Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure Series. 2025: Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Shaanxi Provinces’ Red Tour. Short videos, captioned photos, articles and commentary. The REAL Chinese people you don’t know!

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A very short and revealing essay to put things into proper perspective

The good, the bad and the ugly

The Chinese people who you’re seeing during Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure are not who my family and I experienced in the 1990s. In the 1990s, China was a street-level, mean, cruel, corrupt, mendacious, lying, cheating, swindling, capitalist concrete jungle. Unfortunately, in my first book, 44 Days Backpacking in China, I blamed this behavior on the Cultural Revolution, which is wrong. I now realize that by any psychometric measurement, what would be considered psychotic behavior in 1980s-1990s China was not due to the Cultural Revolution. It was due to Deng Xiaoping’s Wild East Buckaroo Days of unchaining the dogs of capitalism onto the streets and into the halls of government, industry and the military.

Why Tiananmen Square 1989 happened

It created tremendously criminal, get-rich-quick, no-matter-what-it-takes behavior in the population. There was no corruption nor crime during the Cultural Revolution. That’s why there was Tiananmen Square in 1989. It was not because of phony illusions of Western “democracy” and all that. That was all Mossad-CIA-MI6’s contrived and managed color revolution.

The Chinese were upset about 1) nepotism, cronyism, corruption and violent criminality at the highest levels down to the local neighborhoods and small businesses, 2) inflation was almost 30% and 3) the markets were completely turned upside down, transitioning from Mao-Era’s planned and assured economy (https://radiosinoland.com/2024/01/03/the-mao-encyclopedia-for-dummies-updated-and-its-all-here-books-articles-movies-visuals-china-rising-radio-sinoland-240103/); therefore there were a lot of shortages everywhere. That was why Tiananmen Square protests happened (https://radiosinoland.com/2024/06/04/this-webpage-has-by-far-the-biggest-and-best-library-of-articles-videos-podcasts-and-images-about-1989s-tiananmen-square-protests-something-for-everyone-china-rising-radio-sinoland-continually/).

Mea culpa

Unfortunately, I made this who’s-to-blame mistake in 44 Days, but it inspired me to write my second book, China Rising, to get to the truth, because I knew there was something wrong about my analysis. I then brought everything full circle, expanded on it all, to write China Trilogy’s Book #3, The BIG Red Book on China (see below).

Capitalism at its best

Thus, you are not seeing all the capitalist psychosis we lived with every day, when my family and I lived here 1990-1997. From top to bottom, Chinese society was doing what capitalists do best. The government was corrupt and criminal, so the people adopted the same corruption and crime. It was street-level war every day, just to get anything, to do anything, to go anywhere. However, strangely enough, it was very addictive, like a drug rush. It took a long time to deprogram from it all, when we moved to France.

Why did Deng do it?

Why did Deng do it? He publicly stated that to reach communism-socialism, China could not wait 300 years to replicate the West’s industrialization, not to mention it took colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide to make the Industrial Revolution “succeed”. Thus, like Mao Zedong trusting the masses to fulfill the successful goals of the Cultural Revolution (https://radiosinoland.com/2024/01/03/the-mao-encyclopedia-for-dummies-updated-and-its-all-here-books-articles-movies-visuals-china-rising-radio-sinoland-240103/), Deng trusted the citizens to shrink 300 years of capitalism into 30.

It was harrowing, risky and as Tiananmen Square 1989 showed, came close to crashing the Chinese Revolution into a balkanized, Western resource whore (https://radiosinoland.com/2025/06/04/100s-of-1000s-of-people-including-researchers-journalists-and-authors-have-accessed-this-largest-single-source-covering-the-tiananmen-square-protests-join-the-club-new-entries-for-2025-radio-sin/). But it worked in the end. A generation later and the Chinese are prosperous and harmonious again, back to their Confucist-Daoist-Buddhist-Communist-Socialist roots.

Chinese changes

So, what you’re seeing on our journey just goes to show you that people can evolve. The Chinese are continuing to evolve. They changed for the better and are not stopping. Why? It comes from the leadership. Citizens emulate their governments. This is a very Confucist concept. Chinese leaders trust their people and the people truth their leaders in kind. If leaders practice the Golden Rule, then the people will emulate them. That is why Westerners are so lying, thieving, corrupt and criminal, because their Judean, plutocratic, authoritarian leaders have been kakocrats 98% of the time for the last 3,000 years.

Hu Jintao rights the collective ship

When Hu Jintao was elected president in 2002, he began to alleviate this mass capitalist psychosis. Why? The Chinese people, like we were, were exhausted, burned out, sick and tired of all the environmental filth, pollution and wanted back Mao-Era harmony, equality and justice. They were demanding changes for a better life. Tiananmen 1989 was just a clarion call. Hu heeded their cries, seeing that this train wreck was unsustainable. It worked. His administration brought back Mao’s universal healthcare and lots of other socialist legislation for the masses, so people were not literally dying on the streets like they do in the United States, because they can’t afford to go to the doctor, hospital or find a place to live.

Xi is using Mao’s playbook

Then, when Xi Jinping was elected president in 2012, ongoing, his administration was and is accelerating the Chinese people’s unbelievable transformation, harking back to the clean and lean glory days of the Mao Era, stomping out corruption at every level, cleaning up the environment and making the masses more and more prosperous.

Conclusion

Thus, dear fans, looking back at the criminal and polluted 1980s-1990s, continue to enjoy Amir&Jeff’s (21^st-century) Excellent China Adventure!

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The China Trilogy has everything you want to know about the Chinese people that you will NEVER learn inside the Judeo-West’s Big Lie Propaganda Machine:

https://radiosinoland.com/2018/06/30/praise-for-the-china-trilogy-the-votes-are-in-it-r-o-c-k-s-what-are-you-waiting-for/

AND

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00TX0TDDI/allbooks

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https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Hindsight-Counterfactual-Shakespearean-Philosophy/dp/1474426042/

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