PolyMatter

If China is in the news and you want more than a two-minute clip, PolyMatter is the channel to queue. Its animated essays on economics, international relations and history return to China again and again, in multi-part series on its politics, economy and society, and the clean, minimal visuals keep complicated systems easy to follow. Its scripts lay out an argument rather than simply listing facts, which makes them good for thinking with. Expect a firm point of view and judge it on the evidence each video shows. New videos arrive slowly, sometimes months apart, so this is a channel to dip into rather than follow week to week.