Americans are popularizing the lifestyle of China
Americans are popularizing the lifestyle of China
Frank Li, Feb 1, 2026
https://blog.creaders.net/user_blog_diary.php?did=NTM5Mjcz
The predatory behavior of the power aroused the resistance and dissatisfaction among the traditional allies of the West.
At Davos 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Dr. Mark Carney angerly announced that the rules-based international order has been detroyed by the predatory behavior of the power; and then he abandoned the commitment to cooperate with the countries that share the same values, to have visited China (which has different values), and signed cooperation agreements.
Thus PM Dr. Mark Carney has triggered a wave as a model, now the leaders of the Western countries lined up to visit China, seeking opportunities for cooperation without caring about the values.
Today, I saw a YouTube video where an American blogger said that China Is the Global It-Girl Now, and there many Americans are popularizing the culture and lifestyle of China in the United States.
I copy the transcript in below.
It is not only the Americans are popularizing the culture and lifestyle of China; but also people are doing the same thing in other countries.
A man living in Italy emigrated from China; who said that: “My daughter is in fourth grade in Italy. Her classmates all love China and envy her for being Chinese and speaking Mandarin. They all enjoy playing with her. One of her classmates even said she wishes she were Chinese and could live in China. Things have changed so much in the last two years.”
AlphaGo beats human Go player revealed human intelligence acts as robot; the acquired knowledge acts as software driver; killing software kills people, and service software serves people. Due to brain defects and toxic ideologies brainwash; over 50% of population is in antisocial quality.
Whether a civilization develops into humane or inhumane depends on whether it cultures people into human or the opposite.
Since ancient times, China developed rituals, music and Confucianism to humanize people behave as human in collectivistic values and peace seeks genes and took creating a peace-prosperous world as a matter of course, thus created the East Asian Confucian civilization sphere. Its social elements are well-suited to the survival of communal and mutually supportive nature of humankind.
Since ancient times, Europe didn't culture people as human, but fabricating feud Gods brainwash people as sworn enemies and torn apart humanity and culture, leading to mutual slaughter to this day. This has fostered a individualistic values and warlike gene, and a belief that plundering and killing others to pursuit of being number one is self-evident, and created individualistic civilization with the social elements are unsuitable for human survival.
Now, individualistc Westerners are abandoning their individualistc culture to embrace the collectivistic culture of China.
Oh their God, the collectivistic culture of China has turned the world upside down.
Why?
In China, even late at night, a girl can walk safely on the street—something is unimaginable to Westerners.
Consider this: due to congenital brain defects, the proportion of naturally antisocial individuals is roughly the same across all countries. However, China deals with the antisocial behaviors of the antisocial individuals rationally, severely punishing them, even with the death penalty.
But in the Western countries, for pleasing voters; the populism politicians have to play with valueless values and inhuman human rights, going to great lengths to protect antisocial individuals.
The values and human rights made Western civilization inhumane actually.
Oh their God, why do humans acting as inhuman.
China Is the Global It-Girl Now
Jessica Burbank Jan 19, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAM3QABIGFQ
A chaotic discussion of China's rise to pop-culture dominance. Jessica Burbank dives into what makes China the rising power it is today.
I want to talk about China. I feel called to discuss China today for a few reasons. My social media is showing me a lot of people doing very Chinese things.
Um, apple tea being the biggest one, like bone apple tea. And it's people in America. I I want to say Americans, but people aren't saying American anymore.
They're saying usians, eions, kind of like Asians, but with a U. And it's because America is two continents. So we say Americans referring to people in the states, but really it's eions is what we're going to say now. I've decided. I don't like the pronunciation USen. That sounds ridiculous. It's going to be yuge. So all of these eions are posting their Asian tea. It's um apples.
Juju berries. I I thought Juju Bees was just a madeup thing. I thought it was a candy. It's a real thing that comes from the earth. And then there's goji berries in it. You boil the apples in the hot water and then you make this thing that you drink. They only drink warm water. They think that the reason we get sick so much in the US is because we drink cold water. So we have to drink the warm one now. And so everyone in the US is embracing Chinese culture. And it has me thinking, is this Chinese supremacy? Is this what it was like to live in other countries when America was becoming the it girl of the world? When I was in middle school, a new girl came from Albania and she was the coolest thing.
Everyone wanted to be like Flutra. She displaced the previous most popular girl. She was the fluter. And so we all followed her and wanted to be like her instead of it was like Shelby before that probably. I asked other people too.
I was like, "Obviously, she was the most popular girl in our middle school." And they were like, "No, I thought it was, you know, this other person. You don't even have the same perception of other people as to who the most popular people in school is." This was groundbreaking for me. I was like, I assumed the hierarchy was ingrained in all of us. But no, we all had different perceptions of who the most popular person was. And similarly, people probably feel the same way about China and the US fighting to be the hedgeimony. I know Russia feels a type of way about that, but basically this stuff, women in America are drinking it.
I've only ever seen women in America make a purchase, right? Korean skin care is a thing. French makeup is a thing. Italian leather, but this is just apples and water. This is a cultural practice. This is not a product you import from another country. Also, the hrase, I'm in a very Chinese time of my life. kids are saying it. The other thing, Chinese music, it's trending in the US. So, why are we aspirationally Chinese now? I think it's a sign that the shift toward Chinese hedgeimonyy is happening globally. Also, take a look at this video.
China is fully prepared to fight to the very end because the world is big enough that the United States is not the totality of the market in the world. So, if the United States wants to go in that direction of completely shutting itself out of the China market, be my guest. Yeah. And China will lose the US market, which as I've said is 15%. We don't care. We don't we don't care.
