okay so today I'd like to talk about the
Western media and in particular how
negative the Western media are towards
China I've been coming to China for
probably 12 years now and in that time
I've spent around eight years here in
China and for the last two years I've
lived permanently here in Xinjiang and
as I can't read Chinese and as I don't
speak a huge amount of Chinese I want to
keep up with the news so I use an app on
my phone called Flipboard
has to be used to the VPN because I
can't open the access Flipboard here in
China but what I've noticed over all
that time is that every time I see news
about China from Europe the UK America
especially that news generally is always
pretty negative also seen an increasing
that negativity over the last two or
three years to where almost as no
positive stories or news about China
anymore especially in the u.s. press and
but it's not just the US press it's
English press European press just so-so
negative I'll give you an example of
this mmm
few weeks maybe a month ago I was
flicking through my Flipboard and I came
across a story about some institution it
may have been in university I can't
really remember engineer scientists
professors they'd somewhere in China
they developed a new camera sensor and
this camera sensor was way better than
anything else that had that anybody else
has got the resolution is infinitely
higher it's huge now if this would have
been invented or developed in any other
country it would have been fantastic
news yeah great you know
we've got this company we've got this
institution and they've created this
super duper you know need new sensor
it's going to make photography much much
better the image resolution will be
excellent to be better than what's you
know what's currently out there but
guess what
okay because this is a Chinese company
that have developed it because it was a
Chinese institution Chinese professors
Chinese engineers or what whatever oh
the new story quickly turned negative no
no it's not the greatest invention oh
this can be used to spy on more Chinese
people it can be used to track more
Chinese people visit because it can pick
people out at greater distances blah
blah blah blah blah blah I just find
this absolutely incredible that you know
what's a very positive piece of news can
be turned negative and it's it's really
such a shame and I feel that people in
the West because of this kind of thing
get a really negative view about China
and really it's not that the Chinese
authorities are spying on all their
population yeah they have a lot of
cameras you know probably more oh maybe
not more than some Western countries but
yeah they do have a lot of cameras but
that's not because they want to spy on
their population maybe they do but I
don't think so you know the population
of China is 1.4 billion they don't have
the resources to spy on all them and why
would they what they do use it is they
use it to give people more convenience
they use it to give people safety so a
lot of these cameras are at railway
stations ports metro stations airports
so if they find somebody's committed
some kind of crime
it's much more easy to track those
people down you know but you know as
usual the West oh it's this dystopian
Chinese you know society where the
government controls everything in
reality that's really not the case so
the second example I'd like to bring up
about this negative news is Huawei for
the last 18 months or so maybe two years
America have raised this huge huge
negative PR campaign against Huawei now
okay they claim that hot Huawei or a
huge security risk really I believe
that's just a nonsense you know I think
the reality is is that hallway have
developed technology that America don't
have and I really feel there's a big
pang of jealousy going on there you know
America have constantly suggested that a
hallway you know it is is Ron or is
funded by the Chinese government maybe
there is some funding from the Chinese
government to develop that technology
but that's no different to two other
countries in the world who whose
governments help their industry develop
technologies and then they've gone on
and on and on to say how oh they you
know they they they pose this new
security risk
you know to to infrastructure the
reality is is that you know it doesn't
matter what equipment a country installs
for its 5g infrastructure if people want
to hack it they will hack it you know ha
wait equipment is no less secure than
other equipment from other vendors and
America say oh you know this securities
it they've never produced one speck of
evidence to back up any of their claims
where conversely America there
absolute stack of evidence against them
to say that they've been spying they
install backdoors in their equipment you
know there was a case when the Edward
Snowden documents came out that the the
American authorities were intercepting
shipments from Cisco that were destined
for foreign countries and installing
backdoors in that equipment so they
could use it to spy on leaders of
foreign countries how about that yet for
highway there's not a scrap of evidence
to say there is any wrongdoing at all by
them so isn't that amazing anyway that
just gives you a sort of perspective a
couple of real kind of world stories
about the negativity of the Western
media against China or Chinese companies
the purpose of this video I hope in the
future that when you read these kind of
stories in in the Western media you'll
take them with a pinch of salt or if you
have a little more time do some of your
own research and look and see find out
the truth behind some of these stories
because you know Western news outlets
are just pumping out negative negative
negative about China all the time and
frankly it's really unfair anyway that's
the end of my video for today as always
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