底下评论真的充分体现英文世界的愚昧不堪。如果欧美还是这种民主专制，洗脑化、宗教化的认知水平，早晚有一天中华文明已经开启星际文明，你们还在地球打嘴炮。中国的成功关键很简单，遵循实践是检验真理的唯一标准，所有概念理论，都必须结合中国的实践来判断是否正确。欧美很擅长制造新概念来让维护自身地位，但面对中国打破他们的宣传后，就越来越多依赖于谎言了。

Communist China occupied Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia - Yeh definitely China isn't"expansionist" 😂😂😂

@@jasha9sandhu you should learn more about history before yapping around make a stupid comments. jealousy is a poison for your heart.

@@jasha9sandhu How ignorant you are!🙄

George, you know what is 漢賊不兩立? Have you pointed out even 1 wrong doing of China? Or are you intellectually honest?

i watched 10 minutes of it. Ive been struggling not to post a comment about how Yeo doesnt actually answer any questions. It seems more like he is just repeating general rhetoric rather than any practical obsevations or useful information. Seems just. China cool. China interesting. China big. yeah....those things are true...but not an answer, and not relevant.

@@mjlambert210 you are right: Mr Yeo wasn't answering any questions directly. What he was trying to say is: China is way too complicated for casual discussion. Before you try to pass a judgement on China, try to have some basic understanding. Just like if you try to talk about a movie, don't start from a few snapshots. Try to watch it from begin to end a few times first. Of course this is not to say everyone who cares should go to China, stay there for a few years, tour around the country and talk to the people there. But for many politicians, journalists, commentators and analysts, talking about China based on what they read in the media or hearsay is just like talking about a movie based on a few flyers advertising the movie. If you try to find a simple answer, here is one: China is the sleeping lion who is waking up, but she is not a lion who wants to take over the world; it's not in her gene. But she is the Lion King in her territory or sphere of influence. Try to live with her peacefully albeit competitively, she would do the same in return.

@@ymw321 this is a terrible statement. It’s exactly what I was critiquing about mr. Yeo’s statements. You aren’t answering the question of what practical things can the world do to interact with China on a respectful level. To just answer with “you can’t have a casual discussion about china” What? This isn’t casual. This is supposed to be education and informative. An intentional conversation.

@@mjlambert210 I think you just answered your question: being "respectful". Macron was being respectful when he went to China, so he could conduct meaningful and constructive conversations with Chinese leaders. All Chinese leaders want is just that, respect. Unfortunately this is not the case with US politicians. They don't have the patience trying to understand China's values and instead try to impose their values upon the Chinese. That is disrespect. If one insists on some "universal values" and these so-called universal values are defined by the West, then there is no conversation but only "education". I believe this is also the point Mr. Yeo tried to make.

It's the same CCP crap I've heard a thousand times. "China's culture is "different"". Translation: The Chinese people are too dumb to think for themselves and need a mommy-state like the CCP to look over them like children. Asian Logic = Self-Serving Logic.

@@olivierverdys4673who are you again?

Because he echoes the Communist line.

He has lots of BS.

@@markiobook8639 1450

@@markiobook8639 What is ideological bias, you gave the answer.

@@markiobook8639 😅smart

So you don't think the CCP should be challenged when they threaten to "Nuke" other countries ???

This is called freedom of press, which really presses you when you have different opinions.

Amen

@@adamcroft3705 : So you support threatening to "Nuke" other countries.

@@buildmotosykletist1987 US has done so numerous times but I don’t see the likes of you complaining

The Chinese dudes with whom I talked they were all utterly uninterested in history. Which really struck me at the time, to the point that I really got annoyed and even angry with them. Whenever i wanted to talk with them about ANYTHING lying in the past, the stereotypical answer was always: That's ALREADY OVER (这个已经去过了), we can't change it (无法改变了), now we must look forward blablah. It would be wrong if I said "I do not buy that history crap", nay, I DO KNOW FOR SURE that for all normal people, especially the young, who are not working for the government, "history" means nothing.