China has been here for 5,000 years. Most of the time, there was no United States and we survived. And if the United States wants to bully China, we will deal with the situation without the United States. and we expect to survive for another 5,000 years. He's dunking on us. Um, I don't even know what to say. He's in charge now. He China leads the world after this video. The only thing that we understand in America is when someone big dicks us. We only understand power when it's coming from someone who's a little bit aggressive and egotistical.
You can have every possible credential and for some reason in America that's not enough. You also have to walk with the confidence and talk with the ego that you're that guy. I understand it's a cultural thing. I moved to the Midwest. Being humble is a a big part of the culture here. It's a quiet confidence. You don't brag.
That's its own kind of, you know, big [ __ ] big ballsing. And so this guy talking to us like that at a time when our leader is embarrassingly incompetent, you're in charge now. China's in charge now. This is why people look up to China. We only understand aggressive authority. We only understand this kind of toxic paternalism.
Tell me you're in charge. I'll believe you. That's how Americans were taught to think. We don't all think like that. Some of us are enlightened or another term for it might be woke. But I think China is the new superpower. We used to not care what was going on in other countries. I remember when I was in college, there was this event where some women from India were coming to our campus to teach traditional Indian dance. I think they were doing a performance and there was going to be an interactive portion. No one wanted to go. One of my friends who's like a resident adviser was like, "No one signed up for this event. We felt bad.
We're let's go. Let's go learn. Who cares? Let's go embrace this thing that when are when else are we going to do this?" Right? So, we show up, five of us, like five of them. And they teach us the a whole dance routine. It was like a slumber party, right? It was a beautiful cultural exchange. And I think about why why wasn't anyone else wanting to go?
Why didn't any anyone else want to learn that? It's because Americans are like, "We're the best. Why would I learn anything else?" It's not right. You enrich your life from learning from other people's and and embracing other cultures. But if you're the best, why would you do that? That's kind of the American mentality. Not anymore. Now, we want to be Chinese a little bit. I tried to find a photo of us on that night and I went to this girl's Instagram page. We used to be super close. She has a baby now. Lots of baby photos. I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. I'm years back and I accidentally tap a photo of of the baby. I almost liked it on accident.
Stalking someone's Instagram is one thing. Accidentally liking a baby photo. Getting caught stalking a baby photo, that's unacceptably weird behavior. Okay. I was like, you know what? I'm not going to look for this anymore. It's going to turn me into a weird person perceptively. I'm not creeping on babies. That's I can't believe that that's a thing people have to worry about. But nevertheless, the president's a pedophile. Another reason China is on the rise. When I was in South Africa, I studied abroad there in 2016. They had photos of Obama on their fridge. If you go to a black township outside of Cape Town, there's like their children's wedding photos and then Barack Obama magnets on the fridge and their whole stay. Um, they love the guy. That's a that's the impression America has on other countries that now I see China start having. But it it permeates, right? Other countries listen to American music, watch American TV, wear American clothes. There's always a little bit of aspirational western stuff abroad and it's because America made it that way. You know, it's why we got all the military bases. That's why the CIA's been busy for the past 50 years. You know, we wanted to be that. But China's doing it. Are they trying to do it? Probably.
I've never seen a commercial for Chinese food, but we always eat Chinese food. I saw that on my timeline the other day. that um I've never seen a commercial for Chinese food. Me either. That's crazy.
McDonald's, Arby's, American food has an annoying amount of advertising attached to it. China's just out there being great, letting the greatness speak for them. And now they have this guy talking his So, we're not stopping them.
No matter what, we're not stopping them. It was surprising to me though when I was living in another country how much America was looked to and seen as important. It was an election cycle also. I remember seeing a commercial for the Trevor Noah hosted daily show. It was advertised to to South Africans as a show for them. What's up with that? Right. It was like what's going on in the crazy United States? If you have this idiot, this idiot orange guy running for office saying god knows what. These stupid people have all the weapons. Thankfully, we have this guy from Zanzi to explain it all for us. I was like, this is how the daily show is advertised to South Africa as if it's made for them. I was like, damn. I felt bad. I felt like bad about who I am as an American. I was embarrassed a little bit. I was like, Imagine if they showed them my Jerry Springer. Anyway, American Politics was a a regular nightly show that played for South Africans. It's like reality TV politics for them. But even in South Africa, the food is a big thing. There was a McDonald's all over the place. KFC. One time I went to KFC at night for a little French fry and after a certain hour they shut the doors. You got to walk through the drive-thru. So, we're in line and this guy, he says, "You guys really shouldn't be here. This is a a black space. This is an African space and you shouldn't be here." My friend Hakan from Turkey starts speaking. They realize we're we're not South African Afric colonizers. We're visitors from other countries. We're foreign. I'm like I'm on your side if anything. Like I think you should own this land and and not the African Africconers. But um he didn't care about that. He was just like mad that we're at KFC, which is funny because Kentucky is in the United States.
So is it an African space? I wasn't ready to discuss that. We're in your country, you know what I mean? And so other people were like, "Hey man, they're not the people you think they are. These are Americans and Turkish people." Um, and so it actually ended up that that guy was one of the biggest organizers in South Africa, uh, youth political organizers, and like within one week had put on the largest university protests we had seen. So that was crazy. I was like, "Wow, I know that guy." You know, we're friends. We get food late night together. The interesting thing though is I was friends with a few white South Africans.
And one of them thought, and this is a real story. I don't believe in lying, making up stories for comedy. God bestows upon you life experiences. And if you cannot describe them in a way that makes them interesting and funny, that's on you. Okay? Don't make stuff up that's funny. You know what I mean? That's your responsibility to make it funny if it's not funny when it happens. But this one is funny as God told the tale. You know, he gives me life experiences with the hopes that I use them to bring other people joy. I feel this it sounds like a bad comedy scene, right? But it's real. And because it's real, it's funny. If it was written for a movie, wouldn't be funny. Anyway, a real person who grew up in South Africa believed that the KFC logo, Colonel Sanders face, was Nelson Mandela.
