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@Joshua-xq8rl4 жыл бұрын
Well this hasn't aged well
@bradon39463 жыл бұрын
@@Joshua-xq8rl why not?
@Joshua-xq8rl3 жыл бұрын
@@bradon3946 thats when Nord admitted to having one of their servers compromised and everyone was moving away from being sponsored by nord
@haikaloronsentnel1382 жыл бұрын
ALL R!GHT!!!
@vladimirmomperousse Жыл бұрын
China has hundreds of thousands of years of history and you start at the opium wars 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@amosho2614 жыл бұрын
"Hardened by its past, for China there is no valid reason to trust outside forces and international commitments" This summed it up very accurately.
@solomonreal19773 жыл бұрын
let's be friends :)
@Aabergm3 жыл бұрын
There is a wonderful concept that applies, Its a mathematical principle which I cant remember the name of but in basics. Two people trying to reach an objective, While there can only be one 'winner' by working together both parties reach the end faster. Because of this Trust provides the best chance for winning. Trust + Trust (+2). If you trust and they betray you fall behind a bit and vice versa (-1). But if you fail to trust you lose nothing but also gain nothing (0). Thus by trusting you have more to gain than lose. If you know the concept please put the name because Google couldn't help me.
@Xind08983 жыл бұрын
@@Aabergm Game theory. What you have mentioned is a case of creating dynamics such that a Nash Equilibrium is also the best macro outcome
@ThienHoang-tr3dh2 жыл бұрын
Anyone could trust China? Between countries to countries, the term "Trust' does not exist.
@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe122 жыл бұрын
@@ThienHoang-tr3dh well yeah no country can be trusted. everyone are trying to gain the most for themselves. so negotiations are important to reach a concensus of how much gain both parties will get and how much both parties are willing to concede to gain those things. if both parties agreed that the pros and cons are balanced then a treaty/agreement is made. however military threats, economic pressure, politcial pressure etc are also chips on the negotiation table, a risky one but they can be used if the gain is worth the risk (especially for powerful nations). international relationship has always been like that no matter what country you are, if you are weaker or have less things to offer you have to concede more things you don't like.
@richardhu37745 жыл бұрын
It is very hard to find someone discusses modern Chinese History without bias on KZfaq. You deserve more subs.
@junsu215 жыл бұрын
Richard Hu you say it’s without bias simply because you agree with the presentation of the content. Bias is always in the eye of the beholder, for better or worse.
@inotaishu14 жыл бұрын
without bias? This videoÜ?
@snowwj60064 жыл бұрын
There are a few controversial points, how many people died in the Great Famine, according to the cia file analysis, the population of the three years actually has growth, and other specific details on ‘’Weibo''have come out to discuss, a wide range of famine must have, but The death of 5,500w people is still debatable, not so much. In addition, the mainstream public opinion is deducting Mao Zedong’s head for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. The merits discussion is all about Deng Xiaoping, but according to the People’s Daily editorial at the time, one of the Criticized points of the Gang of Four is against the Cultural Revolution, which is very contradictory.. Now there is a drum force on Weibo that opposes historical nihilism. Chairman Mao is very difficult in his later years, but these pots can only be his and only he can Carried, but the chairman’s merits. It’s also the one who has never been before
@ronathanwan12694 жыл бұрын
@K 2 Resorting to insults is a pretty low bar bro
@ronathanwan12694 жыл бұрын
@K 2 That's an ad hominem, snow wj never explicitly supported china or chinese actions. Regardless, even if we assume that all 1.2 billion chinese people fit the bat-eating stereotype ( which it dosen't, bat is a regional delicacy, not an ethnic one ), snow wj never said what his/her ethnicity or nationality was. You're also using whataboutism here, wrongdoing on the part of china does not justify wrongdoing by you. A tactic, if you didn't know, that is often used by the CCP to justify their controversial actions
@YM-vu7zd7 жыл бұрын
So you guys can understands why Chinese hate drugs so much?
@Justin Zhao You make it sound like it was a free market the british purposfully imported tons of opium making it cheap and available in a way that wouldve been highly unlikely without government interference.
@timtomp12345 жыл бұрын
@Justin Zhao I never implied any of that and I do not support the Fantanyl trafficking. IMO all drugs should be legal in the sense that no state should push for or against drugs wether foreign and domestic. The Opium Crisis was brought on by a State to purposefully destabilize a nation which is something I will never support.
@timtomp12345 жыл бұрын
@Justin Zhao Obviously Chinese nationals were responsible for the drug trade aswell. Doesnt change the fact that it was a deliberate effort by the English companies to destabilize a nation. These low to middle class drug traffickers had a quick profit in mind, who can blame them if they got the opportunity. If it were a free market I would be fine with it. Instead it was a government coordinated effort to supply China with opiates and when the Emperor tried to coordinate his own countermeasures war was declared and lost. Do tell me was it China's fault for getting into that war? And if not who's was it? I guarantee that if there had been an Opium inflation in any European country, the effects on the population and therefore stability would've been quite similar. Just look at the town's in America where Fentanyl is out of control. @Justin That "You said Chinese are children or animals" argument you brought up is inconclusive, yes they had free will, yes many even welcomed the Opium trade but it does not counter the fact, as I've stated already that there was a purposeful and deliberate effort by a foreign government to put Imperial China in that state. (One might say "oh the chinese shouldve been smarter than to take drugs" but then I'd point to the two paragraphs above.) Humans will almost always choose what is easy not was is right when in crisis and drug addiction is just that.
@timtomp12345 жыл бұрын
@Justin Zhao It's not a governmental effort to destabilze America with opiates!?
@qicheng70937 жыл бұрын
As a Chinese, I would say this video is almost in line with the history. You deserve more subscribers
@jay_murs45086 жыл бұрын
Are you familiar with Vipshop in china, if so, are they a good company?
@fanyechao27616 жыл бұрын
+jaymurtii __ depends, they sometimes sales sth in a much higher price
@jay_murs45086 жыл бұрын
Fan Yechao is vipshop quality better than stuff on Alibaba?
@fanyechao27616 жыл бұрын
+jaymurtii __ only to a certain extend, Vipshop shometimes sale the exact same thing as Alibaba but charge you ALOT more money to make their stuffs sounds quality, you need to comapre the two stores and see if they are saling the same thing, or you can give me a link of what you want and i can give a look
@jay_murs45086 жыл бұрын
Fan Yechao I have stock in Vipshop and wanted to know if people in China like the company. Thanks!
@CaspianReport7 жыл бұрын
We don't need to like one another but we do need to get along. So, let's try and refrain from inflammatory comments.
@cnnnpc43517 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on the geopolitics of Cuba, the Myanmar Rohinya crisis, recent secessionist movements in Nigeria, Central American drug networks, geopolitics of Indonesia and understanding the Kekistani mindset.
@geeteshkumar5667 жыл бұрын
CaspianReport I eagerly await for your reports....👍👍👍👍 good job bro
@nantzstein33117 жыл бұрын
CaspianReport The Anglo saxon mindset would be a perfect *follow up to the Chinese mindset.
@Chronically_ChiII7 жыл бұрын
Nah man, let's just enjoy tribalism doing its magical thing. ;)
@alixundr95197 жыл бұрын
I hate "x" and "y" is great. COME AT ME!
@prashanthb65217 жыл бұрын
I am from India. The hardships the Chinese people went thru is extreme and it makes me sad. I wish them good health and a prosperous future.
@ellashy65397 жыл бұрын
bless india too
@crystalball0207 жыл бұрын
Prashanth Budihal It's really sad that China and India are some what hostile toward each other these days. I see lots of stupid nationalists from both sides these days. Both countries are messed up in the past. It nice to see a rational Indian like you. Both should work together to regain their glories. Wish India good luck. :)
@Qwert1127 жыл бұрын
The short term hate makes sense. Two rising superpowers in such a close proximity can't possibly end well. Hopefully BRICS succeeds though, and makes them see reason. Both countries are getting fucked by their colonial legacy to this day. Hell, consider even disputes directly between them- like the recent China-India clash in Doklam. Clearly, one side is the aggressor, and is morally at fault, right? Except, both of them had legitimate reasons for doing what they did, and the dispute exists because of a mistake made in a territorial treaty drawn up by- you guessed it- The British Empire, who ruled India at the time.
@jjkhjgkjhkjbhgjhghnjn4167 жыл бұрын
I thought since since China and India shared similar fate they would understand each other even jawahar lal Nehru thought so. But Chinese back-stabbed India in 1962 and now they are blocking us every way possible. CCP has very bad intentions for the world especially against the west. Though I sympathize with with Chinese past I do not agree with modern CCP actions. If you enjoy the perks of UN security council you must abide by international law. Otherwise you are as much hypocrite and imperialistic as your aggressors were.
@Qwert1127 жыл бұрын
China gave a pretty clear warning about what would happen if you kept encroaching on their territory in 1962, so you can feel free to stop trying to spin this
@Mrjoshg0074 жыл бұрын
Opium isn’t nowadays known as heroin. Heroin comes from opium but they aren’t the same.
@leonleon20214 жыл бұрын
The more refines with higher concentration one is called heroin. So ur definition is partially correct.
@skizzik1214 жыл бұрын
@@leonleon2021 he is 100% correct. You don't call gasoline oil because it's a byproduct of refinement. Morphine is also derived, in the same process, from opium why not say morphine is the "modern" name for opium? Sorry for being so harsh here but the OP is completely correct not partially
@nedisawegoyogya4 жыл бұрын
@@skizzik121 gasoline is refinement of crude oil, and both of them are oil. Heroin is a substance refined from opium, and both of them are drugs. Just like iron is not ferrite, sodium is not table salt, calcium carbonate is not limestone etc etc. For informal use, it doesn't matter, but for technical discussion like this, I do think it's matter.
@lenn9393 жыл бұрын
@@leonleon2021 It’s not just a higher concentration actually. It’s an entirely different chemical. The active ingredients in opium are morphine, codeine (a prodrug for morphine) and thebaine. Heroin is diacetylmorphine which isn’t even contained in unprocessed opium. They’re different drugs.
@samitavamondal74323 жыл бұрын
@@skizzik121 are your crazy gasoline is a C5-C11 range liquid hydrocarbon, its same as petrol just USA use that term while UK India calls it petrol..your analogy is pathetic.
@user-th3eg8vx8k7 жыл бұрын
As a Chinese I never expected foreigners can understand what happened and what's going on in this country till now. Wow, good job!
@farmerbold11446 жыл бұрын
EVERYBODY HAS SUFFERED BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE TO MAKE OTHERS SUFFER. TODAY IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT, NOT THE PAST NO MATTER HOW PROUD AND ARROGANT SOMEONE IS REGARDING THEIR CULTURE, LAND, AND HISTORY. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA is not a "republic" but an oppressive and intrusive totalitarian one-party government. Imperial China's defeat, exploitation, and humiliation for the last couple of centuries by Western powers and Japan to be followed by China's Cultural Revolution in the mid1960's is an excuse and JUSTIFICATION for China's contemporary immoral expansionism, lies and cheating in order to take or steal whatever it wants today imitating past enemies that had ravaged China. Such theft includes militarily invading and subjugating Tibet and claiming sovereignty over the entire South China Sea (including Taiwan that is The Republic of China and militarized illegal artificial islands), East China Sea, Yellow Sea and all oil/gas mineral rights and all fishing rights right up to the shores of other nations. China simply ignores the existence of other nations and their humanity. China's damaged ego does not have to be stroked and soothed by everybody else in the world kowtowing in order for China to have security. Security does not require revenge, as people and cultures all over the world have both imposed and suffered violence, death, and humiliation. China's feelings got hurt by a violent history and now feels justified to get some payback by subjugating everybody in the world. Now, all other nations in the region are militarizing to eventually fight China ... India, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, S. Korea, and Japan. China warns the U.S. to stay away and mind its own business as China greatly increases its military power eventually to rival America's largely by computer hacking and espionage or spying as well as increasing wealth by trade esp. with the U.S.