Common understanding of history formed the backbone of Chinese culture, not religion.

Yes, the history of Mao's communist revolution. And don't you think that communism, Mao or revolution are used in some bad way. No.

@@strassmanncai you mean, common indoctrination?

The westerners will just take all the bad history wrap it up and conclude the Chinese are bad. Simply they love to demonize Asians they think we're obedient and weak. Indeed Americans and Europeans have fought most of wars these 200 years or so. Orientalism in the history, Japan bashing in the 80s, China phobia now, they always do this way looking down on Asians while self reinfocing the idea of their beloved twisted democracy based on the foundation of sacrificing non white human rights.

Yeah, they'll see him sprouting CCP propaganda and know the threat that the CCP is to the free world.

China only believes in self-benefits... the rest is a waste of time.

Oh the Taiwanese leader who is half Japanese you mean.

Not the one who doesn't follow its constitution.

How about Hawaii, Catalonia, or Scotland be invited too?

a china lackey ?

a china lackey ?

And man in the street as well. That is how Chinese are brought up.

a china lackey ?

你说对了 5000年的成人和247年的孩子在对理解人生的真谛理解一样，谁懂得会更多？ 高下立判。

History does help in someway but not for sure or not for that much, cause: 1. History tends to lost in details or sometimes are distorted in recording and understanding or interpretation, besides that, people are forgetful. 2. Even if you know history well, you just can't change the fate of a dynasty, in the past or in the future. Few people are powerful/smart enough to divert the cause of the established system, even if you know the problem, know the answer, just see how Trump MAGA.

@@user-ry7vm9tb2v 一個 經過 5,000年進化的老人, 對於 尊重人權 尊重人性 尊重民主自由 的修為, 竟然 不及一個 進化只有 247年的小孩. 你是否覺得 這老人的 品質 品格 極為劣質, 不配做人類？

The ultimate goal of China is to destroy United States to dominate the world. 😢 😢 ❤ ❤ You know what the meaning of "China" is in Chinese. It means "a country in the middle of ... " or " 'Middle' Country". That is, all tribes around China are "barbarians" or "inferior tribes". The ancient emperors were called "The Son of Heaven (God) or 天子" For more than 3,500 years, the ancient China Dynasties always considered themselves to be superior to all surrounding tribes. For nearly every ancient China Dynasty, once they had got into a united, stable and prosperous state, they started expanding outward, annexing foreign territories, committing genocide on foreign tribes if necessary to eradicate any possible challenges. THIS, is the real China today you are facing. Don't be as naive as these scholars, who know so little about Chinese history.

@@justice9325 现在美国人会战斗到最后一个乌克兰人 以后美国人也会战斗到最后一个台湾人 只有美国人才配享有自由 其他的生物都是为实现美国自由的养料而已.

I used to be a fan of Lex until he brought Yeonmi Park on there. Giving her a platform for more propaganda was just insane.

@@monophthalmus3254 "insane".

@@olivierverdys4673 The most insightful message by Yeo is "watch the full video, not just a few snapshots, before drawing your conclusion"! Unfortunately, quite a few making comments here did not seem to get the message. In this easy media era where snapshots are abundant but full videos lacking, people seldom have the patience to watch full videos. Very often I hear comments about China from those who clearly have no idea what China is like and are simply repeating what they read from Western media. There is no exception here.

agreed - I could watch this if it was 2 hours

​@@monophthalmus3254 i couldnt agree more.

Different from an American perspective - yes I would agree.

He's preaching the Chinese propaganda, that's all.

This remark also applies to all parties. Everyone is preaching their own gospel but not many are actually interested to listen and learn about their differences

@@taiwanlife6531 ... Says the CIA bot. Stop making sh->yyit up.

