Doesn’t the stupidity of this action have a slightly higher chance of succeeding if they have the brain cells not to tell the entire world what they are planning to do? It’s like someone telling the world that he is going to harm a persons girlfriend and then being surprised like a brain dead pikachu when the boyfriend of the girlfriend in question have a shotgun ready to blow his balls off
It sounds like a Westerner attempting to speak Mandarin with the tone contours all off. And he speaks with a moderate to thick Southern China accent, like he learnt it in Taiwan, Malaysia or Singapore; you can hear the way he pronounces e.g. qi3 as /ts/ instead of /tɕ/, xiang1 as /s/ instead of /ɕ/ or shi4 as /ɕ/ instead of /ʂ/. And I have met Westerners that speak better than him
Desperate moves from a dying empire.
A pity that it is taking an unbelievable long time for this empire to finally expire. To the annoyance of most of the free world in all honesty.
Certain pronunciations and phrasing is just not what I would expect from a mainlander Mandarin speaker. Certain way the speaker enunciates the words.
Nobody who speaks mandarin can listen to this without an intense feeling of cringe.
It is pretty bad, a lot of word usage that is not common in China.
