0:04

>> Zach: Hello, and welcome to the Green Tea Party, where we discuss

0:07

conservative solutions to environmental problems. My name is

0:10

Zach Torpie. >> Katie: And I'm Katie Zakresky. Together, we'll guide you through

0:14

complex issues and provide strategies to address them

0:16

all while remaining faithful to our conservative values.

0:19

>> Zach: Trust me, it'll be a good time. >> Katie: Yeah, it's a party, so grab your mugs

0:24

and we'll pour the tea. All right, Zach, we're back at it again. It sounds like talking

0:37

more about a little bit about what we were talking about

0:40

last week in terms of, you know, demographics

0:43

and geopolitics that come out of that.

0:46

So we had so much to talk about last week that we had

0:49

to talk about even more today. So take

0:52

it away, Zach. >> Zach: Well, speaking of geopolitics, the news of

0:56

the day is the conflict in the Middle

0:59

east with Iran and Israel striking

1:02

each other back and forth. And it

1:05

seems like for now, as of this recording, that

1:07

things have tempered down

1:10

and cooler heads are prevailing and,

1:13

uh, hopefully no more strikes. >> Katie: Who knows? That might have drank milk, but we'll find

1:18

out, I guess, when the time comes

1:21

to post this recording, whether or not that was an

1:24

adequate assumption of

1:26

geopolitics. But in the middle. But in the

1:28

meantime, I'm hoping that, uh, you're correct,

1:32

Zach, that we don't have to worry about putting that fire out from a

1:35

geopolitical perspective anymore. So. Yeah,

1:37

interesting. >> Zach: Never put money down on a peaceful Middle east.

1:40

>> Katie: Yeah. No, absolutely not. You will not hear those. That

1:43

is quite the juxtaposition, Zach. I'm not

1:46

gonna oxford on statement for sure,

1:49

so. >> Zach: And this also lets Mike Johnson pass,

1:53

getting the house to pass the contentious military aid

1:56

package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and the US House

1:59

representatives. >> Katie: What a Hail Mary pass, man. Uh, like, I remember

2:02

reading stuff about that the week before that

2:05

was like, man, they're going to track so much stuff onto that that it's going to

2:08

sink. There's no way. And then I got

2:11

that news alert, and I was like, well, I'll be dagging. Like, I could not even believe

2:14

that. >> Zach: I just find it funny because this is the same, basically the same package,

2:18

like, slightly tweaked from the setup

2:21

package that passed, like, six months ago. And they're like,

2:24

finally we passed it. After all this fighting, we're like, oh, you passed the same

2:27

thing? Great. That was six months.

2:30

>> Katie: Double it and give it to the next person. So

2:33

Congress said, yeah, I think we'll do that. So,

2:36

real interesting. I know a lot of folks have talked about,

2:39

hopefully the good that'll come out of that. I like to be an

2:42

optimist because I feel like it's easy to be a pessimist when it comes to

2:45

all things, um, geopolitical and environmental. So I'd like

2:48

to at least hold out a thread of hope for

2:51

the positive. And I hope that some good comes out of this.

2:54

And who knows, maybe somebody will be listening to this a few

2:57

years from now and they'll be able to say, hey, y'all were right on that

2:59

one. So, yeah, I hope some good comes of it.

3:02

>> Zach: All right, I'd like to start today's episode off with a,

3:05

quote. >> Katie: Demographics. Mhm. >> Zach: May not be destiny, but for students of geopolitics, they come

3:10

close. From Nicholas

3:14

Herberstadt. Thank you, Nick Butcher, the

3:16

name. >> Katie: That was quite the bar, though I got to give it to him. He might have a

3:20

rap career in the works. That's a pretty

3:23

hard bar. >> Zach: It just shows your population has such a

3:27

big impact in your country's power and how

3:30

it interacts with the rest of the world, like how much it's

3:33

consuming, how much you're producing, that it's

3:36

so critical to how you view your country

3:39

and other countries. >> Katie: Absolutely. >> Zach: And if you look, the most populous

3:44

countries in the world are, uh, generally the most

3:47

powerful in their region. In our. In our region.

3:50

And still is, I think, the global

3:52

superpower, although the power is becoming

3:55

more multipolar in the world is the US.

