China’s Tariff Response Chaos Homemade Weapons Explode Around Country - Episode #257
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Hello and welcome to The China Show, The Real China Show, episode 257. That is the area code of?

Canadian brothers and sisters in Vancouver, beautiful city. Shout out to you guys. If you're watching from Vancouver, let us know in chat or in the comments. Shout out to you. We got a big show today. Massive. We should just saunter right into it with what's new. So this is where we talk about what's new specifically with regards to China.

Okay, and there are a couple of things we have to cover. First of all, we're going to show you something that's not new. No, that's why it's in What's New. This is a reminder, and it's jogged my memory. Yes. Because I've been seeing ads here in America, actually everywhere, just sneaking into the weirdest of places. People are talking about they're going to put ads in the sky and stuff, and I'm like, can we reign this in? Sure.

So I just wanted to remember what dystopia looks like. Yes. In China, there are these machines that came out about two or three years ago. These are toilet paper dispensers. And by the way, not in the countryside. This is like in top two. This is in Guangzhou. Yes. Tier one city. Yeah.

In the bathrooms. Yeah, newsflash, there is no free toilet paper in any bathrooms in China. So to know what dystopia looks like is China goes, well, there is no free toilet paper. You got to bring your own little packets of tissues everywhere you go because people will just steal it. So what they do is they make you scan your personal information in. So you use your WeChat. You scan the QR code. Which is connected to your bank account and everything. Mm-hmm.

You scan that in and they make you watch a 30-second ad for one square of toilet paper. And you can do repeat ads. Okay. I mean, repeat viewings. Yes. So you get one square. So it's about a minute and a half to get three squares of toilet paper. Yeah, so you don't have to pay for it, by the way, just in case you're wondering. But you scan the QR code, you watch an ad, and then it dispenses something. I just wanted to warn us.

as a people global citizens here please don't do this can we look at china as an example of what not to do yes please thank you that would be terrible okay cool i wanted to give you a challenge by the way oh yeah i want how much would i have to pay and i'm being serious how much would i have to pay you to do what this dude did and stay here and if you're not if you're if you're listening there's a picture of

of a blanket a pack of cigarettes a badminton racket a little lunch pail and a waifu pillow in a disgusting filthy public restroom which this is what the public restrooms look like in china this has got to be something weird um to do this i know what that smells like i don't know the only way i could ever do this is if i was like blind drunk or something because okay i let you can get drunk first but like how how much would you do it for you get you got to stay one full night

And it's open to everyone else. You'd have to take the engine out of my Trans Am for me so I could work on it and then put it back in for me.

Well, what? How does that... Oh, that's like a fee? That's the fee? Yes, because you can't really put a price on that because it's so much effort. Nobody would ever want to do it. That's true. No, you can't even pay people to do that. No, we don't have a hoist either. Exactly. Okay, so I'd have to do major engine work for you. Which I know you suck at, so maybe just take it out. Just take it out. Hire people to take it out. Okay. So I hire people to take your engine out and then you'll stay in there. You would actually do that? Sure, but I have to be drunk. That's...

That's shocking. I mean, you could die of disease. I mean, look, I'm not going to make a habit of staying there. Anyway, let's move on because this is just ridiculous. I don't even know where you found this. Okay, guys, please pay attention. There's a car, a white car here. And we want to ask all of you, because this is a bit of an interactive thing. In the live chat or in the comments, if you're watching this later, I'd like you to put down what you think...

So who you think is driving and what you think is happening here. Okay, so I'll get us out of here so we can actually see. I'll read some of the entries. Okay. So when he hits, he or she hits the third barrier. Yes. I want you to pause it. I will. So there's a car, if you're listening, there's a car getting out of control. It's headed towards some of these barriers on the side of the road. It's going pretty slowly. It's probably going 10 miles an hour. Yeah. And it rams into the barrier. Yeah, hits one barrier. It runs over like a little kind of speed bump things.

And it hits and really just... Pause here. You can keep going a little bit. Crashes and it knocks over... Knocked over the little fence. So the car then finally hits something and comes to a stop. Smashes into another car. Pause it there. We want to know why did this happen? That's my question. Why did this happen? Yeah, exactly. So there's a guy running to come and open the door. Okay.

This is kind of a bollard report. It should have been a bollard report, yeah. Okay, so it says self-driving. A kid? A cop? Three-year-old driving. Autopilot. Chinese EV autopilot. That seems to be a pervasive one. I mean, that would make sense to me. Self-driving, self-driving, self-driving. That would honestly be my guess. That'd be your guess. Let's take a look. Heart attack, drunk. Okay, let's take a look. You ready? All right. Get out of there.

It was a dog. It was a dog. It was a little dog. A little dog was driving.

somehow it got it out of park. It was probably the controls are probably up here, you know, not like one of those shifter things. You know, you know what? A lot of new modern cars have got those like electric parking. Yes. Yes. You know, and you're like, and it was probably an automatic, you know, an automatic, it'll actually drive at about five or 10 miles an hour. Exactly. Or in neutral or something. And he probably just put his paw on it and went off. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you guys saw that coming, but I certainly didn't. If you did get that right. Um,

or you're impressed by this tactic, please click like on the stream. Help us get more eyes on it. Thank you very much. It's really, really funny. Hang on a second. Guns are not allowed in China. You're absolutely right. Now, there are a lot of illegal guns in the border regions, the drug areas. By the way, you have no idea how much drug trade there is in China. Everyone thinks it's like North Korea or something.

By the way, there's a lot of North Korea too, but they think it's like some sort of Puritan society with tons of druggies. We saw it everywhere. That's the propaganda that only America can have drug addicts. You are true. Now, this is a man that just really wants to be a law enforcement. You know those people that LARP as cops or whatever? Yeah, exactly. They were like...

Federal boobie inspector shirt. Something like that. Well, let's see what happens. What is this? Okay, so it's a... Is that a fake gun? Oh, it's a cigarette. It's a cigarette dispenser with a lighter. With a lighter built into it. I gotta say, that's kind of cool. Pretty cool. I mean, pretty lame. It's cool, though. But it's cool. Cool for an old man. It's kind of like a nice trick, but the problem with a trick like that is you can get killed. Yeah, it's just

Imagine you pull that out at a restaurant and there's a cop there or an overzealous Texan or something. And you're just like... I'll tell you what, China better never invade the US because of overzealous Texans. I agree. You better believe you're in for a big, big problem. When you spend your entire life waiting for a situation. Yes, yes. And that situation arises. You want to face an American prepper, China? I dare you.

Seriously, they've got tons of tinned food to throw at you. Yes. Probably bazookas and stuff. True, true. They have treasure troves. Let's move on. What's going on? This is a Dongbei meal. Pause that real quick. I want you to just examine this.

Now, I actually did have this vegetable. I had it in a Vietnamese restaurant, weirdly enough. Weirdly enough, this is in northern China, but they're basically, the dishes they have of real food are very sparse. So they're surrounded with this, and you're basically filling up on this stringy vegetable, which is just insane, the amount that's there. Yeah, it's like eating a massive salad, I guess.

Kind of, yeah. Interesting. I don't know how to explain it. It's like stringy. Yeah. And kind of like crispy with water. It looks like the garnish, but it's actually the main meal. Yeah, because look at it. There's barely anything on the table. It's kind of interesting. That guy's kind of like Chinese ox. Oh, jump scares. Pause this. Pause this.

Can you go to the beginning of that clip? I mean, sure. I'm just curious. This is disturbing because of what we're... We're actually going to talk about kidnapping. Yeah, yeah. This is not, though. No, I want you guys to guess what this is because we don't know. Yeah, we actually don't know. We actually legitimately don't know. This scares the absolute hell out of me. Look, I mean, it looks like it's in a kindergarten or something. It's probably a little play. That's what makes this worse. Because, look, they've got all the toys in the background. So this is probably they're doing a play or...

you know, some, this is, you know, ancient Chinese trash bag opera. Yeah. I was about to say, you know, my favorite play was when I was a kid, we did, uh, actually we did a, uh, rock and roll version of, was it, uh,

grease or something when i was in kindergarten and we had to paint our own guitars and whatever okay but it was like dinosaurs like we had to be dinosaurs in grease okay my second favorite was garbage bag kids you take kids and you put them in garbage bags and then put masks on what the hell is this it's it's kind of crazy is it like guess the kid game like oh is this mine

I don't know. When you pick up your kids. Maybe it's like, hey, though, you know, like, or something like that. Guys, all right. We just thought we'd fill you in with a couple of interesting things, but now we've got to get into something a bit serious. I, again, would like the audience to guess. Here's a little bridge. Let's take a look at this bridge behind us, and please guess when this bridge was constructed. Okay? I'll wait for some chat. Okay. I just have some, there's some very cursed comments, like,

It's trash day, and in China, you know, they get rid of little girls. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. It's bad. No, it's bad. No, no, no, no. It is sad what happens to little girls in China, though. They get aborted. Yeah, for sure, for sure. All right, guys, please take a look at this bridge. When do you think it was constructed? Was it, you know... 2024, 2020, last Tuesday, 2010, one month, last year, 50 years ago, 2015.

I mean... 1976. Come on, guys. This is pretty bad. Look at it. It's cracking apart. That's shocking. Can you guys be realistic in your guess? Yeah, yeah. Come on. Let's be realistic here. I'm going to pause it here. I'm going to guess 50s. I'm going to guess 50s. It looks like China 50s construction. Yeah. See how it's like falling apart? You can see the rebar in there. It's really falling apart. 80s. 80s is more realistic. Yeah. Anyway, we've got to volume up. All right. So you guys have guessed the age of this bridge. 2018. 2018.

2018. Can you prove it? Yeah. It says on the plaque. Yes, it does. You know, on that plaque right there. It says 2018. Yep, you're right. 2018. 2018, and it looks like that. The shabby condition, the absolute state of that bridge.

Look at the quality of the railing on the side of the bridge. This is probably someone's fault. But it's like this even if it's not. Come get China to do your infrastructure projects. It's really a garbage project. Yeah. Tongue-dice. Living in the future.

Yeah, so we're doing a follow-up. Last week, we told you about the tragedy in Thailand, where the only high-rise building that collapsed during the earthquake was the Chinese Belt and Road one, which had already been topped off. So the actual construction was completed. Obviously, not the sides and the glass and all the furnishings. Just to remind everyone, it was built.

to be a bragging piece for the Chinese government for the Belt and Road Initiative about how they can build earthquake-proof structures. Yes, that's part of... And it was the only one. Yeah. So we're actually going to show you here, okay? So this is Chinese propaganda, Chinese performance, you know? Very good. China's performance and China's final result. Okay. Okay.

So this is a more updated picture of what it looked like. You can see the mess of steel and concrete. And the rubber rebar. Exactly, yeah. We weren't kidding about the rebar because it turns out it wasn't very good quality. Anyway, found this as a propaganda video. We can take a quick look. Turn it down so nothing happens.

Oh yeah, that's right. So anyway, this was a propaganda video showing like how fast... This is that building. It is that building. How great the progress and how quick they can do it. China's going to develop Thailand, you know. Poor Thailand. China will come in and help. Yes, exactly. We showed you this picture last time, but this is part of it, you know. Now, there is an article bragging about this on the Chinese internet, okay?

on this official website here. And it's showing everything about this building. You can see the propaganda photos. They go in depth about how this is such an incredibly good...

building and how it is good for withstanding seismic activity. And that's one of its strong suits is that it's good at dealing with earthquakes better than what Thailand has, you know, in general. This technology is so good. It's so great. Exactly. As you can see. What do you think happens to articles like this when, you know, disaster strikes?

They're put on the news and they say, look, we found the problem. It was a corrupt, bad government policy. No, the article was just deleted. Yeah. And if you try to go to it now, luckily, somebody archived the article. That's why I could find it still. And the person who originally found the article archived it immediately, luckily, because it would have just disappeared. That's...

I recommend people usually do that. If you see something that you think is going to go away from the Chinese government, archive it. So that article that was bragging about how it's going to be much better withstanding earthquakes and so on, suddenly just disappeared because of course it was proven wrong. And that's always what happens with the Chinese propaganda is that they promise these things. Oh, we're so good at our green technology. Look at our solar panels are this or that. Everything is always like, we're so amazing. And because

Most of the time it's within the borders of China. So you don't see the failures, right? And if it does fail, they just quietly get rid of it. But now it happened abroad and it's impossible for them to cover it up, right? Yes. But what they're doing is their normal tactic. Well, they're trying. They're trying. Their normal tactic of just...

removing i'll tell you what this got massive backlash when we put it out and actually a bunch of people cover this thai people and stuff too obviously it's in thailand yeah a huge backlash from the wumao ba army trying to be like this is lie you are lying yeah you are liar yes exactly by the way we have a clearer footage of what happened i thought i'd show everybody um

I'll take the volume down, we don't need to hear it very much. But you can see it's much clearer. You can see the top of the building, it was capped off, everything's finished. And it's done, they're just putting the glass cladding and all that kind of stuff on. The actual structure of the building is finished. And it's been finished long enough for the concrete to cure and harden and all that stuff. There's no excuses. No. Alright? Because a lot of people are making excuses, but there are no excuses. And, you know, down she goes.

