China-maxxing: Why Young Americans are Rethinking China

In November, the left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker took his first trip to China, live-streaming the trip to hundreds of thousands of viewers on the streaming platform Twitch. Hasan is a self-described socialist and a staunch critic of American capitalism, and he told me he had long wanted to see for himself how a Communist government ran a country. He wasn’t disappointed. 

In this episode:

• Why Hasan sees China differently than liberals; growing up in Turkey
• First impressions of China, Tiananmen flag-raising ceremony
• The incident where Hasan got stopped by security at Tiananmen
• Hasan’s thoughts on Chinese (and American) censorship 
• Surprising similarities between America and China
• Hasan’s Chinese fan base and how the red pill pipeline is going global
• What Hasan would advise a future Democratic president on China policy