Is China the Next World Power?

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  • @WhatifAltHist
    @WhatifAltHist  Pƙed 3 lety +403

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  • @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368
    @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Pƙed 3 lety +3583

    Hey, remember when Portugal was the next world power?

    • @sinistercrusader4981
      @sinistercrusader4981 Pƙed 3 lety +1057

      only 1500s kids remember

    • @Tengzhichong
      @Tengzhichong Pƙed 3 lety +293

      And then they signed El Dorado away to the Spanish :pepehands:

    • @yespls4184
      @yespls4184 Pƙed 3 lety +111

      Pepperidge Farms remembers

    • @shubhamvats6920
      @shubhamvats6920 Pƙed 3 lety +91

      Yes 1498 they even send Vasco de Gama to my country ❀

    • @jreiland07
      @jreiland07 Pƙed 3 lety +112

      I remember the Treaty of Tortillas. The most delicious ever.

  • @kludgedude
    @kludgedude Pƙed 3 lety +3148

    Nixon: “let’s be friends with China to counter USSR”
    Some future USA president: “let’s be friends with Russia to counter China”

    • @athanasiusgamal5838
      @athanasiusgamal5838 Pƙed 3 lety +406

      That is exactly what Donald Trump was trying to do

    • @theprofessor9789
      @theprofessor9789 Pƙed 3 lety +201

      @@athanasiusgamal5838 And, like Nixon, he was removed. There is a pattern here...
      I know Nixon wasn't "removed," but the difference between forced resignation, removal, and disgraced exit is minimal.

    • @theprofessor9789
      @theprofessor9789 Pƙed 3 lety +65

      @@DavidVegaBurgos Not an exact comparison- the two in my mind are similar.
      I didn't say the scandal was forced. I meant he was forced to resign because of the scandal.
      Again the two aren't a perfect comparison- just thought it was amusing.

    • @turningnull2538
      @turningnull2538 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @@athanasiusgamal5838 Exactly, he works for them

    • @AlyphRat
      @AlyphRat Pƙed 3 lety +36

      Full Circle?
      "Let's be friends with [???] to Counter Russia"

  • @akuinator6350
    @akuinator6350 Pƙed 2 lety +787

    "The Chinese elite thinks in terms of centuries."
    What? They couldn't figure out what mandating each generation be half the size of the one before would mean.

    • @Speer788
      @Speer788 Pƙed 2 lety +59

      I will give that they think 5-10 years ahead but not more. If they really thought in terms of centuries, they would abandon communist as it never is a good idea to throw away the freedom and tradition of the People. The culture has taken a big hit as in many Communist countries as folks are not free to express themselfes and speak out about problems to solve them.
      The West is gonna fall and its down fall will be the short term thinking of just making it to the next election

    • @polkka7797
      @polkka7797 Pƙed 2 lety +11

      @@Speer788Weissmann'd say decades whereas western leaders think in years, as kings are to presidents. doesnt mean kings cant make stupid decisions

    • @harshjain3122
      @harshjain3122 Pƙed 2 lety +36

      @@polkka7797 it's simply because the current governmental systems doesn't allow them to think further. Tho democracy was extremely stable in europe because of it's homogenity which is changing now. It's like....they are undoing everything they have worked for

    • @mixrable1212
      @mixrable1212 Pƙed 2 lety +55

      @@harshjain3122 I believe that democracy does not have a future. I think the future lies in a meritocratic system where the most capable individuals have higher voting power. And by capable I don't necessarily mean more college educated, but more philosophically evolved people that are tested to be better capable of understanding viewpoints they don't agree with. they should have higher decision making power and communities should be catering more towards smarter, more stable, more well adjusted and empathetic people.

    • @Arbaaltheundefeated
      @Arbaaltheundefeated Pƙed 2 lety +14

      @@mixrable1212 Nah, the rich will rule, more and more firmly as wealth continues to concentrate and companies continue to consolidate, until we have truly and finally destroyed our world in the name of profits for the elite, because humanity is a gaggle of f***ing morons.

  • @rutts499
    @rutts499 Pƙed 3 lety +325

    "I find it disturbing that significant parts of the Western elite are more disturbed with microaggressions than a massive Orwellian authoritarian empire trying to take over the world." - Damn, that hit home.

    • @MeidoInHebun
      @MeidoInHebun Pƙed 2 lety +1

      People only care about what affects them, western 'elite' (urbanites) are disturbed by 'microaggressions' because discrimination and lack of equality impact their life daily, only those with who are not affected by such issues it can afford to worry about an "Orwellian authoritarian empire" on the other side of the world.
      If food prices keep rising I'm going to have a problem in my personal budget as I'll have to spend more of my hard earned money to buy groceries, meanwhile children in war-torn and completely undeveloped countries are literally starving to death right now. Which of these two issues is more important objectively speaking? Which one is any one person naturally going to care more about?

