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The way Chinese deal with Uighurs in Xinjiang is the correct way to deal with followers of Muhammad. Sooner or later western countries and other countries will have to employ the same tactics to save themselves or convert into being followers of Muhammad.
I sincerely appreciate your all efforts for sharing this to all of viewers.
Economist is known to report false information like BBC. What a joke!
Fact is : XI is Smarter than Dementia Biden🤣🤣🤣😅😅
Thank you for your fine work, you’re quite the PROPAGANDIST!
42:41 You failed to mention the millions that fled the Mainland were Nationalists who lost to the Communists in the last Chinese Civil War. Technically to this day the Chinese government in Taiwan still claims to the Mainland. This is not a conflict between independent nations but a civil war that is not finished.
是美國人害死國民黨
I don't know enough about what really took place when the Nationists "fled‘ to Taiwan, but it was factual they took a massive amount of treasures, including antiques and money there...amongst them many were notorious warlords and corrupted officials. The China they left behind was so barren and in dire poverty for many, many years. My mother, who was living in Hong Kong, then sent food and fabrics for clothing to her relatives in Mainland China much into the 70s. My first visit to Shezhen China was 1980, and I needed to buy an exchange voucher for a cup of coffee. Our relative, who was actually the principal of a local high school, offered one of their 3 home raised chickens for our dinner... I was so saddened by that. I left 100 USD with them, and apparently, they divided among 20 families with 5.00 each. And these were all happening only 3 or 4 decades ago.
Taiwan is a _de facto_ independent nation, with its own government, military, economy, and culture, and has been for decades. Anyone who says otherwise is a CCP propagandist. How it happened, and whether it's a good or bad thing, is secondary. It is what it is.
@@YoudeservetheBest OK which is it? You don't know, or the facts are.... You can't have it both ways.
@@kathyschreiber9947 Taiwan was returned to ROC Republic of China in 1945 when Japan surrendered, and China broke civil war between nationalists ( RoC) and CPC PLA (communist people liberation army), and the nationalists lost the civil war and retreated to Taiwan, still call itself RoC. ( republic of China), and CPC for a new government, called PRC people republic of China. ...and when the nationalists( ROC) retreated to Taiwan, they brought gold, antiques and treasures, for example, they had a Chinese museum in Taiwan and put many Chinese treasures inside.
Fun fact: xi lived in Iowa for a short time as a magistrate. It was the first state he visited. To him Iowa is America. He was studying new algaculture and farming practices. He did have some back ground in the rural life and nothing wrong with inproving food security.
IM FROM IOWA THIS IS CRAZYYY
Yes he actually did
The US should have kicked him out.
Fun fact:
Xi still hasn’t managed to feed his starving countryside population
You guys fed your own enemies...hhh
Wang Huning deserve an episode about him. He has served three Chinese presidents, and the brain behind many policies.
I’m very happy for this because despite being very interested in Xi personally I feel like he’s heavily overlooked in western conscious compared to someone like Putin or Kim (who have much less influence I believe).
Very true. He gets overlooked because of deep rooted business interests.
Exactly..On purpose..
‘Authoritarian’? Clearly you have no idea of how Chinese governance works. Have you read any of the books he has written?
@@mcheatle8270 I never said that, maybe you translated the comment incorrectly?
This is by design. The West doesn’t want to humanize their adversaries.
Small correction (@21:45): Bo did not flee to the US consulate in Chengdu to seek asylum, his former ally/police chief Wang Lijun did, out of fear of retaliation from Bo.
This is not small ， it was huge mistake and deliberately
Yes I found that as well it’s Wanglijun flee to US embassy 成都 not Boxilai
Also, Neil Heywood was British, not American.
I also noticed that deliberate mistake.@@amgxpat
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This video seems like it was made by the NED. Anyone that has been to China knows that they have problems, like any other nation. But they are also ahead of the west in many areas and the people there are largely happier than we are in the west.
It's quite hard to know if that's actually the case when a lot of statistics are freely manipulated and the opinions of the unhappy get suppressed. And the advancement and comforts disappear when you go outside of the top 5 largest cities.
一位朋友對我說的一件事：
我在海外定居，父母來探望我，因為疫情困在我家裡不能回國。從一開始不敢與我一起看網絡自媒體政論節目，到後來嘗試觀看後，慢慢也受到啓發，開始理性地思考。對於許多道理，他們以前不是不明白，而是深深恐懼，不敢往下去想。
你說能讓一個從沒有言論自由的專制社會忽然來到了自由社會的人，還會說：小聲點，別讓人聽到，在家裡說就行了，千萬別到外面說去，這是反動，會坐牢的！
唉！都快80歲的老人了，他們幾十年來長期生活在獨裁高壓社會形成的那種深入骨髓的恐懼的環境里，被單一信息深度洗腦，不敢質疑思考，逆來順受，毫無尊嚴活著。看著爸媽一輩子備受欺負的臉，低眉順目，可憐巴巴的模樣，我心碎流淚，也憤恨不已。
這種百姓極度懼怕官府的情形，是現代民主憲政國家的民眾難以想象的。我在海外日常生活中遇到的大部分普通民眾眼晴清澈坦然柔和，熱情直率奔放，充滿活力自信，從沒有一種被欺負過的模樣。而那種百姓極度懼怕官府，遇到官員或進入政府部門時誠惶誠恐的情形，令人聯想起古代朝廷命官出巡鳴鑼開道，行人肅靜回避，大氣也不敢喘的場面。上至九五之尊的皇帝，下到各級官吏爪牙對異見不滿反抗刁民先打殺威棒，實施駭人聽聞的酷刑峻法，對文人大興文字獄，株家滅族。在那個世道下，百姓毫無個人自由尊嚴可言，真是暗無天日。大臣們伴君如伴虎，升門小民說話同樣要小心翼翼，生怕一不小心就大禍臨頭，以言入罪，甚至沈默以對也可判為腹謗罪。
世事越千年，人類已經進入二一世紀現代文明社會，但在地球的某一角落，想不到的是還有一部分人類雖然所謂的憲法標明有言論出版集會示威結社自由，但現實里講話發文卻膽戰心驚，代以符號錯別字拼音簡寫躲避監控，玩貓鼠遊戲來溝通表達，千方百計避免被裝進「尋釁滋事」那個網織一切罪名的大口袋里，然後飽挨一通無產階級專政的鐵拳！
天還是那片天，專制皇權的陰魂還籠罩在那片大地，百姓對官府害怕恐懼的心理總揮之不去，奴隸奴才們一見到主子就雙膝發軟自動跪下的心魔還未驅除，民主自由的種子還醖釀發育，正在等待那驅散妖魔的霹靂春雷帶來的雨露甘泉發芽生長。
我對父母他們說：一定好好活著，一定看到天滅專制，自由民主那一天！
Why don’t you go and see in your own eyes.
并不是这样的好兄弟。老实说我们中国人挺辛苦的，从工作时长就可以看得出来。30年来我们取得的这些成绩也正是靠我们的勤奋努力换来的! 而如今我们也想试图做一些价值更高、利益更多的高科技产业，却被美国为首的国家围堵打压我们 ，华为就是例子。难道我们只能喝汤，他们吃肉?这是他妈的什么道理!
@@user-uw1kc9yy1k 哈哈😆你連中共與中國都分不清！西方打壓的是中共！華為是為中共幹事，裝備全是西方技術，賣給中國人民確是最高的價格！是中共一直打壓著中國人民！
He's not hard to figure out. He's a survivor. He's able to adapt to any given scenario, and because 99% of everything is made in China through outsourcing, He's in the driver's seat economically, and he knows it👈
The outsourcing to China had it's best days, most are moving to India, and he knows thát to ..
Also they have serious problem with birth and Young People.
@Treayom
Most are moving to India 🤣🤣🤣how naive
There are survivors and survivors, the things he has endured must have made him an incredibly flawed individual. Imagine your mother giving you to the authorities where the consequences could be fatal. After this he must have grown mistrustful of anyone. That's NOT what you want in a leader. Ofc, that's a scenario I can't confirm, human nature is extremely complex.
Excellent video. Easy to absorb the information and very entertaining at the same time. Great work thank you for what you do.
