De wereld van de Chinezen - Season 1

De wereld van de Chinezen - Season 1

Season 1

China's mark on the world seems to be increasing. Ruben Terlou visits places where China's influence has been increasingly felt in recent years. Using impressive personal stories, he exposes the effects of China's geopolitics.
Network
DatesJan 10, 2021 - Feb 21, 2021
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Episodes

Kenia
Season 1Episode 160 min

Kenia

Ruben Terlou sees Kenyans expressing their love for the Chinese motherland through song in fluent Chinese, but discovers that the arrival of the Chinese and their investments also lead to conflict. The rise of China in Africa is great. The New Silk Road of China comes to fruition on the east coast of Kenya. Ruben travels in a Chinese train with a Chinese driver on train tracks that are built by Chinese, through safari parks, to Nairobi. Masai talk about a violent escalation, in which a Chinese died. A Chinese pancake baker discovers that pancakes yield little profit and takes up gambling in the local Chinese casino.
Jan 10, 2021
Cambodja
Season 1Episode 260 min

Cambodja

On the coast of Cambodia, in only a few years a sleeping backpacker village has been transformed into a gigantic city with casinos, hotels and nightclubs. Sihanoukville is built and populated by Chinese citizens and Chinese investors and fortune seekers flood the city. Cambodians are in the minority, unable to compete and no longer recognize their own city through all the Chinese billboards that are being put up. Ruben Terlou drinks $6,000 cognac with the boss of a nightclub, gets to know a Chinese dancer and meets a Cambodian worker who has lost friends and family after a Chinese construction project had collapsed.
Jan 17, 2021
Madagascar
Season 1Episode 360 min

Madagascar

Chinese companies enjoy doing business in the exotic, remote Madagascar. There is a lot to be gained, because the country is rich in natural resources. And because the population is poor, labor is cheap. Ruben Terlou goes diving with local fishermen and talks with the crew of a Chinese fishing fleet that has just been chained down by Madagascar's new president. Inland, Ruben sees entire families working on Chinese cotton plantations under a scorching sun. And he meets a Chinese cotton boss, whose investment went horribly wrong.
Jan 24, 2021
Servië
Season 1Episode 460 min

Servië

Serbia and China are close friends, partly because of their shared communist past. The Chinese are rolling out railway lines in Serbia and have taken over the ailing heavy industry. But the Serbs pay a hefty price for that support. The steel factory, that once again is fully operational because of the Chinese, leads to terrible pollution and desperate villagers. Down in the gold and copper mines, Ruben Terlou meets a woman who left her family in China for love and he celebrates Chinese New Year with the Chinese miners. Which is not a particular festive evening this time, because the pandemic in Wuhan has just broken out.
Jan 31, 2021
Verenigde Staten
Season 1Episode 560 min

Verenigde Staten

Lots of Chinese settle in California, for different reasons. For some it's the American Dream, others want to offer their children a better education. What's striking is that a lot of Chinese-Americans are very conservative and vote for Trump. But Ruben Terlou also meets advocates of diversity, such as Chinese-American rapper Jason who's using his music to represent the America of everyone. In the desert Ruben visits an anti communistic artist who offers a home to political refugees from Tibet and Hong Kong. They've come for the freedom.
Feb 7, 2021
Italië
Season 1Episode 660 min

Italië

In Prato the last few decades, the biggest Chinese community of Europe, has taken over the textile industry, which is the pride of Italy. The locals are longing back to the past, but there also those who want to connect the two cultures. In the Tuscan city Prato live and work 50,000 Chinese, the local population doesn't recognise her city anymore. Right wing politicians reproach the Chinese with unfair competition and bad integration, but there's also another sound. Ruben Terlou follows a Chinese woman who campaigns and hopes to become the first politician from Chinese descent in Italy.
Feb 14, 2021
Nederland
Season 1Episode 760 min

Nederland

After Ruben Terlou has met Chinese across the globe, he's now looking into the Chinese presence in The Netherlands. Who are these Chinese that have settled in our country? In Giethoorn lives a ingenious Chinese entrepreneurial family who really are a jack of all trades. At Groningen University Ruben meets a physics student who's about to return to China. In Tilburg a local entrepreneur has built a logistical imperium by doing business with the Chinese state. And Ruben speaks to adopted children who wrestle with their identity.
Feb 21, 2021

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