Because why else would this guy's face be plastered everywhere in the country? Imagine when he found out this was Colonel Sanders and it's Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC, KFC to ANC. I just don't even know how the connection was made. Also, what did he think Mandela looked like, right? He understood this when he was about a teenager, I think. And so, you know, kids believe a lot of stuff, but I always thought that was hilarious. So now I don't see the KFC logo the same. But think about how important American culture is for South Africans to think Colonel Sanders is Nelson Mandela, right? We're out there. We're about to have a Chinese version of that. Ma Mao is about to have his face on a Chinese food chain and someone's kid is going to think that that was Donald Trump. That's a horrible comparison. Mandela to Trump. I take it back. Although he does have a pretty pretty similar face shape. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I'm sorry to Nelson Mandela. God rest your soul. I can't even think of a better comparison. I'm not even going to try.
We're just going to let that go. We're going to move on. I'm not saying Chinese society is perfect. Okay? That's not what this is about. This is about the perception that I have as an active social media user. I see a lot of young people and I see young American women wanting to embrace Chinese culture and I think that's a sign of Chinese supremacy and it's not because the United States is worse than it ever has been before.
That's definitely not true. It's also not the case that China's the best country with no flaws. The problem is is that China's slowly been getting better while the United States got better and then started deteriorating rapidly. The bar is low. No society is perfect. But China seems to be doing better. And I think that's where this is coming from because when they banned Tik Tok, everyone went to Rednote, which is a company also owned by Bite Dance, the parent company of Tik Tok. So we said, "This app has similar functionality.
Let's go over there." We start seeing all these videos of people living life in China. We get curious, very curious.
We've never seen this before. It felt like exploring another dimension. I had no idea they had that beautiful architecture, clean streets, university is very inexpensive. They go to school for longer school days. That probably isn't fun. But I mean, what are you going to do at home anyway, right? Nothing good, nothing productive. Maybe the kids should be occupied. I don't know. But I I see this other way of living. We're talking about health care costs. There's a cultural exchange happening. And it left Americans longing for China. And it left the Chinese feeling grateful for where they are. And they're right to feel that way. And so China's strategy of do nothing and win.
It's really working. I think I I never aspired to be Chinese before. I was bullied for for being Chinese even though I'm not. Um, I was called Mulan by by a girl. She apologized for it, but I'm Slavic and Italian and a little Welsh. I'm not Chinese, but I was bullied for being Chinese. But who's winning now, Carly? I shouldn't I shouldn't say that. She did apologize and and I forgave her. But no amount of apple tea will get you on my level now.
Now that there's a new standard of beauty. Let me tell you something that maybe older generations don't understand. There's a reason China will win that is underappreciated and it's that the younger generations of Americans love China. China has psychologically imprinted on us in a way that's irreversible. I fear. Picture it. You're an American child. You get in trouble for something. Your parents are stressed. They can't pay the bills.
They're taking it out on you. There's not going to be an apology or an explanation. You're going to get sent to your room teareyed with a hurting heart because the person that's supposed to make you feel safe and protected and the world is angry at you and the world. And so you get sent to a room for a while to play by yourself. And what do you do? You grab a toy. And what does the toy say on it? It says made in China.
When no one was there for you. China was there for you. China was there for me. I love China. Why wouldn't I love China? I have nothing but positive associations with China. Deeply ingrained in my psyche. So, you can imagine when I started hearing China's going to become the world power. China's on the rise.
All of this stuff. When you grow up, China's going to be so important. I was like, I know. China's everything to me. They've made everything. thing I love and enjoy. So, I'm not sure if we're ever going to be able to tell the American children that China's bad. I literally got a pink Nintendo DS for my 13th birthday and got a a game to learn Chinese to learn Mandarin. Okay. I didn't learn that much because I have I was not diagnosed with ADHD. But if you gave me a pill and you sat me down with that game, I'd be fluent. But it wasn't in the cards for me, so I never learned Chinese. But but maybe I will now. Also, Chinese food, it's good. There's not a single kid that was disappointed when it was time to order Chinese food. They all had something they liked on the menu. We've all had a Chinese restaurant. I've been in many small towns in America. Most of them have a Chinese restaurant. You can't you can't compete with that. So yeah, America led to its own demise.
China was like, I'm going to do me. That is the right strategy. If I had to explain it in terms of hiphop, rap, beef, China is 50 Cent. And the United States is diddy. And the documentary is about to drop. That's the global hedgeimony situation. When I was leaving grad school, I had this guy like, "Oh yeah, I really want to make sure you land somewhere good." And there was nowhere really that I wanted to go. I was like, "No one's making good policy in the United States. Why would I go work for Deote?" You know, just funnel money out of the public budget to pay consultants to use AI to make slide decks. I don't want to be a part of the consultant industrial complex that runs the American government. So, I I ventured to do something different. and he said, "How about I get you a interview with Graham Ellison's office?
You're going to do the application process where you write a memo for Graham." Who is Graham? Graham is a scholar who invented this thing called the Thusid Thusidities trap, which is when a rising power and a ruling power inevitably end up at war. Because whenever there's been a world hedgeimonyy and another one comes to surpass it in like nine out of 10 times there's a war and Thusidities was I believe an author that wrote about the the Spartan Sparta Athens beef dispute and so Graham Allison wanted to find a way to avoid war with China. What is the path? How do we get beyond this? As the US is the rising or the existing hegeimon and China is the rising power.
How do we not have war with China? And I was basically like, we have to lock in. We have to have laws that allow corporations to pay people a fair wage. That not allow but enforce corporations to share their profits with the people. We have to make the United States an enjoyable place to live. We can't have it be a situation where if you're born in a poor family, it doesn't matter what kind of accolades you have, talents, skills, inventive potential, you are stuck in a poor family. That's the reality of most people in the United States. Social mobility is abysmal and that is an issue that economic justice laws can fix. If we want to compete with China, we have to let the poor thrive.
