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Where’s Poppy – How Safe is China Really???

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There are quite a few videos about China on YouTube at the moment.A couple of guys went to China about ten years ago and married Chinese women,  lived there for a while, started business, and made nice videos about China. But when Trump started the trade wars they said that China changed and became less friendly, and that the people there became less friendly towards them too, with even old friends becoming cold and cautious.These people have now left China and make videos saying how bad China has become. If you look at the replies underneath hundreds of people hate China, but every-now-again someone says that this is not the China they know, or that it is nothing like that where they live. And some have even accused these people as working for Western NGO's, like NED.Gweilo, a Canadian

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There are quite a few videos about China on YouTube at the moment.

A couple of guys went to China about ten years ago and married Chinese women,  lived there for a while, started business, and made nice videos about China. But when Trump started the trade wars they said that China changed and became less friendly, and that the people there became less friendly towards them too, with even old friends becoming cold and cautious.

These people have now left China and make videos saying how bad China has become. If you look at the replies underneath hundreds of people hate China, but every-now-again someone says that this is not the China they know, or that it is nothing like that where they live. And some have even accused these people as working for Western NGO's, like NED.

Gweilo, a Canadian who makes pro-China videos, made a video about these YouTubers saying that when they started making these anti-China videos their viewers shot right up, and so it's very profitable business for them. He says these videos are propaganda and nonsense. One of these anti-Chinese video makers now has an American company sponsor and he sells their products before starting a video.

The Barrett's, father and son, both British, also make very interesting pro-China videos. I might post some one day.

As I look at lot of these videos YouTube finds others for me, and very recently there as been an explosion of pro-China videos all over YouTube made by young Western people, mainly American.

I thought this one from Where's Poppy was very entertaining and excellent.

One of the most common questions people ask about China is safety. So come with me and lets test how safe it really is.





Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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