Comments by "F Liu" (@F_Liu) on "How China became the world's industrial superpower - and why the US is desperate to stop it" video.

Just need to make a point, don't blame China/Chinese people for the transfer/loss of US/Western manufacturing jobs, blame the greed of your capitalists. The Chinese worked hard under the CPC leadership who transformed China with its pragmatic economic policies and people centered political ideology. The Chinese deserve ALL the credits for their success of today.
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Thank you so much Ben for this in depth and factual report, this is how journalism should be done, much appreciated!
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 @andrethorpe6183 Absolutely well said
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I love my Chinese compatriots from Taiwan, the first time I met some and made friends with them was when I went to the West to study 20 years ago. There is no doubt we are the same people sharing the same culture, (speaking the same language). I really hope they are not bought into the US lies and potentially used as tools to contain China. I hope for peaceful reunification to happen asap
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@DavidWestwater-vq6qy How so? lol, don't worry, I feel sorry for you as well, a citizen of the West, I am sorry that you find it hard to cope, but sadly it won't get better for you
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I have not found another Westerner who has this much understandings of China as Ben, he has done his research thoroughly that is for sure.
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@82Brightstar Nothing to do with greed, nothing to do with the size of China. You clearly have no understanding of Chinese history and world geopolitics. This is about not allowing a Chinese territory to be used as a US military base for the purpose of containing China. The US/West (or its agents) has no right to contain China's normal economic progress and occupy a part of its territory.
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@roberthealey7238 ''All previous iterations of low cost workers worked hard as well; where do you think the US got its wealth from?'' No one here is denying the fact that American/European workers had worked hard, however a lot of the wealth/investments transferred into the US were collected (many occasions looted) through brutal European colonialization/aggression/slavery around the world. The US invested (not doing charity) in China in the late 70s for its own material and monetary gains (taking advantages of the competitive and well trained Chinese labour) plus the US was seeking to get China on its side to help winning the Cold War against Soviet Union at the time. Quite different circumstances. ''China will now have its wealth taken away by other Asian countries and Africa, joining the long line of history of nations that lost their wealth due to out of control greed and arrogance. China was already starting to lose manufacturing to India, Vietnam and even Mexico before the plague hit.'' This is not quite the case. The US/West wished they could decouple with China this easily, but the simple reality is that they have not been able to. In fact, many of these low end manufacturing facilities across Asia have been set up by Chinese business owners (partly to avoid US economic sanctions: the US just don't seem to want people of the developing world to live a better life), and because China still has the complete supply chain in place, many of these businesses find it hard to operate, plus infrastructures and labour quality is very poor in countries such as India. It will take a long while before China is replaced in this regard. China still provides the most favourable business environment for Western investments, hence more have come to invest despite all the anti China rhetoric. And another point is most Chinese youth would NOT want to work in manufacturings anymore, therefore, it won't be such a loss when some will eventually be moved abroad. And the Chinese have already been investing in Africa, Latin America, South East Asia, etc... That has always been China's goal, to lead the economic development of the entire global south so they could be free from Western economic domination (based on greed and exploitation).
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@colindant3410 I am not sure you understand what truly happened in Hong Kong, because what has been reflected through the Western media was largely one sided, if you had witnessed on the ground of what really happened (all the horrendous things took place that were deliberately hidden by your MSM: people got set on fire and burnt alive for speaking against the rioters, beaten up just for speaking Chinese Mandarin rather than Cantonese, beaten up for singing the Chinese national anthem, police officers had molotov cocktails thrown at them trying to burn them alive... I have evidence the rioters were supported by the Western governments' agencies). You would know that it was clearly the West who disrespected the people of Hong Kong by using them as tools for the purpose of creating instabilities in China both economically and politically (yes, it was a colour revolution). In fact, the US slapped economic sanctions on Hong Kong after the ''peaceful protests'' so that the people of Hong Kong would suffer. Hey, do you think that the US/West could respect the way of life of the people of Taiwan by first giving them a choice? I think not. Because if they did, they would first acknowledge the fact that majority of the population in Taiwan do NOT support independence/separatism, which is against the agenda of the current Taiwan government and their supportive Western powers. Yeah, and if you respected the people of Taiwan, you would agree that what the US/West has been doing by pushing Taiwan closer to conflicts, wars and even potential death and destruction will be to the detriment of the people there. How is that respecting the way of life of the people of Taiwan when you literally want to turn their home into a warzone?
