hand might have many kids of problems but it doesn't have the social conflicts that derive from such division of the society.

@hướng dẫn chơi team starcraft 2 1. I was there for studying, I didn't take advantage of the country as you seem to interpret. 2. I know right, It's definitely not heaven and I'm not claiming it is, as I've stated before there are many kinds of problems...there is economic classism, money-sickness, social competition - lack of a proper sense of shame and a certain degree of racism in other non-explicit forms. Plus it's very hard for foreigners to establish themselves there in the long run, laws are restrictive and changes abrupt 3. But people in China, I guess in Vietnam too, even in the worst of hardships they are still able to see the good side of the situation and the good in others and always have a praise even for those they don't agree or have a good relationship with. They can reach an agreement so easily and with far less arguing and Goddamn... avoiding the exaltation of sex, violence, drugs, crime in movies and other entertainment media has had an enormously positive impact on the society. If you've never lived in the West you can't imagine to what extent. Of course reality is multi-faceted but in many ways power struggles seeking to involve the people tend to divide and confuse them. And in the end, one outcome or another doesn't really make a big change.

@hướng dẫn chơi team starcraft 2 you know china？

@hướng dẫn chơi team starcraft 2 and？Did I say China is better？

Lol

lolol it's actually something happens a lot in China and in terms of that, US ppl are doing a way better job

@MrAmsterdamCity1 Stfu racist pig

make me laugh, oh my god.

@inxtarobloxian2 people in China protest against the Yulin festival as well. Also, you probably eat pork in which case pigs and dogs are practically the same intelligence wise. Racist

I see that you listened the whole conversation. Well done👏👏

Lol

The level of Democracy should be judged by how much people's wishes are being fulfilled by the government, in that sense, China has a higher level of democracy than the US.

@@newcrew4554 That's quite a mental leap you made there 😂

@@scottwales9178 That is a simple fact. Democracy should be the end goal, not just a fixed format.

China is a country that worships its teachers, elders, and people who have success and high levels of education. They do not worship sports stars like gods. This is the biggest takeaway that I received from both China and Japan, they are just much more educated that we in Canada and America are in general.

@@VaioletteWestover rather than saying "more educated in general" I think it's more like China/Japan teaches things that extends outside of pure academics like manners that makes the average people look smarter.

It's interesting that that's how you interpreted it. I interpreted it as, these people have been brought up to know exactly what to say and how to say it. They've been taught this way. I wouldn't say it's true consideration of the question.

@@totallyfake2852 I've been to China various times for business. Respectfully, I think you need to look back at yourself at this moment and understand that you've been thoroughly brainwashed. I've also been to North Korea. What you just said is LITERALLY identical to what North Koreans say about us in the West. Do you understand what is happening here and to you? Travel is the best education and I think everyone in America and Canada needs to do much more of it.

@@totallyfake2852 They grew up in a different environment and also, they were supposedly randomly chosen. You don't "forcibly brainwash" people into speaking this eloquently, or else Beijing must have a magic pill going around in their schools. No, they don't view things like Americans do.......nor should we ever expect them to. At least that's what I got out of the video.

You fell for paid propaganda...congratulations!

its not the people who are bad, but the government

@@rollroll7567 propaganda and brainwashing exists, did you go to elementary school?

only Chinese people can tell you if their government is good or bad, they are not fools!

@@verlax8956 If you really believe it, that means you are also brainwashed by your gov hahaha

​@@verlax8956 that's BS n idiot that someone has never been to China or even speak Chinese but claim that they know China better than the Chinese. If you believe that 1.4B people are brainwashed, then you'd better retrieve your brain from the drain first.

I mean...Communism is known for genocide.

@@estonalexander704 communism isnt the cause of genocide, the people are the cause of genocide.

@@boyar1978 are you crazy? So you support ban of public property? Authoritarian govt? ... Do you even realise that in communism you can't inherit homes ... Hell.. you can't even open a pastry shop if you want to

@@swapnilrawat9691 what do i care what happens to my property after i die.

@@swapnilrawat9691 Actually in China I can open a pastry shop and it would be easier to do than in the USA.

Like Taiwan

You're totally right. Our democracy is a room to or savagery

Same about chinese ppl who does not like the chinese govt? lol

@@Adrian-qi5ii who for example

@@Adrian-qi5ii you Spanish huh

@@adamheckmann5132 those in Tiananmen?...huigurs?...tibetans?...ppl oppressed and murdered by the Communist party's dictatorship? I'm spaniard yes

@@Adrian-qi5ii hablas de la españa racista donde el fascismo crece como nunca?

They don't even know what is democracy and the June 4th movement.

NO, most of people know what is the June 4th movement,

@@torreswong3555 Almost everyone know it, so what are you talking about???

You don't have you be in the West to have democracy!!!

