"China is the 2nd largest military spender, only America spends more" ... Yeah America spends about 4 times more Lol

thank you, this is high-key very well explained

Sun Yat Sen, the first President of China and who was love and favor by both the communist and the nationalist, had stated that China should be a strong, unified and an independent nation. *Independent from foreign influence*

Thanks for the video. I think it is very objective and well-rounded. Just two fact check tho: (1) searching "democracy" and "revolt" are allowed, however the results you can see is censored. (2) talking about Cultural Revolution and it's impact is now okay.

I'm from China, and it's good to see things well explained and in an unbiased way. Thank you. By the way though, people usually use the search engine Baidu instead of Google, and keywords like "democracy" and "revolt" do give results. Don't know where that part came from lol

Very well done! I was hoping to see some of the latest news worthy and historical happenings between China and Hong Kong. I understand that it could very well be a video unto itself. There would be large amount to explain. Thank you for this well put together overview.

Now, China has a market economy in which capital plays an essential role. The political system remains as one party. In a Capitalism society, capital is above the political system. In China, the Political system is above the capital. That's the major difference.

A lot of what's covered in the video's pretty accurate - it's nice to see Tibet's status as the source of rivers being noted. There's also some delicious irony in that the CCP's old foe (the Kuomintang/KMT) are now their favored party to work with in Taiwan, since they're the ones who are at least in theory open to Chinese reunification. To expand on some of the points made in the video: With Tibet, they were screwed the moment 'China' got reunified. Whether it was the nationalists, communists or a new Imperial dynasty, the facts are as follows: the 'Chinese' state has a historical claim on Tibet (and the recognized borders of the Qing Dynasty). Modern states cannot afford to lend sovereignty to internal polities - it ties in with the monopoly on the legal use of force. It then follows that Tibet was always going to be crushed underfoot no matter which side won the Chinese civil war, especially since geographically they've got no one to turn to (India, despite proximity, is cut off by the tallest mountain range on Earth). (The counterargument is usually, what about Mongolia? To which I'll note more Mongols live in the PRC than Mongolia itself, and that Mongolia only got independence because the Soviets backed them, and Mao at the time needed the Soviets). - It's worth noting that aside from that one Sri Lankan port that caused the whole 'debt is to trick us into giving away territory' uproar, the BRI hasn't led to anymore 'land grabs'. You can point to cases where the collateral is permission to operate the ports, but that isn't the same thing as having a 99-yr lease on it. BRI loans that look like they'll default are generally renegotiated. Remember that the aim is to buy influence in these countries, in order to either flip them into allies/puppets (YMMV) or finlandize them. The ultimate goal will be for these countries to have base-rights agreements with the Chinese PLA(N). - With the case of Africa, it's a mite disingenuous for developed Western countries for whom the term 'neo-colonialism' was coined to turn around and accuse China of doing the same, especially considering the actual state of affairs is that China actually has _less_ influence in Africa than the US and Western European states collectively. For instance, the French still have de facto control of West and Central African economic policy, and regularly deploy military forces to intervene in the Sahel on a five-year basis (like clockwork). The reason that you see China being embraced by African states isn't that they're 'good people' or particularly generous, but that they offer an alternative to Western 'aid' that often comes with strings attached (usually in the form of implementing neoliberal policies that crash and burn local economies). That the Chinese 'aid' (and to be clear, most Chinese 'aid' is actually loans and investment, which isn't really aid because they're expecting an ROI) has few policy demands and that the CCP will turn a blind eye to local leaders' indiscretions are bonuses, not the main reason. Just having an alternative means that African states (and developing countries in general) have a better bargaining position against the West _and_ China, since it can now pick between 2 options instead of just having the terms imposed on them. - Tiananmen is more accurately described as an anti-government protest. While pro-democracy elements were there and given center stage in media coverage, there were also large contingents of Maoists who wanted a repudiation of the economic liberalization that Deng had put into motion. - The Uygur camps pointed out exist, and are conducting an exercise in cultural genocide. The real reasoning is to crush separatist ambitions in that community, not religion. Religious extremism is merely the convenient scapegoat - note that the Chinese first started cracking down on the Uygurs back during the peak of the War on Terror. It's not so much as the PRC hates and wants to crush religion, as much as it wants to keep religious leaders either powerless or under CCP control. For one, the largest Muslim 'ethnic group' in China are the Hui, and they actually get government funds to build mosques. The CCP also has their own sponsored Catholic & Protestant churches. Buddhism is the biggest faith in China, but most Chinese Buddhists are distinct from Tibetan Buddhists (different schools of religion). Also, keep in mind that Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism aren't really mutually exclusive like Christianity & Islam are (you can simultaneously be a Buddhist and a Confucian). This has bled over to other faiths as well - Chinese Christians often continue to practice traditional Chinese religious rites, even when that'd technically be heresy from an orthodox POV.