Because the West loves China too much. Westerners love China so much, all Westerners have become Jesus, willing to die to bring democracy, justice, happiness, human rights, etc. to Chinese people. So, it has nothing to do with whether we are right or wrong about China.

no. it was a bad comparation. It's only comparable to the middle ages in Europe when church tried to control everybody and every thing. Now the CRC stays out of politics, as it should

Except the catholic church has be far more progressive

A perfect example is the American people's and congresspersons' reactions after 9/11. America was united, but it definitely did get out of control (for an understatement).

Spoken like a true authoritarianism who doesn't love populism or the need to channel the will of the people.

I’m really disappointed this guy has a ccp troll and gives him airtime. It’s disgusting.

What’s wrong with this statement? Remember how Hitler got his power?

Is he wrong?

One century of humiliation history from west should be important as well.

@@Qiushishuo It was much less then a century and get fucking over it. 2 world wars happened since and all the people involved in both those wars get along well now. Germany and France are actually allies... Why do all China's neighbors hate China? Because of the west? Why are Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Burma and even Mongolia so anti Chinese? Because of the selfish actions of the Chinese, not the west. Funny that the US has much better relations with Vietnam compared to China considering they had the most recent war with them. How many centuries will you keep on humiliation Tibet and the Uygur people?

???? What does it mean? Country and Religion? Doesn't make sense

@@cachet633it has an opinion said China is a civilization pretended to a country,many of Chinese agree with it(including me).China have a same political religion,the political religion have changed and grown through the history river,but the objective never changed,in Chinese its called 大同，its birth in a ariticle write about 2500years ago,these 2500years China gov(whatever kinds of goverment)and people do all the things its wants to close to it.the first sentence of it :the most common and right way is public(大道之行也，天下为公）. these kind of public including a peason can change his social class,and so on( in the article have discrbled soe of them).China is similar like a religion,difference with western its,its for political not for thology.

it is not misunderstanding. it is toxic hate and jealousy

@@alsetalokin88 you are the one filled with toxic hate, etc, evidently

@@Lost_Johnny you're making no sense and in denial

@@Lost_Johnny stop consuming the toxic hateful lying western media right away. there is still hope.

The West's behaviour clearly shows they don't care for insight and understanding. They want what they want and if they don't get it. You're the problem not them.

@@olivierverdys4673 It was not a sarcasm. The problem with video is as what I have said, content not searchable, the search engines can add a feature to cover the close captioning. I don't think it is available yet.

小心两边都不是人！

@@AllisGoodperhaps Never place all your eggs in one basket.

Absolutely. This is a Chinaphile waxing lyrically on a favourite topic who is familiar with Singaporean authoritarianism and should remember how that control turned SG into an efficient nation of middle managers and not the creative powerhouse that it could be.

Exactly. It’s disgusting this troll is given a platform.

Whoever says China is not imperialist should check history when they violently took Tibet. When they tried to invade Vietnam. As they are currently in a border dispute with India. Yeah they aren’t imperial that’s the biggest lie of the century. These people know nothing about history. Not to mention the current genocide in xinjiang. But they are peaceful????? That’s garbage.

Every civilization has their own idea of their exceptionalism that itself forms the foundation of the state's reason for existing. Taking away or denying a civilization their idea of exceptionalism is the start of threatening a state's very existence. We should instead ask of how to redefine and reconstruct the ideology of exceptionalism in a positive way.

I think comparing China to then imperial Japan is wrong. Japan adopted completely the western value and way of life during the Meiji restoration while China (qing dynasty) rejected. Japan launching wars in 19&20 century has nothing to do with its exceptionalism but out of economic / political / cultural (colonialism was mainstream in western world back then) reason. Expansionism in China has never had its soil in ‘Han’ culture which essentially has its agricultural core. As a Chinese, I can say none of the people I know would link the country prosperity with larger territory. It just doesn’t have a social base. Now Taiwan is a more complicated issue. Even that, I think the chance that CCP taking Taiwan by force is extremely small unless it is cornered internationally/domestically. Just want to give a bit credit to the analysis from the guest speaker. For the record I do not support CCP in case anyone would call me troll.

sadly this was not in the US ... but in Europe :)

Not sure I would agree with what was said. But very interesting to see how the Han view themselves and American sailors

@@ysw8291 Americans are the allies of my country and they are defending the right of navigation and democracy. I very much disagree with any philiosopy that advocates killing of people - like in Ukraine today for defending human rights. By your definition I have no right to life.