China Before the Invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces
In the 1830s, Britain illegally exported opium to China in large quantities, bringing severe damage to China in political, economic social and other aspects. The Qing Government finally made a resolute decision and dispatched Lin Zexu, Governor-General of Hubei and Hunan, to ban opium smoking and the opium trade in Guangdong.
In 1840, Britain launched an undeclared war on China. Cities and towns along Chinese coast and the Yangtze River, such as Zhoushan, Ningbo, Wusong and Zhejiang, were successively attacked by British warships. In August 1842, the Qing Government was forced to sign the Sino-British Treaty of Nanking, the first unequal Treaty in modern Chinese history. During the following 60 years, the Qing Government opened wide its doors to the outside world. Unequal treaties followed one after another, including the Treaty of Wanghea with the United States, the Treaty of Whampoa with France, the Treaty of Aigun with Russia and the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan. The treaties contained the humiliating and sovereignty-forfeiting articles on the cession of territory, the payment of indemnities, stationing of foreign garrisons, free missionary activities and open opium trading. The colonialist powers took control of China's Customs administration and rights for tariff agreements. They enjoyed consular jurisdiction and the power to issue bank notes, seizing China's sovereignty by piecemeal encroachment or wholesale annexation. The Chinese people hated the unequal treaties, and when the Boxers rose in rebellion, they declared: "We resent the treaties most because they wreck the country and ruin the people. Officials in subordinate positions follow the example set by their superiors, and the people cannot have their injustice redressed."
They did shows like this about Iraqi before they destroyed it. One million Iraqi's were masacared, half a million children. Right! on to the next one.
And we in the West are told Russia and China are evil.
@andreeace4894knowledge can be stimulating and that could be where the “entertainment” for him stems from.
Great content, as always. FYI... a small error: Bo's wife was actually accused of killing a British businessman (Neil Hayward), not an American, from what I understand. As you say, though, getting to the bottom of all these details is not always an easy task!
Do you think that John Coogan getting this wrong is just a mistake or is it more revealing that he did not check his research and could be misleading with other mistakes about the Chinese Communism because he is ideologically opposed to what the CCP represent in his personal political environment. Note that this person is supported by the Economist which is owned by very rich Americans.
@@bradenkirkpatrickYou might have a point if it weren’t for the fact that this tiny detail being wrong wouldn’t serve any narrative point. It doesn’t change anything about the implications.
He’s obviously an American technocrat, but it’s hardly unfair to frame what is happening in China exactly as he has done here. It’s pretty obvious China is working towards an increasingly powerful surveillance state. All the geopolitical points he made were mostly just factual statements about China’s economic war with Western countries. He didn’t really go into moralizing one side or the other.
You can really only make a moral judgement by disagreeing with their internal political behavior, then extrapolating that out to the geopolitical situation. This video was as balanced as it could be coming from, as you mention, a person who is clearly aligned with Western elite values. He’s not exactly hiding from that.
@@bradenkirkpatrick I think your level of paranoia warrants a trip to a shrink.
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@@bradenkirkpatrick 当你说这句话时，请使用你的中文名字。你也太羞耻了吧？
Mate, I'm a white male Aussie. I went to China and toured many cities. I was pleasantly surprised. It was NOTHING like the West describe it, or even you in this video. China is a futuristic Country, light years ahead of USA (I also toured USA). There is a 95% approval rating of President Xi (compared to, on average, 35% approval rating of POTUS's in USA). The people were fit, friendly and happy. The freedom they had in China was well above that of USA Citizens. For example, I would go out shopping at 3am in the morning in Beijing, or Shanghai, and there were a lot of young adults shopping, even young women walking around on their own. There was NO WAY in hell I'd walk around USA Cities like LA or NYC after MIdnight ... too many citizens carrying guns withe 40,000 Gun related deaths in USA every year.
There were NO Street people in China, they all had a house to go to, and their food was abundant and healthy. In USA there are Street People in Kensington Philadelphia, Tent People in Venice Beach California, Caravan people in Kentucky, Car people in Miami, Sewer people in NYC.
The Police in China do NOT carry guns, they were Civic Police. The Police in USA all wore utility belts full of armament (such as gun, batons, taiser, pepper sprays, cuffs, etc., they were Militia Police.
Generally people in China are fit ... in USA there were too many obese people.
China had Bullet Trains that travel 350kph you can pick up anywhere to go anywhere in China. In USA there are NO Bullet Trains, but I went on the AmTrek from Boston to NYC, traveling an average of 80kph.
The China you describe, is NOT the China I saw today. So I'm confused at what you're trying to push here?
To gain some self-esteem for himself and his audience. The sad bullet train accident was mentioned.
Great, you know the truth in China. John Coogan serves his evil purpose through the so-called documentary with a lot of fake information.
作为一个中国人能看到这些已经很感动了，要知道以前西方媒体是怎么抹黑中国的。我自己作为中国的一个少数民族，从小到大我和我的家庭都受到了政府比汉人更多的优惠政策和照顾。使得虽然出身平凡的我现在能够在北京工作，过上中产家庭的生活。和我一样，千千万万的维吾尔族家庭走入了高科技，高收入的行业，甚至在新疆的公务员都要求有一定比例的的维吾尔族人，比如我的大学校长就是一名维吾尔族人。所以我们真的很感谢国家。也谢谢你对中国的喜爱和支持，我们有很多不足，但我们在努力改进，中国人勤劳坚韧有智慧，相信我们未来会越来越好。
@@user-tq6nt4qv2l brown nose 😂❤
Thanks so much for your sharing. I just visited China, it is the same as what you saw and is far different from media report
Seeing Xi Jinping shake hands with the citizens is a cool sight, we are shown so much different stuff about China, but those people really admire him and you can tell
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Well yes. Despite all Western propagdan bs, The CCP made a poor country into a developed world super power in only 3 decades, massive economics development, having its own space program, all without the need of constant waes and a western colonialism, imperialism model. Its leaders are picked from the best of the best. Of course Chinese citizens are grateful of what their country had achieved so far.
@@skateteam644 You are Western troll.
Go watch Hitler being loved by citizens. Means nothing
They are actors. My parents, who live in China and in a city that Xi visited once, described large areas including streets cleared and cordoned off for Xi's visit well in advance, to keep him safe of course. A select group of "citizen representatives", pre-screened for loyalty and "purity of thought", would be in those areas for photo-ops with Xi, pretending to be locals (they may actually be locals or they may not, but they're pre-screened and their activities are scripted).
An incredibly, informative, deep dive into the subject. Thank you for that.
I understand you want to frame this story as a rise to power story, almost like a villain story arc, but the truth is life of the average Chinese national today has far more freedoms than back in the 1990s. And this trend is only going to continue towards more freedoms. China has also gone through many internal regime changes since the 80s. Several things I spotted in this video:
1) No, it's not "risky" for a Chinese person to protest out in the streets. They protest about jobs, housing, pay, etc all the time. Hundreds of protests happen every year that's not reported on, because nothing ever happens, they don't get jailed or locked up, so the western media never reports on those mundane protests because there's no story to chase.
2) If you want to talk about the most prisoners in the world, America still holds that record, in both per capita and in total prisoner population (More than 2 million with 40% being non-White). And Rikers Island is still THEE largest prison in the world.
3) "Non-compliance would be met with swift punishment?" Nope. You're just speculating again. The reality is China has changed its policies FAR, FAR more times than America has in the past 2 decades, and to the benefit of its people. In America, you can vote for the other party, but you're just voting for the 1% in the end. China however, has shown real results for the 99%, despite its number of billionaires now surpassing the US. (Look up: "China is making new billionaires much faster than the U.S." - Hurun 2022 Global Rich List).
4) Tiananmen Square Protests: What people don't realize: And no one ever mentions this, including this video, is that there were real consequences for Deng after the crackdowns. How do you think Jiang Zemin became President of China? It was precisely because he handled the SHANGHAI protests peacefully, and was selected immediately to be the new President. And over the next 10 years, real internal change happened within China, reforms, continuing to open up, continuing to have more freedoms. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists and international students go abroad EVERY year to western countries before the pandemic. Oh, and most all Chinese people over 30 still knows about the Tiananmen Protests, but the truth is, a lot of them just moved on.
