The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong
The FCC is probably the most famous press club in the world. We have a long and rich journalistic heritage dating back to our founding in China in 1943. We invite prominent guest speakers from around the world to discuss current affairs. Watch the videos here.
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People cannot get food. Cannot get food. Cannot get food. OMG. The quality of this reporter and the ignorance.
Few died of Covid 19. However, Covid 19 was for those already suffering existing serious health issues a little too much. They died from co-morbidities, but the cause of death was registered as being Covid 19 which, of course, distorted the statistics. A political decision that made the lock-downs and all the other suppression possible, including the vaccine policies that have had serious consequences.
This guy is good. I am sure whoever named Eric is a smart man
Interesting that Mr. Lee has become a venture "socialist" now instead of a "venture capitalist." He knows that he must tow the CPC's line promoting "order" over "prosperity." Of course, many at the FCC Hong Kong are nervous about expressing their views out of fear of repression by the government. It's only natural. But I generally agree with his view on the importance of 'order' .
Antonio Gramsci's 'interregnum' that Eric refers to while relevant and pertinent, it is better thought of as the present period between the death of a unipolar world order that has failed to adapt, and it's replacement with a more adaptable emerging multipolar world order.
Thank goodness some American educated Chinese students such as Eric Li avoid becoming fully duped into a Western bias and in all too many cases, a blatant anti China world view; such as Prof Yuen Yuen Ang et al.
The sad fact is that main news media even in the USA is no longer committed to being truthful or serving the public with facts. They are manipulative and forcing a narrative upon the public not esteeming common or public intelligence. Journalism has lost its way and it is already obvious and therefore the rise of many other true news sources since the pandemic; kudos too to the US remnant culture and spirit. Asia and especially China must know that the liberals like Obama are becoming communists and US Universities are minting young minds with communists ideals of its own kind. With Trump draining the swamp the shadow government or deep state has been uncovered before the eyes of the whole world. China and HK and rest of the world have to wake up to the deep state or shadow government trying to destroy USA from within and has already been doing it since WW2. With the 2020 election stolen the deep state is the effectual administration of USA. Putting competition aside, we should all hope that the Americans get back their own country. It's obvious too that liberal democratism had not serve USA well because they had been complacent and allowed dark forces to overtake and overthrown their administration. They should focus on getting their own country back instead of trying to distract themselves with China as the shadow government is trying to get people to do now. If you have lost the competition just admit it and come back another time.
I really enjoyed this talk. I feel much the same as Philip Wong. The West is not worthy of uncritical admiration simply because it uses the words rights and democracy. I think it is destroying itself from within because rampant individualism breaks down connection with others and agreement on how to behave responsibly for oneself and others. The West is leaving too many people behind - refer Gary Stevenson in the UK. I also agree with Eric on the matter of speech - free is a term that is thrown around like a panacea - as though it's a substitute for meaningful communication - there is nothing wrong in being considerate of others.
... this was uncomfortable to get through. It was an interrogation, not an interview or a 'talk'.
he lost the narrative when the host checked him on covid censorship lol. dude was stumbling.
This club is well known to be a station of spies and officers from the west, especially from USA, in Hong Kong.
This lady host raised her questions with her hidden hostilities against China, like her club colleagues. Eric did return her foolishness with his true knowledge, smartness and calm.
Chinese “time bombs” before had much more and serious than now, under the “dictatorship” governance all were solved and disappeared.
Good discussion above. After Thomas Piketty's book and the above video and 5 years later Not much had changed, what's the future of Capitalism?
There is also one democratic country in Southeast Asia that succeeded. That's Singapore. It's an autocratic society and controls the press. It works very well.
Just look at what leaders the western countries elect and the lobby group behind those politicians, do you really think the majority of the mainstream are well informed n educated enough to see the truth!? Most media outlets are either controlled by powerful media families with links to political party or on their payroll
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Eric Li is insightful, knowledgeable and offers us a multi country perspective from his own experiences across the US and China. He has really helped me appreciate that there are other (better) approaches to governance and we should drop the Western arrogance and listen and learn. The next 20 years belong to the Global South malnly due to China's strength and success and their desire for mutually beneficial collaborations.. Wonderful discussion and Eric seems like a decent bloke too.
The host’s attitude is toxic. She should be impartial, balanced and stay neutral.
The lady host seems not very impressed with Eric. Alibaba and Jack Ma is old technology, there are new technologies from China. XJP is clamping down Jack Ma for different reasons. XJP is protecting China’s economy. And China needs new technologies I thought China’s long term plan is strategic and has helped the country to move forward.
Well, that's not to say that Jack Ma wouldn't benefit from the new arrangement, but certainly they are not going to let his companies dictate the direction of the country moving forward.
Actually deep state control the america.
Scholar Eric , thank you.
Florence is great!
This man is trying to answer but keeps repeating, 'this is a fact' when it is not established as a fact. Not only that, a fact can be a manipulation of information, so it is a 'fixed' fact.