Bye. Yeah. It was the only high-rise in Thailand that fell. It wasn't just the only Chinese building. It was the only building, period. Yeah, the only high-rise building. You know, there's another high-rise building that was abandoned that looks worse than that in a skeletal form. Yeah, yeah. It was completed in 1991. It didn't fall down, and it was less along than this one. You know? Wow, that's great. Like I got inside. So now the interesting thing is the very next day...

Some people filmed some Chinese nationals. They hopped over the fence. They went into this area because now, listen, it's a disaster zone, right? Yeah. And by law, you're not allowed to enter the disaster zone. It's got to be investigated and cleared. Yes, and it's a danger. Yeah.

And they filmed these Chinese nationals going in and stealing files. Basically spies. Yeah. Well, I mean, they obviously worked for the company. And they mobilized people to go get stuff they shouldn't get. So they went and they grabbed all the files that were there on site, like in an office or whatever, you know,

And they put them in the back of a pickup truck and drove away. So they're basically making sure to get rid of the evidence. So these Thai dudes were like, screw that. I'm going to document this. Exactly. Some Thai journalists actually filmed them. You can see they sped away in their Hilux.

which, you know, they're not very careful about what they're doing. They're like dropping the files everywhere. Yeah. It's kind of like when people are trying to shred the documents before the IRS arrives. Yeah, exactly. No, no. Better example. What? The Houston and the Chinese embassy. Burning all the documents. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, first of all, it was illegal for them to do this because you're not allowed to enter the site.

but also trying to hide evidence like this is not a good look for China.

It's crazy how they have to knee-jerk everything because they do everything so poorly and they only react when something bad happens. Yes. Right? Like this. They didn't expect this to fall down. No. They're like, no, there won't be a big enough earthquake in Thailand where our bad building quality, where we clearly cut corners and killed people. Yes. They're murderers. Yes. The people that took the money, right, to cut corners on the concrete and the rebar and all this stuff because they found, like you said, the rebar quality was too low. To do this abroad in another country...

They're murderers. Yeah. You should be tried for murder. Well, I mean, like some of the Thai workers that were working on that building alongside with the Chinese workers and the Chinese construction people there were saying like the supports looked much smaller than they should be. They knew. Yeah. They were like even one of the Thai guys went and measured them and he was like, this is way too small. You know,

There were no safety regulations. Workers were out there in sneakers and not wearing safety harnesses and stuff. You know, the usual type thing because so many corners are cut. Anyway, they arrested four of these guys, you know. So they're in custody. And who knows what's going to happen with that. But apparently the office of the company that actually built this thing

is abandoned at the moment. No one's answering the phone. And it looks like pretty much everybody involved has run away to China. And this is tied to the Chinese government, right? Yes, as you're going to see in a minute.

And it's tied to something else, which no one seems to be talking about. But anyway, the Thai Enquirer put this out. They said, Industry Minister Akhenat Pramvan, I have no idea how to say it, expressed shock after inspecting the steel used in the collapsed building. He noted irregularities but did not provide further details. The ministry has collected six different types of steel for further inspection, mostly from one producer.

And by the way, the producer that put out the steal is a Chinese producer, of course, and it's been tied to other corrupt activities and other quality control issues where they have been falsifying what they're putting out and so on. So it's the typical thing. Maybe Thailand will have to wake up to China's influence. Yes. These countries find out way too late. I mean, China is the land of shortcuts and facades. And I mean, here it is out on display for everybody to see. And it's not within the borders of China, so they can't hide it. I just can't believe that

people uh what's it called make excuses for the chinese government when this kind of stuff happens by the way does anybody remember this yes ah serbia this is serbia the novice said um train station yeah what happened there class yeah a massive big um awning you know collapsed right and this was uh they they basically refurbished it and they built this

big new canopy, right? In Serbia. It collapsed last year, end of last year, and killed 16 people. In fact, there have been tens of thousands of people protesting in Serbia against this. It was a huge protest because Serbia now belongs to China. In fact, I just did a ranking of countries you shouldn't go to if China doesn't like you. Yes. If you said something bad. Serbia is almost at the bottom there because...

Serbia now has accepted so many projects from China that they're basically beholden to them. In fact, they have a joint police force now. That's insane. So the Chinese police are... Remember we talked about Chinese secret police stations? Yes. They just have public ones there, right? They're actually walking side by side with Serbian cops. And the Serbians are furious. They didn't want this to happen. They don't like the Chinese government. Serbians have reached out to us countless times now. They're some of the most passionate people we've met.

And they're like, I can't believe what's happening to my country. It's overtaken by China. And so these people were furious about this when this happened. That was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. Well, I mean, there's something else that you're going to have to know about this. First of all, the Chinese company refused to check stability when they just poured extra concrete. They didn't do it to the right specs. They just didn't pay attention to safety standards, which is kind of normal. But I'd like you to pay attention to something. The Chinese company, which is the China Railway International Corporation,

is a subsidiary of the China Railway Group Limited. Good find. So you know how a subsidiary works, right? You've got your main company, the China Railway Group Limited, and this is one of their under, like, you know, offshoots, basically, their subsidiary. And the Chinese government has a golden share in the Chinese Railway Group.

Absolutely. I mean, what's happened is the China Railway Group has been in charge of a lot of construction projects within China, but now they've kind of run out. So they're scrambling for projects all over the world and they're doing these BRI things. They've done stuff in Africa. Yes, of course. This is the main sort of BRI builder. So let's look at the skyscraper that collapsed in Thailand. Guess what? It was built and topped...

By the China Railway Number 10 Engineering Group, which is also a subsidiary of the China Railway Group. Is it a subsidiary or is it under supervision? Subsidiary. Oh, interesting. If you go look. So what we're dealing with here is we're dealing with the same company going around the world, two completely different parts of the world here.

Yeah, true. Europe and Asia. Killing people because their crappy construction falls. Stop trusting China to build your infrastructure. It's ridiculous. Okay? To even consider it's insane. I mean, here's the thing. If that earthquake hadn't happened...

It would have gone ahead. The building would have been good enough to stand with substandard rebar in it, substandard concrete, substandard safety measures, all that kind of stuff, right? Because corners are cut. And look, to be fair, when it comes to these projects, when it's down on paper, there's nothing wrong with the designs. Okay, there's nothing wrong with the proposals. If they say, we're going to build it to this spec and all that kind of stuff, that's all good. The problem is when you've got a Chinese company that's constructing it, shortcuts are going to happen.

And unless you're there 24-7 eagle-eyeing every single thing and not willing to take a kickback...

It's going to happen. Yeah, they're going to use Snickers bars as rebar. Yeah, exactly. You're going to have a foreman or you're going to have a manager who's taking a kickback, who puts in like substandard stuff. In China, you'll have a three-man. Yeah, exactly. You know? Yeah, totally. You lose one of the men. Yeah, that's a good way to say it. Anyway, what I'm saying is you cannot trust the quality. There's no proper quality control with Chinese construction. David has a great point here. What's that? David says it's a national security issue. Yeah. It is. And I'm not talking about America. I'm talking about any country. Yes. America's not doing BRI projects. Yeah.

if your country and let's say you're in Hungary or these countries that are courting China at the moment, Greece,

you gotta, you gotta be vocal about this because you don't want your country's infrastructure to be built where two years later it collapses and kills people. Well, that's what I was trying to say is like, if the earthquake hadn't happened, it would have been completed. You wouldn't know. Okay. And it would have had all the cladding on it. It would have looked all nice. Um, it was a government building by the way. So you would have had big parts of the Thai government in this building. You would have had a lot of people in there. It would have been packed

to the brim with visitors and office workers and who knows what else. And then when the earthquake hits, everyone would have died. I'm still having a hard time justifying how people are defending this government. I just don't get it.

Yeah. When faced with reality, right? They'd rather hide for them. The Belt and Road Initiative is this disgusting imperialism. Yes, but they put such poor quality infrastructure. It's bad imperialism. It's like the worst kind of imperialism. If you go to... It's team imperialism. Yeah, if you go around the world where there are old colonies from European colonies, you'll find old buildings that still stand. You'll find railway tracks that still work from hundreds of years ago. There's old stuff in poor countries that are still standing. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Try go in 100 years to any of these places where China set up anything. That's what I was talking to you about. I don't want to dwell, but we were talking about this the other day, like that Xiongan New District they're building, right? It's supposed to be done in like 2030-something, 2035, 2039. Yeah. Why are you building structures in there right now? Because they will rot in two or three years. Correct. You shouldn't be building anything right now in China that nobody's living in because it's not going to exist anymore. No. It literally crumbles. Yeah, it will. Yeah.

Anyway, just wanted to say that those two incidents are connected. And I don't know why more people aren't pointing this out. The fact that the train station collapsed that killed 16 people in Serbia and this Thai building collapsed, which also killed people, by the way. We don't know the full extent because we don't know the numbers. They're still actively doing rescue operations. Apparently, there's still some signs of life. I don't know. Yeah, and prayers for the people that are affected. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

It's the same. You're dealing with the same situation. So if you're going to go and employ them to do stuff in your country, you're an idiot. Agreed. Anyway, it's time for a word. Word. Just like people declutter their homes in March, it's also a great time to refresh your nutrition and daily habits. Feeling refreshed and ready starts in your gut. And the pre and probiotics in AG1 help support digestion. Mm-hmm.

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All right. What on earth are we looking at here? It's beautiful. This has been going around in China. People... It was removed, by the way. Oh, yeah. Of course it was removed. Why? You're not allowed to make fun of dear leaders in China. But you have to explain who this is. You probably don't recognize him. He's too pretty. Yes. Okay. Well, first of all, we have to explain that...

In China right now, using a beauty filter is not only a choice of 99.9% of people, it's built into every phone by default. Yes, and if you didn't use one, you would be a pariah. Yeah, be very something strange. Strange.

You know, when people take photos now, they use Meitu. It's called Meitu Xuxiu where they like fix their pictures. But it's like I said, it's built into most apps and even the phone camera itself. So they take a picture, it puts on a beauty filter. But unfortunately, in this situation, there's this statue that they built in the background of Mao Zedong, believe it or not. That's literally Mao.

And it beautified the statue alongside the people in the picture. I like how it also made their heads very tiny. Look at the grandpa's head. You know the Goombas in the real life Mario movies? Yes, that's it. The poor guy probably looks completely normal in real life. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, for a long time we've wanted to talk about this statue because it's the most absurd thing you've ever seen in your life. You know what it is? It's this...

Yeah, it's like a dude at a gym, bro, in a mirror taking a photo, but he's flexing real hard. It's Beethoven. It basically looks like Beethoven. It does. And people go wild over this statue. People go there and take photos, and it's supposed to be Mao Zedong in his youth. That's not what he looked like. No, he looks nothing like that. It's absolutely ridiculous. We have some pictures of what Mao Zedong actually looked like.

This is what he looked like. Yeah, these are real photos. Yes, these are real. We didn't manipulate them. Can you scroll back to that super quick? Yeah. So like, this is real. Yeah, and like this is when he was a bit younger. Okay, because I'm sure you all know the pictures of him like when he's kind of ate all his pork fat because that's what he used to just subsist on, his pork fat. You know, the chubby sort of like

you know, chairman. He looked better when he was like that. You know, the fat male that everyone's used to, right? Ho, ho, ho, I killed tens of millions of people. Yeah, exactly. I'm a pedophile that murdered people, but you know, here I am, that guy. But this is what he looked like when he was a bit younger, okay? Yes. Okay. Sorry, let's go back to this. How does this windswept

Beethoven-looking statue look anything like Mao in any of his incarnations. He doesn't. Doesn't look like him when he was a chubby murderer. Doesn't look like him when he was a stringy murderer. It's nothing like he ever was at all. One of the worst men to have ever lived. Correct. Yes. Okay, so we thought, well, you know.

It's kind of like what? It's kind of like if you took Steve Buscemi and you made a statue of him and it looked like the statue of David. It would. Because that is quite literally what you're seeing happen in front of your eyes. It's very true. Is reinventing the way someone looks. Yeah.

Okay. Kind of like this. Yes. We've talked about this. I just want to remind everyone how crazy the Mao cult goes in China. Because like he did no wrong, right? In China, he's like the savior of China, even though he killed like 70 million people. Yeah. Of their own people, by the way.

Yes. And on purpose, too. He killed more Chinese people than the Japanese people ever did. Oh, by leaps and bounds. Yes. He killed more people than the war ever killed. Oh, yeah. It's the worst mass murder in history. Yes. Period. Absolute terrible tyrant, yeah. And it's not just because of bad policies. He literally knew that the Chinese people would starve if they exported their grain. They exported their grain because they didn't want to look bad in front of the Soviet Union. Oh, yeah.

