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Why The USA Cannot Stop China | Keyu Jin | Wealth Office Wealth Office Wealth Office 25.8K subscribers Subscribe 1.1K Share Ask Save 35,713 views Jul 11, 2026 Economist and author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism, Professor Keyu Jin joins Michael Macfarlane ‪@michaelmacfarlane-mma‬ for a conversation exploring one of the defining questions of the twenty-first century: why does so much of the world still misunderstand China? For many people, China is viewed primarily through the lens of geopolitics, security and strategic competition. But Keyu argues that this perspective captures only a small part of a much larger story. Drawing on the ideas behind The New China Playbook, as well as decades of research into China's economic development, she explains why understanding modern China requires looking beyond politics to the deeper forces shaping its rise. Rather than simply copying existing models, China has developed its own approach to economic growth - combining long-term planning, market competition, state coordination and entrepreneurial innovation in ways that continue to challenge many Western assumptions. This is not simply a conversation about China, but a conversation about how the global economy is changing. As wealth, innovation and private capital become increasingly distributed across the world, understanding different economic systems may become one of the defining competitive advantages for entrepreneurs, investors, family offices and policymakers alike. The discussion explores why many Western institutions continue to interpret China through an ideological framework, and why that risks overlooking the economic, technological and cultural forces that are reshaping the global economy. Michael and Keyu discuss China's unique economic model, the relationship between long-term planning and innovation, and why ecosystems, rather than individual companies, may increasingly become the foundation of global competitiveness. The conversation also explores the growing importance of private capital. As Chinese entrepreneurs and family businesses continue to accumulate significant wealth, capital is becoming increasingly global, flowing into sectors such as biotechnology, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and healthcare. Rather than signalling the end of globalisation, Keyu argues that these trends point towards a more interconnected and multipolar world economy. A major theme throughout the episode is the changing relationship between East and West. Rather than viewing the future through the lens of rivalry alone, Michael and Keyu explore why collaboration, complementary strengths and greater cultural understanding may ultimately prove far more valuable than zero-sum competition. The conversation explores: • Why the West continues to misunderstand China • The ideas behind The New China Playbook • China's unique economic model • The relationship between state coordination and market competition • Long-term planning, innovation and industrial policy • Why China has become a global leader in AI, electric vehicles and advanced manufacturing • The importance of ecosystems over individual companies • The role of entrepreneurship in China's economic rise • Chinese private capital and the future of global investment • Family offices and the internationalisation of Asian wealth • Why globalisation is evolving rather than disappearing • The emergence of a more multipolar world economy • Collaboration between Chinese and Western businesses • The role of culture in shaping economic relationships • Why understanding China may become one of the most important strategic advantages of the coming decades The central question of the episode is whether the world is still trying to understand China through a twentieth-century framework. If Keyu Jin is right, China's rise is not simply the story of one country's economic success. It represents a broader shift towards a more multipolar world, where opportunity, innovation and capital are becoming increasingly distributed across regions, cultures and economic systems. 🎥 Watch the full conversation to explore how China, private capital, innovation and global economics are reshaping the twenty-first century, and why understanding these changes may become one of the greatest competitive advantages for investors, entrepreneurs and family offices. If you enjoy conversations like this, subscribe to Wealth Office for more discussions with entrepreneurs, investors, family businesses and global thinkers exploring how wealth is shaping the future. How this was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more Ask Get answers, explore topics, and more Ask questions Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript Wealth Office 25.8K subscribers Videos About Instagram LinkedIn 359 Comments Eng Lam Yeo Add a comment... @phenixwutao 1 day ago Smart people always change themselves, idiots always force others to change to meet their needs. 83 Reply 19 replies @daoistwanderer2671 1 day ago China may appear less transparent but China speaks, she speaks the truth. Unlike the Western media and politicians who are so well known for their fake news. 39 Reply 3 replies @SicMundus24 1 day ago Great fan of her! She understands the West and she understands China. She is a brilliant economy professor. Greetings from Germany 79 Reply 4 replies @mateusmahumane8990 1 day ago If China had remained poor but communist, nobody would care about it being commubist. Example is Vietnam, nobody talks , much less criticises Vietnam, although a communist country like China. The real reoson for criticising China is the fear of losing the power to control the world. 123 Reply 35 replies @slc801 1 day ago The west thinks to highly of themselves ! They think everyone from the global south wants to be like them . 37 Reply 15 replies @horridohobbies 1 day ago (edited) The West is always criticizing China because of four major reasons: (1) The West is ideologically prejudiced. Any system that isn't a liberal democracy is viewed as "authoritarian" or a "dictatorship." (2) The West is afraid. China's rise may undermine their global hegemony. (3) The West is jealous and resentful. China's spectacular rise makes them look bad. It undermines their claim that liberal democracy is the ultimate system to strive towards. (4) The West is racist. The Anglo-Americans look down on anyone who isn't "white." They harbour a sense of racial superiority. China is an economic competitor. China is not a security threat to the West. China has never threatened the United States nor Europe. China has never fought a war with them on their territory. In fact, China hasn't fought a war with anybody since 1979, nearly 50 years ago! China is the most peaceful world power in human history. There is absolutely no indication whatsoever that China will behave like the Western hegemon once it sits atop the world. 63 Reply 11 replies @TheFantomRogue 1 day ago Saw Prof Keyu Jin and I click!! She's a living LEGEND 2 Reply @vichitvideo6041 1 day ago The West, especially the US, want China to be like them politically but do not want China to be very developed economically, technologically and militarily etc. 7 Reply @ivantan5690 18 hours ago (edited) Always love hearing Keyu Jin speak. Very intelligent person. 1 Reply @daoistwanderer2671 1 day ago Good political leadership + talented people + a realist and balanced system (like the yin and yang) + cultural values = China’s success. Welcome to copy this, my Western friends. 8 Reply @mohammadrahmani4700 1 day ago The emergence of China as a major global power contributes to the development of a more balanced international order. 