CULTURE
The Full Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Where were you in 2008? Some viewers were very young, and others may not even have been born yet. China hosted the spectacular Olympic Games in Beijing that year. This recording offers an opportunity to experience a remarkable moment in modern Chinese history—one that remains among the most important and cherished collective memories of the Chinese people. Through it, viewers can gain a deeper understanding of China, its people, and the extraordinary excitement and national pride surrounding this historic event.
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TECHNOLOGY
China’s C919 Passenger Aircraft
The C919 is China’s first domestically developed mainline passenger jet. Produced by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), it represents China’s effort to enter a global market long dominated by Boeing and Airbus.
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ECONOMY
A New Yorker Columnist Reflects on China after Ten Years
After returning to China a decade later, a New Yorker columnist reflects on the country’s economic and technological transformation. He argues that China is increasingly pursuing its own developmental path and investing heavily in AI as a force that may reshape its economic future.
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LANGUAGE
A British Linguist Introduces China’s Languages and Dialects
A British linguist offers an engaging introduction to the rich diversity of Chinese language varieties and dialects, helping viewers look beyond the common assumption that spoken Chinese is a single, uniform language.
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POLITICS
Why Is Political Meritocracy Appropriate for China?
Political theorist Daniel A. Bell challenges the common view that China experienced economic reform without meaningful political change. He presents political meritocracy—xiánnéng zhèngzhì (贤能政治)—as an evolving ideal in which officials are selected and promoted according to ability, experience, performance, and public-minded virtue. Drawing on China’s size, Confucian political tradition, and public expectations, Bell argues for combining meritocratic leadership at higher levels with wider democratic participation below. His case offers a thought-provoking alternative to viewing every political system through a simple democracy-versus-authoritarianism divide.
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CULTURE
Amazing Marriage Customs in China
This documentary explores the remarkable diversity and historical development of marriage customs in China. Through practices involving matchmaking, bride prices, dowries, wedding processions, symbolic rituals, and community celebrations, it shows how ideas about marriage, family responsibility, social status, and courtship have differed across periods and communities. The film offers a vivid window into traditions that have changed greatly—and, in some places, nearly disappeared—as Chinese society has modernized.
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CULTURE
Some Imperial Chinese Eunuchs Took Wives—but Why?
Why would palace eunuchs marry when they could not have biological children? This video examines several proposed reasons, including the pursuit of social recognition, the formation of political and family alliances, companionship and household support, and security in old age through marriage and adoption. Its examples also expose the unequal power relationships and personal suffering that could exist behind outwardly prestigious unions, inviting viewers to consider how status, family continuity, wealth, and vulnerability intersected in imperial Chinese society.
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TECHNOLOGY
The Second World Humanoid Robot Games in China
This report introduces the second World Humanoid Robot Games in China, where humanoid machines are tested in the demanding setting of athletic competition. More than a technological spectacle, the event provides a visible measure of advances—and continuing limitations—in balance, movement, coordination, speed, and autonomous performance. It offers viewers a lively glimpse into China’s rapidly developing robotics sector and the ways competitive events can accelerate experimentation and innovation.
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POLITICS
Why Does the West Vilify China?
This article attributes negative Western perceptions of China to a combination of historical narratives, cultural stereotypes, geopolitical rivalry, fear of changing power relationships, and mutual misunderstanding. It contrasts Western emphases on competition and individualism with Chinese traditions that value harmony, collective well-being, and long-term stability. Rather than denying areas of disagreement, the author calls for clearer communication, greater empathy, and a more reflective dialogue in which both China and the West examine their assumptions about one another.
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MILITARY
China’s One-vs-All Endgame: Western Think Tanks and Their Real Intentions
This analysis examines the strategic environment created by expanding alliances, military planning, and policy debates surrounding China. It asks whether Western security strategies are primarily intended to deter conflict, preserve an existing balance of power, or contain China’s rise. By presenting the issue from a perspective rarely emphasized in mainstream Western discussions, the video invites viewers to distinguish between stated policy objectives, underlying strategic interests, and the narratives used to justify military preparation.
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POLITICS
How Was the “Threat of China” Made in the USA?
This video investigates how China came to be framed as a major threat within American political, media, military, and policy discourse. It considers how economic competition, national-security concerns, institutional interests, and repeated public narratives can shape popular perceptions of another country. The presentation encourages viewers to ask who constructs a threat narrative, what evidence supports it, whose interests it serves, and how rhetoric can influence relations between nations.
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TECHNOLOGY
Inside Apple’s iPhone Factory in China
This report takes viewers inside the immense manufacturing system behind one of the world’s most recognizable consumer products. It highlights the scale, coordination, precision, labor, quality control, and supplier networks required to assemble iPhones in China. The factory provides a concrete case study of China’s position in global production—and of the deep interdependence connecting Chinese manufacturing capacity, multinational corporations, technology supply chains, and consumers around the world.
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ENVIRONMENT
China’s Next Economic Transformation: Going Carbon Neutral by 2060
This Wall Street Journal report explores the scale of China’s pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Reaching that goal would require a profound transformation of a vast economy still strongly connected to coal, heavy industry, transportation, construction, and rapidly growing energy demand. The video examines how renewable power, electric vehicles, technological investment, industrial policy, and difficult economic trade-offs may reshape both China’s development and the global response to climate change.
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ENVIRONMENT
China’s Investment in Renewable Energy Pays Off
This report examines the results of China’s sustained investment in renewable energy and clean-technology industries. Large-scale deployment of solar and wind power, expanding transmission infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, and falling technology costs have strengthened China’s position in the global energy transition. At the same time, the subject invites a fuller examination of continuing challenges, including fossil-fuel dependence, grid integration, regional imbalances, and the task of translating industrial leadership into lasting emissions reductions.
