Maintaining the status quo is living on borrowed time. The Taiwanese attitude is like the Qing government who thought they're still superior to China when in reality the biggest city in Taiwan, Taipei, is considered second tier city in China based on its small population. Like it or not, the Taiwanese have to face reality. Taiwan reunification is the demand of 1.4 billion Chinese, not just the PRC government.

@@4KSnSLifestyle Not just Chinese mainlanders. Most members of the Chinese Diaspora support reunification, and that is about 100 million people of Chinese descent

@@JD-yz4kr More like three billion people under sino sphere. The Taiwanese are like spoiled brats just like the Hong Kong protesters. They think they're entitled to special privileges while letting three billion people starve.

@@JD-yz4kr Agreed! As Chinse overseas (w/ some of my immediate family is on Taiwan)... I think all in all the best permanent option for Taiwan peoples is to peacefully reunited w/ mainland China. As for how and when is up to U guys to decide. I am sure both "Chinese" are smart enough to not to being used by foreign forces that has very little or no interest of their (both) well being (esp for the long term).

@@ecrush5080 Reunification under the polity of the Republic of China will immediately resolve all the territorial disputes the mainland currently have with its neighbors. This includes South Tibet (gobbled up by India in 1951 and renamed to the so-called Arunachal Pradesh and made an Indian state in 1987), the Diaoyutai and the many natural islands in the South China Sea. Not to mention the possible reunification of Mongolia. Reunification under the polity of the PRC will squander a huge asset that reunification under the polity of the ROC will otherwise bring. And that is soft power. Reunification under the polity of ROC with one country two system will be like the Yin force and the Yang force combined into one.

You are absolutely right. A chunk of Tibet, an area larger than the state of South Carolina and have been made a state by India in 1987 and renamed to the so-called Arunachal Pradesh, has been occupied by India since 1951 and the PRC has been keeping people in the dark because this is not something that show the CCP in a positive light. The best way to resolve these territorial conflicts (including the Diaoyutai) is to reunite under the polity of the Republic of China under one country two system. In effect this will be a rebranding exercise with nothing change on the ground level. This will confer the reunified China unprecedented soft power and China will easily recover the stolen property from India and Japan.

@@PomegranateChocolate Thanks for explaining the southern border with India. I'm waiting for all the "Freedom lovers" to start a "Free Southern Tibet" campaign and the western media to champion it!