3:57

>> Katie: Yeah. >> Zach: And we are, I want to say we're

4:01

third. Watch, let me double check this.

4:05

>> Katie: We're number one in my heart. I don't know what the scoreboard says, but I know we're number one in my

4:12

heart. >> Zach: So we are, in fact, number the third most populous

4:15

country in the world at. >> Katie: Oh, wow.

4:18

>> Zach: At, uh, 300. Almost 40 million.

4:21

>> Katie: Okay, well, then that begs the question. >> Zach: What are the other two most powerful in

4:26

the asian region is China, of

4:29

course, who just domineers over

4:32

all its neighbors and is just a massive

4:34

population. >> Katie: Hm. >> Zach: Then in the Indian Ocean and on the indian

4:39

subcontinent, you have India, which is now the

4:42

most populous country at 1.43 million.

4:45

>> Katie: Oh, my gosh. >> Zach: They have lots of influence all the way out to

4:49

the edge of the Indian Ocean by Thailand and

4:52

Indonesia, all the way to the african coast with

4:55

Somalia, Ethiopia. In Africa, Nigeria is growing regional

5:01

power because of its strong population growth and is

5:03

still a massively growing population.

5:06

So they will continue to be influential in the african region

5:09

and are one of the more stable nations in

5:12

that northwest Africa region

5:17

just below the Sahel, which is, uh, very unstable.

5:21

If you look to South America. Brazil

5:23

is the largest population with a population

5:27

of 216 million,

5:29

and is the regional superpower down

5:32

there. And they are very

5:35

non aggressive power, regional power,

5:38

so they don't exert themselves too much, but they

5:41

are very capable of, and they are very important to the other

5:44

nations in that region. And if you go to

5:47

Germany, I mean, if you go to

5:50

Europe, what is known as the engine of Europe

5:53

is Germany, with a population of 83

5:56

million. Although I believe. >> Katie: I can't even say I'm surprised by that, honestly.

6:01

>> Zach: Although France and UK are not far behind,

6:04

but they are. They have been the power of Europe for a

6:07

long time because of their strong population base

6:10

and their industrial power. But that power

6:13

is feeding as their demographics decline and they are

6:16

facing, uh, an unknown future.

6:20

So this is the lay of the land as it is today.

6:24

But we have to understand how these shifting

6:27

demographics around the world will shift power and who is

6:29

producing what and who is consuming what and how

6:32

countries and nations interact with each other.

6:35

So we'll start with

6:38

what I view as probably the most important

6:41

demographic shift in the world. In

6:44

China. China currently has a population of

6:46

1.4 billion people. That is

6:49

massive. That is. >> Katie: Yeah, that is crazy. That's. That is, like,

6:54

genuinely crazy to think about having a country with that many

6:57

people. That's overwhelmingly crazy. Like,

7:00

I know our congress is crazy, trying to

7:03

keep up with everybody. And true. And before I

7:05

even go further into that thought, yes, our congress is a

7:08

true democracy. But I can only

7:11

imagine, like, if we had to navigate

7:14

as Congress, a population of 1.4

7:17

billion Americans, that is insane.

7:20

>> Zach: Yeah. Imagine four times more people, or

7:23

more than four times more people in the US. >> Katie: Uh, I don't want to do that. I really don't want to do that.

7:29

>> Zach: Yep. You think we got a housing crisis right now? Imagine.

7:31

>> Katie: I was about to say, you just wait and see, buddy.

7:34

Oh, my gosh. >> Zach: But the craziest thing is, because

7:39

their policies and their unbelievably

7:42

low fertility rate, they're expected to

7:44

drop to between five and 700

7:47

million people in 2100. They're probably

7:50

expected to have. >> Katie: That is unbelievable.

7:55

>> Zach: And this is due to their low fertility rate, which is currently sitting

7:58

at one. But a lot

8:01

of people, a lot of scientists,

8:04

papers I've read, have noted that they're

8:07

not super confident in that fertility rate. They think it actually might

8:10

be lower. They might be closer to 0.8, which I think is what

8:12

Korea's fertility rate is,

8:15

which would make their demographic decline even faster. I think that's

8:18

that 500 million member mhm.

