Interesting. An interview of China with no Chinese interviewed.

So China is not a threat? Economy is crashing, demographic is bad, the US should just let China alone😂

A Chinese man said in surprise: You actually built a time machine to travel back to China 20 years ago. This picture is so "nostalgic"😂

Why is it that when a report talks about current events, it always uses materials from the past, and many of them still use photos?

Why do the video clips at the very beginning look like they’re 20 years old?

i don't know why this program is using 20 years old archive video as if they are new😂. Same as BBC, a grey filter is added to make the whole video dead like hell or under some kind of iron curtain 😅

I don't see anyone with a smartphone..these are old videos probably 20 years ago

whats crazy is how if you keep up with things around the world, 60 minutes is always months and months or even years late to tell a story

Some video clips were produced in the 1990s, they were SO misleading

If it is about China, why didn't talk with Chinese directly in this program?

So where are the interviews with chinese people? Not much point talking to western people.

Ten years ago, 60 minutes did a segment on a “ghost city”. Zhengzhou now has 12m people and is a growing metropolis

4:32-4:39 THATS MY DAD LIKE 20 YEARS AGO!!! he says its from 2005 when he first joined AP!

What is the point of rebroadcasting an old news video without the new one to compare it? The only point is to mislead the viewers.

Funny.. those scenes in the footages (many of which are also old footages) aren't what i experience in China. It's freaking modern and vibrant from what I experienced first hand just a few months ago when I was there.

That footage is from what time?

60 minutes used to be my go to trustworthy information source. Now I still get the same from 60 minutes via comments from its informed viewers.

Why are the US media so concerned? I'd take overabundance of housing and lowering prices over homeless & hyperinflation any day!!

"We were told the surveillance cameras were watching our every move". Yes they are public surveillance cameras LOL. Stop trying to make it so evil sounding. London and other cities have the same amount, if helps the place be safer

That German guy is a well-known China hawk and people should take his words with a big grain of salt. The truth is the Chinese government has set up a “white list” where developers with good fundamentals are getting government assistance to complete their projects. So in the end, some people will lose their money if they bought from developers with bad fundamentals, but many will also get their apartments.

This 60 minutes feels like 5 minutes.

60minutes used a lot old pictures and videos to make the story. I have been in china 6 times. And every time I experienced better and better living for the citizens.

4:41 it is recorded in 90's. Look at the format it is 4:3.

I find it somewhat ironic that a news channel that use cameras to film and to find out and capture the facts find it intrusive that other organizations like the government does the same thing with their own cameras.

we want the original broadcast date

Although an entirely different society, I could relate to those young people feeling like the only way to get ahead is to have the privilege of getting ahead.

Notice how her face lights up with happiness when he tells her millions of Chinese will loose their livelihood

The anchor and ambassador are still talking like imperialists. One thing for sure, they don't need to wear bullet-proof vests while in China, one of the safest country on earth.

yes, the real estate is in woe, but 100-150 girl -boy ratio is just untrue.

60 min is an old aussie bias media.

Visited SF last month with my family. My rental got smashed in Golden Gate Park the next day. Poop, needles and homeless people all over downtown. Relatives loaded with housing, car, academic and credit card debt. 2 jobs to make ends meet. Unaffordable healthcare. I think migrants just got brainswashed by Hollywood movies about America. 0:15

The property buble burst, is not a problem for 90% of Chinese, that is only for the rich chinese they had the spare money to invest in the property. When the buble burst, it is their problems, and it was mostly their spare money

"No, you will not see that money"🤣🤣

I am glad to see that the US and China are making an effort to understand each other better. The goal won't be achieved overnight, but the initiative is encouraging.

do you guys really need to edit the outdoor to be soooo yellow? it looks like you put a footage that you saved since 80's

USA big Oligarchy dictatorship propaganda machine 😮

I’m in Taiwan and it’s similar, since rent is so low, investing in real estate it’s worth more to NOT have tenants in your property, it will decrease in value more if it’s lived-in.

The typical property buyers in China need to put in a 40% down payment. That being said most of them still have a very substantial equity in their properties. Most analysts won't expect this real estate downturn in China will be as bad as the 2008 Lehmann Brothers Crisis in the US. As of now, force closure in China is almost nonexistent.

prof. Wolff said,,, the term empty house/apartment is built only for those who don't know anything,,, whereas for China it is a long-term urbanization project,,, everything is prepared when the urbanization process is carried out

At least GDP is growing even if it's just 5%, look at rest of the world and you have countries like Japan and UK that are in recession. It was impossible to keep the growth of the GDP like before because the world has changed and there is deglobalization happening

This US ambassodor is totally misrepresenting Chinese businesses and economic landscape. It is better if Burns spend some time trying to understanding economics.

