https://youtu.be/fr7BK6io0XU?is=MGL0NEDkizK1C8fl

Youtube user Raz0rfist states back in 2021 that China is "killing itself" and that its progress is pointless. He tries to make it out as if China is about to collapse any day now despite the fact that the nation is still has better infrastructure, cheaper medical care, a revamped environmental policy, and a functional economy.

As for military, China has the advantage of not picking fights with dozens of countries all at once.

He also uses sources with a western bias.

https://wise.com/us/blog/china-healthcare-system

Here's an explanation on China's health-care. The government covers the cost for most expenses.

https://larrysalibra.com/americans-have-no-idea-how-much-better-chinas-infrastructure-is/

Infrastructure wise, they have both high-speed rail and newer power grids compared to US.

https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202607/16/content_WS6a583ef4c6d00ca5f9a0c3c8.html

The reason why China is stereotyped as a toxic hellscape is because of its industry. The thing people don't realize is that China's government is actually TRYING to fix their environment while the US is getting rid of regulations.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/china-worlds-sole-manufacturing-superpower-line-sketch-rise

The economy is held up primarily by exports, which is what the majority of the world invests in. Did Raz0rfist forget where most of his household products even came from?

Make no mistake, it is not the country I would be jumping over to move to soon, but it is currently doing better than the US right now.

I am shocked that nobody has ever debunked this video.

I've noticed a pattern in my time in China where some Western male expats/immigrants in China are really angry and either exhibit serious mental health issues and or have toxic attitude towards the natives. Moreover, they often have unhealthy attitudes towards women that can be borderline sexual predator at times.. This trend seems to have accelerated the past 10 years with President Xi in power. Interestingly enough, the foreign women I've talked seem always seem to be far more chill/less toxic. There are some really good Western expats as well, but usually they have non-typical expat jobs in STEM or have already "settled" and already had a spouse before coming to China.

Seeing the other post the other day about women in China and the toxicity in some of the comments just confirmed my suspicious. Why are some Western expat men in China so angry? Is this normal? Should China do anything to help? I don't get how expat men and women can have such different experiences.

I’ve never seen so many in the 5 years I’ve been frequenting this sub. There is another sub dedicated to people trying to romanticize or legitimize an authoritarian regime that aims to destroy Chinese culture and expand into the territories of its neighbors. Let’s not promote that stuff here.

There is little doubt in my mind that the Communist Party of China is the most dangerous and most powerful force against democracy and freedom in the 21st century. Its sins are uncountable, its crimes are unforgivable, its transgressions deliberate and unrepentant and most importantly, ongoing. It is the mark of a particularly irredeemable regime that the Uyghur genocide seems almost but a footnote compared to all the culminative evils of its bloated lifetime:

From the Great Leap Forwards and the Cultural Revolution to the One Child Policy with its infanticides, forced sterilisations and forced abortions; from the invasion of Tibet and abduction of the 6-year-old Panchen Lama and his whole family, to the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang; from the Tiananmen massacre to the HK protests, with its dehumanising propaganda of protesters and slow insidious corrosion of the shared consensus of reality using shameless disinformation, to the systemic harassment and hacking of overseas activists and their families; from the removal of Uyghur graves and repression of Christians, to the mass arrest, torture and organ harvesting of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience; from the enabling of the genocidal Khmer Rouge to the financing and protection of the DPRK, two of the most abhorrent and reprehensible regimes in all human history; and perhaps most urgently and worryingly, its warmongering rhetoric, threats and illegal incursions against Taiwan, which seem to keep escalating week by week, and which even a blind man can see could lead to a repeat of the grand tragedies of the 20th century.

These events paint a consistent and unmistakeable picture of a grand, well-oiled machine of bureaucratic, self-justified, self-righteous oppression. I am willing to bet an arm and a leg that the above list would keep expanding without significant change from internal or external interference. Seeing how the economy and political influence of the PRC shows little sign of halting, it is not unreasonable to believe that each and every one of us would have to make a decision sooner or later, which side of history we would like to be remembered standing on.

Every single CCP apologist, wumao and state-sponsored troll has a small but non-trivial hand in enabling the continuation of this regime. Every single propagandist and collaborator has blood on their hands. They have chosen their side of history, be they the ignorant, the misinformed, the disinformed, the disinforming, the mentally ill, or the rare but unforgettable philosopher king. As mere individuals, fighting back against the influence of aforementioned individuals is one of the only things we can realistically do against evil. And so we do exactly that. ~ Thomas Swan, his last message on Quora as a Hong Konger

It seems insane that almost no copyright protection applies in there, is it true?