@farmerbold11446 жыл бұрын
I'm just in that kind of mood right now, because I'm angry at China's bullying and illegal expansion into Tibet and the South China Sea etc. with militarized artificial islands and disallowing, for example, Filipinos from their ancient fishing places etc. etc. etc. And my America, its allies and friends are just letting it happen and continuing trade with China while doing nothing but meaningless "saber rattling" between China and the U.S. while the U.S. is being side-tracked by N. Korea and the Middle East distractions. Americans don't appear to care or even to be aware of the threat to world peace posed by China's ambitions.
@user-mx9ni2ls9d6 жыл бұрын
Farmer Bold you are brainwashed successfully by your America. I can't believe this kind of people exit until I saw you. it's really funny because you look so serious and faithful.
@farmerbold11446 жыл бұрын
@沈腾 A RACE OR CULTURE cannot own a people along with their historical lands that they need in order to live on ... and certainly not forever. There is no legal, moral, or reasonable excuse for China's undiplomatic bullying expansion claiming ancient ownership of Tibet and the entire open waters and all oil/gas and fishing-rights of the South China Sea being militarized for combat and/or war etc. conflicting with and overriding claims by other nations. Also note that the South/East China Sea, Indian Ocean, Philippians Sea, Black Sea, Gulf of Mexico ... these are names only, not proof of ownership. China does not own Tibet or the South China Sea etc. any more than Mongolia owns China having defeated China in the distant past or that Eastern Africa owns China because those Africans migrated there (now mainland China) first tens of thousands of years ago ... no matter China's claim of ancient ownership. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- trex kiro trex kiro 4 months ago You Understand Now why China Is An expansionist Bully? Do you feel sympathy on what their doing to us now? Do understand now why they Have to humiliate smaller countries and invade their territories? Its the western countries' fault Why china is like this:( Sad....And i Don't care, You shouldn't care about their Sad back story either. All That Matters Now is the present. And their a complete asshole and Bully. And has no respect what so ever about the International Law that They Signed. China Has NO honor the their words and Promises. Just like how they agreed to mutually End the Military stand-off in Scarborough Shoal with the Philippines,. The Philippines Complied to the Agreement But the China at the very next day Cordoned the Area With warships when the Philippines Ships left. Disgusting Country. They Make fake Products and Their Words are cheap and worthless as well. Never trust China. They Want you to think that their the Victim But they are in reality a predator as well. Do you Also remember the time when XI jing PIng Threatened the Philippines of War? A huge country like china Threatening us of war?! What? they can't Pick Fights with Someone their own size?! I want to see them threaten the US or Britain with war. Shameless country, No honor, Worthless,A Husk, No culture Erased by its commie government ,and is the Biggest coward of a country as well. With All its arrogance ANd Pathetic Pretensions as A SUperpower,I can't Wait for China to Explode again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ s yottky 1 week ago (edited) Chinese mindset?? very simple: Fanatical nationalism (i'm from hong kong & understand them very very very well) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are all brothers of the earth and of heaven. This egoistic fascination with ancient history is very interesting, but does not change the reality of our universal brotherhood ... Black, White, Asian and etc. Individual and group identity is an illusion of experiential thought or thinking in reaction to the notion of the past (the idea of who hurt you) and the future (the idea of what you want) ... and not reality. Reality is not a thought reacting to experience or desire. Reality is the moment of now independent of notions, emotions, resentment, and ambition. And the moment of now is the opportunity to have a caring regard for everyone and nature.
@user-mx9ni2ls9d6 жыл бұрын
Farmer Bold So China is a evil country and America is a protector of the world, is that what you mean?
@shadbakht7 жыл бұрын
Couple of mistakes at ~8 mins: Mao retreated WEST, not East. And poor WESTERN provinces, not Eastern.
@TheSunshineRequiem6 жыл бұрын
nice catch
@ThomasFoolery86 жыл бұрын
Yeah that confused me too.
@levitatingoctahedron9225 жыл бұрын
don't forget that nanking is heavily exaggerated.
@NightDoge5 жыл бұрын
@@levitatingoctahedron922 How so is Nanking exaggerated?
@levitatingoctahedron9225 жыл бұрын
@@NightDoge more people were supposedly killed than what lived in the city at the time. it's ludicrous. claims of deaths vary so wildly it's obvious that there's no actual evidence on the matter.
@aeilluchia70126 жыл бұрын
As a Chinese, I feel so sad watching this...I remember I once went to visit my grandma's papa ―― 91 years old then, and my grandma helped him take a bath. I could See 3 bullet marks on his back and legs. I cried at the scene... I hated the Japanese so much at that time, it's too much for a 7 or 8 years old. Now I still don't forgive them, but I persuade myself to hate the politicians only, who started a war on other nations. I believe most people are innocent and kind. I Love peace. I know the new China has a lot to be criticized by the west, like human rights, but I have no problem being happy, what the west worries is not that of most of the Chinese, and I admit China's imperfect, but I still Love my country, a place I call home and its people I call family. No country is perfect after all. I cherish what I have now. I wish my country all the Best.
@roboactive4 жыл бұрын
You are right. You should not blame the people, but the politicians.
@doom18944 жыл бұрын
My grandpa was shot too. so I know how you feel 😔😔
@moonsorrow774 жыл бұрын
My grandparents were threatened by Japanese soldiers..cos he was a very rich businessman..almost killed,so he gave up his business to the Japanese and ran took my grandmother, and all the aunties and uncles with him..
@Azhar_shaikh14 жыл бұрын
East Turkmenistan?
@jiachael52224 жыл бұрын
Wow, no one commented u should eat a bat yet? This is so rare
@yesyes18426 жыл бұрын
I'm not a fan of Mao by any means, but you do begin to see how his place in Chinese history was significant in the sense that he unified the country and drove off foreigners. He may not have governed the best, but he ended the period of foreign dominance and paved the way for his successors to perform future developments. Different times require different leaders and at that point in time, that was the person to do the job.
@yilongliu23535 жыл бұрын
totally agree as a chinese, the whole cultral revolution shit was stupid, but I thank him with all my heart.
@KK-xi7vh5 жыл бұрын
@@yilongliu2353 +1
@user-ch9my3to6j5 жыл бұрын
@佛地魔王蘇貞昌 chiang was known for his effort in the sino-japanese war. although the chinese media portraits it was the communist fighting it, in reality, most of the war effort was done by the nationalist lead by chiang. i have no idea why you insult a chinese national hero like that. talking about the usa, both philippine and india were colonies, yet china was never one, ROC held way more strength, autonomy and legitimacy, ROC was even considered as a top 4 great power post-ww2, why would a great power act be a puppet of the usa? and chiang himself refused countless US advises because he throught that he would lose that legitimacy, even during his reign of taiwan.
@rafaelmelo25765 жыл бұрын
@@edwardsnowden2313 That's why in India you still find people shitting on the streets due to the lack of infastructure, while in China you have high speed trains all over the country.
@norwegianboyee5 жыл бұрын
@Rafael Melo Is that supposed to be a fucking joke? China is by no means better than India when it comes to cleanliness. Chinese people spit on the streets and have no manners. And if high speed trains is your condition of a better country then Japan has China beat by a mile.
@xX13Pwner13Xx5 жыл бұрын
百年国耻,means 100 years of national shame. When you hear China's side of the story, you understand their position a lot better.
@toastytoast98003 жыл бұрын
Yeah, today we mostly see the world through the euro-american lense and dont do much reaserch on the other perspective
@knowledgeringsstalkers17953 жыл бұрын
@@toastytoast9800 that Euro merican lens is called as ANGLO or from Western PARADIGMS
@anandpandey51053 жыл бұрын
But they are still doing the same thing, which led to 100 year of humiliation, enclosing themselves.
@PedroLimaPTS3 жыл бұрын
@@anandpandey5105 More or less. They are closing themselves, somewhat understandably, but they are ""open"" to western industries and businesses as long as they shut their mouth and keep the money coming. And there is a lot of Chinese PR and propaganda in the west in favour of a more positive view of China. They are playing the game the west made and played on them, unfairly, as far as my limited knowledge allows me to say.
@successkim79203 жыл бұрын
@@toastytoast9800 which i think is perfectly fair. Because many people take advantage of that open mindset to unleash hatred and more discrimination against the west
@Leon-pn6rb7 жыл бұрын
*As an Indian* , I have to say , both India and China have very similar history No reason we can't help each other out today and be good friends.
@EarthForces7 жыл бұрын
12345a Unlikely because in reality, China is India's greatest potential threat while Pakistan is China's best distraction to Indian potential in case India grows as a regional superpower. At best both countries will accomodate but never be "allies" in any sense of the word. By the way have you heard of the Sino-Indian war of 1962?
@ellashy65397 жыл бұрын
China is not India's biggest threat what disillusion, you are not han
@momololo32237 жыл бұрын
Lol, look what happened in Doklam, a great war has almost started. India and China relationship is still deeply affected by realpolitik. Just look at the propaganda presented by both China and India, it just promotes more hate and ignorance at each other. Remenber Doklam, a useless barren land that almost started a meaningless, dick-measuring war. Lol, Its impossible to help each other since citizens from both sides are deeply brainwashed to hate each other.
@EarthForces7 жыл бұрын
Ella Shy I beg to differ. The Dokklam standoff actually showed that potential of Chinese threat to Indian territorial integrity. Read some current events as well and you will realize I am right. By the way, it was the Chinese who was the initiator if not aggressor that led to the standoff by building a road in a territory that is not theirs or disputed at best.
@user-ch9my3to6j5 жыл бұрын
@@EarthForces it was a broader conflict...
@MrKIMBO3457 жыл бұрын
This is interesting. Since my country, Philippines, is in territorial dispute with China, this video helps me to understand on why China acts like that.
@daigoshirase48537 жыл бұрын
Kimbo Laurel Duterte understands the Chinese mindset.
@isunlloaoll7 жыл бұрын
Chinese people dont want to beat Philippines, China just don't like American soldiers surrounding China. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Philippines form a chain of islands that contains China. 90% of Chinas oil, and most of its trade goes through SCS, so that's why china has been aggressive. They were bought to the knees in the 20th century by the international community. No more trust, only hard power can keep China safe.
@temperateortropical1617 жыл бұрын
Rex Madrigal : His grandfather was Chinese.
@htoodoh57707 жыл бұрын
ARVIN Hmm, that quite interesting.
@43901007 жыл бұрын
Perhaps not too smart, Perhaps South Korea and Japan will think creatively about their own Nuclear Weapons, and then China should not start to wonder why everybody else is joining in on the military buildup parade, because they started it first.
@123456aaronchan5 жыл бұрын
I am a Chinese (Macao SAR). in fact we don't need a help and praise. but we hope that we have a fair comment, and welcome everyone wanna know more about us, thank for your impartial video.
@arsbekbek25885 жыл бұрын
do Chinese love Stalin or not?
@oswaldclara90175 жыл бұрын
@@arsbekbek2588 we don't know much about him. like or dislike also can not be used to describe a person.
@user-hf1yh6om2q5 жыл бұрын
@@arsbekbek2588 中国还有一堆人骂毛泽东呢,国家这么大怎么一概而论
@arsbekbek25885 жыл бұрын
@@user-hf1yh6om2q ??
@arsbekbek25885 жыл бұрын
@@user-hf1yh6om2q eng
@willsjhdhd96197 жыл бұрын
This is the story handed down for generations and is exactly what my grandparents told my parents, and my parents to me by word of mouth. The takeaway message is to put spirituality in the backseat for the unrestricted pursuit of science, wealth and power. The Century of humiliation also is a reminder/encouragement as well: even when times are the darkest, your cities pillaged, the enemy in occupation of your lands, 30-50million of your people dead, devastated by opium addiction and poverty, Chinese civilisation did not collapse. We can always outbleed and attrite our opponents and drown them in our blood, no matter the costs. If the 1950 Korean war is the first time a rag tag peasant army managed to fight down the combined south Korean, American, British, Australian and UN troops to a stalemate, then whatmore now with the nuclear armed and high tech armed forces of today with our wealth of military intelligence and personnel with intricate understanding of the western thinking/psyche and vulnerabilities? Nonetheless the past is the past and we can forgive, but never forget. The West too has to show remorse and demonstrate that they are no longer the pillaging barbarians from across the seas but mutual partners who have also learnt from our mutual follies and misunderstandings of the past. Our common humanity is something worth emphasising and building towards
@bloodfiredrake72597 жыл бұрын
i agree with you.