Credibility instantly went down the tube when showing footages that looks like it's from 1960's. And not even sure if that's old videos of China 2:50-3:12

More of these types of media reports and comments from the ambassador = a bigger hole the Americans dig for themselves.

I wish the ambassador had been asked about the danger of China holding much of the US debt.

US should worry about itself. China is fine.

Wow... 21sth century report that used last century image of China, how scared they are to use the current images of China to show American public..😂😂😂😂

"We didnt have a government minder" But when you start talking to On The Street Citizens, the cops suddenly show up and shoo them away.

You are interviewing the US ambassador…… It is normal local police will follow. It is the responsibility of China to protect all ambassadors in case something bad happen.

Amazing work.

ThanksMuch for posting !

If you don't want problems, instead of going to show the bad side everytime, why dont you make a visit to show the good side next time. They will surely know you mean no harm. But if everytime they see you, they know you want to talk bad about them, they wont like you.

Great report that considers the current social and economic malaise from different angles. Sadly, these developments will drive the government away from continued capitalist reforms and towards re-developing the agrarian sector, and the greater prominence of state owned enterprises in the economy.

China has created many of its own issues decades ago. Not only are they seeing troubling demographic issues fallout of the one-child policy and a society that deems males superior to females, but their economic policies could honestly lead to a period of deflation, something that can have huge repercussions for the economy.

The boy-to-girl ratio is more like 115:100 than 150:100.

A visit to China, but didn't interview any Chinese. A Chrono Cross too.

Western media only shows those cities BEFORE they become populated with life. People could just check on Baidu "street view" how cities in China are build IN ADVANCE so everyone can find housing and then the new Cities become alive and vibrant with countless restaurants, job opportunities, malls, museums, schools, hospitals, a subway station on every square mile and full of people working and enjoying their leisure time in the evening at one of the many beautiful public spaces with lots of beautiful things to do and see. That's the power of Socialism. Whereas in the West students can't find apartments because nobody builds affordable appartments anymore.

Reporting from China without Chinese

In China's view it makes no sense to want to have a 10%gdp growth out of massive debt....just for the point of saying we had a high GDP growth...whilst in the long run the massive debt will definitely cripple the economy

_60 Minutes_ is way behind the curve on this, but there's so much to report on and trips to China weren't feasible for about 3 years, because of covid, and I'm sure reporting from China is _expensive._

The depth of the problem is not even covered here. Occupancy rates in even the first tier cities is far below what we see in the West. Often wealthy owners buy apartments in the cities and leave them sitting empty rather than renting them out since rents don't really amount to that much money. It's a different ballgame over there for sure.

60minutes Australia reporting with time machine back to the past😂

Ambassador Nicholas Burns really talked straight and yet was calm and convincing about how important the U.S./ China relationship is. Great report.

OK, so this woman travelled all the way to China to interview one American high official, who is stationed in China. Naturally, he is to toe the party line and stick to the Washington talking points. Were he to say anything different, his head would roll and he knows it. So that’s the extent of the journalistic masterpiece from CBS. And, we’re all wiser now because we have learnt everything there is to know about China, a country with 1.4 billion people, 5,000 years of history and culture and the world biggest GDP in PPP terms. She could have saved the trip and did an interview over zoom. Oh no, being a brave journalist she is, one must report on the ground from the depth of enemy territory. Never mind the fact that she did not bother to interview a single expert on the ground, i.e. a Chinese citizen or an expat who chooses to live in China and not an American political apparatchik. Astonishing! Pathetic!

I read this incredible book by a lady called Anna Lee who wrote a novel basically extrapolating China's current situation (its housing market, a detailed examination of demographics, Taiwan, and increasing control) into the future. It seemed really plausible and predicts trouble ahead, but predicts that neither a complete economic collapse, war nor a revolution will occur. It was a fascinating read. It think it was called The Middom Project - Folio 1647, but I might have the number wrong.

I guess our host and guests on 60 minutes have little understanding of China's traditional culture of working hard and eating bitterness to move forward into a better future, no matter what the current challenges they are facing.

There’re hardly any Chinese homeless people anywhere in the world. I’m sure it’s a significant issue in their life tracing back nowhere other than the Mainland.

LOL THE FIRST QUESTION HAS ME IN TEARS OF LAUGHTER. o dear god thats funny.

Meanwhile in America I make 75k a year and my wife makes 70k and we are barely able to keep a roof over our head.

