My HONEST Thoughts on CHINA (It's Not What You Think) 🇨🇳 中文字幕

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Published 2024-06-06
Guys, I've spent a few days in Shanghai and since not many foreigners come here, I thought I'd sum up some of my thoughts of what I think of China so far. This is just my perspective as a Canadian tourist visiting in 2024. Let me know what you think about what I said, or if you've also been to China, drop your thoughts below.

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All Comments (21)
  • @kittyhello476
    So far. This Youtuber has become my favourite YouTuber. He showed everyone a real China. And sincerely and objectively evaluate the real China. I went to Asia last year. I stayed in Tokyo for 2 weeks. Then stayed in China for a month and a half. I don't even want to leave China. Fortunately, the summer vacation is about to begin. Me and my kids will visit to China again in July 🥹
  • @M.A.D.756
    This is what scares the Western governments, people here may ask why people in China are happier than we are.
  • @SoCal760
    I just returned from a trip to China. The most liberating thing I found was the freedom to walk ANYWHERE at ANYTIME, without fear.

    You can’t appreciate this feeling of freedom until you’ve experienced it
  • @sbrgm
    I've lived there for 3 years, the best time in my life!!! China is the best country!!! And it gets even better, if you start learning Chinese. Then they get really excited. And they are so fast to help you...
  • @klchai7884
    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.
    https://www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU
  • @MaxPower-tw8yk
    I'm from the U.S , moved to Shanghai years ago .Best decision I ever made. U.S and China are night and day now. And china is still developing and improving whilst the U.S is collapsing
  • @PopdjksFoijsk
    Haha, as a Chinese Shenzhen native, I feel the need to answer questions about cameras. China is one of the safest countries in the world, thanks to decades of public security management and the improvement of people's quality. The cameras that can be seen everywhere are not used to monitor everyone. You can think of it as a time-lapse photography and evidence collection tool. For example, there are cameras everywhere on the road. When a car accident occurs, the traffic police can make a preliminary determination based on the dashcams of both parties, and then call up the roadside cameras to check the specific circumstances when the car accident occurred. Secondly, when someone's wallet/valuables are stolen or lost, the police can use the cameras to determine the movements of criminals and suspects, and then arrest them, and then return the victim's property or lost items. Simply put, if you have not committed a crime, attacked or hurt others, you can ignore these cameras, including the police and security personnel on the roadside, and then live your life as you please and do what you like.
  • @roger-rn8sv
    Shanghai looks like Europe without the mess of Europe
  • @SWan-zr8mw
    "It is normal to be a good person" - this sums up China pretty well lol, thanks man for the video
  • @wayne7198
    Agree with you. If you are not doing anything wrong, why are you worried about the cameras? The cameras are on the streets, in which what privacy one should expect for? Walking safely on the streets are the utmost important thing. A functional government should guarantee the public safety.
  • @user-gc5cy5js5z
    You are very objective, and I would like to add that based on my understanding of surveillance cameras, most recordings will be deleted in about a week. If you don't do this, it's hard to imagine how many hard drives are needed to store so much video data. If you lose something, within a week, the police can rely on checking the recordings captured by surveillance cameras to find who passed by that location and took away the lost item.
    To be honest, all Chinese people don't care about surveillance cameras in public places, and safety is of course the top priority. Another reason is that everyone believes that privacy is not necessary in public places, but if you shoot videos in private places, they will feel offended.
    Another thing that many people overlook is that the Chinese people have a very high level of trust in the government. If a natural disaster occurs in a certain area, soldiers will sacrifice their lives to save the people. A society with almost no drugs relies on the police sacrificing their lives to fight against drug traffickers. The government's support and assistance to the poor are all remembered by the Chinese people, so they have 100% trust in the government, police, and military.
  • We've been to Shanghai, China last December. Yeah... China is so advanced. China is safe with or without cameras. It's probably due in a large part to the culture in China and other East Asian territories which places the community good above self. Cameras are required for high tech and surveillance is part of that, and why not? And cameras are essential for observation, not just for the individual safety from such thing as theft, violence, accidents, etc. but also for the community, for example, to prevent such things as an unforeseen accident, such as a stampede considering that the number of people in any one spot could just surge and create a stampede or something. However, with cameras, you can be assured that you are like 100% safe that even an occasional drunkard can't get away with any crimes, petty or otherwise. And, why not? All the negative and false narratives in regard to cameras, etc., for example, are due to hypocrisy, jealousy, etc., and well, just blatant racism (but for racism, at least, the racists should not be inferior). London, Britain has the highest number of CCTVs per capita, and yet the darn place is rife with crimes, the homeless, etc. And, OMG, the Brits, the pariah politicians, journalists, etc. want to lecture other people on freedom, safety, ethics, human rights, blah blah blah... they should take care of themselves first. Welcome to the future! This is true and real freedom. OMG! Yes, I agree with you that it would take at least 20 years for any Western city to develop to what Shanghai is today and by which time, Shanghai would have developed even further but the Western politicians and their pariah media keep peddling fake news and disinformation, misinformation and false narratives of China. Enjoy!
  • @ALWH1314
    My parents are Shanghainese but I’ve never being there. Each time I watch a video showing my motherland brings warm emotion to my heart. Thank you for the kind words. I’m proud of my Shanghai heritage and inspire by this resilient great city. Regards
  • @ymartin0101
    None of those foreign brands pose a national security threat to China, amazing!
  • @shirmen49
    The camera is not meant to spy on you, it is meant to record. If anything bad happened, the police would be able to get a handle on the situation quickly, especially if it's an extremely busy place
  • @Mark-hr9rm
    I now live in China , Dali....everything you say is spot on ..Peace and JaYoe
  • @MADDENCN
    The funny part is, western people never travel to asia or china but they talk like they know.. 😅
  • @onionlondon
    All the European buildings you have seen was not European inspired, they were actually all built by the European when they colonized the so called concession part of Shanghai in the first half of 19th century. Shanghai wants to preserve well that part of history on the Bund, but also at the same time, to showcase China is already stepping proudly into the future on the other side of the river, the Pudong financial district.
  • @Lexi82-ce9uc
    There’s no perfect country,but we are more open than most western media reports ,thanks for sharing your true feelings !I think the 144-hour visa-free policy is really visionary 👀👀❤