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Major Companies You Didn't Know Were Chinese Owned

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0:00 thank you [Music] now this is just something I noticed when I was uh I don't know if you guys see this on the comments of literally anything you look at um people are either so Pro China or against China or there's always a bunch of China China right somebody acts like they like China oh now we all have to hate this person now we all have to love this person you know I get it what I don't get is how so many people don't realize how many companies are owned by China that are completely American like Ford like we're about to go through six of them that I found really really interesting six American companies that you wouldn't believe is owned by China well my mind number four will you away and they don't believe taiwan's a

0:51 country this is the first one um AMC AMC oh yeah I knew that one yeah because uh that AMC down the street we heard like that was purchased by a Chinese billionaire but this was years ago like pre-pandemic five years or something yeah yeah that's a that's a crazy one they made it if you're against China don't ever put your butt in an amcc seat you got Regal Cinemas we're all good to go I think it's gonna make your American Life pretty difficult if you don't want to associate with anything Chinese related in this everything is China people really have to realize that's really ████ different use Amazon dude everything's main trying to do everything is here's number two General Motors GM the All-American GM and don't you love that we bailed them out in 2008 and then just to sell to China but GM isn't that like

1:42 GM Ford uh foreign so I got a Chinese truck huh so the company itself GM is not owned by a Chinese company but it does rely with its on its partnership with Shanghai Automotive to stay profitable whoa So you you're not really sticking it to China or anybody by like buying them isn't that funny how like people here just like I'm gonna get a good All-American truck but then a lot of the American Vehicles now are assembled in Mexico the parts are made in different parts yeah it's like foreign cars are more American the most American Truck is a Toyota Tundra because it's made here well and then that's because foreign cars there's laws of foreign um like German or Japanese there's laws of how

2:34 much they have to be assembled or or like built in the states so that because of those regulations there's more domestic like work being done by Foreign companies than our companies aren't Fords assembled in Mexico mostly yeah a lot of the American cars are assembled in Mexico North America North America that's cool here's another one that I really didn't know Spotify what does Joe Rogan talk ████ on China I haven't heard into it have you he does actually he talks ████ about everybody but he doesn't say in like a malicious way just thinks he just doesn't agree with some of the practices and stuff interesting I thought Spotify was like a Scandinavian company that was a big tech company you know that you know the Chinese group 10 cent yeah they own 10 of Spotify oh it's temper okay so they're shareholders not controlling interest but enough enough

3:25 for someone who's highly against China to have to delete their Spotify if you're a American tarian like a vegetarian right like America if you're a vegetarian right you eat salad someone puts Bacon fat on it you're no longer eating it right if you're American 10 of Spotify is a lot of bacon American or Chinese fat on your ████ salad or you should teach children because it's always so easy to follow everything you're saying so in this deal in this deal 10 cent bought 10 of Spotify Spotify bought 10 of 10 because the whole like purpose of that was that Spotify wanted to be successful in China and they were having trouble breaking in the market so they formed that partnership yeah it makes 10 cents just as a little reminder to everybody that hates when things are being sold to China China can't buy anything that's not being sold to them so two-person deal oh yeah so we as in the

4:17 Americans own things in China as well then everybody owns something somewhere in China they can be seized by the government at any minute that's the difference exactly the difference is that is it really and over here you can get bailed out any minute but people do who don't understand there are a lot of people who don't understand markets though and just Commerce like that so they're just like well this is a scam because you're gonna sell it to somebody else it's like yeah well they're gonna buy it ████ wild uh number four is Snapchat oh that's very Chinese yeah damn they're dominating social media huh and tick tock tick tock's all theirs isn't it maybe it's like a U.S uh owned Tick-Tock version but it started with billion so that means it definitely has some sort of like oh they're in charge of it I think so Facebook wasn't Trump trying to ban Tick Tock for a minute yeah I tried Facebook did offer to buy Snapchat for four billion but they opted out instead

