Coming together - the Chinese New Year 中国新年

Also known as the Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year on the mainland lasts one week. Preparations will already be under way and include a spring clean and adding festive decorations. New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are a time for family reunions, and for many this means travelling home from the city to the countryside. Chinese New Year is celebrated in many countries and China-towns around the World. GōngXǐ FāCái 恭喜发财 ! The first film, 'Coming Together', is from Malaysia - enjoy ... The Spring Festival is about a new year, a new beginning. A time of renewal, and hope and a fresh start, a time of good-will. For example, fireworks, apart from being a joy to all, are to scare away bad spirits. One can see this symbolize the breaking of old habits of thought – a spring clean of the mind. A new year is a new chance for a better life – if you will take it. Keep your eyes open, heart abundant, and strive for a better world. Help others on their journey whenever you can and always share a smile. It may help another, but it will certainly be good for you. As the second film says, it is love that brings us closer to happiness. Above all, the Spring Festival is a time for family. Next 4 films : 1: 'Going Home' ... 2: A touching song about life and friendship (forget the sub-titles, just watch the video). 'Beautiful Snow County is my Home' ... 3: 'Family Portrait' (from Malaysia) - a wry look at family life in the digital age ... 4: 'Don't be tied to the past, but don't tear it up' ... Two 2017 CNY songs from the M Girls (Malaysia). They have released a CNY album every year since 2001 ... 2011 flash-back - CNY fireworks in BeiJing ... Lion Dance in Malaysia (2017) ...

Tucker Carlson's trip to Russia - what was the real agenda ?

With Ben Norton ... With Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson ... With Jan Oberg ...

China cities light up for Chinese New Year

Bonus film - Spring Festival Gala 2024 from HeNan TV - some really great parts, including the start ...

Twenty cities aerial view

Shanghai Beijing Shenzhen Guangzhou Chongqing Suzhou Chengdu Hangzhou Wuhan Nanjing Tianjin Ningbo Qingdao Wuxi City Changsha Zhengzhou Nantong Foshan Quanzhou Hefei City

China's economic rise through planned industrial policy

China's industrial output is #1 and greater than the next nine countries combined. The US's military spending is #1 and greater than the next nine countries combined. To the 'past' colonial powers of the West, China was supposed to remain just their factory to power their hegemony, not become a peer. Hence the anti-China 'threat'. With Ben Norton ...

The Belt and Road Initiative shows China's win-win cooperation vision for world development

With BRIX Sweden and Stephen Brawer ...

China travel scenes

With Travels in China ...

Harmony vs discord - how China and the US are distinct

In China the people are family. In the West, the people are livestock. -- Why 'livestock' ? Because in an 'individualistic' society (rather than a communal one), the government wil be composed of the elite and above the people (employ divide and rule, and keep the people in dreams and poverty). Bonus film - with Willene Business & Lifestyle ... Why China is the future while the West is stuck in (and trying to preserve) the past. Bonus film - with Jason / Living in China - the suspended monorail in WuHan ...

Tram journey through NanJing's CBD area

JiangSu province. With CN Walking ... Bonus film - 10 things the West should learn from China (but probably will not) - with Because I'm Lizzy ...

Real democracy - government by, for, and of the people

The true measure is : does the government work for the people, or vice versa. Is it a sham / illusion / deception 'democracy' - elections, where one is forced to choose between elite factions, that are basically the same ideology? 'Pick a card, any card ...' Or is there a better way based on merit and that is bottom up - a system that truly responds to, and cares for, the people? In China, the people are family. In the West, the people are livestock. -- Recently, out of the hundreds of countries in the world, three decided to suicide, to serve their puppet masters : the Philippines, Argentina and Italy. Will Taiwan (not a country) be next? Are they Chinese or just fodder on a US missile base ??? -- China has defended itself (hence the Great Wall), but never been expansionist ... YT comment : George-rj4fj : "They who point fingers at China, failed to notice the huge expansionism of the Euro-Caucasians throughout the world so that some 2/3 of the world speaks not only English and Spanish but have also been forced into adopting Western cultures, religion, history and clothing. Talk about "cultural genocide"! They who accuses China of "expansionism" are also ignorant of history. Mongolia and Manchuria became part of China not from Chinese Han expansionism of conquest but because China was conquered by the Mongols and the Manchus and became part of THEIR empires. So too did Tibet when it ran wars into China in an expanding of the Tibetan Empire - and was defeated and absorbed in turn. Chinese culture is an amalgamation of all the different cultures that were absorbed into the greater Chinese diaspora. They who do not know history and are content in creating their own versions from western propaganda make themselves foolish by opening their mouths on topical subjects that they have absolutely no idea about." With Reports on China ...

