Agreed.

I concur with your assessment, Doctor.

What do you mean? What is Britains payback? Besides IRA, everything else has been a net positive.

@@xunqianbaidu6917 that isn’t a result of their colonial past

@@lolasdm6959 Nonetheless now a part of their history.

@@lolasdm6959 You think the immigration at the expense of the citizens is a good thing for Britain?

​@@lolasdm6959 I mean, it is. Britain feeling it's not European started due to the British Empire. With a world-spanning empire why should it bother itself with being friendly with its Continental neighbors? That feeling that they don't need Europe and they have the Commonwealth to fall back to plays a big part in the Leave campaign rhetoric...

You’re asking for all this and you’re not even a member

@@Poppin_off_with_panos What does that matter if they're being polite?

@@lainiwakura1776 he can’t pay the bills with polite.

You can say the same thing about Japan, they used to be like that, and now Japanese products are considered reliable, it took time.

lol you say that like the phone or computer you are typing this on wasn’t made there…..

By ones it now considers to be its territory you mean Taiwan? It’s a Chinese colony, how do you think the aboriginals ended up on the mountains when their ancestors live on the coastal plains?

@@lolasdm6959 More like Indochina, which includes countries like Laos and Vietnam.

​@@lolasdm6959Taiwan is an example of an indigenous people colonized, Xinjiang and Tibet follow this pattern too. Vietnam's whole history is basically fighting off Chinese imperial colonization, until the French and Americans showed up for some variety.

China complains about a Century of Humiliation, while Vietnam remembers a thousand years of subjugation by various Chinese dynasties.

@@doujinflip Both were bad events, both are worth discussing.

The Turks keeps emphasising that they are Europeans too. I've know a Turk saying that they are majority Anatolians and hence white too.

@@landongsi TURKS WHİTE ASİAN NOT EUROPE TURKS RULE OVER EUROPEANS ROMANS THAT LİKE İN MONGOL RULE EUROPE.

Haiti defeating France as well...

第一次是商朝，第二次是汉朝，第三次是匈奴 第四次是唐朝，第五次是蒙古，第六次郑和，第七次 是郑成功， 第八次康熙，第九次是 冯翼才援越抗法 日俄不知道要排多少位。近代彭帅打败17国联军

They turned up the propaganda post Tinanenmen square protest. I grew up the same time you did and my parents explained that to me. I came home from 1st grade repeating government propaganda and my father almost beat me. My family never discussed politics and my father decided to explain to me how my grandfather went from being a mid level CCP official to being purged by the red guards. My father was very jaded regarding to the CCP but none the less is an ardent Chinese nationalist and insisted that the Korean War was an attempt by the U.S. to invade the PRC that China repelled.

An attempt to invade The PRC... Wow

So you mean the colonism can be justified just because they are weak? Nonsense😂

​​@@zeitgeistx5239It doesn't matter if they were really trying to invade China. The US Army presented at the border is the problem itself and would definitely not be tolerated.

真是一条好狗啊😂

Sad to see how Tintin has practically died out as a comic for the younger generation nowadays. Back in my time, Tintin was such a hot comic that the school library ALWAYS had multiple copies of each book, and they were STILL all loaned out.

Only lonely loves a pedant, sweetie. And you can’t mend wrong with righteous. Expansion refers to an extension of the original structure beyond its current boundaries. Consolidation means to take something distinct and integrate it as part of some greater whole. Consolidation is the more accurate descriptor. Not only that, it more accurately conveys the very sentiment for which you yourself are advocating.

​@@williambrasky3891"only lonely loves a pendant, sweetie." Nicely done. 🏆👍🏽

Same, I think thats how they get ya

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Yeah, the music selection and integration could use some work

I guess this must be why American politics seem to be recently turning into Maoism with American characteristics.