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AGRICULTURE
How Is China Blowing Its Best Chance to Beat the United States?
Viewed through agriculture, this report considers the strategic importance of food security, productivity, technology, land use, and rural policy in competition between China and the United States. It examines choices and structural constraints that may prevent China from fully converting its resources and technological ambitions into agricultural advantage. The video invites viewers to look beyond headline economic rankings and consider how the ability to feed a large population remains a fundamental measure of national resilience.
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SOCIETY
What Do Americans Think about China?
Through informal conversations with Americans, the Fung Bros explore the impressions, associations, concerns, stereotypes, and areas of curiosity that shape public views of China. The responses reveal that attitudes are rarely uniform: admiration for Chinese culture, food, history, and economic development can coexist with political anxiety or limited firsthand knowledge. The video offers a useful starting point for examining how media exposure, personal experience, heritage, and international tensions influence ordinary people’s perceptions.
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ECONOMY
How Poor China Became the World’s Factory in Forty Years
This account traces China’s transformation from a largely poor and inward-looking economy into the manufacturing center of the world. Beginning with the reform and opening policies associated with Deng Xiaoping, it highlights experimentation, special economic zones, foreign investment, infrastructure, a large industrial workforce, export growth, and integration into global supply chains. The story helps viewers understand both the extraordinary speed of China’s economic rise and the policy choices, social changes, and international connections behind it.
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ECONOMY
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan Explained: Technology, Markets, and Long-Term Strategy
This video examines the priorities and strategic thinking associated with China’s 15th Five-Year Plan. It considers how technological development, domestic and international markets, industrial policy, and long-term planning may shape the country’s next stage of economic growth. The discussion offers learners a useful introduction to the role of national plans in coordinating development while responding to changing economic conditions.
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ECONOMY
Economist Richard Wolff: The U.S. Empire Is Over—It’s China’s Turn
Economist Richard Wolff explains why he believes the American empire is in decline—and why China and Asia are shaping the future of the global economy. The discussion addresses the history of U.S. colonialism, criticisms of American capitalism, China’s hybrid economic model, the economic consequences of the Iran war, and the growing appeal of socialism in the United States. Wolff also considers whether the United States and China can coexist peacefully and how changing domestic politics may affect America’s response to a shifting world order.
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POLITICS
China’s Hidden Strategy toward the United States—Explained by Kishore Mahbubani
Geopolitical thinker Kishore Mahbubani discusses China’s long-term approach to its relationship with the United States. The video considers economic development, technological advancement, manufacturing, infrastructure, global influence, and strategic diplomacy as parts of a broader contest over international power. It invites viewers to ask whether China seeks to defeat the United States or to build a world in which American dominance is no longer decisive.
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POLITICS
A Journalist Challenges Kishore Mahbubani on China
In this interview, Kishore Mahbubani responds to challenging questions about China and its place in the international order. His answers offer a sustained critique of common Western assumptions while drawing attention to history, development, diplomacy, and differences in political perspective. The exchange encourages viewers to evaluate both the questions and the responses rather than treating either side as the final word.
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POLITICS
Kishore Mahbubani on a Possible Chinese Blockade of Taiwan
Kishore Mahbubani assesses the strategic realities surrounding Taiwan and the possibility of a blockade by mainland China. His argument focuses on geography, military risk, political calculation, and the limits of outside intervention. The video provides one expert’s perspective on a highly contested issue and invites careful comparison with other analyses of deterrence, escalation, and cross-strait relations.
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MILITARY
What U.S. Sailors Eat vs. What Chinese Sailors Eat on an Aircraft Carrier
This comparison looks at everyday food service aboard American and Chinese aircraft carriers. Beyond the menus themselves, meals at sea reveal practical questions of logistics, nutrition, morale, cultural preference, and life aboard a large naval vessel. The video offers an accessible human perspective on two military institutions often discussed only in terms of weapons and strategy.
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POLITICS
Ronnie Chan: “I Live in China—Why Should I Accept Your Values?”
Business leader Ronnie Chan challenges the assumption that Western political and social values should be treated as universal standards for China. Drawing on his experience living and working across cultures, he raises questions about national history, cultural confidence, development, and who has the authority to define good governance. The discussion invites viewers to distinguish between universal human concerns and differing paths for organizing society.
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POLITICS
Ronnie Chan: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S.–China Relations
Ronnie Chan reflects on the historical development of relations between the United States and China and considers the forces shaping their future. His perspective connects business, politics, culture, and personal experience, highlighting both the depth of the relationship and the dangers of growing mistrust. The conversation encourages learners to view bilateral tensions within a longer and more complex historical frame.
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ECONOMY
Ronnie Chan Discusses China with Two European Interviewers
In this wide-ranging interview, Ronnie Chan discusses China’s development, its economic strengths and constraints, and the ways European observers interpret the country’s rise. The exchange brings different regional viewpoints into conversation and illustrates how assumptions about markets, governance, modernization, and global influence can vary across China, Europe, and the United States.
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POLITICS
Is Democracy Wrong for China?
This video examines whether liberal democracy should be considered the only appropriate political model for China. It explores how history, population, governance capacity, social stability, public participation, and cultural expectations shape arguments on both sides. Rather than offering an easy verdict, the discussion invites viewers to examine what democracy means in practice and how political legitimacy may be understood differently across societies.
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ECONOMY
What Is the Human Cost of China’s Economic Miracle?
This report looks beyond headline growth figures to consider the people whose labor helped drive China’s rapid economic transformation. It raises questions about migration, working conditions, family separation, inequality, and the pressures created by industrialization and urban development. The video encourages viewers to assess economic achievement alongside its social and human consequences.
