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How living in China changed my view on Trump and US politics: Californian native
Youtube China in Focus ^ | 16 February, 2021 | Kevin

Posted on 03/27/2021 5:02:54 PM PDT by marktwain

In this interview, we talked with Kevin, a California native who, in his words, went from an almond milk latte drinking millennial liberal who viewed Donald Trump’s 2016 election as a catastrophe to America, to someone who voted for him in 2020.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: california; china; expat; trump; video
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This is a 27:32 minute video. Kevin went to China and became fluent in Mandarin. He lived their several years.

He shows why he completely changed his political views.

1 posted on 03/27/2021 5:02:54 PM PDT by marktwain
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Got a synopsis for those who don’t watch half hour videos?


2 posted on 03/27/2021 5:07:36 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: marktwain
Link to video on Youtube.

He recommends The Hundred Year Marathon

And The Perfect Dictatorship.

3 posted on 03/27/2021 5:08:40 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: heartwood

He lived in China and was a liberal, but became very pro-American because if what he saw in China.

A 5 second synopsis.


4 posted on 03/27/2021 5:09:52 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: heartwood
He went to China, hating President Trump, thinking Trump was an embarassment.

He was fluent in Mandarin.

He experienced how everything in China is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

He experienced how it is Chinese Communist Party policy, that the Chinese people hate the United States, blame it for all the trouble in the world, and have as their policy the desire to destroy the United States and replace it as the world power.

He was amazed at how much hatred for he United States existed in China.

He realized that China becoming the foremost power would be a great evil.

5 posted on 03/27/2021 5:12:52 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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So basically, they are Democrats??


6 posted on 03/27/2021 5:14:29 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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I didn’t find a great deal of anti US hatred in China. I did one a great deal of identity politics. They believed they were unfairly treated from about 1850 until 1950 and wanted revenge.


7 posted on 03/27/2021 5:16:45 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Hillary Clinton =The Pig In A Pantsuit (The PIAPS))
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This is a good watch - saw it the other day. Being a NorCal native, I know tons of people a lot like this guy... I wish they would wake up as much as this guy has.

I drove by a house with a Defund the Police sign in the window... if I were a burgler/home-invasion robber, I ‘d start there.


8 posted on 03/27/2021 5:20:31 PM PDT by MonicaG (Stunned... in 2021)
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Boy, what he is describing in China, is what we see happening here in this country. Now we understand where this is coming from. The social media techs want to emulate the control the CCP has.


9 posted on 03/27/2021 5:21:09 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Big govt/big tech/big biz/and big media are all in accord with the Democrat talking points. It’s a sad state we’re in.


10 posted on 03/27/2021 5:22:37 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Fai Mao

My wife is from China and I have spent a couple of months there. The found out that most Chinese people like Americans. I met an elderly gentleman who was a WW2 veteran. He came up to me and in perfect English told me how much he liked Americans.


11 posted on 03/27/2021 5:32:29 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: nascarnation

Yes it is, very sad indeed.


12 posted on 03/27/2021 5:32:42 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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The social media oligarchs, many businesspeople, and lots of our politicians are China’s puppets...


13 posted on 03/27/2021 5:39:11 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: wjcsux

My wife is Chinese. I lived in Hong Kong and Wuhan. I have a PhD from a university in China.

We also lived in Singapore and on Guam.


14 posted on 03/27/2021 5:57:22 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Hillary Clinton =The Pig In A Pantsuit (The PIAPS))
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Were you worried about Guam tipping over when you lived there?


15 posted on 03/27/2021 6:00:01 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: Chewbarkah

Either that or they love the Chinese model of control. Either way, it’s against the American way, and bad for people and especially freedom.


16 posted on 03/27/2021 6:25:06 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: wjcsux

I don’t have a problem with individual Chinese. It is the government and its ideology I have issues with, and anyone who supports it.


17 posted on 03/27/2021 7:22:19 PM PDT by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: marktwain

The most appalling part of this whole mess is that 30 years out from the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have a whole generation of gullible idiots who want to give it another try. They obsess over who did what to who hundreds of years ago and completely ignore the lessons of just 3 decades ago. If we get through this in one piece, we have to purge communism from the education system once and for all.


18 posted on 03/28/2021 3:15:05 AM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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“I don’t have a problem with individual Chinese.”

Neither do I. I had hoped that the Chinese would take a different path where increasing freedom and prosperity would cause a kind of slow, soft revolution and war would become impossible because it would be too bad for business. But, this is not happening with the current crop of leaders, and the Chinese people don’t seem to be interested in doing anything about it.


19 posted on 03/28/2021 3:22:28 AM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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But, this is not happening with the current crop of leaders, and the Chinese people don’t seem to be interested in doing anything about it.


They remember Tiananmen Square ... where over 10,000 were murdered at Deng’s order. Also because they know that, if they started a civil war, they might face over 40 million dead - as has happened in their past. Deng was a nice guy compared to Xi who is more Mao-like, viewing Han Chinese as all expendable to the survival of the CCP.


20 posted on 03/28/2021 5:39:15 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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