Political Scientist Answers China Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
21,505Political scientist Michael Beckley joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about modern China. When does the history of modern China begin? What do Westerners get wrong about China? Who is winning the current trade war between the U.S. and China? What about the tech war? Why would China ever want to invade Taiwan? Does China own American farms? Answers to these questions and many more await on China Support.\n\n0:00 Join the bots down below\n0:21 What do Westerners get wrong about China?\n0:47 A Timeline of Modern China\n2:12 Why would China want to invade Taiwan?\n3:40 What China gets right\n5:07 The United States / China trade war\n6:10 Is China truly Communist?\n7:41 Mao\n8:57 Effects of the “one child” policy \n10:36 Chinese ghost cities\n11:21 Xi Jinping’s Power\n13:10 China’s role in the COVID-19 Pandemic\n14:27 Tiananmen Square\n16:01 How does █ █ █ █ █ █ █ \n17:08 Skynet\n17:54 China’s social credit system\n18:40 The manufacturing GOAT\n20:36 Pharmaceutical imports\n21:02 War\n22:39 TikTok\n23:40 Russian bots v Chinese bots\n24:19 Tibet\n25:27 Chat is mom right\n26:10 Confucianism or Marxism?\n27:05 🎈 \n28:10 Tech Wars\n29:00 Does China own American farms?\n29:39 Hong Kong\n30:34 QoL for the rural poor\n31:54 The Uyghur Muslim population of China\n33:11 China and worldwide communism\n34:34 After Xi\n\nDirector: Lisandro Perez-Rey\nDirector of Photography: Kevin Dynia\nEditor: Richard Trammell\nExpert: Michael Beckley\nLine Producer: Jamie Rasmussen\nAssociate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White\nProduction Manager: Peter Brunette\nProduction Coordinator: Rhyan Lark\nCasting Producer: Nick Sawyer\nCamera Operator: Christopher Eustache\nSound Mixer: Brett Van Deusen\nPost Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin\nSupervising Editor: Erica DeLeo\nAssistant Editor: Billy Ward
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