Political Scientist Answers China Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
Political 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.
0:00 Join the bots down below
0:21 What do Westerners get wrong about China?
0:47 A Timeline of Modern China
2:12 Why would China want to invade Taiwan?
3:40 What China gets right
5:07 The United States / China trade war
6:10 Is China truly Communist?
7:41 Mao
8:57 Effects of the “one child” policy
10:36 Chinese ghost cities
11:21 Xi Jinping’s Power
13:10 China’s role in the COVID-19 Pandemic
14:27 Tiananmen Square
16:01 How does █ █ █ █ █ █ █
17:08 Skynet
17:54 China’s social credit system
18:40 The manufacturing GOAT
20:36 Pharmaceutical imports
21:02 War
22:39 TikTok
23:40 Russian bots v Chinese bots
24:19 Tibet
25:27 Chat is mom right
26:10 Confucianism or Marxism?
27:05 🎈
28:10 Tech Wars
29:00 Does China own American farms?
29:39 Hong Kong
30:34 QoL for the rural poor
31:54 The Uyghur Muslim population of China
33:11 China and worldwide communism
34:34 After Xi
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Michael Beckley
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Christopher Eustache
Sound Mixer: Brett Van Deusen
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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