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Demoncracy Pepsi or Cola. Is a joke

U so one side. Pity.. Go visit China don't read rubbish

Michael Palin is an absolute treasure, I just wish the questions weren't so surface level

Lol freedom of the press. The western press has a proven track record of being extremely unreliable. What a joke.

I don't understand why so many in the comments are offended by the line of questioning. Keith is a man from the West, on a Western program, speaking from a Western perspective. The idea of liberalism is instilled within us, in the West, from birth. China isnt liberal, thats not necessarily a bad thing. The main difference between America and China isnt the politics, its the culture. These questions are important, it gives Li an opportunity to expose us to different ways of thinking. I love what Li says; "We are not focused on procedure. We are focused on outcome." Had Keith not asked these questions these direct questions, we wouldnt have gotten that gem of a quote. Love this video and love Eric Li!

He is not wrong about the ideal of 'liberalism' having NOT done a truthful job. Mostly, when the humans running the show are themselves double speakers or corrupt. The conversation perhaps should not be about who is better, the west or china's form of governance but rather who are the people in charge. Some Chinese good governance folks are honest and fair as seen in the opening up of China and some Westerners were honest and fair in the past but unfortunately for all of us, those who will do evil or are wicked are more in number than the good ones, it seems. Humans are inherently competitive wanting do better than the other guy and not always by better brains, mostly it is the criminally minded who are far more successful. But success at what cost? Oligarchs with great buckets of money and multiple ownerships of everything around seem more miserable and wicked. In fact, if you don't give away your wealth or help others you are held in contempt by humanity. Clearly ordinary Chinese people are extremely industrious and they are the ones who actually put China on the map not a few elites in the Politburo, however these politicians have enormous unequal power. Not that the WEST has that perfect, as it is also heavily compromised by those in the know of how to take advantage of the western system. Even, the overseas born Chineses have figured out how to use the western system to do well. Perhaps that is the real best observance; that Chinese people are incredibly focused on how to use ANY SYSTEM. Just look at the education of any nation It will tell you where they are going. Handouts and a heavy protectionist society creates a weak populace. Heavy preferences and quota systems also create a weak populace who simply don't learn about good competition. It is absolutely necessary for innovation, something the Chinese have mastered. They also can take any idea copy it and improve it 10x...so there! But if you ask people where they want to be after they have nailed making money in concrete jungles they choose countries like Switzerland, Greek Islands, India etc. Just anywhere the mind can recover and relax. Our human body just cannot handle continuous high stress money making. So where is the balance? China rarely addresses mental well being, compassion and spirituality like India or the Dalai Lama.

Frog in pond mentality..see the population..do not compare blindly..look at big population country perform .outside .think

Seeing is believing no need brainwash like frog in pond

What? No Gordan Chang???

Well done, I agreed with you.

Cherry picking free press. A joke for the intellectual

Demoncracy is to intrude and destroy a country As they don't have one at home just a trick for fool

@23:20. You've got to be joking!! So-called _"Freedom of the press", "Freedom of speech"_ It's clearly free for you but not free for me!! You guys keep going around accusung others of not having freedom of speech, only to then turn around and silence me and delete my posts!! I want to have a debate. But it's impossible to have one. My comments keep on being deleted (no matter what videos I watch). I used to also debate on mainland Chinese sites a number of years ago. And my comments there also occasionally get deleted. But at least unlike yourselves, they don't go around preaching "free speech" and accuse others of not having free speech while at the same time deleting my comments! You guys really have thick skin. If I were you, I would be embarrassed to mention about "free speech". _(I guess you're going to delete my comment. But I still want to say it anyway)_

amatuerish interviewer China is more socialist than communist in fact China is more capitalist than US

young and fanatics, the most dangerous

Why is the US legal branch corrupt? What happened to the much-vaunted law and order in the US, when you have Supreme Court judges who openly take bribes from their billionaires' masters, and make laws or decisions in favour of rich special interests? Why is the US political branch powerless to stop this corruption?

12.40 Yes 240million people lifted out of poverty is no small feat. Hope he is appointed an adviser for PRC government for economic development and FDI

To answer the question:- why not? The party is a learning party and a self criticising one. The senior politicians are schooled in special Communist schools and they compare their system with others. They admire USA and study USA economic systems. They will take the best examples and replicate that but they will not change their political system which has delivered the goods to millions.

Lol, Is Karen brain dead, brainwashed or a paid stooge? Surely the definition of Free Speech is the opposite of "reliable, checkable, & transparent".

FCC and its audience is totally brainwashed by Western indoctrination and propaganda - embarrassing. Eric Li absolutely shut them down with far more brains, insight, and knowledge.

Test of patience to watch this Karen character.

fak amerika!

What’s his African name? All blacks with English first and last names in the US take on the names of their slave masters.

Eric could have explained the COVID numbers better if he roped in other East Asian Confucian based societies. These are a middling between China and the liberal west....and as to be expected, their COVID death numbers are also middling between the two.

5000 yrs of history does China knows everything Well let say China know A LOT A LOT A LOT A LOT A LOT .........................

27:50 Holy shit, this is the 1st time i have ever seen ppl really push back against self righteous "journalists" on their "total freedom of speech" bullshit to their face, its hilarious and awesome lol Also 100% free speech doesnt exist anywhere on earth, American press and websites regulate speech all the time, there is a boundary of how far "acceptable speech" can go, Hasan Piker said "America deserved 911" and FBI visited him in person, free speech my ass.