@Chronically_ChiII7 жыл бұрын
Very inspirational and true. Is spirituality this weak in China? Good luck on building a bridge on your side, let's hope that one day, we will meet in the middle.
@TalesOfGod7 жыл бұрын
I don't mean to be rude but does your comment not reek of hypocrisy considering the actions of the past Chinese and current Chinese government? Many of the things that you accuse the foreigners of doing is the exact same thing that the Chinese have been doing to their neighbors for centuries and the current Chinese government continues to treat all of their neighbours as trash ( a common criticism from even the Kremlin). As for the Korean war, the Chinese only managed to do that at losing 10x the amount of soldiers than their enemies and broke the treaties that they had previously signed with the foreign powers. Even then, they barely achieved anything and were forced to sign the treaty after their losses became too much.
@TalesOfGod7 жыл бұрын
Exactly as Peter had said.
@phillip767 жыл бұрын
TalesOfGold, I think China was pretty impressive given how undeveloped China was during the Korean war. They were trying to fight a modernized military with sticks, and stones, and still manage to lost 10 times. Why not 1000 times? Chinese got nothing, and Americans got all the advantage. I think China can win now.
@musiclist55197 жыл бұрын
Im from Turkey and I felt sorry for Chinese people of great sufferings they have been through. 😯😯😯 We know what happens once you lose your empire. Be safe 坚强!
@jinxinliu24977 жыл бұрын
Oh, the old Ottoman Empire
@manchumuq7 жыл бұрын
Yes, actually at the beginning of the Republic of China, many Chinese intellectuals were very into researching the history of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and how the Turkey is surviving at that age, to find a solution for the China back then.
@FK-se4hq6 жыл бұрын
Then how about you go out and punch a Turanist to express your feelings?
@yilongliu23535 жыл бұрын
plz dont be, the only reason why china was bullied like a dog is because of that we were weak.
@KK-xi7vh5 жыл бұрын
@@yilongliu2353 ...........
@derekchen73715 жыл бұрын
The Lesson One from Qing dynasty, never trust the foreigner thoroughly, especailly when they are talking about fair trade(for opiums), religions(for Christian missionaries) and laws(in favor of the westerners). The second from Republic of China, keep united and strong or the foreigners will arm the warlords and enemies to split our nation. The third from Mao era, idealogy(communism&populism) cannot feed so don't think too much and go back to work. The fourth from 1991,US-promoting democracy & freedom is just for crushing a Communist state but not helping Russian people (Now Russian Enconomy is even less than a province of China).
@TangomanX20085 жыл бұрын
Hmm, that can't be right. If this were true, then China could have avoid all, or at least some of its sufferings by being less trusting. As far as I can tell, excessive trust was not the failure. As far as i can tell, the biggest problem was that it did not understand, and didn't feel the need to understand its own situation and its relation to the West. Sure, it is easy to argue that China was unjustly suffered at the hand of the west. However, it also had a sense of sense of superiority and advantage that was completely unjustified and as a result, made serious miscalculations vis a vis the west. In other words, thinking that it was dealing with weak and puny barbarians who needed to bend the knee to the Emperor and give it tribute probably played a big part in the suffering it experienced. I'm not saying it justifies it what they suffer, but it is something to keep in mind. Having said that, in the 21st Century, the West seems more likely to underestimate China than China underestimate the West.
@bisacool73395 жыл бұрын
chinese are always arrogant. that is why they were always humiliated. im saying all but the majority are. if you pay enough attention to Confucianism then you dont have to deal with the process.
@TangomanX20085 жыл бұрын
@@bisacool7339 I understand Confucianism, but I have no idea what you mean by "if you pay enough attention to Confucianism then you dont have to deal with the process." In fact, I don't see what Confucianism has anything to do with the issue. Please clarify.
@MankindDiary5 жыл бұрын
Lesson you totally forgot - if you do what West want you to do, you're becoming an empire that is equal to other Western countries. Just look at Japan - instead of closing themselves, they've actually embraced Western law, culture and technology and in few decades they first won a war with mighty China and then they even won a war against Western country, first time since the Mongol invasion. We traded with the mighty and colonised the weak. China decided to be the latter one.
@wojciechhoppe4565 жыл бұрын
@@MankindDiary yeah but China and Japan were different though. China thought of itself as the center of the earth. For them it would be a blame to do what the west want them to do, because for thousands of years they were the one telling other countries what to do. Well Japan wasn't in that position. For about 2000 years they did what China wanted them and Japan was fine. Later they did what the western country wanted them and came fine out too. They were no superpower which had to defend their position
@rayyanai01hasanat47 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for china because of their being invaded and violated by countries hope they shine again. Love from Pakistan
@loungeroam7 жыл бұрын
Which countries China invades and violates?
@loungeroam7 жыл бұрын
In which way and how? And When? One by one, please explain
@isunlloaoll7 жыл бұрын
Mark Raymond Many of the countries have been conquered and subjugated centuries ago. Many native people of these lands have already been "Hanized", and indistinguishable from the rest. Like how there are 3 language groups in Belgium. Like Scotland of UK, or Catalonia of Spain. No country is innocent, but China is a saint compared to what white Americans did to the natives, and what Europeans did to Africa, Americas, and Asia.
@farmerbold11446 жыл бұрын
@Rayyan Hasanat, EVERYBODY HAS SUFFERED BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE TO MAKE OTHERS SUFFER. GOT IT! THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA is not a "republic" but an oppressive and intrusive totalitarian one-party government. Imperial China's defeat, exploitation, and humiliation for the last couple of centuries by Western powers and Japan to be followed by China's Cultural Revolution in the mid1960's is an excuse and JUSTIFICATION for China's contemporary immoral expansionism, lies and cheating in order to take or steal whatever it wants today imitating past enemies that had ravaged China. Such theft includes militarily invading and subjugating Tibet and claiming sovereignty over the entire South China Sea (including Taiwan that is The Republic of China and militarized illegal artificial islands), East China Sea, Yellow Sea and all oil/gas mineral rights and all fishing rights right up to the shores of other nations. China simply ignores the existence of other nations and their humanity. China's damaged ego does not have to be stroked and soothed by everybody else in the world kowtowing in order for China to have security. Security does not require revenge, as people and cultures all over the world have both imposed and suffered violence, death, and humiliation. China's feelings got hurt by a violent history and now feels justified to get some payback by subjugating everybody in the world. Now, all other nations in the region are militarizing to eventually fight China ... India, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, S. Korea, and Japan. China warns the U.S. to stay away and mind its own business as China greatly increases its military power eventually to rival America's largely by computer hacking and espionage or spying as well as increasing wealth by trade esp. with the U.S.
@rayyanai01hasanat46 жыл бұрын
Farmer Bold because the western world wants hegemony just like the Indian one South Asia where it wants to take over all existing countries. Japan is not innocent the Japanese army was decimated by the pla that it could not even fight no one ever talks about brutality of Japanese army only just glorify it as powerful they were not powerful just pitiful in battle against Chinese people. Australia is an nuisance it invaded Indonesia 🇮🇩 island called East Timor when the country had weak government please these aussies must be kept checked they only know how to create chaos were they fund terrorists in the country of Indonesia. Last time I checked Vietnam was invaded by USA and NATO and china had support them remember the Vietnam 🇻🇳 war. Taiwan 🇹🇼 had a corrupt govt when Mao Zedong came it run into the small 🌴 island. Please don’t fabricate lies and do your research.
@maddame...72007 жыл бұрын
British.....always causing trouble to other countries...sigh
@manchumuq7 жыл бұрын
Basically.
@ReformMsia7 жыл бұрын
Christianity is a curse to the world They are now a Zionist puppet
@evanshao47696 жыл бұрын
Britain caused trouble all over the world. The most evil country by far.
@chilldude305 жыл бұрын
Please remember it was the aristocrat British class who were doing that, the normal working people in Britain just wanted to get along.
@yilongliu23535 жыл бұрын
dont blame them, the only reason why china was bullied like a dog is because of that we were weak.
@roneilkintanar90482 жыл бұрын
Some handy timestamps 0:40 Intro 1:30 Trade and Silver imbalance 3:10 Opium war + Decline of Qing Dynasty 7:00 China becomes a Republic 8:00 Civil war between Kuomintang vs Communists, Japan invades 9:50 PRC and ROC established 10:00 Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution 12:40 Conclusion
@aaronmikejunior74812 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the help bro
@BlackWolf64205 жыл бұрын
I used to sleep at history lessons at school. Now, I’m addicted to those videos.
@tacosamurai68946 жыл бұрын
China has been destroyed and rebuilt too many times since ancient times,But it has always survived, and the people in China are very fortunate,Until now it is still the oldest country in the world.
@user-ch9my3to6j5 жыл бұрын
eh i think you meant one of the oldest civilization.
@mesochocliu5375 жыл бұрын
@@user-ch9my3to6j Yeah, they can write their language used more than 2000 years ago, which is Chinese calligraphy now.
@CuongNguyen-le5ic5 жыл бұрын
Yep and each times the one that killed the most Chinese and destroyed the most China's culture are from Chinese. However, Chinese won't admit it and often use foreign power to play the blame games all the time.
@mesochocliu5375 жыл бұрын
@@CuongNguyen-le5ic Well, you cannot deny the Opium War, Second Opium War, Sino-Japanese war, Second Sino-Japanese war etc. These foreign powers are truth in the history. Chinese killed Chinese? Civil war happened in China, but also the United States in 1861-1865, the Soviet Union in 1917-1920, and so many countries. Culture is formed by its history, a country destroyed itself culture doesn't make sense, it's the common memory of the nation and represents its cultural history.
@CuongNguyen-le5ic5 жыл бұрын
@@mesochocliu537 Nobody Deny them, but Chinese often DENY the fact that there are more Chinese suffer and die under corrupted officials throughout China's history. China is an powerful empire for thousands of years. Not many can challenge such empire, thus with such powerful empire, Civil Wars and Power Struggle along with Corrupted Officials happens all the time. The problem is China often use foreign power to cover up and shift attention to the corruption of their Centralize Government. Often minimize such effect.
@KevinChen20227 жыл бұрын
your video is unbiased and very edcational, you deserve more subscribers.
@thegoonist7 жыл бұрын
who the fuck are you to decide if its unbiased or not? if something (ie this video) is consistent with your views and your own understanding of history, it is deemed unbiased? seriously.
@montecarlostudio51996 жыл бұрын
+Kevin Chen almost all views from rest of the world about china are biased, they couldn't understand what's going on in china, especially in recent 30 years people are scared of what they don't understand they make up stories to make china looks like evil, while the real evil in this world is US
@someonexd19615 жыл бұрын
@@montecarlostudio5199 tbh most chinese do not know their own history right due to government shit
@jessebai5925 жыл бұрын
There are too many shitty rumors among the streams like:Chinese government arrest protester and sell their organ.Chinese were brainwashed.Chinese were riceeating machines.Chinese stolen everyones ideasChinese lie about everythingsetcAnd so many westen belive that deeply, and quote those never proofed words as "evidence"Really made me sick
@someonexd19615 жыл бұрын
@@jessebai592 as a ''westerner'' i had heard of 2 the things u mentioned and i feel u are very uninformed on what ''westerners'' think
@peteryin44087 жыл бұрын
Well done. Your knowledge of China is impressive with very few mistakes. Your channel is very close to unbiased and I would like to subscribe.
@saraishinkai157 жыл бұрын
Peter Yin .I came here from r sino
@MacAutopsy7 жыл бұрын
Peter Yin very close but there's a few key points left out that would change the narrative.
@montecarlostudio51996 жыл бұрын
+Peter Yin you're so naive, most people come to youtube to bash china, including this channel you should see this so called report talking about china/india for super power
@starstuff71256 жыл бұрын
bmetr1 China’s spending on research is greater than the European Union and only beaten by the US...
@ML-mi7ns6 жыл бұрын
bmetr1 Mind your own business.