Needless to say, I didn't get hired because that is not how people who are professors at Harvard and friends with Henry Kissinger think about the world. Go figure. And now I'm in a very Chinese time of my life, and I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. So, I just wanted to talk about that. I'm seeing the early signs of Chinese supremacy. China's becoming what America once was to the world culturally in terms of pop culture and I'm kind of down to assimilate a little a little bit a little bit of assimulation assimilation with China.
Tastes delicious. I made the apple tea. That's what I've been drinking for the China video. Drinking the apple tea. So, it's good. And uh you should try too. Go China. Like we can all be friends. That's my take. Thanks for watching.
Love you.
474 Comments
@stephenc6955
9 days ago
Mainstream Media deceived us about China and other countries. This is our revolt against the lies
@TheMichel200504
8 days ago
have been to China 2 times last year. spent over 20 days altogether, I finally figured out the average Chinese don't really care about what is going on within USA, they just want to enjoy their life.
@TinaGKona66
10 days ago
You really should go to China to visit. You will love it. China doesn’t want to dominate the world, China just want to take care of their citizens because it is not easy to do for 1.4 billion people, four times more than US and have less resources than US. They want to choose their own way to manage their country and they don’t need other countries to tell them how to be Chinese.
@twood2032
9 days ago
I don’t think China is trying to run the world. It mainly wants to trade and deal with other countries on a basis of mutual respect. The US does the opposite, if a country doesn’t like it or goes against its interests, the US tries to pressure it, interfere, or change its government until it falls back in line. China's approach is basically, if you don’t like us, that’s fine, come back when you’re ready to do business. After 5 thousand years of history, China understands power and patience. The US, by comparison, often acts like a kid with a loaded gun, lots of power, not much restraint.
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@chiriko7335
8 days ago
"China is slowly getting better" just casually pulling off the fastest economic growth and miracle in all of human history
@FromChaos2Cosmos
12 days ago
“ if we want to compete with China, we have to let the poor thrive” and that right there tells you why the US is going down lol
@walterlippmann4361
11 days ago
The myth of American exceptionalism shuts them out of learning from other cultures lol
@bryanfullerton2008
11 days ago
Incredible work. Looking forward to the Chinese EVs we’ll be getting soon here in Canada.
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@SicMundus24
9 days ago
I'm German but I kinda want to be Chinese, i love China
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@jascforfun7576
9 days ago
China isn't interested in hegemony. You do you, I'll do me. If you want, lets trade. If you attack me, I'll fyou up but lets live in peace. That's their philosophy. China isn't interest in domination, which is what hegemony is, they are intersted in harmony.
@wataric1600
7 days ago
China doesn't want to be a hegemon. It's burdensome. Not worth it.
It just wants to be left alone n not be bullied, n trade w d world. No. America just wouldn't leave her alone. It just had to bully her. It's like a gangster.
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@X-jj9zs
11 days ago
i am american an have been checking out tons of cool stuff on China i never knew about! it made me realize they are living in the future and we are living in the past!
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@badeline562
9 days ago
I'm feeling very Chinese recently
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@coolwalk11
9 days ago (edited)
China does things differently it’s a shame that America doesn’t understand the pragmatism of doing things different. Apple understands China and collaborates while all American politicians talk about is smearing China with non-sense allegations under the fake guise of western democracy hypocrisy and shameful double standards.
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@silferbuu86
9 days ago
This has been a very Chinese time in my life even though I'm already Chinese
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@walhdamaskus2408
10 days ago
Its sign of rebellion against america deep state oligarchs.
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@joeyp1927
10 days ago
It's appropriate that you mention social mobility because the concept originated in China 2,500 years ago with Confucius, who said that "if the sons of kings and emperors lack quality, they should be demoted the level of the peasants. And if peasants have quality, they should be elevated to the ranks of the rulers." Education, he believed, would propel this meritocracy: "In education, there should be no class distinctions," he insisted. In the early centuries A.D., this meritocracy was institutionalized in the imperial civil service exams, which were open to rich and poor alike. Passing the exam made one qualified for lucrative government positions. Benjamin Franklin spoke approvingly of this institution, which he called a system of "ascending merit," contrasting it with the "descending merit" of European aristocracy. In the mid 1800s, the British learned of this exam system through viceroys stationed in China, and soon modeled their newly-conceived civil service on China's "Mandarin" system. The concept of using standardized measures to assign power and position then made its way throughout Europe and then the Americas, eventually replacing landed privilege with social mobility.
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@LostChildOfTime
12 days ago
I’ma need you to vlog a trip to China.
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@BlackDogMizukage
12 days ago
turning [Chinese], I think I’m turning [Chinese], I really think so
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@Zimx02
12 days ago
That's crazy. This white girl thought that people pay attention to the US because they thought the US was the "it" girl, and not because it's the empire that inspired the Death Star threatening everyone's lives and well-being. This is why China won't save us.
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@seatopiascuba3540
12 days ago
Just when it’s too much, Jessica Burbank appears, thank you for granting some sanity and goodness to the world. Keep the Show rolling!
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@Qwezzz-k8w
6 days ago
China has a Renaissance going on right now! You should visit. And I am so floored listening to you Jessica! Wow, I am an older Chinese American woman…you brought tears to my eyes. Cuz I do love China. been there a few times. And I am very proud I have stayed proud of my ancestry! You are super and aware…not just China is trending. But I feel you understand and dig deeper than the average and could say what you say! The west cannot stay forever hegemonic, arrogant and ignorant of other parts of the world as equal! I applaud any body who is interested in China. Do read up its road to socialism as well. China works because it is truly interested in make progress for its people. And staying sovereign! And its beautiful civilization is full of arts, creativity and wisdom ! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Peace and Love to you!
