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Ask HN: Resources for understanding shifts in Chinese policy

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It feels to me like a pretty substantial sea change is happening in Chinese politics right now given the crackdown on large companies, the crack down on for profit education, the crackdown on video games, the 3 child policy, changing posturing on Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. For many other topics I have go to youtube channels or blogs I'd go to to learn about it but I'm not coming up with a lot of great resources on this. I'm not looking for a politicized narrative, more like a detached analysis of the situation. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm especially interested in long form monologue or dialogue youtube content.

For the record, I'm actively not looking to debate Chinese politics in the thread and asking others to refrain as well. It seems like there is no shortage of threads to endless fight about China on here recently, not looking to make another one. My goal is only to get tips on resources.

(Disclaimer: I am PRC citizen currently in US)

I think it is very hard to get a "detached analysis". For politic issues like this, it is inevitable that everything you read will be both incomprehensive and biased, and filled with propaganda. Probably you can find a "detached analysis" 50 years later, but not now.

That said, if you can read Chinese, I found Taiwan's monthly "mainland report" interesting to read [1]. Of course it is far from a detached analysis, but it's not very polarized (imo) and it contains interesting information.

[1] https://www.mac.gov.tw/cn/News.aspx?n=78702647C7A5B61B&sms=2...

Yeah fair enough. I mean I agree nothing is truly neutral.

I tend to like geopolitical analysis that comes out of the financial space because I feel like at least the game they are playing isn't primarily politics and they have a greater degree of motivation to make objectively correct predictions regarding where things are heading.

I unfortunately cannot read Chinese but I'll try to throw it through a translator.

Well, in that case, the language barrier is already putting you behind a selective information filter.

I'm not trying to convince you (in fact, I'll be happy if you could point out why I'm wrong), but I do not pay much attention to those political world news or trying to understand them. IMO every piece of news I see has undergone many biased selective filters that serve many parties' interests. By reading those news I just get trained by the propaganda, instead of learning anything objective.

pfft...no one knows what is going on including the Chinese. These are ever changing complex systems. Its not even like looking at a hurricane, but more like looking at a few thousand of them interacting. All the 6 inch chimp brain can do with that type of input is produce errors. So the gap between what Shiny Joe Rogan or a China Expert says tends to zero.

https://youtube.com/c/ChinainFocusNTD

Epoch times are quite a biased and low quality news outlets. I don't recommend this.

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