@@jakelaw9768 Very true. You do, however, need to be allowed to participate in politics in any shape or form, regardless of your political views, before you can call a country "democratic".

Healthcare and education are very cheap, comparable to Europe. Much of non-eastern Europe is democratic socialist while China is authoritarian socialist. Living conditions (adjusted for China's 30 years of developmental delays from before 1979) are not that different. If all of the West Roman Empire had continued being unified, Europe would be rather similar to China today.

I disagree with the notion that liberal democracy is primarily a phenomenon of only one country. It is a type of government. Liberal democracy is the most common form of government in the world. From Japan to Ghana, from Chile to Begium, there are reasons for its success: -Being able to criticize the government through assembly and speech serve as a check on its power. -A free press does a similar thing by keeping governments (and each other) accountable -A constitution that limits the role of the government in order for it not to become abusive -An opposition that can challenge the government and hold them accountable, by the possibility of wining an election -An independent judiciary that applies the laws equally to all people, even government officials In short all of these features boil down to one thing: keeping the government in line. The current Chinese government faces very few of these constraints.

But you can't say a country democratic if the people can't even criticise government

@@wiimooden that's what they say. The truth is everything states do is some form of war, economic, informational, political, etc. and interests are always prioritized. Liberal democracy leads to corporations gaining so much power than they've beaten the vast majority of the smaller businesses that used to exist in the west, have a hard time expanding around there so they pushed expansion in the former communist block and 3rd world countries. I'm in 1980s with this, they couldn't expand in communist countries that produced more than enough for themselves so around 1990 they sabotaged, and pushed into revolutions through corrupt ways. They also kept doing this in the meantime with communist dictators from 3rd world so that they expand there too. In return, all these countries can't develop themselves because everyone is working abroad or barely living, no one has money to invest and sell abroad, that means more power for western currencies, cheap labour and possiblity for resource extraction contracts. You can see western states' interests and justifications for NATO operations if there was no agreement for the change to liberal democracy, neither peaceful ways to solve disagreements. Now that justifies how could this system expand as much but doesn't justify why wouldn't it anyway. Corporations having so much power leads to liberal democratic states not doing enough for their citizens because it opposes some interests, the press being either outright bought or if it isn't bought and it opposes interests, sabotaged, I have seen that myself in Romania. It's exactly what socialist states would do if they had as much power, but through corporations. Socialist countries don't directly restrict foreign news and ideologies because they're just evil and stupid that they don't realize people see stuff and start revolting, but rather because they're in big disadvantage in the informational war overseas so they defend at home, especially since everyone knows English, not as many know Chinese or Russian. Corporations like constitutions and the whole status quo this way because it suits their interests. Since the state doesn't dominate and its power is spread so much, parties in power over a liberal democratic state must cooperate with many corporations and bureaucrats that even those political opponents they never agreed with DID cooperate, because it's in everyone's interest to do so. Although there are differences between parties, the electoral format can be in some citizens' interests, in the grand scheme of things elections don't really change anything. If they did, you would imagine corporations and bureaucrats opposing and putting pressure to weaken the state. About the independent judiciary, you only need enough power and you'll be immune, plus, they don't make/adopt the laws, other organs do. I think that justifies why people wouldn't choose liberal democracy but are rather kept unaware of how much this system works against them. Despite big interests that work against people in both systems, if they could choose one, for more economic prosperity people would choose socialism. Democracy in the sense of "demos" + "cratos", people having the power, it cannot exist until we people will be so much evolved than the ones having power collectively would stop prioritizing their own interests and instead everyone's interests. That won't happen soon.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Well some of the interviewees said that they can

do they see the people in the video?? thats how most Chinese young people look alike. do they look like they are in the 80s and under poverty to them??? I love that girl's short hair btw

Roses Blue bro, you misunderstood him or her.

well, you have to know that some people just don't care, because china bad or good does not bother them at all. they don't want to save any budget for a truth.

Rick R yes i know. Today i fly back to China, a foreigner ask me a question seriously, can i take picture or video in China? I don't know why he have such idea. I told him, you should change your Samsung to HUAWEI for better image.

Westerns aren't really flexible in their opinions, just listen to their so called debates.

Moon Jae-in and Obama have a pretty good track record

Q. I don't know much about Moon Jae-in because he only got to be president since 2017, I guess we'll need time to judge his performance. I do think Obama is a good president who served best interest for his country. Then it brings us the question again: If you are really satisfied with him enough then why Donald Trump? Hillary had Obama's endorsement and if she won, she'll continue the strategy Obama didn't have time to do during his presidency. So why this anti-obama authoritarian Donald Trump? Why this American president who acts like Putin and Xi, leaders of not so democratic countries?

lionstar2222 I respect that. Democracy is where western culture comes from and what made them who they are. I understand their pride in democracy. But before you sell something, you really need to make it work better than others. Freedom isn't the only thing to judge a government good or not. In fact government is everything against freedom. Without government, you don't have to pay tax, don't have to go to school, don't have to serve in army. That's called true freedom. But government's job is to get things done. To do that, you need to sacrifice a part of your freedom and that's what we are willing to do. To me, democracy in the western world is more like an excuse for nobody want to sacrifice anything to get things done. Just leave the problem there until they elect a saint to rescue them. That's so insane. I don't know if they truely understand what a horrible thing it is for Great Britain to leave EU without any plan. I really hope they can make a better democracy for the world.