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@Aladjinnx3
8 days ago
I first went to China in 2018, it has been on a slow rise. I’m loving every moment of others finally seeing and appreciating China.
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@roastpork5437
9 days ago (edited)
Fresh jujubes are delicious and have so much nutritional value. They're like tiny apples, but less tangy.
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@shabao
9 days ago
I think that only by going to China and experiencing it firsthand can one better understand what it means to be Chinese.
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@garethl738
3 days ago (edited)
I’ve been to China >20 times mainly for business since 2003. I love that country. I’ve even been taking Chinese lessons to say at least a few things in Chinese to my Chinese coworkers to show them respect and appreciation.
The love I get back in return from them is really gratifying.
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@joeyp1927
10 days ago
"Chinese time of my life" is nothing new, really. The trend first took off in the 1600s when fine art and texts began arriving in Europe en masse, fueling a craze for Chinese culture and philosophy. Leibniz, the German philosopher and mathematician who invented calculus, once joked that he should hang a sign on his door reading, "Dept of Oriental Studies," as he spent much of his time studying philosophers like Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu and ancient Chinese mathematics. Voltaire, the French satirist, praised China's system of morality rooted in rational, secular values, contrasting this with the European system based on dogmatic religion. Ben Franklin was a lifelong Sinophile, writing a book called "The Morals of Confucius"; he experimented with silkmaking and improved on a Chinese central heating method, but regretted never traveling to China: "If he were a young man, he should like to go to China," he wrote. Chinoiserie, a form of interior design and architecture inspired by Chinese art, was all the rage in Europe in the 1700s and 1800s. Back in America, the homes of well-to-do Americans like George Washington were filled with Chinese porcelain, wallpaper, furniture, and of course tea. So, the fascination with things Chinese is kind of the norm; we're just coming back to it!
Great video, btw. No, it was not a chaotic discussion at all. I love your stream-of-consciousness, eclectic but candid takes on the world and current events!
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@zyguit
12 days ago
One day I will have a Chihuahua named Colonel Nelson Mandela Sanders
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@OGderkface
12 days ago
we need to socialize healthcare, housing, and access to food and education
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@shineluvslambiel
1 day ago
China doesn’t want a hegemony, they want a multipolar world.
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@maisondav1d
9 days ago
Victor Gao's "we don't care" always makes me laugh
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@chromehuman
12 days ago
Thanks Ka! A huge irony is that China never forgets the historic lessons from their “Century of Humiliation,” while Trump ignores history, bringing back the policies that failed the US a century ago. And now handing global influence to China by ending USAID. What older generations thought was bad about China, Trump is bringing to the USA: a MAGA Cultural Revolution. Rewarding snitching on woke professors and abortions. Palantir surveillance of citizens. ICE as new Red Guards. A state-run economy. When do we get our Trump MAGA little Red Books?
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@KenLau-x1z
8 days ago
A major perception West has on China is that it wants to be a hegomany. This is never a Chinese thing and not in our DNA. We always believe and want cooperation and respect for one another. Win win is Chinese culture thinking. But West always think China will be like them and try to control anb bully the world. Just look into China's 5000 year history. We have always kept to ourselves while trading and strongly believe each country is responsible for running their own sovereign country without outside pressure or influence.
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@YoonJintae98
2 days ago
I'm SKorean and have always hated China due to propaganda, it was such a weird realization when I found out how little we know about them as our neighbor until I visited 2 years ago for the first time. After the trip I tried to share with my friends how good it was but no one actually wanted to hear. Anyway I gave up, but secretly been saving money for the next trip again.
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@John-yx6yz
9 days ago (edited)
China and the US are like Yin and Yang. US is loud, arrogant and physical and tells everyone how exceptional he is. China's more like the nerd that reads every book and is pretty good at math. He gets all the homework done and quietly builds robots in his bedroom. China doesn't want to be the hegemon, it's sailed the world long before Christopher Columbus and has never occupied land beyond it's shores.
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@Egal0190
9 days ago (edited)
Maybe i just don't grasp the words "supremacy" and "hegemony" correctly, as English is not my first language, but i think they are inadequate to describe China. Those terms are imperial terms, the intention to subdue foreign lands, to gain control over their people and their resources.
China has no such intentions. They always ask for trade and win-win cooperations. They don't use the imperialists tools of NATO countries of coercion, starving sanctions, bombing campaigns, invasions, coups, assassinations, which would justify the term supremacy/hegemony.
They just develop themselves and develop anyone else who is willing to partner with them. To call them hegemonic is more like imperialist projection, because Western analysts can't imagine that others don't have the intention to maximize exploitation for exclusive wealth. China is about common prosperity, not exclusive prosperity.
Telling from this video, Jessica doesn't have that hostile mindset of Western analysts, so i assume she meant the terms more like China being the most advanced region without the violent implications of imperialist supremacy/hegemony. Although as far as i understand them, those terms are always hostile and based on competition for exclusive benefit.
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@chazzerau
1 hour ago
Mesmerizingly Captivating - keep going
@Hystericall
8 days ago
Lol, you made me smile. The thing with China is that they've been the advanced civilization for the 4800 out of the last 5000 years. It is simply reversion to the mean. Americans need to know the history. China was 30-40% of world GDP in 1800, and then the UK and the West came and waged the Opium wars which destroyed their country and cut it up to pieces for a hundred years. US marines were still patrolling the Yangtze river as late as 1940. China only recovered once Mao threw out all the invading colonials in 1949. I expect a cultural renaissance that will blind the world in the coming years from China. They are super creative and aesthetic people. Easy to deal with, just treat with mutual respect and trust.
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@tomrestajr
5 days ago
2:50 I had an English translation of the analects of Confucius in 1998. I had read the Tao Te Ching before '02. (Which was a lot easier for me to understand and try to apply to my life) I was reading the Little Zen Companion (some Chinese Buddhist quotes had to be in there) in '96. And I was eating "Chinese" food before all that. And it is true, it's delicious.
