My Opinion on Asian Boss (Patreon)

Asian Boss, a popular YouTube channel just posted a video with street interviews with Taiwanese people about their opinion on China. I had a few problems with it that make me feel quite skeptical of the channel in general.  

I've spoken to Taiwanese in Taiwan, and countless Taiwanese over the internet, and while they mirror some of the sentiments here, there is a large focus on people who are quite forgiving and sympathetic to China, which is absolutely not the feeling I get from speaking to people. The sympathetic to China person does absolutely exist in Taiwan, but they are the absolute minority. Was I a bit disappointed in a large percentage of people I spoke to about their apathy (more like, we absolutely don't want China to take over, but we can't do much)? Yes! Did I consistently run into people who were sympathetic to China? Absolutely not. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I feel like this sample audience was curated in post to reflect a certain sentiment.
No one was inherently wrong, but I feel like it's disingenuous to make it look like every opinion stated here represents an equal percentage.

Another video they posted about the social credit system also poses problems. In fact, it poses much worse problems. 

Social credit system video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGhOssPumUU

In this video, Asian Boss fails to address the elephant in the room. Street interviews in China are illegal, unless a journalist, with a journalist license performs them. This journalist would have to apply for permission, and have all material pass the censorship board, or at least know what to say, and what not to say while performing the interview. Now... do random street interviews happen in China, regardless of the law? Yes. 

However, such a large channel, that has had their China team do this on more than one occasion is not operating like a random fluke. Notice how in this, and other China interviews, there are never any hot button issues discussed. They will never ask about Xinjiang genocide camps, or what they think of Xi Jinping's eternal rule and increased authoritarianism, but make very on the surface comparisons of the social credit system to a FICO credit score. They don't address the glaring issues. In fact, I think the interviews by the China team served to downplay the surveillance state, and even act as a form of propaganda, because let me tell you... 

As a guy who lived and filmed positive videos in Xi's China, you get absolutely nailed for doing anything unless you've gotten permission to do so... and you only get permission one way.

If you are doing propaganda.