为什么外国人不侵入中国文化

古代王朝为什么不向外扩张呢？很多营销号啊，说是因为汉民族不善战，儒家文化影响，对内对外都讲究仁义首礼。说的其实挺扯淡的哈，我今天呢就给大家辟个谣，不是不善战，也不是儒家文化太温和，而是没有动力。 一个国家想不想打仗，或者说是向外扩张，主要动力呢，有两点，一个是掠夺外部财富，中华最早发源于农耕文明发达的黄河流域，具备生存的最大优越的条件。而反观周围呢，北方酷寒之地，西方呢是大片的荒漠，南边呢又有太多的大山， 因此啊，从扩张的动力来说，自身条件太优越，根本看不上周边。因此呢，扩张的动力就比较缺乏了，毕竟中国在清朝之前的几千年啊，一直都是世界上最富裕的地方。 我们来想象一下，郑和下西洋的时候，对那些西方小国会说，放心吧，我不是来抢你们的，你们有什么好抢的呢？我们是来给大家送温暖的。古代中国呢，就富裕到了这种程度，要是西方国家下东洋啊，那一定是一路掠夺， 而以天朝上国自居的中国从来都没有这种动力。所以说历代的豪杰啊，都想一统华夏。说到大一统呢，那不得不说的就是秦始皇了，可谓是千古一帝。 秦始皇先祖的遗传标记呢，我们也研究出来了，是欧杠 mf 幺四四七九。如果你也是这个遗传标记，那你极有可能是秦始皇家族的后人啊。关注我，带你了解更多伟大的历史。

家人们，我终于发现为什么中国的文化输出都没有办法输出到国外，并不是文化本身的问题，是这些搞翻译的人呐，我都不知道他们在想一些什么。我们昨天来说一下中国的四大名著啊，最有名的西游记大家都知道吧，他的意大利有三个不同的翻译版本， 第一个叫 elashimi 猴王，嗯，确实它是猴王。第二个叫罗西庙大猴子，大猴子也可能是因为意大利人没见过什么大猴子吧。第三个就花风独变，完全不一样，就叫做 yellow。 一个趣点，在西部旅行，听起来很像一个非常清新的旅行的小品。这里面最好笑的还是猪八戒，这个角色大家都知道吧，但里面一直没有给他名字，就叫他迈亚雷，就叫他猪猪，他为什么没有名字呀？下一个是我没有看过的水浒传，他也一样的，有三个不同 的翻译版本，一个比一个离谱。我就在想，光听这些意大利翻译，意大利人会想看这些书吗？好比第一个，怎么说呢，水浒传 ebolic m t 抢到。你们想想，一个意大利人在书店里，他找到一本书，封面上面都写强盗，他会想买吗？他会想看吗？还有一个叫 inliver 阿拉呱在水边，最离谱的是这个 sorry 的 experience 沙滩的故事， 难道这个水浒传是海南岛的故事吗？这样一个就比较开心啊，三国演义，一个罗曼做的特别为你三王国的小说。还有一个就是我现在正在看的红楼梦，红楼梦的意大利语版是 红色坊间的梦。这个咱们也可以理解吧，外国人是没有中国楼这个概念，他说是坊间也也可以吧，勉强可以吧，补充给你们一些重量级， 我看了也觉得很好笑的。金瓶梅在意大利语里面叫腊八狗蛋的那么爱情的宝塔，你们告诉我这像不像一个偶像剧的名字呀？中国电影的翻译也是有过莫名其妙的，好比这个我跟你们说卧虎藏龙啊的意大利语版叫 lady 的 hr 狗呢。龙和老虎， 意大利小朋友要去电影院看，应该是很高兴的吧，即将要看到这个龙和老虎的战斗画面。还有下面一个，下面一个， 十面埋伏， love what i studied？ 不压力，不懒。飞刀森林，这个还可以理解吧。还有这个，这个这个好，这个好，这个我喜欢。满城尽带黄金甲，意大利玉米就叫 lucky dot bree me 的紫禁城，这 在我小时候我姥姥就跟我看过，然后我来中国之后，我经常想跟中国人说，我很喜欢看中国的一部电影，我从小就看，就叫故宫。这经常，然后中国人说，哦，我知道你说那个末代皇帝啊，我说不是啊，这些东西怎么解释都解释不通啊，这个名字怎么查这么多呢，我太难了。

the western world is so disconnected with what china is today in twenty， twenty three and again it goes back to that three years of you know not being able to visit here i think people's perception of china has just gotten， worse and worse and worse as a bridge builder， i can talk to anybody about i mean you can hate china all you want let's have a conversation you know because i'm pretty sure i can provide some nuance to you you know that maybe will open your mind up a little bit everyone today's video is actually a full length episode from a recent podcast i appeared on called the honest drink the podcast is based in shanghai and hosted by two fellow americans whom i joined in their podcast studio to discuss a plethora of important issues surrounding china in today's episode， we discuss the reality of decoupling from china the current microchip battle china's belt and rode initiative and the future of us china relations essentially this episode covers every important topic related to china in 2023， for your convenience i've added time stamps of each topic in the description below if you want to learn more what china is really like in 2023， this is the episode for you cheers cyrus all right gentlemen the honest drink it's so awesome to see you again it's it's funny we were just saying that you know we we happen to have a lot of guests previously now including you that's either on their way to the airport to leave china or just arriving and coming straight to our studio yeah is that the first time it's been a couple of guess now right okay well， let's give the listeners a little bit of context cyrus you literally just came straight from the airport from pudong airport i did you brought your luggage with you love it this is like you this is literally your first stop arriving in china absolutely absolutely i mean and it's while it's an honor that you guys reached out this is really sarandipitous for me to come back to china right now it's been a it's been a long time in the making i've worked very hard to make this trip possible and it's just i'm just so excited because i mean this is really the town the city that i really grew up in i always say that i came to shanghai as a boy at age， twenty three and at age thirty i i left as a man i said i spent seven years in shanghai and i grew up here i mean this is really where i you know i was i grew up in florida but for me i mean this was my first big job after university this is where i bought my first house this is where i met my wife like a lot of my big accomplishments in life and kind of what got me started in my life all came from shanghai yeah yeah the the moment you walked in the door we can like like how we and i could feel like your energy already like we can tell you really excited to be that i'm so excited we don't know if it's just because you got off the plane you know still running that adrenaline for traveling i i i tell you the adrenaline is gonna be running the whole time i'm here because it's it's just you know it's what's difficult is you know you have that ten year multiple entry visa you know has american citizens and so i'm you know trying to get back to china and then of course then you know the whole world changed right the whole world changed in march twenty in in early， twenty， twenty and immediately you know all of a sudden china's cut off and you know we can't get back to china and it's kinda cut off from the world and i think that's when you look at china's history when in times of when it has been cut off from the world that's that's when china doesn't do good and same thing i mean if we have a lot of americans and westerners that are not understanding china having the border closed is not a good thing right we need people coming here experiencing it and so you know march 15th 2023 when the chinese government said， hey， we're reinstating all of these as you know you guys are free to come all the over restrictions are done i mean i that was like christmas i was like wow， this is this is great like i'm i'm gonna as soon as that happened i was like all right let's put the wheels in motion and here we are three months later june， twenty twenty three we're in shanghai and we're here on the podcast what what's uh？ what's the deal with you in uh in china like what's the mission for this trip for you so basically i'm kind of you know here for about six seven days you know basically about a week i'm gonna visit four cities it's gonna be very action packed i mean it's it's gonna be very hectic the schedule， but you know when you have this kind of energy i'm just like hey， we gotta tell the story and the western world is so disconnected with what china is today in 2023 and again it goes back to that three years of you know not being able to visit here i think people's perception of china has just gotten worse and worse and worse i mean my neighbor you know busus hardy's an older gentleman probably on 70 and he said， oh you're going to china like do you have enough social credit scores to go there i'm like wow wow， you realize that too i swear i'm like i'm like wow i'm like well you know the social credit it's interesting it actually applies more to like companies as opposed to individuals and he's like oh， i thought it's like if you if you you know if you j walk in the middle of the street， the the camera is gonna send you and be like put up minus one hundred and you know now you can't you know a lot of a lot of people believe that yeah so i mean and i'm like no it it really doesn't work like that at all you know it's it's just very different but you know that was this perception and you know and again it's just and this is in vegas this is in vegas this is in vegas and again i mean i don't blame them because i think in in america we just we kinda have that american exceptionalism where we don't really let's be honest i i bet you most people don't know anything about canada right i live for five years in canada and i mean i had a close i had a very close friend of mine um when he said， hey， so what what kind of currency they use up there i mean uh us dollar i'm like i'm like no， no， no it's canadian， canadian dollar so it's like a general like lack of a better reward ignorance kind i mean you hate the stereotype i mean， but it means it's just i've experienced it you know it is yeah it is very true so you know i want that's what that is that is the kind of the double edged sword i think of america i mean it is it's a great place it's very beautiful you know and you can kind of get whatever you want right where if you want desert if you want mountains if you want beach whatever you want in the world you can kind of find that it's an america beautiful country it is you know and so a lot of americans don't tend to travel as much and so you know they don't really have a bit good perception of what's going on in that world and so that's the issue is when and and that's kind of been a fun thing for me going back to america and living there i'm very happy to be back because i can basically sit down and almost reason with anybody on the political spectrum， whether you're far left or far right and say like hey， i used to live in china for ten years and initially there， you know it's like oh you know i've had people say oh wow， did you have to give up your american citizen are you chinese now like no no i just got a work permit like i'm still american citizen um and but it but it， but they would now it would now all of a sudden china became a little bit more real to them because like oh， i i know cyrus and used to live there for ten years let me ask you some questions like a contact point this contact point right， you know like for example if you say like what's bangladesh like i have no idea what bangladesh is like i have no connections i don't know anybody from there i don't know anybody that's traveled there to me i don't really know anything about it now unfortunately that's for most i think borners and westerners you know china but china is much more important country right it's a huge hu huge role in our global economy and our society so you know everyone kinda hears about china it's constantly in the news every single day it's in the news in america so that that's why it's a little bit more you know people are always talking about china but yet they don't have a contact point they have no it experience with that at all and so i think it's just been it's been great for me to be back because i i really do enjoy chatting with people and saying like well let me tell you i used to live there for ten years you know i speak chinese i've i've studied the language the culture i've spent a lot of time with chinese people yeah so they'll probably a lot different than what you think and let me just let me just share with you some things how long have you been back in the states now for so i moved back to canada in in 2017 mm， hmm and then the five years there so you know come this is like year six and what about it in america it just coming up on a year okay so what i'm trying to get at is because um based off of your content which i think i can speak for both justin and i like we're fans of your show yeah you know you do great stuff uh and one thing that i i personally like to say whenever i speak about your show is that i do feel like you're not you know you're not biased like you're trying to present facts you're trying to present some anecdotes but at the same