How China Became So Powerful

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Published 2021-01-28
It's a story of a certain type of capitalism
If you want to learn more, check out this article from the WEF bit.ly/39s92kl or for a deeper dive, the full book was published yesterday (I've read it. it's good!): amzn.to/3ordkwC
This video is a story about China, past to present. But in telling the story of the Rise of China (and Asia generally), it's impossible to not talk about fundamental lessons that have emerged. In this video I try to tell the story but then also look back and at the result of it all. To examine the data and see what effects our global economic system has had on people and the planet. The data is clear that our model of capitalism has some major winners. But it also produces some important losers, those who have lost out or have been damaged by these trends. One major loser of the this system is the future generations of people who will live on a planet with more extreme and volatile weather and ocean patterns. All of this calls for a rethinking of our capitalism. Not to scrap it all together, but to upgrade it to a version that benefits all of society and doesn't threaten our planet and future generations.
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All Comments (21)
  • @dimasrahardja
    "If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." — Chinese Proverb
  • @randomgoose3704
    Title: How China became powerful Conclusion: Corporations should take care of environment.
  • @davidjeong2080
    Regarding your chart on China"s increase in CO2 emissions, this is not entirely due to the Chinese population. When the industrialized West moved its production and factories to China, it also moved the energy requirements, CO2 emissions, industrial waste and other industrial pollutions. So these China increases in CO2 emissions is really the result of moving factories from one country to another.
  • I read the book that he promoted. It advocates for cooperations getting to directly make decisions about international politics instead of nation states. That seems pretty negative. Ngl.
  • @senorPFox
    somehow I don't think that Walmart, Davos, and corporate social responsibility is going to be the vanguard of a clean and equitable society ....
  • @ErenMortel
    Remember, fellas: you are NOT immune to propaganda
  • @aeway_
    the fact that he hasn't taken this down is incredibly worrying
  • @JackZhang1097
    The Mao era was not completely meaningless. It had an industrial base and laid the foundation for future development. There is a story in China, when you are hungry, you eat a cake, but you still feel hungry, when you eat the third cake, you already feel full, but you can not say that the first cake is not effective
  • mans talking about social corporate responsibility and less about economic policies leading to china's boom
  • @SupErS0lga99
    “Free market” well today the whole gamestop, amc stock market movement happened. Its a free market when billionaires dont lose money the second they do we cant buy stock. $AMC
  • @user-ic3my2mk3r
    As a pure Chinese, this video literally made me vomit, completely immersed in the self-righteous Western worldview full of prejudice and prejudice😅
  • This video has so much but SO MUCH incomplete or outright false information.
  • @oracle8192
    Seriously? Claiming to be so anti establishment then partnering with and shilling for the WEF? Jesus.
  • @Krochlikmiov
    "Lets rely on magnanimous billionaire CEOs to think about the little guys and let us ween off their potential profits" Yeah you're a bit too optimistic if you think CEOs give ANY shits about anything past their own lifetime.
  • @amihart9269
    this is PragerU style retelling of history lmao
  • @grinffi
    "Capitalism is good, actually; also this was paid for by the biggest corporations profiting from capitalism" - Is this what Journalism looks like to you?
  • @gg3675
    I just think it's weird how China's successes are "because of capitalism" and their failures are "because of communism." The industrialization that led to disastrous effects in the earlier modern history of the USSR or China also led to disastrous effects in the US and Europe when it was first implemented. The fall of communism practically destroyed Russia while the retention of communism propelled China. I'm not even saying this as an advocate of China's policies. It's just like the Western media has to try its hardest to avoid the obvious: China's economic plan worked.
  • @jo-dx5ri
    I am a Chinese. In terms of carbon emissions, China is indeed the country with the highest carbon emissions, which is mainly related to China's large population, growing industry and automobile emissions. The most important thing is that China still finds China and needs emissions for development. But when it comes to per capita carbon emissions, China is the seventh
  • Every time china's CO2 emissions are mentioned, and the fact they have half the emissions per capita of the US is omitted, I cringe.