 Will these protests in China continue and lead to a long-term policy change or are they sensationalized by the media? Andrew mainland China is in the news this week. We're talking about social media as well Whether we're talking about people saying on the financial channels You know buy apple puts because the Zhengzhou factories for fox con are shutting down So they're gonna struggle to make iphone 14 pro maxes Or you're talking about Shanghai and Beijing where people are saying down with the government Otherwise people are saying dude. Look at them people are dying and you know apartments in Urumqi Andrew What is going on? We got to give our hot take on it as chinese americans Yeah, and I think that the chinese americans perspective first of all not all chinese Americans have to agree with us but being people who have friends in china who have family members from china or That are Still do business there or whatever and we have friends from china in america So I you know, I just would like people to look at such a complex Geopolitical thing with a little bit more nuance than just reading headlines from like the media Which I understand is easy to do but this is the hard But if you guys were true blue blood americans and actually assimilated You would hope for that whole system to descend into chaos. No, no, no a billy bob. Listen You can still be proud of america and also Uh have a little bit more uh understanding of what's going on over there Yeah, I mean long story short guys, we don't want to get into the details We're not experts obviously some of the hardcore details are pretty murky and people are arguing this way arguing that way coming up with Conspiracy theories more regular theories long story short guys Zero covet is a very harsh policy in china that they probably need to reevaluate because very very few people like it I'm not saying Everybody doesn't like it probably if you're 70 years old and you have pre-existing conditions You're like, oh, thank you for zero covet because I was able to live Because otherwise the youth they just have to sacrifice three years of my life when I was younger I sacrificed 13 years of my life So, you know, it's all relative to like their set of experiences there But ultimately and the young people really really I don't think anybody likes zero covet as a policy Right, which means they're trying to bring covet rates down to zero So if somebody in your building gets covet, they're going to quarantine the whole thing for a week or a month I mean, it is an extreme policy and three years later after covet has kind of spread around the world Like china is still locking down entire cities. I mean, we're talking about locking down Shanghai Which is like the number one two city in china where there's a lot of like wealthy and educated people now Finally stepping up and being like, yo, like I can't take it You know, especially the wealthy and the educated people with international exposure And they don't want to live like that But also the fox con workers the blue collar workers that are in charge of making parts of your iphone Okay, and and it's true, man If you want to support the fox con workers, you got a boycott the next iphone I'm just saying that that's on your responsibility But i'm saying like they're really fed up because uh, they were locked in they escaped from their apartment buildings And then like they got replaced and then there was wage, uh, disagreements and all this stuff So it listen, there are things that definitely china needs to do. I think this is a wake up call I think this is a slap in the face Maybe not a punch in the face, but I think it's a slap in the face where it got the government's attention where they're like Oh shoot, man. Like I don't know what we're gonna do. We're probably not going to react right away But we got to do something Yeah, I think that there are clashes with the police But it's almost like done in a chinese way where they doesn't seem as crazy as clashes with the police In america for the variety of things whether that's uh, the insurrection or whether that's like blm or whatever and I think that uh Because you don't really see this type of tense and slightly violent protests in china That's why a lot of people are surprised and shocked some people are proud. They're like, wow, look at these people speaking up I think it's great. Like I agree with it. I think it's cool But I will also say like in brussels They just rioted after they lost to morocco 2 and o in the in the world cup So there are like people lash out in the rest of the world in way more extreme ways than in china I will say this right for sure. Maybe for china. This is definitely Noticable though. This is notable 100 for sure for sure for sure. I mean long story short to me It just seems like this overly strict parenting the hyper targeted tiger parenting That just goes on in china right now at some point something's got to give because not everybody wants to live like that, you know And you know, of course china's gonna have their perspective on it Which I do think has some valid points where they're like dude Look at all the drug use and all the disunity and all the wildness of the west We just got to control people and get people on the same page and then over here people are like, dude I wasn't even going to do anything bad. Like we don't even have guns and I've got to stay in my crib for like 100 days in a row You got to be kidding me and you know Like it's just like so many pros and cons and it's a completely different system But like we said for me at church growing up under I saw kids with hyper strict tiger parents And I was just always really glad that I didn't have them as parents Right and when we say hyper strict tiger parents I am talking about parents that are so strict and so unfun that when you grow up you probably to be honest Might resent them and that's very common for kids who had to go through that where the parents locked them down Right, they couldn't have sleepovers. They couldn't hang out at friend's house. They had to do this and this they were Yeah, just for your own good. It's because I wanted you to become a doctor I wanted you to go to Harvard medical school. That's why you can't have fun when you're young because You might get addicted to the fun and then you don't want to study I mean as a chinese america and but and by the way If you enjoyed your childhood at all you would never choose to have those as parents Yeah, no for sure. I mean, I think it's hyper complicated. Some people are going to come in here be like y'all ccp Bop Wu Mao hot pop boys. How come you ain't name yourself the smokehouse boys? Because that would have been more american welcome everybody to the smokehouse boys You know, we're here talking. Yeah, no. Hey, listen, you can still be proud of america. I'm a proud american All right Uh and still also try to seek understanding and be bridges guys, you know on this channel That's all we preach one of the things we preach is is be a bridge for cultures because uh, you know The world is becoming more globalized and there's no stopping that so you might just won't make it the best globalized You know environment that you can it's easy as like americans to be like, oh man I just hope china just devolves into chaos man This ccp needs to leave and this china's i'm like, dude, trust me if china Actually did devolve into chaos that's actually not good for the entire world because china has like all these octopuses arms And yeah, whatever it's like connected to so many different things So I think you would want to just see like a different regime or or uh one that you know operates differently I think that's that's fair But like you don't want china to to be destroyed that's probably not good for the world Anyway, guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below try to keep it civil I already know it's gonna explode. Do not attack each other I mean You know, we're just here to like have a good discussion and not get emotional about things guys very very unfortunate thing going on there I hope they fix it and uh, let us know until next time. We out peace