8:21

And China is still the world's factory, producing

8:24

so much of what we use today, you still see made in China on just

8:27

about everything. Even though the US is throwing tariffs

8:30

and trying to use the IRA to produce their

8:33

own stuff, China still produces a

8:36

lot of things for the world. And those

8:39

things flood the markets of other countries and other nations that don't

8:42

have as strong of a manufacturing basis and tariffs

8:45

as the US does. >> Katie: I don't have any thoughts to add to that. That's just crazy to me. I'm

8:49

sorry. >> Zach: The biggest reason for this demographic change

8:54

is this quick demographic change

8:57

is the, uh, one child policy that

9:00

M was implemented. What was the one child policy? Let's get that in

9:02

there. >> Katie: I think it was 63. Definitely do not

9:06

count me on that. I could be way off on that.

9:09

>> Zach: 1980. >> Katie: Wow. Yeah. Good night. Good night, class.

9:15

All right. They are Zack's facts

9:18

for a reason. >> Zach: So the one child policy was implemented in 1980.

9:24

And we've seen the massive change and

9:27

hold that has had on China today

9:29

where like. Let's do a quick thought

9:31

experiment. If you.

9:35

Okay, imagine you have a child and

9:39

your spouse and your. And yours

9:42

and your parents are alive. Mhm.

9:45

How many parents are you, how many grandparents are you

9:48

now? Are now existing with this one child?

9:51

>> Katie: Oh, my gosh. Okay. So it's me. I

9:54

have my two parents. My fiance has

9:57

his two parents. I had a unique situation growing

10:00

up. Cause I had three sets of grandparents.

10:02

So, yeah, I like this thought experiment.

10:06

>> Zach: So you guys are looking at ten

10:09

grandparents. >> Katie: Yeah. >> Zach: For what is this future? One taxpayer

10:13

supporting. >> Katie: Yeah, I know. So, yeah. Oh, my

10:17

gosh. Uh, so, yeah, if I.

10:20

If I think about it like that, when I think about my grandparents that are still

10:23

alive, I've got one set. So

10:25

that's. That would be two parents, that'd be

10:28

four. His parents, that would be six. So that's.

10:31

Yeah, six grandparents and. Oh,

10:34

my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh. Uh,

10:37

Zach. >> Zach: So just imagine every

10:42

person in China now is. Every single

10:45

person has eight grandparents that they are taken

10:48

care of eventually and they've been doing

10:51

this for a couple. A, uh,

10:54

couple of generations now. Or let's say that be

10:57

two. Two generations. Three generations. >> Katie: Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's a whole lot of people

11:02

for one person I have to take care of. I'm just

11:05

thinking about, like, what that would be like from my

11:08

perspective, caring for my

11:10

parents, my fiance's parents, and then,

11:13

uh, all of their respective parents, so.

11:16

Oh, my gravy. >> Zach: Yeah, it's intimidating.

11:23

It's interesting. Looking at the chinese population, uh,

11:26

pyramid. It's called a pyramid for a reason.

11:29

But if you look at their pyramid, it's literally inverted upside

11:32

down. >> Katie: I was about to say on the top. Inverted pyramid.

11:35

Yeah. >> Zach: So it's like this heavy weight of this giant retirement

11:40

community weighing down on the smaller and smaller

11:43

and smaller population in the workforce.

11:46

>> Katie: Yeah. >> Zach: So society can't really support this inversion that, uh,

11:50

China's. And China is showing that struggling to support its

11:53

growing elderly population. The state

11:56

pension system, which isn't very

11:59

generous in China. I want to say it was like $200

12:02

a month per person, which is, I think

12:05

in the US. We, us, we. I think it's like two grand a

12:08

month. >> Katie: Yeah. Give or take ballpark. Yeah.

12:11

>> Zach: Yeah. So their

12:14

retirement system is expected to run out of money by

12:16

2035, which I think is also when ours is supposed

12:19

to ran out funny early enough. >> Katie: I know I joke a lot about retirement and stuff, but boy,

12:25

oh boy, if that ain't right around the corner. So.

12:32

>> Zach: Their public pension is already 5% of their GDP.

12:35

So it's a massive part of their funding. Think in the US

12:38

where our, uh, Social Security is like

12:40

20% of, uh, our yearly

12:43

expenditures for the US, which is massive.