He's very, very well known for saying he doesn't care if half the population of China dies. Even all this, what's his famous saying? Like half of the people should starve so the other half can eat. Yes. So they made this golden statue in the middle of the countryside in China. By the way, this guy don't lie, does it? No. This is from quite a while ago. This is what, 10, 15 years ago. Something like that. But some farmers. It's a good memory. Yeah. Some farmers, they all got together. They built this massive statue of Mao. And guess what? The government told them to take it down. They had to demolish it. Why?

Because they didn't get permission and you're not allowed to do it. Actually, on the CCP report, it says because it was too ugly. Yes, that's right. It made Mao look too ugly. That's right. Because apparently you've got to make Mao look like Beethoven. You've got to make him not look like he's taking a shit. Because that's toilet Mao, let's be honest. Yeah, it is. It's huge. Yeah, it is. Anyway, do you guys remember this? This is very relevant. Yes, let me get the volume up for this. So...

A couple years ago, an eight-year-old boy got arrested for smacking a Mao statue and then filming it. This is our clip when we covered it. Okay, let's take a look. There's a statue of Chairman Mao. I support that. Me too.

Okay, wait, wait. I mean, it's funny and so effed up at the same time. Let's go back. I like how he starts like, yo, isn't that Mao Zedong? You know what I mean? He's like, yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, he got, because he's a minor, he wasn't actually put into custody, but he was reprimanded because it constitutes defamation of a national leader. Also, he will have a pockmark, a black mark for the rest of his life. His whole family is going to be very badly affected by this, unfortunately.

Okay, pause this. So this is going around. Yeah. And this appears to be retribution for the boy. I think this is probably the best retribution for that boy. Yes, and I guarantee you it's directly related to this. Because of what happens in this video, you'll see the slap, but it's oh so much better. I haven't seen this yet. You gotta see this. Okay, all right. I'll get us out of here. You're gonna want a little sound. Okay, I got some sound.

Justice for the eight-year-old boy that was arrested for slapping a Mao statue. I know, it's ridiculous, right? And then put on the news. Ah, I like that. Long live democracy. Man, whoever put this together, I want to know this person. This is good. I like where this is going. Me too. I like where this is going a lot. I have seen this. Oh, you have, okay. I put it in the media. All righty. Suspense. Come on, what's going on here? Windage?

Whoa! What happened there? That's a bit excessive. I know. I thought it was just going to be a bullet. Yeah, what happened there? Well, what I did was, because I wanted you to have some suspense. Okay. I have the making of video before this. Okay. I mean after this, sorry. You'll get to see, but watch this.

Dude, that reminds me of the word war in Neiman De Niro. I know. Can you play that? Yeah. Isn't that perfect? It's a combo. Yeah. When I saw that video, I was like, it's almost exactly the same. It's like revenge for mouth slap kid. Yes. And no you. Yes. It's like a combo. That's excellent. Wow. That's the most American thing I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll show you how it was done. All right.

So the guy, I assume it's a guy, he looks relatively burly. Hey, don't judge these days. This is very true. Judging from the arms. Okay. I know we shouldn't do that in 2025. Yeah, exactly. Judging from the arms, this guy put Tannerite. You know that for target practice?

So you use Tannerite to make a target blow up so you can actually see if you hit it from far away. All right. So he put it in. Look at how much he managed to get into the statue. Where do you even buy a statue like that? I actually don't know. Probably found it at an antique shop or something.

Okay. Yeah. And look at how much he managed to jam in there because it's hollow. Yeah. Just like Miles' head. He managed to get a lot of anorite in there. And for non-Americans, it's basically this stuff you can buy anywhere. Okay. And you can use it to make targets so you can actually see them. Oh,

Well, that explains why it exploded like that. Because I was like... I mean, when I first saw this, I was so... Pause it there. I was so excited because I was like, it's going to be fun just to shoot the mouse at you. But I hope they got the camera close enough to it to actually see it break. Yeah. And you must be a pretty good shot to shoot from that far away. But holy crap, I didn't expect such an explosion. Yeah. I thought he was using like an explosive round or something. But now it makes total sense. Yes. That's epic. I thought that was great revenge for mouse slap boy. I know you.

It's like it's just the ground. It's insane. God bless America. Oh, absolutely. God bless America. Absolutely. Fantastic. Yep. And finally, revenge for the little boy who was literally handcuffed and berated for slapping a statue. Yes. And thank you for the people that put me onto this video. It's the greatest thing I've seen probably in 2020. That has literally made my year. Yes.

You know, we need things to uplift our spirits these days. We do. And this is one of them. That's great. Okay, time for Beyond the Great Firewall, guys. This is where I take you inside the Chinese firewall to explain what's going viral in China. And today, there was a very interesting... It was a couple days ago. A very interesting post. And what happened was this girl...

She was trying to get a job. Okay. And I just, I have a little blurb here. What you're seeing here is a translation of her post, which was all in Chinese. Yeah. Cause I'll have to, we just ran it. We ran it through Google translate. So you guys can, so you can read it. Yeah. Uh, but I, I have a little blurb here. Um, um,

I don't have to actually read the blurb. I'll just explain it. So she was trying to get a job. Yeah, like a milk tea shop. Yeah, like a boba shop, right? Yes. But the important thing is that she just returned from studying in France. Yes. So she was in France. For the graduate degree, I believe. Studying in university. She graduated. She got her degree. She came back to China to look for work. Yeah.

And she tried to apply for a milk tea job, which is like an entry-level, low-end, you know, there you are, mixing the bubble tea type job, because jobs are scarce. They are. The worst part is, is what? The worst part is that she didn't... I'll show you. You can go back. There is the rejection letter. It was that. She didn't...

She got this letter. It says, Hello, you performed very well in the interview for our student employment Chongqing position, but you did not quite meet the requirements of this position. Although the result may not be the most satisfactory, you do not need to be discouraged. This does not mean failure. Just work hard and don't worry about the future. We have included your resume in our talent pool. This was literally to get a minimum wage boba shop job. And she was a foreign educated French speaking...

With a degree. A graduate degree holder. Yeah. This is the situation in China. The worst part is that over 100...

When she went for an interview, over 100 university graduates also applied for the same job, came to the same interview. Yes. Over 100. Over 100. So we're talking about highly qualified people. Now, you have to understand how bad it is because especially in the past, if you went to study abroad and you got a degree abroad in China and you came back, that meant you'd get a better job.

That meant you'd absolutely be able to walk into a good job because they wanted the foreign education, the experience. Nowadays...

No. No. And it's not because China is suddenly like China is better or something. It's because there are no jobs for anyone. It doesn't matter if you graduate from a Chinese university or come back from abroad. You're still all fighting for that one position in a milk tea shop. Yes. It's crazy. Yeah. So the comments are, what's the matter? I'm a top 50 overseas graduate student and I go to McDonald's and they're like, don't scare me. Yeah. Because the unemployment situation in China is insane. Yeah. But the fact that over 100 people turned up for that one interview. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, guys, what's going on here? Well, let's see. Okay. There's this, I got to say, this is very cool. There's a special way of making popcorn in China. It's pressurized. Very dangerous. Kind of like, it's actually way more dangerous than the shooting the mouth thing. Yeah. Because this is a very archaic method. You pour popcorn into this pressure cooker and you just heat it up over a flame. This is a successful way to do it, but

Recently, people in China have been putting together videos of them failing. And you can imagine how bad that can be. Well, we wanted to show you. But what I did was I edited it in a way that it's like failures getting worse and worse and worse to the point where these are homemade weapons. Yes. These are just homemade weapons. Let's take a look, guys. I'm curious. Let me finish. Boom. Okay, and then you get...

Okay, hang on a second. Where is my freaking mouse cursor? There it is. Sorry about that. Okay. I wanted to ask this question. Who do you think introduced this to China? I don't know. Because, you know, when I was in China, I automatically thought, whoa, this is cool. This is a China thing, right? And it is a China thing, this kind of making popcorn. But corn isn't from China. No, it's New World food. It's from the Americas. Yes.

Let's take a look. I just wanted to quickly pause it so you guys could see. See the popcorn? See the bag just immediately fills with all the popcorn. It basically instantly blasts out into... Yeah, if you go to any kind of like a fair or, you know, like when they're having some kind of event on the street and street food, you'll have one of these dudes usually. And it's pretty cool. But I did these in order of how horrible and dangerous these weapons become. Yes. Ha ha!

Wait, hang on. I'm going to rewind because we're blocking too much of this view. Why do I keep going too far back? All right. I'm going to start fresh without us in there. Here we go. All right. Let's do it. Yeah.

Just keep it low. I mean, these explosions are very loud, dude. I'm sorry. Was that loud? It was. I mean, it just needs to be background noise. Yeah, okay, there we go. This is like a mild failure. You could die. Yeah. This guy. I love how the frog just got... His clothes came off. Yeah, that's awesome. Again, these get worse. Okay.

Ouch! You gotta watch out, man. You gotta watch out. Look at this. It's like pump, pump. This thing's under so much pressure. Oh, yeah. It's a bomb. Yep. I'm just trying to make some hot corn. It's a cannon, really. It's a cannon. Yeah. Look at it. It goes boom! Yeah. I mean, enough to throw you. Yeah. And they get drastically worse. Okay. I'm a bit concerned. No, don't worry. I mean, there are worse ones out there, but this isn't live geek. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. Good. We're the China show, not... Yeah. Wait, what?

Is she okay? Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't stand on that side. Yeah, no kidding. These people keep standing in front of and behind it. Yeah, it's so silly. This dude, what's he doing? Okay. Well, he took a dive. Yeah. All righty. This guy is still on. He's on the side, but he's being a little reckless here. Oh, and he fell down. You think he's been drinking? I think he's been drinking. I think he's been drinking. This dude's like, hmm. This guy is...

That thing went flying, dude. Yeah, who knows where it ended up. You know when they stand up to these forced demolition people? Yeah. They need to start using these instead of fireworks. It's got an open flame pressure. Yes. You're going to die. He's got this one up against the wall. Maybe not a good idea. Yeah. This one. Wait, hang on a second. Hang on a second. Okay, wait. What? What?

I want everyone to very, very, very carefully look at this video because I swear that when I saw this, I was like, this is the most China thing. But it's not filmed in a way to capture this moment. It's just they want to catch the boom. Yeah. The most important part of the video is not the boom. It's the reaction. What on earth did I just see over there? Okay, we got to play that again. Okay, you've got it in slow-mo. Good. Bam.

I gotta go back to that. We gotta examine this and pause it at the right moment. Yes, okay. The dog's fine. I mean, is it though? Dogs do not like that kind of... No, he's scared, but like, why is... Yeah, why is there a dog pulling a man in a cart? Why is there a dog chariot? That's... The freaking hell's going on here.

He's like Santa. Like, what is, but he's just watching. He's sitting. Bro has got a reindeer dog and he's sitting in front of a cannon. He's got his dog right in front of the cannon. Does he think it's not going to get spooked?

I mean, this is... Why is he being pulled by a dog? Yes. That's the real question. This is such a China thing. It really is. You know what I mean? Someone would weld together a dog chariot. Yes. And this dude's going around town with his dog dragging him around. Not even out of disability. Just out of pure laziness. Exactly. Because he's lazy. I mean, come on, guys. This is like... It's not a skin. He's not a sled. No, exactly. Anyway, that was a good catch. All right, let's see what's going to go. This is the worst one. Okay. Okay.

Why are they doing this at a kindergarten? They always do. I know. Just being rhetorical here. No kids were hurt. No kids were hurt. No kids were hurt. You saw an emergency. It started. Did he? I think he was just like, I'm going to open it now. Watch. Watch the explosion. Okay. Here comes the corn. Bam. Oh.

Well, in a way, I'm kind of glad we can't see what happened to the man. Okay. He could be fine. We don't know. Totally fine. Definitely don't know. Absolutely fine. He's just very far away. Yeah. He just got tired. Not the kind of thing I would generally do around kids.

Luckily, no kids were harmed. That's so stupid. Yeah. That is so stupid. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I mean, the rate of failure on these things is ridiculously high. By the way, do you think it tastes any better than normal popcorn? I had it. I used to see this at least in winter when I lived in northern China. I used to see this at least a couple times a month. I saw it a lot. I never tried it.

It's the worst popcorn I've ever had in my life. You want to think it's good. You know what? I think... Because of the corn they use. Yes. I think I must have had it because, you know, then they give it to you in that little plastic cup thing. You're right. Correct. Yeah. Okay. I'll tell you why. It's the corn they use because the same guy... Mm-hmm. So in fall, he would have like a big burn barrel and he'd put coals in the bottom of it and he would roast corn. Yeah. So he'd have roast corn and then the winter, he'd make this explosive popcorn. Mm-hmm.