In a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country like China, only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard and the establishment of the people's democratic dictatorship can independence, self-reliance, industrialization and national rejuvenation be achieved. We will find that many countries that have held so-called "democratic elections" have essentially become controlled by the landlord class. The landlords then rely on selling resources to seek profits for themselves and become economic colonies of imperialist powers. There is a lack of industrial construction, economic construction, social construction and industrialization in the local area. In Latin America, the country is controlled by caudillos. Therefore, in third world countries, the elected parliament is a tool for landlords and comprador bourgeoisie to control the country. This is actually undemocratic because it represents the interests of a minority or the interests of foreign powers in the local area, rather than the interests of the local people or the interests of the majority of the local people. Under such conditions, if you want to truly develop, you must establish people's democracy. If you want to establish people's democracy, you must first overthrow the old parliament. Only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard can you overthrow the old parliament controlled by landlords, warlords and comprador bourgeoisie, because it is impossible for the parliament controlled by the landlord class to pass any progressive reforms, promote social revolution and carry out industrialization, because industrialization will touch the interests of landlords and compradors. This is determined by the class nature of the landlords. If a country wants to industrialize, especially a late-developing country, it needs a strong leadership core to overthrow the landlord class, establish a dictatorship, and use the power of the state to complete land reform and invest in industrialization.

The history of China is a history of national splendor. What is different about the current strong nationalism of the Chinese people is that it permeates the whole society, because it attracts unprecedented numbers of people. It is no longer a phenomenon that is essentially limited to students. At the beginning of this century, it was students who became the pioneers of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese nationalism has now become a mass phenomenon that is determining the way of thinking in the world's most populous country. This way of thinking has deep historical roots. History has conditioned the Chinese elite to think that China is the natural center of the world. In fact, the Chinese word "China" means "Central Kingdom", which expresses the idea that China is at the center of world affairs and emphasizes the importance of national unity. This idea also means that its influence radiates from the center to the periphery in different levels. Therefore, China, as the center, wants others to respect it. Moreover, since ancient times, populous China has always had a unique and proud civilization. This civilization is extremely advanced in all aspects: philosophy, culture, art, social management skills, technological inventions and political power. The Chinese cannot forget that until about 1600 AD, China was the world leader in agricultural productivity, industrial inventions and living standards. Unlike European and Islamic civilizations, which have nurtured about seventy-five nations, China has been a single nation for most of its history. At the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had a population of more than 200 million and was the world's leading manufacturing power. From this point of view, then, China's fall from glory and the humiliations it has suffered over the past 150 years are an aberration, a blasphemy against Chinese characteristics, and a humiliation to every Chinese individual. This humiliation must be purged and the perpetrators should be punished. The main perpetrators are Britain, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Their crimes vary in degree: Britain launched the Opium Wars and shamelessly belittled China afterwards; Japan has launched predatory wars for a long century, causing great suffering to the Chinese people, but Japan has not repented of this; Russia has continued to encroach on China's northern territories, and Stalin has been domineering and completely ignored the self-esteem of the Chinese people; and finally, the United States has become an obstacle to China's foreign ambitions through its presence in Asia and its support for Japan. China believes that two of the four powers have already been punished by history. Britain is no longer an empire, and the American flag has been permanently lowered in Hong Kong, closing a particularly painful chapter. Russia remains a neighbor, but its status and reputation have been greatly reduced, and its territory has been greatly reduced. Therefore, only the United States and Japan pose the most serious problems for China. China will define its regional and global role to the greatest extent in terms of its interaction with these two countries. However, this definition depends first on how China itself evolves and how powerful an economic and military power it actually becomes. In this regard, the forecast for China is generally promising, although not without some major uncertainties and constraints. The rate of China's economic growth and the scale of foreign investment in China are among the highest in the world. The conventional forecast based on these two statistics is that in about twenty years, China will become a global power, with a power roughly equal to that of the United States and Europe (assuming that Europe has both deepened and expanded). China's GDP has now far exceeded that of Russia and is likely to far exceed that of Japan by then. This economic development will enable China to acquire a strong military power of a scale that will frighten all its neighbors, even those geographically distant but opposed to China's development. The return of Hong Kong and Macau to China, and perhaps the eventual reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, will further strengthen China, and the Greater China that will emerge will not only become the dominant country in the Far East, but also a first-class world power. --Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard

who has the power...

China was never much of a naval power (the Ming-era Zheng He voyages being the main exception), classically sticking to being a land-based empire that was kind of scared of the sea. Hence their surprise when Westernized fleets came in force from their east (not just as isolated traders and pirates), and why the Qing court tried to put as many water features between subsequent foreign concessions and the rest of China.