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@haiwattage
5 days ago (edited)
China at Davos positioned itself as a reliable partner, and met with ASEAN to basically say "we know y'all hate us but we're the asshole you know and not as erratic". Canada at Davos both made a deal with China and rallied the middle powers to keep US and China in check.
A few fact checks:
The guy at 4:30 is Victor Gao. He was President Deng Xiaoping's translator during China's opening period, and now a foreign relations strategist for Xi.
RedNote is not owned by ByteDance (14:52), it's owned by Xingin Information Technology, a completely separate and private company
Also, don't boil apples with your tea, boil the water than put the apple in to steep. The whole "hot water" thing doesn't mean hot tap water either, it means boiled and filtered cold water that has cooled down
Source: I'm a Chinese immigrant
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@Strawrbearry
9 days ago
I'm 66 days into my duolingo for Mandarin. I'm locked into this very Chinese time of my life.
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@miahorg
12 days ago
Dream blunt rotation right here
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@mysticaleagle1625
12 days ago
Not only is the content of this video excellent, your ability to tell a story is also. Very reminiscent of Jean Shepard.
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@yongga-l7e
8 days ago
You're incredible. The makeup and styling are great, but your perspective is what really shines.
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@ColeHons
11 days ago
Love this! Thx Ka
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@wenerjy
8 days ago
XHS is actually a competitor to Bytedance, you were thinking of Lemon8, which is a XHS-clone that Bytedance also owns that competes with XHS.
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@EricLi-z5o
8 days ago
Congratulations! Your video on Bilibili has already been viewed by 50,000 people, and many have given your viewpoints positive feedback. You are welcome to visit China for a tour. From another perspective, you can experience how a country with a different culture from the United States perceives the world.
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@Hiddenuser713
2 days ago
Jessica, you may consider visiting China and even teaching English in China. People there will love you! You are so pretty, kind, nice, smart, realistic, honest, and compassinate.
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@林北就是唱秋
1 day ago
Thanks for sharing
Best regards from China
Enjoy a happy weekend
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@AntLovesChips
12 days ago
JB has that good bud.
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@steves-machines
11 days ago (edited)
Burbank. Our only hope is the Black Panthers and/or BATMAN. I finally subscribed.
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@FromChaos2Cosmos
12 days ago
Recently in my area they have been playing Panda Express commercials that have a message of… elderly women taking care of you by feeding you their takeout
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@andrewlau9873
6 hours ago
Jessica, I totally enjoyed watching your video. I must say that you scared the daylight out of me suggesting that the Americans kids would think Mao picture is Donald Trump.
@tkam9
9 days ago
China bans Only Fan!! Let that sink in. LOL!
@MartinLoo-l1b 2 days ago
@loganlee9593 8 days ago
14:49 Rednote's parent company is not ByteDance, but rather Xingyin Information Technology.They are business competitors.
@maxnoit3869 5 days ago
You really look like an Eurasian - a beautiful mix of European and Asian. Be proud of it!
@junli6065 9 days ago
Victor Gao is really something
@nickylee1024 2 hours ago
Talking about the commercials, McDonald's, KFC also do huge amount of commercials in China, but we rarely see any commercials of Chinese restaurants, not even the top tier one. We believe word of mouth is the best way to share and review food and restaurants.
@ionsilver557
11 days ago
1:07 A not-that-fun fact: The modern Chinese habit of drinking hot water isn't actually that ancient. It stems from the early 1950s, when the government launched the "Patriotic Health Campaign." Boiling water before drinking was promoted as a very simple and effective method of sterilization. The government initiated this nationwide movement because, at the time, the U.S. military was suspected of using biological weapons during the Korean War.
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@avil8686
2 days ago
Btw rednote not owned by byte dance
@shaunnarine3974
3 days ago
Hi! Just found this. Very interesting. One thing I would say is that China has "gotten better" very, very quickly. China ten years and certainly 30 years ago is vastly, vastly different than it is today. 800 million people have been raised out of poverty. The technology and the deliberate govt policy of spreading wealth among the population stands in contrast to what the US has become.
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@bigheadrhino
9 days ago
Hitorically… China has done most of its expansion by being conquered and then assimilating the conquering peoples through the appeal of it’s culture…. Are we watching this happen in real time?
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@Arnoldyt200346
1 day ago
Love the channel and your coverage across a wide range of issues—big fan of your work.
On the topic of Americans’ limited interest in the world outside the U.S., contrasted with the global acceptance of American culture (celebrity, music, food, and arts), I believe this imbalance stems less from public disinterest and more from structural limits on media exposure in the United States—despite freedom of the press existing on paper.
For example, during U.S.–China negotiations over China’s WTO accession under the Clinton administration, the U.S. demanded China adopt U.S. FDA food safety standards, rather than follow importing-country regulations. The U.S. also required China to open its film market to American movies, while rejecting reciprocal access for Chinese films. The final agreement capped Chinese movie imports into the U.S. at just five per year.
More broadly, the U.S. applies the Foreign Agents Registration Act in ways that effectively restrict or ban Chinese and Russian media, while simultaneously funding overseas media outlets through USAID at a cost of over $500 million annually. Meanwhile, China allows Voice of America broadcasts, but the U.S. prohibits Chinese broadcasters.
Historically, Americans have shown strong interest in other cultures—from Indian cuisine and Japanese food to Tibetan Buddhism in the 1990s. The issue is not cultural intolerance. Rather, much of the world has open access to American culture, while Americans are often shielded from foreign perspectives, creating a kind of cultural cocoon reinforced by the message that “we don’t need to look outward.”
Social media platforms like TikTok and Xiaohongshu have begun to crack that cocoon—and many Americans are starting to notice.