5) There are actually other political parties within China. Small, and realistically not a challenge to the Communist Party, but they're there. Hence: official recognition of other, minor political parties in China.
6) The Communist Party specifically worked to lift 800 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty and into at least lower-middle income class with access to roads, 5G Internet, primary school education, etc, so you can't say that they don't care about the people. Canceled BILLIONS in African loans. Look up: "China Cancels 23 Loans to Africa Amid 'Debt Trap' Debate" - Source is from Voice of America, a Pro-US website.
7) Xinjiang. I can't type out their ethnic name because CZcams sometimes blocks it. But the truth is Saudi Arabia and the CIA has been pushing their form of Wahhabism into Xinjiang (Remember: the CIA took a lot of those prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that were fighting in Afghanistan which borders Xinjiang directly), started radicalizing the people of Xinjiang into actual terrorists that would chop off the heads of Imams for drinking alcohol (These are the same terrorists that would train child soldiers). Hundreds of knife attacks and bombings were happening all over Xinjiang prior to 2017. But once the anti-terror crackdowns began, not a single terror attack happened. All ethnicities in Xinjiang felt safe to go back outside again. The education camps were closed down in 2020. And every "whistleblower" that testified at the UN (While on a Chinese passport, stamped by a Chinese customs officer that allowed them to leave the country to go to the UN), never, ever, mentioned that anyone actually got killed by the authorities, or even died. And by the way, the US didn't even grant them political asylum, they just used them to testify at the UN for their own political purposes. Time Magazine did an article about how the US admitted they took NO refugees of that ethnicity in 2020.
Source on Time article: Look up "time us admitted zero refugees last year"
8) Taiwan: The US officially recognizes that Taiwan island is a part of "One China". So, for the benefit of the Taiwanese people, you should encourage Taiwan to negotiate the One Country Two Systems policy where Taiwan gets to keep all of their current form of government, democracy, trade policies, everything, even military. The only difference is: China's PLA gets garrisons on Taiwan and, more importantly: No foreign power can EVER put weapons or soldiers onto Taiwan ever again. And THAT doesn't sit well with America, who really just wants to turn Taiwan into an economic vassal state.
Source on Taiwan keeping its military: Look up "fmprc china taiwan one country two systems" - Directly from the Foreign Ministry of the PRC website gov cn itself:
And I quote, "... Taiwan may become a special administrative region. It may enjoy a high degree of autonomy and may keep its military forces. The national government will not intervene in the local affairs of Taiwan." "Taiwan's current social and economic systems will remain unchanged, its way of life will not change, and its economic and cultural ties with foreign countries will not change.' A provision on setting up special administrative region was added to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China passed at the Fifth Session of the National People's Congress in 1982, providing legal basis for accomplishing "one country, two systems".
9) Most Chinese people supported the Covid lockdowns. Don't believe me? Now that China has completely opened back up, no more Zero-Covid Policy, the consumers in China are still not coming back out to shop. Why do you think that is? It's because most people in China are still afraid of the virus. No one was forcing them to stay inside anymore.
10) America started this trade war because they're afraid of the other country from becoming too powerful. People were even smashing up that country's electronics and cars out in the streets. That country I'm talking about is 1980s Japan. America forced Japan to sign the 1985 Plaza Accords which forced the Dollar to devalue against the Yen, making Japan less competitive, which contributed greatly to Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s. And America wants to do the same to China today. Started by trying to ban Huawei, trying to ban TikTok, trying to ban everything except for the fact that US corporations like GM, Ford, Apple, Nike, Walmart, etc. are still making too much money from Chinese consumers who love American brands. So can't completely ban China.
It's America that started the chip war, it's America that started the trade war, it's America that banned only China from the International Space Station (Wolf Amendment), but they've proven they don't need US help. China has landed rovers on both the Moon and Mars, independently built its own space station, has plans to establish a permanent Moon AND Mars colony. So, America could have had a real opportunity to lead the entire world in space exploration, but instead, gave China a very real and determined reason to be a global competitor instead.
Very critical analysis of china, and it's government. I think CCP is the most scientific and meritocratic type of government in the world and that's why In the last 29 years more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty.
And this video aren't even mentioning the Positive Policy impact under Xi rules like belt and road initiative, green revolution, Electric car boom, Modernization of china industry, Reforestation of gobi desert, etc
Wish I can like this comment twice. The guys was just mixing propaganda with few facts
Ah yes we are never the aggressor and my people’s quality of living has been improved somewhat since so Xj shouldn’t be blamed and should be free of criticism. Totalitarian really got u my friend.
@@bolobalaman Do you even know what "Totalitarian" means when you use that word? For example, did you know that Taiwan was a "Totalitarian Military Dictatorship" for 40 years of its modern existence? It only converted to Liberal Democracy in 1987, AFTER it developed its industry, economy, and society. So don't tell me what you "think" you know, my friend.
I am American but han ethnicity (Chinese-American if you will) so I try to look at both perspectives. For Uighurs topic the Chinese argue that there are many mosques, that some celebrities are of Uighur decent, and that the minorities even get special test benefits. The occasional argument is that in the past the province was dangerous - close to the stan countries = lots of terror. My parents believe the government treats the Uighur better than the han. Most Chinese seem to view the Uighur genocide as a western make up to make people hate China for the country is growing. Anyways that’s my general idea of it.
Western propaganda is strong.
Do not weaver your, 'general idea' is the correct one.
本来就比我们汉人好!而且是其它少数民族都比汉人好! 这表现在考试加分、生育政策、就业政策、申请贷款...各种。可结果是西方媒体说什么你们就信什么，最可笑的是政府把一些维族不学无术的人给予免费技能培训(这些是我们汉人想都想不来的事情)竟然说是集中营，然而很多人也信 ! 多来中国走走、看看、问问，用你自己的亲耳多听、亲眼所见来了解这个世界吧 !
When you realise Xinjiang is a tourist destination that welcomes over 150million tourists annually, you know the mainstream narrative is just another effort to soften the masses for war spendings.
If a war started between usa and china which state you wanna be with?
Great stuff sirrah!! Made ALL the more compelling by your declining to put in some sponsor blurb! Excellent stuff and consider yourself one more subscriber forward....
That’s like someone having their hand cut off and you don’t wanna talk about it.
The more you shut it down, the worst it’s going to get because it’s just bleeding everywhere
Good analogy.
Gossips know the best way to have a secret spread, is to tell people
its confidential.
He spent some time in the farms in Iowa, USA in 1980s. The locals have highly complementary remarks of him. He spent 17 years in Fujian and eventually made that poorest province The fourth Richest province in China.
Wow, that's a great Administrator to be able to achieve that
@@SacredDreamer at lease the Americans who lived and worked with him in Iowa still love him even though Republican Party demonizes him fiercely.
@@SacredDreamer Absolute nonsense! Even an infant would have achieved that sort of administrative results when Xiaoping opened the markets and freed them from the stifling central planning that were prior subjected to. You do understand that the Chinese position then (per capita income) was that of a 3rd world country? Capitalism saved them.
bo did not flee to the US embassy, it was his subordinate wang lijun who tipped off bo and bo's wife's dealings and fearing for his life, he fled to the US embassy and exposed bo, causing bo to lose the power struggle vs xi
its a comedy show, don't take it too serious
逃到美国大使馆是每一个中共党员不能忍受的事，他实在是太蠢了
41:41 Biden could've not given Pelosi the military escort. She could've gone in her own capacity as a civilian. By giving a military escort he implicitly gave her authority to engage in diplomacy which is outside of her role as a speaker and supported her trip.
Great video. It would also be interesting to see a video on Zhou Enlai
I love the irony of discussing censorship, then saying we can't discuss this on CZcams
事实上，没有绝对的言论自由
He didn't do any of this research. This is plagiarism.
The content is taken from The Prince. An 8 episode podcast created by the Economist
Left wing US corporations & politicians are to blame
@@salvadorpuente8716 You're saying this like you discovered something unknown. That's literally the first thing in the description.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
He is probably the better man for the Job.
Better than other people could do.