@wenyuanli99685 жыл бұрын
The last time Chinese people trusted so called "international commitments" was exactly 1937 when the war with Japan had formally broken out. In the beginning months, China was desperately seeking help from all nations who signed the Nine-Power Treaty. China even tried to fight at Shanghai - its biggest and most internationalized city to draw the attention of the international society, in the hope that Japan's brutal attack can be kept in check diplomatically. However, all major powers at the time had only paid lip service except (not surprisingly if you consider Spain) the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, both of them weren't even members of the Nine-Power Treaty! Well, I guess US did try economic sanctions, but the type of economic sanction that really mattered a lot wasn't introduced all the way until 1941, and when that was finally imposed, the Pacific War began immediately. The Third Reich tried to negotiate a peace between the two nations because it was in kind of informal alliance with both nationalist China and Japan at the time. Unfortunately, the Nazis soon realized how hopeless China's situation was after the capital Nanjing fell into Japanese hands, and had chosen its side by withdrawing from all its treaties with China, recognizing Japan's toy puppet state, and stopping all forms of aid. The Soviets, on the other hand, tried to help China because it was in fierce competition with Japan in northeastern Asia and saw China as a measure to weaken Japan's position. Unfortunately, after the Soviets signed the neutrality pact with Japan in 1941, China was no longer useful, plus the German invasion put a huge pressure upon its economy, the Soviets paused their aid too. As for the "fair" and "just" western democratic powers? Nothing major really happened before it was clear that Japan will stand side by side with the Nazis, and that was when the United States stepped in and seriously helped China. The US was certainly sympathetic from the beginning, and tried to aid a little bit as long as it didn't enrage the Japanese too much, but you could imagine what minor impacts those helps would have if they did not even enrage the Japanese. Ah, and our old friends UK and France, they were too feared to fight for another nation that didn't matter to them - they even sacrificed Czechoslovakia to "see if it works", why not China? We don't blame them though, we won't fight unnecessarily for another nation, too. But please understand that we no longer want to be the guy that got thrown away to "see if it works". The people support Chinese government and CCP not because of the ideology, but because they understand the rule of the world: China would be in a much better situation if the westerners are our competitors rather than sympathizers, even if it means we're no longer close friends. They had proved that ability again and again, never disappointing us so far.
@Maelstromme5 жыл бұрын
Wenyuan Li No offense, but I think it’s proof that collectively speaking, China can’t move on from the past. If events that happened centuries ago shapes their current mindset as if it happened yesterday, that is a fault on their part. This isn’t 1937, I would “assume” China is wise enough to know that.
@qiyuxuan94375 жыл бұрын
@@Maelstromme Tbh, modern world is not much different from 1937. Every nation is just play more dirty and behiend table to avoid direct conflict now, because everyone got nukes now.
@wenyuanli99685 жыл бұрын
Please Clap Yeah, I’m sure the Japanese will welcome such an agreement. So how about them removing those war criminals from the Yasukuni Shrine first? Even Tojo Hideki is being included there! Remember that the Chinese people suffered basically no less atrocity from the Japanese hands than the Soviets from the Nazis’, you can barely understand how insulting it will be for them to see Tojo still being enshrined as a “national hero”. Just imagine Joseph Goebbels being worshipped by some cult in Germany that’s not only and popular, but even the German chancellor would pay visits occasionally, would you feel like you can “move on” from what they’ve done to your people if you’re a Jew or Russian? (Prime Minister Abe has visited that place multiple times already, you easily search that online) This is the funny thing about western media, the Chinese gets depicted as narrow-minded warmongers while the real offenders are viewed as polite and nice now... Ask a random South Korean guy and he surly would tell the same story about how disgusting the Japanese are when it comes to recognizing their own history.
@IliasJoels4 жыл бұрын
@@Maelstromme The past is important because we are the past: we are the sum of all the events--good, bad, and indifferent--that have happened to us. This sum product guides our actions in the present. No one is simply "moving on" or else we wouldn't be where we are today.
@Maelstromme4 жыл бұрын
@@IliasJoels It is ideal to learn from the past, or we are doomed to repeat it. It isn't good to stick to bygone ways and outdated traditions and practices when they are no longer relevant or necessary. It is important to look back on them and learn from it, but not to worship and commemorate it in the present. It is especially important to not let a society's mindset be dominated by ancient teachings as if they are recent, lest they maintain a warped worldview and an inadequate perspective on what goes on around it, one that is confined to the circumstances that has bred such teachings in the past. We as a species are charging ahead, moving forward. We aren't falling behind or deteriorating from a time point of prosperity and innovation to one of barbarity and ignorance. Therefore, it is as important for us to forge new perspectives to deal with the challenges presented to us in the present day to continue our progress as it is for a hypothetical society in the midst of chaos to want to bring back and restore what was once a period of enlightenment.
@rms10343 жыл бұрын
I would be interested in seeing an updated China mindset Video in 2021 given the recent developments in the past 4 years, with massive military build up, disputed territorial aggression, Threats to Taiwan, Covid 19 Pandemic, resistance to expansionism of hard and soft power, and a growing suspiciousness and adversarial stance from the rest of the world and the US lead alliance umbrella. Love your channel and excellent informative content.
@Ivan-bg1jp2 жыл бұрын
I kind of doubt that China is taking a PURE adversarial stance against the West due to the fact alone that US has countless military bases surrounding China.
@yifanruan1928 ай бұрын
It's mostly the same. The mindset hasn't changed. As before, you can understand all of China's stances and actions if you look towards its history
@MatthewChenIsAwesome7 жыл бұрын
This is a very sad but true story of my country, and it's nice that some people here on KZfaq have got it right. Many reports or textbooks on the suffering in China in the 19th and 20th century really down play all the deaths that have been caused during those terrible times. It is little known of the Taiping Rebellion which killed 20-30 million people. It is little know of the Boxer Rebellion, the two great Chinese famines in the 20th centuries, the two worst in recorded history, killing approximately 68 million people in total. To put that in perspective, in total that's more than 2x the amount of people killed by Hitler and Stalin COMBINED in one century. Not to mention the centuries of exploitation and humiliation from countries like Britain and Japan, which are much much smaller than China in the first place. It is because of all of this that Chinese leaders simply cannot trust outsiders like Europeans or others making the judgement calls on "international law", and rightfully so. You know, China was very rich and prosperous before the opium wars, before Britain took all of it's wealth away and reduced it to such suffering. As such, Chinese leaders act aggressively to prevent others from taking advantage of them like this ever again.
@ellashy65397 жыл бұрын
Yes! this humiliation will always be remembered and that will makes the han chinese to push forward until we regain the natural order of things
@tzarnikolov7 жыл бұрын
唉, 我們的歴史...
@dondonnysson49737 жыл бұрын
Mathew Wang China choked on its own arrogance and believed themselves to be untouchable. Like maybe don't play the tough guy when the other countries had militaries that were decades ahead in technology. Not trying to justify any Western actions here but I think the Chinese leaders back then could've used a reality-check.
@MuireKnight7 жыл бұрын
Much of the wows of 19th century China are to do with it's failure to modernize and westernize rapidly like Japan .
@Tristar10h7 жыл бұрын
Wrong: It was the Manchurian, the ruler of Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911 C.E.), a non-Han race outsider, that mismanaged China the last few hundred years of ruling China. They prevent all the talented Han race from government jobs. Manchurian backward mindset due to their semi-nomadic live-style. I'm glad the arrogant Manchurian, with their ugly pig-tail hairstyle forced upon all Han Chinese, finally forced to end the line of emperor and the Manchurian race, along with the Mongol, got assimilated by the Han, they deserved.
@jack-oj4iu7 жыл бұрын
You are the substitute for the dead channel, Seeker Daily. thank you.
@user-wx3mq4nz3f7 жыл бұрын
Steve Mcman It's not dead. It's back.
@jack-oj4iu7 жыл бұрын
what.
@isunlloaoll7 жыл бұрын
Seeker daily is very biased, and politically motivated. This channel is unbiased and objectively analyzes geopolitics.
@vippsmillennial63367 жыл бұрын
Steve Mcman Seeker Daily fell into depression after Hilary lost lol.
@ognjengaric26877 жыл бұрын
That vile channel has had many names: Test Tube news, Test Tube plus, Seeker Daily, and now this. With each incarnation it fell further and further away from any semblence of quality and even a guise of neutrality. Back when it was Test Tube news, I was very infuriated by it's poorly researched, poorly presented content(especially why do x and y hate eachother) and it's political bias because I was worried about how many people will be poorly informed because of their videos. Thank god it's dead.
@GatorWinup6 жыл бұрын
This is very well presented, and generally accurate. The footage included are all precious historical evidence. Great job!
@tansent7 жыл бұрын
For a foreigner who knows China's recent history of the last 2 centuries this much. I should give you some compliments. I would say it is about 30% of my mindset influenced by the last 2 centuries, because it is relatively recent. As for the rest 70%, you have to do more research on our history before 20th century, I have no time to explain those complicate and long history and philosophy here. There is something you probably don't know. After the founding of PRC, there was Korea war with US and several years later, conflicts with USSR. Those 2 "superpowers" at that time threatened to nuke China. That time was perilous international isolation. Yet during that time, China’ industry level has surged significantly (if you check world back's data, you can only see a slow and unstable gdp growth rate). From 1949, little industrial foundation to 1970, atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, satellites, vehicles, tanks, jet fighters, nuclear submarines, etc can all be manufactured. (FYI, the data used to create nuclear tech was calculated by hundreds of people using abacuses, many techs were developed using some ways you did not expect) The rapid industry growth came with a great sacrifice. Mao distributed almost all the resource to develop industry, the side effect is a lack of food, a great famine, or what you called "the failure". The conclusion is weird in my opinion. It's too simple. "More like the west"? I believe many people have the same idea as I do, I don't hold much grudge against west because of things in 20th century. It was the Qing gov's long-time stupidity that caused the lack of power. The rises and falls are not that abnormal for "middle kingdom", since it has experienced for multiple times, they were recorded in our books in classical Chinese and we read them. Don't always just grab some west ideas and stuffed in to explain as if all the history started from Jesus Christ. Struggling, philosophy, empires, dynasties were already there thousands of years ago that contributed to form our mindsets. These are the main knowledge we use for setting and achieving "geopolitical objectives".
Claiming that only 30% of your mindset is shaped by the last two centuries does not seem quite right to me. I guess its more like 2/3. Furthermore, he means become more like the west regarding expansionism and power projection. China hardly ever tried to be more than a regional power.
@mylordandsaviour47864 жыл бұрын
Oh, and history started with Adam and Eve 😉 No seriously, the european history view starts probably more around 1000-500 AD, with the rise of the greeks and rome.
@haikaloronsentnel1382 жыл бұрын
CH!NA CIV!L!ZAT!0N IT'S BEG!N IN 2000 - 3000 BC UNT!L N0W!!! IT'S AVERAGE 5000 YEARS 0LD!!!
@nantzstein33117 жыл бұрын
DO THE ANGLO SAXON MINDSET
@nantzstein33117 жыл бұрын
Ella Shy Damn, those Celts had no chance against them and now ginger is synonym of soulless.
@faque56347 жыл бұрын
Ella Shy An accurate description of the Russian/East Slav mindset.
@manhoosnick7 жыл бұрын
Steal Steal Steal
@isunlloaoll7 жыл бұрын
Conquer and divide, that's their mindset. India and pakistan? Thats British made problem. Israel and Palestine? That's Bririah made problems. The Sunnis vs Shias in Iraq and Syria? That's British made too.
@flessgiggles23527 жыл бұрын
ARVIN agreed but sunni shia division has been around long before the British Empire
@bongo9907 жыл бұрын
I think there is an error at 6:42 mark. You say in 1801, I think you meant to say 1901. Wonderful report btw.
@farieddebruyns3386 жыл бұрын
Ritwik Ghosh yes, sounds it should be 1901.
@KarlDMarx6 жыл бұрын
Ritwik Ghosh correct...
@andreixperience6 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for CasianReport! All the videos I watched so far were well documented with good editing and straight facts. More people should support this channel.