time it's like look that's what it is you know like you take what you want from it we're not trying to i'm not trying to like convince you anything right yeah that's what i feel right what i think is great that's great and so i'm curious because now that you're back in america and you've been away from china for so long and you have this message of building this bridge between the two countries i mean is it like this really uphill battle that you're facing every day i'm just so curious what it's like yeah i mean that's a great question i think you know the interesting thing is when i started my youtube channel three years ago i i my goal was like i really wanna be a positive force and build a better i wanna build this bridge i really wanna be a great ambassador for us china relations that was the that's the goal and that still is the vision that still is the goal um and but but i i will say is that you know i mean we've we've kind of seen the opposite right us china relations if i if we go back from where we were three years ago to now uh i i don't think you've seen in improvement i think you've seen just the uh you've seen just the opposite to be honest so um but but what i think i've i've been able to you know what i feel is i i i i have so many great fans and so many great comments and people really like that message of you know learning to work together and the kind of common message that i've always had on the channel is always if the us and trying to learn to work together the entire world wins and that that's really the core cornerstone of the content at the cornerstone of you know my you know whole philosophy and belief behind you know the work that i'm doing and it's just more providing that nuance and and providing that perspective and it's just simple things you know where you know for example i i looked at i was you know reading today that france， you know they came out and said uh you know we we do not support an office of nato in japan you know that we don't we do not think that that's gonna be helpful uh for the situation in in asia and kind of the world and you know that's the second time in the last couple of months you know probably the last month or so that francis come out and said things that have been a little bit against the united states and so you know sometimes people criticize me say well， you know why are you sharing that or why you know you're only promoting that because it's anti american i'm like no， it's it's actually context that we need though because when my prone came out and said france should not put itself in a situation， where it's between us and china over taiwan you know we do not need to get ourselves involved in that situation and you know i and i was just simply i mean here it's the president of france i'm it's not like it's not my opinion it's just that i'm reporting on hey， this is what the president of france has said and there's a lot of context behind that and and and on the flip side i mean in america we had all of these you know politicians and talk show host they just went postal look at this french guy it's time for you know freedom fries again you know i thought you were our ally you better support us and whatever we do， and and and i said no you know what every country needs to make the best decision for them right i mean yes like supporting you know following the us is a is a common strategy for most of the you know this g seven a lot of these big countries especially country like canada my wife's canadian i've got three children two of them were born in canada so uh my wife and three kids are all canadian citizens and you know so i've i've got a very close connection with canada but one of the criticisms i have is usually canada they don't really think for themselves they kind of blindly follow the us on whatever， i mean they really are you know they always always going to follow the us and whatever we whatever we do and and i just said hey you know this is you know as as a can as canada you know your independent country you need to make your own decisions right， and and we saw kind of a whole uh catastrophe with the mongwan joe situation where a mongwan joe and and i mean that was really kind of a pivotal point for my channel as i was in vancouver， i happened to be in vancouver um i moved there in twenty seventeen the mung one joe thing didn't happen to twenty nineteen but it was just amazing because it's like you've got the two big superpowers us in china battling it out in a port yard that's twenty minutes from my house and it's open to the public everybody you can just walk right in there's my one joe right there you've got these lawyers i'm like wow， this is fascinating wow， so you're there， i was there， oh， i just go down there all the time and just and just walk in and but it was it was also a really interesting thing because i started you know making videos about what i learned at the testimony and and what i noticed is that you know a lot of those videos did very well on youtube and immediately i you know there's kind of a little designated medias area there's like fifty chairs over here to the right where the media can sit so i'd go in that area and i would just sit there and you know you'd have like the south china morning post you'd have the vancouver sun you'd have all these newspapers that are you know sitting there reporting and then all of a sudden like one guy's like hey， i've seen your youtube video aren't you that youtuber guy and this like man that last video did got like 200 thousand views like so you know like all of a sudden i really realized this that you know the kind of the importance of of youtube and and and really how things have shifted because now all of a sudden you know as i kept going back you know people start to record hey， he's the youtuber who's covering this case？ you know he's the youtuber that's making videos on this and it for me i mean it's great content right like if the fans like it the videos are successful keep doing that right it's it's a good strategy right that's why i made probably sex or seven videos about mongwang joe， i talked to the number one lawyer from canada that was following it from day one fantastic phenomenal i just grabbed him outside of the court i was like hey， can i just do a quick interview with them it's about ten minutes long and he just he just said there's no way like there's that basically they've got nothing on her they're gonna let her go this is my prediction and i'm like hey again it's not my opinion here i'm like i'm not an expert i'm not a lawyer so hey， this is the number one lawyer that that deals with this kind of stuff in canada hey， uh by the way is dual citizen with us canada so it was all of this this international law and i was like hey great like tell tell me the spills show me the insides and even he loves to chat so it had been really good well， let me ask you because i'm a little bit i want i have two questions for you first off just uh with that core case because i didn't really follow that case what was the what was the outcome well the outcome is that basically it was kind of a win win for both us in china because essentially she has a non guilty verdict， but i think she had to sign um you know basically a piece of paper that stated that she did some things that were not correct so it's kind of like the us can basically you know say like okay look you know she admitted that she did this but then china can say well at the end of the day it she's non guilty like she has a non guilty verdict and basically they just dropped the charges and then off she went okay and so life moved on and life moved on you know magically life moved on but it really dragged out a really long time and there's a lot of things that was that went down i mean like for example i mean very basic things you know it was amazing is when they arrested her right they they actually had like five security guards um so imagine show she's flying in from i believe she flew in from mexico into vancouver or i think she was on her way to mexico i think it was coming in no it's coming in from some rushers coming in from asia landing in vancouver， basically just in the transit zone going to mexico and so she had she did not clear customs in canada she was you know just transferring but what they did is they had five officers go on board to the plane and and a restor like right in the business class seat well right and and so they had asked us like don't you think that's a bit excessive and he's like and and in the court case you know he is said well we didn't know if she had any weapons on her you know we had to make and and we had to make sure that our safety was was paramount so we needed all five of them there and i'm like any weapons how are you gonna bring a weapon on a plane like you know she's flying she's fine like cathay pacific or some or whatever airline it was i mean it's a major airline they're trying her like a terrorist yeah i mean it was just and and so the and the other thing is is they you know they took all of her stuff away they they you know started questioning her without they didn't give access to a lawyer you know they they were illegally questioning her they took her you know things like this were it's just like hey， we're in canada where you have these rights and these laws that are in place and you broke them so there's you know there's and that's a hundred percent fact like there's no nobody can deny that the way that the canadian officers broke protocol and and and did that and and and one of the things that became kind of controversial i was you know when you go to the courtroom you would check in and you have to you know check all your stuff in you can have any medal or anything on you and so i just talked to the officers there was like hey， what do you guys？ what do you guys think and the guys just like oh this whole thing is a nightmare for us canadians it's like literally we're just doing donald trump's dirty work and and i was like security guards security guard said that so so all of so what i do is i i was like oh you know so i just casually dropped that in your interview and i just i'm i'm sorry my youtube video so i was like well you know i was talking to the security guard to say and and this is exactly what he said so all of a sudden all the newspapers are like well who said that who said that who's the quote can i quote this guy and like well， i'm not not a quote i'm just like casual conversation you know just in but i had some i had some newspaper right some newspaper reporters actually kind of attacked me in vancouver and write some nasty things of course， but that's it comes with the territory it does you know i think there was a little bit of frustration that um you know i know one of the guys he has a very bad reputation in vancouver， but he was a little jealous that that here's this you know youtuber coming in and getting all these views on videos where you know he's trying to um you