We are told we have the right to defend ourselves—even to bear arms against government tyranny—yet any resistance involving law enforcement, regardless of whether an officer’s actions are lawful, is treated as absolutely impermissible. We are told we have a right to due process, but exercising it often requires years of time and resources, enough to destroy a career and cause financial ruin long before justice is reached.
We are told we have freedom of speech, yet the information environment is saturated with false narratives, misinformation, and disinformation, to the point where free speech no longer reliably surfaces truth. At the same time, governments work quietly with social media platforms to enforce “corporate” censorship under the banner of community standards.
We are told we have a free market, yet governments freely subsidize favored industries in the name of “economic growth” or ban products under the justification of “national security.”
Taken together, these rights and freedoms are presented with built-in conditions—legal, economic, and institutional “catches”—that make them difficult, costly, or risky to actually exercise. The result is a system where rights exist in principle, but are often constrained in practice.
Hence the paradoxes and ironies. The United States may be the country with the most freedoms enshrined on paper, yet Americans are often among the least exposed to the rest of the world. Is that truly a failure of the American people—or are they, to some extent, victims of a carefully constructed illusion of freedom?
@China-bizvalueinstories
3 days ago
Love this video and Jessica loads! Saw this in Chinese SM and that has led me here.
@nickm455
12 days ago
Chinese food is advertised in every tv show, they always get take out. Its sneaky
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@dragicadjuric3635
21 hours ago
This girl doesn't go through life with closed eyes,that's for sure. She looks around and she's seeing what's happening around her. I think she's absolutely spot on about China.
@matan.saster
12 days ago
Burbank is so fucking funny.
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@lukehenderson5097
12 days ago
As a euroid, im looking forward to American decline. We'll get Cuban lung cancer cures, Iranian engineers who have been force to think about problems without access to global supply lines educating our kids, and the Chinese version of abundance, where oversupply meets people's needs. The years between will probably be rough though.
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@gelinrefira
2 days ago
You can only fool all the people some of the time. The truth about China cannot be covered up forever.
@caneestudio
3 days ago
@RuizheZhao3564
8 days ago
great work, greeting from china!
@junoleung4818
3 hours ago
I’m from Guangzhou, China. Dear beautiful lady, you’re truly gorgeous and charming, and I really like you. You speak so well and objectively. China will keep getting better and keep striving to advance the world together. You’re welcome to visit China!
@halsonli7315
3 days ago
After 20+ years in the UK, I’ve grown used to mainstream media reducing China to a “threat” or a simplistic label of “communism,” while rarely questioning how Western democracy often concentrates real power in the hands of the top 1%. We celebrate freedom of speech, yet on war, genocide, healthcare, education costs, public safety, or inequality, most people have little influence over outcomes. You can protest and petition, but the system remains untouched.
As a Chinese person who arrived in the UK as a teenager, I always found it odd how casually China is called “communist.” Growing up in Chinese state schools, we were taught clearly that China is a socialist country with Chinese characteristics. “Pure” communism which is absolute equality and shared ownership, was understood to have failed early on. Socialism, including elements of capitalism, was a pragmatic transition, not ideological denial. More importantly, China is often analysed only through political systems, not culture. Power structures have shifted many times, but Confucian values and ancient proverbs have endured for thousands of years. Concepts like “Wang Dao”-The Way of the King - moral authority over coercive dominance - remain deeply embedded. That’s why the idea that China is trying to “take over the world” says more about Western fears than about Chinese reality.
As one of the ancient proverbs:“The highest good is like water.” (Dao De Jing)
Water benefits all things without competing or seeking dominance.
It does not conquer-it attracts, nurtures, and flows naturally.
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@TheRandomness-k8k
8 days ago
China was great for thousands of years before the British were even around to spawn the idea crossing the ocean to form of the United States.
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@ktchong5800
3 days ago (edited)
You should want China Supremancy. The "Confucian Long Peace" refers to the era of relative stability and minimal warfare between China, Japan, Korea, and other East Asian states, roughly from the Tang dynasty (7th century) through the early Qing (17th century). (The only exceptions/interruptions were the Mongol horde invasion and the Imjin War.) The Long Peace was maintained largely through diplomacy, trade, cultural norms, and tributary relations, rather than constant military conflicts that were the norm in Europe. The Long Peace lasted about a millennium, gradually ending as Western imperial powers arrived and began exerting influence in East Asia.
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@martinzhu7996
8 days ago
love from China
@sd2wwas
4 days ago
在中国，不可能会有穷人会饿死或者被政府斩杀，但是就是学习学的太累了因为中国人口太多了，但是我们生活的非常安稳，安定
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@soowzz1330
5 days ago
Wow, your makeup looks really beautiful today.
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@lemanlie4921
2 days ago
amazing teority
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@madmaxsaturn
12 days ago
The makeup and hair are saying "red carpet." The sweats are saying "done for the day. "
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@hanahusky
9 days ago
We family
@westlifecarlos313
8 days ago
鞭辟入里, 也很客观, 部分角度很新颖
@Raytracer96024
2 days ago
A victory for China is a victory for global South and a victory for global peace ?
@thatsnothowyousaymyname
12 days ago
What are we doing right now lol
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@ronglin2335
2 days ago
beautiful girl，your video
@marcustruong
6 days ago
Funny!
@wardmclaughlin2123
12 days ago
Why is America like a dog? Because not only can it lick its balls easily, but loves to do it in your face. (ie: the orange one). Exceptional! But with that image in mind, the west is again realising that China plays the long game. They've been global powers for most of humanity, and thru America's desire that a few get rich, and we get fat, let China in. They are seriously back in the game! I remember a MaoCommunist doc where the hard years and starvation taught the Chinese to 'eat misery'. They're good at it. Thx JB
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@attrauesquidling4783
12 days ago
I have a strong idea that even if China becomes the new hegemonic figure head America will ignore and gaslight the west into believing other wise plus China has been on this rise since the mid 2000s my guess 2012 and on
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@santanismofficial
12 days ago
How high were you? Loved this episode
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@Rock-hi5lo
6 days ago
Love your way of thinking! If you could have your friends add Chinese subtitles to your video, if can easily get a million views.