Great Britain has BREXIT, France has yellow vest and China has a police state that executes political minorities.

​@@Wha2les How people feel like they have control and how much they actually have control are completely two question. Democracy can be seen as a process of selecting a leader people like, it could also be seen as a politics of neglect. With each winning, there will always be part of population that is underrepresented. More, what is democracy if there are less than half of the US population voted for the 2016 election. There is and always be will be a missing of politics for large section of population. After all, not everyone follows politics everyday. Furthermore, voter's power under a democract system is extremely limited since they can only vote for candidate once for a while without actually participate in the policy making process and have no idea of how polices are actually being made for whose interest. Following this train of thought, wouldn't a democracy become a theater that drives people into different groups cheering for their favorite leader while diminishing their personal deliberation.

what? do you have anything to further the topic? i'm very interested

@@gior987 I am not actually exactly sure what Green King is referring to, but China is a country that is built on multiple dynasties that often come from rebellions. And there is a lot of history and politics covered in Chinese middle and high school that is compulsory. The history part focuses on ancient china and modern history. I think it's because the Communist party rose out of a people's rebellion of sorts, and rebellion is just VERY Common in history (basically half the time dynasties fell to rebellions, the other half to invasions), that a lot of ground relating to overthrowing governments is covered? (I also find it interesting because China considers itself to be one continuous nation and indeed, the people are still the same people, and cultural buildings and influences from a thousand years ago is still prominent and kept in well conditions. The children also study a lot of ancient text and history in primary school that does deal with a lot of subjects related to war, loss, etc. There is never a sense of a new country, it's the same country with many different modes of government.) Also on the political aspect, there is a lot of pro-gov propaganda but it also details how the government built China and goes into a detailed analysis of how they believe China should be run and how it will be in the future (I remember the first chapter? I think covered a lot about the construction and economy of modern China and its cities and economic zones.

@@gior987所谓：“王侯将相，宁有种乎”，以及“民可载舟亦可覆舟”，以及“君视民如草芥,民视君如寇仇 民不知有国,国不知有民”

Trump didn't need to be stopped that was actually a good thing.

@@FlimFlamOG What if in 2024 Biden did the same thing and try to stop ballot counting, find votes he does have and claimed election was stolen, when every election official and court say otherwise in 2024?? Not saying Trump is wrong, but this is a slipper slope.......

I think we should not confuse the 3 separate concepts where. Freedome is not Democracy, while very closely related and also prosperity....There are many countries that are Democracy but with limited Freedome or not prosper, but still a democracies...While like the interviewees, they may feel free but is that becuase prosperity is current in play, what happens when decline and economic depression happens??? that would be interesting to have this interview in such time

@@chenglee1241 I mean I think it is kind've obvious corruption ran pretty deep when it came to biden and the election. He's been a career politician for 20 plus years and has only ever made things worse.

Homero Fierro hhhhh 谢谢你

I'm sure the people there are great. However, I wouldn't want to be caught speaking out against their government.

@@lelechim If you use Chinese social media, you can see there are people speaking against our government and they are still fine.

u can speak against the government, but not defame it by making up lies.

@@lelechim No one catches you. China is not a police country at all， No one is afraid of the government.If you fiercely oppose the government on social media, your posts will be deleted，thats all. Only actual actions against the government will be caught, but this is the same in any country

That's very objective. I still want and Add a few of my arrogant opinions. China is a pride nation with A long history, which includes great achievements and abundant of experience. Most Chinese tends to understand the western concept based on traditional concepts, which means what democracy means to Chinese is no exactly the same as the western. Chinese tends leave the professional jobs ,including politics ,to the professors. The professors should be responsible for the job as well as to anyone who gives him the power. So not everyone want to make difference to the formation of the politics. Thus Chinese focus more on their personel freedom instead of governors' policies.

too much democracy has always been a stumbling block to progress. For example, my country Philippines. Past generations were deceived by the communists to overthrow the President. after he was overthrown, they elected a housewife as a President and "restored" democracy. Since then, the people have become less disciplined, the government officials has many mentalities which deprived the country to develop, many citizens are not obeying the law, student in universities were recruited freely by leftist organizations because you know "democracy to choose", too many organizations demanding for their rights on everything, media openly support anti-government plots and terrorists, political enemies openly support destabilization plots etc. Democracy created many many problems in the Philippines. This fake democracy has given corrupt politicians to bribe, corrupt people's money, kill their enemies, cheat election, silence anyone who will go against their families etc etc. The current president with "foul mouth" and "authoritarian-style" leadership was the result of people's frustrations to the Liberal government's too much democracy that hindered development. China's government is fine because their country is united through the government, there's no drama. they take an action immediately.