She has the gut to bring up freedom of speech when the whole world waking up to controlled media since Oct 7 😡😡

HK Cyberport😢 what a joke! How many chief executive has Cyberport had since it launched and there is no real progress. There is also a total disconnect with western money. So it is not the cost it is no money coming to HK. How can be better protect our investors and our freedom or limited freedom is an enemy with capital.

I don't reapect this old man talking about Hong Kong in China. The West domination for 99yrs in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong people didn't have any rights to vote and people are mostly slavery workers for powerful rich elite westerners. Neocon Fascist tried to put negative propaganda about China for 100 yrs and teach in Hong Kong education in western thinking and brain washed bunch Chinese to think how bad the china is. Westerner CIA and Christian group tried to creat instability in Hong Kong and retaliation against China. Still now they are non stop to undermind Chinese people and the government. The Westerners are impearlist colonial warmingers and racist. They will do everything to sabotage China government till this date even though Hong Kong is not their territory, but western like the U.S. and British still want to hold their power to continue control Hong Kong people. It is shame on them these elite group that already destroyed America and its people inequality and poverty. Now they want to come here in Hong Kong lecture the Chinese government??? They should keave politic along to allow its own Hong Kong people to flourish into unify with China instead try to make trouble. They should go back to their own country and help to fight the economic problem they created, the national 35 trillion debts, and security boarder issues, Israel war against Gaza and Ukraine war against Russia etc ...but they rather want to act likt they know it all when they were stealing Chinese treasures for more than houndred year and making Hong Kong people live terrible conditions because of the western Imperialist greed. They did that to many middle Eastern countries and Africa countries. They tried to steal resources and enslave the people for their own power and wealth. Hong Kong people wake up and do your own research without rely on Western misinformation and bias talking point!!!!!!

Please DO NOT INCLUDING those in the USA died because of drugs overdoses, suicide, guns shooting as in case's of school shooting, terrorist attacks as the Twins Towers demolitions accidentally death and other's death due to gangster fighting together with those being attacks by COVID19..PERIOD..

😂😅.."We know the #..".. Are U saying we are being ID as # not by names and DOB as should be?🙄😏?..😆🤭..

This comments pertaining to the lady commented on # of DEATH was "correctly reported" in the West including N.A..May I asked were those numbers REAL or FAKED ones??..If they are real numbers, I think the funeral companies and those related business's should become billionaire by now..In additions, were there actually names +DOB of those who perished away by COVID19 attacks as those names written on Vietnam Wars memorial walls erected somewhere near Washington DC?🤔?..Period..

I have to agree with Mr. Eric Li, that speech should be regulated since speech is the precursor of actions and chaos if it wasn't under proper monitoring 4 the best of the nation's interests peacefulness as a whole.. As in the West especially in USA 🇺🇸 oftentimes BOASTED ARROGANTLY of "freedom of speech" that were actually FALSE and these journalists are UNDER THE MANIPULATIONS OF BIG CORPORATIONS + government's leadership officials rather than the NEUTRAL news to educate and inform people of the REALITY'S occurring around the Globes..Period..

Eric li is a genius.This interviewer is very negative

I agree 100% with constructive criticism, just that in the current political atmosphere it's not easy to tell what is "constructive" among different levels of audience...Stephen talks about Deng Xiaoping's seek of truth, but he was still, to a certain extent, misled during the Tiananmen Sqaure incident. In terms of Hong Kong, I agree that the old paradigm is over, and the elites in Hong Kong are now frozen in face of such change.

Never trust anyone who uses the term 'disinformation' seriously.

Eric Lee is one of the most intelligent and well-informed persons on the planet! Always a pleasure to to sit back and learn from him. And it is too bad that the interviewer guy seems locked onto US-slogan type of questions based on deeply engrained American propaganda. 92 million of the population? When you take out youth, the elderly, the disinterested and so on, it is a HUGE percent of the population. It is like the whole population is running the country! Liberal Western society is now in an advanced stage of decay from within. I wish the US well, but it doe not have the ability to bring in leaders who are capable of delivering anthing anymore. Democracy is a total myth in America.

Great talk by Eric Li (shame he was interviewed by a Karen).

Chinese governance under Xi Jinping's leadership is very unique . They have superb missions and have proven their far-sighted , result-oriented , pragmatic , innovative , people's welfare features ....

Good insights, Eric Li is a very sharp guy. However, he didn't answer the question on how could China solve the bad emperor problem (one party state with no rule of laws and inability of people to change the government peacefully through free and fair elections). I truly want to know his view on that. As an example, China suffered greatly under Chairman Mao's "great leap forward" and "cultural revolution". Luckily, Chairman Mao died before he could continue those dangerous initiatives that could practically destroy China.

Whenever the host raises a question, its as if only china is suffering from her accusations. Free press, slowdown in birth rate, corruption as if US is all good and not the worst. Typical hongkonger arrogance.. Well u got a Stanford graduate who is an economist and fluent English speaker. Cant win over that with biased accusations Karen girl

It's always entertaining to watch Eric educating western idolizers on governance and human rights. China is God sent to liberate people from poverty and a beacon to world peace especially from America

Insightful analysis.

Why was Jennifer Jett so glum?

George is honest and direct, and certainly uncomfortable to the US and the West by large

The people of China HAS freedom Freedom not to be starving Freedom to be safe from crime s Freedom to better their lives Freedom not to be homeless Freedom from gun killings Freedom of religious belief Freedom from imperilistic exploitation Freedom from drug addiction

Eric is smart guy

Please remember the US embassy was sold off in 2019. Colour revolution had failed.

What a moron. Fun to watch this guy so full of himself. Arguement for argue no real fact just his world of reality

Liberal media is the most hypocritical liars on this planet. It’s worse than saying there’s no freedom of press