Hi everyone, this is Klaus.
Both McNeill and Kris Wu have been trending on Chinese social media.
Both are Chinese Canadian.
One is an Olympic swimming champion deserted as an orphan by China.
The other returned to China’s embrace, only to become a rapist.
Today, let’s talk about
whether a person can do without their country of birth.
The Chinese government already has an answer for that.
Their answer is simple: NO WAY!
Chinese official media such as Global Times, Xinhua News Agency,
People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, have all said,
“Without your motherland, you are nothing.”
But this was once said by a Nazi propaganda minister, Goebbels.
Goebbels was Minister of National Education and Propaganda in Nazi Germany,
known as "a propaganda genius", having a flair for inflammatory speeches and brainwashing people.
Chinese state media are spreading Nazi propaganda. Are they stupid or evil?
Perhaps they’re both.
Is a person truly nothing without their motherland?
Despite the Nazi government’s propaganda,
Einstein still left Nazi Germany.
But Einstein was still Einstein,
and he became a giant.
Marx and Engels, who were also Germans, also left their homeland.
In their "Communist Manifesto",
they clearly pointed out that "workers have no motherland",
that workers are a class oppressed by the state apparatus.
According to the definition of communism,
nowadays, only the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the center has a motherland.
No one else has a homeland.
The Nazis had the idea that they were nothing without Nazi Germany.
There are a lot of similar ideas widely spread in China.
For example, Chinese people must not be ruled by foreigners,
must never be subjugated slaves.
and must never be immigrants and second-class citizens in other countries.
These ideas coincide with the Nazi ideology,
and have even gained a following in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
In the past two years, the Chinese Communist Party has reached out to Hong Kong,
so people fled Hong Kong, and the population declined for the first time in decades.
Multiple countries have introduced policies to accept Hong Kong immigrants.
But still, some refuse to leave Hong Kong and be “second-class citizens” elsewhere,
mainly due to the influence of traditional Chinese culture and CCP propaganda.
Simply put, these arguments mean,
“A country comes before the people. Where there’s a country, there’s a home.
There was China first, and then there were the Chinese.
Without China, the Chinese would only live worse than a pig or a dog.”
We won’t discuss this obvious fallacy.
Let’s take this opportunity to look at the Chinese who have left their motherland,
see how they are doing,
and how the overseas Chinese have fared who have returned to China.
Let’s first look at Singapore, where there are 3 million people with Chinese origins.
It’s a developed country built by people who are “nothing without China”.
In terms of national income, social welfare, average life expectancy, etc.,
Singapore is at the forefront of the world.
How about the US? Are the Chinese subjugated slaves and second-class citizens there?
Money has given the best answer.
Among different races in the US,
Asians have the highest household incomes, with Chinese Americans earning $85,000 per year,
$20,000 more than the income of white Americans,
$22,000 more than the average US income.
According to official data in the UK,
the Chinese earn more money than any other ethnic group.
Even in Malaysia, which is not a developed country,
the Chinese earn more money than any other ethnic group,
and nearly twice as much as an average household in China.
If there is something more important than money, it is health.
Maybe heath comes first
The average life expectancy of Chinese (Asian) Americans is 86.3,
8 years longer than the average life expectancy of white Americans,
and 11 years longer than the average life expectancy in China.
Even the average life expectancy of Chinese Malaysians is much longer than that in China.
The US, Singapore, and Malaysia, are all the great examples we need.
Basically speaking, the Chinese living in China, compared to those living overseas,
earn little money, and die early.
The CCP says that the Chinese diaspora are nothing without China.
But the overseas Chinese have more money and longevity.
I don’t think they mind being called “nothing”.
Earlier this month, Yingshi Yu, a giant of the cultural and historian circles, passed away at the age of 91.
Mr. Yu was one of the most influential Chinese intellectuals in the world.
He went to study in Hong Kong in 1949, after the fall of the Chinese mainland,
and never returned home.
He left his motherland and became an American academician.
He once said, “China is wherever I am.”
By contrast, when the mainland fell in 1949,
Yinke Chen, a Tsinghua doctoral supervisor known as the four major historians in China,
was repeatedly urged by the national government to go to Taiwan,
but he went all the way south from Beijing to Guangzhou and stayed there.
In 1969, the master was persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution.
Let’s also talk about those who returned to China.
After the CCP took power, the Propaganda Department began to call on the Chinese diaspora
to go back to the PRC where "the Chinese people have stood up".
A large number of overseas intellectuals and scientists returned to the embrace of the motherland.
Among them was Guangyan Xiao, known as the “father of petrol” in China.
He was born in Tokyo, Japan, received a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago.
rejected the US Immigration Service’s offer in 1951,
and resolutely decided to return to China and help build the PRC.