@@randomly_random_0 Well said!

Your point is very interesting. The Chinese government has shortcomings and has done a lot of good. Too much concentration of power leads to a lot of corruption in the government . But In my thirty years of life, life has been getting better. Things are always going to get better.

@@randomly_random_0 Aquino didn't get elected, she lost the election. She was made the president because it was handgiven to her by the americans.

As a chinese now living in nanjing city，been through the so-called lockdown。I feel much safer in China。everyone wear mask，care for each other。We follow the gov instruction to fight Covid_19 as a community。We constrain ourself but free the whole community。That's the concept of freedom most chinese share。Thank you

Yes Chinese troll

Bonney Dahlquist look at you pathetic boy,do you feel shameful for your ignorance？

@Erwin Lii China uncensored is one of the most disgusting channels from my stand

@@bonneydahlquist1857 yes, so you are the perfect production of “democracy ”and “free free thinking ”---- all you can do is ignore others well-built comments and speak out your stereotypes

@@zhao9828 hello 30 cent army

Yash Rajput, true.

Words getting different meanings because arrogant ignorant assuming the meaning of it.

That’s why definitions are important. People can’t just make up their own definition of democracy. That is insane.

Democracy just means majority rules, not necessarily freedom, it could sometimes even lead to dictatorship. But many common ppl are too shallow to grab the concept and have an emotion- based definition of it (good or bad).

It’s true and even within democracy it is ambiguous. The US isn’t a true democracy. We are a republic like the ancient romans were. The people vote senators to vote on laws on behalf of you. True democracy in its basic ideal form is YOU having the absolute power to vote for the law itself. Not having a senator/congressman vote for you by proxy.

Don't forget, if you began destroying things then police could smack the hell outta you. Things are same everywhere, protest happens due to the government failure

@@wolverine9377 But in china you cant protest when government fails like in sanghai they locked people to suffer or in xinjiang when government destroys mosque or put people in concentration camps. If you dare either police will brutally crush you or else another tiananmen square awaits.

@@ritikanubhav It's same everywhere Haven't you heard of Hindu Muslim clash in your country. Minorities will always suffer. Democracy literally means rule of majority. Look at usa, how's black people suffering. Police will shoot down them in second without hesitation.

Tiannmen square massacre back in 1989 and now uyghur muslim killings and labour camps in xian Jiang region .. how long will Chinese people bow down to the oppressive CCP who have taken away their freedom of speech and kept the Chinese population in a bubble ..

In China it's okay to point out the government's wrong doings and they are highly responsive & efficient to make things right.

Your a idiot

@@bonneydahlquist1857 "you're!" So who is the idiot?

​@@bonneydahlquist1857 So you don't think people should listen to different perspectives because you dont trust them to make decisions on their own. Seems pretty brain washed to me.

Bonney Dahlquist brainwashed ????

@@bonneydahlquist1857 You must be brainwashed. You are not telling your real mind.

Thank you!

If you can read Chinese, you know that we abuse our government on our social media Who told you we would be censored by the government? We know the world and you don't know China

Are you wumao?

@@hexyko4850 if you are referring to me, no. I am a Singaporean, and a major CCP-critic even. It will be rather generous of them to give me even a cent!

I hope the reason that they wouldn’t listen the explanation is arrogance but not stupidity.

Exactly! We must leave each other be. But, unlike its people CCP sure loves to horass other countries sich as mongol, tibet,taiwan and so on. Geez ive kost count

@@YSH669 every Chinese will tell you that Tibet and Taiwan are not countries, they are part of China. As for mongolia, it's a independent country, but inner mongolia is part of China either. Making sure of your own government's standpoint about that before you harass us like an idiot.

@@user-bk5zb6sn9w Ok, lets put aside mongol for a moment. But not acknowledging Tibet and especially Taiwan as countries?? Now thats what I call brainwash and horrassment. Free Tibet, Taiwan no.1 your ass and please just leave countries and people that does "not" want to be part of China(I mean CCP to be exact)

@@YSH669 About the issue of Taiwan and tibet, I have more respect for what your government says than for an idiot's personal opinion! Btw, which country do you come from?

@@user-bk5zb6sn9w Claiming to respect Taiwan and Tibet while not accepting them as country(Taiwan) and supressing their identiy by force(Tibet). It seems comedy is part of everyday life in CCP.

It's hard to articulate what's inherently ingrained into a person. It's also very easy to take for granted as I see a lot of young kids do theses days. Yes I'm talking about the left.