They thought he was a simple man and a relatable leader for the common people. Turns out he was a great manipulator and power grabber. He just hid it really we until he got his position and purged everyone else and no one remained that could stop him
@@gggg-xv7nb Most likely! I mean what sort of person can endure the betrayal of his own mother and then start trusting anyone around him? His grab for power coincides with his fear and mistrust of everything around him. He's surely a survivor but to what cost to his humanism? Quite possibly the worst type of person to have absolute power in hand.
Excellent Production! Thank you !!!! 👍
Excellent video; covers a lot of key things and has a lot of detail.
This is a good example of propaganda :) all his criticisms of china, if true, can be applied to his own country and even more so. There you go. Whataboutism vs hypocrisy.
✊🏾💪🏾 Yes I agree.
It will do him some good to read up on principle criticism.
This CZcams channel is straight up propaganda for the U.S.
This MF has straight up alphabet boys talking points.
•"Taiwan is part of China" look it up. The US recognize that, despite the rhetoric that they speak.
•The Uyghurs genocide has been debunk many times over.
Chinese leaders have for centuries brought glory to every era of the dynasty. They ruled over a large area, and can be remembered as China's past, present and future glory
@NathanialHiggers you're Asian
Yeah we celebrate them ! Lol
yes OUR leader
Funny how you phrased colonisers of Taiwan as ‘explorers’. Explorers dont rule the land, colonisers or invaders do.
Just like how Formosa came under China's rule. As the Manchu were conquering Ming, the remnants of Ming fled to Formosa and pushed out the Dutch (who really didn't rule the entire island but just a small part). Qing cut off these stragglers from the mainland by enacting the Great Clearance and later invaded.
You are super good at this! Nice, soothing voice as well
Key learning Points
1. have lots of connections
2. Stay clean
3. Don’t give up
3. Connect with all, don’t be hungry for power it will come to you.
4. Stamp out government corruption to prevent a revolution
5. Slow & steady & stay clean
If you look at economic results alone he is the greatest leader China has ever produced. However great leaders have to work within in the parameters that of there culture. It would be hard to think of the same results under different parameters.
Human rights are very difficult to preserve when you are trying to rapidly evolve a society.
@moepharmo
Like to elaborate on the economic result part
@@moepharmo Absolute and utter nonsense about him being a great leader, you don't actually know the man and it's impossible to know what personal decisions has he taken, against who, on what criteria. Nothing! You just don't have the basis for such a comment. .
It appears to me that he's most likely a deeply flawed man who after his mother betrayal is most likely scarred for life in mistrusting...even his own mother. This creates a profile of a very dangerous man with absolute power. He knows how to hide emotions, intentions and thoughts (it was a matter of survival for him) and people like that may shake your hand today and send you to your execution tomorrow without losing sleep. That's NOT what you want in the leadership.
The economic "marvel" is solely a function of opening their economy to capitalist practices and trade and from the horrendous point that Mao and his madame brought the country, the only way was up. Being an intelligent and hard working ethnicity helped a lot but by no means they have achieved something that even an infant in power wouldn't have achieved provided that (Deng Xiaoping's) policies opened and freed their markets.
You missed that Xi Jinping was an exchange student in 1985.
damn it, now i need to make a follow up hahah
@@JohnCooganPlus pin it
And perhaps a spy?
@@Nazyaali110 And Perhaps not, he was in a small town in rural America, he came back a few years ago to see his host parents and the school he attended and invited the whole senior class to china all expense paid as a thankyou for the way he was treated.
He was not really an exchange student
In 1985 he was already a mid level official. He did come to Iowa back then for a few weeks to look at the cattle feed industry.
Managing 1 billion citizens, yea, i dont blame this style of government.
Wow! Just wow! Do you really excuse that type of governing people? That's pathetic! Is that how you believe huge societies should be ruled? Where are you from if I might ask? Sincerely interested in what sort of educational system broods these opinions.
OMG I have so much to say, but many of you viewers may have experienced the same horror I am currently feeling over the AWESOME content you presented, so I won't go into detail. You know how I feel, lol. Thank you for your hard work.
China Before the Invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces
In the 1830s, Britain illegally exported opium to China in large quantities, bringing severe damage to China in political, economic social and other aspects. The Qing Government finally made a resolute decision and dispatched Lin Zexu, Governor-General of Hubei and Hunan, to ban opium smoking and the opium trade in Guangdong.
In 1840, Britain launched an undeclared war on China. Cities and towns along Chinese coast and the Yangtze River, such as Zhoushan, Ningbo, Wusong and Zhejiang, were successively attacked by British warships. In August 1842, the Qing Government was forced to sign the Sino-British Treaty of Nanking, the first unequal Treaty in modern Chinese history. During the following 60 years, the Qing Government opened wide its doors to the outside world. Unequal treaties followed one after another, including the Treaty of Wanghea with the United States, the Treaty of Whampoa with France, the Treaty of Aigun with Russia and the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan. The treaties contained the humiliating and sovereignty-forfeiting articles on the cession of territory, the payment of indemnities, stationing of foreign garrisons, free missionary activities and open opium trading. The colonialist powers took control of China's Customs administration and rights for tariff agreements. They enjoyed consular jurisdiction and the power to issue bank notes, seizing China's sovereignty by piecemeal encroachment or wholesale annexation. The Chinese people hated the unequal treaties, and when the Boxers rose in rebellion, they declared: "We resent the treaties most because they wreck the country and ruin the people. Officials in subordinate positions follow the example set by their superiors, and the people cannot have their injustice redressed."
They did shows like this about Iraqi before they destroyed it. One million Iraqi's were masacared, half a million children. Right! on to the next one.
And we in the West are told Russia and China are evil.
The early indigenous peoples in Taiwan migrated from mainland, when there was a land bridge more than ten thousand years ago. You claim that Taiwan was "independent" prior to the arrival of "Han" Chinese and the Dutch and the Portuguese. By that definition, Americas were independent too prior to the arrival of the European settlers?
By American standard they can kill anyone they like and wishes, anyone else fence off a murderer is wrong. Remember they said the rioters in Hong Kong government office was a beautiful sight and the protesters that enters Capital Hills were absurd and criminals. Nah, why bother what anglo saxon words. Other than lies, fake news, false accusation and propaganda they have nothing constructive to offer. It would be wise for non-white and non anglo saxon to leave US while you still can. They might repeat what they did to the Red Indians to every Americans which are not anglo saxon tribe
This is video is anti-China propaganda and about as intellectually stimulating as one would expect of Economist readers
fr fr this got little idea what he's talking about.
@Dman You have no idea about the Chinese cultural heritage, Since Chin The 1st empire Unified China, All dynasty has seen themselves as the interdental power, and Unification is their born obligation. The ROC leader and PRC leader have consent on that, they deliberately make Kimmeng and Mazhu island , which is just miles away from Fujian province, kept bombarding for decades to sent the signal that civial war is on-going.
They’re two vastly different situations.. really not comparable
Never let your enemy write your history.
然而历史总是由胜利者书写。
@@user-kd6uy8yb3b 然而目前谁能胜利真不好说
I couldn't agree more.
Africa can use your advice
correction: Bo didn't flee to US embassy in Chendu, it was Wang who tried to apply for US asylum and Bo even sent out a dozen armed infantry vehicle from Chongqing to Chendu to lay siege of the US embassy
what do you expect this nappy story teller from
Love this video. I want to learn more about our current world leaders and even started writing notes on videos and reading like this.
Why the footage of some drama movie/show all the time? They feel out of place to me and I would just perfer to see you talking more, felt like I did not see your face enough with all of the graphics and clips shown. First video I have seen on this channel though, great stuff.
Love him or hate him, this video has made me respect Xi Jinping. He embodies the Machiavellian Prince, and is obviously well-versed with Sun Tzu's Art of War. His childhood was an unending storm, but he was able to rise above it all, carefully and subtly. Great narration and well-researched! I learned a lot.
Typical animal life. Great.
He's just your typical autocratic tyrant.
@@MrKbtor2 That is too much of a compliment. An animal is more fitting. Actually still a compliment.
Stop hating on the most powerful man in the world.