know he's basically try you know he's trying to sell newspapers you know so it's just kind of shows you you know podcasts are are the way podcast youtube videos i mean this is where people are getting their their news and there's a big need for this independent voice i think that's really important what's getting stronger and stronger oh for sure i mean even just rewinding you know a few years back let's say even when when cover just first hit or right before first hit i remember having conversations with friends who in the states that follow media traditional media very close certain like wall street journal or new york times for example and and any time you bring up any type of podcaster or youtuber or whatever they're like oh why do you watch that why do you listen to that you know is like they did they don't fact check they just talk right i'm like well have you watch some of these people like some of these people are coming in from like really like a knowledgeable areas you know the even the mainstream media fact checking is questionable these days so questionable absolutely。

it's weird because like imagine the reverse imagine of china did that exact same thing with like some south american country or something like that like you know like the the the shit storm yeah media that would be rained out and and i mean but it comes back to i mean like in the last few months i've made a lot of successful videos that have done really well talking about the belt and road initiative and why china is you know why is africa choosing china？ why is latin america choosing china？ why is the middle east choosing china and it's it's very interesting because largely speaking the global south is completely it you know ignored i found an amazing poll that i think was from the pure research center where it said seventy seven percent of the world now views china in a negative light seventy seven percent for that survey they interviewed thirty countries every single country was from the global north it was essentially the us canada， the eu， australia and japan yeah so it's like okay this is not the world you're not even close to the world they represent a very small percentage of the population the world very small percentage of the population so， that's that's where i make the videos where where where people will say cyrus？ you know you're too pro china？ i'm like no， no， no listen to this is if you have a survey that says seventy seven percent of the world and you block out south america， africa， southeast asia in the middle east i mean that's that's by far the vast majority of people in this world and and i mean that's where again like if you take let's just pick a random country um， bolivia， you know or or any other country？ you know the small， you know nigeria， you know just likes you know smaller countries it's like what do you want i want of course i want to do trade with the with both the united states and china and i mean it was even it was it was a great interview with the barbados prime minister who， i who i really like is you know she's very outspoken prime minister and i remember she bbc was interviewing her and they were and she just and and the basically the bbc interviewer and said like well， you know how do you feel that you're making this connections with china you know like you're you know you're in the united states backyard and you're doing a deal with china first of all everybody in latin in south america absolutely hate it when you say you're in the united states backyard because like no we're not the way you frame it right you frame it it's like we're not in anybody's backyard we're an independent country yeah we're not we don't we don't own you yeah we're in yeah geographically， we're located close to the united states at the end of the day， we're an independent country we and and she's just basically called the bbc interviewer out and she said well， i would hope that the pbc interview would have a little bit more respect for the prime minister of this country that i can make their best decisions for my country and and again it's and i don't why do i want to be involved we're barbados we're a tiny country of course we want to do business with both china the us we're not picking sides here you know but it's it's it's and and so it's the same thing where i mean it's just it's it again i can just give more and more of these examples where marco rubio senator from florida is just like well you know what you know what we're not gonna be able to sanction anybody because in a few years， everyone's gonna be circum you know circummenting the us dollar and trading in other currencies and and that's not gonna allow us to sanction everybody um what's like well yeah that's kind of the point but like that's that's why people are making that shift you know like i'm just again i'm just reporting on what's happening you know why did brazil in china just sign a massive currency deal where they're gonna start doing trade you know and not using us dollars you know i just want to bring back a little bit on that pure research that you brought up because i recently attended this talk from and and why you professor of basically his his thesis well， he brought up the the pew research yeah and i saw like the the stats and and the first question it came to mind was just like you said why are they only focus on those countries as opposed to the rest of the world yeah like especially the southern hemisphere and that was discussed， but what's