@handaxia1251
9 days ago
Can China steal a President and his wife from his palace and bring them home just like that? no way! so Murrica still numba 1.
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@timothychung4811
4 days ago
My first time seeing Usianans!
@demonseed360
7 days ago
Depends on the part of country you're from. In my school district growing up, we learned that part of being American meant embracing other cultures. In elementary school, to celebrate the end of 6th grade we did this huge project where artists came and helped us make Papier-maché sculptures of masks from different cultures. In high school we had culture fairs and potlucks. Part of out thanksgiving celebration involved people bringing their traditional dishes and sharing them. We celebrated our diverse backgrounds.
Imagine my surprise that people from the south had a completely different perception of what being a "great American" meant.
@williamhuaor
8 days ago
You said that people should make their own life experiences interesting, which is what this person should do. This viewpoint is refreshing to me.
@NobHillSF
8 days ago
Enjoy your apple tea
@koolapope
5 days ago
From the bottom of my heart, I truly hope that China and the United States can choose cooperation over confrontation. History shows that in China’s darkest moments, especially during the Japanese invasion, the American people and the U.S. government offered real help to the Chinese people, and that should never be forgotten.
Today, the world is facing challenges that no country can solve alone — climate change, public health, technological responsibility, and global stability. Conflict between major powers only brings fear and division, while cooperation creates opportunities for future generations.
China does not seek to replace anyone, nor does it wish to see the world divided into hostile camps. What most ordinary Chinese people want is simple: to live better lives, to develop peacefully, and to contribute to a more stable and prosperous world.
Mutual respect, historical honesty, and dialogue are not signs of weakness — they are the only realistic path forward.
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@EduardoRodriguez-du2vd
12 days ago
@funghiman8492
7 days ago
17:15 be it a toy, a smart phone, a tablet, a gaming console, or heck just some everyday stationary, chances are it would have the made in China marking on it somewhere.
Never thought it in this way, but it is explaining a lot...
@Jackthecandlestick
4 days ago
Look at whats happening today US is down and suddenly Chinas top official is leaking secrets. These betrayers really think there is no karma.
@jellydamgood
2 days ago
China isnt trying for hegemony tho.
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@yiowd.768
6 days ago
Forgive Carly, Jessica.
@yjw-m9b
8 days ago
妆容很漂亮，保持微笑更美丽，少抬额头
@thedepthandbreadthofseth
9 days ago
I was very confused what an "IT girl" was.
@Ashdad99
12 days ago
Im in residential construction and I worked for a small company that was owned and operated by a black guy and his son (im white) whom i love and respect immensely. 90 percent of his business was in the black neighborhoods and 1 out of 4 customers houses had a picture of Obama hanging on the wall. I of course wanted to say Obama wasn't a great man but wouldn't dare. Also it amazed me how welcoming and appreciative black folks are when working for compared to most white customers. The Obama love always blew my mind though
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@honesty_-no9he
4 days ago (edited)
Hot water is better. Warm water is dangerous. Tea should be HOT!
@wingzhang1380
8 hours ago
It's okay... I've quietly watched various media fabricate lies for more than ten years. China is collapsing, evil, absurd, has no human rights, lives like beasts, and is full of danger, yet this kind of China always poses a threat to the world... I just didn't expect things to change so quickly. I thought it would take at least another ten years of lies and deception for it to go bankrupt.
@MandT-q7w
8 days ago
We humans are important that all,that is what was taught for thousands of years in China
@seimeiqingqingqing6003
7 days ago
All in all apple tea is amazing my mom still makes it during the winter and it’s the only thing I drink in her house when I visit
@verarose1652 4 days ago
china is 50 cent, america is diddy has got to be the funniest analogy lmao
@ruipengli3969 6 days ago
As a chinese i appreciate the honesty and humor
@sght6012 5 days ago
Over the decades, the mainstream media has morphed into a propaganda wing of the US. The hypocrisy is stunning. While criticizing China's restriction on social media, the US does the same but covertly. We learn from Musk when he took over Twitter that their content moderation team was working in partnership with the FBI, not for the common good, but to suppress reports of Hunter Biden's criminal activities. So while members of Congress goes bonkes on China, the US does the same but secretly. It's all Rule of Law, US style.
@StormLee-ew2sp 4 days ago
I just watched your video in our platform in China, sounds great indeed. BTW,some comments in our side are pretty interesting, like you are beautiful like a combination of one Chinese super female movie star and another Chinese actress with gorgeous faces From my perspective, you look amazing and your voice of Accent sounds comfortable to me.
@?.CL-x2q 2 days ago
China's strength is for the benefit of humanity, and China's strength is for the human community. China will surely triumph and become even stronger.
@tatiana4192 4 days ago
No hegemons, Multipolar-multinodal time. Ok, tripolar for the time beeing
@vadathai406 5 days ago
ain't just the women...
@yiluis1316 4 days ago
17:00 China democratized luxury and took all the contamination consequences that led products be affordable for the rest of the world. Some people have no idea how much poverty they lifted by just doing that, nationally and internationally, directly or indirectly. And the best part is that they're consistently trying to do commerce, not going around the globe with a stick in hand when they gained military power.
@N0tEnuffMana 12 days ago
Since Trump is God-Emperor of the US, we have to decide Xi Xinping's status. Here are the options I have come up with; Ethereal Supreme, Celestial Dragon Emperor, God-Emperor of the East, or Inheritor of Heaven and Earthly Demiurge.