Comments by "F Liu" (@F_Liu) on "What is neoliberalism? How the 'Washington consensus' was imposed on the world" video.

  1. Ben, I learn so much from you. Also, you understand China better than most Chinese. I greatly appreciate your time and effort!
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  2. To me as a Chinese, I see the West's ultra-liberal political ideology and economic policy as a form of irresponsibility and selfishness. But it is consistent with the US/West zero sum mentality, my gain is your loss, very different from China's ''win-win'' way of thinking where all parties benefit.
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  3.  @mikeyrose4183  First of all, have I understood correctly that you live in China? And you have been dealing with the Chinese business people from Mainland China? I agree with you to a certain extend that there is such ''ethnocentrism'' in the Chinese mentality, both based on the fact that China has a long history and rich culture, (yes they consider themselves wise and well civilised people perhaps more than people from most other cultures) and also as I said they know they are smart at business, by the way, being smart at business often means not being nice likable people, it means being ruthless and cold a lot of the times, yes business competitions are tough, the Chinese learned this since very young, how to out compete among thousands, hundreds of thousands of school kids to reach the top universities they aim to get to, it is often their only way up in transforming their lives. This culture is unique to the Chinese. And yes, some see foreigners as ''inferior'', and guess what some see Whites as inferior too, but most of the time this is not based on race, this is more to do with the economic status of the country where these people are from, there is this ''I care more dealing with people from ''rich'' countries, and less with people from less developed countries'' way of thinking, but again, I feel your experience is not representative of all Chinese (business) people, or you have not truly understand what the Chinese people are all about, there are A LOT of cultural differences, many of which some Westerners could never get use to, nevertheless, most Chinese people are actually very friendly and welcoming of people of other cultures and races. To generalise a whole nation of people is itself narrow minded.
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  4.  @mikeyrose4183  I can not agree with you about the Chinese people. The Chinese are quite smart at business dealings yes, but not without moral principles, they certainly understand respect, and they also understand the importance of developing a long term relationship between business partners. You can ''take advantage'' of others once or twice, but eventually will be to the detriment of this relationship. I am not naive, NOBODY is stupid, the Chinese are humble enough to understand this.
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  5.  @JohnT.4321  Deng made it clear when he started the reform and opening up, the idea is to let a minority with the means to get rich first, but they are then supposed to help others to prosper, by offering employments for example. Many Western people don't know that 70% of China's economic growth are from private enterprises (which offers the majority of employments), China has no intention to change this. And you are right, the win-win is partly to fulfil China's long term commitment of helping the Global South to develop and eventually be free from Western economic domination.
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  6.  @JohnT.4321  Well they have tried, but didn't go anywhere. There are certainly some agents of the US/West tried to get the Chinese government to relax China's financial sector for example, but unsuccessful so far. As it stands for now, the capitalists are not able to gain any influence towards China's political and economic policy making, the capitalists know their place in society and they stay there.
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  7.  countson6088  I would not say most, but yes a few think like that, many of whom are simply naive and kind natured. They need to come to the West like I have done to understand the West is not all that great, in fact a lot worse than China in many respects. Also as the US/West is going full contain China mode, that will help to wake them up from this bubble.
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  8.  @mikeyrose4183  While you are entitled to your opinions about the Chinese nation and its people based on your personal experience and observations, I can't help to sense your deep bias and ignorance against China. Your knowledge about China is clearly outdated, and hubris and boasting is the least thing one would associate with the Chinese, the Chinese hardly ever brag about their achievements, because humility and self reflection is part of their culture, they always look forward to future improvement, and are never satisfied with what they have now. These are just facts. Have you seen a Chinese branded EV lately? Have you travelled on a Chinese high speed train lately? Have you experienced the fast and well covered (mobile) internet infrastructure, seen an architect subway station or a new modern airport? Have you learned about the Chinese space exploration programme, their success rate of sending rockets into space, their space station modules? Have you checked out China's latest military innovation? It is very obvious you try your best to dismiss China's success, from an extremely poor semi colonised country to a fully industrialised world 2nd largest economy in just 40 years (no other country on this earth has done the same). Oh, by the way, not so long ago, before European aggression against China in the 1800s, Chinese products (silk, tea, porcelain, and many more) were among the most sought after products of the Western world (not to mention the ancient Chinese inventions that the West took for granted for, gunpower, paper making, printing, compass)... and all the way back to the Han dynasty (200BC) when merchants were trading Chinese goods through the silk road... The West, got their riches to start industrialisation from looting the raw material and resources from Africa, Latin America, Asia, including the silver they used to pay to the Chinese. Russia was a part of the European gang of empires who looted and invaded China too. So no, I won't accept your view about Chinse people lack creativity, the Chinese know full well how important innovation and industrialization is in keeping them independent from Western exploitation... China has been the top country for many years in a row, to file most new patents. But anyway, China never needs approval and recognition from anyone. You have a lot to learn about China. People can see through your ignorance and bias in an instance, as I said, we are not stupid, we know the facts.
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