@@mateobaysa2055 😂
A few inaccuracies in the video, it wasn’t Bo xilai who sought refuge to the American consulate, it was Wang Lijun- also his wife killed a British businessman by the name of Neil Heywood not American
I love your videos though, very informative. Keep it up.
And American govt also helped stomped on Bo Xilai by exposing Bo's extravagant son who studied in US.
@@alexlo7708 jealous that you're a nobody Chinese diaspora?
@@squeezerelease9757 Thanks for pointing the inaccuracies out. Unfortunately, there are many other inaccuracies.
@@wanyijiang4940I sincerely ask: Are you hinting? And how do you know your "accuracies" are accurate?
Watching this while traveling in China, a pretty good Netflix-quality comprehensive storytelling. Minor accuracy issues on the b-roll footages and the businessman got murdered was British "white-glove" not American. Also I tested out the auto translate to Chinese subtitles and it's decent enough.
Pretty dangerous since a lot of this shows the iffy history of Xi. Hope you're doing well, and aren't in a Chinese Labor Camp rn.
"Netflix quality". With their Leftist bias, that's insulting to Coogan 🤔
So good that i watched 30 minutes, left it in the background for 5 hours and watched the other 17
Man i am in love with this channel! Geopolitics is huge interest of mine and this channel fills that need!!!
Yea, but if John gets an email that says “Congrats, you won a round trip to Shanghai, all expenses paid, and $5,000 USD spending cash.” I doubt he would want to go due to this video
Correction to the part concerning taiwan. China or more officially People's Republic of China holds that taiwan is a territory of china under rebel government. Taiwan or more officially the Republic Of China holds a stance that the island of taiwan does belong to china but they are the legitimate governent and mainland is under insurrectionist rule. Neither consider taiwan as such an independent nation but rather both consider themselves the legitimate government of the whole of china, mainland as well as taiwan.
Xi was a good leader overall for China in this era of China's rise after Deng and Mao. After 150 years of chaos created by the British, Mao united China, which was impoverished by the Opium trade and made 1/3 of the population on the drug even though it was illegal in both countries. That is why Mao is still respected in China, even though he is the worst manager of the country in the ideology and projects he pushed.
As ordinary folks were concerned, Deng was the hero of modern China; he fought conservative politicians to free China from poverty. Adopted capitalism from the West with Chinese Confucianism, learned from Lee (Singapore Prime Minister) after visiting Singapore, Deng sent 22,000 students to Singapore and copied their system. Whatever merit or complaint, China has a Singaporean system to begin with. Lee asked if the people wanted to be well off, rich, or free (American version). We all know what every average Asian prefers. Money.
Xi was the third significant leader of China after 1949, not to minimize the due credit of his predecessors. They all did well on what they inherited. Got in the WTO and lay low to build the country. By the way, laying low and being humble has been Confucianism for over 2000 years. If you think it was a communist idea, you don't know China. Being American, we do the opposite: self-promotion, exaggerated resume, fake it until you make it. That works in America, not China.
Two viewpoints of Xi from outside China: Western view vs. Global South view. In China, over 80% approval rating of the government. In 30 years, people making $2 to $4000 a month. It's a modern miracle according to human progress. But it is not really; China was the #1 GDP a few years before 1900 when the US surpassed China. Xi reminds the people that people can do better, clean up corruption, work hard, and be ready to suffer with honor when hardship descends upon them.
Everyone has a role in the society if they want a strong civilization. Chinese people think of themself as a culture, not a State or a Party. I am tired of Western people calling the Chinese government CCP as it is not a real government. The government of 1.4 billion people, 17% of the world population, chose it.
When Pelosi visited Taiwan, the Chinese net citizen voice in WeChat to shoot down her plane. It's good that Xi did not listen to that idea. As this video shows, the Chinese can voice their opinion, which we call freedom of speech or the press in the West. They usually get results faster than American politicians can.
Chinese are proud of their DNA lineage. All Asian children are learning to respect their ancestry, which provides their rich heritage. Individuals have all their freedom as long as it doesn't damage the greater good of the society in the short or long term for the civilization. The people are free to voice their opinions, and the governments listen and make changes rapidly if that makes common sense. As long as the opinion does not involve overthrowing the government. All Chinese citizens understand they do not want to live in chaos like their parents.
That is the spirit of all Asian countries, including S. Korea, Japan and Singapore. With this style of political system, any Asian country can rise in 40 years, no matter how badly it started. Japan did it before WWII and again after. So did all the Asian Tiger countries, big or small. It has become a formular.
Yes, democracy is better if the government is like the US, inherits a vast resourceful land, and has 150 years of development time.
I'm scared for your future mate
@@internet_userrhes gonna be fine.
The Chinese people chose their government? Then I assume they can choose another one at any point? Oh wait.
@@internet_userr From what Ive seen, China is only getting richer and more powerful, and most of their people benefit from it with massive purchasing power, increased standard of living. What's there to fear. More haters only mean China is doing it right.
I don't agree with some of your opinions. I think Mao is the best, Xi is the second best, of course, no one can surpass Mao. Mao has amazing talent in military and politics, he faced many more and much tougher difficulties both within the nation and international environment than any other leaders. Now more Chinese people come to look back at cultural revolution and understand Mao's choice. Xi is the second leader who really does something to overcome class differentiation. Although Xi and his father were also persecuted in CR, Xi still thinks highly of Mao, rare lucid. As a Chinese, I know how Mao is treated in our public textbooks and medias before, but things changed especially after 2016. Xi really does something to restore Mao's status. Of course no one is perfect, so is Xi, I don't like some of our present policies either, but I still have to say Xi is great, all he has done to poverty alleviation is worthy of respect, which definitely ruin come groups' benefits including most Chinese middle-class and cause opposition, but this is communism, some people must sacrifice for overall and equal development.
This is absolutely amazing, keep it up bro
When someone fails, they bully him.
When someone do fairly alright, they manipulate him.
when someone gets successful , everyone looks at him with jealousy and envy and Points out how bad he is just to destroy him.
Amazing rise to the top. Hard work and love for his people. This is the other side we're not allowed to know in the west.
He didn't do any of this research. This is plagiarism.
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@@salvadorpuente8716not really, this is the dumbest thing I've heard
Really well researched,. I spent two years there. Nice work, John.
Thank you for providing the history on so many important ppl. This is info that needs to be known.
I think there is a clear difference to how the "global south" may view the Arab Spring and how John sees it. At its onset, it seemed promising, and there was a possibility that an end to dictatorships in the "Arab World" would yield some positive outcomes. But as time has passed since then, things have not gotten better. The democratic uprisings had real democratic elements.
It is heartbreaking, and one story that was particularly hopeful was the outcome for Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started.
But think of it this way: the "west" promised democracy would lead to a better government and better society, and with that bond, the people organized the Arab Spring in the hopes that would happen, and they would cash in the cheque they signed when they protested for democracy, that being, a stable democracy.
However, did that occur? Did these societies create stable democracies after the Arab Spring? Well, history shows different evidence confronting the hypothesis that: "democratic uprising would lead to stable governments''. There came the Libyan Civil War, the Syrian Civil War, the rise of ISIL, and the current refugee crisis plaguing Europe. Foreign governments came in to fund different groups in these countries to engage in proxy wars. This is painfully similar to the Warlord Era in China prior to the creation of the Nationalist government, which both the CCP and KMT fought together to create. (As a side note, after which the Nationalists conducted a brutal purge of communists and their sympathizers, and promising a period of “tutelage” before granting voting rights, the Nationalists took it upon themselves to rule unabated for 10 years, holding no elections, and creating a brutal police state with some inspiration from Germany)
Now that being said, the democratic uprisings that occurred after the Soviet Union collapsed did set a precedent that some success can be had after a democratic uprising. But as a country looking to see what choices to make to build a better society, it is reasonable to make sure to investigate all examples of modern democratic uprisings and see if the evidence holds up to the promises. Additionally, one pays extra attention to countries with similar characteristics to one's home country.
So does it make sense that the "global south" have some apprehension towards spontaneous revolt on the pretense of achieving a democracy? There were definite problems of corruption, disenfranchisement, and economic stagnation that are legitimate concerns to protest about. But, bringing down a government without a clear plan of what will come after isn't a good answer to those concerns as time has proven.