What we get wrong about China is how peacefully they torture Uighur muslims and other minorities and demolish their places of worship. And how shamelessly and hypocritically the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) and Pakistan ignores this while being concerned about the democracies of Israel, India and the West :D

Because the West loves China too much. Westerners love China so much, all Westerners have become Jesus, willing to die to bring democracy, justice, happiness, human rights, etc. to Chinese people. So, it has nothing to do with whether we are right or wrong about China.

He simply parrots CCP propaganda. I don't think that "thinking" is involved at all in his analysis.

​@@kenharvey8161stupidest comment..

@@jeromestavros He has twisted history and facts to support the CCP's narrative. Fortunately, the world knows better now. Taiwan doesn't belong the PRC, and the CCP repeating that it does won't make it more true.

Good point! How strong is the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) claim on Taiwan, an island that Imperial China ceded to Japan, long before the PRC was even born? Doesn't the Republic of China, the legitimate and recognized government of China that escaped to Taiwan and NEVER surrendered to the Communist traitors, have a claim on their home, the Chinese mainland? Whose historical claim is stronger? Whose claim is more absurd? Why isn't Taiwan simply regarded as an independent nation, last freed from the Empire of Japan?

Sterilization and re-education to achieve "harmony" come to mind

Tibet and Xinjiang might disagree with some of his points

Chinese unity of this sort occurred only with CCP. The cultural revolution played a big part. The old timers will tell you, there were always a friend who died during those times. CCP hadn't changed much. Cultural genocide is still a thing, and it is getting worse as time progresses. Massive exodus of intellectuals from China at its peak. Taiwan is the only place where a decent side of Chinese cultural is retained.

Even within their Han society, it's incredibly divided amongst social economic status. Chinese people living in Tier 1 cities like Shanghai consider rural Han Chinese people as peasant scum.

No, China didn't want to. If you are saying the long history, read some books in Yuan, Ming, Tsing Dynasty. There was certain complexity rather than "China conquers them".

People who can't live with their mistakes....sad, but nothing new really

You nail it! 👍👍👍👍👍 Really sorry for these guys.

On top of that they wouldn't mention they are being treated like second class citizens in their adopted countries

So damn right!

This is called "convert fanaticism"

Indirectly George Yeo confirmed my earlier understanding and believe that Catholic Church is a political entity. It probably was never a religious entity right from the beginning.

Wanna to understand Amarika? Think of Epstein and Irak.

Completely incorrect erroneous and simplistic understanding of the Catholic Church. False similarity. Catholic Church never murders.

@@markiobook8639 sure, RC priests sure brings a whole new meaning to loving them altar boys. LOL

​​@@markiobook8639have your ever heard of burning at the stake? The church also had its dark history of killing heretics in the past.

Well he is an expert on China. What are you an expert in?

You are right. In China, women's rights even surpass men's rights. This is an incredible and great achievement. Real equality between men and women.

And land reform!

"Toothbrushes" 🤣

@@SSDDssed and you still use it ;(

@@ysw8291 let’s not pretend similar tools didnt exist before the tooth brush, like frayed twigs/chew sticks. The toothbrush is nice but it’s not that important for progress. And why does it matter which civilization invented what? Some individual humans are behind inventions. Nationality, race or religion is not that relevant here.