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POLITICS
Is Xi Jinping’s China on a Path to War?
This analysis considers whether China’s domestic priorities, military modernization, territorial disputes, and rivalry with the United States are increasing the risk of armed conflict. It examines how leadership decisions, security dilemmas, nationalism, and competing interpretations of deterrence can influence the choices of all parties. Viewers are invited to weigh the evidence carefully and separate warning, prediction, and speculation.
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POLITICS
Victor Gao: Interviewing China’s Unofficial Spokesman
In this interview, commentator Victor Gao presents and defends Chinese perspectives on major domestic and international questions. His responses provide insight into arguments often associated with China’s official worldview, while the interviewer presses him on contested claims and policies. The exchange gives learners an opportunity to study how national narratives are articulated, challenged, and defended in international media.
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POLITICS
How Does the United States Misunderstand China?
This discussion identifies assumptions that may distort American interpretations of China’s history, ambitions, political system, and behavior abroad. It considers how ideological frameworks, selective evidence, domestic politics, and limited cultural knowledge can produce strategic misunderstanding. The video encourages viewers to test its claims against other perspectives and to consider the consequences of misreading another country.
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ECONOMY
Lee Kuan Yew on the Rise of China, the U.S. Economy, and Geopolitics
Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew offers his assessment of China’s rise, American economic power, and the changing international balance. Drawing on decades of statecraft and close observation of both countries, he discusses leadership, competitiveness, culture, and strategic adaptation. His remarks provide a historically influential Asian perspective on a transformation that continues to reshape world affairs.
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POLITICS
Ronnie Chan on the U.S.–China Power Struggle
Ronnie Chan examines the intensifying competition between the United States and China through the lenses of economics, technology, security, and national psychology. He considers how fear, pride, interdependence, and changing power can narrow the room for cooperation. The discussion asks whether rivalry must become confrontation or whether both countries can adjust to a more balanced relationship.
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POLITICS
Are Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland Closer to Reunification after a KMT Leader’s Visit?
This report examines the political significance of a Kuomintang leader’s visit to the Chinese mainland and what it may mean for cross-strait relations. It considers party politics, dialogue, public opinion, historical ties, and competing visions of Taiwan’s future. The video offers a timely case study of how symbolic visits can affect political communication without resolving the deeper disagreements surrounding reunification.
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MILITARY
China Says It Is Ready for War with America
This video examines statements and military developments presented as evidence that China is preparing for a possible conflict with the United States. It considers force modernization, strategic signaling, regional flashpoints, and the ways both countries interpret one another’s actions. The report invites viewers to distinguish preparation and deterrence from intent—and to consider how threat perceptions can themselves increase danger.
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POLITICS
Why Has China Been Demonized by Western Countries?
This discussion explores why strongly negative portrayals of China have become common in parts of Western politics and media. It points to strategic rivalry, ideological differences, economic competition, historical memory, and the incentives that shape public narratives. The video invites viewers to compare criticism grounded in evidence with language that simplifies an entire country or people into a threat.
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HISTORY
The Rise of China
This historical overview traces China’s emergence as a major global power. It connects political change, economic reform, industrial development, and international engagement to help viewers understand how China’s position in the world has changed—and why that transformation continues to shape global affairs.
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HISTORY
Lessons from the Cultural Revolution
This video revisits the Cultural Revolution and considers what later generations can learn from its political campaigns, social upheaval, and human consequences. It offers historical context for understanding a deeply disruptive period while encouraging viewers to reflect on memory, responsibility, and the dangers of ideological extremism.
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HISTORY
An Insider’s View of the Cultural Revolution: Fred Engst, Part 1
Fred Engst shares a firsthand perspective on the Cultural Revolution and the social and political forces surrounding it. His personal recollections add lived experience to a period often presented through broad historical summaries, giving viewers material to compare with other accounts and interpretations.
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HISTORY
A Former Red Guard Reflects on the Cultural Revolution: Fred Engst, Part 2
In the second part of the interview, Fred Engst reflects further on his experience as a former Red Guard and the lessons he draws from that era. The conversation invites viewers to consider how personal memory, political commitment, hindsight, and historical interpretation can intersect.
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CULTURE
Differences in Chinese Tone Values across the Taiwan Strait
This video examines differences in the phonetic realization of Mandarin tones across the Taiwan Strait. It helps learners hear how a shared tonal system can vary by region and speech community, illustrating the relationship among standard pronunciation, natural variation, identity, and actual language use.
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POLITICS
Wall Street Journal: How Banning Most Chinese Cotton Shifted Global Supply Chains
This Wall Street Journal report examines how restrictions on cotton associated with Xinjiang have altered sourcing, manufacturing, documentation, and trade. It provides a concrete case study of how human-rights policy, economic pressure, and global supply chains interact—and how companies respond when political standards and commercial realities collide.
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POLITICS
Cyrus Janssen on John Deere and the Xinjiang Cotton Industry
Cyrus Janssen discusses John Deere’s connection to agricultural mechanization and cotton production in Xinjiang. The video offers another perspective on an industry shaped by technology, trade, labor allegations, sanctions, and competing political narratives, inviting comparison with reporting from other sources.
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CULTURE
Why Chinese Makes More Sense Than English
This accessible comparison highlights patterns in Chinese vocabulary and word formation that can appear especially logical to learners. By contrasting selected expressions in Chinese and English, it invites viewers to notice how languages organize meaning differently—and why apparent difficulty often changes once the underlying patterns become visible.
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POLITICS
The United States, China, and the Future of the Global Order
This discussion considers how competition between the United States and China may reshape international institutions, alliances, trade, technology, and global leadership. It encourages viewers to look beyond a simple bilateral rivalry and consider what a changing balance of power could mean for countries throughout the world.
