China Clashes with the West China Clashes with the West

Hosts:
Frank Zhao
Hans Tian
Stanley Lee
 
related links:
What happens when China becomes no.1? - Kishore Mahbubani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVkLqC3p0Og
 
Is there a real western media bias against China?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-real-western-media-bias-against-China-as-claimed-by-so-many-particularly-mainland-Chinese
 
03:00 - nature of media - covering negative stories
05:11 - different mindset about media in China
06:00 - 2008 Olympics and the Tibet issue
08:10 - lack of knowledge and ideological bias on Tibet
10:00 - over-exaggeration for financial purposes
11:20 - two major functions of media outlets
11:55 - good guy vs bad guy (what readers want - simple stories)
13:03 - ideological discrimination against non-western world
14:30 - “news” as a part of entertainment industry
15:40 - boring news in China and Singapore
16:30 - Chinese media: bias in a different way
18:40 - Western mentality: if you don’t do things the western way then you are doing it the wrong way.
19:20 - difference between BBC/ CBC vs corporate media
21:20 - Trump taking advantages of “news entertainment”
22:25 - Chinese propaganda
23:40 - in the west, they show you everything but you don’t have time to find out what’s real and what’s fake
25:00 - as readers, we need to beware all media outlets are biased in a different way.
25:50 - Hans’ top 5 anti-China media outlets
26:40 - the Economist’s centric position
29:40 - CNN: cover news like sports events
29:50 - Globe and Mail: it’s not only about China but also the Chinese people
30:30 - Globe and Mail’s coverage of Chinese community
31:40 - Narrow mindedness of Canadian media
32:30 - Trudeau’s comment on Chinese efficiency was bashed by Canadian media outlets
34:40 - mindset of being a “small country” - Canada
35:30 - problems of Chinese nationalism on internet
36:20 - Chinese government wouldn’t be kidnapped by crazy public opinions
36:50 - problem of “dance with the public”
38:20 - an undemocratic China is in the best interests of the west
39:15 - what kind of Chinese leader will be elected?

1:00 - What’s so different about Xi compared to his predecessors?
7:30 - Is he the most powerful person since Mao or Deng?
11:30 - Is this the end of collective leadership? Is the Standing Committee of the Politburo still relevant? or the power has shifted to Xi as the core and those small groups would become the new decision making areas?
15:00 - How do you comment on Xi-Trump meeting in China?
18:30 - Is this tipping point of China become No.1 again?
23:00 - What’s so good about the Chinese system? What not so good about it? What are the biggest western stereotypes or misunderstandings of the Chinese political system?

We discuss how China is using Mandopop to exert global influence.