​​@@SSDDssed It's the butterfly effect. Toothbrushes might seem like just another invention, but having it play a part in maintaining and resolving dental hygiene leading to people being healthy > making differences in the country in their own way that we cannot see. Thus I don't think toothbrushes "not important for progress" is the more accurate statement here. It's like saying torchlights are not as important for progress when you can just use candles imo

there were already compasses in the roman empire. And of course in the roman empire they invented concrete, people used short hair an toke a bath at least once a week for health reasons. after every thing was forgotten. I just don't understand why they did't invented a sewer system. If they had, we all would be talking Italian. Anyway It was a Jesuit that teached the seasons to the Chinese court so they could order the peasants to plant the crops accordingly an not random, so people would die with famine. and we gave china the writing as they gave us the mechanical clock. Two inventions in different parts of the world at different times that had nothing to do with each other...

cultural values = confucianism beliefs. That has been a Chinese universal beliefs regardless of your religion. It has never been outdated. Sure, we may disagree with their political system but at least the art of war has been maintained and uphold. China historically even till today do send their officials to Singapore to study governance and the art of policies making.

@reubenkhj4296 There is far more to Chinese culture and philosophy than Confucianism. While the roots of those values and philosophies generally trace back to 500-200 BCE, and while they generally follow the same themes, they are far from static. Confucianism, for example, meant different things at different points in history. What we have seen in the past decades in China is a revitalization of those founding values of Chinese culture and a resurgence of philosophical debate and dialogue, the likes of which haven't been seen in centuries. What the PRC regime has accomplished is an alignment of political ideology with cultural values and philosophies. Over the course of a century, historical trends and events have pried China away from its previously sedentary and outdated framework of governance. The result, however, is not the abandonment of traditional values and philosophies, but rather their revitalization. In more recent decades, through much struggle and suffering, the persistence of said values and philosophies have selected, molded, and adapted the regime's understanding of its own ideology and style of governance. The folly of likening China to the late USSR is that China's "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is more about Chinese than it is about socialism, just as the USSR was more about Russia than it was about socialism. China doesn't give a shit whether you want to become just like China. China is only concerned with how China is to be managed and directed towards a brighter future for its people and itself. China has never become strong by vanquishing its foes. Rather, China vanquished its foes by virtue of its strength. What western policy makers need to realize is that China isn't out to get you, so don't make yourself its mortal enemy. China has been a superpower for most of its existence, and there is no way that it wouldn't relapse into being a superpower again. Except this superpower of 1.4 billion people and 29% of world industrial output is perfectly happy to just be left alone. The gentle giant has even shrugged it off when you poked it with twigs. Don't keep challenging its core national interests and sovereign integrity. Keep doing that, and it might just get angry at you. You don't want that to happen.

@@Dermisc Why do you know China so well?

Didn't you listen to what he said? Except for a brief period when China established the "Republic of China" (partly democratic in 1912 to 1949 when KMT was governement) all the rest of history has China being ruled by an authoritarian government. Authoritarian rule is all they know in their 5,000 year of history. They are used to authoritarian rule, they like authoritarian rule. The people are willing to give up some of their rights/freedom (mostly political freedom) in exchange of a government that will take care of them and provide them with security, protection, homes, so they can have a good living. You ask them if they want to be able to vote and they would say "Why?". It would mean them having to invest their time and learning all the issues to be able to be an intelligent voter. They'll just say, "leave that to the party members who are committed and know what its all about. They are more interested in making money for themselves.

@rap3208 First of all, the Republic of China from 1912 to 1949 was not a democracy. Secondly, Chinese people do get to vote. I personally witnessed their voting process while I was working in China, much to my surprise. Sure, their system is rigged elsewhere to make sure their dominant political party stays in control, but China does have other political parties, and some of those representatives do get elected at times. Lastly, to claim that any nation or people is grossly uninterested in the governance of their society is simply bigotry. Yes, Chinese people have a lot of faith in their government, but so do Canadians and Americans. It's not an isolated incident that you'd come across Canadians and Americans claiming that someone in their government must have done the research and made intelligent and informed decisions on any given subject matter. For example, let's start with why we must make China our number 1 enemy. All you'd get is regurgitation of official policy. Nobody can give you an answer when you keep digging with more why's. Everything about China is blown way out of proportion here, but the average person doesn't seem interested in questioning the direction of our foreign policy. Does that mean that Canadians and Americans don't care for democracy? Oh, and on money... Who on earth doesn't want to make more money? I'm not a billionaire. I want more money.