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ECONOMY
Victor Gao Debates a Former Trump Adviser’s Talking Points
Victor Gao debates arguments associated with a former Trump administration adviser, addressing economic competition and broader U.S.–China relations. The exchange places sharply contrasting interpretations side by side, allowing viewers to examine not only the claims themselves but also the evidence, assumptions, and rhetorical strategies used to defend them.
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POLITICS
The End of U.S. Hegemony? Is China Taking the Lead?
This video asks whether American global dominance is giving way to a more multipolar order in which China plays a leading role. It considers economic weight, diplomacy, technology, institutions, and geopolitical influence while inviting viewers to distinguish a provocative thesis from the evidence used to support it.
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GEOGRAPHY
The Diaoyu Islands: The Truth Beneath the Waves, Episode 1
This documentary introduces the geography, history, and competing claims surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands. Because the dispute is politically sensitive and differently framed by China, Japan, and other observers, the episode is best approached as one perspective to compare with additional sources.
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HISTORY
A Professor Explains the History of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong before 2010
This lecture provides historical background on mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as understood before 2010. Its earlier vantage point is especially useful for comparing how enduring historical narratives and political questions were discussed before many of the developments that now dominate public debate.
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HISTORY
Lessons Learned: Richard Nixon Goes to China
This retrospective examines President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China and the strategic calculations that made the opening possible. It explores diplomacy, political risk, Cold War rivalry, and the long-term consequences of a meeting that transformed relations among China, the United States, and the wider world.
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HISTORY
The History behind the Diaoyu Islands Dispute
This video presents a historical argument concerning sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands. It brings treaties, maps, wartime history, and competing national narratives into the discussion. Given the contested subject, viewers are encouraged to compare its evidence and framing with Japanese and international accounts.
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HISTORY
The Long History of Japan and China
This broad historical survey traces centuries of cultural exchange, political interaction, rivalry, and conflict between China and Japan. Its large scope offers an introductory framework for understanding how geography, borrowed institutions, war, modernization, and historical memory continue to influence relations between the two countries.
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DIPLOMACY
Decoding Putin and Xi’s Blueprint for a New World Order
This analysis examines how Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping describe—and may seek to shape—a world less dominated by the United States and its allies. It considers strategic partnership, multipolarity, economic coordination, sovereignty, and the limits of Russian–Chinese alignment.
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DIPLOMACY
India vs. China, Explained
This explainer introduces the complex relationship between Asia’s two most populous countries. Border disputes, economic ties, regional influence, historical memory, and strategic partnerships combine to produce both cooperation and rivalry, showing why India–China relations cannot be reduced to a single conflict.
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SECURITY
Why Could This Island Trigger World War III?
This video examines an island flashpoint as a possible trigger for conflict among major powers. It considers geography, sovereignty, military planning, alliance commitments, deterrence, and escalation, while inviting viewers to separate attention-grabbing predictions from the underlying strategic risks.
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SOCIETY
China’s Megacities Will Surprise You
This video explores the scale and pace of urban life in some of China’s largest cities. Infrastructure, housing, transportation, technology, migration, and public space reveal both the achievements and pressures of rapid urbanization, offering viewers a vivid look at daily life beyond familiar images of China.
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POLITICS
FRONTLINE PBS: The Rise of Xi Jinping
This FRONTLINE documentary examines Xi Jinping’s path to power and the political transformation of China under his leadership. Through reporting, archival material, and interviews, it considers party control, nationalism, surveillance, economic challenges, and China’s expanding global role. As with other interpretive documentaries in this collection, its framing invites comparison with additional perspectives.
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ECONOMY
Gao Zhikai Responds to Western Accusations of Overcapacity
Gao Zhikai addresses Western claims that China produces more industrial goods than global markets can absorb. The discussion invites viewers to compare competing interpretations of manufacturing scale, consumer benefit, trade pressure, and industrial policy.
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HISTORY
Chiang Kai-shek and the History of China and Taiwan
This documentary examines Chiang Kai-shek’s role in twentieth-century Chinese history and the political division across the Taiwan Strait. It offers historical context for understanding how war, revolution, migration, and rival governments shaped present-day relations.
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HISTORY
Shadow of the Dragon: The History of Taiwan and China
This documentary traces the historical forces that shaped relations between Taiwan and mainland China. Its account gives learners another narrative to examine alongside other historical and political perspectives in the collection.
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POLITICS
We Were Almost Entirely Wrong about China
This commentary reassesses widely held expectations about China and asks why outside predictions have so often proved incomplete. It encourages viewers to examine the assumptions, evidence, and political frameworks behind confident judgments about another society.
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POLITICS
Eric Li Challenges Western Journalists on Their Own Turf
Eric Li presents a forceful defense of China’s political system before Western journalists. The exchange gives viewers an opportunity to compare contrasting assumptions about governance, legitimacy, development, and political performance.
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TECHNOLOGY
Six Days in China: The Speed, Scale, and Strategy Outpacing U.S. Innovation
This report examines the speed and scale of technological development observed during a six-day visit to China. It connects visible innovations with infrastructure, investment, industrial coordination, and longer-term strategy.
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TECHNOLOGY
China Built a 2,712-Kilometer Railway Ring around the Taklamakan Desert
This video explores the engineering and strategic significance of a railway loop around one of the world’s most formidable deserts. It highlights how transportation infrastructure can connect communities, support trade, and transform regional development.
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POLITICS
A Political Analyst Predicts the Next Phase in Iran, Trump’s War Plan, and Israel’s Response
This geopolitical analysis considers possible developments involving Iran, the United States, and Israel. Although its predictions should be weighed carefully, it can help viewers examine how analysts construct arguments about strategy, conflict, and international power.
