I'm crashing out over China

lights up in your house, like who is this for, this is the reality of Chinese infrastructure, is tofu drag projects everywhere, it's that when it rains your roof collapses, it's that things aren't even bolted to the floor, I'm gonna freak out man, like you have people like this. I give up green card, I move back to China for this, for a home in China, you don't need to pay any property tax, for high speed internet, only ten dollars per month, with the phone bills all together, and this is my home, the government is not gonna take your home away just because you don't pay property tax, and yes, there's no homeless in China. This dude on Instagram making outrageous false claims, there's no homelessness in China, what about this, or this, or this. There's plenty of homeless people in China, they exist, to claim that something entirely does not exist in a country so big, that's just false. My issue with this type of false propaganda isn't the fact that they exist, it's the fact that they're trying to make it seem like a country is so perfect, so beautiful, and that it has no flaws, which is impossible, that's just not how the world works. Imperfection is what makes things go forward, because you can move on, and you can improve from those imperfections to improve on the lives of people. If somebody is saying that something is entirely perfect, well, that's just how it looks on the outside, and that's precisely what China has done. No other country in the world spends so much money trying to make it seem like their country is nice and beautiful. And the fact that they hired YouTubers and TikTokers to go to China to film these propaganda-like videos, touring these same spots, is just crazy to me. Like nothing's real in China. This is a promo filming session for city management officers, they're not actually helping the people and the citizens of that city, they're in fact some of the most notoriously bad people who abuse their powers to find people, to confiscate things from street vendors, etc. They're hated. This is another promo faking rainfall for construction and housing bureau staff. You have to wonder why this country needs so much content to make itself look beautiful. Real confidence isn't about things that you tell other people, it's about how others perceive you, and it's about the feedback that you get from others. But China does the opposite. It just tries to put out all of these videos and messaging saying that I am beautiful, come to me, I am beautiful. One example is the recent Texas flood. It's tragic, it's terrible, a lot of young lives were lost. And the fact that you can openly talk about this, the fact that people should be held responsible, and that you can get information on US media platforms, like social media or just traditional media. Have you heard about the recent flood in northeastern China? In a sponge city called Daxing? Probably not, because the purpose of a sponge city project is to soak up the flood water and to avoid the city from being flooded. It's their attempt to copy the Japanese drainage system to basically start this mega project to improve the drainage system in that city. Of course it still got flooded because that entire project is probably a money-grabbing corruption scheme. But these things don't paint the perfect image of China so they never get talked about. I've already talked about this type of behavior before in other videos, but you have clip-on leaves, clip-on branches, you have fake flowers being planted in parks. They look pretty on camera and that's simply all they want. 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In USD, that's about $32, which is actually a third of what I pay Verizon every single month. And that sounds pretty cheap, right? It is cheap, but when you consider the fact that 229 yuan in a 3,000 yuan monthly income is actually three times of what a 3,000 USD income would have to pay for the internet. Now, this is very interesting because for a Starbucks employee or a McDonald's worker in the United States, they can take their salary of $2,500 a month to China and live a lavish lifestyle for a month. And that's simply because of currency differences. But to compare the actual salaries of both countries, a 3,000 yuan salary paying 229 a month for internet and cell phone is still a lot. So it is not as cheap as that video claims it to be. And the bigger catch today is that in China, you might not even be able to be paid on time. So can you even afford things? Don't believe me? These are just the images and videos I found today through searches on Chinese social media. So this is not some collection from months ago. And this image here is one discussing that civil servants in the city has not been paid. This one is for teachers and this one for substitute teachers. And these are all posts about hospitals delaying payments to medical staff. And these aren't just low income workers that work in factories or construction jobs. These are middle class earners in China that are not being paid. Civil servants, these are government employees. And finally, this is a case, this is from a toy factory in Guangdong province. The workplace owes wages to over 100 employees and they've gathered to demand to be paid. Another thing I have issues with that video is that he claims there's no property tax in China, that it's seemingly like, oh, this is real house ownership. They do not take property tax. One day they need the land. They won't take it back. They will pay me a lot of money so I can get a new home, better home. Having a home to live in is basic human rights in China. The fact that you own this house until the government wants to land back and then they will compensate you for it. Sure, they will. But the reality is the opposite. First of all, let's talk about the fact that you should be lucky you don't live in a tofu drag construction apartment like in this video. Now let's talk about the actual issue with the so-called no property tax in China. If you've been around long enough, you've heard the news about forced demolition. That's how 2008 the Olympics in Beijing was done. They forcefully demolished homes in the areas that they wanted to gentrify or redevelop. And guess what? They never compensated those homeowners enough money. They simply said, here is an offer that we can give you. Take it or leave it. Now, obviously, because these people own the place, they're like, we're not going to take this lowball offer. So what they ended up doing was they try to defend their home from the city demolition team. And obviously, the CCP controls every aspect of the media. So they started to paint these home defenders as, you know, violent militias trying to rise up with arms against the local government. And that made them justified when the police came in with force to try to demolish their homes. And this still happens today, obviously, to a much lesser scale, because literally, they've done this to every single city in China now, so there's no more land to be done. But yeah, sure, if you don't own a home in China, one day they want the land back for whatever reason, they're not going to pay you enough. That's just not the reality in China. I'm also kind of freaking out about other videos like they try to blend convenience in China as freedom, like how you can conveniently order Starbucks from a drone, or how you can conveniently take a train from one city to another, or how you can conveniently get something. But you know what the actual cost behind all of this is? A huge amount of environmental damage, contamination, which they don't really talk about. For example, in this video, it shows a garbage pile next to river and streams. How about the garbage piling up next to tourist destinations or scenic areas or in hidden caves? For example, in this video, it took place in the Dongting Creek in the province of Hunan. How about wastewater being dumped into the river? On July 6th, in Chongyang County, Hubei Province, the China Energy Conservation Waste-to-Energy Plant was exposed for long-term illegal discharge of hazardous wastewater. And they also don't show you how gross restaurants are. Like this one here. He's literally using a tablecloth to wipe down his shoes. And in this video, this is a Chinese chain in Japan chopping chicken on the floor. It's not the fact that they try to make this blatant fake propaganda. It's the fact that they make it seem like it's so believable. And to the average person who doesn't really know much about China, they think, wow, neon lights and beautiful scenic areas is China. And therefore, China is great and that everything else about China is not worth talking about. And that's just simply not true. So I hope you share a little bit of my anger today. And if you do, let me know in the comments about your thoughts on this topic and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. We'll see you next time. Bye bye.