5:08 10 said Holdings again about 14 of Snapchat shares wow yeah who still uses Snapchat you guys on Snapchat we're all under an agreement to act like no one uses it so we can keep using it secretly exactly is that the way you sly guy isn't that not the silent ████ you're such a sexy guy they should have sold bro that's that's what I thought whenever guys are like who uses that anymore and they shift their eyes got it you do you dirty dog you used it to jerk off that's what that means that's all I do dude here's another one Hilton Hotels not Paris Hilton's brand don't tell me it's 10 cent again it's not it's a h a group Chinese Aviation and shipping giant they bought 25 of it for 6.5 billion that's a good percentage and two of the Chinese directors are on Hilton's Board of 10 directors yeah wow

5:59 but they have been trying to sell their share for the past two years no buyers wow they're probably eating money huh all these Ballers just doing the ████ and now for number six which was the craziest thing Tabasco actually sorry sorry let's get our guesses in what am I doing what category is it is it food and beverage let's just say it's a very very general account there's March's name objects I don't know yep no oh you're trying to do a Kaiser Soze honest what's uh what's up it's General it's a very very general thing so don't say Tempur-Pedic because he'll throw his mattress away dude Sleep Number you think it's Sleep Number okay is it a household name yes absolutely Johnson and Johnson oh ████ Kirkland would be so crazy that's

6:51 not the one on the list but I wouldn't be surprised if it was uh Fox is another thing I wouldn't be surprised the American flag making company that's made in generation Betsy Ross Federal Reserve oh no I don't know if that would be public info but is it media it's not media is it Walmart me telling you guys it's a very general thing is a huge hint so the word oh General Electric General Mills no General Electric General Electric but only the appliance division so the washing machines anything that GE makes as an appliance yeah they do that through China China and Mr higher you know higher h-a-i-e-r sometimes yeah they're making season stuff they bought the company's Appliance division the whole division 5.4 billion wow yeah so

7:41 who owns Sears though I think it's a bad sad people shut assault to China Century 21 on Saturday but the products they still make them in America the ideas are generated in China which is interesting now huh I D well they they don't they give the ideas to General Electric but the reason it's such a different thing is because GE has been around since 1892. holy ████ probably the old one of the oldest companies that has like Chinese ownership yeah it's pretty trippy so I think it kind of like if you're going to be a person like you said was it American dude it's really freaking difficult how can you do that anymore even if you're an anti-chinesegetitarian like that's super aren't iPhones made over there yeah everything yeah the thing you're using what about Samsung everything we buy on

8:31 Amazon is in China too I mean in terms of like the infrastructure of like Crea of what's it called textiles or manufacturing yeah manufacturing all in China right you rely on them too much you would have to do all domestic stuff would you be really expensive hard working get a handmade computer in America what do you want a handmade computer for because I'm an American Terry and I ain't trying to get no Chinese hands on my ████ I don't know if it needs to be handmade for it to be American so you can go to antique roadshow in a couple years and go like and they're like oh this is handmade yeah wow Susan B Anthony original one from a good old Silicon Valley which IBM an American company originally who owns Panda Express I think it's American technically American Chinese owned by SanSai Grill yeah yum brand what are the chances because it's a Chinese dude but I think it's Chinese American Panda Restaurant Group what I don't know if

9:22 this is a Chinese person whose name's Andrew chern his father's Ming Tsai charm hey yeah they're eight they're Pasadena Originals let me tell you that buddy first tour guide I used to train somebody that was from the family ah he's been churning that dough I've been turning that ████ Panda ever since who else do they own so you profited off of it I'm the group well have you ever had panda in no I've seen it you know about that on orangethorp it's like a high quality ████ yeah it's like The Gourmet version of Panda Express like a sit down restaurant is it really good that one they got a few of them I don't know if there's a rosemary one have you been yeah love it is it good it's very it's actually quite good because a lot of the same stuff but just higher quality oh okay yeah so the orange chickens look better yeah it's better yeah it's good I used to have it you

10:12 guys have one at CityWalk at Universal that's right yeah so uh if you're an American leave a little in the comments and let us know if anybody out there has successfully been able to avoid everything Chinese I would like to know how [Music] foreign

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