What explicitly do you believe was actually 'constructed' during or as a consequence of the conversation besides some tired old, hackneyed support for autocracy, sir? Please explain yourself. 14:12

Good CCP propaganda between two small minds out of East & West.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

So how things turn out for the people of Hongkong now?Do you know how things turn out before?Why pretend that you know the history of Hong Kong and the feelings of its people?

@@starsmeng509 obviously you don't

@@ruiferreira6578 obviously you don't..

My thoughts exactly. A bit of a wasted opportunity in my opinion.

George Yeo and his ilk are shills for the CCP.

I agree with you completely. In history China conquered other countries like vietnam. So I do not agree with Yeo . He is Chinese so he is biased

Amazing, so many guys so much cleverer and much more knowledge-able than George Yeo. World is so peaceful with so many extremely knowledgeable people 😯

@@toothpick5932 lol! you are so desperate that you have to pull out an example from ancient history before the birth of Jesus Christ, lol again. Perhaps you can't make the chinese invasion of vietnam territory in 1979 in support of their ally Cambodia because they voluntarily withdrew after less than 3 weeks?

K goodbye to freedom of speech and any social programms then. Enjoy.

George Yeo wasn't trying to be persuasive. He gave his views on China from the perspective of a person of Chinese ethnicity who is from Singapore. What George Yeo is trying to do is to get the word out there that there are almost 8 billion people in the world and the western's persective of China isn't the only perspective and on the contrary the majority view of China (population wise) may be totally different from the western's view. You may think that the entire world hates China but the fact may well be quite different. You are likely raised in a society and environment that is based on Judeo-Christian tradition (you may disagree) and that trumpets that the western liberal democracy is the panacea for all the ills in the world and there is only one system that works (like there is only one God). George Yeo knows about the mindset of the west for he himself is a devout Catholic. He knows that no amount of persuasion can sway you from your upbringing. The irony is that there may be more brainwashing in the west that there are in China.

@@civicblade1 You are right. It is very funny for someone who only knows the West way to question the wisdom of George, who knows both China and West very well, on China without any solid evidences.

​@@civicblade1 Uighurs,Tibetans, Taiwanese, Vietnamese,Filippinos all aprove, they are brainwashed and Chinese are not or are less so.

Far away? Yes, before the internet. Yes, before oil. Not much said about global modern international trade was there? Not a word. There is nothing historic about China and Taiwan's current day global trade positions. That is very modern power. How can anyone compare the reunification of DDR and W Germany with the reunification of Taiwan with China from a financial and trade perspective of the two countries involved? Was DDR the 11th largest global goods exporter or making 60% of the world's technology building blocks (semiconductors) and 90% of the most advanced tech (highest tech semiconductors)? No. That technology is already firmly embedded in every facet of modern day culture and infrastructure in so many countries globally.

@@jam99 You mean the principles go out the window if you're dealing with entities with different power status (bigger or biggest exporter or biggest tech producer or whatever) or with different asset valuation. Come on what happened to "Do the right thing ... Did it ever cross your mind "

Yes but Kipling was also talking about an entirely different century. We now live in 2023, where Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, for example, have far more in common politically and the values they hold with the West compared to say, the CCP's prison state of mainland China.

No- Chinese opium smugglers meet in the middle to smuggle opium in to the internal areas Westerners could not venture (outside of Concession on pain of death)

What we get wrong about China is how peacefully they torture Uighur muslims and other minorities and demolish their places of worship. And how shamelessly and hypocritically the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) and Pakistan ignores this while being concerned about the democracies of Israel, India and the West :D

Because the West loves China too much. Westerners love China so much, all Westerners have become Jesus, willing to die to bring democracy, justice, happiness, human rights, etc. to Chinese people. So, it has nothing to do with whether we are right or wrong about China.

keyword : Empathy ... they can't understand because they dont care.