Same corn. He obviously had a corn family. I was near some corn farms. Yeah. And that corn was what you, what we feed in America to cows. Okay. It's,

super chewy it's almost salty yeah it's savory and it's wildly unappetizing and especially when you use it to make popcorn it's got such a hard shell on it that it's got it has that shell like it's in your teeth oh yeah a lot a lot and it's very chewy and flavorless correct and that's exactly the popcorn i'm used to in china so i've definitely ate it i mean i've seen it a lot but i didn't go buy from the dude yeah he was right below my part but i've been in situation where like someone's given me popcorn

He also told me, you foreigners also eat our corn? Yes. Because he thought, I said, you think corn is from China? He said, yes. Well, they also think chili is from China. It's true. A lot of people, not everyone, obviously. A nice guy. Yeah. Terrible corn. And I asked my Chinese friends, they said they don't like sweet corn. They like that chewy, savory cow corn. I was like, that's wild. That's something I'm wrong. You know what's very interesting is in at least...

It's probably changed recently, but when you went to the cinema, you could only get kettle corn. You could only get the sweet corn. You couldn't get buttery corn. Isn't that weird? So they like the popcorn on the street. They like the savory, chewy crap. Yeah. And then the movie theater, you can only get this very hyper-processed kettle corn. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it's time for Soft Power Hour, guys. This is where we tell you how China's trying to change your mind through various ways. Try to speed it up. Yes. Yeah.

This is tragic. Yes. Do you have any idea what's going on here? Yeah, so I have a location here. I did some research. This is in Zhangzhou, Fujian, which is weird. We covered... Remember that pollution episode we did recently? Same district area. Dozens of family members who had kids kidnapped knelt to beg for help in finding their children. This is a huge problem in China and probably not a problem you want exported to your country. However...

While they were doing this, a group of unidentified people wearing masks made a human wall to block people from seeing these parents or the pictures of their kidnapped children. Yes. This deepened the public's anger, obviously. People got very mad. There has been a massive rise in kidnapping of small babies all the way through teenage age.

This is a problem that I've covered on my own channel multiple times, I've made videos about. But kidnapping in China is a huge issue. Massive, massive, massive issue. But it's hidden. There are actual dedicated websites set up, you know,

for people to try and find their children, but even those websites now are neutered because it's a bad look for China. Human trafficking is huge in China. Massive. Kidnapping is very normal. And there's a very easy way to test this because everybody's going on about like, oh, China's so safe, et cetera. Ask any Chinese parent, any Chinese parent, if they're willing to sit at a park

and let their kid just go play off and not eagle-eye them all the time. Not me wouldn't suck, yeah. You know, just go play on the swings or whatever without staring at them 24-7. Ask any Chinese parent. Yeah.

And you'll get your answer. Ask any Chinese parent if they're willing to stand outside of a shop, like a supermarket, and ask a kid to go in and buy a bottle of water or something. You know what I'm saying? Ask him. Just do it. Yeah. Because every single Chinese parent and grandparent knows how dangerous it is. Kidnapping is just crazy in China. Anyway, we've got this particular video is from a number of years ago.

It explains it so well. Because that one we just showed you is the other day. Yes. And they have human shields around this because this is when it was kind of tolerated to... Yeah, I mean... Kind of... The problem is there have been probably two or three times in modern Chinese history where this issue has been... The awareness has been raised. Yeah. Okay? Yeah.

And every time there's such a big outcry and there's such a big outrage about it, the Chinese government realizes this is very bad for its international image, very bad for social stability in China. So they shut it down. They have to. Okay. It's awful. So let's take a look. Yeah. Let's take a look. There's a little, this little document. A silence heavy with sadness at this demonstration by Chinese parents, all trying to find their missing children.

Photos on their posters are often long out of date, but they hold on to hope.

There are no official statistics, but what numbers exist are shocking. Between 70 and 200,000 children are believed to be stolen in China every year. I was in my shop. I left my son playing with two other children. He was kidnapped by a man. My son was four years old. Police keep a watchful eye in an extremely rare instance of a public demonstration tolerated by Chinese authorities.

Wang Mingqing embodies the hopes of these parents because he found his daughter. In 1994, she was kidnapped by a stranger in broad daylight. For two decades, Wang Mingqing put up missing persons posters like these. Previously a fruit seller, he became a taxi driver so that he could look for his daughter while he worked. She wasn't far away.

It took me 24 years to find my daughter, and she was living only 20 kilometers away.

20 kilometers in 24 years. Can you believe that? Here she is as a teenager, raised in the family of the man who kidnapped her. One day, her grandmother admitted that Qi Feng was not her true granddaughter. Thus began a long quest to find her real family, in part on these social networks filled with the thousands of faces of children and parents looking for each other. Kidnapping has become a nationwide scourge.

Two years ago, in the middle of the night, a police raid led to the apprehension of a network of traffickers. Some 15 children, boys and girls, were rescued. They were due to be sold, most to parents who have been unable to adopt legally. 70 people were arrested. Yeah, so 70 to 200,000 children a year are kidnapped a year in China. Yeah.

The population of my hometown is kidnapped every year. It's a big country. Yeah.

And it's such a thriving industry because, I mean, as you heard in this, there are plenty of families who cannot legally adopt. Yes. Or they cannot have children. Yeah. Okay? So they need children because in China, if you don't have a child, you've got no social security. You don't have a child, you have no pension. You don't have a child, when you get old, no one's going to look after you. So you need to have a child. So they kidnap them. Okay? Unfortunately, there's way more.

Of course, that's just the nice side of it, okay? Because they get sold into... You guys have heard about organ harvesting and things like that. Yeah, they're sold into sexual slavery. They're sold into, like you said, organ harvesting. There's all these disgusting other things that happen. But I'm telling you one thing, it's disturbing. And it's such a terrible thing that happens in China. And it hasn't slowed down. That whenever the awareness is raised...

The Chinese government wants to shut it up. That's the thing. These Zhengzhou people that were having an outrage because they were getting blocked by the secret police from bringing awareness, they were saying that it's gotten worse. I guess my issue with this is that there's a camera for every person in China now. I mean, look at this gantry up here. Those are all cameras. Those are not birds. Those are cameras. Yes, there's no birds in China. My point is, if every single part of the country...

has the ability to stop crime by identifying the perpetrators with facial recognition and all this kind of stuff, tracking, then why has this potentially increased? Why is this problem increasing? And the scary wake up cold water on the face moment is when you realize that

that the government is complicit. Yeah. So they'll have these token crackdowns. And yes, there's good cops that do the right thing. Yes. The problem is nationwide, it's such an issue that they want to hide. They don't bring awareness to it. They neuter the websites that used to proliferate and actually help people find their kids. Yes. And a lot of the local officials in the CCP are doing it. They're complicit in this. Yes. Right. Look, I mean, think about it this way. If you've got a leaky faucet, right? And it's outside. It's a leaky faucet.

You either fix it, okay, or you build a little brick wall around it and enclose it so that nobody knows it's there. If nobody knows it's there, it doesn't get fixed. You're correct. And that's what happens in China because it's an embarrassment to the CCP. Children are not safe and kidnapping is such a big issue. They hide it.

And because they hide it, there's no big international outrage. There's no big investigation into it. The spotlight isn't on it. People don't get all riled up about it. It gets left alone and it thrives. Just like that leaky faucet continues to destroy the ground underneath it. Nobody pays attention to it because they can't see it. And if someone notices it and points it out, they get silenced. You're correct. There we go. Yeah, that's why. Yep. So it kind of links into what we were going to talk about.

Yes. Which is just this bullshit. It's absolute bullshit. This is kind of funny, but also bullshit. Yeah, it's ridiculous. So I want you to take a look at this drone footage. Just play it. Okay. And what do you notice about these buildings?

This, by the way, is Guangzhou. I don't know if you know Canton, you know, the capital of Guangdong. Look at that. Pollution in the sky. Beautiful. Sky don't lie. Sky don't lie. Yes. You can see the Canton Tower in the background up there if you look closely enough through the haze. What do you notice about these buildings? And then what do you notice about this next set of buildings, which I'm going to show you? This is in Shenzhen, which, of course, is another first tier city.

Look, fancy building, fancy building. That's like the office part of it, but then it goes into residential above, right? So, bam, residential. What do you notice about these buildings? Look at the windows, guys. What do you notice, guys? I'm sure you're noticing something right now. Look at those windows. Anyone getting it in the comments there?

decrepit buildings i mean bars yes i mean come on what are you saying decrepit this is wonderful architecture this is the peak of you know it's actually the best architecture no i mean no i mean like really it's in the center of this this is shenzhen okay um top of the pops yeah we're talking about the bars on the windows yes why do you think you need bars 30 stories up

by the way. Why? Just take a wild guess. Look at this. This is in another city very far away. Yeah. But look at the bars. Yeah. Take a look. There's bars all over. Not one is missing them. Yeah. Every single house. Every balcony, every window. That's bars. Yeah. Now, if you go downtown Shanghai where all the shiny skyscrapers are, of course, there are no bars on them. Okay. But 90% of buildings in China. Yeah. If you go around China, you'll see bars on windows. And the reason is, of course, because

Theft. Yes. Okay. Theft is a big issue in China. And it happens to people all over the place. You know, they'll climb up. That's why also it's all the way at the top. They'll climb up the side of the building. They'll scale the side of the building to get in there. Yes. You're wondering why the 32nd floor has it because they'll climb that high. What about the 22nd floor? Yeah.

Yeah. Definitely Chongqing's got bars. Oh, yeah, for sure. They got bars. Yes. Or they go up to the roof and they'll climb down. You know, one of the two. But they'll spider man into your apartment. They're very skilled at this. A friend of mine lost a huge amount of cash he had stored in his house because of that. Here's some on the ground, on the street view. You can see the bars up on the windows. You know, the bars at the gates. I always forget how ugly most of China is.

It's a fun place. Yeah. Here you can see from the inside looking out. The person taking the video is in the bars. Yes. Behind bars. Okay. I mean, take a look. You've got bars in the windows. It's very normal. And they're there because crime is a huge issue. People will steal your stuff. Theft is, you know. It's outlandish. It is insane. Theft is a big issue in China. Yes.

Okay, and the reason why... What are you getting at here? The reason why I'm showing you all of this stuff is one of our favorite propagandists, old flat cat McDonald's, recently posted something rather outrageous. Okay. Things that only happen in China. I'm just walking in a kind of dark street. There is no one here. And look, a motorbike with a bag right there. But it's not the only one. Look at this. What? What?

How can someone leave his stuff just like that? Someone left a bag with a dirty jacket in it and she thinks it's... Anyway, that's not the end of it. Hang on. Is that a luggage? No, dude. She's way too thin. Take a look at the thing. Oh, a luggage? By the way, that's how people dump things in China. They put stuff in a bag and leave it. It's like gross, rotten stuff over there. Okay, but that's... No one is around. Oh my God.

Can I read this? Please read this. I mean, because this is, and I hope we can capture how crazy this is. Yes. Because we lived in China. And anybody that lived in China will literally die of scoff. If you could die of scoff, you'll die. People leave their bags outside and no one takes them in China. Those that show videos of crimes in China are harping on the statistical outliers of Chinese society. They hate China for clicks. Don't buy the hype.

I'm sorry. You are regarded if you believe that.

And you don't believe that. You want to talk about statistical outliers, the fact that somebody didn't steal a bag that's got a dirty jacket in it that was left on an e-bike for five minutes, which is, yeah, set up or not, it's absurd to think for one minute that it's okay to leave your bag on your bike. China is the last place, perhaps, you would like, you would want to go if you're going to leave your stuff out in the open. Yes. America, in some of the worst areas, is 10

times better to leave your shit out than China. Because look,

Even China's staunchest defenders who are like, you can walk around at night, no one's going to attack you. They're not going to say you can walk around at night and leave your phone on the sidewalk. You can leave your door unlocked in your apartment and not have bars on your freaking windows. You know, twice my wife had to literally almost kill a person because they were scaling our building. Yes. Right? She didn't try to kill him. She was like, get out of here. She was trying to climb in our window when I wasn't there. And then another time when I was there, I was running and the guy saw me and he ran off.

I've had bicycles stolen a lot. Motorcycles stolen? Yep. Two phones, three phones. I literally chained my motorcycle. I went to go have lunch with my girlfriend. I just bought her a nice bike and I had a bike, okay? Chained our bikes to like one of those fences, kind of like what you saw knocked over by the dog in a car, one of those fences. Double chained them.

We went into the restaurant. We were having a meal. I looked outside. They were gone. Yeah. They were just gone. Dude. How many of our friends lost their motorcycles? Yes. How many had their apartments broken in? I had a student that lived in a rich... I've been pickpocketed multiple times. I've been pickpocketed at knife point. I had a friend or a student that...