All I know is, you can't practise meritocracy in a democracy. After voting umpteen times, I noticed corruption gets bolder and more audacious. And don't whine about it bcos if you do, they will come to your house at 2.55 am and nab you like you are The Thief.
How will Xi Jinping's upcoming famine compare to Mao's?
Anson Chan is a British Stooge 😢Sad
Foreign Forces trying to destroy HK😢
Chinese press is many times more reliable and honest than press in US, Europe, Australia, Indua, Japan and many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!
real insights - check and balance can add to corruption
The lady's body shows her disagreement ?
The reality is that media plays a different role in different societies. In China, media is to inform, to persuade, to maintain harmony. Media in China is to align the internal processes into a unifying purpose to achieve the states goals of improving the wellbeing of the population and not any interests groups. In the West, the media purports to inform for the electorate to decide in an adversarial electoral process with free speech. In reality, it is controlled by powerful wealthy interest groups with misinformation in echo chambers. It does not really provide objective information nor the check and balance. On the contrary, it is divisive and controlled by wealthy and powerful interests groups often with a weakened government. So who provides the check and balance in China? An internal feedback system with competent leaders who have gone through the rank and file ground up. It's not unlike the huge corporation with a clear mission statement based on good strategies, feedback system, expertise, cordination, communiation system, infrastructure and constant structural adjustments to produce consistent results. What happens if the chief goes rogue like Mao? This is China 2.0. Mao was the revolutionary leader without the competence of running a government. In China 2.0, of the CEO fails to meet the national objectives, he will havecto go under the pressure of the population too big to control or suppress. A leader of China 2.0 can only survive based on the trust of its people. Pascal Coppens, a Belgian, has written much on the difference between the Chinese and Western system.
So called freedom of speech and media do not actually exist. It is why the media is so polarized. How about the fire of those Ivy League principals happened on Gaza issue?
So touched by the lady’s questions. She is so “concerned” about China. 😢😅
46:00 - the demographics problem is - in my opinion - overblown. The entire world (including developing countries such as India) are on a trend towards declining demographics, the PRC is hardly alone in that area. Demographics is more of a demand-side problem rather than a supply side problem. AI & automation will be more than enough to offset the shrinking workforce, the problem will be the availability of demand - the stagnating population needs to have sufficient income to be able to consume all the products that are manufactured by automated enterprises. Again, this is a global problem that's independent of systems of government, & hardly unique to "authoritarian" China.
Thanks for sharing this event. It’s always good to hear from Mr. Eric Li ❤
31:00 - the questioner appears to operate under the assumption that multi-billionaires should somehow have unconstrained freedom to create wealth (mostly for themselves, naturally), & if they're "taken down a peg" in any way or any circumstance, that would somehow "destroy" innovation. That seems like a very extreme neo-liberal view of the world. Let's say a billionaire is prevented from making his 30th, 50th, or 100th billion dollars due to the problematic public impact of his wealth creation, is that REALLY going to disincentivize others from striving to create wealth? Can anyone find me an earnest entrepreneur out there that says "since the networth of Bill Gates, or Jack Ma, or Elon Musk is limited to 'only' $50, or $100, or $150, or $XXX billions of dollars, the game is 'rigged' & I'm not going to even try to make my 1st billion or 1st million"?
23:00 - "Generally speaking, when people have access to reliable, checkable, transparent information, they make better decisions..." I agree with this statement by the moderator IN THEORY, but her unstated assumption is that the so-called "free" press - as it currently exists in the US & the rest of the West - has ANY of those aforementioned characteristics. Anyone actually living in the West would tell you that the modern media in the West - be it mainstream OR alternative, has NOT by any stretch of the imagination "reliable, checkable, or transparent". Moreover, I find the "free" press' ability to produce "reliable, checkable, & transparent" information highly suspect in the first place, even at a theoretical level. If you have the freedom to say anything you want without the threat of an authority figure imposing some kind of consequence, where's the deterrence against telling lies or manipulative, misleading narratives? If anyone with enough money can pay propagandists to spin any narrative they want, how do you know the narrative they produce is "reliable, checkable, & transparent"? I'm certainly not suggesting that a centrally-controlled press is manipulation or propaganda-free, but the assertion that a "free" press (as it currently exists in the West) does an incrementally better job is not supported by the facts. If one looks at the Edelman Trust Barometer over the past decade, the public in so-called "free" countries have far lower trust in their own media than many of their counterparts in "authoritarian" countries.
Mr. Li sings the praise for the CCP governace that enabled miraculous economic development convincingly. America's liberal capitalism has reached a stagnation due to extreme inequality, its middle class had shrunk to the benefit of the top 1%; and nearly 20% of its population without food and shelter.
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Freedom for the mainstream media to lie is not freedom ... it's immoral, it's irresponsibility and exploitation of the ignorance.
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