8 Reply @shiulai5804 1 day ago When the West dominated due to competitive advantaged, China along with the rest of the world were expected to ACCEPT and ADMIRE the excellence of the West When China out competes the West, it is being condemned and labeled as a villain. That is it in a nutshell. 16 Reply 5 replies @WillSan-e9n 1 day ago (edited) TBH, we Asian/ Chinese don't need to explain ourselves. The outcome is all out there for the world to see. It's all about hegemony and greed for power hidden behind racial supremacy. The West led by the America colonising many countries and imposed their influence & ideology continues so via control of media and NGOs. In this case, explanation & propaganda are necessary and been helpful but not the countries being colonised, invaded and plundered. The West is still very much exploiting & enslaving the world via its dome of financial & technological hegemony for its economic and national security purposes. China's rise has poked that very dome. Never worrying about a poor China all of sudden, feeling threatened but disguised as defending democracy. Luckily their support of the genocide in Gaza and illegal bombing of Iran have exposed that very hypocrisy to the world. The West is now devouring themselves through their hypocrisy, self-deception and decadence given true wealth is built on real efforts and sacrifices not pillaging and plundering nor exploitation of the weak & innocent via all sort financial & tech mechanism coupled with gunboat policy. Please stop pretending you're trying too hard to understand China. You indeed do understand China perhaps even more than some Chinese overseas themselves but pretending you're not and justifying your demonising and destablising propaganda against China. 😜 Stop pretending the West's failure is due to the constraints of democracy. The West is using democracy as a weapon to control the world it might be the intention at the very beginning but now exposed its true faces. Democracy if it is meant for the people, by the people and of the people but not the case happening in the West. In reality, for the elites, by the elites and of the elites. China is always a evolving entity absorbing things around them. It has shown people wishes has been listened and well-being has been taken care of by the political leaders. If this not democracy what is? If you talk about people voting and human rights, the West has miserably failed in fact, either being a direct war criminals or indirectly contributing to it across the globe with impunity. But karma is a bitch, no? It's high time for the Western war criminals/ colonisers/ financial market manipulators to explain to the world so the world can perhaps understanding them better, no? 😉 54 Reply 9 replies @chocolatemodelsofficial5859 5 hours ago This lady gives me hope for the future. Reply @agilemeister 21 hours ago I love hearing KeyuJin speak. She has a wonderful multicultural background and always presents interesting viewpoints. And I probably not need mention that she is breathtaking! ❤ 1 Reply @wjshih3786 1 day ago The misunderstanding mainly comes from the misrepresentation of “communist party” actually is not practicing communism politically and economically. 5 Reply @wmchan44 1 day ago China actually went through about 77 years (since 1949) of struggles, changes and hard work before arriving at today's successful formula. Currently the people are satisfied with the present arrangement of security, freedom, social benefits, government supports, advancing economy, etc. Outsiders should not try to criticize China unless they are better off. Clean up your backyards first. 18 Reply 4 replies @daoistwanderer2671 1 day ago Technology connects and unites. 1 Reply @STEMCivil168 1 day ago Success is not a right, you need to continuously work towards it... 1 Reply @lambertgiang 1 day ago China keeps on bettering itself and always looking at room for improvement. The more China being sanctioned the stronger China will become as it's in the DNA of Chinese Culture. The Safety of its People is the paramount responsibility of the Government and that can be shown whenever natural disaster struck such as Earthquakes and Floods. The PLA will play a big role in the rescue and that is why the PLA is always loved and respected by its people. Now, China has the top 7 out of 10 Global Banks in the World. Top 16 out of 20 Universities in the Research. More Graduates than the G7 combined every year in Engineering. So, how can China be stopped?🤔😉🤣🤣 7 Reply @barryshaw5660 21 hours ago One of the best interviews I’ve seen. As an old American this gives me hope for the chaotic future over the next five to ten years. A better way is possible, I’ve lived through the ugly. Reply @charlesyang4923 1 day ago (edited) Westerner hubris “modernization is westernization” is the primary blocking stone preventing westerners to know any country other than themselves, a roughy 10% of world population today. Europe is destined to become an under developed country whilst the US is heading its way to break apart its federation. 8 Reply @mwzxon 1 day ago It's not complicated to understand why the West demonise China. They fear they are losing their hegemony to China. There are so many many examples to look at like Japan in 1980, Huawei banned, ASML banned, Tariffs on China, Huawei 5G banned, DJI banned, Chinese EV banned, Chinese farmers in US banned, TikTok banned etc the lists go on.... The West wants to destroy China's economy. At the same time, they want Chinese money. It is as easy as 1 2 3 to understand why the West demonise China. That's all. Full stop....... 26 Reply 6 replies @tinku-t9d 5 hours ago My concentration is disturbed when there's a combination of Art and Architecture with Beauty. Mint green+White +Gold. Again I have to listen to her. Reply @hongga-sze5075 4 hours ago The most important question is how do we select candidates, groom them, select the leaders, evaluate their performance and having a mechanism to drop them from leadership. Reply @jchanmcse 1 day ago The key to China progress is rooted in Confusionism. Confucianism is an ancient Chinese ethical and philosophical system founded by Confucius (551–479 BCE). It focuses on personal morality, social harmony, and duty. Rather than worshiping a deity, it acts as a practical guide for daily life, emphasizing respect for elders, family loyalty, and education. Yes, education is the key as well! 19 Reply 2 replies @jacobfield4848 4 hours ago China has a big population, that is their only asset. In every other way they are 30 years behind other countries. 1 Reply @pandulagodawatta7398 18 hours ago The way Chinese central government scientifically planned the economy (how long term centralized planning was firmly amalgamated with local government economic autonomy to build advance regional platforms) owes much to the New Economic Policy (NEP) of Lenin and the collectivization process of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. While the Soviet bureaucratic rule did not integrate large local and foreign private capital into their 'socialism in one country' economic model, the Chinese bureaucratic rule did that in the late 70s. Without understanding that historical policy connection between the revolutionary Soviet Union and revolutionary China one cannot fully understand what China is doing today. 