@@doujinflip classically China isn’t a naval power but anytime a naval threat occurred, the Chinese fleet would make quick work of. The Tang sending a fleet of 50 ships to defeat a Yamato force of 300 ships attempting to aid Silla for example. Or the Ming imperial fleet defeating Dutch and Spanish in South China Sea. It was only until the advent of steamships that Chinese naval power was completely obsolete. Because they could evade fire ship and boarding ships even if the winds prohibited. They weren’t scared of the sea. There are 100,000 mongols plotting to raid China and you are going to go play with boats? Western monarches needed ships to reach lucrative trade in the east, China is the source of it emporer doesn’t need to look for something in his backyard.

The history of China is a history of national splendor. What is different about the current strong nationalism of the Chinese people is that it permeates the whole society, because it attracts unprecedented numbers of people. It is no longer a phenomenon that is essentially limited to students. At the beginning of this century, it was students who became the pioneers of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese nationalism has now become a mass phenomenon that is determining the way of thinking in the world's most populous country. This way of thinking has deep historical roots. History has conditioned the Chinese elite to think that China is the natural center of the world. In fact, the Chinese word "China" means "Central Kingdom", which expresses the idea that China is at the center of world affairs and emphasizes the importance of national unity. This idea also means that its influence radiates from the center to the periphery in different levels. Therefore, China, as the center, wants others to respect it. Moreover, since ancient times, populous China has always had a unique and proud civilization. This civilization is extremely advanced in all aspects: philosophy, culture, art, social management skills, technological inventions and political power. The Chinese cannot forget that until about 1600 AD, China was the world leader in agricultural productivity, industrial inventions and living standards. Unlike European and Islamic civilizations, which have nurtured about seventy-five nations, China has been a single nation for most of its history. At the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had a population of more than 200 million and was the world's leading manufacturing power. From this point of view, then, China's fall from glory and the humiliations it has suffered over the past 150 years are an aberration, a blasphemy against Chinese characteristics, and a humiliation to every Chinese individual. This humiliation must be purged and the perpetrators should be punished. The main perpetrators are Britain, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Their crimes vary in degree: Britain launched the Opium Wars and shamelessly belittled China afterwards; Japan has launched predatory wars for a long century, causing great suffering to the Chinese people, but Japan has not repented of this; Russia has continued to encroach on China's northern territories, and Stalin has been domineering and completely ignored the self-esteem of the Chinese people; and finally, the United States has become an obstacle to China's foreign ambitions through its presence in Asia and its support for Japan. China believes that two of the four powers have already been punished by history. Britain is no longer an empire, and the American flag has been permanently lowered in Hong Kong, closing a particularly painful chapter. Russia remains a neighbor, but its status and reputation have been greatly reduced, and its territory has been greatly reduced. Therefore, only the United States and Japan pose the most serious problems for China. China will define its regional and global role to the greatest extent in terms of its interaction with these two countries. However, this definition depends first on how China itself evolves and how powerful an economic and military power it actually becomes. In this regard, the forecast for China is generally promising, although not without some major uncertainties and constraints. The rate of China's economic growth and the scale of foreign investment in China are among the highest in the world. The conventional forecast based on these two statistics is that in about twenty years, China will become a global power, with a power roughly equal to that of the United States and Europe (assuming that Europe has both deepened and expanded). China's GDP has now far exceeded that of Russia and is likely to far exceed that of Japan by then. This economic development will enable China to acquire a strong military power of a scale that will frighten all its neighbors, even those geographically distant but opposed to China's development. The return of Hong Kong and Macau to China, and perhaps the eventual reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, will further strengthen China, and the Greater China that will emerge will not only become the dominant country in the Far East, but also a first-class world power. --Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard

In a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country like China, only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard and the establishment of the people's democratic dictatorship can independence, self-reliance, industrialization and national rejuvenation be achieved. We will find that many countries that have held so-called "democratic elections" have essentially become controlled by the landlord class. The landlords then rely on selling resources to seek profits for themselves and become economic colonies of imperialist powers. There is a lack of industrial construction, economic construction, social construction and industrialization in the local area. In Latin America, the country is controlled by caudillos. Therefore, in third world countries, the elected parliament is a tool for landlords and comprador bourgeoisie to control the country. This is actually undemocratic because it represents the interests of a minority or the interests of foreign powers in the local area, rather than the interests of the local people or the interests of the majority of the local people. Under such conditions, if you want to truly develop, you must establish people's democracy. If you want to establish people's democracy, you must first overthrow the old parliament. Only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard can you overthrow the old parliament controlled by landlords, warlords and comprador bourgeoisie, because it is impossible for the parliament controlled by the landlord class to pass any progressive reforms, promote social revolution and carry out industrialization, because industrialization will touch the interests of landlords and compradors. This is determined by the class nature of the landlords. If a country wants to industrialize, especially a late-developing country, it needs a strong leadership core to overthrow the landlord class, establish a dictatorship, and use the power of the state to complete land reform and invest in industrialization.

