What the West Gets Wrong About China | Alice Han & Trevor Noah
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China has 1.4 trillion people.
The United States has about 300 billion people.
Chongqing is in Sichuan province.
Huawei announced it would begin under-2 nm chip production within the next couple of years.
Xi Jinping calls himself the Great Helmsman.
China has connected all of its cities with very fast mag rail.
Most people in the United States are one paycheck away from poverty.
Ctrip's chairman and founder is paying employees $50,000 per baby.
80% of robotic installations are made in China.
Mao Zedong was not in the elite Chinese Communist Party leadership for a period in the 1950s.
United States policymakers are majority lawyers.
China is trying to remove some export tax rebates for electric vehicles.
The last time imperial China went to Africa was during the Ming dynasty in the 1500s.
38% of top-tier AI talent in Silicon Valley are American-born engineers.
20% of graduates in the United States each year are in STEM fields.
Gen Z Democrats and Gen Z Republicans are becoming more favorable toward China over time.
Yunnan is the most biodiverse place in the world for mushrooms.
Chinese policymakers are majority engineers.
China's youth unemployment rate is close to 20%.
BrainCo has a skin-worn device for amputees that picks up an electric signal through the brain.
About 38–39% of top-tier AI talent in Silicon Valley are Chinese nationals.
China's debt-to-GDP ratio is slightly lower than Japan's.
The Chinese government could not interfere with Shanghai’s foreign concession zones.
All panda bears are owned by the Chinese government.
Pew polling data shows Gen Z Democrats and Gen Z Republicans are more favorable toward China than baby boomers.
China is the world's biggest producer of robots.
China's share of robotic installations is bigger than the next four countries combined.
Xi Jinping called his slogan the Great Chinese Dream.
BYD is currently the biggest exporter of electric vehicles.
40% of graduates in China each year are in STEM fields.
China's frontier AI models are only a couple months behind American frontier AI models.
China's debt-to-GDP ratio is higher than the United States' debt-to-GDP ratio.
South Korea has a right-wing anti-women incel movement.
China's population is heavily skewed toward males.
Dark factories that are completely devoid of humans already operate in China.
Alibaba has logistics robots that optimize packaging arrangements to reduce packaging material.
Lobbying is legal in the United States.
Shanghai’s foreign concession zones had their own laws.
China has implemented visa-free travel policies.
Chinese household savings rates have gone up.
Germany's fertility rate is about 1.4 children per woman.
Japan's fertility rate is below replacement level.
Elon Musk was apparently offered a Chinese green card by China's then-premier.
China has over 100,000 robotics companies.
A Trump administration green card policy makes it harder for people to stay in the United States while they are getting their green cards.
BYD is currently the biggest producer of electric vehicles.
BYD recently overtook Tesla in electric-vehicle production.
A Muslim eunuch captain in Chinese imperial history brought a giraffe from Africa to the emperor's court.
The Qing empire was Manchurian.
Manchus were not ethnically the same as Han people.
Certain hospitals and pharmaceutical companies use robotic arms to pick out orders or prescriptions.
An invasive chip embedded in the brain is helping people with spinal injuries walk again.
Two Chinese court rulings, one in Beijing and one in Hangzhou, ruled that firing someone on the basis of AI was illegal.
Almost five million STEM graduates enter the workforce in China every year.
A Chinese economist published a framework more than a decade ago describing China as a regionally distributed authoritarian regime.
China's debt is north of 300% of GDP.
China's consumption is underwhelming relative to its pre-COVID trend.
The American economy is consumption- and services-based.
China's birth rate is at its lowest on record since the Communists came to power in 1949.
China invited foreign investment in the 1980s and 1990s.
China accounts for 70% of global electric vehicle production.
Iran has not made a nuclear weapon.
In the United States, spending on debt has outpaced spending on the military.
The United States has more operational combat experience than China.
At a summit state banquet with Donald Trump, Xi Jinping said Make America Great Again can coexist with the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation.
Xi Jinping has been leading anti-corruption campaigns.
The United States helped European governments rebuild after World War II.
In the 1990s, G7 countries comprised about 70% of global GDP.
G7 countries currently comprise about 40% of global GDP.
The Global South currently represents about 40% of global GDP.
About 85% of the world's population lives in the Global South.
California has planned to build a high-speed rail system for more than a decade.
China put large subsidies in place to support the electric-vehicle sector.
Han Chinese make up close to 90% of China's population.
The Qing imposed the queue hairstyle of a shaved head and long braid in China.
The Mongols founded their own dynasty in China.
The British took Hong Kong in the 1800s.
China has regulations against using another person's voice or image to impersonate them and monetize it.
Shanghai had a French concession zone.
The Shanghai-to-Beijing high-speed train takes around four and a half hours.
China has had special economic zones since the 1980s.
China's fertility rate is about one child per woman.
China's population is shrinking.
Mao Zedong had a political concept called the mass line.
California has not completed its high-speed rail system.
The Qing empire was the last empire in China.
The Mongols took over China centuries before the Qing dynasty.
Chengdu is in Sichuan province.