The long read: Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part professor, part friend
A very interesting and insightful take from a foreign journalist on the outside looking in.
I don’t think you understand context he’s giving, or the gravity of the situation in the US right now at all if you cannot parse and understand this statement.
Regardless of whether you’ve had a chance to fully realize and experience what these freedoms are like, they are being taken away from you as you type here, and you’re too jaded to feel it happening and respond properly.
That’s his point. Like a rich kid who has been rich all his life, then slowly becomes poorer and poorer until completely out of money. Only until he’s actually out of money will he realize that.
I don’t think you understand context he’s giving, or the gravity of the situation in the US right now at all if you cannot parse and understand this statement.
Regardless of whether you’ve had a chance to fully realize and experience what these freedoms are like, they are being taken away from you as you type here, and you’re too jaded to feel it happening and respond properly.
That’s his point. Like a rich kid who has been rich all his life, then slowly becomes poorer and poorer until completely out of money. Only until he’s actually out of money will he realize that.