interesting the point i'm trying to get out is that this professor did an independent research to basically for china to see exact same countries what's the chinese perspective okay， reverse nice right and i thought you might be interested in this yeah， so what was interesting was the statistics came out and generally speaking of all the countries i'm gonna put us to the side for now， but all of them were either neutral to positive yeah right like still， but it explained clearly where the time when you find that the chinese perception of these countries yes， so basically the pure research was the other countries perspectives on china and like cyrus was saying a lot of them was negative， mostly negative， especially united states was like 70 something percent right and and it was obvious that united states was the biggest like the the the biggest marker with uk barely behind right yeah， but maybe they say everyone was pretty negative yeah yeah， but in general everyone's pretty negative and then the reverse came back and i'm not talking about united states but all the other countries like like you know even like holland germany spain whatever， it's out of japan they're either negative i mean i'm sorry， um middle like neutral or positive right with germany being the most positive being like yeah germans are good yeah it's interesting right yeah amongst chinese people， chinese people yeah and and the demographic is quite wide， i'm not gonna go through all the details but it's a wide demographic of all ages you know from like eighteen to like fifty something you know center up right， um you know first here to thirty year cities anyway， so what was interesting was all the statistics were pretty much like like like neutral to to negat to positive， but then you got to the united states and that's the only statistic we're mirrored so it was exact same， it was like 70 something negative towards the united states so it's like whoa yeah that's the one common denominator between the two we ate each other yeah well， and i think what's difficult as well as and i can you know i've seen this a lot even on and on chinese social media right， i make videos on chinese social， you know doing billy， billy shiqua and i've had i've seen comments from people that i've just like you know like you know we don't like americans anymore， i don't wanna watch your videos anymore， you know go back to america you're not welcome in china oh， wow even with you with all the content you're creating yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm sure yeah i mean i mean but but again like very rare right i mean so again like one out of a hundred you know maybe maybe maybe one out of five hundred right so i've just i've seen that you know those comments before and and again like i i don't i don't get mad at that because it i'm obviously on the flip side on youtube and i i certainly have people that that don't like me or my content i mean and that and that's that has to do with every content creator right， it doesn't matter if you're baking cookies and that's your channel like i i've got half a million subscribers and baked cookies you're gonna get haters right like doesn't matter that's the that is the internet so if you are putting yourself out on the internet you have to have thick skin you will get haters no matter what you talk about and so i think the big thing with this one i get it like you know what you know you you're kind of feeling that you know the united states is is is is kind of attacking china there's a lot of negative sentiment and you know what like you're feeling very nationalistic if you will a very patriotic you're feeling very proud of china and you know that that's kind of the thing where where i mean i've had on the flip side this is an interesting insight i've had a lot of chinese students in america who said you know cyrus i really appreciate your youtube channel because i gotta be honest with you like i'm an international student from china and i'm really ashamed to be chinese like i i'm i'm i just i just hate that i'm chinese and i just wish that i could be a different nationality i wish that i could be more accepted in this i hate the way that i look because i'm in america and people know that you know my last name is jung so it's like oh of course your chinese and i hate it and and and and that to me is just so heartbreaking because i'm a and i admit and i'll take the time to write an email and just say look you have no there's there's no problem like from being from china like you should be completely proud of being from china you know and and and there's no you know i mean and you represent yourself you're an international student but the thing is is like the yes out of your control right， none of us none of us can control where we're born in the world right and and i think， but the other thing is is like you need to be proud of where you're from there's nothing wrong with someone saying like i'm i i mean i remember the same thing with beijing twenty， two twenty， two olympics where you know people were uh i mean were i remember like china p chinese people are like waving the flags and it's like oh， i'm sure the chinese government are forcing these people to be there you know cheering it's like no you know what like chinese people are proud of them super proud， right and and that's what i say as well as i say look you gotta understand as well is this new generation you know if you are born after nineteen ninety all you've known