China and geopolitics (2), January 2024

With Li JingJing and Ben Norton ... Bonus film - 'From Mao to modernity: how China's past shaped the Chinese worldview' - with SiMing Lan ...

Hiking the Great Wall 长城 of China in the snow

A great film of the Great Wall north of Beijing, including 'wild wall', accompanied by great music (踏古 (Ta Gu) by Lin Hai, 'Walking into Ancientry', with Chinese lute (pipa)). We [mum, dad - videographer - and son and daughter, from Singapore] hiked 3 sections of the Great Wall in winter, without any guides after studying blogs and posts by fellow hikers. All these sections are different. From the unrestored GuBeiKou Great Wall where we were the only people around, to the wonderful JinShanLing, where the climb is steep and every direction gives you good photo opportunities, to the restored MuTianYu where we hiked in heavy snowfall. We stayed at local farmhouses on both nights, dined with the locals and hitched rides to nearby bath-houses. Temperature ranged from -5 deg C (day) to -12 deg C (night). Winter daybreak is at 7am and the sky becomes dark by 5pm so one has only 10 hours of daylight, so plan your travelling and hiking schedules carefully. This once-in-a-lifetime experience was captured on video and we would like to share it with you. The feelings just can't be described - you need to experience it first hand. Take only memories, leave only footprints and kindness ... A wonderful animation combining traditional Chinese painting and dance - don't miss it ! 踏古-林海 作曲：林海 视频作者：中国传媒大学动画学院

Awesome Chinese cities by drone - don't miss it

With Exploropia ... 1:29 - (10) Chonqing 2:27 - (9) Hong Kong 4:12 - (8) Suzhou 5:57 - (7) Shenzhen 7:35 - (6) Guangzhou 8:32 - (5) Xi'an 10:46 - (4) Chengdu 12:17 - (3) Hanzhou 14:18 - (2) Beijing 16:41 - (1) Shanghai Bonus film - Hong Kong by drone ...

Why it is far better to live in China - don't miss it

Real prosperity. With Rafa Goes Around! ...

18 years in China

With Flow Food Tea Repeat, in ShangHai ... Bonus film - with Jason / Living in China ...

Geopolitics - December 2023- don't miss it

With Brian Berletic and Danny Haiphong ... * In China, the people are family. * In the West, the people are livestock. With Angelo Giuliano - on Myanmar, the Philippines and Taiwan; how the West is trying to burn down south-east Asia to contain China to maintain its hegemony over the world (keep it down and plunder its resources) ... The US goal of world hegemony dates from at least the 1960s ... The 'threat' of China is simply that it is a good example; 'no country should be other than our slave'. With Willene Business & Lifestyle ... On hegemony / dominance, with Jeffrey Sachs ... Latest news on China - with Wave Media ... On the EV car market - with Cyrus Janssen ... Italy, a basket case with a tendency to fascism, has buckled to US pressure and left the BRI; but three countries line up to replace it - Turkey, Greece and Spain ... Ciao Italia. Video was deleted by YT. On the Chinese island of Taiwan ... On Jimmy Lai, Apple Daily and the attempted HK overthrow ... Now, some positive videos : KunMing city, YunNan province ... ShangHai trip - with Sophie Kim ... A room with a view - YangShuo, with Darby Alex ... LiJiang, YunNan province, with Fel Thommy ...

Beautiful Chinese dance 中国古典舞

With EastCultures ...

China and sovereignty

With Ben Norton and Li JingJing ...

US hypocrisy

With Jeffrey Sachs ... With Wave Media ...

How China developed from one of the world's poorest countries to economic powerhouse

How Deng XiaoPing set in motion the industrialization that grew the economy by 600% in just 30 years. With Ben Norton ...

10 years in China - how is it ?

Bonus films ...

China from above - with Stef Hoffer

War or peace ? US or China

Don't miss it. With Cyrus Janssen ... With Cyrus and Alex ...