@@RickBlaine The Tibetans in South Tibet are certainly not doing good living under Indian rule. India simply doesn't trust the locals and basically treats everyone with suspicions because 'they look Chinese.' If anyone expresses sentiments that are construed as pro-China, the person can be sent to jail or killed, and it is legal under a law called the AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Power Act). AFSPA is imposed on areas India deemed 'disturbed,' such as South Tibet or Kashmir. The people there are angry but dare not speak up because they know what the authorities are capable of. Rape by Indians is another issue that angers the locals. A few years ago, two Indian soldiers raped a Tibetan girl in Bomdila, prompting the local police, which is made up of Tibetans, to detain the two Indians at a police station. India responded by sending in the army to storm the police station and rescue the two soldiers for fear of the two soldiers being lynched by the angry Tibetan mobs because this kind of thing had happened before. Afterward, India flew the defense minister to the area to give a stern warning to the local police that they had no authority to detain the Indian soldiers. I am sure those Westerners who profess to care about the human rights of the Tibetans don't give a hoot about the plight of the Tibetans under Indian rule. Let me elaborate on how South Tibet came under Indian control because this recent history is pretty much unknown to both Indians and Chinese because it paints a bad light in the eyes of the people on their respective governments. To set the backdrop, China has settled its border amicably with twelve of its fourteen contiguous neighbors except India and Bhutan. (Bhutan is militarily occupied by India and has no independent foreign policy). India, on the other hand, has territorial disputes with not just China but Pakistan, Nepal, and Myanmar and gobbled up the tiny kingdom of Sikkim in 1975. As late as the 1940s, after World War II and when India was created in 1947, the flag of the Republic of China (nowadays usually known as Taiwan) flew high in Tawang, South Tibet. Today, the Indian flag is flying there. On August 14th, 1947, Nehru gave his famous 'Tryst with Destiny' speech, and with that, a country that had not existed historically suddenly showed up on China's doorstep. India is similar to South Africa, a country that came into existence only because the colonialists created the country and subsequently and willingly relinquished its power to the indigenous people it once subjugated. If the British had never landed in India, today's subcontinent would comprise thousands of fiefdoms, often at each other's throats. This was the time of pre-Communist China (Republic of China), and India continued the British Raj's expansionist policy and the land incursion. Nationalist China (pre-Communist Republic of China) sent repeated diplomatic protests to the then-Indian Nehru government. However, schooled by the British on how to deal with these nuisances, these diplomatic protests were duly ignored. When Communist China won the civil war, and the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan in 1949, India was one of the earliest nations to recognize Communist China and, in one fell swoop, shut out the diplomatic channel the ROC used to deliver its diplomatic protests. India's land incursion continued, but Communist China ceased all diplomatic protests. In February 1951, three and a half years after the British Raj had left the subcontinent, India finally trekked up to Tawang, South Tibet, expelled the officials posted there from Lhasa, and annexed it. Tawang is the last major Tibetan frontier town. It is the birthplace of the Sixth Dalai Lama and home to the four-hundred-year-old Tawang Monastery. Historically, the Tawang Monastery has been a central government-friendly monastery. This means the news of India's invasion and annexation should have arrived in Beijing within a few days at the latest. Unsurprisingly, the Tibetan Lhasa government vehemently protested, as did the Republic of China (by then had already retreated to Taiwan), but curiously, Communist China made no noise. Communist China's accommodation must have greatly emboldened India as it continued to push northward into China, eventually precipitating the one-month-long 1962 India-China war, despite Communist China's repeated warning to India that it would strike back with India's continued border incursion. In the run-up to the 1962 war, Zhou En Lai went to New Delhi pleading to Nehru to take what it had stolen (South Tibet) and fix the boundary along the MacMahon alignment (It was termed the MacMahon alignment and not the MacMahon line because the so-called MacMahon line is a diplomatic forgery and is not recognized by either Communist China or its civil war rival, Nationalist China) but India rejected the offer. I am sure India saw Communist China's offer as a sign of submission. After all, India has already gobbled up South Tibet, a territory larger than the state of South Carolina, with zero resistance from Communist China, so why should India take China's warning seriously? So the intrusion continued, which Nehru euphemistically called the 'Forward Policy,' and China finally reacted by launching an attack, and India was swiftly defeated. On the international stage, Nehru lied to the world that India was a victim of Chinese aggression when, in fact, it had already annexed South Tibet in 1951. India's duplicities have far-reaching consequences beyond the dispute between the two countries. India's lies created the narrative of an expansionist China, which, according to Henry Kissinger and Robert MacNamara, is the reason the US got involved in the Vietnam War, with over fifty-eight thousand Americans killed as a consequence of Indian lies. In 1987, India made South Tibet a state and renamed it the so-called Arunachal Pradesh. The Republic of China (usually referred to as Taiwan nowadays) once again issued a statement strongly condemning India. Here is an excerpt of the statement put out by the Republic of China (usually referred to as Taiwan nowadays): "Regarding the issue of the Indian government's illegal occupation of our country's territory and the establishment of the so-called 'Arunachal Pradesh,' the foreign ministry of the Republic of China issued the following announcement at midnight: India's illegal occupation of our country's territory has been repeatedly stated by the government of the Republic of China as something it will not recognize. Recently, the Indian Congress unilaterally passed the establishment of 'Arunachal Pradesh' to the south of the so-called McMahon Line. The Indian government also made it a state. The government of the Republic of China once again solemnly proclaims that the government of India intends to legitimize its illegal occupation of Chinese territory. The government of the Republic of China regards this as illegal, void, and absolutely not recognized." The irony is that today, people in both countries are ignorant of these events because the truth shines a bad light on both governments. For the Chinese government, it reveals that Mao's CCP is an impotent and traitorous land conceder, not the 'Wolf Warrior' feel-good propaganda that the government wants to push. For the Indian government, it shows that India is a detested land grabber, an accusation that Indians like to throw on its northern neighbor.