Your videos are the most clear, thorough, and succinct that I have found. The scale of each piece is prioritized well to give a broad overview that makes sense. Thank you for making these. Very well done!

This filled in some gaps for me. Thx!

Informative

a Awesome Detailed Video, Nice😘

Thank you. Very well explained

Fantastic video

beautifully explained

I liked it. It’s informative. Educational. Does not take any position. Thank you!

Thanks for this informative video

This video was just what I needed when I needed it. Thanks so much for taking the time to create it!!!

Brevity and clarity. Superb. Thank you.

Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy? One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind. I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist. So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark. In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all. The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise. Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct. Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership-and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world-is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.

Great video. Hits all of the current affairs of China. Africa, Phillipines, etc.

Objective. Yes that's the best word that makes this video stand out and so comprehensive to watch.

2nd time watching very nice I feel better informed thanks

this video pretends to be objective yet it is not : 1. when it said that Tibet was independent until 1950, it magically omits the fact that Tibet was under direct Chinese rule for centuries up until 1900 when, guess who, the brits came and Tibet gradually broke off from Chinese government until 1950 ; 2. on the map at 11:23, Hong Kong is not marked as territories of China ; 3. Chinese claim on the south China sea was based on historical claims which predates the invention of international maritime laws, i know China seems to be bullying those small south east asian countries, but hey i dont see china making excuses and invading other countries to deliver "democracy" just because there is oil ; 4. u cant just compare China-Africa relationship to colonialism, china offers infrastructures and investments in exchange for raw materials and cheap labors, it's called global trade, China didnt force, nor exploit nor enslave the african countries, china is there to do business and provide development to african economics ; 5. u cant just talk about reeducation camps while leaving out the separatist movement and the terrorist attack those extremist did to others chinese citizens (muslim included, eg. the Hui people) ; 6. as a chinese citizen i actually praised the Great Fire Wall of China, to shield off chinese from biased and politically driven western media, people specially the young ones are easy to succumb to western narratives which only promotes sedition and disunity under the pretense of "democracy and freedom" (look at Hong Kong or the middle east), china's economic miracle was only possible because of stability, the collective will and the strong will of a single ruling party ; 7. chinese people are actually well aware of the mistakes committed by the CCP during the great leap forward or the cultural revolution, and most chinese people know well the incident that happened in 1989 (atrocities were actually committed by both sides), but chinese people are a pragmatic people, their lives are better now, and they dont complain. 8. and lastly dissidents in china dont magically disappear, there has been non confirmed reports from both chinese media and western media, yes they are harassed, and sometimes detained and imprisoned, but they are all accounted for, it's not good, but running a country as big as China, CCP's no.1 priority is always social stability.

Good and balanced overview of current China political. Keep it up.

I was searching this type of information on china for while , but couldnt understand a word on the google , but you explained it very well , thanks

Very informative, good work! I learned a good deal from this.

I am preparing for a formal presentation to a class in Fudan University and your vast summary of politics of China really helped.

My corrections/additions (unbiased); -The United States isn't a total democracy, it's much more of a republic. -That part about China not being communist in the modern day is correct. -North Korea is capitalistic. -The trans-national labor exploitations of Africa is a "market" dominated by America at the moment. That would likely explain the warning.

Would've been even better video if every "China" was replaced by Trump's soundbit.

Amazing 👏

Really awesome video on China. Thanks a lot.

As Chinese, I would say even though I dont like some words you used, but basically, the video is decent and most of the content is true. But two suggestions: 1. Since you mentioned the political debating between China and Taiwan Province, you should have shown this on the map. 2. It's better to rename the video's title as China's Geopolitical instead of simply politics since you mentioned mainly about the relationship between and surrounding countries.

Democracy ruined growth of developing countries

Eye opening. Very well explained.

Glad this exists!

Thank you for making this video about China. I just started a college class about China and this has helped a ton.

Amazing content

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Great video, very well explained🙌🏽

I like this video. It was a good summary. The only thing that was missing was the fallout between China and Russia.

US: we don't recognize Taiwan as an independent state. Also US: yo Taiwan, here's some weapons in case u go to war with China

Can’t we all just get along!!!!💙✝️💙 8:45

Democracy officially write in China policy every year ，depend on how you define democracy though.

You need to come to China to see

Wow this is so great and so synthesized! Will be using this for my class! Thank you!

Purified News served an important role to social stability. There are always good or bad economically or politically, but you need to balance what is better for the country based on the collective social environment and cultures. That’s is where the ideology origin.