Their apartment in a very rich area, by the way, not in one of these bad areas, in a rich area of a nice city, had his apartment broken into and his dog stolen for dog meat. They stole his pet dog. And nobody thought that was weird, by the way.

way i was living in the first tier city of shenzhen a guy drove in went through the boom gates because you have to get a ticket to go in drove his little van down into the parking lot loaded up all the e-bikes and bicycles cut the locks everything and drove out with this and it was all on the security camera i just let's prove it because you know this is this is outlandish yes yes this is so crazy exactly there are no statistics because china doesn't keep statistics yes right

Okay, she goes up and she's like, "Auntie, don't steal these little bits of metal. They're for the blind people when they walk so they know where they're going." You know what she's doing? She's actually stealing the sidewalk.

I mean, you know, I'd like to, I was going to say if it's not nailed down, it'll get stolen. But now, if it's nailed down, it will just be pried off and stolen in China. She's stealing the sidewalk. She's stealing the sidewalk. And so that she can go and recycle those bits of metal and get like 10 cents for the load. You know what I mean? Take a look at that. You can't do that. You can't do that. You can't do that.

Okay. If theft is not a problem, Mr. Flag Cap, and cohorts... Oh, you can just leave your bag. You can just do whatever you want. It's totally fine, right?

Then why are anti-theft posters all over the country? We went through areas that said, this is bandit country. There's propaganda posters. This is bandit country. Do not, your car will be stolen. Lock your car. They had people selling tasers and batons because of the bandits in the area. Sure, sure. Right? This was not a long time ago. Mm-hmm.

When you go to areas, it says, be very careful. There are lots of pickpockets. There are lots of thieves. This poster says, basement theft protection. Try not to store valuables such as cigarettes and alcohol in your basement. It's recommended to reinforce doors and windows, install monitoring or alarm devices, and check them regularly. If any abnormalities are found, call the police immediately. You don't do this if it's not an issue. Why do you think every week we show you a video feed of someone's living room? Yes.

why do you think we do you think they do that so they can watch it back later they do it because thieves yes because people break in china is wildly bad for thieves yes number two prevent pick off car doors lock these have been translated yes lock the car when leaving it and check the doors and truck to make sure no large amount of cash or valve is left in the car it's recommended that you install security equipment in the car if you discover a theft protect uh protect the scene and call the police immediately oh but you can just leave your stuff everywhere i

thought yeah without any don't lock it up install anti-theft doors and windows on your shop be sure to close doors and windows when you go out lock the anti-theft door and install a large padlock to take your valuables such as cash and laptops home it is recommended to install but I thought you could just leave everything out

No, these are the things that you see quite literally on the wall outside, you know, as you're walking around the city. All over China. Yes, prevent theft. It's a big problem. Yes. Especially around New Year's. Oh, big time. Just before Chinese New Year, it's all going to go. You can get these posters anywhere. There's online scams or real life theft. It's a big issue. In fact, look at this. This is in Xi'an, so a big tourist area, right? Yeah.

Beware of pickpockets. Please keep your value. This is acknowledging pickpockets. I mean, this is a problem you have in like, you know, usually third world countries. Oh, it's like Oliver Twist. Yes. Excuse me, sir. He's like stealing a pocket watch or something. But like actually in China, pickpocketing is a huge issue. I've personally stopped about, I think it's three pickpockets. I've been pickpocketed. Yeah, I've been pickpocketed once. Something got stolen out of my bag. I had an electronic dictionary because I was learning Chinese and it got

nabbed that was very disappointing it was very expensive but quite seriously walking down the road see somebody with tweezers in a woman's pocket pulling out her phone oh yeah tweezers very very common that was the most common it's super common okay this stuff hasn't gone away no

In fact, I wanted to prove modern examples. Because we can show you our experience. We lived there over a decade, right? But let's show you modern examples. Well, I mean, this is the thing. Flat Cap McDonald's is using one random foreigner who walked around fresh off the boat, fresh off the boat. It's like...

Oh, in China, people leave a bag on an e-bike. That means it's safe only in China. It seems like a setup. I'll tell you why. I found a TikTok propaganda campaign years ago on my video series. Exactly the same video format. A guy walking around Beijing. Well, here, I know in America, you can't leave your stuff over here in Beijing. We can leave our stuff on the e-bike. It was exactly the same type of video. I should have put it in here. Okay. It's on my channel. Let's take a look then. Here's another foreigner. Fortunately...

I don't have any more footage. That is because my phone, which I was recording the vlog on, was stolen. This happened in Xi'an the evening after I'd just been to see the terracotta warriors, but then once I'd finished eating I noticed that my phone and charger had both disappeared.

Yeah, so he was explaining, he sat down at a restaurant, he put his phone and charger right next to him, and then he put his backpack next to him as well. And while he was eating, someone reached over because they saw the surveillance after and stole it and ran off. I want to use modern examples, though. That is a modern example. No, no, no, modern, months ago. Okay. That was a couple of years ago. Sure. Let's go months ago. That dude's video wasn't a few years ago. Okay, I have the link here. Okay, either way, here we go. Okay.

If you have a look here, this is 2024, 07, 24, okay? This is not just security cam footage. This was a news report in a major city in China to show how good people are at stealing people's e-bikes. And this is another thing that's a little bit interesting, isn't it? The propagandists like Flat Cat McDonald's try to pretend like theft isn't a problem, but state media doesn't. This is state media. It took him less than 10 seconds to steal this e-bike. And the thing is, pause it.

They went around and asked people. There were hundreds of people that were like, yeah, I keep getting my e-bikes on. Yeah, my people broke in. They're like, how do we prevent this big rash of theft? Here's the thing. Chinese people don't try to pretend theft isn't a problem. There's a big disconnect here. No, yes. Because Chinese people, it doesn't matter if they love China, like they think Xi Jinping is God and they love the CCP and they lick any CCP poster they see.

Those people will still say that theft is a problem. Those people will still admit that crime, as far as their stuff getting stolen, is a huge issue and you can't just leave stuff lying around. That's such a fantasy. So all Chinese people acknowledge that theft is an issue. But these stupid foreign white people shilling for the Chinese government try to pretend that it's not real. You know what I mean? It's insane. It's absolutely insane. Well, it's because that's their job.

The job is to lie on behalf of the CCP. Yeah, they're basically saying Chinese people's opinions don't matter, only ours do. Correct. Only I get to make decisions. Yeah, I get to. Turns out those people are always the most racist people to Chinese people. They treat them like garbage. Oh, yeah, absolutely. They talk down to them. They don't learn the language. You know, it's that type. Absolutely.

um anyway this one's hilarious okay this is uh this is uh a few months ago yeah uh you just play it this guy had his helmet stolen so i just wanted to point out left it on his motorcycle yeah you can't just leave stuff out in beijing in a main city where there's no crime yeah and this guy stole his helmet and said oh i saw you confronted him yeah yeah he goes oh i just didn't want anything bad to happen oh i didn't want to get damaged so yeah it's like yeah whatever uh

This is a great example. Hangzhou. By the way, yeah, this is this year. This is this year. Hangzhou, one of the wealthiest, most developed cities in China. Almost in the center of the city, by the way. Look at this. Now you know why they put bars all the way up there. So, Flat Cab.

Are these the outliers of society? Because I just showed you a main state media broadcast where they interviewed countless people about getting their stuff stolen. Video evidence of people getting their stuff stolen. Scaling buildings, climbing in and robbing people. And every Chinese person I've ever talked to knows that theft is a huge problem in China. So please put it away and stop lying. It's going to catch up with you someday. Exactly. It will. Yeah. Stop lying about very disprovable, demonstrably disprovable facts.

At least pick something you can't prove. Yes, exactly. So here's another dude. Dude pulls up. Oh, this is such a good clip. Can we just play it? Dude pulls up. He's stealing a basket of fruit or whatever, okay? Puts it on his e-bike. He's like, yeah, I'm out of here. I don't know if it's okay.

Oh no, slippery road, so dropped it all. Oh no, what's going on? Oh no, helmet falls off. Oh man, what's going on? Yeah, all right, got to get my helmet. Bike falls down. I think he's just like, okay, I'm out of here. This is just too much. I'm getting out of here. Car pulls up. This is my favorite video. Dude, okay, I got to play that again. Can we see that one more time? Just one more time. It's like a comedy of errors, okay? He did everything wrong, this thief. Exactly. So let's see.

Steel. Steel. Okay. Oops. Oh, spill. Spill. Okay. Better pick it up. But I got it. Dropped your helmet. They never tie the strap. No. He goes, I grab my helmet. Drops bike. Bike falls down. You probably dropped whatever else he was carrying. He's like, okay. I just gotta go, go, go, go. Oh, dude. I, I kind of love that. Isn't that just great? Yeah. Yes. By the way,

Speaking of leaving things on e-bikes, here we have a delivery driver. And these guys have a hard job. I think everybody knows. They're basically heroes in China. This guy's going to go make his delivery. He's rushing around the city. He's got a tough job. So off he goes to make his delivery. Tired as all hell, been working all day. Some parent in the background tells their kid, go now, do it.

Runs off, steals the food that he's about to deliver to his next customer and runs off. Should have at least shut it. Yeah. Shut the thing. Yeah, exactly. But okay, you think you can leave a bag on an e-bike? Yeah, right. Come on. That's ridiculous. I'm sorry. That's the weakest propaganda. It's stupid. But it works because it goes around to like hundreds of thousands of people. Big accounts tweet it out. People see this. They tweet it out and they're like China's safe and nobody gets stuff stolen. Lies. Absolute...

provable lies. Anyway, speaking of that, the Xiaoban Hou that we did this last week, fantastic. It was delivery driver core. Take a look. You're sweaty and hot from delivering cheap food. Come on in. Let's just say no one's jostling one loose when they watch these. You have to have ASMR. You have to have fixing. You have to have organizing. You have to have a pretty woman.

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Okay. Because there is a weird law that has been enacted, which kind of makes sense.

But the US government is banning personnel in China from a romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens I'll tell you why there have been a spat of people on the phone. Yeah that have been compromised Oh, yeah by Chinese spies. What's a honeypot? The honeypot scams and it's so common. It's something that the Chinese government Absolutely does. Oh, yeah what they do is they so be it's used to do. Yeah, it's the same deal and

What they'll try to do is get diplomats or anyone with any kind of political power or inside information, they get them into compromising positions. Or even relationships. Yeah. I mean, a relationship is, yeah, exactly. Or they'll get them into, they'll be seduced and taken somewhere and it's videotaped and then they're blackmailed. Short to your wife or whatever. Exactly. Or, you know, they get them to find someone who's into some kinky thing and then, you know, then they blackmail them. Either way, it's a big issue. Yeah.

It's happened here in the States where Chinese spies have come and done the whole honey trap thing. They've actually tried to honey trap me at one point. They did. You made a video about it. Yeah, I did. I made a video about it where they sent all these messages, try to get me to go to a hotel somewhere here in America to try and trap me and so on. I'm like... Who knows what it was. Yeah. Like it was leading to that. Absolutely. And you're like, I'm going to document this and make a video. Yes. Content. Yeah, exactly. And it was. It was good content. Anyway, the fact of the matter is this is...

I'm pretty sure a law that exists from many countries, not just America.

Yes, I think this is a pretty common thing. Yeah. But it's something that people are talking about. And it does look like we're kind of gearing up to have a more serious take on China. Because China has kind of run free in America for a long time now. Yes. People are now saying, you know what, this is an issue. Moving on, though. Yes. Got a lot of news today. So let's get through it. Let's do it. This is just, I mean...

If you want to talk about a country being unprofessional and being just a little douche. Dude. Okay. All right. How do I approach this? What it says in the official China Central TV news released this on their Weibo. It's like a war thing where they have footage of planes and like, let's blow up Taiwan and stuff. And then they put the characters vaginal penetration is what it says.

If you want to, you know. The Chinese government on CCTV. We're going to F you, basically. Wrote vaginal penetration, but more crass, actually. Yeah. It's what it is. I mean, come on. And then over a map of Taiwan. That is the Chinese state media. Put that out.

Okay? I know we're living in a bit of a crazy world right now where politicians these days are kind of childish, but this is China's usual level of childishness. This is just nuts, though. Can we rein it in a little bit, guys, China? Let's be a little more professional. I know you're trying to invade Taiwan, a sovereign country, but can we rein it in a little bit? Can we not say enter pussy? Yeah, stop being such stupid little immature twats. I know, and I'm singing it to Enter Sandman in my head.

You know what I mean? Okay, all right. But yeah, they put their... These are the war plans and stuff. They have been peppering Taiwan. They've been pushing this stuff. In fact, it's been kind of interesting. I just wanted to just...