12:46

So more than 20% of China's

12:49

1.4 billion people are over 60

12:52

years old as pensioners. That's

12:54

almost 300 million people that

12:57

are retired and getting money from the state that are not

13:00

contributing to the economy anymore. It's basically

13:03

the population of the US retired

13:07

and they have to support this. So you just imagine

13:10

how this weighs down their economy. >> Katie: Yeah, that's a lot to bear.

13:14

>> Zach: So there was, there was the old adage

13:16

of, you always want your country to get rich

13:19

before it becomes old. When you're a developing nation

13:22

and it looks like China might, China might

13:25

be missing that mark and becoming old before

13:28

it gets rich, which is making this extremely

13:31

difficult to support. If you watch any,

13:34

if you watch China's import

13:37

exports totals, we complain a lot about

13:39

how China, US trade

13:42

is so unbalanced and every country in the world complains about this

13:45

because China just exports, exports, exports

13:47

and all their stuff gets sent to other

13:50

countries. But what this shows is

13:53

that they don't have a consumer base at home to

13:56

purchase these products, so they have to export because

13:59

they are not rich at home. So they send the places that are

14:02

rich that will buy their, their products. >> Katie: Wow.

14:06

>> Zach: And I don't know how, how keyed in our

14:09

listeners are to the politics of China

14:11

and what's going on over there and the economy,

14:14

but they have had a real estate market

14:17

bubble, bubble recently

14:19

with a lot of their largest real estate firms

14:22

basically just being run as a sort of

14:25

ponzi scheme, taking money to build

14:27

apartments and not using

14:30

that money to build apartments, but use that money to buy more land

14:33

to sell more apartments that will

14:36

be built at some undetermined time.

14:38

>> Katie: Yeah, I've been wanting. Okay, so I've been watching a documentary about this and essentially how

14:43

I kind of understand it. And don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not

14:46

an expert on chinese geopolitics after an hour and a

14:49

half. But the way that the

14:51

government has it going is that each

14:54

of, I guess it would be like their equivalent of members of

14:56

Congress are in charge of hitting

14:59

certain GDP goals within their, I guess what

15:02

we would call a congressional district. And ah,

15:05

some of them lie about the numbers that they hit, about hitting the

15:08

goal and what number they achieved. And

15:11

so many of them have fallen on

15:14

land development as being the source of their

15:17

like, districts

15:19

income. And so, so many of them

15:22

are developing the land and building apartment complexes

15:25

and things of that nature, knowing full well that nobody can afford to live in

15:28

those things. But uh, it looks really, really good when you've got a lot of things

15:31

being built in your district and uh, things of

15:34

that nature. So it's just really interesting to see exactly what you were

15:37

talking about, how they created this housing bubble to make up for the

15:40

fact that they could not hit their GDP goals within their

15:42

districts and they didn't want to get more or less

15:45

capital punishment from the government for not being able

15:48

to say that they were contributing to China being an economic

15:50

superpower. >> Zach: Yeah. And this is also way worse for the average

15:55

chinese citizen because

15:57

in the US we have the stock market to invest in, but in

16:00

China they don't trust their own stock market, so they

16:03

heavily invest in real estate. Like real estate is how you save money

16:06

and best. >> Katie: Yeah. And so a lot of people think that it's safe because it's government

16:10

backed, but then when you find out that they're just like fudging

16:13

numbers and lying about it for the sake of looking better in front of the

16:16

rest of their government, you realize

16:19

that whoever your political representative is, who you

16:22

don't actually democratically elect, is

16:25

using you and whatever investments you

16:28

might make to look better in their job

16:30

review. >> Zach: Yeah. So this is akin to the, like the 2008

16:34

financial crisis in the US, but probably

16:36

on a couple doses of steroids for

16:39

sure. So they're struggling, their

16:42

economy struggling, and they

16:45

have such a hard and strict work culture in

16:48

China. They have what's called a nine

16:51

nine six, which is 09:00 a.m.

16:54

To 09:00 p.m. Six days a week.