1 Reply @AndrewWeeraratne 1 day ago Economic model of the West do not have any mention of the State even when all the initial capital is directly or indirectly provided by the State. That explains the wealth inequality leading to poverty & crime 1 Reply @barryshaw5660 21 hours ago Very interesting and informative interview. Thank you for your efforts to bring us some positivity. Love Presidents Xi and Putin’s relationship. All those natural resources and Manufacturing abilities together are unstoppable. A Farmer and a Cab driver, who could have imagined what these two individuals were their closest advisors have Accomplished and they aren’t done yet. Reply @JohnLto-c2o 1 day ago Working with Chinese company now still mersmerized how they operate . Reply @fredf888 1 day ago Big fan of Keyu. After The New China Playbook, I am really looking forward to her next book. 5 Reply @Time4Peace 1 day ago The West don't want to understand China not more than Cuba, Russia nor Cuba. The US acts like an empire, and therefore tolerate no one, big or small, who does not toe the line. When they seem to try to understand, it to find out how else to bring China down. Keju has been trying to communicate about China for a long time but she is seen as a China apologist. China has been hoping to coexist and even to collaborate but the mindset of the West has been binary - win or lose. China just has to speed ahead and bring the global south with it. 3 Reply @zczcprc9851 4 hours ago Professor Keyu Jin should closely read two recently published, highly impactful pieces: Stephen S. Roach's "China’s Failed Rebalancing" and Paul Krugman’s "How to Win a Trade War" on Substack.Both published just weeks ago, these texts offer a timely and critical counterargument to narratives defending China’s current industrial policy. The authors highlight the recent consensus that Beijing has failed to transition to a consumption-driven model, resulting in severe global overcapacity. They argue that China's persistent reliance on state-subsidized exports, such as electric vehicles, has reached a tipping point that necessitates defensive trade actions from Western economies. For a detailed critique, explore these recently updated arguments and viewpoints. Reply @frankynatawigena1965 1 day ago (edited) China is not a mystery, it's about anglo-saxon countries closed mindedness that don't allow them to understand 4 Reply @williamli6200 1 day ago (edited) #1, 1.4 billion people buy into CCP"s "propaganda" and focus on economic development, not distracted by any political agenda. #2, I doubt if there are even 5% Americans who can figure out 19 x 13 without calculators, while any Chinese who graduate from elementary school know. That tells you the quality of workers needed for industrialization. #3, Chinese government controls huge huge amount of resources, and can use it efficiently, while US government not only controls much less resources, but they simply can't use it efficiently. #4, the system in US simply makes it impossible for government to make long term planning, which CCP can make plans for next 10 years, next 25 years, or even next 50 years. For example, in 1992, California used 40 million dollars on OJ simpson case, that is worth hundreds of millions now, which was used for something that contributed zero to improve economy. 6 Reply 2 replies @CMOP-c5h 1 day ago Bravo Michael, I don't subscribe, but as an exception I have done so to your channel. It is refreshing to see a host who is balanced and not holds a typical sinophobic narratives. Your knowledge on China is far greater than the usual self declared 'China experts' like Niall Fergusson, Kevin Rudd, who would show off his poorly spoken Mandarin whenever and wherever possible, not to mention others like Peter Zehan and Gordon Chan. Unfortunately for those of us in the so called 'west', for every one of Michael, there are many thousands of others looking at China and others, whom they'd deem to be inferior via their 'biaised' lenses. Reply @山間防災 1 day ago Wondering if she can still find little bit of time daily for a new book? Reply @yongdeng1813 18 hours ago For the westerners who wanna understand china, i mean really know what china is about, she is the one to listen to. I am also chinese who live in the Us for 40 years, she does better than 99.9% of the people who claim to know china. Reply @leos3003 9 hours ago LOL Tell me this in three years. 1 Reply @Spectrum_Aerospacejet_Lab 8 minutes ago Is their living. Reply @fgsdfgsgfd3453 1 day ago BRICS didn't do gaza, venezuela, or iran. 1 Reply @amienbrrnthrhswirawan7776 1 day ago Tidak ada satu orang pun yang mampu menjegal pikiran orang lain , never Reply @fgsdfgsgfd3453 1 day ago Imperialism is dying. 2 Reply @TheFantomRogue 1 day ago The Answer is: 42 !!!! 😂😂😂 1 Reply 1 reply @louisjouvet4548 1 day ago (edited) The way you talk about the US being still the best place to do business strike me as funny. That society is breaking down in a fascistic oligarchy where 50% of the people does not have $1000 to it's name. Not the place I would want to invest long term. 12 Reply @terencenxumalo1159 23 hours ago 👍 Reply 1 reply @snathan3198 15 hours ago China can stop China and it is doing it! 1 Reply @STEMCivil168 1 day ago Why is this interview being conducted before a naked statue.... The "king" has lost his clothes perhaps.... 🧐🤔🙃 2 Reply @chungchihsu2000 4 hours ago Lee keqian said half of the population earn less than 1,000 RMB a month. Reply @fgsdfgsgfd3453 1 day ago Reversion back to the mean. The west was always temporary. 1 Reply @abk8152 1 day ago China is honest and too good its that's simple. Reply @Liveforfood9394 1 day ago (edited) China knows the West, but the West doesn't know China. China learned from history about being beaten up and the West leaned about beating up somebody! So who learns more? 3 Reply 3 replies @pandabearoceanpark 1 day ago (edited) It is often repeated that China plans for the long-term, whereas democracies plan in election cycles. But more importantly, and this need to be emphasized, is that the Chinese government truly works to improve the lot for its people whereas in many democracy, the politicians work for themselves, by hook or by crook. 5 Reply @KevinOge-ms4by 11 hours ago 🥂💞 Reply 1 reply @User-nw37 13 hours ago Western economic models, Economic models without the involvement of the state is not based on reality. Reply 1 reply @billybobobenner 16 hours ago A good conversation, but the gentleman is British, so he should say "Gen Zed"! Reply @hondohavlicek5252 14 hours ago where to put our money? look at the Dow Jones vs China Index Reply @paulbk7810 1 day ago re: US and West economies? Your conversation is more about the rising arm of the K-economy. Very little applicable to descending leg of the K-economy. (65% of US population) Reply @towhidenterprise2104 1 day ago In coming 10 years young population growth will be the main issue for China. China should not underestimate this issue like Japan south Korea Reply 1 reply @BonT357 7 hours ago 340 mil cannot stop 1400 mil Reply @tsam331 23 hours ago Her view of China is biased but understandable, and her close ties to high-ranking Chinese officials are understandable as well. Reply @richardlau2447 1 day ago She is my type. 1 Reply 1 reply @malpalmer3269 1 day ago No power can stay on forever, one time the east was in power, Middle East was in power then the west became powerful then now it’s moving again. This cycle will go on regardless who is in power and however much they hold onto power new powers will always emerge and reemerge Reply @johnsmith100 7 hours ago Many people in the U.S. / West keep try portraying China in a negative light. But China is great and successful: Over 50K KMs of high-speed trains, countless bridges and subway lines, subway stations that look like airport terminals, super advanced AI enhanced cell phones, traffic control and electric vehicles, great government mandated social programs and healthcare, not to mention the robots, solar panels, nuclear energy and wind turbines, practically no homeless people and very affordable food prices. Also, the owners of many factories in China provide FREE dormitories and 3 meals a day for the labor employees (those employees who are working