LondonCityGirl,...I suggest you investigate and do I video about the system of governance in China (maybe contrasting with the US) which has been completely misunderstood in the West. I discovered there are far more elections by the people there for their government officials. Just that they don't vote directly for the President which were voted by a large National People's Congress. China practises meritocracy. At the base, people in China would vote for their local village committees. And capable village leaders would move up the hierarchy until he became top government officials through various elections over the years by various competent committees of course. The wishes of the people at the bottom of the pile in China has a higher chances to be heard in this model of governance. Unlike the US, not any Tom, Dick and Donald Trump can be a Presidential or Premier candidate in China by throwing his/her hat in the ring. Contrary to the perceptions of the people in the West, there are far more check and balance preventing abuses in China than the US. The President of China is not as all powerful as POTUS. Unlike POTUS or Kim Jong-un, the President of China have no absolute power, cannot appoint his Prime Minister much less fire him and certainly cannot attack another country like Iraq or Iran now. We have heard many times Donald Trump authorised this, authorised that singly by himself. On the surface, this form of governance seems better relatively speaking. You may read this in-depth article written by a US journalist/author, www.unz.com/article/selling-democracy-to-china/

This is one of your best videos in recent times. I have decided to maintain my subscription on Patreon P.s. I have no interest in the cast of old tv shows!!!!

Funny it doesn't mention the british hand in chinese division, and hunger..

Hi there, good job making a somewhat neutral description of the modern history about China. Could you make one about how Chinese administration is done? I mean how they select or elect their governmental officers and leaders. That would be very interesting topic too!

In ancient China, they had era of Three Kingdoms. Today, in China they have Two Kingdoms, namely PRC and ROC, without the Romance for sure. lol

Video: China’s politics are so simple that we made a video about it Me: China is a republic, which implies that it’s democratic, but there’s only one party, so it’s fascist, but the party is communist.

That was an informative video. Thank you for that. The mention of Tiananamen Square in the late 80's sort of reminds me about what the Victorian state government (Australia) is doing to it's citizens in relation to 'freedom protests' and 'anti lockdown protests' right now, today in 2020

Thank you.

Can you make a video about the government structure in china. their elections etc.?

Who else is here because its homework

I kind of want you to read me a bedtime story and say "Ara ara~" to me.

I would like to give you a big thumbs up for the Asia's major water source rationale for control over Tibet which I haven't heard to date. haha

Very Well Done!

Very informative video

very accurate. And unbiased.

very good video

You forgot Taipei in the map

2022 yet still relevant

I love your video, it shows most sides of Chine objectively, thanks. Just a few things to add/question, the "secret disappearance" part kind of lacks sources, i mean we can neither find credible information on wertern media nor on chinese national media, so we dont know yet, same thing with the "educational camp". I do agree that China isn't complying completely with human rights standard in ICCPR, and for me I'm extremely annoyed by all the censorship happening, but it is doing so much better than before especially with the most fundamental ones. To conclude, China did a great job in making lives better in recent years, and let's all hope that it'll do better. Things in China are not simply "evil", China is too ancient and too huge to be assessed in a single biased way.

I have alot of respect for China. America and China can build a better world together

Soda water and squeeze Fruit + Australia Wine and Tawney Port is china best drinks!!!

Wait but haven't nuclear weapons been banned since 2016? North-Korea can't use the nuclear bombs they have

Thank you so much for making such an incredibly informative movie!

Am I the only one who is not seeing recommended videos to the right of this video?

I think you need to add the part that for Chinese, Ming’s map is their real map. And Tebet therefore belongs to China according to Ming Dynasty.

Simply if president says no ,it means no to everyone

China have one unite political system, with capital playing an essential role in their market economy, while the US being capitalism, have capital above political system. In my perspective, capital is a great invention of human society, it has solved overwhelming problems of inequality, easing human's biggest drive of greed, thus pushing for innovation. But also for the collective good, the importance and influence of capital should be limited at some point, it's a handy and powerful tool, but shouldn't and cannot be the ultimate goal of human societies. If nations have some great ideals and goals greater than money, then the game would be who to best utilize the capital so to achieve their goals first. I just wish, that those ultimate goals are not devided, and should be focus on the very planet we inhabit, Earth, to protect its environment, species, for the thriving and wellbeing of humankind. And I hope, if so, the competing nations are just really.. kids in a large family, trying to impress their Mother.

Funny to see that America and China almost have the same country shape

中国人感觉这个视频很客观，👍

An very objective view, China is a country that between ideal and pragmatic actions, choose the more bloody and pragmatic actions, the result is that it bought time for the rapid development and growth, but also left a lot of cultural and human rights devastation. I would say that it is fundamentally a choice by the people that arise under extreme conditions, with its pros and cons.

Dangit, another example of how we messed up another country because we divided up land poorly after a war

Refreshingly unbiased

Sources?

Free Tibet.

