Hey, zhongguo (China) how's it going?
I've been making so many positive videos lately
you know most of my video subjects are so happy and positive that I decided it's time for me to do a serious video and
it is a serious video, but I am gonna start it off with a bit of a light-hearted situation I
Would like you to take a look at this beggar over here see this poor lady on crutches
asking for arms
Then the police turn up because you know work shifts over and tell them all to scram because it's 5:13 time
time to clean the streets and
Well here she is walking home
So what bought on this video is I went to the temple again with my wife for the Chinese New Year celebrations and of course
The superstitions over there dictate that you know giving money is going to bring you money, so
unfortunate of course so for instance you have all these people throwing coins at
This little pagoda which is kind of like a wishing. Well if you get the money in there. It will apparently bring you money later
And of course it's kind of hilarious to watch the guy trying to keep up with all the coins trying to sweep them all
By the way you think this bike-sharing things ever gonna get better. I don't know anyway, so it's quite interesting to watch and
Of course as soon as you leave the temple the beggars know that this is the best most lucrative time of the year
Because if they go out there and they big right outside the temple people
will basically be
Between a rock and a hard place because if they don't give money to beggars it's possibly going to break their
fortune good luck streak
But by giving money to the beggars you know it's going to
Ensure that their luck and fortune comes back to them so it's kind of like a circus every year. You'll get all these
Disfigured beggars and all the beggar gangs set up over there, and it's quite hilarious to watch
For instance see these beggars spotted that someone gave some money
So they're going for the chase, and they chase and they try to get some of the cash, and then oh well I failed
Time to stop pretending being disabled let me just eat my bread. You know what I mean
However, you know there's a despicable
Terrible side to this and this is what the topic of this video is all about and that is human trafficking
Child kidnapping and I have to bring this to light because it annoys the absolute crap out of me
And there's something that you can do about it
So let's talk about the problem before we talk about the solution. Here's the problem
beggars and bigger gangs use children for sympathy of course if you have what looks like a starving child or a
Dirty child or a destitute family people are more liable to give money
And so what you'll see like over here is you'll see the beggars
pushing on these little children pushing them towards the people coming out of the temple and
these grubby little children are taught to go and
Hang on their clothes or go and beg for the money and of course the children get money a lot easier than the adults
Not only that they'll set up the sympathy thing like this blind woman with this new almost newborn, baby
Just sitting there, you know and everyone's like oh well
You know she has a family to support and look how how poor she isn't you know let's give her some money type thing
but stop
because most of these children do not belong to these beggars and
At first you know I also fell for this and when I first came to China twelve years ago
I quite often see sort of a what appeared to be a homeless mother and child on the street
Eating out of the garbage or doing something like this I'd feel sorry for them, and I'd give them money
But something happened to change my mind, and it's very serious, and so I need you all to listen
So about three years ago. I was riding the shenzhen Metro
I was still working back then so I had to go back and forth to the same place and
One day I was on the Metro and I saw a lady come onto the train
She's wearing a fairly okay overcoat got onto the train
Took the overcoat off and underneath she was wearing sort of tatty ragged clothes, and she had a child on her back
Now the reason she's wearing the overcoat is you know begging is actually forbidden on the Shenzhen Metro
So she was just wearing that to get past the security checkpoint once she was on the train though
Coat came off begging bowl came out
and she was asking money from the passengers which kind of annoyed me because
You know you don't want a a filthy beggar for lack of a better word
Coming up and touching you with their bowl as you take your commute to work
Thing is I noticed something a little strange the baby on her back well should say child
It's probably less than two years old
but was
Silent not making a single sound it was kind of half awake
Looked groggy looked drugged, and I thought that this was totally not correct
so I took some photos of her so snapped a photo and I
Snapped another photo, and she tried to smack the camera out of my hand which again
Told me that something was definitely wrong here
So anyway, I didn't give her any money
But I took the photos so the next day another woman came onto the train exactly the same mo
She had the coat. She had the grubby clothes
She had the seemingly drugged child on her back of the same age, and it didn't click to me back then
but it was actually the same child and
she did the whole begging thing and I snapped up some photos and
I was starting to feel very uneasy and I was telling the other passengers in the Metro don't give them money
Don't give them money. They're a gang they're doing this together and
I even actually saw them on my way back all sitting sort of you know when you get off the train
They have some chairs to wait sitting together the woman from the previous day, and this new woman and another woman
and they're all sitting there like eating lunch and talking together and
I was really starting to get a bit bit upset
It was only when I went home
And I actually looked through the photos that I realized that they were using the same child and this made me
Infuriated so the following day
When I saw her the woman came back on because they were just doing this every day
I actually physically grabbed her and I took her off of the train. I called the security guards and
you know to their credit the the shinden metro security acted very quickly they came down they bought a policeman down there and
I showed them the photos on my phone of this woman from the previous day
And and from that day cos the techno photos
And I showed them photos of the other woman from before and they asked they asked me to
Give them a copy so I Bluetooth them a copy of all the photos from my phone
And they took her away, and they arrested her, and I never saw them on the Metro again
But what I did see a couple of days later was a big sign that they put up at the Metro saying?