in the shop floor), in addition to their regular salary … Nothing can stop China 🇨🇳. Reply @JamieMorlok 1 day ago China never claims to be perfect. However, there is no equivalent country who can match what the Chinese govt. has achieved for China, the Chinese & even the world in the given span of time with its huge population despite the aggressive continuous challenges thrown at it by western govts. China has proved that it is a super power nation as it is able to control territorial integrity, unintimidated or coerced by others, has capabilities, resources & others to affect & influence events WITHOUT FIRING a single shot at any country. Reply @daoistwanderer2671 1 day ago The West is losing fast yet unwilling to face the truth and reform itself. See so many one track minded Western analysts and economists who would always attempt to analyse China’s problems but never their own. 2 Reply 4 replies @Joe_Rhio 1 day ago (edited) In Chinese public schools, colleges, and universities when American history is taught, I don’t believe there is coverage of the anti-Chinese sentiments throughout US history, most notably the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its related corollary legislation over the decades. [There was similar legislation in Canada.] It’s one of America’s darkest times. Over the 28+ years I’ve traveled to China, consulted, lectured, worked on many related issues, not once did anyone have knowledge of and understanding of the importance of this history. Understand - carefully - the Chinese is the only ethnicity ever prohibited from immigrating to the US in its history. This racism and violence (inc. killings) toward Chinese and Asians of all ethnicity’s is still prevalent in many parts of the US, and exemplified almost daily by the Trump Admin, Congress, corp media, American Oligarchs, and 1%’er’s. The US neocons, deep state, military industrial complex, others have no off ramp. They are determined to destroy the Chinese people’s human right of self-determination, interfere in China’s sovereignty, and are preparing for an eventual kinetic war. 1 Reply @ryokousha-s2r 33 minutes ago No one wants to stop China, except from stealing and aggression. Reply @danlan3433 1 day ago I think Chinese should look down on the west and have them take back all the abused to China by the unfair treatment. Racism could go both ways. So many White western people sucked! 10 Reply 8 replies @chriscromeyn7807 1 day ago That's right, the USA can't stop China but you can bet that China will stop China. Reply @Celis.C 2 hours ago (edited) By every single bit of propaganda that the US itself has shared, it should be working towards "outcompeting' China. Make better products. Offer better services. "Take the crown through competition." The fact that it can't even act on its own gospel shows the true face and state of the US. Reply @kmloh4540 1 day ago Why the need to stop China....This statement implied that the west has just stopped moving or just slow.........Can't you just move with China. Keep step or just be ahead. Aren't you claim to be more advance????? 1 Reply @rogernguyen1273 1 day ago La Chine est travailleur et discipline et unis pas comme les etat desunis Reply @theadmiral4625 1 day ago She’s being too kind in calling the west stewpid and arrogant falling without realizing the landing is about to hit 💪☠️☠️☠️💪 Reply @paulbk7810 1 day ago - Communist Party of China built the most sophisticated civilization in history while US went from Nixon to Trump. - China is 100 years ahead of US in all ways that matter. - US can not compete with China. China can plan long term (greater than 10yrs). US can not plan 10 days. - US borrows $200B per month, every month. - US is in steep collapse. The world knows it. - US GDP is made of clicks and soybeans. - US is drowning in the toilet of history. - Dear USA, it's over. 9 Reply 2 replies @gregwang8628 9 hours ago Let’s not waste our time over this topic, shall we? Let’s get past this talking point, and move on to something tangible and constructive, the humanity needs that more than anything else as of now. The victims of genocide, famines, climate crisis, war atrocities, much more need our attention and resolve. Reply @freedomID05 1 day ago Listen to the host himself is afraid to say things hurting, negative of the us and the west.. So u can see still these mindsets Reply @barrychmak7852 2 hours ago Chinese political leaders foremost priorities are Domestic Social Stability and steadily improving the living standard of its people ! All provincial officials will be judged yearly based on these priorities and big provinces are given the tasks to help smaller provinces to success as well, if they want to promote to higher levels . Western media constant smearing of China has not been able the change the political priorities of China ! Wars and bombing other countries have never been on the Chinese National Agenda ! Reply @jotai99 1 day ago Smart represent progress, dumb means conservative and backward looking, China was in the US position a hundred years or so ago, but it's the US's term to want to go backwards :-) Reply @markcnudde-i7i 17 hours ago currently china is in dire straits......every sector in decline or worse, with the ongoing deadly viruses still rampant and spreading, endless manmade and natural disasters, high levels of air and water pollution, student and worker riots escalating due to few jobs, factory closures and unpaid wages, now companies and even the wealthy are leaving in droves......things look very bleak for china......the ccp (chinese communist party) is fractured and in chaos with party infighting , purging of military and party officials and now talks of a coup......this could collapse the ccp.......actually this would benefit china for without the control, oppression and power of the party the chinese people being very resiliant and hard working would quickly rebound bringing china back to its former glory...... 1 Reply 1 reply @youtube-4-fun 49 minutes ago No need to stop, someday it will fall 😂 Reply @OnkelAdiSuperstar 1 day ago You don't need an economist to state the obvious! Just look at Western media and the YouTube comment sections. Westoids spend more time there than in the labs or on the production line, as the Chinaman tirelessly toils to improve his country. There is no hope. 1 Reply @Hayes-bd8ou 1 day ago BTW, DO NOT mix China in terms of her government and China in terms of her people. She intentionally mixed them. Reply @onezetabytepro7668 2 minutes ago China builds while West bombs. That's why China is at least 20 years ahead. Reply @joeblodontchno5309 2 hours ago chinese dictatorship runs the economy as a ponzi scheme, without considering supply/demand dynamics or the needs of common chinese.. the ccp elite siphon all the profits leaving common chinese holding all the debts & working like slaves.. prime example of this is in real estate & high speed rail.. China’s 600M Empty Homes Could House Half the World.. In 2023, deputy director He Kang of the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, publicly stated, “There is currently an oversupply of housing. How many vacant homes are there? China’s 1.4 billion people couldn’t fill them all.” He also quoted an expert, who estimated that China has enough vacant homes to accommodate 3 billion people. Despite this extreme surplus of apartments in ghost cities, China still has a shortage of affordable housing in its actual cities. See the recent "cribs" episode, for example. People living in actual ceiling holes and sleeping next to toilets. china has build the largest high speed rail network in the world which very few people use.. China Back to the 1990's Overnight, High-Speed Trains Empty, Over 100 Million Pack Old Trains During the 2026 Chinese New Year travel rush, a heartbreaking scene unfolded. Once dismissed as "old-fashioned," the green trains suddenly became the most sought-after mode of transportation. Tickets were nearly impossible to get, and the trains were packed to the brim, while high-speed trains sat empty and quiet. This stark contrast reflects the current economic downturn and the difficult living conditions in China. Misallocation of resources is very typical of authoritarian regimes, but China keeps taking it to the next level. Reply @personspec8881 2 hours ago us can't stop china, they will stop themselves Reply @vidivici0075 1 day ago Yuan Dynasty was the Mongols ruling the mainland. Qing Dynasty were the Manchus. China is not at par with Russia. With that you can tell China will stop itself. And been doing all that in the past decade. Reply @Oldfogey2014 1 day ago It’s true the US can’t stop China but the Chinese Communist Party can! Reply @ahc3593 3 hours ago (edited) If china system is so good . Why you educated and enjoy living in USA 🇺🇸 And Why so many Chinese try to live in this great nation USA 🇺🇸？ and don’t want to move back to china even all rich Chinese and many Chinese government officials kids and wives are send to live in USA 🇺🇸??? 😂😢 all of them trust and stashed their money in USA 🇺🇸 rather keep them in china……. 1 Reply 1 reply @richardexploresshanghai 1 day ago (edited) US saying to Britain we own you, well that turned around as fast as those words were uttered. The British economic system was instilled and defended all over the world. Trump, is dismantling its influence in the US, in favor of the American economic model, which earlier Presidents were assassinated for promoting (McKinley) but boy are those Globalists and Britain fighting back hard, I have never seen such levels of propaganda. As for China, China is busy doing its own thing, which is exactly what Trump wants for the US and wants for the rest of the world. Reply @Utube1024 1 day ago China should stop rare earth exports altogether as their own need is paramount. 2 Reply @frankfeng4728 22 hours ago Stop Iran first, please. Reply @towhidenterprise2104 1 day ago We visited China kunming linyi Qingdao Shanghai Xiamen..India is 50+ years behind China. Usa Europe is 10+ years behind China Reply 1 reply @zenlei8258 1 day ago China rise was supported by Wall Street elite greed. US Congress give China in 2000 the Permanent Most Favored Nation (MFN) status, where China can export to US very less tariffed or tariff free. Why US never give India to export to US tariff free , if US need India help to contain China ? Western countries always say India is the future, but they continue going to China in droves? China was invited to join the US Dollar regime in order to create continuous strong economy growth from 2000-2018. No country in the world can have strong economic growth without joining the Dollar regime sponsor by US. By joining the DOLLAR regime China get to export to US tariff free or very less tariff and so China export to US increased dramatically. China is the only country in the world that get the privilege to export to US tariff free or very less tariffed. Any country that can export to the biggest consumer markets in the world USA, paying zero tariffs, and earn 100s billion trade surplus every year, can be a success. Taiwan, Thailand, Phippines, Japan , Turkey , Egypt etc. are all strong allies of US but never get the privilege to export to US paying zero tariffs. Strange isn't it ? Why ? Reply @Hayes-bd8ou 1 day ago (edited) All the productivity and innovation, or what she called "integration", in China came from the capitalism and partly the Chinese traditional culture itself. None of those credits go to the Chinese government model at all. Let me put it this way. IF all the current suppresion by the Chinese government to its people be removed, the innovation and amazing potentials of Chinese people would be much more than what's seen currently. Reply @benjamincai1272 16 hours ago If the premise is that the West wants nobody like them, then the West must be doing something unethical or immoral. Otherwise, why wouldn't they want everyone to be like them? If they are the standard, then everybody should aspire to be like the West. Stop the ambiguity and hypocrisy. Reply @kckoay6211 4 hours ago Keyu Jin has articulated what the West refuses to see. The three misunderstandings she identifies — about China's model, its people, and the relationship between authority and society — are not accidental. They are the product of a propaganda machinery that manufactures consent for geopolitical containment. The Western assumption that as societies become wealthier they will inevitably "look like the West" is not analytical; it is ideological. It presumes that the procedural ritual of elections every four or five years is the sole measure of legitimacy — while ignoring the substantive delivery of welfare that governance is actually for. Yet look at the cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen. They are not less Western; they are more future. Look at the daily lives of citizens: Western brands everywhere, modern infrastructure, safety, opportunity. Look at the data: 800 million lifted from poverty, 50,000 kilometres of high-speed rail, life expectancy now exceeding the United States. The West singles out China for criticism not because of socioeconomic conditions, but because of geopolitics. China is not criticised because it is backward; it is criticised because it is competitive. And it is competitive because it has built a state capacity that the West, paralysed by short-term electoral cycles and procedural gridlock, has lost. Jin's vision of pragmatism, open-mindedness, and recognition of complementary capabilities is the only sustainable path forward. The geopolitical distraction benefits no one. The manufacturing consent machine ensures reality remains obscured—but reality has a way of asserting itself. The cities are visible to anyone who looks. And the world is looking. Reply @jacknaneek1681 1 day ago China is vastly ahead of west. West is dead. 1 Reply @nick888-88 1 day ago Once upon a time, the racist and insecure bullies of the West had the hegemonic power to appoint itself to the roles of judge and jury of the rest of the world. ONCE UPON A TIME. China does not (no longer) has to defend or justify or explain itself to the West. It is now up to the West to learn how to satisfy China. It will be a rude awakening for the West. Reply @stevey9282 1 day ago 1st start: it’s NOT the world that “don’t understand” China! It’s the minority crooks west (less than 12% of world population) that love to demean others whenever their ivory tower becomes shaky!!! The WORLD welcome China as it had been for over thousands of years!!! Reply @quantum1953 1 day ago This guy like to hear the sound of his voice. Reply @randomdude7384 6 hours ago Was the propaganda piece recorded in the Yanukovich residence? Reply @jackyee7511 1 day ago Time is on China's side ... it existed before the USA came into being, and will be there afterwards as well. Reply @joeblodontchno5309 2 hours ago china is very similar to Africa in that it can only bargain with raw earth mineral dirt for western chips, jet engines, nuclear materials... chinese make poor quality low tech products for their western masters using chinese cheap sweatshop labor.. but in many ways africans are more advanced than chinese.. chinese are still ruled by a communist dictator in 2026 while even africans are advancing politically with democratic societies .. look at south africa, nigeria, kenya etc., where elections to choose leaders are becoming regular.. chinese are decades behind africa politically where many africans have freedom of expression & a free press but common