Valuetainment - April 08, 2026


“Operating In China’s Gray Zone” - Jiang DODGES CCP Censorship On YouTube

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Vaya Tim AdSense Mario
“Civil War In America” - Jiang PREDICTS Iran War Sparks U.S. Collapse “They Control The World’s Oil” - Iran’s Strait Of Hormuz Power THREATENS Global Economy

Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

190.06

Word count

877

Sentence count

37

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode of the VaynerSpeakers Podcast, we have a special guest on the show today. He is a Chinese-American academic, writer, and podcaster. He has been living and working in China for the past 20 years and has been a vocal critic of the Chinese government. We talk about what it's like being a teacher in China, what it means to be a Chinese academic, and what he thinks about the current state of affairs in Iran.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Have they ever knocked on your door and said, hey, you're crossing a Lai Jing, pump the brakes, that's too much, relax, or no, they leave you alone, nobody's knocked on your door? 0.94
00:00:10.080 I work at a school.
00:00:11.780 I'm employed by the school.
00:00:13.400 They have legal responsibility for me.
00:00:15.120 And there was one time when I wrote a subsect essay that mentioned China, and I was given a call by the school leadership and told to pull it down.
00:00:25.360 I'm not at liberty to tell you what the content was, but I will tell you that I'm being monitored very heavily.
00:00:31.360 I can only imagine that.
00:00:34.060 I can only imagine that.
00:00:35.180 Do you feel safe for yourself in China long term?
00:00:38.980 I do not plan on staying in China long term.
00:00:40.960 Okay, I figure.
00:00:43.320 And I'll tell you why.
00:00:44.740 Because right now, China is very interested in soft power.
00:00:47.920 And right now, I have a lot of soft power.
00:00:49.780 I have a lot of influence overseas.
00:00:51.560 And so they want to co-opt me.
00:00:53.260 They want to compromise me and turn me into a weapon that they can use to promote their agenda overseas.
00:00:58.960 I don't want to do that.
00:01:00.260 The longer you stay, the more people are going to think that you are somebody that's representing the CCP, that you're working with the government.
00:01:06.520 Just because I know you, the criticism, the moment you went viral, I'm like, OK, let's see what happens the next two weeks because they're going to come for his throat.
00:01:14.000 It happens every single time.
00:01:15.300 And and then we all move on with the filtering process.
00:01:18.060 You're not really a professor.
00:01:19.540 Are you a spy?
00:01:20.640 Are you tied to the government?
00:01:21.720 Are you tied to this?
00:01:22.600 if all of a sudden you leave and you go to
00:01:24.900 Singapore or Dubai or a different place
00:01:26.960 or maybe not even Dubai
00:01:28.940 but you know a couple places that you can go to
00:01:31.160 to speak, then
00:01:32.880 that means you truly are a citizen
00:01:35.000 of the world that your concern is
00:01:36.700 here's what I think about, here's what I want
00:01:38.880 to talk about, do whatever you want with this information
00:01:40.980 and I'm sure your AdSense is picking
00:01:42.980 up anyways with YouTube which allows you to drop
00:01:44.820 your job as a teacher to go live anywhere
00:01:46.960 that's the beautiful thing about YouTube so you kind of have a little
00:01:48.980 bit of freedom to be able to do that and I love
00:01:50.940 to see you continue doing this because you know you're you're again you say some crazy things but
00:01:56.420 that's good we need to kind of think about some of the crazy things that can possibly happen and
00:02:01.200 then let's hash it out let's debate it out now let's see what comes out of it another question
00:02:05.700 for you um i love what you said in canada everybody wants to be a hockey player in u.s people want to
00:02:12.040 be an entrepreneur in in china they want to be a bureaucrat what do you think what do you think
00:02:16.000 kids want to be in Iran? What's the dream in Iran today under this regime? I know you're not there,
00:02:22.320 I'm not there, but what do you think? Well, I mean, I've never been to Iran. It depends where
00:02:29.140 you are in Iran, right? So the cities are very different from the rural areas. But I think that
00:02:34.180 given what's been happening in this war, I think there are a lot of young children who fantasize
00:02:40.080 about fantasize and they grow up and they want to fight the Americans.
00:02:45.320 So I feel as though this war, given the fact on the first day
00:02:48.780 the Americans struck a school in southern Iran
00:02:52.880 that killed 168 schoolgirls and they killed an 86-year-old man
00:02:57.680 with prostate cancer, I feel as though there are a lot of young people
00:03:03.220 who want to go to war with America right now.
00:03:07.020 Yeah, and I agree.
00:03:08.040 I agree with, you know, I'm going to be a hero one day,
00:03:11.820 and you're seeing in some videos with mothers celebrating
00:03:13.920 that their sons gave their lives.
00:03:15.920 It's like, my son's a hero.
00:03:17.100 He did the right thing.
00:03:18.000 It's a very different way of thinking about what happens there.
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