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SOCIETY
After Eleven Years in Japan, She Started Over in China
This personal account follows a woman beginning a new chapter in China after living in Japan for eleven years. Her experience offers a human-scale view of migration, adaptation, belonging, and everyday life across East Asian societies.
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SOCIETY
What It Is Like Being Indian in China for Twenty-One Years
A longtime Indian resident reflects on more than two decades of life in China. The interview provides a personal perspective on cultural adjustment, social relationships, daily experience, and changing impressions over time.
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SOCIETY
Growing Up in China as a White Man in the 1950s
This firsthand account recalls childhood in China during a period of profound political and social change. Personal memory gives viewers an unusual window into daily life, identity, and cross-cultural experience in the 1950s.
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SOCIETY
My Parents Came to Use a Hospital in China
This family experience offers a close look at navigating medical care in China. It invites comparison of accessibility, service, cost, expectations, and patient experience across healthcare systems.
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POLITICS
Inside China’s Most Controversial Region: Xinjiang
This travel-based presentation takes viewers inside Xinjiang, a region discussed through sharply competing political and media narratives. Its observations should be compared with other sources when considering local life, development, security, culture, and human-rights claims.
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HISTORY
A Visitor Confronts the History of the Nanjing Massacre
This personal response introduces the shock and grief many visitors experience when learning about the Nanjing Massacre. It can serve as an emotional entry point into a historical event that requires careful study through survivor testimony, archival evidence, and scholarly research.
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HISTORY
The Nanjing Massacre: When Hell Came to Earth
This documentary examines the mass violence committed in Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The subject is disturbing but essential to understanding wartime suffering, historical memory, and continuing sensitivities in China–Japan relations.
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HISTORY
Nanjing’s Forgotten Holocaust
This documentary presents evidence and testimony concerning the Nanjing Massacre and its human cost. It also raises questions about why some atrocities receive greater international recognition than others and how collective memory is preserved.
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TECHNOLOGY
Things You Can Do in China
This video demonstrates technology-enabled experiences available in contemporary China. The examples invite viewers to consider how digital infrastructure, mobile services, transportation, and urban systems shape convenience in daily life.
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SOCIETY
I Lived in Taiwan and Mainland China: Here Is What I Learned
A resident of both places reflects on similarities and differences across the Taiwan Strait. The personal comparison offers insight into language, culture, identity, social life, and the limits of judging either society from a distance.
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ECONOMY
Lee Kuan Yew on Why India Cannot Be a Superpower Like China
Lee Kuan Yew compares the developmental prospects of India and China. His argument invites viewers to assess how governance, infrastructure, education, social organization, and economic strategy influence national power.
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SOCIETY
Why Don’t More Chinese People Speak English?
This video explores the gap between years of formal English study and confident real-world communication. It invites reflection on educational priorities, opportunities for practice, motivation, testing, and the practical need for English within China.
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SOCIETY
Everyone Thinks He Is a Foreigner—Until He Speaks Chinese
This profile shows how fluent language ability can disrupt assumptions based on appearance. It opens a useful discussion about identity, belonging, accent, intercultural competence, and what it means to be accepted within a speech community.
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TECHNOLOGY
The Craziest Subway System I Have Ever Seen
This tour highlights the scale, design, and operation of a major Chinese urban transit system. It offers a concrete look at how infrastructure and technology support mobility in densely populated cities.
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ENVIRONMENT
China Buried Tons of Plants in the Desert—What Happened Ten Years Later?
This video presents a large-scale effort to combat desertification through vegetation and land restoration. Its dramatic framing invites viewers to examine the methods, results, ecological trade-offs, and evidence behind environmental transformation.
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ENVIRONMENT
How an American Teacher and a Chinese Farmer Grew a Forest in the Desert
This story follows a cross-cultural partnership devoted to restoring degraded land. It shows how persistence, local knowledge, practical experimentation, and cooperation can turn an environmental vision into visible change.
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ENVIRONMENT
Why Are Chinese Netizens Searching for This American?
This video examines the public attention surrounding an American associated with environmental work in China. It highlights how an individual story can travel online and become a symbol of cross-cultural cooperation and ecological commitment.
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EDUCATION
How China Is Using Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms
This report explores how artificial intelligence is being introduced into Chinese education. It raises important questions about personalization, assessment, efficiency, surveillance, equity, and the changing roles of teachers and students.
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EDUCATION
Chinese International Students Are Leaving—Here Is Why
This video considers why some Chinese students are reconsidering overseas education. Cost, employment prospects, geopolitics, safety, discrimination, and improving options at home may all shape a changing educational landscape.
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ECONOMY
China in Africa: Why the Chinese Population Is Growing
This report examines the expanding presence of Chinese workers, entrepreneurs, and communities in Africa. It connects individual migration with trade, investment, infrastructure, opportunity, and the complex local effects of China–Africa economic ties.
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SOCIETY
Real Life in China in 2026: The China Most of the World Has Never Seen
This contemporary travel account presents scenes of everyday life that may differ from familiar international portrayals. It encourages viewers to compare direct observation, personal interpretation, and media narratives without treating any single journey as the whole picture.
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SOCIETY
Life in China: A Living Civilization
This video views contemporary China as a civilization in which inherited traditions continue to interact with rapid modernization. Daily life becomes a lens for exploring continuity, adaptation, identity, and social change.
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HISTORY
Twenty Brutal Truths about Chinese Women in the American West
This video addresses the often-overlooked experiences of Chinese women in the nineteenth-century American West. Its subject opens inquiry into migration, exclusion, exploitation, resilience, family formation, and the gaps that remain in popular historical memory.