chinese dare not criticise supreme leader xi or the ccp.. & even the rare earth gambit was a 1 shot deal for china.. numerous other countries, many in Africa, are now mining & refining rare earths.. so china shot its load & will have nothing to bargain with in the future.. chinese allowed communism to enslave them & now they have a clownish dystopian state where dictator xi must fight off military coups like an african despot.. General Zhang Youxia's recent coup attempt is just a continuation of upheavals since the Tiananmen square massacre.. china is a banana republic & when chinese eventually transition away from communist dictatorships, there could be chaos & china might break apart like the former soviet union.. Once china falls, it could spawn several independent countries such as Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, Nei Mongo, Yunan, Guang Dong, Guang Xi, Xian, ... Reply @freedomID05 1 day ago (edited) Us and the west know China very well when they make money from it. Cheap labor, dirty pollution, and health risks, low stack cost. They just can't allow any nation to do better cz no wealth flows in and their vacation and weak in $. So to blame, containment, label. Reply @sqqql70 11 hours ago 小金老高=敌营十八年 Reply @aribernstein77 13 hours ago Chinese population is predicted to halve by 2100 to 600 million. Who is going to pay for all the elderly? Chinese manufacturing is losing to eastern Europe and Mexico as the two biggest trading blocks start to nearshore Reply @wallstreet497 1 day ago (edited) That US appetite to control the world will go on diet. Reply @normantan7796 1 day ago You don't need to be a scientist or professor or intellectures to see why china will overtake USA.......... It's God, no one can overturn God's will in what goes up must come down as history proved. All these pretenders thinking they are clever isn't. Just shut up and hand the credits to God. 1 Reply @huangeric9142 20 hours ago because China on the other side of the planet Reply @shankerram6076 1 day ago USA cannot stop China for sure. It is China that will stop China by killing it's own citizens and all the lies about it's population and finance. ( Just see the way they killed all the sparrows and all the babies that would have been born if the one child policy was not there. ) Reply @yaoliang1580 1 day ago The US on its own will not be able to set back China's phenomenal progress but when combined with its gang of equally crooked G7 n European vassals are certainly able to slow China's progress by forming trade alliances n denying Chinese value added products into their markets though they will also be badly affected in the process Reply @chanhonming3723 1 day ago The West wants China and Global South countries to be the low-manufacturing industries and the West to keep all the high-end innovations and high tech for themselves.. Reply @GustavoLopez-tk2dv 1 day ago The best thing the United States could do is to incorporate the Chinese method into its own system. Reply 1 reply @jaysonmatining23 13 hours ago (edited) Modern China is socialist not communist... whatever that means. And US decline whether economically or socially are US politicians and leadershiip fault not China's fault. The Greed in corporate and the corruptions in government. Our point is do not blame other country for the decline because they have done it to their own country. Not pro or anti China just an honest observation and opinion. We cannot correct past mistakes if we are still in denial. Reply 1 reply @urimtefiki226 1 day ago USA can stop Urim Tefiki the inventor of algorithm for microchips, but can not stop China with 1,4 billion people, it is easy to stop one person even one village can do that, even the smallest group can do that. If you think you are strong and and you can kill anyone and force anyone live in poverty without doing anything bad to you, the problem is very big it is so big that you even can not undertand, it will come the day you will drink your own medicine for doing this to me, you will pay this price not only to you but your children and grand children too. I can wait for millions of years and my waiting is Curse of Wisdom to those who harm me and all the wisdom of the world. The more I will wait the curse will go deeper and deeper for you. Reply @AwangAwe 13 hours ago China ( I think) will not be bothered to invade or make other countries poor..then the west especially the US could not catch up.. Reply @thesavvyartist 22 hours ago (edited) The interviewer is not prepared to accept any criticism about the West. He made this clear right at the beginning of the interview. Yet, his questions are targeting China's failures rather than successes. So, I wonder how much he absorbs from what the professor is saying. This is a bias interview and a waste of time because all his questions had been answered by the professor in her previous speeches and interviews. She has explained a zillion times the China model over the years and the "nuances" of the Chinese model with "mayors" as the key catalysts for economic growth. He comes to this interview with a jigsaw puzzle of a western scenery. And he expects to fit his puzzle into a complete and perfect picture from the professor's answers. Reply @khungle2845 1 day ago Where are H Kissinger R Nixon J Carter B Clinton B Obama J chretien A mackel H kohl Hongkong, Taiwan , Singapore, South Korea, japan etc thousands and thousands billions of dollars poured into China , thousands of high tech companies “ so called “ invest in China 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2 Reply 1 reply @martrinity18 1 day ago The west had difficulties beatting China because they use the other head to think and the other lips to talk Reply @allblacks405 1 day ago The world today is a better place because of China. Even for the citizens of sorely jealous US and the west. Consider if China stops exporting the everyday items people use affordably, the masses in these countries will suffer serious deprivation. Life has actually improved for everyone in this world because of "production over-capacity" in China! Take away China from our world and the world is definitely worse off. Remove the US and our world will be much better for it! Reply @qipan3461 1 day ago A Young Global Leader vibe. I just pray that the Chinese people defy against the satanic control of WEF. Reply @RudyTruly 1 day ago She has grown older and older Reply @tak.ventures 19 hours ago It is such a pain to listen to her can't even compete a full sentence without Ummmm and repeating the same words mutiple times. I don't know how she teaches in HKUST Reply @viveviveka2651 3 hours ago Wishful thinking Reply @jiangren4497 1 day ago and we have to realize that Keyu is not a Chinese government official, she is not making any policy ( she may influence policy maybe); she is an academic. whatever she says is her observation; it should not be taken as the official or the only or even the most accurate representation of the Chinese economy or the Chinese people. Reply @kmich7660 1 day ago Why? Elementary, Watson. USA is not a god. Reply @Hayes-bd8ou 1 day ago Of course USA or any others cannot stop China. The only one that can stop China is China herself. China's tomb digger is her own self-conflicting structure, period. Captalism for fast ecnomic growth and the "invincible" totalitarianism for forever suppression. If China can solve that self-confliction, noone needs to stop China. China will stop herself at some point. All these pretentiously academic discussion is just a BS. Reply @Hayes-bd8ou 1 day ago In decades later, as people looked back into what she had preached for this so-called Chinese government's "model", people will see what a big joke she actually is lol. But that's just another broken scholar though to be forgotten in the history. Reply @LanaLombardo-i3y 9 hours ago China CCP right now is on the verge of TOTAL economic and societal collapse................this is a FACT !!! Reply 1 reply @quantum1953 1 day ago The question is... Why would you want to stop china. Beautiful country, beautiful people, peaceful peoples. Now highest I.Q average, economic on the rise. What more do you want. Not the first time they have to rebuild in their history. The imperialist dictators don't like that. 5 Reply @winkstorm 1 day ago The west dislike China because China’s political and economic model was not supposed to work. Instead it provides clear contrast to the west’s dysfunctional governance state. Truth hurts and the West has too much pride to admit its failures. 