China

place · in 18 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 3 · 2009: 2 · 2010: 1 · 2011: 4 · 2012: 2 · 2013: 6

What the videos say

2007

• 2007-06-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 4th: The First Nerdfighter Wedding! — a private person commented that cars should never run on coal, but developing cleaner coal technology makes sense since countries like India and China won't phase out coal in 50 years. (00:02:31)
• 2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — Citing McKibben, John says that if people in China owned cars at the American rate, the total number of cars in the world would immediately double. (00:01:30)
• 2007-11-05 · November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan — John rejects Bush's repeated claim that 'democracy is on the march', listing countries it is not marching to, from Pakistan and Russia to Venezuela. (00:02:39)

2009

• 2009-04-06 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — John reports North Korea launched a long-range missile into the ocean; though the launch failed, the international community, even China, is really mad. (00:01:41)
• 2009-04-06 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — Via an imagined letter from China, John mocks North Korea's totalitarianism, cult of personality, refusal to let people leave and killing of political enemies. (00:01:56)
• 2009-05-18 · Burma! Myanmar? BURMA! — John argues Burma's neighbours let the junta get away with it; China won't care about human rights, but India must press harder, or Burma won't be led by its Gandhi. (00:03:16)

2010

• 2010-05-26 · How to Be Green Without Being a Prick — Hank notes that since they started watching, India's birth indicator has blinked nonstop and China and the USA have flashed red quite rapidly, which he finds frightening. (00:00:29)
• 2010-05-26 · How to Be Green Without Being a Prick — Hank argues the solution is understanding: without it you can only change yourself, and since China emits faster than the US, changing ourselves will not solve the problem. (00:01:56)

2011

• 2011-01-31 · Revolution in Egypt: A 4-Minute Introduction — Even before the protests began last week, Egypt held more than 10,000 political prisoners: a lot, but a drop in the bucket compared to China. (00:01:32)
• 2011-08-09 · Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War. — Hank says Chinese hackers, maybe sponsored by their own government, have hacked governments and private corporations for years and stolen billions of dollars of intellectual property. (00:01:41)
• 2011-08-10 · Understanding America's Debt Problem — John's last reason: for now, countries that make things, like China, need countries that consume, like the US, to keep consuming. (00:03:27)
• 2011-12-31 · How to Tip Properly — Hank says in places like Japan and China tipping is considered insulting. (00:02:59)

2012

• 2012-03-06 · Know Your News! Understanding the Syrian Revolution in Under 4 Minutes — John says Syria is now in a civil war and the UN Security Council has tried to act, but Russia and China have vetoed every resolution on Syria. (00:02:55)
• 2012-03-06 · Know Your News! Understanding the Syrian Revolution in Under 4 Minutes — John suggests the vetoes may stem from old Cold War ties, from what Russia and China see as a failed intervention in Libya, and from Russia's only Middle East naval port being in Syria. (00:02:55)
• 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — Contrary to the guess 'China', John says the plurality of that debt is owned by American individuals and institutions; China owns about 8%, Japan 7% and the UK 1%. (00:01:05)
• 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — John says the US also owns foreign debt, including about $235 billion of Chinese and Hong Kong sovereign debt; for every $1 of foreign-owned US debt, the US owns about 89 cents of foreign debt. (00:01:17)
• 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — John says China cannot call in US debt on a day of its choosing, since treasury bonds are repaid only at term, so despite commentators this is not really a risk to the US economy. (00:02:10)
• 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — John sees a huge future risk if US debt stopped being cheap: investors buying bonds elsewhere would force borrowing at rising rates, spending cuts and tax rises slowing growth, 'and then Greece'. (00:03:28)

2013

• 2013-04-05 · North Korea: Explained — Hank's first reason for the escalation: recent UN sanctions anger North Korea, especially because China, its only ally, supports them. (00:00:48)
• 2013-04-09 · Inside North Korea — John says Shin escaped not out of an indomitable will for freedom but because a friend from outside told him China had endless food. (00:01:50)
• 2013-04-09 · Inside North Korea — John says Shin is a hero because he developed an ethical center after escaping, in China, South Korea and the US: in Shin's words, evolving into a human being. (00:02:41)
• 2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John says Ai lived in New York from 1981 to 1993, knew Allen Ginsberg, worked as a photojournalist, then returned to China and the Beijing East Village artist community. (00:00:31)
• 2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — John says he learned that China's monopoly on the world silk trade ended when two monks smuggled about seven silkworms out of China to the Byzantine Empire, rewriting history. (00:02:40)
• 2013-09-20 · 42 Amazing Maps — Hank says Africa is very big: bigger than the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the UK, all of Eastern Europe, China and India. (00:02:46)
• 2013-12-31 · GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever — John says the share of people living on under $1.25 a day, adjusted for inflation, fell from 43% in 1990 to 20% today, mostly through gains in China, India and Brazil. (00:01:21)