is a modern and progressive china and that that is i mean you have not had to you know eat the bitterness as as the older generation has had to do where you had to really， you know suffer and and really go through these difficult times and that's something like for example with my father in law i mean i remember um you know he's in guangzhou and i remember i remember he you know he told me he's like you know cyrus growing up i was i was so poor i didn't have i didn't have shoes like i have seven brothers you know like i'm one of eight i mean we we didn't have shoes growing up i mean we grew up in the in just the streets here in guangzhou and then like when and me and my wife are visiting the family and we had a really nice dim sum restaurant and he's just like look at my city like this is guangzhou like i mean look at look at this tower look at this look at this and you can just kind of sense this like this proud like i'm from guangzhou like this is my city and it's like i've been here like i remember when it was nothing right i mean he's sixty something years old so i mean sixty years ago guangzhou was nothing i mean it was jerk poor but he's seen it transform and there's a there's a huge pride it's even for him it's like you know what i want to live here like this is my this is my town this is where i want to be this is where i'm proud of and so so again i mean it's it's nothing you ever meet somebody from texas， it's the same thing right people from texas are extremely proud of being from texas， they they love it they think it's the best state in the country， they think it's the best place in the world and that's great you know like it's it's a great place you know i've been there， it's it's great and but people are genuinely really proud of that so again i think it's it's just um kind of going back to the content is is just there's always more context that we can provide there's always more insights that we can provide and it's the same thing look at that said look at that that poll and and i have no， i have no problem i'm i mean that's gonna be some of the content i'm gonna shoot this week i'm gonna be like hey， what's you you know let's jump in a taxi as the taxi road what do you think of america？ like street interviews？ street interview？ what do you think of america？ like hey， i'm american what do you think about me？ but what what what's your view towards america？ what's your how do you view the us china relationship and i'm just interested to see what people are gonna say right i mean it's it's gonna be fun you know well this is a point i i've made before um you know referring to the study that how is alluding to it's also a snapshot right like of what the current situation is right now from the chinese side in terms of their perceptions of america being equally as negative as american perceptions of china right now， it is a snapshot because it didn't used to be that way and and i， and i don't i don't see these things just manifesting in a vacuum out of you know out of thin air i think in the way， i've seen it because i feel like i've seen it shift in real time with all the years i've been living here yeah it is a reaction to all that negative media coverage of china from the west it is it is direct reaction to it and the timing of i'm sure if you go back and i don't know i haven't done this the statistics were out comparing i think it was like 2008 to yeah this recent 2022 pole um it was a positive it was a very positive yeah look well， i mean i remember two， i remember two thousand eight there was a iconic photo of george bush， our president at the time he was nearing the end but it was basically the summer olympics in beijing and george bush in the stands with the common people surrounded by chinese people， but waving his american flag basically rooting on michael phelps in the pool and and it's like that that's such a great image of george bush you know flying to beijing， you know attending the olympics cheering for his american athletes and you would almost think that's almost impossible like there's no way and we saw that right beijing host of the 2022 olympics yeah the beijing olympics that was that was actually a really great time for the relations between used to count just that moment in time it was i mean two thousand eight was great i mean that's i came to china in february two thousand and our january two thousand and seven and i mean that was i mean so the lead up i mean i remember at the time there was all these clocks where you were in shanghai like countdown to beijing， beijing two thousand eight and the whole world got to see like the incredible opening ceremony with the drums incredible i mean， but it was also is china's coming out party right yeah then two years later shanghai hosted the world expo， which was incredible and so i mean you just had these major events and you know coming in china and it was just opening up everything okay， we're trending in the right direction we're trending in the right direction everything i mean shanghai was the place to be i mean that was the place to be and i was here and i was like wow like this is incredible and i mean it was just you know i think a lot of the us china relationship unfortunately it is it kinda starts with the us and china's very reactionary you know i that's what i always feel is that for example you've seen the the dislike for china has increased it's increased first from the chinese from the american side and that is a flip side now chinese