China have thousand of cities and u guys found the most famous ghost city

Good to see Lesley Stahl again.

I see a donkey talking to a buffalo

Media credits comes from objectivity. Every society is complicated and multifaceted. Talk to different groups and hear what they have to say. The problem is, who are the different groups that can puzzle out the comprehensive view of the society? (Students, young graduates, farmers, white collar, small business, large corporates, businessmen, business owners, locals, foreigners etc. )And How many of them can you find? If you only talk to people from a very specific group for convenience or presetting purpose , you will only get a distorted perspective.

pretty sure the German guy said more that were not supporting the report

lol I just realized too. 60 min using old videos from 20 years ago and making it look like it was clips from their most recent trip. Why do that?

So interesting

The US is worrying too much about China.

01:25 most of those apartments look really nice. I'd love to live in one, especially if I had the entire floor to myself.

wow! brilliant investigative journalism. Except that it is exactly 2 years old. Was this shot in 2021 and that old lady forgot to upload it then?

Imagine what the US could do if the US would focus on the economy like a laser.

DO NOT FALL FOR THE CROCODILE TEARS.

How does this conversation mesh with the Chinese auto industry?

The amount of propaganda here is so strong.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer country.

That is not a question of the down-payment can be seen or not. Actually you need to keep paying for the mortgage even you can't move in.

“Chinese authorities pretty much left us alone EXCEPT THERE WERE CARS FOLLOWING US.” Them being with you is somehow you being left alone?

US shall not discriminate China because China choose one party system instead of using two party system. One party system let China develop much faster. Nowadays China is much more developed than India, Brazil , Indonesia or other developing countries. Its streets are also cleaner and safer than most developed countries. Its life expectancy is already 2 years longer than US life expectancy and 9 years longer than India life expectancy . Expressway length in China reach 177,000 kms vs US 76,000 kms and India 4,900 kms. High speed railway length in China reach 42,000 kms vs both 0 kms in US and India. On top of that, China is also number 1 in many fields such as electricity generation, motor vehicle production (30 million per year), steel and cement production, ship building capacity( China ship building capacity is 232 times greater than US ) while it is nowhere 50 or 70 years ago. Take life expectancy of both China and US as example. In 1950 China life expectancy is about 38 vs US 68. After 71 years, in 2021 China life expectancy is 78.2 vs US 76.1( latest figure by CDC , US life expectancy dropped by 3 in 2020-2021 period from 79.1 originally). China expectancy increase by 40 years while US increase by 8 years only. China life expectancy increase 5 time faster than US. Also Look at health care by comparing MMA rate( maternal mortality rate): in 1950 China maternal mortality is 1500 women death per 100,000 birth vs US 100 women death per 100,000 births. In 2021, China MMA is 16.1 vs US 23.8 per 100,000 (the lower the number , the better health care service level) . Infant mortality rate: in 1950 China infant mortality is 195 death per 1000 birth vs US 26.8 death per 1000 births. In 2021, China infant mortality rate drop to 5 per 1000 vs US 5.4 per 1000 birth. And people in China retire at 55 years old on average to access pension. About 12 years earlier than US's 67 years requirement while some countries may not have pension at all. It means an American need work extra 40*52*12=25,000 hrs in his life than an average person in China. It also means an American only has 9 years to enjoy retirement while an average person in China has 23 years to enjoy retirement. And it is not means or asset tested when access pension in China. It means you get your pension monthly even you stay overseas, are a multi-millionaire or have another job after retirement. Singapore is another example of one party system. Its gdp is highest among Asia.

It’s crazy that they see the downfall of prosperity for 1.4 billion people as something to support!

Not to mention the content, the grey filter used in these lenses tells you what's going on. Utter and habitual discrediting

caution: lots of 5 cents and little pinks

Holy heck you see the China defence force out in full force for this one. These comments are insane.

"Divorce is not an option" - we've already signed the papers. We just don't want the other spouse to find out too soon...

Why are you guys sooo concerned about China?

comments section full of the fifty cent legion

Everyone saying it’s fake news. At 1:10 they say the footage is from a story they did a long time ago.

Hit the 60 mins with a spam and misleading report. This is inaccurate and misleading

Unfortunately, US media seem to be in a very bad state.

The footage they were showing look's Like it was from a VHS tape 😂

I’m sure it was disappointing that there wasn’t any interference by some government officials.

Yes, China has so many problems. The situation here is so bad. Americans, please stop worry about us and we are not a threat to you.

5 minutes of video told 1 billion problems China has. 😂 well done!