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EDUCATION
The United Kingdom Introduces a Chinese Mathematics Teaching System
This report examines British interest in adapting elements of Chinese mathematics instruction. It offers a basis for comparing curriculum sequencing, classroom practice, teacher expertise, repetition, mastery, and the challenges of transferring an educational method across cultures.
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EDUCATION
Why Are Chinese Children So Good at Mathematics?
This video explores possible reasons for Chinese students’ strong mathematics performance. It invites viewers to consider teaching methods, curriculum, practice, expectations, language, family support, and the danger of reducing a complex educational outcome to a stereotype.
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CULTURE
Alice Han and Trevor Noah: What the West Gets Wrong about China
This conversation examines recurring Western misunderstandings of China through culture, lived experience, and public narrative. Its accessible format encourages viewers to reconsider familiar assumptions while remaining attentive to the speakers’ particular viewpoints.
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CULTURE
How Are Black People Treated in China?
This personal account addresses a sensitive question about race and treatment in China. It should be considered as one person’s experience and compared with other Black voices, research, and accounts from different places and circumstances.
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HISTORY
America Backed Him—So How Did Chiang Kai-shek Lose China?
This historical analysis asks why Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese Civil War despite American support. It considers military performance, governance, popular support, corruption, economic conditions, and the strength of the Communist movement.
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ECONOMY
Deng Xiaoping Met Lee Kuan Yew in 1978—and Found a Mirror of What China Could Become
This video examines the significance of Deng Xiaoping’s encounter with Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew. It connects that meeting with China’s search for a practical path toward modernization, investment, administrative capacity, and economic reform.
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ECONOMY
Deng Xiaoping: The Gamble That Saved China
This documentary portrays Deng Xiaoping’s reforms as a high-stakes transformation of China’s economy. It considers experimentation, opening to the world, political risk, uneven outcomes, and the lasting consequences of prioritizing development.
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ECONOMY
How China Escaped Poverty: The Forty-Year Miracle
This overview traces China’s extraordinary reduction of poverty across four decades. It examines reform, industrialization, infrastructure, trade, urbanization, state capacity, and the difficult social and environmental costs accompanying rapid growth.
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HISTORY
Why Communist China Entered the Korean War
This historical analysis examines why the newly established People’s Republic of China intervened in the Korean War. It considers border security, the advance of United Nations forces, relations with the Soviet Union and North Korea, domestic political calculations, and Chinese leaders’ perception of an approaching threat.
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HISTORY
The Sino-Indian War: Why India Turned against China in the 1960s
This video explores the deterioration of China–India relations and the border conflict of 1962. Competing territorial claims, colonial-era boundaries, Tibet, strategic distrust, and failed diplomacy help explain how two newly independent Asian powers moved from friendship toward war.
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HISTORY
How Communist China Helped Vietnam Defeat America
This historical account examines China’s assistance to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It considers military supplies, engineering and logistical support, geopolitical strategy, revolutionary solidarity, and the limits and later tensions within the China–Vietnam relationship.
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ECONOMY
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Ten Years of Evolution and Beyond
This retrospective follows the Belt and Road Initiative through its first decade and considers how its priorities have evolved. Infrastructure, trade, financing, development, debt, geopolitical influence, and newer emphasis on smaller and more sustainable projects provide competing measures of its significance.
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ECONOMY
Is China’s High-Tech “Overproduction” Killing Jobs in the West?
This report investigates claims that China’s expanding production of advanced goods threatens employment and industry in Western economies. It invites viewers to weigh lower consumer prices and technological diffusion against subsidies, trade imbalances, industrial displacement, and national economic security.
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GEOGRAPHY
China vs. India: An Ultimate Country Comparison
This broad comparison places China and India side by side across geography, population, infrastructure, economic development, culture, and national capacity. Its wide scope provides a useful starting point, while encouraging viewers to examine how the chosen indicators and sources shape any conclusion about which country is “better.”
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GEOGRAPHY
I Left the United States for Shenzhen—Here Is How Much It Costs
An American resident uses everyday expenses to introduce life in Shenzhen, one of China’s most dynamic cities. Housing, transportation, food, services, and lifestyle reveal how geography and urban development shape both the cost and experience of living there.
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TECHNOLOGY
NVIDIA Founder Jensen Huang (黄仁勋) in Conversation with CCTV
In this CCTV interview, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang shares his perspective on technology, innovation, and the rapidly changing world of computing. The conversation offers viewers an opportunity to hear directly from one of the most influential figures shaping the global technology industry.
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ECONOMY
China Is Surrounded — What Xi’s Washington Visit Really Reveals?
This analysis uses the prospect of a Xi Jinping visit to Washington to examine China’s economic and strategic position in an increasingly competitive international environment. It considers trade, technology, alliances, supply chains, and diplomatic pressure while inviting viewers to distinguish dramatic geopolitical framing from the underlying economic relationships shaping U.S.–China competition.
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DIPLOMACY
Trump and Xi Praise Progress in U.S.–China Talks, Plan Meetings in China and at G20
This report follows signs of progress in U.S.–China diplomacy as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping discuss continued talks and future meetings. It offers learners a timely example of how high-level communication, trade negotiations, summit diplomacy, and carefully chosen public language can shape relations between the world’s two largest economies even amid continuing areas of disagreement.
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SECURITY
China’s VP Urges an End to Cuba Sanctions and Opposes Trade Protectionism at the United Nations
In this United Nations speech, delivered in Chinese with English subtitles, China’s vice president calls for an end to sanctions on Cuba and criticizes trade protectionism. The address gives learners direct exposure to China’s diplomatic language on sovereignty, sanctions, economic openness, and international cooperation while providing an opportunity to compare official Chinese positions with those of other governments.