Yet to someone from the global south, when we see someone use the Arab Spring as a success story and a legitimate argument against the response of the CCP, this seems quite peculiar, because that only holds up if everything that happened after the Arab Spring *never happened*.
And what else has happened? In Pakistan, the candidate who has clear democratic legitimacy, Imran Khan, has been repressed severely by the incumbent government. When he was in power, he increased the social safety net, he promoted renewable energy transition, and reforestation initiatives. Yet due to his engagement with China he became excoriated by the west. Especially after he disclosed to the public that the US sent a diplomatic cable urging for the removal of Imran Khan in a coup. And, based on how he violated "state secret legislation", he was ousted from the government with a no confidence vote. This is public knowledge, this is on global news, this wasn't fabricated by fake news bots.
Now, as people of the global south, it is no longer impossible to have an eye on world affairs. It is possible to have all the means and access to technology to see things happen from both sides and gather information from as many sources as one can. So that being said, isn’t it foolish to not expect someone in the global south to understand that news from China or Russia are heavily curated for a specific purpose. It is also perceivable that western news sources and opinions have spin as well. And, though it is not as stifled as in China or Russia, it would be ahistorical to believe journalism in the US does not have government interference in the way it operates. There are multiple books including academic sources investigating the role the CIA can play in influencing public opinion, sources include “Safe for Democracy “by John Prados and the book “Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did” by Loren Baritz. Again, this is public knowledge, published by people who were at one time part of the CIA. One can argue that these operations happened in the past, back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. But to grapple with that idea sincerely, what *exactly* is preventing their clandestine projects from happening today. There are receipts that the CIA and FBI have influenced Twitter, there are employees of these companies that were once CIA agents including Facebook along with Twitter.
So, to the jury of nations and peoples not entirely within the sphere of the West or Russia and China, what sorts of conclusions sounds and concerns reasonable when considering the following:
1. How far the Arab Spring is a success story, which includes asking:
a. Is any decision created in an online public forum owned by a foreign private company reasonably legitimate and have and have some absolute right to be pursued politically with no checks and balances
b. If these companies operated in good faith in the relevant countries regardless of how far there are any checks and balances assuring influence by the CIA or FBI is not present without oversight
c. Understanding if the success stories of democratic uprisings in post Soviet countries operated similarly to the Arab Spring, and what role, if any, did social media play a part similarly in the Arab Spring and the post Soviet democratization process in 1991
2. Witnessing what is happening in Pakistan and the narrative responses to it from multiple media sources
3. Figuring out if the CCP response is unreasonable in regards to the idea of any decision created in a public forum on Facebook or Twitter are legitimate and have a right to be pursued politically, to create public policy this way, and to make choices including bringing down the government
There can be genuine fears regarding the rise of China or XJP’s leadership style just as there are genuine fears regarding the foreign causes of the suffering of people in the global south, regardless of the actions of their own governments, that have no real guarantee would not occur again, or is even being addressed as having happened at all.
There wasn’t any real acknowledgement of the harms of fake news in the US until their country became victims to it.
Blind democracy is a disaster. All political systems have good and bad aspects. The best one is the one that is suitable for the development of its own country.
Gee that was a long CZcams comment😂 but I totally agree with you
Yeah i aint reading a whole ass essay
What does this have to do with the history of Xi Jinping? Your commentary about the Arab Spring belongs in a channel or forum about...the Arab Spring.
That was interesting ,good contribution
Turned this on with mild interest, almost as background noise (though I am familiar with the content as a layman). HOWEVER, Coogan's skill as an explainer & the well placed visuals reeled me in and the captivation didn't let me go. Incredibly surpassed my expectations. A sub to the channel for sure!
My experience was the exact opposite of yours. Began with high hopes (meaning, expecting unbiased narrative), then as it went on, it started sounding more and more conforming to the extremely biased Western propaganda as vastly seen in mainstream media.😮 Dissappointed because it completely ignored his many accomplishments and his contributions to the great progress of his country, i.e., completed many great infrastructures projects, eliminating extreme poverty to 850 million of its people (that’s more twice the population of the US), mantra of building/cooperation/peace, etc.
He has a great voice.
@@thecrimsondragon9744 very articulate
Coogan's my boyfriend back off
China Before the Invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces
In the 1830s, Britain illegally exported opium to China in large quantities, bringing severe damage to China in political, economic social and other aspects. The Qing Government finally made a resolute decision and dispatched Lin Zexu, Governor-General of Hubei and Hunan, to ban opium smoking and the opium trade in Guangdong.
In 1840, Britain launched an undeclared war on China. Cities and towns along Chinese coast and the Yangtze River, such as Zhoushan, Ningbo, Wusong and Zhejiang, were successively attacked by British warships. In August 1842, the Qing Government was forced to sign the Sino-British Treaty of Nanking, the first unequal Treaty in modern Chinese history. During the following 60 years, the Qing Government opened wide its doors to the outside world. Unequal treaties followed one after another, including the Treaty of Wanghea with the United States, the Treaty of Whampoa with France, the Treaty of Aigun with Russia and the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan. The treaties contained the humiliating and sovereignty-forfeiting articles on the cession of territory, the payment of indemnities, stationing of foreign garrisons, free missionary activities and open opium trading. The colonialist powers took control of China's Customs administration and rights for tariff agreements. They enjoyed consular jurisdiction and the power to issue bank notes, seizing China's sovereignty by piecemeal encroachment or wholesale annexation. The Chinese people hated the unequal treaties, and when the Boxers rose in rebellion, they declared: "We resent the treaties most because they wreck the country and ruin the people. Officials in subordinate positions follow the example set by their superiors, and the people cannot have their injustice redressed."
They did shows like this about Iraqi before they destroyed it. One million Iraqi's were masacared, half a million children. Right! on to the next one.
And we in the West are told Russia and China are evil.
This is like the Best video i have seen in ages. Really insightful. I can understand him now. He is kinda demystified to me now.
John, you put out well told content. Your voice is very clear with harmonious tones. Definitely, a money maker voice.
Good video. On the issue of taiwan, i felt that most non culturally chinese content creator ignored an aspect so fundamental to the chinese it baffles me why it wasnt discussed adequately.
The first sentence of the chinese classics "romance of the three kingsom" informs that this need for reunification after a division is built into the cultural psyche.
There is no objective need for reunification, most cultures on the world didnt develop this cultural traot, but for the chinese its something that has been done more than a dozen times for the past 2 millenia.
Call it cultural propaganda, inculcation by historical narrative, call it whatever you want, but everytime a dynasty nears its end, china breaks apart, sometimes into a few pieces, sometimes into half a dozen pieces, but all of them xlaim to be rightful successor to the china before, and every up and coming dynasty takes it onto themselves to reunify previous pieces, and often, the new dynastt is not proclaimed until reunification is complete.
They don't take it unto themselves. They're forced to be ruled by whoever grasped control.
I agree with you, it’s very Eurocentric and arrogant that he thinks a culture is a propaganda. That’s like calling Allah is a lie
@@AfricanLionBat no, most ppl think Chinese don’t have religion, well we do, Islam and Christianity believes in the holy city of Jerusalem. Well, yes the Chinese we believe in Unification. It’s a cultural root dated back for centuries, and it’s arrogant you say this
@@ericjiang7986 so you're seriously trying to tell me that everyone in China believes in this unification and that it's not something that has always been done by force?
@@AfricanLionBat everyone believes in unification, it’s the Chinese culture and history of u can say the eastern unification, most ppl accuse Chinese have no religion but honestly, ZhongHua was constantly fought to become unified by different forces, 分久必合，合久必分(separate for long it will unite, unite for too long it will separate), the first emperor who unified China(qin), these are all held with high respect in Chinese traditions. The three kingdoms period, people’s end goal was to unify and restore ZhongHua(China). So what can I say, don’t put ur arrogance on another culture. This culture is built on unification, so u can’t do anything about it. There has long saying in China for justification for every regime, “一统中华” which means “unify China”, don’t be condescending about another culture and think u provide the best for them.
Say what you will about China's leaders, but you can't deny that every single one their presidents faced terrible hardship. No other leader in the West lived through such turmoil
Abraham Lincoln did and many others
@@RAL0981absolutely
@@RAL0981Washington
Good narration. Easy to follow along.