@ShangDiAboveGodhood3 жыл бұрын
Even as I am not of that generation, just hearing and reading up on our history sends an incredibly _visceral_ ache to my heart and soul that is just as alive now as it was then... I am one with my Ancestors. I feel their virtues, happiness, pains, and sins all at once.
@Gebeleizis.2 жыл бұрын
Big support and solidarity towards the Chinese people. Strength and courage to you 🇨🇳
@hootis87 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure this is really "the Chinese mindset" but a "modern history of china"
@Alex-iw8tz5 жыл бұрын
hootis8 history in china is the power of itself is from simaqian
@BudCharlesUnderVlogs5 жыл бұрын
hootis8 The Chinese mindset *is* their history. China’s history is driving their decisions today.
@timmyturner3275 жыл бұрын
@@BudCharlesUnderVlogs indeed.
@charlesfu8114 жыл бұрын
The history has the power to speak for the mindset of the modern Chinese without explicit explanation, which can't be said for most other countries. This goes to show how powerful the century of humiliation, followed by Mao's reforms in driving contemporary Chinese policies and sentiment.
@piyo43412 жыл бұрын
History forms a national mindset.
@madihakhan96567 жыл бұрын
where ever i go, i find a shameful history of Great Britain around the world.
@shadowgovernment30005 жыл бұрын
The British done bad, but other empires, like yours, done way worse.
@derekm4245 жыл бұрын
It's because we're white.... Forget about modernization of the world, the English language, defeating the Nazis and ending slavery... I guess none of that matters
@derekm4245 жыл бұрын
@ThisIsMyRealName you mean the nation which still shits in the streets and has the mindset of this river is holy... The Ganges I'ma go take a shat in it..... Just marinade on that for a while. Also they're threatening nuclear war w Pakistan at the moment...... Odd culture.... Anyways.. let's just agree to disagree
@CDang-ms6dc5 жыл бұрын
For good or ill, the British Empire did many things in pre-modern history and thus shaped what we are. Attributing only either the bad deeds or the good deeds to it is not correct in this sense.
@derekm4245 жыл бұрын
@@CDang-ms6dc cccccccoooorect , thank you. People swear we who are alive and coming into policy's we were born under now have anything to do with the past smh. As long as people who think like you are around though I know there are good people in the world 👏👏👏🍻
@sidogga12347 ай бұрын
I am Chinese American, and although I’ve never stepped foot in mainland China, I have a sense of ethnic patriotism to my ancestral homeland. China was pillaged and humiliated, but unlike many great empires in history, China, chinese people and culture live on!
@whitefeather75293 жыл бұрын
Excellent report. Puts things in perspective. Thank you
@zzzanon7 жыл бұрын
Great watch. Keep it up!
@nosubscribe62337 жыл бұрын
zzz Great comment, Keep it up!
@Sanjuaro7 жыл бұрын
Great reply, Keep it up!
@Chronically_ChiII7 жыл бұрын
Kuo Chong Yii Time travel bro.
@AmritZoad7 жыл бұрын
Time Travel bro. Keep it up!
@JM-ik9kw7 жыл бұрын
Great video, but of course not enough to understand the mindset of the waking dragon. These are some subjects that I missed: the concept of "Mandate of Heaven"; the current geopolitical situation of China, particularly in the Pacific Ocean: the historic relation between the Chinese and the "barbarians", including the "Western Barbarians"; the hegemony of Han chinese over other ethic groups; the reasons of Chinese technological and technical backwardness in the XIX century; Chinese geography and demography (the big rivers and the Chinese cultural cradle and core, the differences between the coast and the inner country, this situation of the minorities and "autonomous'" regions, and how that influences the Chinese mindset; Deng's economic (and not political) reforms, and the current political system and divisions within the CCP.
@TheBicyclingman6 жыл бұрын
Juan Manuel Salamanca can you do a video on that. I think it would be awesome.
@Auspexel4 жыл бұрын
Great points of focus for making a video!
@kallurikamalesh17755 жыл бұрын
Though the rise of china as a superpower is not in the geopolitical interests of India , As an Indian I really respect and appreciate the way China has developed over the years ! Hard work pays off
@cy99874 жыл бұрын
As a Chinese with a History degree, I couldn't have put it any better than you did. A rare impartial video focusing on facts rather than prejudice, and I really hope it can help non-Chinese viewers to better understand the Chinese side of the story. Kudos to you, Caspian!
@jaideepshekhar46212 жыл бұрын
What about Chinese aggression towards India?
@cy99872 жыл бұрын
@@jaideepshekhar4621 Indian media and by extension, Modi and his politicians, loves to overplay the Chinese threat, using extential tension to stir up nationalist sentiments and unite Indian people. TBH India isn't even on China's radar. We are focusing on the competition with the US. In reality few Chinese care about India
@jaideepshekhar46212 жыл бұрын
@@cy9987 China invaded India's Jammu Kashmir in 1962 and still hasn't returned it. Also claims Arunachal Pradesh, and killed many soldiers in Galwan Valley. Also surrounding India using String of Pearls and helping fucking Pakistan destabilise India. Also grabbed a strategic Hambantota port in Sri Lanka to harm India.
@cy99872 жыл бұрын
@@jaideepshekhar4621 pffff most Chinese don't care about India. All we know is we kicked your asses hard in the 60s and we'll do it once again;)
@jaideepshekhar46212 жыл бұрын
@@cy9987 So you admit the aggression. Thanks.
@krzysztofkarp43967 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your material regarding Chinese mindset and a proper explanation. I would like to emphasize that you should also mention something more about Deng Xiaoping economical and industrial revolution, which actually shaped and hugely impacted today's Chinese landscape. I also recommend you the book written by Jonathan Fenby on this subject, maybe you it will enable you to dive more into this topic. One more time, great work!
@thatchacre57637 жыл бұрын
Just like all other videos about modern Chinese history, the role of Sun Yat-sen is severely overstated. He was nothing but a celebrity made by the mass media of his time. He never led anything both significant and successful, and he never wielded real power. He promised a lot, delivered nothing, he bragged a lot, accomplished nothing. The only thing he ever did that changed the course of the history was transforming Kuomintang into a Leninist style party i.e. making the party loyal to a single leader and building a party-controlled army, and by absorbing communists into this army, he fleshed up CCP, which laid the foundations for the separation and the civil war ensued after his death. And CCP was never the main force that resisted the Japanese invasion. KMT did suffered a lot of defeats, yet it did fight a lot of major campaigns and battles against Japanese, which strategically did mean something for the whole war. CCP on the other hand, other than the so-called hundred regiments offensive, only fought guerrilla wars. Considering the resources about this period of history written in English and accessible on internet are mostly homogenized, misleading, incomplete and biased, and the resources written in Chinese are overwhelmingly brainwashing in nature, this kind of mistake is understandable. Yet your works are normally serious and in high quality unlike most of the other internet videos, I sincerely hope that in the future issues you could find people more qualified to the local history to help your on the research.
@Tristar10h7 жыл бұрын
The smartest thing General Chiang Kai-Sek did was marrying the right woman who have influence, wealth, intelligence, charismatic, which brought him to power and help desperately to maintained. Sun Yat-Sen didn`t even considered Chiang as the next in line but kink of history make him into somebody.
@NeMayful6 жыл бұрын
『伟大的革命先行者』。其实官方对他的评价很公正了。象征意义更多。
@ping69046 жыл бұрын
败了就是败了。。。
@shawnjavery5 жыл бұрын
As far as I learned, both parties had tried to avoid fighting the Japanese during WW2. It reflects more poorly on the Kuomintang because Chiang had prioritized going after the CCP over fighting Japan in the earlier parts of the invasion, while the CCP was trying to lay low and build up its army after the second purge. Wouldn't view either of the them as "good" since both the Kuomintang and the CCP had a policy of executing dissidents.
@WarPigstheHun5 жыл бұрын
Did a history report on the Chinese Civil War (I was bored, already did a bunch on the U.S wars.), and all sources point to Chiang Kai Shek being a corrupt asshole that stole money from Eisenhower. Becasue the U.S said: "Here feed and equip your armies!" and Chiang and his wife said: "Haha Fck that!" So really Chiang Kai Shek fcked his own party. I'm not saying Taiwan should suffer, but Chiang was also a back-stabber, and a bad one at that: You don't backstab the CPC when there's a Japanese army at your doorstep, you send the commies off to the front lines, let them get killed off, use it as a diversion to maneuver around them, then defeat the Japanese army. But nah, he decided to betray them. Fcking idiot, terrible at logistics.
@xingyuanwang99787 жыл бұрын
This video about Chinese history is well prepared and based on the truth. There were a lot of haters in red China back to 1960s, but it seems today more haters move to Western world. I respect any opinion towards China where I was born and raised, but please don't judge only after you watched few KZfaq videos or a dumb channel called China uncensured. Thanks all my friends those who spent time to know about China instead be keyboard worries. Sorry if I made mistakes in grammar. Best wishes.
@quickzilver3334 жыл бұрын
Correction!!! It was the Republic Of China with the help of the United States that drove off the Japanese during WWII. The Communist hardly participated in WWII. The War between the Communist and Republic Of China started again after WWII. The Communist won due to the Fact the the Republic Of Chinas Troops were weakened after Fighting the Japanese. The US Army AirCorp "The Flying Tigers" fought under the flag of the Republic Of China during WWII.
@tophercIaus7 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating. I'm dating a girl whose mother lived in Mao's China and I find it incredibly difficult to understand the way she acts. Understanding the political and cultural climate she was raised in gives me new insight into her I think. Also, fantastically researched and presented. Thank you!
@JD..........7 жыл бұрын
4:12 "Christianity, as well as opium, was legalized." Lol... pretty much sums up this video.
@kitrichardson21653 жыл бұрын
christianity is a type of opium. Now we have education at universities And diplomas which confirms some type of status
@luisbarros29382 жыл бұрын
The Portuguese arrived in China in 1513 and were in Macau since 1553. In 1557 the Chinese authorities gave them permission to settle there with a permanent lease. The Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking in 1887 gave Portugal permanent rights of occupation and government. The Portuguese Constitution of 1976 aknowledge Macau as Chinese territory under Portuguese administration. Macau was returned to China in 1999.
@timetraveller23002 жыл бұрын
sino-portugese relation has always been relatively good.
@retepeyahaled2961 Жыл бұрын
Now, in 2023 - as the Ukraine war rages on and China is threatening to take Taiwan back by force, this splendid video is no less spot on than five years ago. I fully agree. Allow me to add a few remarks: - The American government left China to die against the Japanese from 1937 until december 1941 when the US experienced it's defeat at Pearl Harbour. Next, the US started supporting the Nationalist government of China and has since defended them against Communist China. Japan, who was reponsible for the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, never was truly called to justice for their atrocities and this mortal enemy even became the best ally with the newe mortal enemy being the US. Until this day, the US is the very enemy of the Chinese world. The war in Korea cost the Chinese tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of military casualties in their fights against the western powers. This very moment China is still surrounded by vassals of the US; South Korea which has been a dictatorial military state until not so long ago - as was Taiwan, Japan, the Philipines.. how about the Viet Nam war, when the US fought another communist regime at China's doorsteps? I am a loyal European citizen and supportive of the Western world, but I believe it is essential to truly understand your enemy. China is our enemy and sadly they have every reason the distrust US and the Western world, for we are truly the hypocrits they believe us to be. They are a rising power and they will not rest until the Western influence in Eastern Asia is undone.
@Ivan-bg1jp2 жыл бұрын
While this can't be a justification to what China is doing right now, one of the reasons why it's seemingly so "belligerent" is because of the current world order made by the US. I'm not blaming the world order. It helped the world for better or worse. It's just that it won't matter what China does to become a "team player" in the world stage. The world order led by the US would still stifle its growth due to its immense size alone. I'm not even taking the "racial stuff" into consideration that it's upsetting for "whites" that a "yellow man", reminiscent of the Yellow Peril, is now becoming a reality. A rival that they cannot ignore and exploit any longer.