It's not a movie poster, guys. This is really what state media put out. Yeah, Chinese state put this out. I just can't believe it. I just can't believe it. This is the kind of thing they're putting out daily, by the way. And every day they've got a different quote. So that was just one of the quotes. It's basically like Pokemon cards. Yeah, take a look. These are the quotes. The yellow one is that one. Either way, they can go F themselves. They suck.

It's just so immature and bad, and they're really, really ramping up. But everyone wants to talk about tariffs, right? Yes, obviously, because everyone's affected by them. Yes. In one way or the other. No matter what approach you take. You say, this is some 8D chess. This is incredible. This is all going to work out. Or you say, this is the worst thing that's ever happened. Look at the stock market. I don't care what you think about that, because what I can tell you is that, at least from the China show, China is furious right now. And I'll tell you what.

If you remove all the other news about tariffs and stuff and just focus on the China part, they're so worried. Their economy is already on the brink. Sure. And a tariff of this magnitude to their biggest trade partner, right? They need America, right? Yeah.

is devastating absolutely devastating i think what's even more devastating is this getting rid of de minimis yes and that's that's the next okay um that's what i had next so that's actually kind of part of this yeah so there is this law i don't know if you guys knew about this uh we've talked about this de minimis uh basically says that if something is under the value of eight hundred dollars

In a package. It doesn't... Yeah, it's not subject to tariffs. It's not subject to taxes and stuff. To import taxes and stuff. And also, not only that, it doesn't get inspected by customs. Yeah, at least as much. Yeah, no, it's... If you've got a big expensive item and it comes in through the border, it gets inspected. Yes.

If it's under $800, it gets thrown in a pile, they'll pick out one out of 10 million because billions of this stuff comes through from TV. So it's a huge risk for drugs or contraband or anything bad that China's trying to get into America. Oh yeah, and they're sending in, we've covered this, stuff that can kill you, like poison lead-based paint toys. Or shirts that catch on fire. You know, like hoodies that burn little girls, that kind of thing. So this idea of ending this means that any small package would be subject to scrutiny, right? And the biggest part of this is

is that China has effectively destroyed a part of the American economy. And they've been doing this through economic warfare through companies like Timu and Xi'an. And by using those companies, what they've done is been able to basically tax-free ship stuff from China cheaper than it would be for me to mail you something. Yes. Which is insane.

It's insane. They've ruined mom and pop businesses. They've ruined small businesses. They've even encroached on Amazon and big corporations. Of course. I mean, they can't compete because they have to pay import duties. So you're in a situation then where China's taking advantage of de minimis and they're sending in and just flooding the market, right? When you end this, and this is what Trump is looking like he's about to do...

You've effectively stopped one of China's biggest economic warfare loopholes, period. So, I mean, guys, look, when it comes to the tariff things, I think we all have our perspectives on the whole tariff thing. Whether it be good or bad, that's not what we're here to discuss. We're not interested in the domestic politics of it. We're, like you said, talking about China. And one thing that China has really been absolutely bending the world over with

is this, well, at least the USA is with this de minimis thing. And again, I know we've explained this a million times, but if I were to make something here in America, if I sat in my backyard and I whittled something out of a twig, all right,

and I wanted to send it to you in America. It would cost me more money to send it to you than a factory in China to send something of the same value. And that's what destroys all the local little businesses. And again, they can take my little thing. If people start buying my little Whittle twig designs, they'll just copy it, mass produce it with the cheap labor and send it using Timu or Shane to people's doors. And they beat me and kick me out of the market. And that's their model.

And I've been to these big sort of meetings that happen in China. I was once invited to speak at one of them. It's kind of this big thing of Amazon sellers and stuff, right? How to take advantage of America. How to take advantage of America. And one of the main things that they do is they go to see what products are selling well.

They find out where it's made because it's always made in a factory in China. They go and deal directly with the factory. They copy it. They reverse engineer it or they outright just steal the design straight from them. You know, they offer them a kickback or something. And then they start making and producing it locally themselves and selling it on Amazon to undercut the original person who invented it and who's selling it on Amazon. That's correct. It's impossible to compete. It is. Absolutely impossible. So something like this...

ending de minimis is probably the most positive thing that I can see coming out of this whole current situation in my personal opinion. I personally think the most positive thing is the fact that you can go to your Etsy shop and you can buy Winston's little twig. Yeah, exactly. Which is never going to happen because it'll look terrible. Yeah.

Yeah. I think you might be quite good at it. So this is hurting Timu and Shien massively. In fact, what they're doing right now is trying to flood everything into America. They're going to have big warehouses of stuff that they have for a while. Sure. They can ship domestically, but that'll run out. Yeah. This is great news. Absolutely. Dominimus is something I've been pissed off about for a long time. By the way...

I just want to show you like a little bit of thought process, okay? Yes. I can explain this. Okay. Okay. I'm not promoting this. No. In this effort, I was like, well, you know, if we're going to cover this, we have our own perspective about how China is getting damaged by tariffs. We know. But I want to see like what the foreign minister is saying in China. I want to see what their official response is because I can tell you they're furious, right? Yes. So I was trying to find a quote.

So I went to their foreign ministry websites. Remember the foreign ministry of public affairs retweeted my anti-propaganda? They did. Yes. We should have done a little callback. I just wanted to show you the ministry of foreign affairs. This is their English website for English people to go and see. So to give you some perspective, if you're American, this is China's State Department. Yes.

So if you went to the State Department website, can you just read this to the audience? Okay, so the heading is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Republic of China. It has nothing to do with the lead. It's got a massive picture of Xi Jinping on the front, and it says, the ninth Asian Winter Games opens in Harbin. Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony. That's the big thing. Now let's look at the side articles.

Xi Jinping exchanges congratulatory messages, blah, blah, blah. The next one. Xi Jinping sends a message of condolence to the... Next one. Xi Jinping meets with chief advisor. Next one. President Xi Jinping meets with representative... I mean, get me out of there for a second. Look at that. It's insane. What does this have to do with the foreign ministry? He's not the foreign minister. Can I just point out that every...

single article is about Xi Jinping. Every single article. Can we go to the State Department website? Yeah, okay, we'll go to the American State Department website. I just want to show you what our equivalent looks like. Okay?

Oh, first I need to throw this in. Xi Jinping is my guy. This is what that reminded me of. Yes. I believe this is in Hong Kong. Yes, this is in Hong Kong. I hope that's a parody. I hope so. This is the State Department of the US. Secretary Rubio's meeting with Belgian Prime Minister de Weaver. Joint statement on trilateral states, Japan and Republic of Korea meeting in Brussels. Secretary Rubio's meeting with Danish Foreign Minister. Read more about Belgium. Belgium, Jamaica, Guyana, embassies.

Secretary Rubio's travel to Brussels. Learn more. Joint statement on Myanmar earthquake response. Remarks on international women's. More foreign gang terrorists deported out of America. Can you tell me where, once, it had something about Trump? I mean, I think you have to go to CNN or something for that. Or...

or another news outlet. Yeah, exactly. But not the government. My point is the foreign, the U.S. State Department, the foreign ministry is equivalent. It's not like, it's not all dominated headlines about Trump. Well, I mean, there's not one mention of him in the entire thing. That was my point, right? But Xi Jinping is every single article. Isn't it just crazy how much of a cult of personality is going on in China? The fact that there's, their foreign ministry can only post about him.

Yes. Isn't it a bit embarrassing that there's nothing other than him? It's kind of shameful. It is shameful. It's dictator worship. It's like worshiping a false idol. It's beyond that. It's an idol. Yes. It's a commandment. Breaking a literal Christian commandment is what's happening. Yeah. It's insane. But every time we see this, because, I mean, when you go to a Chinese newspaper like China Daily, it's the same. Mm-hmm.

If you go to their newspaper, it's Xi Jinping this, Xi Jinping that. Yeah, it's dominated. Yeah, and it's like 80% of what's on the page. But when you went to that, it was 100%. It's like, what's going on in this world? I just wanted to show. Yeah, we had to show because we were looking it up. So, oh yeah, what's this? This is their response to the tariffs, right? Yes. Okay, let's listen. On April 2nd Eastern Time, the U.S. issued an executive order announcing...

reciprocal tariffs on its major trading partners. It imposed a 34% tariffs on China, including its Hong Kong and Macau. I just want to pause it here real quick.

This is something that I'm sure they won't be happy I'm pointing out because I've seen through. I know what they're doing. We've discussed this. This is not us reaching. We think we figured it out. Recently, China's been changing their websites and their design language of official reports to use this American blue color.

Well, that's a color of trust. Banks use it. Banks use it, right? It's this kind of like, before they would use red. Well, they do. They still do in China. If you take a look at any of the Chinese big, like, you know, the whole of the people and they do all that crap for the CPCCC, whatever. Yeah. Wait, what is that nonsense? CPCCC. CPCCC.

It's the most violent looking commie stuff you've ever seen. It's gold and red. It's gold and red. It's garish, right? Some of the garish shit you've ever seen in your life. But the problem is, is that when they have foreign outfacing, outward things, they'll have different versions. So in fact, if you go to some of these Chinese state websites, you click the English version versus the Chinese version. The Chinese version is garish, hammer and sickle.

We will dominate the world. Yeah. It'll go to their aerospace website. Yeah, remember. It's missiles. And you click the English one, it's like shaking hands. Yeah, shaking hands and like doves and peace and stuff. You click on the Chinese version, it's like missiles aimed at America. So one thing I've noticed, we noticed together, is we were like, they're using this American, when they do outward facing stuff to the foreign world.

They don't use that design language. They don't use that imagery because they're not trying to intimidate. What they're trying to do is establish trust. So they're using these American colors. They just also copy and paste, let's be honest. They're like, this is what they do, so we'll do it. But it definitely has a reason, the logic behind it, because it's recently been changing a lot. Not this, but the websites and official statements have been using this almost State Department blue. You go to the State Department website in the U.S., it's kind of that. Yes. And that's not what they do. That's not accurate. Yep.

So I just wanted to, before we listen to the foreign minister's statement, I wanted to change it to be accurate. I think we should do this going forward. We should. And we will. Okay. Let's take a look. So what did you do? We just made it accurate. Okay. The statement will be the same. Do you have any comments? Under the pretext of a reciprocal, the U.S. has imposed additional tariffs on...

on China and other countries' exports. This severely violates WTO rules and harms the rules-based multilateral trading regime. We firmly oppose this and will take firm measures to safeguard our legitimate rights and interests.

We reiterate many times that trade and tariff wars have no winners and protectionism is nowhere. We urge the U.S. to correct its wrongdoing and in the way of equality, respect and reciprocity to resolve trade and economic problems.

You know why China likes rules-based order? It's because they're always allowed to break the rules and no one else is. There's no rule of law. Yeah, no. And the rules-based order, have you seen, whenever it comes to like the Paris Climate Agreement or whatever, they never live up to their side of the bargain. No. When it comes to, oh, we'll crack down on counterfeiting, they never do. No. But like, you're not allowed, I'll give you a good example of this.

If we use a Chinese, any Chinese media thing, we get a copyright hit on our channel. There'll be like a content. They'll steal our money. Yeah. And it's like, they take our money. We literally use one little thing.

But in China, they're allowed to use any copywritten music. They'll use a Hollywood movie on state TV or something without paying for it. They'll use the music from Star Wars or anything. They use whatever they want and there's never any repercussions. You know what's crazy is sometimes there'll be a clip where they've used like a scene from a Hollywood movie or something.

And we take that clip and we put it into one of our videos. A Chinese company will copyright claim our video. Yes. It's that bad now. Even though it's a Hollywood clip that they used. Yes. You know what I mean? It's just like...

So they love this whole idea of rules-based orders because it's rules for thee, not for me. And let's copy the State Department look so we can look trustworthy. And just pause it. This is not disingenuous. This is how it would look in China. I made it look like it would in China because you shouldn't have a different outward-facing appearance. Stop tricking the rest of the world. You're a very sick and very, very...

terrible government with the worst human rights record. Correct. Just show your true colors. It's blood red and it's a hammer and sickle and you suck. Yes. I do want to say you can read between the lines, read the transcript of this. They are very, very, very worried about this tariff. They're furious. In fact, they knee-jerk react so hard today. Yeah.

that they threw tariffs on the US, like reciprocal tariffs. They can't afford to do that. That's a very stupid move right now. It's a very, very stupid move, yeah. But you know what? It's very simple to explain. America, even if the tariffs end up being the worst idea ever or the best idea, who knows, right? What I will say is... I think everybody knows. Yeah, anyway. We don't know because it hasn't happened yet, right? The fruits of this are whatever happens. My point of this is that...

America is a country that has already achieved wealth. China didn't achieve wealth. China can't afford to do trade wars because it's poor, right? You can't go into battle not wearing armor. You're not ready for this kind of thing. You're not Japan that hit stagflation or whatever and already had a developed economy. Yeah. Japan already had a developed economy when their economy tanked. Yeah.