16:57

>> Katie: Yeah. So many, uh, so many factories over there and

16:59

businesses have essentially become. Because a lot of

17:02

their workers can't afford to rent somewhere or buy a

17:05

house somewhere. A lot of people have started

17:09

working, living, and

17:11

sleeping at their office space.

17:14

They've just got a cot that they keep under their bed and they sleep there.

17:17

>> Zach: Yeah. So imagine trying to have a child in this

17:19

lifestyle. >> Katie: Yeah, no thanks. Uh, not in front of all my

17:23

coworkers. Yeah. Not gonna hook up with the

17:26

water cooler. The timu

17:28

manufacturing plant. Yeah, not going to be me.

17:31

So that's what they're dealing with right

17:34

now. >> Zach: So this is just continue to the

17:37

demographic trend of no,

17:40

very, uh, low fertility rate. Like China has

17:43

lifted its one child policy. They

17:45

originally went to two child, and now they have no limit.

17:48

And they're actually trying to encourage people to have more children

17:51

now. But it's not working because they have such a

17:54

hard work lifestyle and it's pushing down

17:56

on their society, which is leading to the,

17:59

uh, live flat movement in our generation, in our

18:02

generation in China or the millennial generation

18:05

China, which is, they're just like, all right, we're

18:08

not going to work that hard. We're just going to do the minimum, get

18:11

paid, and try and enjoy life as much as we can

18:14

because there's no point in struggling so

18:17

much when you get no gain out of it. The failure

18:20

of communism. >> Katie: Mm hmm. Wouldn't mhm. Be the first time somebody

18:24

said that one? >> Zach: So issues like this are actually occurring all over

18:30

East Asia. The korean fertility rate is at

18:33

0.81 and the japanese fertility

18:36

rate is at 1.3. And both their population are

18:39

expected to about halve in the

18:42

next by 2100. And

18:45

there's always the funny joke that they sell more, uh, adult

18:48

diapers in Japan than they do, uh, baby diapers.

18:51

>> Katie: I believe I do.

18:54

>> Zach: So these population declines are

18:56

expected to really reduce the biblical power

18:59

of these asian nations and

19:02

put incredible stress on their economies and

19:05

their populations, which will

19:08

hurt the demographics even more. It's like a death

19:11

spiral that you can't get out of. And with

19:14

this, the future of the

19:17

world, I think, will maybe not in the next 50

19:20

years, but maybe sometime after that, Africa will be a

19:22

growing power in the world because it will be

19:25

where most of the people in the world are being born

19:28

for now and, uh, now and

19:31

until the foreseeable future into

19:34

the foreseeable future. So the EU's population is expected to

19:39

peak at 453 million people in

19:41

2026, before it starts decreasing.

19:45

And they're expected to go down to about 420 million

19:47

by 2100, a, uh, 6%

19:50

decrease. And a lot of that population is going to

19:53

be coming from immigration, from Africa and the Middle east as they try

19:58

to get away from conflicts and struggling

20:01

societies and the impacts of climate

20:03

change, which we will do

20:06

another episode on, um, focusing on immigration and how that will

20:09

impact demographic trends around the world where people

20:12

are immigrating to. So in the coming back home, the US,

20:17

we currently have a fertility rate of, uh, 1.784, which is below

20:21

replacement rate. But the

20:24

US population is expected to grow due to immigration to about

20:27

366 million people, up

20:30

from 333 million people.

20:32

When was that peak supposed to be? I think that was

20:35

2100. Yeah. So you may be confused as to why

20:38

the US is growing and all our developed nations is decreasing

20:41

or even having, but you can thank immigration

20:44

as the one thing that is going to keep propping

20:47

the US up. Instead of facing this demographic

20:50

decline, we will be bringing in enough people,

20:53

sort of supplement our economy and our population

20:55

to keep growing as other nations

20:58

face this sort of demographic collapse, especially in Asia.

21:03

So the reason that Asia doesn't have

21:06

immigration is because they're a very

21:09

insular and tight knit

21:11

society and culture. They're not very

21:14

accepting of immigrants like the always love the

21:19

Daniel Tosh joke, the, uh, who's on the american

21:22

team, you got every race possible that, uh, you sent to the

21:25

Olympics. But if you go to the Olympics for

21:27

China, who's on their team? It's all

21:30

Chinese. >> Katie: That's true.