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 Pƙed 2 lety +8

      sadly a lot of Europe seems to be bought by them as well

    • @misterx6276
      @misterx6276 Pƙed rokem

      I'm a "liberal" and that microaggression bs needs to be thrown away. It's crying over mere words. Sticks and stones, dumbass, is what I say.

    • @silent_sniper3304
      @silent_sniper3304 Pƙed rokem +1

      Almost like its not orwellian

    • @henkhenk7467
      @henkhenk7467 Pƙed rokem

      @@silent_sniper3304 Tiananmen square? The PRC is a totalitarian state.

  • @ecksdee1637
    @ecksdee1637 Pƙed 3 lety +3376

    "Let China sleep, for when they wake up, the world will shake"- Napoleon

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      @rattypie Pƙed 3 lety +24

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    • @Daniel-yz5qj
      @Daniel-yz5qj Pƙed 3 lety +89

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    • @celebalert5616
      @celebalert5616 Pƙed 3 lety +424

      "I cannot see because the eagles on this island stole my eyes" - Napoleon.

    • @--------352
      @--------352 Pƙed 3 lety +19

      She*

    • @andyroodoo
      @andyroodoo Pƙed 3 lety +35

      @@Daniel-yz5qj ahahah nice one gave me a chuckle

  • @pabloarellano5485
    @pabloarellano5485 Pƙed 3 lety +2418

    “If the West doesn’t sort out their social issues within the next 10 years China wins” 25:10
    Aaaannnndd quote, this one will be useful later

    • @johnpaulcross424
      @johnpaulcross424 Pƙed 3 lety +99

      Gg wp ez no re

    • @plusxz821
      @plusxz821 Pƙed 3 lety +46

      We need more avantgarde intelligentsia

    • @buddythecow
      @buddythecow Pƙed 3 lety +110

      Boy, I sure am fatigued from all this partisan conflict... welp, time to go fight a war!

    • @immaculatesquid
      @immaculatesquid Pƙed 3 lety +296

      @Alessandro Leto Immigration as an abstract term is a great thing, there's only one problem, an immigrant isn't abstract, it is a real human being with flaws and political views and when immigrants come from other countries that are failing and then vote their failing political beliefs onto your system, why should you be surprised when your system starts to fail?

    • @johnl.7754
      @johnl.7754 Pƙed 3 lety +201

      @Alessandro Leto if America can no longer get the best and brightest to immigrate to USA then that will be the downfall since Americans as a whole don’t put education as that important.

  • @mariolis
    @mariolis Pƙed 3 lety +338

    Polymatter has an excellent series called "China's reckoning" , highly reccomend after watching this vid

    • @Dionisio97
      @Dionisio97 Pƙed 3 lety +17

      AN EXCELLENT SERIES

    • @Dk-ie4te
      @Dk-ie4te Pƙed 3 lety +59

      @@SamtheIrishexan đŸ€š

    • @hes_alive
      @hes_alive Pƙed 3 lety +18

      I think the US needs the Chinese like we needed the Soviets and to a lesser extent Germany (twice), it serves to unify the nation against a common enemy
 and a real enemy not that laughable Islamic terrorism bullshit.

    • @mariolis
      @mariolis Pƙed 3 lety +7

      @@hes_alive Given the current political climate in the US... a common enemy is badly needed ...

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Watched it and enjoyed it so much I watched it twice.

  • @smith2354
    @smith2354 Pƙed 3 lety +206

    28:20 "in built cultural forms of submission to the Chinese" I have to disagree, and this statement would come as a huge insult to the Vietnamese as they fought a bloody war against China in 1979 against a border dispute, not to mention they also fought to liberate Cambodia from Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (who was surprisingly supported by both China and the USA).

    • @ShivamVerma-uc5cy
      @ShivamVerma-uc5cy Pƙed 3 lety +7

      yuan people have fought chinese since yantze river has water

    • @noahninetyone
      @noahninetyone Pƙed 3 lety +9

      That’s what amazes me about all the leftists here in the west thinking China will be a kinder world power than the USA.

    • @phuct4980
      @phuct4980 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@noahninetyone yeah the Asian century will never come, when China tank their retired “golden generation “ worker class and left the seat for young people that have to deal with financial burden from family, no support from relatives ( because they have none anyway) and less likely to even have marriage ( imbalances male/ femal ratio and how picky female are when come to pick male). Overall give or take, the world have enough with China with it cover up, miss lead and mishandling of Covid-19 and even more annoyed about how being a dick toward basically everyone beside themselves will eventually make the world hate them more than the US and that would be impressively say the least.

    • @ericchen776
      @ericchen776 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      he's referring to ancient times not the last century

    • @abnerdoon4902
      @abnerdoon4902 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@ericchen776In the past, all of Asia just pretends to recognize China as master the same way the modern world recognizes China as the real China. They don't actually have the means to enforce anything. As the saying goes, Emperor at home, King abroad.