This is what they want you to think.

that's not really surprising

I think the translation makes everyone sound much more sophisticated than they are..

Actually this interview took place in Beijing where is full of well-educated people from the whole China. The average Chinese people still have little understanding about politics and limited education level. Asian boss likes to interview in Beijing & Shanghai, these two cities is where all the elites gather. So it might appears to be that the Chinese people sounds better than you imagined, but honestly that's because they're the top people of China.😂

Asia has been setting trends for the past decade. It's awesome.

exactly. asians fashion is awesome

I kinda want to buy an eyeglass chain because of her 🤣

@@emilymangiaracina54 Yeah, it just look more practical when you need to "take them off" without putting them away.

@@gilnahnu but not sub indians HAHAHA

Same.

vince3214 Same here

Living in a crowded house won't feel happy

European and American politics can only be called Western democracy, and they are not qualified to represent democracy. China's democratic approach gives priority to ensuring the interests of most people, and then tries to satisfy the interests of a small number of people. Western democracy, which is boasted by the European and American media, does not guarantee the interests of most people, nor guarantees the interests of a small number of people, only guarantee the interests of the rich people :> and ,most westerner was brainwashed to believe they are better than Chinese.

And what are your chances of being one of the 0.001% of mainland Chinese who benefit from the newfound wealth. You make it sound like some new utopia has developed for 1.3 billion, when you know that's simply not true.

lol u might have almost got tea shop scammed

please google "beijing tea shop scam"

@@dont_trust_any1_even_ur_waifu Please come to China.Use your own eyes and brain to see the fact.

梅壮志 i have friends that have been victims of this in china.

@@dont_trust_any1_even_ur_waifu But I think the setting of camara provides more safe environment.It's not used to spy.We use it to avoid some thefts.

Dumdum we only have one party but tons of candidates. 😓

@@yingqisheng6950 that's what I said. 1 party dumdum

In the Chinese system we vote for "people's representatives" who work at local government, these representatives elects higher representatives who work in the national congress. Although it's not democratic enough, I fail to see how "voting for 1 out of 2 shitty persons from 2 different parties every 4 years" is a superior system. Does it actually solve problems in your daily lives? Also a constant switch of parties disrupt important policy. Even in the matter of trying to undermine Chinese economy, Obama tried to create a TPP which could achieve that, but Trump immediately dismantled it. If I were to design a political system for the US, I will not allow such U-turn to happen.

@Brett Hou what do you mean most people like it? Are you allowed to criticize your government in China? If you want big change in your political world, is it possible to do that in China? Are you allowed to protest? Does china recognize Taiwan as an independent nation? Can you use RU-vid in China? Admit it, China has very limited interest in its people to become democratic.

@Brett Hou 1. What happened at Tiananmen Square? That's some Chinese propaganda for you. 2. Taiwan declared its independence 1947 But China does not recognize it. 3. What happened to all Muslim Chinese people in Tibet? Hm? I have noticed a pretty large amounts of labor camps there. 4. You are not allowed to criticize the government via protest 5. China is gaining illegal influence in Hong kong 6. China supports actively the economic sanction against india 7. China is not socialist, its a free market and runs on state Capitalism 8. Why isnt China not involving in the discuss to limit nuclear bombs? 7.

Surely you must be joking…

i can attest to this. i’m mixed and went to china for elementary school and i agree social harmony is taught and encouraged from a young age. westerners can see this in a certain way but in general chinese people have no problem with the government because of this. i’ll never understand why people not from china are so bothered when the people themselves aren’t. i think western media just likes having a scapegoat so they don’t feel the need to scrutinize their own issues

The last few decades have been a huge success for China in how they improved the quality of life for their citizens, and a one party system probably made that smoother and faster than a traditional democracy. However that doesn't mean that the approach is strictly better or without faults. Freedom of speech, freedom of press, transparency, and the power for citizens to provide checks and balances against the government were created for a reason, to protect against inevitable mistakes by those in power as seen throughout world history. You could argue that suddenly allowing these freedoms won't change the lives of most citizens in China, and that's probably true, but it might have helped avoid the suffering of the cultural revolution or future tragedies which often will happen when mistakes are buried where nobody can find and talk about them.

@@sampam123 Western individualism indeed has issues as can be seen with American noncompliance among our more far-Right citizens. However, Eastern Collectivism is not the answer. This mentality focuses on the greater good, which means that human beings are not free to question the status quo nor form their own opinion. Education is about rote memorization, not critical thinking. Subsequently, there is little capacity for innovative thinking, which is why China has to copy everything. Students and workers are known to lack basic common sense, and there is a blind eye to things like Animal Rights just because Mao said we shouldn’t have compassion for them. Ultimately, collectivism creates a society of joyless automatons that view other people as merely parts of a machine rather than human beings.

