The full expose on Westerners working for the Communist Party of China spreading CCP Propaganda and talking points whilst denigrating the west:

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history”

I’ve seen a lot of North Koreans smiling in the presence of Kim ..... They must be happy 😊

First year in China I didn't really bother with learning the language, I was so happy, thought everyone was being so nice, everything was going wonderfully, some call it the honeymoon period, true, but you can't scratch deeper than the surface when you don't speak the language, and man was I clueless about things going on around me.

They don't need chinese. They just have to read a script given to them. In English.

I spent 5 years in Wuhan and went through the stages as you mentioned, I came out of the tunnel with a similar point of view that you have now. Please continue, your insights help others understand China. As for the pro CCP KZreadrs, it is very self-serving for them to praise the virtues of the CCP while they are taking all the advantages of living there without acknowledging the heavy boot of the CCP.

Imagine having to make a video to point out the obvious. Crazy situation we are in.

I am a Hong Konger. I am so so glad that you see through how evil CCP is and how the Chinese people suffer under the corrupt regime!

Go to live in any country in the world, you learn the language. Anything less in rude and disrespectful.

I'm a South African living in China too. It's true.

"If you can't understand the language you're stuck in tourist mode, living in a bubble of your own presumptions, delusions and making... "

“You can’t understand China if you can’t understand (Mandarin) Chinese”. A strong insight Winston … but it can be taken one step further. People from two different cultures may speak the same language but do not always actually understand each other.

That’s what I always say: you need Chinese to understand Chinese. You can’t interpret them from the lens of western society or whatever your own cultures are. And this what most westerners got wrong in the first place.

This is exactly my experience when I returned to America and finally took Chinese!!! I just passed HSK3 and am going to sit the HSK4 exam. My western friends still do not know any Chinese that are still living there. When I came back to America I missed China so much that I got plugged into the Chinese American culture here. I found that the Chinese here are more willing to speak Chinese with you than the ones in China. I was not being treated like some English speaking boy toy but a human who was studying Chinese. I learned more Chinese in America than I did in China.

"I will explain it to you in the form of an analogy: money"

I've been studying Chinese culture/history for the past two years and I have a pretty weird relationship with it. I personally find modern Chinese history absolutely atrocious which has brought only harm to the world as a whole but I can't help but be intrigued by the entire situation, which is why I continue to study China.

I've been listening for the past couple of years from southern California. I was happy to see you made your way out here and got out safely. I spent two years as a missionary in Japan and my wife is Japanese, so I 100% understand and agree that you need to be able to speak the language to truly understand the country. Thanks for trying to speak the truth. We need truth-tellers now more than ever.

I was in China for a year, and I definitely could've worked harder at learning the language, but I was absolutely AMAZED at how little other expats knew. I told a story to a guy who'd been there for I think it was 4 years? About a "conversation" i had with a staff at a grocery story, which essentially was just me saying "How much is this? Oh, it's too expensive. Thanks." And he said "Wow, that's more Chinese than I know." I was like seriously? This is the little bit of Chinese I learned on the flight to China! I basically just know the bare minimum, numbers, how to refuse or accept, how to ask prices, a few other basic phrases, but I came to realize that a lot of expats don't even care to learn that much!

I've been to countries before and after learning the language.

I am starting my journey into learning Vietnamese ..This inspires me more too!