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PREVIEW: Contemplations #168 | Just How Dystopian Is China?

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🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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PREVIEW: Contemplations #168 | Just How Dystopian Is China?

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:02.0

welcome to Contemplations and today I'm going to be talking about just how dystopian is China

0:06.6

because there's lots of talk about China lots of people

0:09.6

talk about how it is hell on earth and I want to actually look at the evidence and weigh it up

0:14.7

because I've done a fair amount of work on China both in terms of you know some of their traditions and history

0:19.7

as well as modern China and the state in which it's in and I think that there are elements

0:25.6

of it that are over-exaggerated however it's still very important to talk about

0:30.4

China because it is a sort of testing place. It's a form of pilot study for the

0:35.9

dystopian application of technology in the West and we do see that quite often whereby the

0:41.2

Chinese will do something. The Western leaders will see that it works and then it will be a sort of means of knowing in advance what technology is going to be introduced here to control us in certain ways and it is also worth mentioning as

0:55.5

well all the way back in contemplations 81 I have discussed China's incoming

1:01.6

economic crisis and I'm just going to give you a

1:03.6

bit of a refresh about this because it's not necessarily the focus of this

1:09.8

contemplations but it's still kind of important to have some of the details.

1:14.7

So that's more about how they've poorly structured their economy.

1:19.2

They've got lots of bad things going on. They spend far too much money and they've actually had to

1:25.9

leverage lots of their assets to borrow more money and now that they can't

1:31.1

actually continue to borrow at that rate.

1:33.2

They're in a bit of problem of funding local governments

1:36.8

and they might have to restructure their entire economy

1:39.7

and how it operates, which for a centralized government that's very, very important and it could

1:46.2

go seriously wrong, and it might happen at a time whereby they fall into the middle income

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