Understanding China. Should the West fear China’s rise?
Sat 10:13 pm +00:00, 11 Jul 202600:00:00 Introduction
00:00:21 Cynthia Chung’s links and background
00:01:13 Setting up China’s economic history
00:02:40 The 2008 financial crash and Inside Job
00:04:45 Hank Paulson: Goldman Sachs to Treasury Secretary
00:06:50 Origins of China’s social credit myth
00:07:45 Alibaba, Tencent and Goldman Sachs ties
00:10:10 What are peer to peer loans
00:14:52 China shuts down predatory lending, Jack Ma sidelined
00:18:37 Gladio and psychological warfare narratives
00:20:03 What China actually looks like today
00:22:53 Stability versus competition in China
00:25:22 How China escaped shock therapy
00:26:43 Crossing the river by feeling the stones
00:29:53 Decentralization and fierce competition
00:31:57 Government’s role in daily life
00:33:43 The bird in a cage theory
00:38:24 Confucianism and resistance to extractive capitalism
00:46:51 Should the West fear China’s rise
