Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why China isn’t Scared of Robots" video.

Right, you'd have to actively ignore all the negative content about America -- made overwhelmingly by Americans themselves -- to say Americans don't bash on America hard enough.
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This is why Taiwan is considered a mortal threat: the continued existence of a democratized ROC is living proof of what a Chinese ethnostate could be without the Party.
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... in English. Chinese language media is a lot more prideful and bellicose.
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What's common is the lack of viable competition, whether it's one-Party China or corporate-captured America. What's different is that America has been there before during the Gilded Age a century ago, where government trust-busting and the allowance for labor unions prevented the even more drastic deconstruction which anarcho-communists violently pushed for. China though has always been an autocracy that gets ever more brittle over time until the state suddenly shatters; the closest alternatives being the separated and only recently-democratized ROC on Taiwan, and the much more ethnically mixed Singapore (whose Chinese population largely hail from the more culturally distant southern provinces).
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@changliu3915 The "historic norm" for China also involves an autocratic court committing to constant westward conquest, followed by violent collapse of the dynasty. It's only "peaceful" within the core of China until it's not, all brought about by the decadence of an aristocratic elite (which today is the Communist Party of China) who insulate themselves too much for too long from the average Chinese citizen.
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As time goes on though that excuse of historical wrongs holds less weight compared to what you do about the situation, especially now that you've been in sovereign control of your country for multiple generations. Remember places like Singapore, South Korea, and Dubai were once exploited colonies too, the difference being they didn't let kleptocracy and strongman arbitration to become the norm.
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Right, the wealth isn't getting "spread out" as much as confiscated or just not made out of fear of adverse action by the state. The Chinese people don't protest because they never got the money to begin with.
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Modern China is way behind on soft power though, which leaves little sympathy to stay when manufacturing there becomes less economical; manufacturing is the least value-added and most substitutable middle of the production process compared to R&D (i.e. valuable IP) in the beginning and Sales & Services at the end.
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@testacals Young graduates can't get jobs commensurate to their studies because Chinese government actions suddenly discouraged their biggest sources of employment: real estate due to the housing bubble they're trying to deflate cutting the need for sales staff, and education due to an ideological push for "common prosperity" by ending paid after-school tutoring. So now they're doing gig work as delivery drivers and such because it's at least more flexible than clocking in to some far-flung factory every day whose orders are subject to cancelation and the facility to sudden closure.
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@hughmungus2760 That's because China puts up significant barriers to capital flows which insulate it from the rest of the more USD-backed world. That helped after 2008 to grow its economy and its pride, but following Zero-COVID this isolation is now having the opposite effect.
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Right, if it's too detailed you end up losing the audience and likely getting some details wrong. What's important is the overall idea, which in this video is that China expresses a lot less inhibition toward technological experimentation because it feels that there's no other way to improve its global relevance without bringing up alternatives and challenges to its own sociopolitical order (as culturally-unique "soft power" artistic products love to do).
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Value-added is the key word. You could be the largest maker of something, but if it's of disposable quality (i.e. more economical to scrap than retool) then the money isn't there.
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There is a pension system in China just like there's a state-run healthcare system, but what the Chinese government provides through both are so laughably inadequate that it's practically not worth doing the paperwork for.
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