@@heyjerry2511 the one-party system is an absolute joke and is wholly corrupt. Some students make a joke about Winnie the Pooh, so they ban it from the country. What kind of childish government does that, it’s as if you put a heavily-bullied 12-year-old in charge.

indians have freedom,they have the freedom of pooing anywhere they wish to

though i do feel like this channel is putting people in a hard place. Political opinions in general is a sensitive topic in China and we all know what happens when u criticize the government

@@jerrysun0667 You just can't organize protests or anything that destabilizes social order. If you comment with your friends about recent events the police are not going to break your door down. Seriously, have you seen all the people yelling on Weibo about literally everything? There's a reason we call it "the garbage dump of the internet." It's no less chaotic than Twitter is.

Jai sri ram

@@jerrysun0667 In fact, this is just your guess based on the lies of the Western media. Modern China is not what you said. These interviewees are not fools. They know how to protect themselves. They dare to say that because they will not be threatened.

Flo ㅇㅈㅇ I went there too and it wasn’t different from California.

My ancestors visited Nanking and left without Naking ahaahahaha

Now some Western countries regard democracy as a religion. It is like Catholicism and Islam. They all think that they represent God. Others are infidels. It is ridiculous that the democratic model that does not conform to the West is undemocratic. Some countries in the West promote daily respect for the diversity of the world, but they are obliterating the diversity of the world.

Flo ㅇㅈㅇ Thank you. You are the type of westerner I can deal with.

Thank you

Tell this to the Shanghai people lol

@@yutyrannus8154 You mean the people being forced to stay at home for months on end? Yeah, fair point. But on the other hand, as they said, they don't mind. So I don't really know what to think. Maybe they see the value of a less restrictive government more, now.

I think it’s true, America is also pretty isolated in another way than China, because a lot of people there only know a lot about America, even their education system focusses primarily on America itself.

@@redhidinghood9337 yeah why are female nipples sexualised while male ones arent, there is no reason its unfair

@@willl237 Maybe because they don't serve the same purpose ? It's not nipples alone, it's breasts, a fundamental component of the concept of motherhood and reproduction, both being part of what is attractive to males. Male nipples are not specially attractive to females, so there's no point hiding them in public.

As Chinese, I am often annoyed by American arrogance and their biased view of the world.

@@amirboutabaa9028 it is a social construct, there is nothing inherently attractive about female breasts society has just programmed us to be that way.

exactly, most of them were just made comments by looking at the title.

Agree, media shapes prejudices and stereotypes, why not just see how us Chinese people think and anyone who has been to China.

​@Swolecard You are not joking? I mean, at least for the 21st century's China, this is totally nonsense.

@@larrychen4831 If you agree that media shapes prejudices and stereotypes have you ever thought to look at how the media you've watched throughout your life has influenced your prejudices and stereotypes or specifically what "democracy" means.

What do you expect from brainwashed people lol.. They see China they yell "Ouighour " "Tibet" "Chinese steal our JOB" "Cheap stuff"

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I wonder how many people said that before the civil war in china

@@thesillyseal284 Before the Chinese war people were too busy trying not to starve. "Government" and "civil rights" were not really on their minds. Most of China was starving until probably the 1980s.

@@thesillyseal284 I wonder how’s your country 100 or 1000 years ago

​@@yilin1467 The USA didn't exsist 1000 years ago. The USA is a relatively new nation, that managed to achieve superpower status within the 273 years of it's existence. 100 years ago from 2020? Well from 1900-1920 we invented the airplane, radio, Electricity appliances, and many many more. Life in america wasn't perfect, but it was far better than being embroiled in a civil war for a couple decades.

@@thesillyseal284 As a French Jew I love America and how they saved the world from the Nazi. The world without America would have already turned into chaos. We were close to it given Second World War.

Freedom to travel. Freedom to consume. Freedom to associate with literally anybody in public. These are all very basic freedoms that some countries, including US allies, do not allow, yet China does.

Happiness should not be confused with freedom.

@@augustolobo2280 Everybody has a different definition of "freedom." Holding political elections is just one ingredient, offering varying amounts of satisfaction in each country that it is applied.

@@canto_v12 There is the main problem. No, freedom is one single thing and is not relative. There's not my freedom, your freedom, there's only freedom.

@@augustolobo2280 OK, you are talking about absolute freedom. No country offers that.

