 What's going on everybody today? I'm here with Inkstone, which is a brand-new media outlet that is covering China for Americans Today we're in New York City, and we're gonna be asking people what they know about China and why China matters Let's find out. What do you know about China? Everything not a thing. It's a country. We're my parents are fun Communism pandas China wall Confucianism crab ring goon, you know cheese wantons. We have a Chinese roommate eat I just know it's a big place like the country There's like mainly in China than other places in China Island of Hainan is you know where Shanghai is There's a trade war trade war trade war all I know about is I wait wait because I'm artist He's the artist the Olympics general service is hello kitty from Japan or China Japan never mind. I don't know anything a whole bunch of other stuff You know some stuff. You know, honestly, I'm embarrassed by how little we know now China's all the way over there So like we need to bridge the gap. We need to know what's going on Which one of these is China and which one of these pictures is Chinatown I just feel like America does never never has this together in this picture looks a little bit more messy And this one's a little more organized. It's definitely China right here Organized this one is Chinatown and this one's China Do you think most people's exposure to China is like pretty much just Chinatown That's a gist of it definitely I live by Chinatown. So that's all I'm getting right this I have a few news stories from China. I want to see you guys's reaction to it Okay, what do you think about the idea of a solo gym gym pod that is outside this is apartment complexes at night Do you think this is something that could take off in America? It's a good idea in theory. I don't know if I'd really want to be like perspiring Washington Square Park by myself real shit. I like it because I don't like working out around people I think there's a trend moving towards people being shamed at the gym So this could this could catch on right now. It feels like somebody could just have popcorn It's time to do some pull-up I think it will almost be creepier without the window because I get claustrophobic We're not gonna be able to talk to humans in the future at all We're already stuck on our phones every day and now this having like a personal like one person gym gym pod Gym pod. Yes, that is perfect. Can I have a solo pod life? God. I want to move over China now So this it's a healing potion that has gotten really popular in some parts of China 40 million people are taking it and they're saying that it's curing their ailments and varieties What do you think it's made out of? I have no idea, but I would never trust it because I would take supplements from China Maybe like pubic hair of a bore or something. Is that the ground up rhino horn rhino horn or something ridiculous some endangered species I'm sorry No idea, but Asian people are always doing weird shit with their medicine. No, I definitely got some like weed in it It's science. Yeah, THC for sure. I don't China's kind of popular for their jinxing. Jinxing. Jinxing? Probably a roach or something. It is actually made out of Oh Nice. Yeah, I shoulda not. No surprise. It's gross. I would definitely try that. They need six billion roaches So they built these artificial intelligence farms that sort of run themselves and that's how they're using AI in China It's a productive use of Computers and artificial intelligence. If they need cockroaches they could just come to New York I mean you got a lot of them here. My question is like how do they figure out that this solves things? Like if somebody ate a cockroach, it was like, yes. If it was anybody, it would have been China. Artificial intelligence is like everywhere now, so if we can use it to save like 40 million Chinese people, like, why not? Okay, so would you guys be able to pick out the president of China out of a lineup? No president, yeah. I didn't know they had a president. Is this the president of China? Uh, no. No. No. He's hot. He should be the president, right? Yeah. No. Gently, uh, should be, but, uh, no. Is this the president of China? That's from Korea, right? Kim Jong-il? No, the great leader. Is it this man? No. Who is this? It's that actor. Jackie Chan. This guy? Jackie Chan. I don't know. I'm not that ignorant. Is Jackie Chan out the book? He should be. I didn't know how like Will Smith is my president. Will Smith is my president. He's like Jackie Chan. Yeah, it might be that one. Word up, doesn't it? He looks like a president. Okay. All right, you guys got it right. Ding, ding, ding. Do you know his name? Sunita Lee Shin. G. There, that's one of the syllables. X, I, I don't know how to say this. Zing. Zai. Zai. Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping. Did you guys hear that the president of China recently got unlimited terms? No. They amended the constitution to allow him to go more than two, go more than two. Xi Jinping's got his whole like, indefinite term now going on. So my family and they're kind of like worried about stuff going on there. And this is what Trump said about it. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday. Of course he did. Yeah, that. He's shooting for the stars. And that's a bold move on his part. Like, here's a tweet from Trump in 2011. Yeah. Okay. Basically it says China is an enemy, not a friend, right? Right. And then in 2018, he has a tweet that says, President Xi and I will always be friends, no matter what happens with our dispute on trade. Oh, what a diplomat. That's what I think. That's such a Donald Trump thing to say. I think Trump really just tweets out his feelings. Like, he could probably be like on the toilet tweeting. Yeah, you know, we all have drama. Sometimes we dislike people, but sometimes you get over it. Maybe they were beefing and now they're friends again. My mother's an avid Trump supporter with things. We should build a great wall of China to keep the Chinese out across the U.S.-Chinese border. That is not true. There's a new service in China called Kima that gives you 30-minute condom delivery. Do you think that we could use that in the U.S.? How do we use condoms? I think it's great because I'm actually afraid of buying condoms because I always feel like the attendant's always looking at me like, Oh, like, what are we going to do today? And so I think it's a perfect thing. Get to my house, give it to me, we're done. So they have this new facial recognition software in China that can track pretty much anybody anywhere at any time. How do you feel about that? That's scary. Especially if it gets in the hands of the wrong people. But recently they were able to find a criminal in a crowd of 50,000 at like a PAC concert. Hearing that now, I think it's pretty cool. But I think, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want somebody like checking up on me while I'm sitting on my front porch, you know. Have you heard about the trade war with China? Yes. I know that there's tariffs that were put into place. To go tip the tat, China's starting to tax the products that come from the U.S. What consumer products are going to shoot way up? Clothes, like technology. Thinking like my bathroom, like shampoo, like lotion, stuff like that. Is this the most that you guys have ever been asked about China in your life? Yep, definitely. Absolutely. Yeah. No. My world history class in high school. Yes. Yeah, definitely. I'm about to go home right now and go buy a flight to China. Do you think it is important to know about China? It definitely is going to affect the outlook of my career. It's going to be more and more present in our everyday lives. Definitely got to know about who's got the money. China is going to start shaping what happens in the world. So it'd be pretty smart to know what's going on and why. Do you think it has piqued your interest at all in the future to look up more interesting stories on a site like Inkstone? Definitely. I feel like I'm not as in touch as I would want to be. And this kind of made me realize that. To learn something that you might not know about that actually affects you. Yeah, I feel like U.S. is a very self-centered country. And I feel like it's time that we take the time to learn about other countries who are up and coming. So Asia is on my list of travel destinations for next year. So maybe China just rose to the top. We'll have to see. We talked to so many people on the streets of New York City today. And my major takeaway is that they definitely understand the importance of China in the world right now and moving forward. But they want to know how that news relates to them on an individual level. Which shows me that there is definitely a need for a media platform like Inkstone which talks about China to a U.S. audience.