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By now if you haven't checked it out yet, I did a sort of silly and different video which I released today, one about South African TV adverts... The reason why is that it's almost Christmas and the rather serious video I have been working on just simply doesn't fit in with the Christmas spirit and so I'll release that one next week:

https://youtu.be/47CYe2gc4so

As for this week's early Patreon release, we talk about this ambitious belt and road project that China is undertaking, but we do it in a temple!

https://youtu.be/6Y6MeAOGxt8

Hope you're all getting ready for Christmas! Can't wait to see you all in the next video!

- Stay Awesome!

SerpentZA

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China "Belt And Road" - Why It Has Failed

Support us and the channel on Paypal! http://paypal.me/advchina China has proposed a One Belt One Road project, and it's already started to break ground... well, kind of. In an effort to link the countries along the old silk road, China has started some massive investment projects in countries like Pakistan, Malaysia, and many more. Here's why we think it might not work. Google maps link of where we were - Hualian City: https://goo.gl/maps/tsAyXgGpzsS2 Hotel Recommendation - Li-Shiuan International Hotel, Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan https://goo.gl/maps/nU2xJ9TRRE42 Dongdamen Night Market, Zhongshan Road, Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan https://goo.gl/maps/Kh8sSBgHcFq Get 1 week early access to EVERY ADVChina episode by supporting us on Patreon or becoming a member of this channel (click Join next to the subscribe button) SerpentZA: http://www.patreon.com/serpentza C-Milk: http://www.patreon.com/laowhy86 Living in China for so long, we would like to share some of the comparisons that we have found between China and the west, and shed some light on the situation. Every week, we take you to a new place in China on our bikes, cover a topic, and reply to your questions. ⚫ Watch Conquering Southern China NOW! Winston and I ride 5000 km across 5 Chinese provinces and discover crazy food, people and customs! Discount Promo Code: RIDEWITHUS https://vimeo.com/ondemand/conqueringsouthernchina ⚫Watch Conquering Northern China 10,000 km. on motorcycles across China's unexplored northern provinces. The Russian border, Inner Mongolia, and even North Korea! http://vimeo.com/ondemand/conqueringnorthernchina Tune in, hop on, and stay awesome! http://www.facebook.com/advchina For Motorcycle adventures around the world, and a talk-show on two wheels go to ADVChina every Monday 1pm EST https://www.youtube.com/advchina For a no-nonsense on the street look at Chinese culture and beyond from China’s original YouTuber, join SerpentZA on Friday at 1pm EST https://www.youtube.com/serpentza For a realistic perspective on China and world travel from an American father and a Chinese mother with two half-Chinese daughters go to Laowhy86 every Wednesday 1pm EST https://www.youtube.com/laowhy86 Support us and the channel on Paypal! http://paypal.me/advchina Get 1 week early access to EVERY ADVChina episode by supporting us on Patreon or becoming a member of this channel (click Join next to the subscribe button) SerpentZA: http://www.patreon.com/serpentza C-Milk: http://www.patreon.com/laowhy86 Living in China for so long, we would like to share some of the comparisons that we have found between China and the west, and shed some light on the situation. Every week, we take you to a new place in China on our bikes, cover a topic, and reply to your questions. ⚫ Watch Conquering Southern China NOW! Winston and I ride 5000 km across 5 Chinese provinces and discover crazy food, people and customs! Discount Promo Code: RIDEWITHUS https://vimeo.com/ondemand/conqueringsouthernchina ⚫Watch Conquering Northern China 10,000 km. on motorcycles across China's unexplored northern provinces. The Russian border, Inner Mongolia, and even North Korea! http://vimeo.com/ondemand/conqueringnorthernchina Tune in, hop on, and stay awesome! http://www.facebook.com/advchina For Motorcycle adventures around the world, and a talk-show on two wheels go to ADVChina every Monday 1pm EST https://www.youtube.com/advchina For a no-nonsense on the street look at Chinese culture and beyond from China’s original YouTuber, join SerpentZA on Friday at 1pm EST https://www.youtube.com/serpentza For a realistic perspective on China and world travel from an American father and a Chinese mother with two half-Chinese daughters go to Laowhy86 every Wednesday 1pm EST https://www.youtube.com/laowhy86 Cartoon feat. Jüri Pootsmann - I Remember U https://soundcloud.com/nocopyrightsounds/cartoon-feat-juri-pootsmann-i-remember-u Track : Cartoon feat. Jüri Pootsmann - I Remember U NCS: Music Without Limitations NCS Spotify: http://spoti.fi/NCS Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/irememberu

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Anonymous

From an economic perspective the pursuit of imperial goals may be a better way to enrich a country as opposed to fixing things internally. After all, imperial policy brings in raw materials and can increases the value of exports, by creating a larger market. On the other hand domestic investments may not be as efficient, for example fixing the road for the largely agrarian peasants is unlikely to increase their productivity much, and hence is unlikely to increase the GDP of a country o any great extent. Conversely, putting a similar amount of money into building a railroad in an overseas colony (or virtual colony) to reduce the cost and increase the speed of natural resource extraction in a different country, and decrease the shipping costs of finished materials to colony's market is more likely to significantly raise the imperial power's GDP. Of course this implies the imperial power is competent... At the end of the day, it probably doesn't matter. In China, or any other country that aspires to have a market economy, the decisions regarding resource allocation are unlikely to be controlled by the peasants, but rather by the central powers of the imperial seat. So, as long as the peasants are not so unhappy, or so empowered, as to be able to foment a successful revolution imperial policy will carry the day.

Anonymous

That's not true. Expansionist countries that fixed problems at home, after consolidating gains do much better. Hell! Consider Post-60's Red-China for example! They were still busy wiping-away the blood from the Chinese Civil War, Tibet-Invasion, and the Cultural Revolution, when Mao reached out to the West, and was later poisoned by Deng Shao Peng ( :D ), who reaped all the benefits! But this was what made the unprecidented growth of Red-China! Nevermind the Treason of Bill Clinton signing-away all of our Industry! Too bad they just never enacted the reforms they really needed on such matter as: Civil, and Property Ownership Rights! They need the expansion now, because it HIDES... glaring faults within that the Red-Chinese REFUSE to have fixed, nor drawn attention towards!

Anonymous

Winston, have you seen the documentary The China Hustle yet? It’s from 2017, produced here in the suburbs of Philly (Skippack, PA). It reveals the deep level of accounting fraud in the Chinese Miracle of the past decade, confirming much of what you and C-Milk observe first-hand.