@adropintheocean94217 жыл бұрын
Shirvan did touch on a very crucial issue: the international law is seen as only pieces of paper in Beijing and certainly many others, for the great powers to subjugate the weaker. If the smaller nations ever hope to play the game on level ground and use the law to their advantage, well...best of luck... I think what China learns from its past (a Chinese myself), is that nations are protected by nations, not by law. The law did not stop China from being exploited by Europe and Japan, likewise, when those countries are telling China to abide the law right now, Beijing is basically like "get the f**k off". The one truly bothers you has never been the law, but the hands wielding those papers
@Sondariut7 жыл бұрын
Sanchuan Cheng There were no laws during the 19th century that protected China. International law was created exactly because some nations wanted to settle disputes through other measures than war. Rejecting international law is greed, and will backfire in the long run.
@adropintheocean94217 жыл бұрын
Sondar12 Ideally, the international law should be the law guiding every nations' actions, I suppose most will agree on that... but to date, it has rather dramatically fallen short of expectations. The fact that there is no institution forcing the law, makes the US and to some degree, Europe, the de facto police of world, they push the law wherever they feel convenient. Its sth countries like Russia and China are not particularly happy with. ... and a source of comflict
@adropintheocean94217 жыл бұрын
Sondar12 You r right on 19th century, an era of colonisation after all. The most acute time for China is WWll, the Japanese army annexed Manchuria in 1931 and occupied Beijing to start a full blown invasion at 1937. China in civil war at the time, was too weak to defend itself, placed high hope on the league of nations. But LoN did nothing...if anything, their lack of action further encouraged the war hawks in Japanese cabinet. If Hitler did not start the war in Europe in 1939, half of China nowadays could well be under Japanese control. The UN is perceived to be more active and "useful" than LoN, but it cant do anything in regards to the iraq war. Countries still need to find a adjacent regional military power with veto in the security council to guarantee its safety, or else, just make nuclear bombs.
@farmerbold11446 жыл бұрын
A RACE OR CULTURE cannot own a people along with their historical lands that they need in order to live on ... and certainly not forever. There is no legal, moral, or reasonable excuse for China's undiplomatic bullying expansion claiming ancient ownership of Tibet and the entire open waters and all oil/gas and fishing-rights of the South China Sea being militarized for combat and/or war etc. conflicting with and overriding claims by other nations. Also note that the South/East China Sea, Indian Ocean, Philippians Sea, Black Sea, Gulf of Mexico ... these are names only, not proof of ownership. China does not own Tibet or the South China Sea etc. any more than Mongolia owns China having defeated China in the distant past or that Eastern Africa owns China because those Africans migrated there (now mainland China) first tens of thousands of years ago ... no matter China's claim of ancient ownership.
@ivanshuck34195 жыл бұрын
China has vetoed numerous times on UNSC to prevent US’ further military invasion over Middle East. China become the player both protector of world rule now, instead of the one being bullied before.
@dwu93697 жыл бұрын
You were doing so incredibly well with accuracy up to the 9:32 mark and then you said, "Eventually, the Communist Party drove the Japanese as well as the KMT off the mainland of China". This statement is partly incorrect. The KMT which controlled China up to 1949 and with the help of the allies or to be more specific the US, drove the Japanese off the mainland in 1945. The KMT governed China for another 4 years after during which Mao and his PLA move eastward to resume the Chinese civil war. Other that that, the rest towards the end of the video is spot on.
@CinCina5 жыл бұрын
When i was studing chinese history i was crying reading all that shit that foreigners from all the country did to China. It's a shame and there are not excuses for those facts. Still, now there are not excuses for what chinese gov in the last century did and is doing to its own people, and i'm not talking just about strong sinization of chinese minorities, but even over control and punishment for han people who wants to make clear some situation around China (chinese journalists, for example) or people who want to enjoy freedom of religion. All this and other makes of China the richest country with less basic rights on the world. World is changing and we should all look at the present and future instead of looking at the past. I just hope that chinese people will get the freedom they deserve asap, and finally have the right of speech, to publish whatever they want, to watch youtube videos, to live without fears that if you say/do something "wrong" you could suddenly disappear. Big country democracy is possible step by step (look India), and i sincerely hope that one day chinese people will get really free. Starting from a proper education system at school that is not just memorizing facts, but even discussion, exchange of ideas, etc.
@yogawan38055 жыл бұрын
Thank you for understand China and Chinese.
@miiiikku7 жыл бұрын
China wanted to be left alone but that wasn't an option for imperialists. There is no freedom, no one can actually choose anything.
@MuireKnight7 жыл бұрын
You can never be left alone. That is folly.You also risk lagging behind. Had the Chinese managed to westernize as rapidly as Japan in the 19th century , things could have been turned around much quicker.
@isunlloaoll7 жыл бұрын
KarlVyt All because of the Qing dynasty (Manchus), they conquered China in 1600s, while it was in a the midst of a civil war. Then destroyed the real Chinese (Han) culture, isolated the country further... Imagine if Ming dynasty lived on and continued to develop technology. The world could be very different today. 1600s was when the West started to beat China in tech, so just imagine the possibilities... History...
@sixtails-7 жыл бұрын
lmao, have u even been to china ? you don't know anything about this country, the only thing u know is that what western media told u, China was civilized before all the western powers,but for you sadly, u just live in ur world
@timlee69717 жыл бұрын
Peter Byrne Unfortunately every country has their own propaganda. Pure communism can't last because of human ambition and greed. African Americans fight among themselves all the time. But when one of them gets shot by a white policeman, do u they are going to blame themselves or support a black lives matter campaign? When white people get murdered by terrorists, do u think white politicians will explain to the public that ISIS was created by the US government or just continue to blame middle Eastern countries?
@timlee69717 жыл бұрын
Peter Byrne don't be so naive.
@alejoeisabel7 жыл бұрын
China does not seek to humiliate anyone. Only US and Israel do.
@zero54964 жыл бұрын
one note i must add, historian ignoring the fact that opium was never truly about opium, and silver is even less of the factor, its tea, aka the fucking only thing British cared about in China, and probably what they care the most, they want to control China through opium for just this reason, and i don't need to remind you the failed attempt for British trying to grow tea in India, why they failed? China hid the fact that the best of the tea can only be grown on mountains, to the British the idea of growing such delicacy on top of mountain is probably ludicrous to say the least, and probably even more harder to comprehend the fact that even better quality of Chinese tea is grown on fucking cliffs, also probably because they underestimated how advance Chinese agriculture had become through out thousands of years of agriculture based economy to realize such fact, so even if when told the truth they probably wont believe it and why not hide the truth so they can monopolize British need for tea? that is basically what happen, so of course the British failed to grow their own quality tea that they seek and even more of a failure that they where enraged at the fact that Chinese refuse to buy the low quality tea they grown without realizing the truth, and that kicks off the opium selling to china, they cant grow tea to sell it to china so try grown opium to achieve that, basically the truth is British caused two opium war can be actually be called tea war, and even the reason that kick started american revolution is also because of fucking over taxed on tea, aka Tea act, think about that, its part of history school don't teach but i took my time doing my research
@user-xu6sb6ix1g6 жыл бұрын
suprisingly unbiased, well done dude!
@sammysam37767 жыл бұрын
Man you researched some real shit..!!
@brasstalksabout59507 жыл бұрын
He did But mispronounced Kuomintang
@dxelson7 жыл бұрын
cut him some slack...
@AwesomeShamik7 жыл бұрын
You got it .. that he meant Kuomintang and not something else right ? So his message did reach you. He is not from china .. quit nitpicking
@overlord1657 жыл бұрын
Honestly I love his work and all but this is just a bit of history...
@tzarnikolov7 жыл бұрын
Hey dude, all this stuff is common knowledge of every Chinese, as we have to study it from young. But judging from your comment, what we see as common sense is sth wrapped in a mystery for Westerners, so that makes me wonder if people from the West, especially political leaders nowadays, have any idea at all of what the hell is China before criticizing our country? Don't take it personally, but still... I think in these day and age, foreigners, other than those neighboring Asian countries, know nothing about China
@darrenlehane927 жыл бұрын
Big fan of the channel and patron since April 2017. Just some constructive criticism of this particular video. It seemed to me more like a summary of the modern history of China. I expected the video to explain how chinese people view/justify their interference with Tibet, they're territorial claims in the South China Sea, their increasing influence over Africa and their precarious relationship with North Korea. These issues are regularly in the news but we only read about them through the lense of western media. In my opinion the chapter on China in "prisinors of geography" does a better job of explaining the chinese mindset. Still a decent video. Keep up the good work Shirvan!
@xolanimkhize59733 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite Caspian report, makes all the sense. Simplified and beautifully analyzed
@jwhan20862 жыл бұрын
13:29 "The majority of policymakers in Beijing believe that international law is merely an instrument to keep China in check and vulnerable. Most of the Chinese decision-making body adheres to the idea that their country was defeated because of its defensive geopolitical orientation. And so to overcome this, Beijing has come to the belief that it must become more like the West and take a militarily aggressive posture in regard to geopolitical objectives. Thus in a way, China seeks to emulate the Monroe doctrine by establishing exclusive control in the Eastern hemisphere and thereby returned the country to the forefront of the World." For Koreans, this line of thought seems to be something they are familiar with if one changes China in the 21st century to Imperial Japan in the 19th century. Japanese imperialists tried to justify their behaviour in the Korean peninsula in a similar line of thought.
@DimitarProynov7 жыл бұрын
Stellar, as always! Can you comment on the "Azerbaijan" laundry scandal?
@thatguys7737 жыл бұрын
Dimitar Proynov he has to be careful, those type of countries tend to think of human rights as optional
@kuyaleinad41957 жыл бұрын
Dimitar Proynov He tends to not touch on his own country as he might become too biased on the issue. Also he lives in Azerbaijan I think so he might get into trouble if it's percieved as undermining the Azeri Government.
@thatguys7737 жыл бұрын
Kuya Leinad yeah, you nailed it. hell, in a Q/A he said you better pay taxes in Azerbaijan if you want to talk about politics
@CurtisCT2 жыл бұрын
Another oft overlooked explanation for the Chinese mindset is our faulty Western translation for the historic term the Chinese people call themselves. Here in the West we say the "Middle Kingdom" - I've been reliably informed by Chinese friends however, that this is a faulty translation. The correct translation would be more like "the Kingdom located at the CENTER of everything", "the UNIVERSAL kingdom". They have historically seen themselves as the "middle" Kingdom, around which every other country revolves. In this respect, they are like the sun, a central great, shining kingdom that governs everything in its orbit. When seen from this point of view, the magnitude of the humiliation they suffered at the hands of Europeans, i.e. barbarian territories theoretically subservient to the Chinese Sun, becomes much more understandable. It also explains the massive Chinese inferiority complex towards the West and why China will stop AT NOTHING until they once again attain their rightful (in their minds) superiority over the West.
@Liminghwa Жыл бұрын
The Chinese word 中literally means middle. Per your own description, you're obviously pushing a narrative here to justify the current containment effort of China by the US and it's allies.
@bhangrafan44805 жыл бұрын
When Deng xiao-ping became dominant in 1978 he had two models to examine and adopt. These were the success stories of Taiwan and South Korea, which provided a blue print for rapid progress via export led growth in manufacturing. In this sense the time was ripe for China.
@sidneysun38652 жыл бұрын
You forgot Singapore and Japan
@bhangrafan44802 жыл бұрын
@@sidneysun3865 I do not consider Japan to be in the same 'wave', and I do not consider Singapore to be in the same category. Japan began industrialisation from 1868 with the Meiji restoration. From this time Japan went all out to learn everything it could about technology etc., from the west. By the 1940s Japan was a major industrial power. At this time Taiwan and Korea were colonies of Japan which were mainly agrarian. In Korea in particular Japan began heavy industrialisation, but this was diffusion from Japan so it lagged Japan's level of development. Thus Korea belonged to a later wave of industrialisation. Taiwan and South Korea followed extremely similar trajectories after WW2, and even before it when they were colonies of Japan. Under Japan they both had administrative reform, agricultural development, a high standard of education established and in North Korea heavy industrialisation too. After WW2 they both got massive aid from the west as front line states in the Cold War, they both had a period of Import Substitution Industrialisation, which boosted the development of a domestic capitalist class, and state planned and targeted infrastructural and industrial development. Singapore is a city state which lacks the problems of a country like South Korea of having a large rural hinterland. The interplay of city and countryside and their populations is a particular problem facing developing countries. Singapore is blessed with its location as a trading entrepot/port. Because of its key strategic location on the east-west maritime trade routes it was ideal for capitalists such as western and private ethnic Chinese businessmen to establish bases for finance and trade. The shift of manufacturing to the Pacific from the end of the 1970s and the following globalisation of the 1980s and 90s made Singapore the world's biggest port. It was blessed with its location.