  • @HunterV15
    @HunterV15 Pƙed 3 lety +1729

    "So how did you take over the world Xi?"
    "Well, there was this youtube video.."

    • @jakepeto2496
      @jakepeto2496 Pƙed 3 lety +290

      “which tbh was pretty boring, however there was this sponsor for this strategy game, i was hooked. Taught me all i need to know about world subjugation”

    • @toledobranch1099
      @toledobranch1099 Pƙed 3 lety +15

      Paid actor

    • @imretardedbut7572
      @imretardedbut7572 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @@jakepeto2496 lmao

    • @1j9hd97
      @1j9hd97 Pƙed 3 lety +15

      no cap: Corona virus is a bio weapon released by the CCP from their Wuhan lab. (not a man made virus or genetically engineered). China had already discovered a vaccine for it. That's how they got it under perfect control, their aim is to cripple western economies which they have successfully done. The WHO are corrupted by Chinese officials and funding. Their "investigation" relies entirely on info and samples provided by CCP, who agrees?

    • @donaldtrumplover2254
      @donaldtrumplover2254 Pƙed 3 lety +19

      @@1j9hd97 ye honestly they were just rolling the dice tho. The Chinese economy still shrunk because of COVID. They were essentially just trying to give themselves more time against the us and India.

  • @Lord_Inquisitor7
    @Lord_Inquisitor7 Pƙed 3 lety +2920

    Absolutely loving this new geopolitics series of yours, looking forward to more

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      @rattypie Pƙed 3 lety +6

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    • @trollinape2697
      @trollinape2697 Pƙed 3 lety +14

      Man said China will be the next superpower for the 100th time

    • @reeseman1932
      @reeseman1932 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      Whatifaltfut

    • @alexanderballa6152
      @alexanderballa6152 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Ikr its so good

    • @defective6811
      @defective6811 Pƙed 3 lety +29

      You can tell it was what he always really wanted to be doing. Even his older alt history videos are just alternate geopolitics videos, but since 2021 is "the year history started again" it's far more interesting to look at the real world than alt history now xD

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    @zippyparakeet1074 Pƙed 3 lety +166

    European history enjoyers: "Hey I've seen this one before! It's a classic!"

    • @moritamikamikara3879
      @moritamikamikara3879 Pƙed 2 lety +7

      Pass the opium...

    • @adrianalter8935
      @adrianalter8935 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      we did the most fucked up shit for 2000 years, time for us to sit back, relax and enjoy the show lmao

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@adrianalter8935 Either we start being better or they win

  • @juliannasreddin5226
    @juliannasreddin5226 Pƙed 3 lety +331

    This is the only guy I trust when wanting to know the political situation without being propagandized.
    Keep up the good work!

    • @comediangj4955
      @comediangj4955 Pƙed 3 lety +68

      Not propaganda doesn't mean not biased.

    • @Meteorknite
      @Meteorknite Pƙed 3 lety +30

      Theres been western bias but what can we say he is western

    • @backpackpepelon3867
      @backpackpepelon3867 Pƙed 3 lety +35

      Pretty heavy bias towards the west, but he's a westerner, so its kinda understandable. In politics, there's no right or wrong, it's just which side that are easier to agree with.

    • @juliannasreddin5226
      @juliannasreddin5226 Pƙed 3 lety

      Comedian GJ you know what I mean.

    • @ukeusogo585
      @ukeusogo585 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      No worry. Chinese love peace.
      China used to be superpower in last 2000 years before 1840. They did not invaded any country even they had gone to Africa, Philippine, Indonesia etc.... in 15 century many times. They were too pound of their own culture to reluctantly learn from western. As a result, they lost in industrialization and fall behind.
      They invented powder to make firework. The technique was transferred to Westerner and was made as gunpowder and bomb.
      They thought too well of western countries and trade with them fairly. Finally they were invaded by over 10 western countries and Japan from opium war in 1840 to the end of war II in 1945, they were suffered by over 100 years.
      Nowadays, they try very hard to develop economic to improve their living conditions and navy military be strong enough to protect themselves.
      They experienced and understood how a miserable life would be. They would not invaded any of countries and make other suffering. Confucius said, Do not impose on others what yourself do not desire.
      Those who create, spread and believe China threats are like the man who cheated on his wife is always in fear of being cheated always.lol....

  • @Enzaio
    @Enzaio Pƙed 3 lety +1681

    "Life sucks and people need to believe in things to make it tolerable." Amen.

    • @echidnanatsuki882
      @echidnanatsuki882 Pƙed 3 lety +70

      Me who's a no fucks given person:
      *I don't have such weakness*

    • @zachariahseed1048
      @zachariahseed1048 Pƙed 3 lety +48

      @@echidnanatsuki882 perceive all the soul crushing realities that are now possible in the future and then reassess whether or not you think that's true.