Your videos are top notch!
No country has been officially recognized Taiwan as a country including the US. What more to say?
it’s a region, not a country. cyka Taiwan country❤ from Mars
Not true, at this point there are 13 countries that officially recognise Taiwan. Also, it has to be pointed out that in the past decades ALL COUNTRIES recognised Taiwan at some point, and many of them only started switching to China once China started growing due to more opening (the reason why the UN's recognition switched to China also had a lot to do with the hopes that if China is allowed into the fold, then it will gradually democratise... Well that backfired, hasn't it). By your logic China is also not a real state because at some point it wasn't recognised by other countries.
@@AW-uv3cb but in most game companies and websites, Taiwan belongs to a region, with its own flag ofc.
@@AW-uv3cb now？
Americans: How dare China impose martial law to stop terrorism in Xinjiang?!
Also Americans: We invaded a half dozen countries over the course of 20 years to fight the War on Terror, leading to over a million dead civilians. lol
US also literally kills other country’s leaders too and complains about china influencing politics. Hypocrisy.
But but but, that's whataboutism!
Half a dozen countries??? Since when did we do that’s? LOL
@@yvngvudu
Afghanistan (2001 - 2021)
Yemen (2002 - Present)
Iraq (2003 - 2011)
Libya (2011)
Syria (2014 - Present)
@@yvngvudu My guy, what year were you born? Coalition of the willing? Axis of Evil? "Liberty Fries"?
I love the narration. Keep it up.
if the ccp almost tore his family apart why does he not realize that tibetans are being arrested (for no reason) and he is doing nothing about it
Beautifully done, critics will always criticize, still there is a concise clarity to what you bring to the table, Thank-You.
I'm sorry, but your argument on Taiwan is superficial. You deliberately omitted the fact that the leaders that lost the Chinise Civil War declared themselves legitimate rulers of all china. So, there was never any separation of Taiwan from mainland China. Even the constitution of the Republic of China views the peoples Republic of China as part of that China(so the Taiwan question is complicated one). The Republic of China used to hold the permanent seat at the Security Council at the UN. Hence, even the most powerful country in the world, the USA, officially does not recognize the Republic of China as an independent country.Anyway, a great documentary, but the Taiwan bit was a bit sloppy...
Plus, the material wealth that the KMT stole from the people of China, art and treasures.
@@MsOudlover "Stole" or saved from the Cultural Revolution and the corruption also present in the mainland back then. Either or.
@@h8GW "Saved" from Cultural Revolution?? You got the wrong idea. The treasures and wealth were moved to Taiwan around 1949 while CR occurred between late '60 til mid '70 when Mao passed away.
@@marklee8512 I think what he means (and is right about) is that if the KMT leadership didn't take the treasures to Taiwan in 1949, those treasures would probably not have survived the Cultural Revolution. And of course the OP commenting about Taiwan conveniently ignores the fact that Taiwan has stopped making any such claims about China decades ago, moved on, developed a strong national identity, culture and economy of its own, and the only or main reason it hasn't officially declared independence yet is because every time anyone as much as makes a tiny nod to the reality of Taiwan being an independent state, Chinese leadership collectively loses its mind and threatens invasion (see the recent visit to Taiwan by Pelosi and the CCP's reaction).
@@AW-uv3cb We are talking about the timing of the treasures were being moved from mainland to Taiwan. No one would know what would have happened to the treasures during Cultural Revolution. Your comments hinted that you are more leaning towards Taiwan as an independent country (contrary to One China policy, you assumed that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is no big deal). Try to think what will the Western countries react if a country leader makes an official visit to Catalunya!
You forgot to press the Enter key while searching on Baidu🤣🤣🤣
I was in Tunisia during the Arab Spring and watched it unfold up close. The use of the internet and the motivation of the people to work together was pretty amazing. Individuals took it upon themselves to stop the corruption and each worked with his neigbor in such a coordinated way you’d think they were an army. China had reason to get scared
@@ahmedazzouz4584 What's the situation in Tunisa?
Not China.CCP😂
All Chinese are scared of instability and do not want another civil war which is what would happen if CPC loses power. It would literally destroy the country and affect all Chinese negatively. 95% of Chinese also support CPC. So yes, china. Not just CPC doesn't want instability and coup and civil war etc. Chinese were the ones who supported cpc and that's why they won the civil war in the first place and KMT lost so badly and had to run and hide in Taiwan protected by USA.
Also, it is CPC, not CCP.
SO,is Tunisia better off now？
You should probably know that the Arab Spring was generated by the CIA using propaganda.
im a second-generation Chinese immigrant living in Singapore and my mom signed me up for this English literature class thing and they disseminate their class details on WeChat and she just sent me the document going through the plot and themes of 1984 by Orwell and for some reason its not being censored at all. nothings happening to me and my mom. it's been a week since she sent the message.
hi
Xi's father 👇🏻
"American journalist Sidney Rittenberg, a friend in the 1940s, recalled, “Xi Zhongxun took me with him a number of times traveling in the countryside among the villages and he knew whose baby was sick and whose grandpa had rheumatism and so forth, and he would go to these homes and talk to them and they loved him. He was always getting into trouble because of his plebeian style and democratic way of thinking. He was a very good man in my opinion, probably the most democratic-minded member of the old Party leadership. I just hope that a lot of this rubbed off on the son”."
Xi had a good role model his father.
well he does know everything about everybody, the democratic part failed to stick though.
@@HisameArtwork example as a role model for China?
@@deborahharris2962 The powers gone to his head and china changing for the worse becoming more isolationist, people may start off good even but such power can corrupt
@@informationyes I don't think you understand the system of governance there. Xi is not dictator for life. He has to be approved of get results and get voted for in the upper levels. Go read his speech. It's very good same as Putin's.
@@deborahharris2962 And those in the upper levels are controlled and heavily ensured to be very loyal to him/ and who knows what will happen to them if they disobey, Your showing a lot of naivety with how dictators stay in power like they know they have to have support no different than any feudal king its just methods in which this happens isnt exactly democratic, also I dont trust the speeches of dictators lol
Chinese territorial integrity is very important to most average Chinese all throughout history that's why it grew to its current size without permeantly breaking apart much like the American belief of Manifest destiny. Any historical figures that contributed to the temporary break up of China in its past history are evaluated very negatively throughout Chinese society. That's why Taiwan is his #1 priority to cement his legacy because the Chinese people do care about the issue and not his personal obsessions. It's also the reason Chiang Kai-shek and his son never considered Taiwan to be another country. If Chinese people don't care about Taiwan in the first place, then he doesn't need to worry about it for his legacy.
Great video, but whats the music that kicked in at 06:25?
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and about 100,000 hours studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures.
Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese
Wild story. China is so fascinating looking from the outside in!
Great video , very informative
Great video. Also amusing that much of your B-roll just comes from Asian movies
i strive to be like xi jinping
@Ohio state Is the best place agreed
I actually quite enjoyed watching at the beginning of the video introducing the young Xi, until I bumped into so called Tianamen massacre and Xinjiang forced labour etc etc, then I realised this is nothing but another anti China smear campaign video. Then I saw WSJ logo popped out which confirmed my belief. I bet John has never been to Xinjiang and see how beautiful, peaceful, thriving and culturally rich Xinjiang is.
Exactly! I felt the same until he started with his anti China propaganda especially the lies about Xinjiang that have all been debunked! This guy must be paid by the cia 😂
I already know five minutes in this is BS.
when i heard him say ccp i knew
I am a Chinese and all Chinese hated him. And if it's not because Mao ZeDong, Chinese won't be fleeing all over the world. Today, General Xi Jing Ping love and follow Mao's communism going back wards. Imagine how many families are destroyed even until today. The west knows very little about China's history. China was great, yes "WAS" great, it's history is truly fascinating but everything is gone since the arrival of communism. They re-write history so that ppl thought it's facts. We, Chinese will never forgot how brutal these CCP are even until today.
mainland Chinese came to know the Tiananmen Square as a failed colored revolution when they saw what transpired in Hong Kong. it was an education for the mainlanders.
