I’m scared of China, says Nas Daily vlogger who thinks Singapore is ‘almost perfect’
After igniting controversy among Singaporeans last week by praising their country, a travelling video blogger moved on to China, and found a scary place behind the Great Firewall
Video-blogger Nuseir Yassin of Nas Daily, who last week caused controversy when he labelled Singapore “the almost perfect country”, had a very different impression of his next stop in mainland China. It evoked fear.
The Palestinian-Israeli vlogger has spent the past 898 days travelling the world and producing daily videos for his Nas Daily Facebook page which has more than 8 million followers.
At the end of his 10-day visit to China, Yassin has a very different view of the world’s most populous country.
“Honestly, China scares me,” Yassin said, speaking from Hong Kong where he was meeting fans and filming the next chapter of his video travel blog.
“You have 1.4 billion people, most of whom don’t speak English, who don’t have access to Facebook or Google, [and yet] within one day the government can make them go to war with any country in the world,” he added, referring to the ability of the Chinese internet to mobilise quickly on any issue, as happened recently to put pressure on airlines over how they referred to Taiwan.