A trip to hospital in China - what is it like ?

An eye-opener. Modern, efficient and inviting. With really low (at cost) prices; e.g. $30 / £20 for a CT scan. With Middle Kingdom Productions in NanJing ... With Sabrina in China ... Plus a look at the local metro system ...

China - the world's happiest country : )

People in China are the happiest, with 91% feeling upbeat about life, says a new study by multinational research group IPSOS of Paris. Chinese values ...

China's metro systems

The world's largest. This is what one can do if invest in one's own country rather than trying to plunder the world. A look at the ShangHai metro system, with Barrett ...

Planning war on China - the West is ramping up

The insane rhetoric and absurdity - that China, under constant attack by the West, is the 'aggressor'.

China and healthcare

With WaveMedia ...

China - science and technology

With Barrett ... Why latin america / south america chose China ...

China and the space race

China and India - the West tries divide and rule

With Einar Tangen, CGTN ...

The supremacist US heads to war with China - don't miss it

Unhinged hysteria in the US belies the truth that it is the US that is the aggressor. It is the US that has a long history of war, and it is the US that has many hundreds of military bases all around the world. It has a military budget greater than all other countries combined. While China has never in its history been an aggressor. With Cyrus Jannsen, The Duran and Reporterfy Media ...

The US panic as China escapes Western enslavement

Billions of dollars are spent by Western governments to manufacture negative stories (propaganda) about about China that one sees daily in the Western MSM, and online (there many agents out there). With Cyrus Janssen ... If you are Chinese, and thinking about studying in the US or UK, our advice is think again. These countries have openly declared China as a 'threat' and you would be putting yourself in danger.

China - US tensions : with KeYu Jin

The 'threat' of China is that it says 'no' to being a slave of the West

The US is blaming China for its own decline. Alan Freeman, the co-director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group discusses why the US's decline is not China's fault. Bonus films, with Jeffrey Sachs ... Bonus film, with Cyrus Janssen ... Bonus film, with Yanis Varoufakis and Wongel Zelalem ... Africa owes about 12% of its total external debt to China. The rest is owed to you know who. People on the continent can see what the 12% has been used to develop but can hardly point to what has been done with the rest of the external debt. What is clear is bank accounts that have swindled that unaccounted for money are in the collective west. These are the very countries that go around talking about corruption in Africa. It is in China's interest that trading partners also grow, to conduct healthy trade relations. It is a WIN WIN partnership.

China and the US - geopolitics with Jeffrey Sachs, April 9th 2023

Bonus films ...

On democracy and China

Geopolitics with Li JingJing, Lee Camp, George Galloway ... Bonus film with Judge Napolitano and Larry Johnson ...

8 years in China - 'why I love being here'

With Rafa Goes Around! ... Bonus films - With Cyrus Janssen ... With Neel in China ... With KING KWESI ...

Who really is the aggressor ? (geopolitics)

With For All Life's Adventures ... Bonus film - with Double Down News ... With Danny HaiPhong and Brian Berletic ...

Africa and China - geopolitics - March 2023

Martin Jacques on China's rise / return

In China, the people are family. In the West, the people are merely livestock. As simple as that. As profound as that. Competence and success is the real 'threat'. The old colonial powers are less than 10% of the world's population, yet still clamber to be its master, putting everyone else down, by economic and political sabotage, subversion, proxy wars, etc. 100 years of great shame. If democracy means anything real, the majority of the world must be allowed to have its say, be allowed to grow, be allowed to be. The US imperialist hegemony empire doesn't have 'allies', only slaves, and sees the rest of the world as its plantation. The sheep (Ukraine, Australia, UK, Europe, Taiwan, Japan, S. Korea..) are encouraged to worry about wolves all their lives, but in the end are eaten up by the shepherd. Don't these countries realise that they are possessed, militarily and psychologically. From 2013 (and still true today) ... Bonus film - with Jeffrey Sachs ... With Garland Nixon ...

How BRICS and BRI are changing the world, with Hussein Askary

With Hussein Askary and The Geopolitics In Conflict Show ...

China pictorial 2

China and a multi-polar world

With Jeffrey Sachs ...

A quick introduction to China

With All By Ana Paula ...