The Democratic Party under the wise leadership of Obama and Biden pushed China into the loving arms of Russia. Classic Democracat.

I always find it amusing they don't demand outer Manchuria back?

​@@ToastieBRRRN Occasionally, rarely, someone will publish something or talk about that in China. At which point the censors take it down usually. Political conveniences.

@@nickorme8112 If you can browse the Chinese internet, you should know that there are quite a few people holding the same opinion, and it has even become more popular due to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

A wish is not a prophecy

Except it already isn’t lol. 秦qin didn’t even last 20 years and 隋sui didn’t last 40. 党 is already 70+ years

Shun Dynasty lasted for 2 years. Your claim is false, and I can see someone need to learn some history lessons.

I wasn’t counting minor principalities as a China-wide dynasty.

In a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country like China, only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard and the establishment of the people's democratic dictatorship can independence, self-reliance, industrialization and national rejuvenation be achieved. We will find that many countries that have held so-called "democratic elections" have essentially become controlled by the landlord class. The landlords then rely on selling resources to seek profits for themselves and become economic colonies of imperialist powers. There is a lack of industrial construction, economic construction, social construction and industrialization in the local area. In Latin America, the country is controlled by caudillos. Therefore, in third world countries, the elected parliament is a tool for landlords and comprador bourgeoisie to control the country. This is actually undemocratic because it represents the interests of a minority or the interests of foreign powers in the local area, rather than the interests of the local people or the interests of the majority of the local people. Under such conditions, if you want to truly develop, you must establish people's democracy. If you want to establish people's democracy, you must first overthrow the old parliament. Only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard can you overthrow the old parliament controlled by landlords, warlords and comprador bourgeoisie, because it is impossible for the parliament controlled by the landlord class to pass any progressive reforms, promote social revolution and carry out industrialization, because industrialization will touch the interests of landlords and compradors. This is determined by the class nature of the landlords. If a country wants to industrialize, especially a late-developing country, it needs a strong leadership core to overthrow the landlord class, establish a dictatorship, and use the power of the state to complete land reform and invest in industrialization.

But the Manchurian rulers considers themself as Chinese, even the term ethnic Chinese (中华民族) was created by the for the Manchurian rulers to create a single Chinese ethnic. Since than most official documents up to today no longer uses Han to mention themselves but Five Race Republic, and Chinese to mention themselves. Manchurians and Mongols might not be Han but they are Chinese,

​@@Lin-eo5xu pretty sure Mongols are..... Mongolian?

@@Jay-ho9io But they are more Chinese Mongols than Mongols from the rest of the world. And the mongols in inner Mongolia chose to remain in China, with the Mongols in Xinjiang even fighting so they can remain as part of China.

@@Lin-eo5xu No, they are Mongolian. Just because China colonized part of Mongolia does not make the Mongolians in that colonized area any less Mongolian. And they have no reasonable choice to leave China as China is a much more powerful nation which would absolutely go to war to make sure that did not happen.

@@Jay-ho9io Just because ethic Mongolian chose to live there doesn't mean it is part of Mongolia

The entire place is coastal. Living standards on eastern coast is similar but have you seen inland provinces? Many western provinces have the geography of Afghanistan and their living standards are held by wealth redistribution from the coast.

Typical western apologetics of their devilish colonial era 🙄

China literally sees herself as the center of the universe. Any barbarian (non-Chinese) state who conducts hegemony, colonialism, etc are condemned while China literally does the same things everyday. This isn’t a recent phenomenon as the old Chinese dynasties had done similar acts before.

Nope the forbidden palace was protected during the cultural revolution. As would the summer palace if the barbarians didn’t loot it and destroy everything which wasn’t nailed down. This narrative that burning down most of the summer palace preserved the small pieces they looted is rather revolting🐽

That's not a way to legalize the colonialism

@@williamwan3712 it isn’t even that it’s just plain stupid. They destroyed more of the summer palace than they preserved. The communists also never destroyed imperial palaces to start with.