They have been used to such pride and arrogance for decades. Only when the western hegemony ends, people from the collective west can accept others’ merits with empathy.

I'm not jealous about China's 'rise'. Didn't even hear/know anything about China until 2019 because it cuts itself off from the outside unfortunately. It was the CCPs atrocities against its own citizens that made me aware of China. The CCP is the thing everyone is critizising, not chinese culture or increased wealth over the last decades. Your blind swallowing of state propaganda is unfortunate and will not benefit you in life.

"Nationalism is a disease" - famous German physicist.

Unlike Germany.. Chinese don't claim uber alles in der world...no such thing.. it's the States!

@@level1selamat155 of course they claim kinda world dominance based their long history of chinese civilization. Especially in the asia-pacific region, especially in front of their asian neighbors… the US- presences in this region is because of the safety of the tradeways per sea

Yellow peril discourse came from Germany. As did hitler and final solution. People don;t think "uber alles" like you. I think that's your history, not other people's history

The usual brainless Nazi tropes from a racist.

Malays sold SG to British East India Company. They did not take SG by force. Malaysia and SG separation is official which both parties agreed. Malaysia has no right to say SG is still part of Malaysia or belongs to Malays. Are you from the jungle David Koh?

or how LKY get rid of the communists in Spore, LKY didnt think that they are harmless or good for Spore, that was not that long ago, george yeo shld know the spore history of how LKY deal w the communist

Fully agree

"legitimately views Taiwan as its traditional territory" Well argued, and I agree, but with one tiny quibble. Just as P00ti views Ukraine as his own, the XiXiP views Taiwan as its traditional territory, but NOT legitimately. The XiXiP has NEVER ruled Taiwan.

There's a thing called sovereignty. You don't understand what it really means. If you are Chinese, you should know why China is what it is now.

No government in China ,regardless of the form of its government is willing to let a a big, strategic island such as Taiwan as an independent nation. If Japan and China could not give up a disputed tiny, inhabited island, China will never give up Taiwan Island. The whole world, since 1949, always know Taiwan island is a part of a big China. KMT always consider itself the legitimate government of China, and reserve the right to take back mainland. And if that happened,may be they will move back to Beijing as new capital but Taiwan Island still belong to a democratic China. The CCP want to attack KMT in Taiwan but could not due to US 7 fleet protection and a very weak navy. The North and South Korea are also belong to Korea. The North could not do it because of American forces in South Korea. The Korea civil war has not ended neither mainland China and Taiwan.

Its wrong to ask Singapore to join one China as Singapore is not a China province unlike Taiwan and Hong Kong. China did not mess up in hk. Its the west that interfered to cause turmoil and China had resolve this with the internal security legislation. Even Taiwan claims they are the legitimate ruler of China.

China's claim in South China Sea is backed by history. In Ming Dynasty, Chinese had been living and fishing on the islands in SCS. During WWII, Japanese invaded and occupied the islands in SCS. At the end of WWII, the Allied countries established several official documents forcing the Japanese to return all the islands in SCS back to the Republic of China.

@@MrHistoryFan China's historical claim of islands in the South China Sea is baseless. Da Ming Hunyi Tu or the Amalgamated Map of Ming Dynasty shows that China's territory is only until Hainan.

@@MrHistoryFan How can you claim historical islands that never existed? =D Also what about Tibet? And what excuse do you have to exterminate the Uygurs?

@@FragLord 1. There have been islands in SCS. For example, you can search for Taiping island in SCS. 2. Tibet became part of China in 1720s during Qing Dynasty. That was way before Texas became part of USA. 3. Uyghur population grew from 3.5 million in 1949 to 12 million now. Tell me what kind of genocide would cause such a growth?