I agree

absolutely agree

搞錯先後了，港台商人是怎麼把解放後的中國從農民經濟扶植起來的，對自己國家的經濟發展了解一下吧，連現在台港商人在中國經濟還是佔有很大的部分

You do realize that even a one-party leads to factions infighting until you get a dictator in charge purging all of his political opponents, pushes for more red books (jinping thoughts) and establish a cult of personality (by calling him "uncle"). In other words, having only one party produces sever consequences and abuse of power

@@gohanlopez5330 CCP's top level is the committee system, where one's leadership qualifications are generated by systematic long-term thinking, and the CCP's leadership system was regulated after the 1990s. The so-called failure of democracy in China arises more from the bottom of the system and the failure of the people's representation system, but it is not a problem of the system, but actually the low level of political participation of Chinese people, which is culturally determined, just like the culture determined that the Philippines and the US are the same system but the Philippines looks like it can never become the US.

vidsurf88 It's Edited

vidsurf88 dude，this is beijing.

most of Chinese students talk about politics privately

The media in America is politically biased and aims at being controversial. People in 'flyover country' are always portrayed as ignorant and unsophisticated. Look to the internet for more factual information about young Americans. The Constitution and Bill of Rights protect American youth in a way that they are not thinking much about roles and restrictions and the like.

@@DHKo-mk7up I am Chinese and my elder brother lives in the US, right now he is studying for his Phd in Yale. we sometimes talk about the difference between the two countries media. We both think that the US media is more biased and less informed. the ccp control people's access to youtube and some other social media, but it doesn't affect the fact that media in China is more matured, insightful and balanced. there are political propaganda like the party's media, but most Chinese knows what is truth and what is propoganda.

I live in Paris. There are +700 "no go zone" in France (confirmed by Nolan Petersen NY Times 01/15/2015). I prefer to be afraid of gvt than to live in these areas where the police do not even dare to inetervine in a so called State of law.

Thanks for providing your insights. I agree that the sense of nationalism is very strong in China and that’s why every Chinese is very proud of his or her country.

Use VPN to access website that blocked there

@@auroratan2126 I am not Chinese yet I am proud of the Chinese country, flag and military. I am a US citizen who support my troops which happen to be Chinese. I even enjoy going to the PSB station to renew documents as nothing hotter than Chinese police women. They can arrest me any day.

let's ask Uyghurs what they think, because their voice deserves to be hear too

Precisely.. if democracy has to be like what happening in Taiwan and Hong Kong, china won't have such great success. Happily living.. that is freedom

Democracy in Hong Kong is fake democracy. They are dictatorial. They destroyed those who disagreed with them.

NO Democracy is where people own power. That is why Singapore is not democratic but India is.

@@pinklove1596 Why is Singapore not democratic? Singaporeans have powers to elect their leaders.

​@@pinklove1596 Western style of "democracy" is not even true. It can not help ppl to improve their life quality at all. In India ppl are still starving and live under poor life quailty, yet in Singapore no.

Because the West and Japan are our enemies

Don't you know the modern history of China?

right...western propaganda exists and it really is prevailing.

Preach

Except you have the choice to choose your views and it is also your choice to push your agenda how you see fit to your abilities. If you have different views and choose not to act, then that is your choice. China is not really brain-washing, many folks are aware but they do not have the freedoms to act upon their in-differences to the ironfist CPC. There is a difference between being brain-washed and ignorant, and majority of people are the latter. Think about that for a moment.

The problem is we have free access to information so we can choose to believe what we want. It doesn't seem these people are entirely brainwashed, but the filtering of information definitely has an affect on their opinion, as is evident by their responses. I very much doubt they realize that there is a genocide happening within their own borders in East Turkistan, for example.

Your logic would have ground if it wasnt so moronic in reason. Yes, western propaganda exist. The citizen still have choices to voice thier concern. Now try that in China, do you see the difference? Chinese people are complacent since taking a little freedom here and there is no big deal. Whats ironic is a lot of western countries are taking freedom in subtle way. E.g the internet new laws

I'm a foreigner that has been living in North korea for more than 10 years, and I must say North Korea is an amazing place to live. Really lucky to be here

Prick Daniel What? Thats bait right? Thats gotta be bait

@@sieggehortjetztmir208 lol, simple, yet savage XD

I'm a Chinese...oopse I mean..I am a foreigner and I been living in China for more than 10 years, both in governments prisons...i mean...beginning Communism workshops...I mean...Beijing and Shanghai. And I must say...I really must or they will shoot me or imprison me for life...CHINA IS AN AMAZING PLACE! REALLY! Please, believe me...please kind foreigners or I will be shot or imprisoned!! sorry was I too spot on?

Rudolf Adler te envita They are all 3rd world nation, ppl there without any morality and education

They live much better life than you democratic Indians

They literally votes too

You're a bot right?

I agree with you... It's a tool for betterment of people.. system can be changed according to the time...

Maybe I'm just very western culturally, but I'd rather be free and live a hard life than be happy while sacrificing liberties. To me happiness

@@santaanna700 I guess you really do not know what a hard life is, while most Chinese experienced it and still remember it. for most ordinary Chinese, they have almost the same freedom as Westerners, they travel around the world, about 100million tourists per year, they do business, entertainment, sports, complain. that's enough freedom to ordinary people. if you want to play politics, you can just join the party, and play it inside the system, that's how it works.