If you see you know women like this doing this do not give them any money
So I presume that they detained them arrested them and send them back to their hometowns or whatever they did and hopefully
The child who I suspect was kidnapped
Was sent back definitely drugged no doubt about it because know sort of one and a half year old child
Sits there groggily rolling their eyes not making a sound when they're being carted around a a noisy subway cart
So this was my first
sort of real
introduction to this whole child
kidnapping human trafficking sort of idea because you know before that I'd heard about
Kidnapping and you know you do hear about it quite often in China people talk about in the rural areas. There's a big problem with
There's a big problem with children being kidnapped and of course I always thought you know. It's just blown out of proportion
You know it's it's just nonsense
But you know
You start to look into it, and you start to see videos of it because there are tons of videos
I'm going to show you some videos now and
for those of you who are sensitive skip this part because it's
security camera footage of children being snatched off the street, etc, and it certainly upsets me, so it very may well upset you so
If you don't want to watch it to skip ahead about a minute to skip past this because I have to talk about the solution
to all of this right
Okay, so what's happening is children get kidnapped for various reasons around China
number one because you know you may have people that can't have children or who are
specifically looking for a
Male heir or something like that and they just can't conceive
or you know the one-child policy has prevented them from getting that there's tons and tons of different reasons, but
one of the big reasons is
Kidnapping children in order to use them in these sort of beggar gangs and these beggar rackets
And you know various other nefarious things
You know obviously, there's there's sex trafficking and stuff as well, but it's just a horrible situation
So you know what do you do? What can you do? I told you there's a solution well
This is a widespread problem in China and because it's so widespread there are websites set up
Where you know if you spot and this is something that is encouraged and I encourage all of?
You know my Chinese friends and Chinese subscribers and of course
Any of my foreign friends that happen to live here if you do see a beggar with a child snap a photo okay?
Just snap a photo you can go to I'm gonna link the websites down below of course
They're all in Chinese, but if you have a Chinese friend they can help you out
and you post the photo there and you tell them where they where you saw the child and
this is a website where parents who have had their children kidnapped can go and they go there and they
They you know keep an eye out to see if their child turns up because it's a quite it's quite a common thing
It's it's actually quite worrying. How come and it is but?
they can go and hopefully find their child and of course the tons of success stories of of
kidnapped children being reunited with their biological parents and
You know it's very heartwarming and all that but that's what you can do
Is you can help these children just like what I've done
I've taken stills of the the beggar footage that I took in Guangzhou and those stills are going up on the websites
Do it guys and if any of you
wu mao (Chinese, means nationalist) nationalists give me shit for this video
It's just going to prove how much your national pride comes a of your own children you heartless pieces of trash
So pay attention
Prove it prove you care about your own children
Take photos of the biggest don't walk past and ignore them
Don't be cowardly. These are your children take photos
Post them to the websites
Don't allow this practice to consider continue and on that note I'd like to say that the guangzhou police did a fantastic job this year
They had the whole area cordoned off. You know the previous year there were tons of children there
You know I made a story actually about what happened
But I was so enraged at the time that I was pressing instead of pressing record
I was switching the camera off every time. I thought I was recording in these beggars faces and of course
I lost the footage still have the story, but I lost the footage, but it was way worse last year this year
There was a much bigger police presence at the temple. They even put up sort of police
Fences outside and the police were coming all the time to chase the beggars away of course they come back
But they kept chasing them away so a huge
Massive thumbs up to the Guangzhou police
For doing a fantastic job this year and actually making it better because this time the children that were begging although
I saw one or two grubby ones the other ones there were a fairly well-dressed. They weren't being molested
They were led to just kind of play around and be a part of the the sort of scene
be a part of the
Show, but they weren't being forced into begging and not being pushed into crowds of people like I saw the previous year
It's a good job. Anyway guys
Thank you for watching this wonderful very happy and positive video of mine
I do feel very strongly about this because of course I do love children and I do love China
And I really wish is he's stupid pizza
Yeah, anyway. I just wish nothing but the worst on these people to take advantage of children
all I can say but
Happy New Year of the dog guys can't wait to see you in the next video and as always
You know the drill unlike those piece-of-shit beggars stay awesome
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