American Sports Battle for China

Start learning complex topics simple for 20% off by being one of the first 200 to sign up at http://Brilliant.org/wendover Listen to Extremities at http://ExtremitiesPodcast.com Buy a Wendover Productions t-shirt: https://standard.tv/collections/wendover-productions/products/wendover-productions-shirt Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): https://www.youtube.com/halfasinteresting Youtube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: wendover@standard.tv Other emails: sam@wendover.productions Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductions Animation by Josh Sherrington Sound by Graham Haerther (http://www.Haerther.net) Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster Music by http://epidemicsound.com Select footage courtesy the AP Archive References: [1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=CN [2] https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/china-tourism-and-hotel-industry; https://www.ibisworld.com/china/industry-trends/fastest-growing-industries/ [3] http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/china_series/y2008/index.jsp [4] https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/mlb-signs-agreement-to-help-revamp-chinese-professional-baseball/ [5] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201907/11/WS5d26e8f7a3105895c2e7cf57.html [6] https://www.weibo.com/u/2476404931?is_hot=1 [7] https://supchina.com/2018/09/22/nhl-china-games-2018-the-good-the-bad-and-the-could-be-better/; https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-hopes-to-announce-more-preseason-games-in-china/c-308539962 [8] https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/capitals/alex-ovechkin-enjoys-sights-and-tastes-nhl-ambassador-china [9] https://www.weibo.com/nhlofficial?refer_flag=1005055013_&is_hot=1 [10] https://theathletic.com/885412/2019/03/25/beijing-bound-possibility-of-49ers-hosting-2020-game-in-china-to-be-discussed-by-nfl-owners/ [11] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/02/sport/new-england-patriots-china-social-media-spt-intl/index.html [12] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/02/sport/new-england-patriots-china-social-media-spt-intl/index.html [13] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/the-nba-is-chinas-most-popular-sports-league-heres-how-it-happened.html [14] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2019/10/09/nba-china-hong-kong-whats-at-stake/3912447002/ [15] https://apnews.com/0a660e9e10664e31bf6ee359c22058cf