⁠@@lolasdm6959The Forbidden Palace neighboring Zhongnanhai sure, not so much anywhere else where Mao encouraged destruction of the Four Olds that even included the looting and desecrating known tombs of past Chinese emperors. Hence why there’s arguably more intact Chinese history and culture in Taiwan, where the KMT didn’t institute an obliteration of its past.

@@doujinflip Ok, so why are we ignoring the fact that CCP would 100% protect the summer palace if it weren't destroyed? Also the cringe colonial apologists are literally saying they somehow protected the heritage of the summer palace when they burnt down the placed and destroyed vast majority of the art within, this is the topic at hand here.

Taxmen probably just didn't care and taxed it anyway

They essentially what they did in many US states did for marijuana, legalized it & taxed as a legal business within the state. Federally it is still illegal thus the DEA can raid this establishments.

@@frankchan4272 Ah, I thought they did that much later though, after the Second Opium War.

Sometimes taxes are not gathered directly, illegal migrants in the states still pay taxes such as when they purchase goods and services, the drug smugglers may or may not be taxed directly but the bribes they pay and legal purchases they make would still make there way to state coffers in a more roundabout way. Another good example is Italy counting its mafia black market as part of Italy's national GDP, which is hilarious to me.

Reminds me that in the US, the IRS does not care where you get your money from so even thieves and drug cartels get taxed...

China's internal affairs do not need foreigners to interfere, if you have interfered in China, China will always remember, Chinese people like to keep diaries。

@@Huajierenmeiluziye : "Internal Affairs" end where other peoples are involved. Tibetans, are NOT Chinese, Uighurs are NOT Chinese, Mongolians are NOT Chinese, Vietnamese are NOT Chinese, Koreans are also not Chinese, Manchus and Khitans also are not really Chinese. The list goes on and on and on... and yet... the CCP claims sovereignity over these peoples. So, please, leave all those people to their own "internal affairs", instead of enslaving them. And by the way, that also applies to all the other empires.

@@bikkiikun China has a word called 十全武功。It means that the Qing Dynasty accomplished all the territorial goals that the Chinese empire wanted, even though the Han were not the rulers, but the Han were the main players。In the eyes of the traditional Chinese empire, 十全武功 was already the greatest achievement, so they began to give up and live in their own world, until a century of humiliation came, and China made a thorough Westernization, in order to survive。

⁠@@bikkiikunI think you best realize the difference between “Chinese” and “Han Chinese.” They are two very different concepts. Going by your logic, the now extinct Khitan people wouldn’t adopted Chinese names, language and ways of life etc back then IF they didn’t want to be Chinese. In another word, they didn’t became Han Chinese, but they did become Chinese, and that’s how they saw themselves. It was a matter of choice, same goes with Wuhuan Xianbei Shatuo and many more of them. However, here you’re making it sound like every single one of those non Han Chinese was conquered by the Han Chinese, forced to become Chinese. Now I wonder if Russian Chinese were “forced” to become Chinese too.

中国的强大繁荣促进了这些地区经济的发展并且保障朝鲜不受日本帝国主义侵略

The CCP is on to you

???

Less than a year old sock puppet account

@@Jay-ho9io ha ha so afraid to hear the truth about america

Now you realize there IS censorship on YT

Yes nothing is ever wrong, not then not now. The only right is the rights of the powerful, now former european powers cry foul because they are losing that right and china is rising to claim that. At least the us isn't too much of a crybaby

“Because someone is bigoted it means I have free dibs on his stuff and can rob his house” Wow some meaningful retrospective analysis going on here 🧐

Its hard for westerners to cope to the fact that china is already leading in many sector, the era of being a world police is coming to an end.

Its hard for westerners to cope to the fact that china is already leading in many sector, the era of being a world police is coming to an end.

The china with the new religion is superior in every imaginable way, can't say about some countries ditching pan arabism

Religion? It’s funny because we all know none of you guys wish for a powerful China so this religion must be hell of a drug.

The oldest generation received no education? Bro is talking like China ever had public education programs before the communists. Absolutely delusional

@@rp-hr1qsbro is speaking as if China had public education before the communists, modern China is superior in every way to pre communist China by any metric.

Hang on, in what way did Islam 'replace' the Middle East? Islam had been the predominant religion throughout the Middle East for centuries, long before China became a communist state.

Delete all this copy and paste stuff from little tian. It demonstartes what Chinese love to do: Copy and paste and no new thinking 😊