@zhouyou282 жыл бұрын
China was mostly learning from Singapore
@nkristianschmidt6 жыл бұрын
Great video, but the CCP did not really fight the Japanese : “From 1937 to 1945, there were 23 battles where both sides employed at least a regiment each. The CCP was not a main force in any of these. The only time it participated, it sent a mere 1,000 to 1,500 men, and then only as a security detachment on one of the flanks.There were 1,117 significant engagements on a scale smaller than a regular battle, but the CCP fought in only one. Of the approximately 40,000 skirmishes, just 200 were fought by the CCP, or 0.5 percent.”
@subharthisarkar35227 жыл бұрын
Shirvan, can we have a mindset of India next,,,,, as now it is going through a tough phase geopolitically ( I mean a lot of changes are happening)....and have a nice day, thank you for good content as always
@bongo9907 жыл бұрын
SUBHARTHI SARKAR Hi Shirvan, I also cannot insist more on the idea of a video where you present your detailed analysis of the "Indian mindset". I don't support you on patreon (I am trying to get back to university for my masters abroad and I am slim on cash right now) but I thought I would ask you for a video nonetheless :)
@subharthisarkar35227 жыл бұрын
same goes for me as well, I can't support him on patron just because I have just completed my graduation and unless I get a job I can't have money....but surely once I get a job, I'll be a part of his patron page and share my views regularly..
@leaveme35597 жыл бұрын
SuppoDick....u mean order online...?
@ecognitio96057 жыл бұрын
Indian mindset= Show bobs and vegena
@user-ch9my3to6j5 жыл бұрын
indian mindset would may be too long for a video...
@jimlopez59927 жыл бұрын
im happy with china's rise to power.i hope china will serve as an anchor to the east and inspire other asian countries.
@dennisweifenbach26476 жыл бұрын
Yes, China will serve as an anchor, an anchor that drags down the asian area because of its desire to dominate. To subjugate others, that is the history of China. From its ancient history to today. Its impressed dominance will not bring together the people of these ofher asian countries. It will create internat enemies that is will be forced to put down or loose its greedy power demands. Look at history, it has happened before, and it will happen again.
@dennisweifenbach26476 жыл бұрын
Google User - There is a lot more to happen before China "defeats itself" You are a little premature in your outlook. Unless China backs down from its aggressive position, which isn't part of the asian "saving face" problem, there are serious issues to get through. Im fine, are you?
@dennisweifenbach26476 жыл бұрын
Google User - You better add a new first name and call yourself, Naive Google User. Because that's what you sound like. They have been pushing countries around for quite a while.
@dennisweifenbach26476 жыл бұрын
Naive Google User - Forget it, you obviously have no concept of what is going on.
@jaideepshekhar46212 жыл бұрын
China will rather fight all their neighbors.
@yulifts18735 жыл бұрын
This is a very well researched report! As somebody with deep interest in China's ancient and modern history, politics and active criticisms, I feel this report encapsulated the 'civilization state' mindset of the Chinese, which indeed is an idea that they are inherently superior as they are a constituent of the great 'Middle Kingdom'. This concept does indeed remain throughout time, and clearly is a concept the West fails to understand. The situation between the West and China can be summarized through the famous 'Thucydides trap', an idea that a rising power able to challenge an existing regional power can only be met with inevitable war, while metaphorical, the war may apply to the ongoing US-China trade war, to just contextualize the growing tension. Perhaps the west shall never understand China for its deep complexity is rooted inside ancient philosophies like that of Tao and Confucius, as well as cultural dogma that will ultimate never change in fundamental form. This is a reason why China is actively beating the US in the trade war; their ability to endure labor and work in times of stress is unmatched, as shown throughout the millenniums of history that saw civil unrest, corrupt rulers and at times, even destruction, as labelled in the video.
@popkhorne53722 жыл бұрын
Or because they have a way larger workforce that can be payed with scraps.
@dragondescendant15 жыл бұрын
Correction to be made, during opium war, China was still the richest county in the world.
@davesprivatelounge3 жыл бұрын
Nah, that would have been India, which was being plundered by the East India Company
@dragondescendant13 жыл бұрын
@@davesprivatelounge East India company owned by the brits, not India.
@davesprivatelounge3 жыл бұрын
@@dragondescendant1 I doubt anyone thinks it was owned by the Indians
@roiqk3 жыл бұрын
USA has been always richest country lol
@dragondescendant13 жыл бұрын
@@roiqk US not became rich until after ww2, when everybody was rebuilding their war torn countries, US became the world's factory.
@Lin-eo5xu4 жыл бұрын
As a Chinese we must remember our history we only want to take back what once belonged to us the power, dignity and territory. We have been living under authoritarian regime for thousands of years with many tragedies worse then the cultural revolution, so the cultural revolution has nothing special or stand out. We only want to take back the territory of the former Qing Dynasty which included Manchuria, Outer Manchuria, Outer Mongolia, Sakhalin island, Taiwan, North China Sea (Sea of Japan), East China Sea and South China Sea. It is just you chasing a theft to get your things back.
@Azhar_shaikh14 жыл бұрын
What about east Turkmenistan? Ughyurs?
@Lin-eo5xu4 жыл бұрын
@@Azhar_shaikh1 They are still within the control of China
@MP-pe4xp4 жыл бұрын
I am Chinese and agree with the opinions in this video. This is basically an opinion of most chinses overseas students: no brainwash from the party and no bias and fear from the western media. It is an old and very imperfect country(trust me, we know more problems of china than you guys) but the new generation is trying to make it better and stronger to avoid any opium war occurring again.
@jaideepshekhar46212 жыл бұрын
By invading India?
@MP-pe4xp2 жыл бұрын
@@jaideepshekhar4621 half of china belongs to India and Half belongs to Korean Lol. so Chinese have been living in the Chiangjiang river for thousands of years.
@jaideepshekhar46212 жыл бұрын
@@MP-pe4xp Indians have been living in Arunachal Pradesh and JK for thousands of years.
@MP-pe4xp2 жыл бұрын
@@jaideepshekhar4621 yeah agree
@basedguy12366 жыл бұрын
Great respect to the Chinese people, I am not a fan of communism tho, as you saw it destroyes pride in ones ancestors and historical accomplisments (cultural revolution) and destroys a healthy economy. But luckily modern China is much more nationalist and free trade.I have always respected and even admired China and its history and it is sad you had to suffer in the past,I think we Western people (Caucasians) and the Chinese (in fact most East-Asian people) people have more in common than we can see on first hand, we are both strong, intelligent, have great history and we are both proud people (West not so much anymore sadly enough). Great fortune to you my Chinese friends, from a European nationalist.
@user-ch9my3to6j5 жыл бұрын
what destory the healthy economy was the great leap forward, cultural revolution comes after, to cover up the mistake the ccp made previously in the leap forward, that destroyed the historical accomplishments.
@joulesannadan642 жыл бұрын
As a Filipino now I understand why the disputes in the south china sea is ongoing. Respect to China, we could always be friends anytime.
@joj40962 жыл бұрын
As a filipino myself, chinas disputes in South China Sea is for their self interests, disregaring international rules like the hauge and no respect for any nations sovereignty. I cant give respect for that and you should to.
@biggrigga6 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video! One small criticism: You said the Communists drove the Japanese off the mainland. The Kuomintang took the brunt of fighting against the Japanese, whereas the CCP took a more passive role, opting to win over the peasantry. The neither side really drove the Japanese back--the final surrender to Allied forces ended that chapter.
@RedOctober_ Жыл бұрын
the nationalist were terrible at fighting the japanese. they contested in open battles and flooded the yellow river and killed 300k people. the communist used guerilla warfare and harassed supply lines. much more effective method against technologically superior japanese.
@madamehussein3 жыл бұрын
Actually, the KMT government did most of the fighting against imperial Japan, which is a big part of the reason why they couldn't stand up to the communists after the war.
@MhmdRdam7 жыл бұрын
How do you do your research? You seem very well informed, especially in topics most ''educational'' channels engage in but fail terribly.
@kaffeekaffee18184 жыл бұрын
I am glad you pronounced Sun Yat-Sen as " Soon" instead of "Sun".
@1OssoBuco7 жыл бұрын
How can you consider China's foreign policy 'expansionist' when her claims have remained consistent at least 1946? Philippines only discovered the Spratly Is. in the 50's and bases her claims over the Spratly Islands on UNCLOS which came into effect around 1996. Since 1949, China has settled seventeen of its twenty-three territorial disputes. Moreover, it has offered substantial compromises in most of these settlements, usually receiving less than 50 percent of the contested land. China’s pattern of compromise in its territorial disputes presents several puzzles. For realists, China has not used its power advantages to bargain hard over contested land, especially with its weaker neighbors. Nor has it become less willing to offer concessions over disputed territory as its power has increased. Instead, China compromised in eight separate disputes as its power grew rapidly in the 1990s. www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/016228805775124534 kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/the-inconvenient-truth-behind-the-diaoyusenkaku-islands/?_r=0 www.forbes.com/sites/stephenharner/2012/10/03/interview-with-professor-yabuki-on-the-senkakudiaoyu-crisis-and-u-s-china-japan-relations/
@EarthForces7 жыл бұрын
1OssoBuco I call your bullshit on the Spratlys issue. It was never Chinese to begin with and that country is an UNCLOS signatory. Sorry, China now is expansionist in the sense that its paranoia of "defending" itself is at best an immature act. It only made them more potential enemies. So please, your citations are meritable but your statement on the Spratlys smells like 50 cent propaganda.
@00BillyTorontoBill7 жыл бұрын
us hasnt signed UNCLOS so its worthless...like the rome statute.
@richardchen1037 жыл бұрын
And yet more Mongols reside in China (Inner Mongolia) than Outer Mongolia (AKA "Mongolia"); Yuan stylized herself as a "Chinese" dynasty, as did many foreign nomadic dynasties that conquered China Proper, taking up Han culture and bureaucracy in order to govern the masses, the most successful being the Qing. All those nomadic peoples now constitute the make-up of modern Chinese people, either as minorities or assimilated into the Han. So I don't think any arguments concerning non-Han Dynasties will change the fact that China claimed those islands in the South China Sea long ago, regardless of who those islands belong to.
@isunlloaoll7 жыл бұрын
EarthForces How is taking precautions, aka taking control of SCS, childish? Leaving it vulnerable to US/ Western blockades is just pure stupidity and childish. You must go learn about geopolitics. Diplomacy is not an option for SCS.
@EarthForces7 жыл бұрын
ARVIN. Then you just revealed the expressed intent of what goes in the minds of the CCP. And it is a foolish policy that alienates China from its neighbors at the expense of so called security, so will they be prepared to violate another nations sovereign territory for that? I call that aggresive and warmongering. At least you revealed Chinese hypocrisy thank you very much. ^^ I know my geopolitics you know and it is so foolish in the bigger picture to be seen as the aggresor in terms of international diplomacy that is in the end isolating yourself geopolitically. I think you should be the one studying geopolitics and not me.
@_Junkers7 жыл бұрын
So Mao lead the cultural revolution for the sake of his own personal power play? That was a bit of a dick move...
Junkers, it is very ugly motive , but true: Mao did that just to defeat his political opponents. Sad.
