the china virus because of china i did
the ban on china
china china china will own the united
states
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look closely you could be in beijing
but this is new york city usa
this is the american melting pot but
china and america
are not exactly best friends right now
and things are getting complete
my name is jiawin phong i'm from china
but i've lived in the us
for years i've always felt welcome here
but things are changing
the u.s china rivalry affects every
corner of the globe
and the presidential election has put it
front and center
so i've come to flushing one of the
largest chinatowns in america
the community here is worried about
president trump's proposed ban
on the massive chinese app wechat many
use it to talk to their loved ones back
home
the u.s has been cracking down on major
chinese tech companies
like huawei and tiktok saying they posed
a security threat
now wechat has come under fire
chiang yang is suing the us government
to stop the ban
it's kind of a discrimination because
obviously people
all know most most chinese people in
united states using wechat
and this ban it's actually
mostly only against the people chinese
chinese community in the united states
washington says wechat is being used for
surveillance and censorship
but xiang yang says it has allowed
chinese immigrants to share the newfound
democratic values
within the community and with their
friends back in china
this executive order is kind of across
the line
and the dimension diminish the value we
try to
spread to the world to the mainland
china
as china and the u.s go head-to-head
over technology
trade and covet 19. chinese americans
feel squeezed in between but this
rivalry between the world's two
superpowers
has been building for decades and its
profound impact
will be felt in nearly every country
around the globe
so how did this start
let's rewind after years of separation
us president richard nixon visited china
since then there have been ups and downs
the protest in tiananmen square and the
u.s bombing of the chinese embassy in
belgrade drove them apart
but things got better china joined the
world trade organization
and its economy boom the two super
powers became partners in the global
economy
but china has always been criticized for
not playing fair
china's never been just a hundred
percent fully wide open
and as they have become more advanced in
their economy
and as xi jinping's come to power
they've put other types of restrictions
in place
on social media cloud computing new
rules
on all different kinds of technologies
in the past decade the us and china have
fought over trade
the partner on climate change ties
between the two countries have grown
as have geopolitical tensions some say
like a couple fighting
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now the relationship is at its lowest
point they want to decouple
to break up and undo the deep economic
ties built over the years
you might be forced to choose sides say
we're going to do business with just the
chinese
or just the americans so it's putting
countries
companies students employees
in a very difficult position
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there are more than 360 000 chinese
students in the u.s
caught in the middle washington believes
some are actually spies pretending to be
students
to steal us intellectual property so
i was a lot of suspicious to vote
chinese students are pretty unfair
like people come to us for seeking for
better career development for
opportunities they want to get
education they want to make new friends
they want to make best out of
their journey in this different country
some of chennai's friends decided to go
back to china
leaving him with this hamster winnie but
chen you is unsure about how long he and
winnie will stay here
he doesn't feel welcome anymore since
the identification
of this biological relationship it just
it's very challenging and
myself and also a lot of my friends are
starting to look for
like positions opportunities back in
china or in other
markets in asia
to me the u.s and china sometimes seem
like long-lost twins
with nationalism on the rise in both
countries
regardless of whether trump or biden
wins the election
the rivalry between these two
superpowers is here to stay
it will define your politics in the 21st
century