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North Korea defectors sold as cybersex slaves in China
For many North Koreans who escape their country, freedom does not arrive at the border. This report examines the fate of defectors, most of…
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Is Xi Jinping HOLDING BACK Chinese EXPANSION? – VisualPolitik EN
Under Xi Jinping, China has become more assertive abroad, building islands in the South China Sea, launching the Belt and Road Initiative, and expanding…
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Why Are There No Yellow Vests in China? – VisualPolitik EN
In late 2018, France was shaken by the Yellow Vests, a grassroots protest movement that began over fuel taxes and grew into a broad…
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On Marxism in America, the Communist China Threat, Unconventional Warfare & Hong Kong—Joshua Philipp
Hong Kong in 2019 became the front line of a conflict that was not fought with tanks or declared wars, but with pressure, propaganda,…
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On Marxism in America, the Communist China Threat, Unconventional Warfare & Hong Kong—Joshua Philipp
This interview features Joshua Philipp, a journalist with The Epoch Times who has reported extensively on the Chinese Communist Party, discussing Marxism in America,…
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Socialism Does NOT Work | Theodore Dalrymple | Oxford Union
This video shows Theodore Dalrymple speaking at the Oxford Union in the debate on the motion that socialism does not work. Dalrymple, a British…
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Socialism Does NOT Work | John Redwood | Oxford Union
This video shows John Redwood, the British Conservative politician and former cabinet minister, speaking at the Oxford Union in the debate on the motion…
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Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way through the Unfree World
This video is based on the book Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World, in which two economists travel to…
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Capitalism vs. Socialism Town Hall | Part 1
This video is the first part of a town hall debate on capitalism versus socialism, bringing together speakers from both sides to argue their…
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10 Brutal Realities of Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union
For decades, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was presented to the outside world as a land of progress: new factories, new cities, new…
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The Chinese Economy in the Next 30 Years: Political Reform vs. Status Quo?
This video looks ahead to the Chinese economy over the next thirty years and asks a central question: can China keep growing without political…
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China: Friend or Foe?
This video asks a direct question about China: friend or foe? It examines the rise of China as an economic and military power and…
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Gen. Robert Spalding: On the Hong Kong Protest, US-China Trade War & ‘Parasitic’ China Economy
This interview features retired United States Air Force General Robert Spalding, speaking about the Hong Kong protests, the trade war between the United States…
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US-China Trade War & Hong Kong Protests Expose China’s Critical Weaknesses—Steven Mosher
This video features Steven Mosher, a specialist on China, arguing that the trade war between the United States and China and the protests in…
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How Venezuela’s oil output plummeted
This video explains how Venezuela's oil output plummeted, tracing the collapse of an industry that once made the country one of the world's great…
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What is Russia Doing on this Secret Military Island in Finland?
This report asks what Russia is doing on a secret military island in Finland, examining a remote property in the Finnish archipelago that attracted…
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This is Cuba’s Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
In Cuba, where home internet access has long been scarce and expensive, people found their own way to watch films and television and to…
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Why Cuban cab drivers earn more than doctors
In Cuba, a taxi driver can earn more in a day than a doctor earns in a month. The claim sounds like an exaggeration,…
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Socialist China’s Billionaire Playboys
China's rise has created a class of very wealthy young people, and this film looks at how some of them spend their money. Fast…
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12,000 startups are being created every day in China
Twelve thousand new businesses a day is a startling figure, and this video looks at the entrepreneurial boom behind it. In China, starting a…
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Zhang Xin: China’s real estate mogul
Zhang Xin is one of China's best-known property developers, and this film tells the story of how she built a real-estate empire in Beijing.…
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What does China own in the U.S.?
What does China actually own in the United States? This report sets out to answer a question that has fuelled a great deal of…
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China’s Empty Cities
Across China, whole new cities have been built, with tower blocks, wide roads and shopping centres, and then left largely empty. This film visits…
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The cost of China’s millionaire migration
Every year, thousands of wealthy Chinese people leave China to live abroad, taking their money with them. This film looks at the cost of…