Yeah. They could suffer through a bunch of boring years where everything kind of sucked, but nobody was dying. Yeah. China can't afford to do that. China's got hundreds of millions of abjectly poor people. But that's the problem is people think they can because they see all the propaganda. They see the skyscrapers and they see the high-speed rails and all the propaganda that's shoved down your throat. And China's got a space program and they're sending astronauts up there and stuff. Yeah.

And people think China's got it made, but it's really a bunch of bluster and it's a massive facade because a huge portion of China is still incredibly poor. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And unfortunately, the poor people in China are going to take the brunt of this. And they can. My point is China can afford to do that because the leadership can stamp on the poor people. Just like when people die in a disaster, they lie and say only 100 people died when in fact tens of thousands of people die. And then they arrest people to talk about it. Like COVID.

Or like the Zhengzhou flood. Yes. So many modern examples of them doing this. They can just make people disappear and stop so that nobody faces reality. That's correct. That's my point. They can't afford this. They just can't afford this. Yeah, excellent. But yeah, very simple, quick thing. There's some great articles out there right now. You wanted to go through this last article? Yeah, super quick. Okay. Did I miss one? There we go.

US finally reconfirmed commitments, reaffirmed commitment to Taiwan. That was a little worrying. We weren't seeing much action on that front, but in public at least.

From what we can see as normal people out there, it looks like people are being wishy-washy about the whole Taiwan thing. It looks like things are going to be committed to Taiwan, hopefully. A lot of live fire drills around Taiwan right now. It's very dangerous. And last thing I wanted to show is that there is proof now that China is really building up to some sort of thing. By the way, do you want to do this next time? Yeah, we'll do it next time. I want to do a full breakdown. We'll do it next time. And we'll do this one next time too. Okay, cool.

There's a couple of things we need to rush over. Yeah, we'd rather have the time. We're running out of time here. We are, we are. It's okay. We can get all this stuff next time. Okay, we'll do it all next time. So guys, it's time for Yamcha. That's our Q&A segment where we answer your questions and you question our answers. We really do hope so far you've enjoyed the show today and learned something. But guess what? It's Friday. It is. It's time to loosen the tie. If you're watching live or on the weekend, you're going to see the Q&A. If not...

We bid you adieu. Stay awesome. But you can always catch the full Q&A if you're part of the patron. That's right. At any level. Kpop Classic says, I wish there was more awareness that rich Chinese kids' money comes from their parents' corruption, like tofu dragon and other disasters. Dirty money skimmed from taxpayers, and these kids' wealth should not be celebrated. Well, I mean, a lot of it is, yes. Yeah, it's unfortunate. It's not the kids' fault. No, no. But it's true that it's only the richest...

children are ever outside of China. The majority of people can't afford to go and study abroad. So you're either dealing with somebody who's the son or daughter of a communist party member, and they're using corrupt bribery money, or you're dealing with someone who owns a factory and they've got a lot of money, or you're dealing with somebody who worked incredibly hard and earned the money to send their children abroad. But it's only the elite. So you're only seeing the top 1% of Chinese people travel abroad. That's right. Yeah.

Thank you very much. Silverio Goodwin. What do you guys think of iShowSpeed's IRL streams in China? Since it's been flooding my social media feed, we talked about this in the past too. I mean, we're not his demographic. Yeah, we're not. Look, the fact that it's being sanctioned and allowed by the Chinese government means he's only allowed to be doing certain things. Yeah. They would shut him down if he weren't anything sensitive. Yeah.

I mean, the fact that he did the 22nd floor thing, come on, it's all planned. It's all planned out. It's pretty obvious what's going on. But you guys come to your own conclusion. Yes, absolutely. K-pop classic says, I think you're missing the mark on Chinese construction. They're capable of normal work, but corruption and multiple levels skimming are the root cause. That's literally what we said. We said that. People built the pyramids 5,000 years ago. We know. Yeah.

Kenneth Donnelly, wow, China is going after IKEA with their new flat park buildings. I didn't see that. Anthony Saints, maybe there's some joke there, I'm not sure. Yeah, because IKEA, you know, you like compress it down. So flat pack building is what you wanted to say. Gotcha. Gotcha, I gotcha, Kenneth.

Anthony Saints, hey, thanks for the great show. It's good that you bring the honeypot with proof, Ferris wheel. Thank you so much. I'll give you a Ferris wheel. Abhijatamed says, correction, not the disaster zone. It happened at their company location, which got yellow taped by police. He's a Thai person. Okay. Thank you. That makes sense. I believe a Thai person. Hong, Hong, Hong. You got a Hong. I would draw that.

That's something we appreciate. Thank you for pointing that out. Haunter1, no shame shields in foreign countries. No shame shields. Yeah, exactly. They actually adjusted the design by reducing the bottom beam from 1.4 by 1.4 to 1 by 1, said the tie. Wow. Maybe that was in some of the documents or something. Gabriel Keane says, enjoy the weekend, gents. Certainly will. Thank you.

Enjoyed watching the Xiaomi stock crash after the SU-7 accelerated an autopilot into a cement barrier for no reason. Some AI 5G expertise right there. Yeah, you know, that's actually one of those things. Sorry. One of those things, huh? No, I mean, look, it's pretty terrible. And, you know, I didn't show it, but, you know, we talked about that one, the one that's just basically the Porsche.

know taikan exactly the same and uh it accelerated and burned two young uh girls to death i know it's horrible right i mean i saw this report yeah you know that's also the same one that the eyeshow speed was all like oh this thing's awesome or whatever it just shows you there's two faces to everything right you've got the propaganda side like the foreign ministry versus the chinese yes exactly domestic stuff but then in china people are like what the hell this thing's dangerous and also i mean there's tons of reasons why

Anyway, let's continue. You get the picture. Debbie San Diego, thank you for the gift. Dagwa, thank you for the gifts. Stinky says, don't tread on me.

Okay. Lynn says, please make a Wats How, the number one sound bit. I mean, it kind of is these days. Is it? Well, everyone always asks for that, but I'll just throw this in there. Oh, I think she meant the Ferris wheel. Yes, that's what I'm saying. I think it is the number one. That one, yeah. Because it's always asked for, the Ferris wheel. Stinky says, Giga Chads support freedom. Harry Mason, thank you very much. Mason, eh? Oh, cool. Come on, you little...

been a while Dragonilla says Mao scattered sky high with Tannerite guess that's one great leap forward he finally nailed yes yes that was a great clip what an excellent clip I really wish we knew where can we find that like you know what we could do just do it ourselves oh yeah it's true I'm not that good of a shot I guess come on I thought you were pretty good with a rifle yeah I'm not bad I'm not bad rifle's pretty easy let's be honest yeah you're right

I'm just trying to pick up that person. No, I mean, from that distance, though, that was a great shot. I don't know if I'd be that accurate, because it didn't... I mean, he probably had a sight on it and didn't see. Yeah. Harry Mason says, Trump waifu pillow? What kind of question is that? No, thank you. Get out of here. No, thank you. Kenneth Donnelly says, the pressure cooker popcorn probably originated with puffed rice.

Could be. Yeah, there is a puffed rice dish they have, yeah. There is. I saw this once at one of those fairs. They had like this weird machine and it was making those like cheesy puff looking things. Looked like a thing was taking a turd. But it's not a cheesy puff. So disappointing if you eat it, dude. It tastes like packing peanuts. It is. I think it is. I think so. I think people in Saturday are eating that. They're probably the rejected ones get used for packing peanuts, you know.

That's true. Mattishar Generalis, Americans talk about freedom to own all types of firearms while the Chinese can set up bombs in the streets in their backyards. I know. It's true. They're making cannons, bro. Doc Slothington says, one more no you in honor of Mao and the popcorn. Absolutely. Here it comes. Have a good weekend, everyone. See you in Japan. Bye.

Yeah, I hope you guys can make it to the Monday show. It's going to be really fun. Oh, yeah. See you there, man. It's going to be a lot of fun. Stinky, China is the hillbilly of Asia. Maybe, yeah. Kind of. In some ways. Yeah. Fanatic Forager says, finally seeing you live in real time. Pig Bay time. Oh, no. Oh, yes. Oh, no.

Oh, you can't take that away. I can. Yes, that's the whole rule. Okay, fine. There's no charges now. We'll sneak another one in later. There's no charges now. Oh, there's no charges. You know the rule. People pay for that. Okay, all right. Yeah, it's fair. It's fair. Fair is fair. Excuse me. Have a good weekend, chat, says Harry Mason. Thank you. You too. Nan Rafalco. Thank you very much. Ivan Alexander Smith Romero says, hilarious show as usual, gents. Thank you.

J.W. Marriott have a hotel in Jungjo that locals call the Corn Building. They get irritated when it's pointed out that corn was developed by Mesoamericans and Aztecs. Big Bay, please. Yeah, there we go. I mean, look, that's the thing. Um...

When you grow up in China, you're told that your local specialty or whatever is, you know, your tosa. That's like it comes from your area. You're very proud of it, right? Yes. And especially people from Sichuan, they love the fact that they've got spicy hot pot or these spicy dishes. And from their youngest moments, first memories, they've been told this is our dish.

This is our specialty. So when an upstart foreigner comes along and says, well, you do know that chili peppers don't come from China. It doesn't compute. They will throw a conniption fit and they'll beat you up. They think...

You know what I mean? Some people will. They'll rub those chilies in your eyes. It's so bad that it's not just like, oh, nuh-uh, they're from China. It's like, no, not only are they from China, you don't have them. Yes. You don't have this. One of the weirdest questions we always get asked is, you know, can you eat spicy food? It's like, bro, I'm from China.

I'm from the West. I'm from where it's from. Yeah. Can you eat spicy? They would always ask this. And you're like, more than you. Especially in Guangdong, dude. Especially in Guangdong. You'll see these videos. And I'm sorry to say this. This is going to be a big mask off moment for some people. But they'll see these influencers or whatever. And they'll say, this is the spiciest food in the world. Big butt.

melting hot pot you know 999 level 999 level spicy and they're nice people that make some of these videos but like they're not that spicy no they're just actually not like you'll get diarrhea because it's like oil it's like an oil slick yeah yeah but it's not that spicy if you go to mexico or you go to india or you go to any thailand yeah you go to any of these other countries it's

10 times spicier than anything, China. Yeah, that's the thing. I went specifically with some people. Someone was from Chengdu. Someone was from Sichuan. And they're like, we're going to show you spicy food. The spiciest. You know, they bought the spicy fish. It looked spicy. It literally looked like a volcano's asshole. Okay. It just was this pot of red chilies with all this crap. And I'm eating it. And it's like, dude, I've had like...

that were spicier in South Africa. Yes. You know what I'm saying? No joke. Literally. No joke. Most countries that have spicy food are much spicier than China. Oh, yeah, yeah. And so, you know, you get this idea that you're getting spicy butthole because you're eating gutter oil. Yes, yeah. You're eating chemicals. Anyways, just to explain that whole phenomenon of a lot of people in China, they think something comes from China when it hasn't, but that's because they've never been told any difference. Yes, yes. And it's hard to accept that. Yes. You know. Good point. Yeah.

When a kid goes missing here in Western Europe, you have hundreds of volunteers, police officers and civil defense, army battalions, even helicopters looking for them. My heart breaks for Chinese parents. I was shocked when I got to America and my phone just out of the blue was like, Amber Alert, you know, look out for this, whatever it was like Honda CRV license plate, this and this and this.

I was like, what the hell? And that's just because one kid went missing. Yep. And I'm like, that's impressive. Everyone's on alert. That's civilization. You know what I mean? That means you're looking after your kids. Not 200,000 kidnapped kids every year in China that aren't documented. And then you can't talk about it because then you'll just get in trouble. Yeah. It's nuts. So this is what you guys want. The people that are championing China all the time, the CCP and its top-down leadership. Yeah. Why do you champion? Yeah. Why do you support it? Here's the thing. There's nothing wrong with saying that you like China.

There's nothing wrong with saying that, hey, listen, China's awesome. You go there, check out the buildings. It's fun. It's vibrant. There's like interesting food. But stop this like America sucks. China's great. This is ridiculous. Because it's stupid. It's so wrong. China's still very far behind in many, many ways. That's the thing. And the problem is if you try to hide those issues and try to pretend they don't exist, they will never go away. No, and it's immoral to do that.

Yeah. Don't forget, at the end of the day, the reason why we criticize specifically the CCP and many aspects of China is because we want change. And because we understand it. Yeah. And we have a vested interest in China, having lived there for so long and having friends and family there. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Anyway.

Rent over. Hauke Sattler says, question. Yes. Who do I have to sue in China for that blatant cultural appropriation of the image of a world-known failed Austrian artist? Are you talking about Hitler? Oh, just kidding. One starfish Hitler, please. Oh, there we go. Excellent. All right, here it comes. Hitler! Ah!