@@pocayan3061 That hard life that Chinese people remember is from a time when China was least free though. It was in the 80s when Deng Xiaoping liberalized the economy when the standard of living drastically improved.

Antonio López de Santa Anna Your response is what I expected when someone said democracy is a tool. As a Chinese, I agree it is wrong. Democracy is not a tool, but the western political system is a tool for democracy. There are other ways to pursue democracy. When a Chinese say democracy is a tool, he means western political system, not democracy. It’s not his or her fault, because the western media confuse the two concepts all the time.

@@chtp You are right. Propaganda is their thing.

Yeah, because RU-vid is so chinese?!

@@julian7946 just my two cents. If you search in chinese youtube will start looking pretty chinese to you! Just my 2 cents :p

@g What's your point? Asian Boss isn't state run.

@Coelophysis western mainstream is not state-run , but they are big money corporate-run , who controls the state. It's pointless to say state-run or non state-run when you don't see where the real disease is. Western country elites are so good at deceiving this and many people are lazy to think, so that many people even have no clue about many disasters happened by design, for e.g. 1929 great recession, WWII. I don't even need to tell you 2008 subprime crisis. The people can have all they want ,as long as the money is controlled by a few people. China is in a completely different situation. So don't impose your ideology on China when foundimentally they are different. You can't run OS system on Windows.

3:55

Are you talking about the USA?

Poor dog, she must've eaten him

what

Poor dog must have got eaten

@@EzioAuditore-vr1oy so true

true freedom

I truly admire that lovely lady~

Also China - You can't have more than one child

And if it comes at the cost of other's happiness?

@@JJay-sb8cu Now u can have two actually and before this two child policy,that has already been used for A FEW YEARS,chinese people from the rural area are alr allowed to have two children, it's just that now the government opened it up to ALL Chinese people, regardless where they live. People complain that China has too many people so we implemented one child policy to reduce population , and now you people use this to attack us for having no freedom? So what do you want? A nuclear bomb that kills everyone so that we can now have less people and still be 'free '? READ MORE BEFORE U POST ANYTHING THANKS.

@@JN-pb7oy I've also watched the Ted Talk about a girl who said she was embarrassed to have a younger brother because people snubbed them for having 2 children. What you dont realize is you are losing your basic right as a human and people are being shamed for something that's completely normal in the rest of the world. China - we are overpopulated. Okay now every couple can have only one child China later - Holy crap. Too many old people around here. Aight we screwed up. Go ahead and have two children.. we need more youth labour

Agreed

What I can respect China for tho is that they don't play pretend and openly say their meritocratic system is better suited for them. Questioning western democracy is legitimate, however I'd say it's not as monolithic as it's often described as. American and Swiss democracy is probably as comparable as Chinese and North Korean communism

Nice.

too much sugar will kill me, but i like cake.

@@bobwong6131 lol

Build the trump wall

Beyond the wall, we just need a VPN, very easy to get.

Gerard RU-vid I do agree with you, Westerners told me that back in their countries they have to look over their shoulders Everyday in their environment. They live in stressful environment.

Sure you are, "Gerard"

Zhenyu Wang yeah, that definitely makes worse than the Americans. But your guarantee for the rest of Chinese has zero value

Gerard RU-vid I know three westerners living in Shanghai that has disappeared in the dead of the night. Three beautiful girls. Every year something like this happens and I see friends forwarding the missing person posts on wechat. So I personally don’t think China is that safe. I guess your view of China can only be as accurate as your personal experience.

EW Lim Really depends who you talk to and where they live in the States. I lived in NY, NJ and Cali all together for 30 years and I never felt unsafe or the need to look over my shoulder or known anyone who has been harmed through gun violence.

lm Chinese,she is right, we can vote, but ont normally vote, we have democracy, but only decided by CCP

Mickey Lee you got the point. the msm in the west is just a source of fake news in many occasions.

There is no censorship of media in the west. Freedom of the press is written into the USA's constitution. Whether big media corporations choose to cover events or not is irrelevant, that is not the same thing as censorship. Censorship is when the government forbids a media outlet from covering an event. Stop making excuses for the Chinese government.

@@roganmorrow The lack of nuance in distinguishing between what is considered government and private is a little naive. When you pay to restrict the ability of people to do so (FCC, courts, etc), that gives the option of using the "Freedom of the press is written into the USA's constitution" as a way to control opposition without the fear of being discovered. Different places are being covered up, but it's still the same goal.

@@berekexer56 You cannot pay to censor the media in the USA. The only way you could get the courts to "censor" the media is if they broke a law, such as committing slander. Stop trying to compare Chinese censorship to the west, it's absurd. They aren't even remotely similar.

@@roganmorrow Why all politician in US is allowed to spend huge ad dollar to attack opposition, even president Trump call it Fake News. So fake news that cause market fluctuations is good while censoring out lie is evil? it's so confusing. Pls educate me.