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TECHNOLOGY
A CNN Reporter Who Covered China for 25 Years Reflects on the Myth of American Tech Invincibility
This commentary presents the perspective of a veteran CNN reporter who has covered China for twenty-five years and argues that China’s technological advances have challenged assumptions about enduring American superiority. The discussion invites viewers to examine how long-term observation, industrial capacity, innovation, competition, and changing perceptions influence assessments of the global technology landscape.
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TRAVEL
American's 1st Time in China
A first-time American visitor shares impressions of China, providing a point of departure for examining expectations, firsthand experience, and the difference between familiar images and lived encounters.
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TRAVEL
The Media Doesn't Want You to See THIS About China
This travel-oriented video invites viewers to consider which features of contemporary China are emphasized—or overlooked—in international coverage and how firsthand travel can influence perceptions.
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LANGUAGE
A Columbia University Linguistics Professor Takes You on a Journey Through Gender-Neutral Chinese and Concise Grammar
A Columbia University linguistics professor introduces features of Chinese grammar, including gender-neutral expressions and linguistic concision, offering a comparative perspective for language learners.
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TECHNOLOGY
The US-China AI Race: Competing Models, Global Stakes
This discussion examines competing approaches to artificial intelligence in the United States and China and asks what their development could mean for technological leadership and global influence.
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TECHNOLOGY
Former U.S. National Security Advisor on if the U.S. Can Win the AI Race vs China
A former U.S. national security advisor discusses the U.S.–China AI competition, providing a national-security perspective on technological development and strategic rivalry.
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POLITICS
Dr. Keyu Jin Challenge 'China Experts' on USA-CHINA Relations
Economist Keyu Jin challenges interpretations of U.S.–China relations, inviting viewers to compare contrasting assumptions about China and its relationship with the United States.
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POLITICS
Gao Zhikai Engaged in a Verbal Duel with the “Father of Hong Kong Independence”
Gao Zhikai engages in a contentious exchange about Hong Kong and its political future, offering material for analyzing opposing arguments, rhetorical choices, and political identities.
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SECURITY
Chanting for democracy while bullying those with differing views—A German journalist fiercely confronted a pro-Hong Kong chaos activist
A confrontation involving a German journalist and a Hong Kong activist raises questions about political expression, disagreement, and consistency in appeals to democratic values.
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SECURITY
Jeffrey Sachs Exposes Japan’s Dangerous China Strategy
Jeffrey Sachs discusses Japan’s strategy toward China, inviting consideration of regional security, historical relationships, and the consequences of geopolitical alignment.
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POLITICS
Kevin O’Leary Meltdown on Piers Morgan When CHINA Comes Up!
A heated discussion involving Kevin O’Leary on Piers Morgan explores sharply contrasting views of China and the economic and political assumptions behind them.
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POLITICS
Prof. Steve Keen Destroys Patrick Bet David's Narrative About CHINA
Economist Steve Keen challenges Patrick Bet-David’s interpretation of China, encouraging viewers to evaluate economic claims and competing accounts of global power.
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POLITICS
If You Go to China, You Will Never See the World the Same!
This commentary suggests that visiting China can change a person’s understanding of the country and invites reflection on the value and limits of firsthand observation.
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POLITICS
Heated ‘China Policy Expert’ Gets Shredded by Danny Haiphong
Danny Haiphong disputes a commentator’s claims about China policy in a heated exchange, offering an opportunity to compare arguments and evidence in public debate.
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ECONOMY
Prof. Victor Gao Challenges the West’s “China Overcapacity” Narrative
Victor Gao challenges Western claims about Chinese industrial overcapacity, highlighting competing interpretations of production, international competition, and trade policy.
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ECONOMY
Dr. Robert Pape Dismantles Professor Jiang on China’s Rise
Robert Pape and Professor Jiang’s exchange explores interpretations of China’s rise and the questions those interpretations raise for economic and strategic competition.
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SECURITY
George Yeo Exposed What Went Wrong with Hong Kong
Former Singaporean foreign minister George Yeo reflects on political developments in Hong Kong and examines explanations for the tensions surrounding the city.
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SECURITY
George Yeo Warns: America Can't Afford a War with China
George Yeo assesses the risks of a potential U.S.–China conflict, emphasizing the strategic stakes and consequences of military confrontation.
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POLITICS
George Yeo on Anti-China Westernism
George Yeo discusses Western attitudes toward China, inviting viewers to examine historical assumptions, differing political perspectives, and international relationships.
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TECHNOLOGY
Kai-Fu Lee on the Global AI Race
Technology leader Kai-Fu Lee discusses the global contest to develop and deploy artificial intelligence, including the roles of innovation, business, and national competition.
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TECHNOLOGY
The Godmother of AI Reveals What Comes Next
A prominent AI researcher discusses possible next stages of artificial intelligence and the implications of technological advances for society and global development.
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POLITICS
China Hawk Gets DESTROYED By Danny Haiphong
Danny Haiphong contests the arguments of a commentator described as a China hawk, providing an example of the polarized language surrounding U.S.–China relations.
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ECONOMY
Singapore Minister of Foreign Affairs in Conversation with Kevin Rudd: Discussing China's Competitiveness
A conversation between Singapore’s foreign minister and Kevin Rudd examines China’s competitiveness and its implications for regional economies and international relations.
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MILITARY
David Perdue, Trump’s Appointed Ambassador to China: “The U.S. has been too naive and arrogant toward China in the past.”
U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue reflects on American attitudes and policy toward China, raising questions about diplomatic judgment and mutual understanding.