21:34

She gets a lot of flack for some of those jokes, but that's,

21:37

uh, pretty on the money. >> Zach: Yeah. So, uh,

21:42

young immigrants is sort of like the Chico to avoiding a

21:45

demographic collapse. And because these society, these ancient

21:48

societies don't really want people there.

21:51

And people have accepted that they're not going to be accepted

21:54

there, they don't go to these asian cultures,

21:57

which is gonna make their economy struggle.

22:00

But the US is accepting,

22:03

accepts immigrants, and will be for the foreseeable

22:06

future unless Trump comes back to power and

22:09

built his wall and implements all sorts

22:12

of bonus stuff. >> Katie: Yeah. In the name of the economy. So stay tuned.

22:18

Another statement in this episode that might age like milk. Let's

22:21

see. >> Zach: But it's going to be very difficult for him to completely stop

22:26

immigration because we are still what

22:29

many people, um, outside of the US, consider the greatest nation

22:32

to immigrate, to in the world, the land of opportunity.

22:35

And people will want to come here no matter what.

22:38

And I think it's great if we bring

22:40

intelligent, hardworking, motivated people that want to join

22:43

our society and keep pushing America forward,

22:46

because I agree. >> Katie: I mean, that's how I got here 100 years

22:50

ago. That's how a lot of Americans got here, because

22:53

people in other countries all around the world thought the exact same

22:56

thing. And I think that's still true.

22:58

>> Zach: Yeah. So the

23:01

US should now, the US and the world should start planning for

23:04

the future of how these demographics are going to shift around

23:07

the world and understanding how this is going to change the power dynamics

23:10

between the US and China, the US and Russia, the

23:13

EU and Russia, and how Africa is going to

23:16

become a rising power with its growing population base.

23:19

And it's going to be important for us to

23:22

understand what they want, what they will need in the future,

23:24

and give them the resources to develop in a

23:27

more efficient and green way than

23:30

we have developed, which will make them

23:33

a more sustainable society. But we have to

23:36

start. The US should start planning for reaching

23:39

this number. We need to start building more homes and be able

23:42

to accommodate this many people we're dealing with the housing crisis

23:44

already got another 30 plus million people were expected to add to

23:50

the US. So we need to be prepared for what that

23:53

demographics going to look like. >> Katie: Absolutely.

23:56

>> Zach: Demographics can shape geopolitical power. And it's important

23:59

we understand how these global changes will impact the

24:02

environment and the future of the US. So it's important

24:05

to keep studying this and understand the trends

24:07

that we are facing in the world.

24:12

Got some action steps? A book I

24:15

could not recommend enough. I think it's one of the most important

24:17

geopolitical books to just get you started, is prisoners of

24:20

geography by Tim Marshall. And as

24:23

always, contact your local

24:26

representatives and see if they're thinking about the

24:29

future and how the demographics are going to change,

24:32

even in your local city and state. How are the demographics going to

24:34

shift? Where are people going to be moving to? And how

24:37

should your communities and your state's communities be planning

24:40

for that? >> Katie: And I think to add onto that, Zach, we talk so much all

24:44

the time about how young people like us are frustrated

24:47

with the economy, we're frustrated with the housing market, we're

24:50

frustrated with how things in general are going. Well, if our

24:53

demographic never reaches out, uh, to our members of

24:56

Congress, they're not going to know that. I mean, if we only tell each other

24:59

that, we're just preaching to the choir. So if you

25:01

feel like you're struggling with economy,

25:04

with, uh, with the housing market, with all of the other

25:07

things that are facing our demographic in particular

25:10

right now, then you need to reach out to your member of Congress and

25:13

let them know. As a young person, it's true. These

25:16

are the things you're experiencing. These are the concerns that you have as a young

25:19

conservative who is worried about navigating the

25:22

future because of the economy and things that impact your

25:24

quality of life. Bring, uh, that to your

25:27

congressman's or congresswoman's

25:30

forefront. It does no good to sit here on this show

25:32

and talk about it all the time, tweet about it all the time. If you're

25:35

not going to talk to your member of Congress about it, please, please,

25:38

please. If you agree with even an iota of what we have

25:41

said on the show, you need to be contacting your member of Congress,

25:44

whether that's a phone call, an email, a tweet, a text message,

25:46

whatever, reach out to your member of Congress's

25:49

office and let them know how you feel. >> Zach: Well put. And Katie, you want to upload

25:55

that documentary you were mentioning? >> Katie: Yeah, let me pull that up right now. It's on

25:59

YouTube, so who knows? Maybe by the time this

26:02

comes out, YouTube will absorb it for not being pro

26:05

China. Give me just a second. It was, it's

26:08

like in my recently watched,

26:12

it's called mutiny in China. Youth

26:15

is giving up on life. Let it rot.

