U.S animosity to China 'unhelpful'

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American pawn shop owner and Tiktok vlogger Evan Kail @EvanKail hopes to become an envoy of understanding between his country of birth and China, the country he fell in love with.

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00:00further animosity about the past doesn't help anybody because we don't have time machines,

00:03we can't stop stuff, we can't go back in time and stop stuff. All we can do is stop it from

00:08happening again. Understanding history is a great lens for analyzing future history,

00:13and that's why that's so important. But getting angry about something from 87 years ago all over

00:18again only further destabilizes our world. So there needs to be strategy for communication

00:24and cooperation, not for military action, because then we just have another Holocaust in our hands,

00:29exactly like we did 87 years ago. As a private citizen, there's only so much that I can do,

00:35and I'm really hoping to get some kind of an official title for my country so that I can

00:40further foster peace. And the fact is, I have accidentally walked into quite a moment of

00:45history and become a symbol for something that, as far as American-Chinese relations go,

00:49never happened before. And I'm really hoping that people want to take advantage

00:54in governments of my situation and use it to build a permanent bridge of peace.

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