@digitalbrentable7 жыл бұрын
Calling the cultural revolution a personal power play is an oversimplification. Mao was sidelined because the Great Leap Forward didn't go well, allowing moderates like Deng Xiaoping to come to the forefront. Mao hated the idea of bourgeois liberalism corrupting the hard-won socialism revolution after the fact, so the Cultural Revolution was a way to reinstate and mandate the dominance of left-wing politics in the People's Republic of China. In short, Mao didn't do it just because he missed being top dog, but because he was a true believer in communism, and was afraid of the rightist faction of the CCP turning China back into a liberal capitalist state (which they eventually did - the Cultural Revolution only delayed that outcome).
@hansser37 жыл бұрын
Junkers *communist move
@_Junkers7 жыл бұрын
More of capitalist move considering he was motivated by his own personal interest
@ZhangtheGreat5 жыл бұрын
These types of declines almost never happen overnight. They take a long time and are caused by a series of events that, whether by design or coincidence, lead an empire down such a path. For China, the disastrous results against outsiders happens to coincide during a century of humongous social and economic unrest from within. Pair all that up with a Qing government that had ruled for so long that had reached the "dynastic decline" phase of the dynasty cycle all ancient Chinese dynasties experience, followed by a struggle to re-establish central control after the Qing collapsed, and China was ripe for a downfall.
@surajrshetty7 жыл бұрын
I am Indian , always thought of China being great for not being colonized but now realizing they were equally exploited.... Really sad!
@johnj86395 жыл бұрын
A few minor misconceptions. But overall very good video. I have a different opinion for understanding China’s mindset. To me it has more to do with the Cold War. For China the Cold War has simply never ended. You can see China’s activity and policies toward democratic nations has not changed in any way since the Cold War. This would explain the extensive spying and coping of technology especially military technology from the west. Russia was also a colonial power against China but yet they both have a fairly good relationship today, so this is why I believe this is the continuation of the Cold War for China.
@isaacchavez64657 жыл бұрын
I see a lot of people angry at the United States as if it were equal to the Europeans and Japan in the things it's done to China. This just isn't true, in fact the United States has probably been the most friendly country to China. The United States removed both Japan and Europe from their imperial adventures in China, and today it keeps both under it's thumb with market access and sufficient resources. The United States helped China to stand up to the Soviet Union by sharing technology and know how. Today the two countries have one of the most most dynamic trading relationships in the world, and the United States is absolutely integral to China's economic system. The US and China definitely butt heads, and there's no doubt that the US is an aggressive power, but it's undoubtedly done a lot of good for China too.
@jinxinliu24977 жыл бұрын
US indeed is the only country that helped China many times at her most vulnerable moments. Without US, we cannot even keep the integrity and independence of our country. We cannot thank the Americans enough. It is a shame that most Chinese people forgot the favors of the Americans because of CCP's propaganda. The Chinese should recognize that US is the true friend of China.
@winthover6 жыл бұрын
Chinese here. 100% agree. The US helped China repeatedly in its most desperate moments, and for that we should be forever grateful.
@hb.z79926 жыл бұрын
there is no Eternal friendship, you should know that, after USSR collapse, US has changed their Policy toward China, China also helped US for the collapse of USSR, just mutual intersts, no more
@yifuhood6 жыл бұрын
ture, in the long term U.S and China should have better relationship, but in the short term the rising power and steady power need to find a smart and soft landing. otherwise.....
@colinyuan54046 жыл бұрын
yes, you're right, US did help China a lot, especially in Second Sino-Japan War, thank you American; but it's also America who blocked us from the world from 1949 to 1971, for this, i think no true Chinese can say "thanks' to you.
@goldshtrom5 жыл бұрын
You nailed this so hard, Shirvan
@Metacarius2 жыл бұрын
My hand parents (in law) fled from a lot of what you were talking about with the crops. Grandpa was a baker and with the policy changes making business untenable in China, they left for greener pastures Cambodia. Unfortunately, that did not end well with the eventual unrest there and led them to become refugees here in the US. However, the family has since done quite well for themselves and the story does ultimately have a happy ending (after many trials). The trek through the Vietnam jungle in their escape is the stuff of movies and legends.
@tony370687 жыл бұрын
Not to defend or communist, but it was communist nullified those hundred unequal treaties with west and unified china--amended century humiliation ( don mention internal repression-it another matter) , that is why many , may be most, Chinese -include myself, strongly supported a central strong government & oppose any attempt that seems weaken our government ( unfortunately- it is communist gov, but does not matter, it is way better than west black heart democracy) .
@Maelstromme5 жыл бұрын
I love the ignorance in this statement. Actually, no, I hate it. “Black heat democracy,” what kind of rubbish concept is that? This isn’t democracy’s fault. Your arch nemesis, Britain wasn’t even a democracy then. I see you cannot separate the past from now.
@mikuhatsune81215 жыл бұрын
fuck you communism
@34rd037 жыл бұрын
Hey. I know Romania is a small country, and seen as a remote and "buffer" type european country. But... would it be too much to ask for an "Understanding the Romanian mindset" episode? :D would help a lot my generation here :)
@user-rh2pv2kc5g6 жыл бұрын
once Romania is important then it is.sorry it may sounds hurts ,but during 1910-1928 no one concern the Chinese mindset....
@militustoica3 жыл бұрын
I love how balanced this man is in his reporting. It’s so difficult to find any geopolitical information that isn’t at least moderately, if not extremely heavily, politically biased. If he’s Russian, I’d be even more impressed given the government’s brutality towards non-propagandistic reporting. Edit One small note, though: opium is not heroin. Opium is the latex that fills the walls of the seed pod where the seeds that are eaten so often are. It usually contains about 10-13% morphine and 4% of codeine. When it’s refined down to morphine alone, the morphine is basically processed with vinegar (acetic acid) to make it diacetylmorphine- or heroin, as we generally call it.
@adamhawkins45917 жыл бұрын
+CaspianReport Thanks for illuminating the events of the 1800's and 1900's. I had no idea there was such turmoil. Cheers on the education.
@montecarlostudio51997 жыл бұрын
+Adam Hawkins any country's history can be found in wikipedia, you dumb fuck, check your own nasty history
@jaideepshekhar46212 жыл бұрын
@@montecarlostudio5199 Who hurt you bitch?
@Nonamearisto7 жыл бұрын
China has three historical modes: unified and strong, unified and stagnant, divided and chaotic. It's only ever really a great power when it is the first one or when (once) it was divided into two parts which were united in their own right (Tang and Song), and neither were particularly powerful compared to the heights of the Han, Ming, Qing, and maybe one other dynasty.
@zhaoxunyan40166 жыл бұрын
This is by far the most objective video about politic of China. I agree to 95% of its contents and opinions, as a Chinese.
@farmerbold11446 жыл бұрын
EVERYBODY HAS SUFFERED BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE TO MAKE OTHERS SUFFER. GOT IT! THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA is not a "republic" but an oppressive and intrusive totalitarian one-party government. Imperial China's defeat, exploitation, and humiliation for the last couple of centuries by Western powers and Japan to be followed by China's Cultural Revolution in the mid1960's is an excuse and JUSTIFICATION for China's contemporary immoral expansionism, lies and cheating in order to take or steal whatever it wants today imitating past enemies that had ravaged China. Such theft includes militarily invading and subjugating Tibet and claiming sovereignty over the entire South China Sea (including Taiwan that is The Republic of China and militarized illegal artificial islands), East China Sea, Yellow Sea and all oil/gas mineral rights and all fishing rights right up to the shores of other nations. China simply ignores the existence of other nations and their humanity. China's damaged ego does not have to be stroked and soothed by everybody else in the world kowtowing in order for China to have security. Security does not require revenge, as people and cultures all over the world have both imposed and suffered violence, death, and humiliation. China's feelings got hurt by a violent history and now feels justified to get some payback by subjugating everybody in the world. Now, all other nations in the region are militarizing to eventually fight China ... India, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, S. Korea, and Japan. China warns the U.S. to stay away and mind its own business as China greatly increases its military power eventually to rival America's.
@jacoblau93556 жыл бұрын
Farmer Bold. I think you may have missed Zhaoxun Yan's point and I quote from another thread here: "I am Chines, this video is objective .We recognize our mistakes and will correct and improve it ". Maybe being Chinese we see things differently from "the West". I will say that you are...misinformed...mostly by western media. China did what it needed to do to get out of the hole they were in during the Cultural Revolution. It might not have been pretty but it got the job done when the spotlight wasn't on them. Most Chinese holds no grudges towards the West despite what it did in the 19th Century. Things like the Great Firewall of China (which also exist in many places in Europe now too) is actually in place for censorship to the benefit of the Western relationships the PRC has formed and to maintain peace. It is in place so that the Chinese people do not experience some of the racial hatred of the West towards the Chinese people and so most Chinese citizens don't know how anti-China these countries are. You will find Chinese people that move here or to America finding out the truth and getting angry over it. In terms of it being "expansionist" that part was a laugh. China's policy towards its neighbours is actually one of "Put[ting] differences away and develop/prosper together". It wants to expand peacefully and economically work together with its neighbour to prosper together. You can call this Chinese propaganda if you want or you can try to see it differently. Every country you know today up to Nazi Germany and Meiji Japan, etc that is a power of some kind went through aggressive reform and when to war with others. Everyone else grabbed as much land and money and did as many atrocious things as possible to survive and grow. None of them bar the Japanese had to deal with nuclear weapons. Thus China is really the only country in their situation that has to deal with this problem so it is disadvantage in their rise to power. If you actually bothered to spent the time to read through the threads here, you'll learn a lot and find that most of your fears and points are answered by the many people already. One last point is: China is actually also really...slow. Its in last place when it comes to almost everything...even economic power. The numbers don't mean crap. Seriously, its the 21st century and China is still a developing country. It is in no position to subjugate anybody. One might not approve, that is true, but an authoritarian government is not synonymous with a dictatorship. In fact most Chinese leader have less staying power then American counter parts. They have gone through plenty of leadership changes both high up and down as well as having plenty of new blood coming into and leaving the system. China's party is also split into many factions that constantly feud over things. How then is that an oppressive government? Again, it is in no position to subjugate anybody.
@wongasta5 жыл бұрын
@@farmerbold1144 ignore this dude he's insane. Rule one of the internet don't get mad from trolls.
@Maelstromme5 жыл бұрын
Yixin Xia He isn’t insane, he’s emotional. He has a right to be. I see too many excuses in these “explanations.”
@Kongajinken3 жыл бұрын
@@wongasta Dude's emotional but he's not wrong, China has the right to be angry, but it doesn't have the right to subjugate its neighbors. Which is made even more ridiculous when China says its the US that is doing the bullying, but in fact the only thing the US is doing is trying to prevent China from bullying its neighbors.
@lxy07095 жыл бұрын
The Chinese 9 core mindsets were established in the Chunqiu period which is 2780 years ago. One of them called Confucianism. Ming, Qing dynasty, ROC didn't really change too much until the PRC. They wiped most traditional mindsets off from Chinese people. In the longterm, the removal of bad traditional behaviors and it's good for the development of modern China. The outcome (culture revolution) was painful, but it worth. Anyhow, history will help us to judge it.
@kaialoha5 жыл бұрын
My father was (is) from a Manchu aristocratic line and is a very well regarded China Watcher starting in the 50s. He spoke 8 dialects of China and is a member of the Party still. His position: China is the Middle KIngdom, the rest of the world is the Lower KIngdoms. There is no desire for these inferior kingdoms. China customarily and historically only poured over her borders to defend herself in adjoining lands and no more. China plays a longer game than anyone non-Chinese can possibly imagine. For example, the strategy to gain the crucial US diplomatic recognition of the communist PRC was initiated soon after PRC emerged in 49. Vancouver was designated Beijing outside China and soon, Canada became the first Western power to recognize PRC. This led to the crucial US recognition in 79.
@lhsia59325 жыл бұрын
as a Chinese, I find that almost all the Chinese comments begin with "as a Chinese". hahahahaha
@arborinfelix6 жыл бұрын
Again all the usual suspects doing all the crimes against humanity and now call themselves "civilized"
@rogerwilco26 жыл бұрын
I am again impressed by how good and objective your content is.
@hugoniotsmith11835 жыл бұрын
Lots of details in the beginning but a bit lack of explanation later on. But overall a nice piece of work. BTW the Cixi's "I declare war on all the other countries" is hilarious!