“Operating In China’s Gray Zone” - Jiang DODGES CCP Censorship On YouTube
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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What happens when a professor in China starts going viral overseas? Professor Jiang reveals how closely he is monitored, why he believes governments want to co-opt influential voices, and why he may eventually leave China to protect his independence.
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| 0:00.0 | Have they ever knocked on your door and said, hey, you cross on Elijing, pumped the brakes, that's too much, relax, or no, they leave you alone, nobody's knocked on your door? |
| 0:10.1 | I work at a school. I'm employed by the school. They have legal responsibility for me. |
| 0:15.0 | And there was one time when I wrote a sub-suit essay that mentioned China, and I was given a call by the school leadership |
| 0:23.0 | and told to pull it down. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm not at liberty to tell you what the content was, but I will tell you that I'm being |
| 0:29.6 | monitored very heavily. |
| 0:31.3 | I can only imagine that. |
| 0:34.0 | I can only imagine that. |
| 0:35.1 | Do you feel safe for yourself in China long term? |
| 0:38.9 | I do not plan on staying in China long term. Okay. I figure. Because, and I'll tell you why, |
| 0:44.6 | because right now China is very interested in soft power. And right now, I have a lot of self-power. |
| 0:49.7 | I have a lot of influence overseas. And so they want to co-op me. They want to compromise me and turn me into a weapon that they can use to promote their agenda overseas. I don't want to do that. The longer you stay, the more people are going to think that you are somebody that's representing the CCP that you're working with the government. Just so, because I know you, the criticism, the moment you went viral, I'm like, okay, let's see what happens the next two weeks because they're going to come for his throat. |
| 1:14.0 | It happens every single time. |
| 1:26.9 | And then we all move on with the filtering process. You're not really a professor. Are you a spy? Are you tied to the government? Are you tied to this? if all of a sudden you leave and you go to Singapore or Dubai or a different place, or maybe, maybe not even Dubai, but a couple, you know a couple places that you can go to, uh, to speak. Then that means you truly are a citizen of the world that your concern is, here's what I think about, here's what I want to talk about, do whatever you want with this information. And I'm sure your ad sense is picking up anyways with YouTube, which allows you to drop your job as a teacher to go live anywhere. That's the beautiful thing about YouTube. So you kind of have a little bit of freedom to be able to do that. And I love to see you continue doing this because, you know, you're, again, you say some crazy things, but that's good. We need to kind of think about some of the crazy things that can possibly happen. And then let's |
| 2:01.6 | hash it out. Let's debate it out. Now let's see what comes out of it. Another question for you. |
| 2:07.6 | I love what you said. In Canada, everybody wants to be a hockey player. In U.S. people want to be |
| 2:12.1 | an entrepreneur. In China, they want to be a bureaucrat. What do you think kids want to be in Iran? |
| 2:18.9 | What's the dream in Iran today under this regime? I know you're not there. I'm not there, but what do you think? |
| 2:24.6 | Well, I mean, I've never been to Iran. It depends where you are in Iran, right? So the cities are |
| 2:30.7 | very different from the rural areas. But I think that given what's been happening in this war, I think there are a lot of young |
| 2:38.2 | children who fantasize about, fantasize and they grow up and they want to fight the Americans. |
| 2:45.3 | So I feel as though this war, given the fact on the first day the Americans struck a school in southern Iran that |
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