China - a bird's eye view - don't miss it

With Stef Hoffer : Here’s a brief overview of some of the places visited in this video. After a short introduction, we begin this journey near the spectacular rice terraces of Yuanyang, before moving on to the captivating Buddhist temples of Dali. Via the peculiar Shilin Stone Forest and the ‘Rainbow Mountains’ of Zhangye, we arrive in Guangzhou (Canton), one of China’s largest cities. After the Yellow Mountains national park, and the intriguing ‘tulou’ buildings, we visit the Great Wall and the Leshan Giant Buddha, the largest such statue in the world. After flying through the ice and snow city of Harbin, where people enjoy a unique Winter event, we take a brief look at the imposing Yellow River, Hukou waterfall, Zhengzhou and Changsha cities, before stopping at the breathtaking Jiuzhaigou national park, filled with crystal clear blue lakes. The next place is the countryside in between rural Yangshuo and urban Guilin, easily one of the most popular tourist destinations in China, where the Li river meanders through bizarre karst scenery. For more diversity, we travel to Dunhuang to visit the arid Gobi Desert. We also have a look at a solar panel field and windmill park, before we fly over some heavy industry, including a steel factory, coal mine, oil refinery, concrete dam, shipyard, an oil rig, and a massive bridge. Hong Kong is our next destinations, before moving on to several places along the Yangtze river (or its distributaries), including Tiger Leaping Gorge, Chongqing, and Wuhan. On Hainan island we see the ‘tropical’ side of China, while in Xiahe and Tibet we visit the country’s highlands. From the frozen cities of Jilin and Xining we arrive in Qingdao, with its German colonial architecture and coastal vibe. In Macau we fly over the famous casinos, but also visit the Portuguese quarters, and after the rice fields of Longji (Dragon’s Backbone), we increase our altitude in the Yulong national park. After Hangzhou and Shenyang, we briefly look at one of China’s many ‘ghost towns’ and construction sites, before flying on to the surreal pillars of Zhangjiajie, and the (perhaps) equally stunning skyline of Shanghai. After showing the modern part of the city and the port (harbor), we also explore some of the disappearing neighborhoods, destroyed factories, and the strange looking ‘bicycle graveyard’. From the freezing ‘Xuexiang’ village and walled city of Pingyao we continue our journey in Xian, Shenzhen, Suzhou, and Changzhou. Finally, we take a look at the mesmerizing Yuanmou ‘Earth Forest’, Kunming city, and Lijiang, one of China’s most famous historic towns. Video chapters / timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:29 Yuangyang rice terraces 4:59 Chengkan 5:17 Dali 6:08 Shilin stone forest 6:50 Zhangye national park 7:55 Guangzhou 10:22 Huangshan national park 11:24 Fujian ‘tulou’ 12:03 The Great Wall 12:33 Leshan 12:55 Harbin 15:00 Yellow River 15:28 Hukou waterfall 15:50 Zhengzhou 16:20 Changsha 16:31 Jiuzhaigou national park 17:26 Yangshuo 20:25 Dunhuang 21:42 Qinghuangdao 21:58 Guazhou 22:47 Benxi, Fushun, Guangzhou, Hainan 24:19 Danjiangkou 25:12 Aizhai bridge 25:39 Hong Kong 29:19 Tiger Leaping Gorge 29:44 Chonqging 31:45 Yangtze River 33:03 Wuhan 35:41 Hainan island 38:02 Xiahe 38:51 Tibet 40:26 Jilin 40:44 Xining 41:25 Linxia 41:51 Qingdao 48:22 Macau 49:34 Longji rice terraces 49:59 Shexian 50:21 Yulong national park 51:42 Hangzhou 53:06 Shenyang 53:32 Shenfu ‘ghost town’ 54:26 Chengdu 54:46 Zhangjiajie national park 56:12 Shanghai 1:04:26 Xuexiang 1:05:49 Pingyao 1:06:28 Shenzhen 1:06:54 Xian 1:07:12 Suzhou 1:10:05 Changzhou 1:10:44 Yuangmou Earth forest 1:11:23 Kunming 1:12:43 Lijiang

10 reasons why people love to visit China - don't miss it

In 2019, the 145-million inbound tourists. Many visitors return again and again. Here's why. With Chron Ten ...

What lies ahead for US - China relations ?

With professor Ken Hammond ... Bonus film ...

American exceptionalism and China

With Garland Nixon ...