Yeah.. I question the credibility of this guy. He says the Ned is on the ground in U but that the people wanted it. Well, if the people really wanted it then there would be no need for the Ned. But very goodwill questions by this interviewer to sus out the mindset/knowledge and credibility of the interviewee.

“According to data released on its website in 2020, the NED provided more than $10 million of grants for 69 China-related programs within one year, which were aimed to deliver various activities endangering China’s political and social stability.”

He underestimates the capabilities of Foreign Intelligence and their subversive activities.

Exactly !!! Is it really democracy in Taiwan when you're not even allowed to talk about all the options like reunification with mainland or the outcome of a war with mainland ? The authoritarian is present on both sides !!!

I think freedom of speech is generally considered to be non-criminalization of speech. You won't be thrown in jail for saying politically incorrect things, but you could lose your friends, lose your job, lose your social status, etc.

@@jefferyzhang1851 You mean like Julian Assange or Edward Snowden ?? That type of freedom of speech or the one where you get cancelled in Universities or the media or maybe the one where internet platforms just erase your rights to freedom of speech by deleting your speech which happens widely equally in the West , Taiwan and China. Btw, there are many cases in the West where muslim protagonist renditions to countries where tortures are allowed did happen and might still be happening for all we know.

No way out for Taiwan or get totally destroyed

They do not figure in the main stream calculation, it is just fodder, what counts is the 3000 or more American troops stationed there, on effect helping set up high tech weapons to target the mainland and in effect interfering in the affairs of another country, China

Agree, all failed

Better still China is part of Taiwan

I will try my best to explain this "economic crisis" that you mentioned. Country A is growing at 2 percent gdp, about 5 percent inflation, 7 percent interest rate. Country Z is growing at 5 to 6 percent gdp, near 0 inflation, interest rates at 2 percent and higher average life expectancy. So I hear the media tell me Country A is having great economic success and growing faster than expected. I also hear people say Country Z is having economic crisis and close to collapse. It does not add up, does it? A better question is why a free and independent media is giving distorted, if not dishonest "narrative"?

We here in the west is in deep excrement. The US is being run by a demented President constantly falling. The homeless is boundless . So come on, come to our senses , we are 36 trillion in debt and when de dolarization take in effect, you will see most of the 800 US bases all over the world will closed. It’s unsustainable. Get real !

China is undergoing economic transition. A conscious decision was made to prioritize technology over finance and real estate. There will be pain while the economy restructures away from financialization.

Just look what Happen in Vilnius . Zelensky is begging NATO but he was ignored. He knows it’s the end with a Ukraine and western Ukraine will be taken by Poland. Zelensky will have to find a new job

Proxy war

It's not that simple because there are vested interests behind the Taiwan intransigence. Ukraine and Hong Kong are good examples. Unfortunately many Taiwanese can not see through the veil

@@MattsFikezolo-lo7wq The vested interests you are talking about is the United States. And this is the beauty of the proposal. The Americans are an ideological and gullible people. It is the word 'Communist' that is eating at them. China is Communism no more but, on the paper, it still is because of the name of the CCP. Once the CCP rename itself to something different, it will greatly reduce the anxiety of the Americans because of a rising 'Communist' power and the vested interested America will suddenly change tune really fast. I can see that the US will suddenly demand India to return South Tibet, a territory larger than the state of South Carolina, to its ally the Republic of China.

Worth a look at Taiwan's "White Terror".