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Although it is meant to be a _simple_ explanation of 'Chinese politics' - an ambitious task in regard to any nationstate - the actual 'Chinese' culture appears to play no part - which isn't the way politics is shaped, anywhere. It is well researched to name the *May the 4th* movement as a major factor of modern politics in China - but the movement wasn't about 'socialism' , but a *popular nationalist* sentiment against the _semi-colonial rule by Western powers_ since the *Opium Wars* and the _double-standard_ of *Wilson's principle of national 'self-determination'* as a basis for a post-war order, granting German colonies in China to Japan as military spoils - as if the 'Meiji Restoration' was anything different than the _modernization and the imperialism_ of Imperial Germany. Similar differentiations could be made about the Western image of Mao Zedong who survived the US backed Guomindang purge of 1927 (also under German military advice). Unlike the urban 'ideologues' of the party, Mao build upon the *history of peasant uprisings* in order to form his own 'brand of *populism'* (e.g. with tactics like *'mass line'* , reinforcing popular sentiment) which arguably is miscategorized as Western 'socialism' (e.g. Marx), just as ancient Chinese 'legalism' isn't about the Western, liberal 'rule of law'. Mao was a _voluntarist_ , believing that effort can overcome _matters_ which renders the 'Cultural Revolution' not a struggle about _ideas_ but about _destabilizing the party bureaucracy_ (not unlike TROTZKI's analysis of Soviet society) in a _power_ struggle - while e.g. _military nuclear research_ continued without interuption of the 'Red Guards' ... Therefore the economic reforms of Deng after Mao's death were rather a _continuation_ of Mao's quest of *modernizing China* , hence the *rhetoric of 'Chinese characteristics'* . If this continuity from the 'Self Strengthening Movement' of the 19th century to the 21st century 'Communist Party' is _framed within Western political theory_ , the politics of China will be misunderstood (that is mostly *demonized* ). When it comes to the provinces of Taiwan and Tibet - these are as independent as Hawai, parts of Samoa, Puerto Rico ect. and are regarded as a matter of *national security* , ultimately decided upon not by local votes (e.g. German plebiscites on citizenship after 1918 were ignored by Western powers), but by military conflict. The current estrangement between the West and China is again not a matter of idelogy, but of political _power_ in international affairs - China was meant to be a junior partner and student of a *trans-Atlantic* order when it was promised a seat in a future UN Security Council - but but _the very same historical process_ that made the US *'heir to the British Empire'* also altered the US-China relationship from a sympathy between secular, revolutionary societies to the increasingly mutual resentment of economic and political rivals, escalating annually since the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrad - the beginning of a policy of US global *liberal hegemony* since the end of the Cold War - in which *Mao and Nixon* considered each other _partners_ with _legitimate interests_ ... One could argue that the revision of the *Law of the Sea* by the Western, _maritime_ powers - , increasing national waters until dispute is likely - is a meassure of _containing_ China, *destabilizing the Greater Middle East since 9/11* being another one. China isn't constantly _framed_ and _bashed_ in Western mainstream media because it actually 'enslaves' the natives of Africa or commits a _'genocide'_ on it's citizens - as Western powers did in the 19th and 20th century, but because a future war with China on maintaining the trans-Atlantic status quo would require popular support in the West. However, from a European *nationalist* point of view, just as the US hegemony during the Cold War was beneficial, a future shift of power towards Asia may not be the 'Communist World Revolution' as it is depicted - while Western 'enlightenment' was never _darker_ .

Good video. So hard to find objective thought these days.

女士，你的中国地图不太对，正确的中国地图应该包括西藏南部以及台湾，中国南海😇

The DPRK is not a "totalitarian dictatorship".

Your accent is amazing

sooo .....soviet ideals with capitalist efficiency....

we can use vpn tho……

Eat Buscuits China Gov

Winnie The Pooh :3

If I were in charge of a country and given absolute power I wouldn't keep it. I would round up some very smart people can create a brand new government that is supposed to give the best life possible to its citizens. Blocking information and blocking protests is never a good idea. You want people to be informed and to be happy and to live the best life they can. You want freedom. You don't want a dictator.

you can't eat this bread is clean It was, in fact, not

I thought that was a good bit of contexting :)

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谢谢你的解释，总体上比较客观中立

to anyone percecuted during to cultural revolution: lMao

Contradiction to politics, western plays chess, where u loss the king u failed chinese play " GO" where every mark does matter In the long run, we will see, which system is best effective for everyone in a certain society.

Yes, agreed the Chinese never wage war like the Western countries. See how they help the African countries and Iran, Iraq and Pakistan Alhamduillah.. 🙏🙏

I say so much after me you won't find me but I find you in those bunkers that you put in and I keep all your pumps there you have to understand so I did that no one will escape any Chinese no you will escape You have to understand or make peace Or if you don't wipe me on the face of the earth you have to choose peace or war with me you want Well you are not the navel of the earth here must understand peace