2 Reply 1 reply @horridohobbies 1 day ago The Iran War is America's Suez Crisis. It signals the end of the American Empire. China had nothing to do with it. It was a self-inflicted wound. Napoleon once said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." China simply let it happen. 😁 1 Reply @happystation3228 1 day ago Care more about stopping a country with half a billion people, across the pacific ocean, more than they care about making things right in America at home. This is why America is doomed. Azz backwards logic only works when you're dealing with azz backwards people. backwards logic doesn't work with people who are calculated. When you're not even calculated at home with practical things. Being backwards doesn't make you unique, it just makes you stupid. Reply Eng Lam Yeo Cancel Reply @AifengYang-l4u 1 day ago 中国龙无拘无束 2 Reply @azharidris7092 1 day ago stupid title.. make you think bankrupt money printing USA can stop a 5000 year old civilization with 1:4 billion people from doing anything.. its nobody business.. the suggestion is not just stupid and arrogant but insulting to basic common sense... maybe the USA should start making plan not to be trampled by just the breath of an awaken dragon.. Reply @zenlei8258 1 day ago It is hard to understand China leadership thinking. China was invited to join the US Dollar regime and benefit tremendously from exporting to US tariff free from 2000 to 2019 before Trump impose tariffs on China to onshore some industries back to US. Many China CCP leaders relatives become red billionaires as a result of China able exporting to US with zero tariff from 2000 to 2018. China is the only nation in the world that get the privilege to export to US tariff free or very less tariffed. China is now supporting Iran regime by providing advanced drone technology. Why China want to undermine US Dollars as global reserve currency by going against US, by supporting Iran and doing business with Iran ? Reply 3 replies @MH-lb4fo 1 day ago People ought to know that the West has nothing good to say about China... In fact, the West has already openly declared China as an adversary, an existential threat to their global hagemony. Reply @Joseph0925Zou 1 day ago The US or The West in general cannot accept China's rise due to: 1. US is afraid of losing its hegemony (Economical, political, military, cultural); 2. Skin color bias or bigotry (The fact that a non-white nation is surpassing itself drives the US crazy. ) But they have to learn to adapt to this Mega Trend. China's rise is the Mega Trend, whether you like it or not. Just like the rising of the Sun. There is no way you can stop its rising. Reply @Jibberjibber1234 9 hours ago Bizzare…. CCP is an abomination, and if you’ve worked with the Chinese you can’t be impressed. China will be dangerous once CCP is gone. As is, it is profoundly handicapped. Reply 1 reply @LWRC 2 hours ago There is no doubt the Chinese people are smart and hard working but one can't help but to see she is nothing but a CCP mouth piece! Why hasn't homegirl mentioned the CCP building artificial islands in the S China Sea and putting military bases on them??!!! Reply @LanaLombardo-i3y 10 hours ago Has Prof Jin Ke-Yu married L. Summers yet.....just asking......??!!?? Jin Ke-Yu is a complete hack for China CCP, and of course she has to be........her father is/was a high ranking CCP member; every word out of this apologist's mouth is 100% China CCP propaganda !!! Reply @HshsHsjs-h1m 9 hours ago How much does China pay her. China is not a democracy, a key feature of being civilized. Until the Chinese people are free China will not be civilized. Reply 1 reply @ck1416 1 day ago What gives a country or a group of people the grounds to stop the development of another country or group of people? That this question does not arise in the mainstream discourse in the wests show their moral bankruptcy Reply @randomdude7384 6 hours ago She lies. Reply @GordonArmitage-f1q 1 day ago Do the Tibetans and the Uyghurs prefer security over liberty? Reply 1 reply @艺-m4x 1 day ago 什么货色还讨论中国呢😂中国丢不起那个脸 Reply @SreyOun-xf8kn 1 day ago For the West, it’s more of ignorance than misunderstanding. They just simply want to use their mighty power to bully, manipulate and take control over other countries knowing that they can. Reply @kaalsarpa 1 day ago (edited) "Things from Western civilization are the best things and only those things should exist, everything else must perish" that is the hype the West made up and subscribed to it themselves. Reply 1 reply @michael511128 1 day ago There is no such thing as “authority” to begin with neither “liberty”. Those terms apply to the landlord-serf societies and slavery 300 years ago. Preferring liberty over security are ideas in novels, movies, on Fox news and CNN, i.e. brainwashed by propaganda. Like she said she was trained in the West, US and UK. Earlier she probably had little understanding about the US empire, the CIA, hegemony and imperialism. All her she was taught the West is good and the West is right. For a while she was used by western propaganda machines to make wrongful diagnosis about China. She has improved but still a little green. Reply @erionalite 1 day ago Noone gives a shit about stopping china. Americans care about having a job. China can grow invest and invent its own shit. Without steeling others IP. Reply @Golddigger-r6p 1 day ago No problem. China will implode on it self. They are lying about pretty much everything to others and themselves. Their population will age and half over the next 50 years. It might be so bad, that there are more people in Europe at that point, than i China. Reply @Hayes-bd8ou 1 day ago It's funny she mentioned what Chinese government did for Africa. That's the biggest joke for Chinese people. The Chinese government didn't even care about spending enough for its own people, but cared about helping African people? She is not an idiot. She is just en evil if I have to be honest. Reply @krcalder 1 day ago What could possibly go wrong for the Chinese? They seem to be going from strength to strength. The Chinese have fallen into the usual traps of neoclassical economics. Everyone is making the same mistakes; the Chinese were just last in the queue. The Chinese were trying to increase domestic consumption, but it’s all gone horribly wrong. Davos 2019 – The Chinese have now realised high housing costs eat into consumer spending and they wanted to increase domestic consumption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNBcIFu-_V0 They let real estate rip and have now realised why that wasn’t a good idea. The equation makes it so easy. Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living) The cost of living term goes up with increased housing costs. The disposable income term goes down. They didn’t have the equation, they used neoclassical economics. The Chinese had to learn the hard way and it took years, but they got there in the end. They have let the cost of living rise, and they want to increase domestic consumption. Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living) It’s a double whammy on wages. China isn’t as competitive as it used to be. China has become more expensive and developed Eastern economies are off-shoring to places like Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines. “What does your equation do?” President Xi The equation puts the rentiers back into the picture, who had been removed by the early neoclassical economists. Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living) Employees want more disposable income Employers want to maximise profit by keeping wages as low as possible The rentiers gains push up the cost of living. Governments push up taxes to gain more revenue They took the rentiers out of economics. The cost of living term disappeared from the equation. Neoclassical economics is the economics of the Roaring Twenties, the Wall Street Crash and Great Depression. Policymakers sooner or later use the economic growth model of the Roaring Twenties, oblivious to where this is leading. It was China’s turn after 2008. Chinese exports to the West fell off a cliff after 2008, and they turned to their neoclassical economists to revive the economy. They started pumping bank credit into real estate. They were oblivious to the claims on future spending power piling up in the banking system. At 25.30 mins you can see the super imposed private debt-to-GDP ratios. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAStZJCKmbU&list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZQLxg24CAiFgZYldtoCR-R&index=6 The mechanics of the banking system are a mystery to policymakers. They never realise the money to push up asset prices is coming out of the banking system, where the claims on future spending power pile up, out of sight and out of mind. The economic illusion of neoclassical economics. Money is borrowed from banks to fund the purchase of assets and push up asset prices. The new money created by borrowing from banks drives the economy. Banks create money and debt at the same time, but policymakers are oblivious to the debt piling up in the banking system The mechanics of the banking system are a mystery, and as far as policymakers are concerned it must be rising asset prices that are so good for the economy. “Everything is going so well, how could anything be going wrong?” Chinese policymakers Have you looked at the claims on future spending power piling up in the banking system? Not considering private debt always was the Achilles Heel of neoclassical economics. Everything balances on the way up; you’ve got the assets on one side of bank balance sheets and the loans on the other. Asset prices fall, and holes start to open up in the banking system. A big fall in asset prices will leave a lot of insolvent banks. When the asset price “wealth” has gone, all that is left is the debt and insolvent banks. 1 Reply 1 reply @user-China1949 1 day ago ...under an Authoritarian Rule, such as the Chinese Communist Party Regime of PRCHINA, .. it is most unlikely any new innovative R&D projects can result in any new Extra-Ordinary products ...rather there are irresistible Incentives for Chinese Scientists / Academia / Engineers, .including especially ..Chinese Political Bureaucrats, who need to show results during their short-term appointment tenures. to make short-cuts by directly replicating or plagiarizing already successful products or other people's achieved successful research. This is precisely, WHY current "Made in China" AI R&D development to overcome the U.S.A. will fail ..and failed thoroughly. Reply @shiulai5804 1 day ago (edited) We need to pay more attention to the fundamental nature of the "collective West" in our attempt to analyze their relationship with a non White nation such as China. Notice that most of the self proclaimed "first world" do have a colonial background as well as an evageincal tendency in their the world view. Due to the fact that these nations dominated the world for most of the last 200 years, mostly as colonial powers, they tend to see themselves as the "evolved" and the rest of the world as either "unevolved" or "evolving". They tend to be oblivious to the fact that there were established civilizations that coexisted with or thousands of years BEFORE their own The evangelical bent predisposes these nations to believe that there is ONLY ONE "true" system-- THEIRS. The same way they believe there is ONLY ONE GOD -- theirs. Everything else is heresy! The combination of colonial arrogance and evangelicalism is the reason the self proclaimed " first world" is having a hard time accepting the rise of a nation that does not follow Their System and insist on being treated as equal. My conclusion? Since their problem is genetic in nature, the chance for change is slim. Reply @jiangren4497 1 day ago The West insists on viewing China through their rigid lenses because of arrogance and lack of imagination Reply 1 reply @pushslice 1 day ago LMFAO @ this cheap and lazy gaslighting😅😂😂 Who is this video even for? 🤔 🤷. It certainly can’t be for worldly, intelligent, free people…. they we see right through this , & LAUGH😂😂 So…..it must be for the programmed drones, Still miserably stuck on the mainland?? look at ALL the economic indicators for both countries. The PRC is sliding…. and NOT slowly. their average citizens’ futures are in the latrine. And the most telling? - - > anyone that has the guts and the means to GTFO of the mainland… is DOING just that! Conclusion: actions ALWAYS speak louder than words! (and look NO FURTHER than Keyu herself; she enjoys a thriving, luxurious life in the US …while getting paid to vomit-out propaganda for Beijing) 🫠 ️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️ 2 Reply 5 replies @snowwhite9790 1 day ago A Chinese CCP agent and mouth piece. Reply 3 replies @martinparidon9056 2 minutes ago It's always a pleasure to listen to intelligent people. Thank you. I love that Chinese commentators are often so calm and deascalating. I think that's a very valuable quality to have. Especially in times when the essentially CIA-controlled "West" constantly lowers the bar for intellectual thoughts and debates. Reply @allblacks405 1 day ago It's just not possible to stop an advancing Chinese society. With >75% ethnic Chinaman, Singapore is approximately a microcosm of China. Here, if a tiny pool of 3 million ethnic Chinaman could navigate our complex world to become 1st world in just one generation or less, is it any surprise that China with its 1.3 billion could suddenly awake and stir the world? Consider we have been forced by down-to-earth realities to use a foreign English language in our schools (from 1970s) yet in just one generation, we've topped the world in important metrics e.g. PISA rankings. This is remarkable as ethnic Chinaman Singaporeans were, initially at least, the most reluctant to embrace English! If a tiny pool of ethnic Chinaman on a barren little island could produce a brilliant leader like LKY, why would you not expect China to surpass our modern world in double quick time? Even if Xijinping chooses to step aside today, there would be countless others waiting in the wings to bring China forward to a new era of unprecedented progress and prosperity. It is futile trying to resist this. Reply @moa3605 1 day ago Don't compare 1000's old country VS 200 years... US without war, their economy will collapse. Reply 1 reply @STEMCivil168 1 day ago A strong and burgeoning middle class is a cornerstone to social and economic vibrancy alas when you've become a Plutocracy the focus switches to only the elite and wealth for them only.... Can the West change this current plutocratic structure of theirs ? They have to start by not blaming other people and their neighbours.... 🥸🧐🥸🧐 Reply