26:17

CCP worried. It's by a channel called

26:20

Business Basics, about 2 hours

26:23

long. This guy really goes through, like, the

26:25

last, I'm gonna say, 70 years of

26:28

China history, starting with the end of Mao Zedong's

26:31

reign, to talk a little bit about the economic,

26:35

social, militaristic, health,

26:38

all of the factors that have created the

26:40

China that we know today. Um, he talks a lot

26:43

about the coronavirus's impact on young

26:46

people protests in China. He talks about some of the

26:49

economic and familial and

26:52

academic and social reasons why young people in China

26:55

are starting to give up is kind of a peaceful

26:58

protest, middle finger to the Chinese Communist Party and to

27:01

the chinese government. So many analysts

27:04

have said that what is going on in

27:06

China right now, the protests that young people are

27:09

leading against the chinese government and the chinese

27:12

government censorship in particular, is

27:15

like their tinian square moment of

27:18

the 2020s. So, uh, obviously, as

27:21

you can imagine, China is blocking a lot of this content. They're

27:24

censoring a lot of this content. They're shutting down a lot of

27:27

social media platforms where people were sharing information about

27:30

this. I highly, highly, highly encourage

27:32

you to watch this documentary, see

27:35

some of the things that this government is doing. Share where

27:38

you can information among people here in the

27:41

west, because people in China have been leaking this

27:44

information and taking these videos. But it's journalists in the west

27:47

who've been really politicizing these issues. I'm really raising

27:50

the red flag with organizations like the UN, the

27:53

government, several other organizations. Again, that

27:56

YouTube channel is called Business Basics.

27:59

And the title of this documentary is mutiny.

28:02

In China, youth is giving up on life.

28:05

Let it rot. CCP word. So

28:08

definitely check it out. Like I said, it's got about 1.5 million

28:11

views right now. I think it came out a couple weeks ago. It's about 2 hours long.

28:14

Please, please, please watch this. And this will kind of

28:17

give you some background into what we're talking about and help you develop

28:20

a much greater appreciation of everything going on here.

28:23

It is insane some of the things that they're doing over there that

28:26

they're subjecting their people to have to endure

28:29

and then to know that there are people here who talk about, oh, this is

28:32

the worst country on earth, dude. Watch just ten minutes of this

28:34

documentary and you will never complain ever again. But

28:37

seriously, watch that documentary and get a better idea for some of the things, things

28:40

that are going on there. It's a long winded way to say that.

28:44

Okay, I'll lead us in our closing.

28:46

>> Zach: All right. >> Katie: For you, our listener, email us with your

28:50

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28:53

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29:56

China. >> Drew Ireley: Hi, I'm Drew Ireley. I am the conservative outreach

30:26

director for citizens climate lobby. My path

30:29

to being a conservative, uh, concerned about climate

30:32

action was definitely a long one.

30:35

Growing up, it was a very rural area. You had to be

30:38

into the outdoors or you were going to be bored out of your mind. So I grew

30:41

up doing a lot of hunting, fishing. I was

30:44

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30:47

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30:52

And by 08:00 the next morning, I was on my way

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31:16

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years to the next 75. What if

31:22

she's the veteran that follows in my footsteps and

31:25

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31:28

You know, what if she's on a fossil fuel route and

31:31

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31:33

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31:36

could be an issue that you would have to face, and I chose to do nothing about

31:39

it. It's why we fight wars. We fight

31:42

them now so our kids don't have

31:45

to. I am fighting climate change now

31:47

so my daughters don't have to. A lot of

31:50

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31:53

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31:56

just want sensible policies that don't destroy the

31:59

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