That's great. Yes. That's weird. It's very weird. Sorry. If you're new here, you'll have no clue what's going on. Imagine they tune in. They're like, my friend told me about this China show thing. They tune in right then a Starfish Hitler comes on. It'd be very weird. It would be weird. It'd be hard to explain. In fact, I don't know how to explain it. It's like a crab anyway. It's a crab.

It's a crab. It's a starfish and it's Hitler. And it makes women sad. Yes, exactly. K-Pop Classic says, on the topic of theft, why do they charge for toilet paper in public restrooms? It's a dead giveaway. Melbourne lost, thank you very much, Kenneth Donnelly.

It's not theft. It's reinforced socialism. A Japanese name says, FYI, there are unmanned veggie stalls in Japan. There are unmanned veggie stalls here right down the road from us right now. Right now. That's what blew me away. You drive down the road, they've got honey that they make. Literally where we are now. It's called an honesty shop and they literally have a little jar there and they leave money. There are in this 20 mile radius of here. You live there. I live here.

The office is somewhere around here. If I did a triangle loop between our three locations, I could find six of those shops. Yeah, they got that corn from the Amish and all that. You know, here's the thing, and it pisses me off because it would be so easy to do what these propagandists in China do. I could walk around in America and say, look, it's an honesty shop.

It's amazing. Like, you know, you'll never find this in China because you won't, right? I could do all this nonsense. I could go walk around in the middle of the night if I want in the woods here and say, look, I'm safe. You know, whatever. Do whatever the hell I want. I could do all this stuff, but there's no point, right? Because America doesn't have to sell itself as hard as China. Right.

When you've got a good product, you don't need to sell it real hard. You know what I mean? You don't. China has to try to sell it real hard because the product actually sucks. Yep. It's kind of like you're trying to tell somebody, yeah, look, this car's really, really ugly. It gets terrible gas mileage. But guess what? It looks really nice. You know, people really like it. It's comfy.

Yeah. I know what you're saying. You know what I mean? It's like, there's so many problems, but you got to keep like, don't worry about those. Don't even think about those. Look at it. It's really cool. You're going to love it. The people that hate the U S both in the U S and outside the U S, um, including these shills and stuff would, I mean, would they just die? Would they pass away if they saw these honesty shops? Literally, I could literally go find six now, right now.

I think they would. I could technically steal all of it. I mean, if you were a scumbag, you could go steal it. But he's a scumbag. No. No one is a scumbag. Because those honesty shops would not exist...

If people were just stealing from them. Like this person said, it takes a lot of trust in society. Yes. I think they would pass away. If Black Cat McDonald's knew that you could just have honesty. He knows he's just a liar. Yes. A piece of shit. It's pretending like you can leave your bag on an e-bike in China. And that's normal. I mean, that's such a lie. Yeah. It's such a lie. But that's what he does. He gets paid to lie. Imagine having such low moral character that you get paid to lie.

And then you know it's wrong. You knowingly lie. Especially when it's things about the Uyghur genocide and stuff. Oh, yes. I mean, that's sick. That's just gutter morals. You don't even have morals. You don't have morals at that point. It's cowardice, too. It's disgusting. It's cowardice, too. There'll be a comeuppance one day. For sure. Gwendolyn H. says, Hi, how's life, Serpensaday? Great, thank you. I was wondering if they have GoFundMe in China. No, it's banned.

I think it's banned. No, I don't. Yeah. They must have their own equivalent. I don't know about that. D, thank you very much. M5Guy, loving the show. Cheers from the Pacific Northwest. Hope you all come out here someday. Yes. Thank you. MaggaSince1492 says, deep penetration? Something like that. Yeah, I guess it kind of translates like that. Philosify, what was the Chinese word or term used

wok cooking technique where the flame chars the food. That's called the breath of the dragon. However, it's often pronounced in Cantonese because they use that technique in da pai dang. Yeah, exactly. So when they use da pai dang, you're going to get that flavor. Yeah, exactly. It's also called the fire that licks the roach. Can you explain that? Because, you know, the thing is...

So many times, specifically in Guangdong, when they use that breath of the dragon, in the kitchens, there are cockroaches on the walls. Okay, there are lots of cockroaches in southern China. You'll never escape them, right? So as they're flicking the fried rice or whatever and that flame goes up, it sears the cockroaches and causes them to fall into the dish. That's why...

It's got to be at least five or six times I've bitten into a cockroach in my meal. In specifically the fried rice dishes. Yes, it's always the fried rice dishes. It's gross, dude. Because you'll be eating it, and you know what? It got to a point where you don't even notice anymore. You'll see it, and you pick it out. You don't say, excuse me, can I have my money back? Yes, like, oh, wait here, there's a roach in my soup. You don't do that. But yes, that's a real thing. Remember, I think Dragon Dilla made that fantastic...

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So good. That's a great one. That is a great one. Alan J. Mackey, 20 years. Hold on. I think there's a...

A thing? Yeah, I just got to get rid of some. Mods, can you keep an eye out for like an investment troll? Oh, you mean like a crypto bro? Yeah, like one of those. And then everyone piles in, I didn't know I could double my... Yeah, yeah. Please get rid of that. Coordinated attack. I'm just... It looks like that. Okay. Alan J. Mackey says, 20 years as a custom brokerage specialist. Yes, this will hurt for a bit. It must be done for our future.

Thank you. K-pop classics. Do you know why it's called Xinhua News? Xinhua News? Yeah, Xinhua News. Yeah, almost. Yep. Magistrar Generalis, you guys got to understand China. Haunter 1. Oh, yeah, we got to understand China. You got to understand China. That guy must feel like a bit of a tit these days. Why? Why?

It wasn't his fault. No, because he was betrayed so hard. I know, it hurts. Yeah. He didn't... He wasn't like an overt CCP shill. He was just a shill for China. Yeah, but that particular video that he made, though. That was his first one. Yeah, that's... I mean, like... His later content wasn't that bad. Oh, yeah, no. It was fine. He did a redemption arc. I'm just saying, like, imagine thinking back about that video. He's probably glad there's, like, no trace of it anywhere. Yeah, yeah. Because we looked so hard. We did. Because we remembered it. Yeah. It was such a... It was getting passed around a lot back then.

Yeah, because it was so ridiculous. It was so overt. Anyway. Hunter1, like making a friend play without their game shark. Travis Compton, have you seen streamer Art Hyuk? His takes on China, I have no idea who that is. No, sorry. Janky Ramen, got here late, so I may have missed it, but any response from CCP on Taiwan having its own

Oh, yeah. On Trump's tariff post. Yeah, it's like country. There's a couple of things that are getting a little close to calling Taiwan its own country. It's pretty funny. Yeah, it's pretty funny. So I'm Josh saying, happy weekend, gentlemen. I'm recovering from shoulder surgery. Wow. I'm sorry about that, Josh. I hope it went well. Friend of the channel. I should have taken the pills like Jeff. You should have. Why did you not? Jeff, take the pills, Jeff. Oh, you tried to give me. You know why he didn't? I just got called. Oh.

It's just working out. That's probably how he got a shoulder injury. Too much pumping of that iron, you know? People are like, when you get surgery, they're going to try to get you on all those opiates and stuff. I literally came out of surgery and I was like, I don't want to have any pain pills. I don't like taking that kind of stuff. Even if it's for pain. To me, it doesn't have this... There's better non... That's what ibuprofen is for. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There's better non-drugs like ibuprofen or something for pain. And they're like, okay...

They didn't like say, I'm going to push this on you. He's going to fall into my trap. Yeah, exactly. Big opium is... Yeah, exactly. It's coming in. He's going to be fentanyl out. Oh, well, yeah. They didn't even ask me if I was sure. I think that time has passed, maybe. It's probably a long time ago. Probably 90s or something. Yeah. I know it was a thing. Tentacle Bucket says I'm late to the stream. I need a refresher in Chinese manners. Oh, yes, indeed. Let me try to find that for you. Where on earth is that even? Let me show you Chinese manners.

It is actually two sessions time. We didn't do it this year. We didn't do it. We might have to do it as a little bonus. We still can. We could do it during the Q&A maybe next week. Yeah, I don't want to break the tradition. It's just we have done it three or four years in a row. Yeah. That's a lot. But then again, there's a new audience. They might not know. Never forget we have the special chicken thing.

We got the chicken thing. We have a new Two Sessions thing. We got a new Two Sessions chicken thing. Oh, my gosh. Did Winston find it? Yeah, it's really funny. It's a good one. Yeah, so that's coming next week. Clouds. Clouds T850. This is a bit late, but why not just use a popcorn maker? No U. I'll give you an OU. It wouldn't be as cool with a normal popcorn maker, let's be honest. There's something, you know, like... Exploding popcorn is way cooler. Also, there's, you know, like...

What are you trying to say here? Popcorn maker just doesn't fit with the grimy filth of a Chinese street market where you're going to find that. It's just better. Because you always find those cannon things where there's literally like a slaughtered pig gut over there. Yeah, there's guts everywhere. There's mud. It's the wrong vibe. You've got that vibe, right? It's got to be filthy and polluted. And it's like polluted and misty. You smell it and cough. And there's like an old dude there and he's like, wow.

It's just a thing. It's part of it. It's a thing. It's cold out. You just don't get this like a popcorn machine in a movie theater. It's all clean with its glass and it's doing its thing now. It's not the same. Clearly never worked in a movie theater if you think those things are clean. Well, in comparison, okay. It's not big guts. Nathan, have a beer on me. Have a great weekend. Can I get a big pay? Certainly can. I've got no charges. No more charges. Good. It makes me irrimish and a pig fat.

Excellent. Am I mason bark that? Yes. Sherry S says, please charge up the pig bay pen for me. One charge achieved. Wow. Stinky. Good, I suppose. You think China will ever be a superpower like the USA? No. Even if it was a superpower, it wouldn't be like the USA. It'd be a super regarded power. It'd be a superpower like Hitler's Germany wanted to be. Yeah. And the Soviet Union wanted to be. Yeah, yeah. These failed states. Yeah. Yeah.

K-pop classics regarding the rich kids who parents got rich off of skimming tofu drag. Their

Their money goes to luxury goods and lavish lifestyles. The blood of those people who hurt or died and used on these materialistic things. I mean, in general, yeah. Agreed. Richard G says, can I get a China show mascot in a storm? Is that a mascot? Which one? Drop bear or whatever? Oh, drop bear. Yes. Where's drop bear? Dump bear. Dump bear. Yes, you got dump bear. There is a dump bear follow up, dude. Is there? I got a whole new dump bear like clip, but I can't find it now. Oh, dang. I'll search for it next week. Okay, cool. Yeah.

World Eater 359, friend of the channel, says, I literally walked in and the screen said, enter pussy. I know I missed like 90% of the other show, but what the hell did I miss? Yeah, you'll have to rewind and find out. Yes, I know. Be kind, rewind. Ian Patterson, thank you very much. Very generous of you. Finally caught you live. Greetings from Australia. Thanks for a great show. Absolutely, mate. Great.

Paul Beatty says, great episode, guys. I imagine the de minimis restrictions are going to be really disruptive. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Big time. Michael A. Mayo says, we got to have a massive celebration when those bullshit companies. When de minimis goes away. Yes. Yes.

go away yes and they're like ah crap we can't compete anymore well i mean it was unfair it was very unfair yeah michael a mayo says china produces 75 of the world's commercial shipping now builds the u.s uh military ship production five to one china reinvested for china reinvested has 40 percent of its gdp and domestic infrastructure thanks to u.s foreign investment alarmist or realist uh

A little of both. Yes. A little of both. But there is, we need to catch up. Yeah. On certain aspects. There's not enough time for us to really get into it today. No. But it is a thing. It's a good question. You're onto something. I'll put it that way. Hunter1, honesty shops are for people who pick up the bike. Yes.

Yes. I love that. I love that. We need Pick Up the Bike merch. Yeah. I'm not joking. I think that'd be great merch for the China show because it's like a good message. It's not just like, we're cool. Yeah. It's like a cool image of like a Chinese guy picking up a bike. Yeah. Like artistic image. Yes. And it says like Pick Up the Bike in Chinese. Mm-hmm. Would be pretty sick. Exactly. Pick Up the Bike. Stinky. Can foreigners...

Still go to China now? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, of course. Have fun. Fanatic Forager, thou shall not bear false witness. Starfish, she. Okay, where on earth is that again? Philip. With how troubled times are, it would be great to hear things that are nice. Okay, sure. Let me find... Where's... There we go. Nice. There we are. MB, you'll have to cut them out yourself. Tyri, Deos, Pig Bay, Charts. Oof.

And then Donald Carter says, make it three. I got three charges of the pen. And that's it. We'll see you guys on Monday. Thank you very much, everybody, for joining us today. Hopefully you learned something. Hope you have a great weekend and stay strong during these interesting times. Cannot wait to see you on Monday, like you said. And other than that, stay awesome. And I'm not going to cut myself off. Let's do it. Five, four.