PickVidsBest Geopolitics & foreign policy Videos
「Geopolitics & foreign policy」下面有144部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象：入门3部，适合还没学过的人；进阶5部，适合已经懂术语的人；普通向135部，按兴趣就能看；更硬的1部，留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是新闻，所以它们的共同点是留下那个时间点的争论，而不是一份永远的教材。常出现的频道包括CGP Grey、VICE News、VICE。目录给这个主题划的范围是：International affairs: foreign policy, China, Russia, Ukraine, Middle East, Israel and Palestine, NATO, sanctions, diplomacy, Taiwan, wars and interventions, international organizations.如果只看三部，就从《This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)》开始，它负责把问题讲出画面；然后看《Tiedustelueverstin arvio Venäjästä | 3.12.2018》，换一种讲法或例子；最后看《The EU Has Orbits, and the UK Fell Out of All of Them》，留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开，顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月，不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明，用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看，把引用当成只是拿来举例，把批评留下来对照，不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。
Chai Jing's review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 (full translation)
Chai Jing's 104-minute documentary on China's smog, with full English subtitles.
The Secret Chinese War for Your Opinion!
Serpentza, a Westerner living in China, describes Chinese influence efforts abroad and the cultural conflict between Shen Yun and Confucius Institutes.
Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Journalist Matthew Cole's Black Hat 2013 talk on the CIA's operational security failures in the 2003 Milan kidnapping.
The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
A 57-minute account of Clifford Stoll's tracking of a KGB-linked hacker through Lawrence Berkeley Lab computers in 1986, the story of The Cuckoo's Egg.
The Origins of Russian Authoritarianism
Kraut traces centuries of political development, from Mongol rule and the Orthodox church to Muscovite autocracy, that shaped Russia's authoritarian state.
Pandora's Box, E1: The Engineers' Plot
The first episode of Adam Curtis's 1992 BBC series Pandora's Box, on the engineers' plot, examining communism in the Soviet Union and the rise and limits of technocratic central planning.
Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
Kurzgesagt explains how the European Union is governed, how its officials are elected or appointed, and whether a citizen's vote actually matters.
Understanding the rise of China | Martin Jacques
Economist Martin Jacques offers three building blocks for understanding China's rise, including seeing China as a civilization-state rather than a nation-state.
The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense
CGP Grey walks through the odd history and quirks of the US-Canada border, including how it was surveyed and its irregularities such as exclaves.
Yanis Varoufakis with Professor Noam Chomsky at NYPL, April 16, 2016 | DiEM25
Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky talk on stage at the New York Public Library in 2016.
The Five Freedoms of Aviation
A Wendover Productions explainer on the political agreements, from the Chicago Convention onward, that determine which airlines can fly where.
China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
VICE News reporter Isobel Yeung goes undercover as a tourist in Xinjiang, documenting heavy surveillance, policing and internment of Uighurs.
Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World
A Reason TV segment, drawing on Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation, argues that Bitcoin works as an escape hatch for people living under authoritarian governments and inflating currencies.
Yes Minister — Why Britain Joined the European Union
A short Yes Minister clip in which the civil servant explains why Britain joined the European Union, delivered as satire of British foreign policy.
Where's the 'Collusion'?
The Real News Network interview between Aaron Mate and Guardian reporter Luke Harding about Russiagate and Harding's book on alleged Russian collusion.
Iowa Swine Day 2022: Agriculture at the End of the World
Peter Zeihan speaks at Iowa Swine Day 2022 on geopolitics, the end of globalization and agriculture.
The Chinese Student Crisis
PolyMatter examines how universities, especially in the West, depend on foreign and Chinese student tuition and how rankings and incentives distort institutions around that money.
Trump's Biggest Failure
A long video essay by Kraut arguing that Trump's biggest failure was his handling of China.
Nord Stream sabotage and hybrid war on Europe
Anders Puck Nielsen analyzes the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage using Kilcullen's theory of liminal warfare and prospect theory.
How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine
Perun analyzes how corruption and theft in defence procurement hollowed out the Russian military before its invasion of Ukraine.
DEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government
A DEF CON 24 talk on how a cyber mercenary group could forge identities and create the conditions for overthrowing a government.
The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film
A Financial Times film examining how Brexit hurt the UK economy, with FT writers and business people.
TikTok in China versus the United States | 60 Minutes
A 60 Minutes segment in which Tristan Harris contrasts TikTok with its Chinese counterpart Douyin.
Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
In an 11-minute TED talk, Ralph Langner explains how his team reverse-engineered the Stuxnet worm and worked out that it targeted industrial control systems, with a covert state origin.