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@colindant3410 Thank you for your interests on the subject. ALL candidates participating in elections in Hong Kong come from Hong Kong (Hong Kong residents). That is the whole point of Hong Kong being a special administrative region of China (with high level of political and economical autonomy). Hong Kong people themselves get to govern their own place, instead of getting a White man sent over by the British monarchy like was the case prior to 1997 when it returned to China. However, candidates must fulfil criteria set out in the Basic Law (Hong Kong's mini constitution), the Chinese Constitution and the National Security Law (implemented after the Hong Kong riot 2019). One of the most important criteria is they must pledge to serve the best interests of the people of HK and follow principles set out in the National Security Law, i.e. be patriotic towards their home country (China), and of course follow the Basic Law and the Chinese constitution. In other words, they should not betray the people of HK by serving the interests of foreign powers, that would be considered treason, and that equally would not be tolerated by any Western government.
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Yep
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@anthonyk423 You just described perfectly of the US. LOL
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Thank you for concern, but I can tell you, military people are highly respected in China, your point about ancient culture is not wrong, but this changed since the CPC's revolution and the Korean war, China attaches great importance on modernisation of its military, one of its sectors it spend great deal on. Without the military strength, the "century of humiliation" won't end, but be assured its only for defence, not offence and aggression like the US
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@dyong888 Yeah agreed, Westerners think China embraced Western capitalism after Deng's reform, but private enterprise has always been a major part of the Chinese economy/society since ancient times, and most in the West don't even know that private sector contributes to 70% of the Chinese economy today, though China's capitalism is regulated to curb excessive profit making.
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@82Brightstar I know what the US wants, they want death and destruction of Taiwan, and you want to go alone with their plan, lmao
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The rich who got rich first with Deng's policy weren't supposed to keep the riches all to themselves, they were supposed help the others in society to live better (as Deng specified in his policy). It is not "state capitalism", when the main driving force of the Chinese economy is the 70% of private enterprises that provide most employment in China. China just utilises a better form of capitalism to it advantage and it has been working well.
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Very well summarised, that is exactly what has been happening in the US/West, a series of total policy failures to serve the greed and benefit of a minority of rich people (most whom have gotten rich all the way back from the Western colonial era). The "freedom" to get rich based on exploitation of the world, then these hypocrites lecture developing countries on human rights, freedom and democracy, like as if the cared
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Haha, very funny... how many Peter Zeihan videos have you been binge watching??
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@lavendereucalyptus3225 Yeah. US government or the two major parties are funded by the country's large corporations, the politicians are merely serving the interests of their donors, upsetting their money source would be the last thing they want to do, lol
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@Aussie_Truth I never said Ben blames China, BUT, plenty Americans/Westerners blame China for their loss of jobs or claim that the US/West single-handedly built China. And yes they seem to have a functioning brain but just a heavily indoctrinated one.
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@ystconnection 最吃不了苦还满口怨言的就是反贼们。智商就这么高没办法啊
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@fbabarbe430 Lol, the US/West has been and is getting deindustrialised real fast and this trend is not being reversed, the West doesn't have an industrial production based economy. China's political and economical systems has proven to be superior than what the West is currently having. Frankly, the world has had enough US/Western ''leaderships''. You seem to be still dreaming in delusion, when the rest of the world have moved on to a tech/development driven multipolar world led by China/Russia. Btw, the ''population crisis'' is a myth, a Western anti China talking point.
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What the US/West wants is a China that is fully Westernised with the US style democracy, profit orientated unfettered capitalism, liberal cultural values, identity politics, mindless consumerism and a generation of youth that care nothing but having fun. Unfortunately, China has its own strong culture, and they can see increasingly how Western culture and systems are failing the West. Why would anyone want to take on a clearly failing political and economic model of the US/West, it is a no brainer. China has been a major world economy for 2000 years prior to Western aggression/colonialism, it is only returning to its rightful place.
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