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‘I Have Become Full Chinese’: Left-Wing Streamer Professes His Unconditional Love For Communist China

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Hasan Piker, who apparently used a shock collar on his dog and expressed regret that the United States won the Cold War, declared himself “Chinese” during a Tuesday livestream from China.

Piker, whose alleged use of the collar on his dog while he was live-streaming content in October generated criticism from Vice President J.D. Vance, made the announcement near the start of a stream that lasted for over seven hours. Piker praised China’s economic development, describing how he could see “Soviet-era building blocks” next to “Gucci stores.”

“This is my life now,” Piker said. “I have already become Chinese. In my heart, in my soul, in my mind, in my conscience, I have already become Chinese, okay? We were already white Chinese in this chat, I have become full Chinese.”

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The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) regime is estimated to have killed as many as 80 million people, according to some studies, while “The Black Book of Communism” estimates that 65 million people died at the hands of the CCP.

Piker previously expressed regret the United States won the Cold War during an interview with a reporter from BreakThrough News on its livestream of Democratic New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s election-night rally on Nov. 4.

“I think we are in the heart of the imperial core. This is the country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately, and the reality of the matter is, there’s a lot of antagonism,” Piker said. “There’s no class consciousness in the United States of America.”

Over 100 million people died at the hands of communist regimes, led by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which was established in 1917 after the Bolshevik Revolution overthrew the Russian monarchy, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Streamers and Reddit posters unearthed multiple instances of Piker apparently using the device or the threat of activating the device to keep his dog Kaya sitting in a more photogenic location during his live streams, which last for hours. Suspicions that Piker was using the device began when the dog yelped during one of Piker’s livestreams as he appeared to reach for something.

“He’s been using a shock collar on a setting so high that his dog F*CKING SCREAMS when he uses it,” Tectone, a fellow streamer, claimed in an Oct. 7 post on X.

Shock collars can cause dogs to suffer from stress and anxiety while also leading them to engage in less desirable behavior and aggression, according to Dogster.com.