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Hosts: Frank Zhao Hans Tian Stanley Lee   related links: What happens when China becomes no.1? - Kishore Mahbubani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVkLqC3p0Og   Is there a real western media bias against China? https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-real-western-media-bias-against-China-as-claimed-by-so-many-particularly-mainland-Chinese   03:00 - nature of media - covering negative stories 05:11 - different mindset about media in China 06:00 - 2008 Olympics and the Tibet issue 08:10 - lack of knowledge and ideological bias on Tibet 10:00 - over-exaggeration for financial purposes 11:20 - two major functions of media outlets 11:55 - good guy vs bad guy (what readers want - simple stories) 13:03 - ideological discrimination against non-western world 14:30 - “news” as a part of entertainment industry 15:40 - boring news in China and Singapore 16:30 - Chinese media: bias in a different way 18:40 - Western mentality: if you don’t do things the western way then you are doing it the wrong way. 19:20 - difference between BBC/ CBC vs corporate media 21:20 - Trump taking advantages of “news entertainment” 22:25 - Chinese propaganda 23:40 - in the west, they show you everything but you don’t have time to find out what’s real and what’s fake 25:00 - as readers, we need to beware all media outlets are biased in a different way. 25:50 - Hans’ top 5 anti-China media outlets 26:40 - the Economist’s centric position 29:40 - CNN: cover news like sports events 29:50 - Globe and Mail: it’s not only about China but also the Chinese people 30:30 - Globe and Mail’s coverage of Chinese community 31:40 - Narrow mindedness of Canadian media 32:30 - Trudeau’s comment on Chinese efficiency was bashed by Canadian media outlets 34:40 - mindset of being a “small country” - Canada 35:30 - problems of Chinese nationalism on internet 36:20 - Chinese government wouldn’t be kidnapped by crazy public opinions 36:50 - problem of “dance with the public” 38:20 - an undemocratic China is in the best interests of the west 39:15 - what kind of Chinese leader will be elected?

1:00 - What’s so different about Xi compared to his predecessors? 7:30 - Is he the most powerful person since Mao or Deng? 11:30 - Is this the end of collective leadership? Is the Standing Committee of the Politburo still relevant? or the power has shifted to Xi as the core and those small groups would become the new decision making areas? 15:00 - How do you comment on Xi-Trump meeting in China? 18:30 - Is this tipping point of China become No.1 again? 23:00 - What’s so good about the Chinese system? What not so good about it? What are the biggest western stereotypes or misunderstandings of the Chinese political system?

We discuss how China is using Mandopop to exert global influence.