Are We in a Cold War with China?

Audio Editing by Donovan Bullen
Editing by José Gámez
Motion Graphics by Vincent de Langen
Writing, Thumbnail Design, and Direction by Evan

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[Tsskyx]

>reads thumbnail
>"cold shdja"
>mfw

[XDarkGreyX]

In a way, peace is always a cold war.

[alburaq]

Is the quality of videos going down?
This one was going nowhere. Didn't feel like there was an original idea in the whole video.

[axeldt]

hopefully it leads to cool technological innovations and not nuclear war.

[Mr.Prince_Tunmise]

Bro, this was so frustrating to watch. You mentioned a lot of ideas but never really engaged with them.

[redmondthealien]

Born too late for the Cold War.

Born too early for the Cold War.

Born just in time for the Cold War.

[rustix]

7:20 "half of all Russian imports now comes from China"
17:18 "25% of all imports to Russia comes from China"

So how much Russian imports are actually coming from China? I am confused.

[salzkasten]

What is a "new cold SCHDYA" ?

[jolly-rancher]

17:04 why did you show GDP per capita for USSR vs China then GDP for Russia vs China? a bit misleading to say the least.

[prathameshchaudhari]

India recently overtook china as biggest importer of Russian oil.

[J.R.Y.]

Sorry, but the cadence and inflection of the narration is so repetitive and annoying.
Maybe try mixing it up a bit. Otherwise, great content.

[rustix]

17:00 to be fair you are using here "GDP per capita" as a measure on the screen and then 17:12 just "GDP", if it were "GDP per capita" Russia would be above the World average and China below.

[lenowoo]

Hearing the word that US and UK shared many commong things made me once again realized. US independence/revolutionary war are pretty much just war among themselves. And not local indigenous people fighting outsider.

[subatenome]

The amount of American exceptionalism in this video is staggering. China and Russia are by no means the "good guys", but that doesn't exempt the US from all the atrocities it has committed in the name of "spreading freedom and democracy" or rather maintaining control over US interests abroad, whether it be for economic exploitation or for strategic military presence. American foreign policy has and still is ruthless. Instead, this video rolls with the narrative that the Americans are by default the good guys instead of approaching the topic of the video from a neutral position and answering the question accordingly. This video, therefore, feel like it's little more than propaganda. What a shame.

[jakobabou-chaker]

Proxy war in Ukraine ? What? Ukraine is defending its freedom!!!!

[flz_]

Honey wake up, the new China video essay just dropped

[danielhenderson]

Would have made more sense to compare oil consumption with India. 3x their consumption with the same population. Canada is like half of Germany.

[shakiMiki]

China is not alone in pursuing its own national interests vis a vis Russia. India & Israel are doing that, without much scrutiny.

[spooky.-]

The amount of clips of Putin doing random things are so funny

[phillip]

There is a lot of errors:

1. U.S. vs China is about values? They are more similar then they are different. They are international realists. U.S. is an offensive realist, while China is a defensive realist. According to research by Princeton University, U.S. is really a plutocracy, run as a national security state ( CIA etc) that want to run and rule the world. China wants to defend itself against this.

2. The video is contradictory. In one part of the video, the video argue China is part of U.S. order, while on a later part of the video, it said China and U.S. is in a rivalry. These are contradictory claims. What is more true is that China is rivaling U.S. in commerce, just like how Japan did a few decades ago. This is not a war of ideology, but of economic competition. U.S. do not want Chinese firms to outcompete American firms, because U.S. is rule by plutocrats.

3. It is about U.S. vs China. I think it is about U.S. vs the world. U.S. for the last few decades has be using the rest of the world as a giant ATM machine in the form of the dollar. U.S. print money to buy actually goods and services from the rest of the world. I don 't think the rest of the world want this arrangement any longer.