now kind of okay well look at all those negative media covers that you've been doing and you know i mean covid didn't help i mean and and just just it was really difficult you know i mean i remember， but it's also the local media oh really pushing that agenda yeah， yeah， yeah， so it works both sides it does it does and it really does， but i mean i mean the problem is defensive you get very defensive you do get defensive i mean and it is it is difficult as well because i remember you know there was a there was a german reporter that was working for toyshivella and and i remember the floods that happened maybe a couple years ago you know and so anyways he goes to the flood area and i'm and and he based basically he looks very similar to this very to this bbc reporter and so all of a sudden he's surrounded by chinese people hey， you're that bbc reporter guy okay and so they're kind of getting really angry at him and and you know you kinda see him stuttering in in like you know very thick german accent but he's stuttering in english you know like oh no like uh this is not me uh uh no please you know um i i do not know no um this is not me please stand here you know it's just kind of but kind of really speaking broken english and anyways yeah he goes on twitter and he's like well， you know i've been living here for a long time i speak fluent chinese and and i and i'm like whoa whoa whoa whoa time out？ buddy， i'm like you speak fluent chinese i'm like bro you you struggled in english and i'm like and so i'm like i and i called him out in a video and and i just said look if you spoke fluent chinese why are you not speaking chinese right you could immediately diffuse that situation and just be like hey， i'm here to cover the floods like that's what i do let me just a and just be like hey like i support you guys like this is a tough time right like you just had a devastating flood people have been dying here but you know but all of a sudden you know western media is coming it's like oh， this is all the government's fault you know this is that it's like jesus a tragedy guys like come on like that yeah， but i just remember you know these these kind of claims like that is you know sometimes it really it really bothers me when when people you know for example you know we we've had you know we just you need people again that's why i'm kind of back here you know for this trip and i'm excited for this trip because you need to be here on the ground in china right you need to be on the ground and i think you need to be able to speak chinese you need to be able to speak to the local people well， i can imagine i mean i can imagine coming from you the importance of being back here because your content is about china and united states i feel like you need to be here to get you know the get on the ground experience against cause you have you've been away from you do i mean and and i mean i have a good excuse because the country was closed for three years with cola yeah so but i mean that's where you know i talked to my wife you know we we've got three small kids back home and you know it's a lot of pressure for her to take care of the kids while i'm gone um but i said hey honey you know like we i exactly like i gotta be there you know i mean i can't you know it's it's hard for me to you know again i i it's interesting because i have such a passion for china but i would be honest like over the last couple of years and especially since moving back to america you know my china connection started to kind of we're off a little bit where i where i'm just like you know what i need to get back on the ground i need to kind of see it with my own eyes i need a little out of touch i need to do and that and it it will happen to anybody but all of a sudden you know had a great conversation with my taxi driver down here i i mean i'm i'm you know i'm i'm just you know bro the maglev down into town which is always a fun ride i mean it's just like okay i just need to get back and see what china's like do you have do you have any expectations um on on the street i don't that's a great question i mean my my expectations is um it's just to be open minded you know i i don't want to come here with preconceived notions that you know because i don't want to come here and be like hey everybody china is amazing like everything is everything is back to normal like let's be honest i know the economy is not where where it needs to be i know that unemployment like i'd love to go talk to some youth and be like hey you're twenty one what what's the deal like how are you feeling about your future right now what the i want to provide some of that content you know i'm not here to i'm not my my goal with this trip is not to come and say hey everything is just amazing in china it's the best place ever you know like uh you know like everything you hear in western media is you know complete nonsense you know it's just more like let's let's talk to some real people let's go see some things but it's also to provide that context as well because you know for example again i think so so many people they just they don't have that connection into china so i've got all my friends in las vegas they are so excited for me to go back to china my whole group of friends they they you know they now know china because of me but yeah i don't have any expectations i just wanna kinda come see what is china like in twenty twenty three that's my question that so i wanna answer that question to myself。