@@MrHistoryFan 1) Nobody disputes the existence of islands in the SCS. However, dredging entire new islands and claiming those as a historic claim is pure hypocrisy. Not to mention that the islands China claims are all claimed by nations much much closer to those nations, like the Philippines or Vietnam. And the large aggression of China has alienated potential allies in that area. Vietnam already was an enemy of China, now it has doubled down and is on the verge of allying the USA. 2) Tibet was conquered, not became part, until 1912. It was de facto independent until 1951 until China invaded again. The People's Republic of China (PRC), founded in October 1949 by the victorious Communists under the leadership of Mao Zedong, lost little time in asserting a new Chinese presence in Tibet. In October 1950, the People's Liberation Army entered the Tibetan area of Chamdo, defeating sporadic resistance from the Tibetan army. In 1951, Tibetan representatives participated in negotiations in Beijing with the Chinese government. This resulted in a Seventeen Point Agreement which formalized China's sovereignty over Tibet, but was repudiated by the present Tibetan government-in-exile. No idea why you would bring up Texas, since 1 i'm not American and 2 I don't care. Also Texas CHOSE to be a part of the USA. Tibet didn't have a choice. Tiny but big difference there. So next time if you want to use an example, make sure the comparisons add up... 3) The targeting, extermination and largescale internment of Uyghurs in China started around 2014. So it makes more sense to start counting from 2014 right. Well we run into a crucial problem very fast since we can't thrust any figures coming out of CCP China, they "miscalculated" their entire population by around 100 million. It's safe to say that using numbers and statistics don't work. But we do have thousands of witnesses and other proof to determine that attacks such as: Internment, forced abortion, forced sterilization, forced birth control, forced labor, torture, brainwashing, alleged rape (including gang rape) are happening across the board. And even if we had correct and trustworthy numbers. Since you are starting from 1949. Worldwide all populations around the world boomed since 1949. Using your metrics 0 genocides have taken place since then... So first of all you starting from 1949, which is as we have just established an entirely invalid argument. It would be to say that because since the 1800's there were still more jews in Germany after 1945, so there was no holocaust. No sir, such disgusting statements have no place in public discord. Inform yourself on the topic of genocide and secondly on the Uyghur genocide. Also it is still to have a genocide on a population and have it survive. We still have jews, Armenians, Congolese people, even though they were genocide upon. A genocide doesn't mean the total destruction and disappearance of a people or culture. Killing about 1 million people just based on either, race, religion or culture is always a genocide. No matter how large the entire pop group is... Following the Ürümqi riots, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced the "savagery" being inflicted on the Uyghur community and called for an end of the Chinese government's attempts to forcibly assimilate the community. Later at the Group of Eight summit in Italy, Erdogan called upon Chinese authorities to intervene to protect the community and stated that "The incidents in China are, simply put, a genocide. There's no point in interpreting this otherwise. Turkey is not part of the West and not part of the EU. So even outside the west, they call it a genocide. Just google and/or wikipedia uyghur genocide. It's a proven fact. So I'm not going into a discussion with someone that uses such intelligently dishonest and frankly disgusting argumentations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide It was nice destroying you, goodbye

You are just looking for something to contradict when he just probably misworded what he wanted to say or just said that to make a long story short. Of course China understands what is happening in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. It wants to play mediator and it did try but Ukraine and Russia were not ready to go to the negotiation table. China does not impose itself where it does not belong. It dosn't interfere where it doesn't belong. It was succesful in the Iran-Saudi mediation because it was probably invited by the two parties to mediate it. Or it sent out a feeler to the two countries and they were receptive to a mediation. They almost always don't tell the complete story or what happens before, during and after a mediation, just the result.

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@@rap3208 if belonging is not mutual between both parties perhaps you are miswording yourself as well

@@allisterlobo6754 What are you talking about?

There is a big problem with your understanding ability. Is Iran and Saudi Arabia currently in a state of war? China is only helping them resume diplomatic relations, and both sides have this willingness.