“MSNBC leans left”? No American corporate media is “left”. I think you accidentally just agreed with Xi on one point.
15:29 Hu Jintao did walk through the old workshop in 2003... His security was insane... please don't come to work tomorrow, oh really now..lol
I think it is important to note that reunifying the mainland with Taiwan is not the vision of Xi alone, but a much older story, which in jurisprudence can be traced back to UN Resolution 2758
"China's claim to Taiwan has no logical basis?" This province is so clearly Chinese and has always belonged to China, but somehow because the land was taken from them during wars they now have no claim to it. Great video until that part. It's possible for Taiwan to have a claim to self-determination just as much as China has a claim to have that land returned.
When the Portuguese first came to Taiwan in 1544, there were likely very few, if any, Han Chinese settlers on the island. At that time, Taiwan was primarily inhabited by various indigenous Austronesian tribes. Significant Han Chinese settlement began in the early 17th century, particularly after the Dutch established a presence on the island in 1624 and encouraged Chinese migration for labor and trade purposes.
Very nice and informative video
Please make a video on poverty alleviation and the recent living conditions of the rural population in China..
No he need to make video about why American men wanna be DRUG QUEENS😂😂😂😂
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Now you have your orders
Do your duty🙃
Controlling information is directly how the West works. The West allows a plethora of opinions. Enforcement is through peer pressure.
COVID is a perfect example. In my opinion it works much better than the appearance of authoritarianism.
The guy basically went from digging ditches and eating grass noodles to having the most power in the world.
Not the most but he definitely has done well for himself sucks for everyone that gets stepped over
I love your style of storytelling. Definitely subscribing.
What you tell is not the fact but laymens
China Before the Invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces
In the 1830s, Britain illegally exported opium to China in large quantities, bringing severe damage to China in political, economic social and other aspects. The Qing Government finally made a resolute decision and dispatched Lin Zexu, Governor-General of Hubei and Hunan, to ban opium smoking and the opium trade in Guangdong.
In 1840, Britain launched an undeclared war on China. Cities and towns along Chinese coast and the Yangtze River, such as Zhoushan, Ningbo, Wusong and Zhejiang, were successively attacked by British warships. In August 1842, the Qing Government was forced to sign the Sino-British Treaty of Nanking, the first unequal Treaty in modern Chinese history. During the following 60 years, the Qing Government opened wide its doors to the outside world. Unequal treaties followed one after another, including the Treaty of Wanghea with the United States, the Treaty of Whampoa with France, the Treaty of Aigun with Russia and the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan. The treaties contained the humiliating and sovereignty-forfeiting articles on the cession of territory, the payment of indemnities, stationing of foreign garrisons, free missionary activities and open opium trading. The colonialist powers took control of China's Customs administration and rights for tariff agreements. They enjoyed consular jurisdiction and the power to issue bank notes, seizing China's sovereignty by piecemeal encroachment or wholesale annexation. The Chinese people hated the unequal treaties, and when the Boxers rose in rebellion, they declared: "We resent the treaties most because they wreck the country and ruin the people. Officials in subordinate positions follow the example set by their superiors, and the people cannot have their injustice redressed."
They did shows like this about Iraqi before they destroyed it. One million Iraqi's were masacared, half a million children. Right! on to the next one.
And we in the West are told Russia and China are evil.
As a Taiwanese, the video is generally objective until it reaches the sections on Uyghur and Taiwan. First, as someone who watched many personal videos of people visiting Xinjiang and videos from Uyghurs, I know the Western media's portrayal of Uyghurs is mainly propaganda for the US to compete with China. I do think (objectively) that there were people sent to jail, and some might have been mistreated, but these were primarily separatists (or suspicious of doing that) who promoted an independent country separating from China. In what country would this type of behavior be tolerated? Many things you claimed to be the thought of Xi himself, but these thoughts were common among Chinese and not just Xi himself. For example, Taiwan was officially part of China in the 17th century and lost to Japan for 50 years (1895-1945). Did you know that the formal name of Taiwan is the Republic of China? The government thought of itself as the sole legitimate government of China against Communist China before the other party (supported by the US) took over the government in 2000. It's a temporarily independent state but not an independent country, and the Chinese want it to be reunited with mainland China. I, as a Taiwanese (= Chinese person too), would love to see Taiwan not being manipulated by the US and be united with China soon.
You are a wise Taiwanese, as a Chinese Canadian I'm so sick of those west propaganda about China full of lie and dishonest, they can just fool their own people who don't know China.
Do you have any idea what percentage of the population in Taiwan feels the same way as you do? A simple majority would be enough to reunite the country of China!
中华民族统一之后 西方将会颤栗
😂yeah right you’re Taiwanese
I generally laughed at propaganda videos solely based on fabricated stories. This kind of videos are way more dangerous as the fabricated facts are blended in true facts. For people who don’t know the context or know only a little of it, their opinions about the entire story would be distorted.
I fell asleep with auto play on again🤣 woke up 33 mins in, and thoroughly enjoyed the remaining 15 minutes 🤣
I’m surprised CZcams has allowed this video on its platform.
Since when NATO is concerned about Muslims?
Oh! I got it. It's called double standards.
Taiwan still claims all of mainland china, article 4
yeah, everyone picks the old map that benefits them the most. No one is going to say that they deserve less land lol. Hopefully things stay peaceful through 2023.
@John Coogan Oh John. I can't believe you say that. It shows so much ignorance on the Chinese culture. Do you know KMT and the Communists were so bitter killing each other once upon a time? But - when they saw so damage the Japanese were destroying China, they teamed out to chase the Japs out? After that, as history goes, KMT lost control of China and fled to Taiwan. China was never again returned to the Taiwanese, although they ruled China a hundred years ago.
@Make America Great Again Even some parts of Myanmar.
there was a statement made where you said the president cant tell representatives what they can do. that being said you went into lengths how the cccp use alternative methods to influence power. My question is. would it be crazy to assume a career politician (US) would still be beholden to the most powerful office in state (subjectivity thinking).
Wow what an amazing video!
18:00 your point doesn't stand at all. I have nothing but respect for you and I've learned a lot from you in the startup world. But showing the "Arab revolution" as a way to prove that when authoritarian governments cross the line, the people move to get rid of them as anywhere else in the world, is just nonsense. The removal of power in the examples that you showed (Syria, Egypt and Libya) where all directly (operation Odyssey) or indirectly spearheaded by the US and there is extensive evidence for this.
I understand that you are a western citizen and that you should be aiding the west (as it should be). But when you open the western closet, you'll find just as many skeletons in their as Chinas.
This video is great, and provides a lot of insight to the formation of the current political power dynamic in China, just keep in mind that almost the same can be said for any global empire and this goes for the US too, just in subtle and less obvious ways.
哈哈 西方人就因为帮西方就不说真话?不说实话? 你要明白这是传记纪实类型的题材，为了帮西方就应该胡说八道?谎话连篇? 同一个星球大家应该一同努力、一同成长、相互扶持、相互学习，而不是我强我就把所有人都踩在脚下!我强只能我吃肉，其它国家都得饿肚子! 这是你们西方的道理吗？
Perhaps he is mysterious to foreigners, but to China people, he is just a leader who loves the people and grows up from the grassroots. !
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@@Leon-fj5dt 你有什么意见
@@dddddh1 盲目的中国人
@@user-rq1lf8jl2p 境外势力
@@Leon-fj5dt What have you achieved?
Thank you, John
Excellent video.
Dude you qualified to work with BBC and CNN or perhaps even Hollywood, they way you narrate are damn good. This is the best BS in 2023 dude
you are absolutely right, as BBC and CNN are the two professional rumor and lie fabrication plants well know for their brazen faces in face of all the world. John Coogan will be able to become a professional and shameless liar.
He's already a selfmade CZcamsr with a dedicated audience, plus make more than a BBC reporter. Why would I compare him downwards? You're qualified for a 5$/hour job. 😅
It's not BS, it's the truths, understand 👍👍
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I am a chinese rural farmer.
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America, Britain and Canada today is a lot like China in the early days
After watching this episodes, I have become the biggest fan of xi ching pin... He is the saviour of china.. our Indian media doesn't show any goodness of the chinese leaders... He is the best leader in 20th century.