Finally, his family of three was wiped out in 1968.
Like Xiao, many scientists died tragically after returning to China.
For example, Tiebao Dong, a PhD in the US, known as the “father of computers” in China,
Huazhang Zhou, known as the “pioneer of China's quantitative economics”,
Shihu Cheng, Expert of Chinese Aerospace Structural Mechanics...
The list goes on and on.
Thus, whether you look at the present or history,
the Chinese who leave China can live a better life,
rather than become nothing.
On the contrary, those who go back seldom get happy endings.
Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post launched a poll.
92% of Hong Kongers would like Hong Kong to be a British overseas territory again.
Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the US, once said,
“Where there is freedom, there is my motherland.”
China has never been a land of true freedom,
so the Chinese have always fled the land.
No one wants to move to China.
China’s borders have always been about keeping people in.
Those who did escape fled to Southeast Asia. Millions fled to Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s.
According to statistics, out of the 100 richest people in Hong Kong,
over 40, such as Xianzi Zeng, Chairman of Goldlion,
Zhiying Li, Chairman of Next Media, Mengxiong Liu, "Godfather of Futures",
Famous writer Kuang Ni, "Godfather of Music" Wen Luo,
"Gold Screenwriter" Liren Liang, were all escapees from the mainland.
In recent years, China has built high walls on its borders,
and severely punished those trying to escape, even revoking their household registration.
When China says something, oftentimes the opposite is true.
China says, “Without China, the people are nothing.”
In fact, without its people, China is nothing.
China is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party,
who certainly won’t let the people escape.
As anti-China voices grow in the international community,
China will shut its door to the outside world tighter and tighter.
But as the prison walls grow higher, the people will only crave freedom even more.
It’s just a matter of time before China’s walls fall like the Berlin Wall did.
OK, time to hear your comments.
In our last episode, we exposed the shadiness in the Chinese sports arena,
and won the praise of many netizens, including Fifty Cents.
Netizen Danceboy Fly said,
“This video does expose a lot of shady business
and contains little disinformation.
This is a pretty conscientious anti-China YouTube channel.
Someday, can you please expose something shady in other countries?”
Netizen Drifting Like River said,
“I have unsubbed to all other anti-communist channels.
I like this kind of serious nonsense.”
Netizen C J said,
“Wanna see something shady in other countries? Why bother on YouTube?
Just turn on the TV or read newspapers in China.”
Netizen Vibo Song said,
“The general public respects athletes.
Win or lose, it is an athlete’s personal honor.
But in China, you honor China if you win, and insult China if you lose.”
Netizen Sim Koki said,
“Chinese athletes are trained for gold medals at all costs.
Silver medals are not good enough. They have to get gold, otherwise Little Pinks will get angry.”
Indeed, in China, only gold medals are useful.
If you get anything less than a gold medal, you will be scolded.
Netizen Mitsui Flame Man said,
“China is a big gold medal country, not a big sports country.”
Netizen Mystery said,
“I grew up watching Ma’s athletes.
Back then, Junren Ma made commercials for soft-shelled turtle essence,
so I believed that stuff would make me run super fast.
But Junxia Wang always looked like a man to me in every way.”
When I was a kid, many elementary schools in the district did not even have a playground.
At lunchtime, both sides of the road had to be closed
for everyone to gather.
The Whole Nation system makes China appear to be a sports power,
even though the Chinese soccer team is a laughing stock every year.
Spain does not get more than four Olympic gold medals every time,
but everyone believes Spain to be a strong sports nation.
It’s just beyond foreigners why so many Chinese students wear glasses.
Netizen King77 Wu said,
“I hear that in Chinese high schools PE teachers are often either on leave or sick.”
Netizen Angel Tsou said,
“This is the first time I’ve seen an athlete swearing in an international competition!!
Yes~ the Chinese female badminton player was vulgar enough.
Chinese athletes are trained since childhood, so they’re relatively uneducated.”
Netizen Jasper Chen said,
“When I was still in China,
I never understood why sports like shooting and fencing,
sports without a large following in China, whenever China got a gold medal,
could make the Chinese so proud and touched.
Have you ever tried fencing? Ever laid hands on an air rifle?
Yes? Then go to the police station and turn yourself in, and maybe you’ll be let off lightly.
Behind a gold medal are tens of millions of injured teenagers who have achieved nothing,
and the money wasted that could’ve been used to improve education and medical care.
Every piece of gold medal under the Whole Nation system is a shame.
Those gold medalists in China, unlike those in the United States
and Japan, cannot become role models inspiring future generations.
Alright, that's all for this video.
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This is Klaus.
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