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MILITARY
Eric Li Shut down Professor of Journalism
Eric Li engages with a journalism professor in a public exchange, presenting contrasting approaches to media, politics, and the interpretation of China.
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TRAVEL
Why American Politicians are Terrified of 100,000 US students coming to China
This commentary considers proposals for greater American student exchange with China and the political concerns they generate. It invites learners to examine how firsthand travel, education, and public perceptions influence bilateral understanding.
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ECONOMY
Why the World Isn't Ready for China's Next Move
This analysis discusses possible next steps in China’s economic development and their implications for global markets, trade, and international competition. Viewers can assess its predictions and underlying assumptions.
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TECHNOLOGY
China's New Invention Could Replace OIL Forever!
This video presents a claim about an emerging Chinese technology and its potential effects on conventional energy use. It encourages viewers to distinguish demonstrated capabilities from ambitious projections.
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TECHNOLOGY
On the Ground in China—Recent Visits [Getting Tech Right, Session 1]
The first Getting Tech Right session draws on recent visits to China to discuss observations of its technology landscape and the value of firsthand evidence in policy debates.
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TECHNOLOGY
Myths & Realities—Understanding China's Tech Ecosystem [Getting Tech Right, Session 2]
The second Getting Tech Right session examines common claims about China’s technology ecosystem, inviting viewers to compare perceptions with evidence about innovation, firms, institutions, and research.
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TECHNOLOGY
Calibrating the Threat—Technology, Risk, and National Security [Getting Tech Right, Session 3]
The third Getting Tech Right session considers how technological competition intersects with national security, emphasizing the importance of assessing risks and policy responses carefully.
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TECHNOLOGY
What China Wants [The China Debate We're Not Having, Session 1]
The first session of The China Debate We’re Not Having considers how China’s goals and interests are interpreted in discussions of technological and strategic competition.
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TECHNOLOGY
What the United States Wants [The China Debate We're Not Having, Session 2]
The second session examines U.S. aims in its relationship with China and the assumptions that shape American choices about technology, competition, and engagement.
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TECHNOLOGY
Tech, Rivalry, and Competing Visions of the Future [The China Debate We're Not Having, Session 3]
The third session explores technology as a focal point of U.S.–China rivalry and considers how different expectations for the future influence policy and international cooperation.
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ECONOMY
Bargaining with Beijing: The Politics of Chinese Investment in America
This discussion explores the economic and political considerations surrounding Chinese investment in the United States, including bargaining, regulation, local interests, and national concerns.
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POLITICS
Taiwan’s Two-Party Problem: KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun on Cross-Strait Relations
This interview presents KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s perspective on Taiwan’s party politics and cross-strait relations. It offers material for comparing political priorities and competing views of Taiwan’s future.
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POLITICS
Eric Li, a Chinese man, finally speaks up to the Western experts.
Eric Li engages with Western experts and presents his interpretation of China’s political and developmental experience, providing another perspective for viewers to question and compare.
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ECONOMY
Johnny Harris SHOCKED by CHINA'S Rapid Development
This video presents Johnny Harris’s reaction to the pace of China’s development. Viewers can consider the observations and evidence offered, and reflect on how firsthand impressions may challenge familiar expectations.
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POLITICS
Eric Li Explains Why China's System May Be BETTER Than Western Democracy
Eric Li presents an argument comparing China’s system of governance with Western democracy. The discussion invites learners to examine differing definitions of political performance, accountability, and legitimacy.
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ECONOMY
Why the USA Cannot Stop China
This video examines the argument that China’s economic rise is difficult for the United States to halt. Viewers are invited to assess the economic assumptions and evidence behind that claim.
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ECONOMY
Eric X. Li: China Predicted Its Rise 75 Years Ago
Eric X. Li discusses the idea that China’s rise was anticipated decades ago. The presentation offers an opportunity to compare historical expectations with subsequent economic development.
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POLITICS
Munk Dialogues — Zhang Weiwei: What Do the Chinese Think of Democracy?
In this Munk Dialogues discussion, Zhang Weiwei addresses interpretations of democracy in China. Viewers can consider how understandings of democracy and political representation vary across societies.
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ECONOMY
Tom Woods Show: Is a Tariff a Solution to All Trade Problems?
The Tom Woods Show takes up the question of whether tariffs can resolve trade disputes. Learners can evaluate competing arguments about protectionism, international competition, and economic trade-offs.
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TECHNOLOGY
China’s Space Station Is All in Chinese
This video draws attention to the use of Chinese aboard China’s space station. It offers a connection between technological development, specialized terminology, and the role of language in scientific work.
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MILITARY
Why 6 Chinese J-16s Flew 7,000 km Across 4 Countries Unchallenged
This military commentary examines a reported long-distance flight involving Chinese J-16 aircraft. Viewers can consider the claims about range, access, and regional security while distinguishing reported events from interpretation.
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MILITARY
China’s 5 Longest-Range Military Drones Can Reach the US Mainland
This video discusses Chinese long-range military drones and claims about their potential reach. Its arguments invite scrutiny of technical capabilities, operational constraints, and the difference between theoretical range and practical deployment.
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MILITARY
China’s Bunker Busters Can Penetrate 100m of Rock — U.S. Has No Defense DF-21C Exposed
This military analysis presents claims about Chinese bunker-penetrating weapons and the DF-21C. Because such capabilities and countermeasures are complex and sometimes contested, viewers are encouraged to evaluate the evidence and distinguish assertions from verified performance.
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TRAVEL
The China Most Tourists Never See: An Unfiltered Journey
This travel video presents a journey beyond the destinations most often associated with tourism in China. It invites viewers to observe local surroundings and everyday experiences and to compare these impressions with familiar portrayals.
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