    • @echidnanatsuki882
      @echidnanatsuki882 Pƙed 3 lety +42

      @@zachariahseed1048 uhh, I'm just gonna pretend I understand what your saying.
      P. S. Dio is looking for you

    • @goji5887
      @goji5887 Pƙed 3 lety +43

      I wish I believed in something substantial. Not because I wanna be religious but because life might suck less indeed.

    • @Enzaio
      @Enzaio Pƙed 3 lety +14

      @@goji5887 Just disbelieving nihilism (cause believing in nothing is self-contradictory) might be enough to get you on your way.

  • @urphakeandgey6308
    @urphakeandgey6308 Pƙed 3 lety +1172

    "Chinese Wannabes"
    "More Chinese Wannabes"
    Then Japan went Westaboo, but it retained its Chinese Wannabe writing system.

    • @times6283
      @times6283 Pƙed 3 lety +10

      What's Latin script based on?

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      @xxxlisandroxxx98 Pƙed 3 lety +71

      @@times6283 greek

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      @markevelyn412 Pƙed 3 lety +1

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      @markevelyn412 Pƙed 3 lety

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      @leonarddidier7963 Pƙed 3 lety

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  • @012jacob012
    @012jacob012 Pƙed 3 lety +55

    I love the brutal honesty in his analysis

  • @silversnakeproductions3241
    @silversnakeproductions3241 Pƙed 3 lety +232

    Imagine if they were American friendly and not communist they would be damn near unstoppable

    • @eriksantoso1741
      @eriksantoso1741 Pƙed 3 lety +61

      Japan actually got experience for that .Back in 70s to 80s japan also same as china growing very fast and almost surpass usa.Japan is liberal democracy country same as usa and the alliance of usa.When usa find that japan was like "dominated" the country with tech and the economy that almost surpass usa and same as this day anti asian sentiment happen.Its make usa giving some tariff or some "sanctions" or something that make japan weak forced down and become stagnant.And now japan is developed country but they never surpass usa and now just stagnant.If china was democracy not communist,I bet china was "down"become western alliance.And when they growth very fast,the us will put anything to forced china down and stagnant.But the reality china was communist socialist country and so they are never as western alliance .So when they growth,the us hard or cannot forced them down because different ideology means different policy different way between two country.
      Edit:What I means it's just make stoppable,because usa like and always "espionage"another country and forced them to alliance with us.When there is some of american friend country or alliance that having growth very quickly and almost challenging usa,the america will put some tariff,or sanction forced them down to it's knees and become stagnant even it's developed country(most usa alliance or they very close friend was stagnant developed country) if china (let's just say not communist but another ideology that combined democracy and communist or whatever) I bet america will do anything to giving some "freedom or democracy" to china and maybe even worst like they do in middle east.Because america always forced to all of the country follow they path.

    • @booaks2980
      @booaks2980 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      Yeah what if one day, china just decided to unban CZcams google Instagram etc. I feel for the Chinese living in china, but since the population is so big, so is basically like their own future earth/world in their own country

    • @harshthakur1
      @harshthakur1 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @@eriksantoso1741 actually China was a secret alliance of US during cold war. And China used US and Soviet for it's own personal gain and US ignored their growth at that time as they were fighting Russians. But now China has become super strong US is trying to stop them up. And if China has their Authoritarian rule permanently they might screw themselve up sooner or later.

    • @Jrookus
      @Jrookus Pƙed 3 lety +29

      They’re not communist tho. Their economic practices are incredibly similar to America. China is a capitalist nation now

    • @silversnakeproductions3241
      @silversnakeproductions3241 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      @@Jrookus No they are run by an egomaniac who will be dictator for life. Any billionaires like Jack Ma are punished.

  • @epicgamerzfail4575
    @epicgamerzfail4575 Pƙed 3 lety +1659

    If this video still exists in 10 years, then no.

    • @JohnSmith-vg6hb
      @JohnSmith-vg6hb Pƙed 3 lety +109

      Then we should count each day it's still here as a small victory

    • @naterlandsw2963
      @naterlandsw2963 Pƙed 3 lety +24

      @@JohnSmith-vg6hb nooooo, that excuse to rest on your well deserved laurels is exactly why this leviathan is so confident in themselves.

    • @JohnSmith-vg6hb
      @JohnSmith-vg6hb Pƙed 3 lety +7

      @@naterlandsw2963 True enough

    • @demun6065
      @demun6065 Pƙed 3 lety +32

      CZcams will exist whether we become more authoritarian or more democratic. CZcams's existence isn't a great metric for China's rise, tbh. As Google wants nothing more than to penetrate the Chinese market - deeply, yet gently. And with lot's of lubricant...

    • @m.otransformers4855
      @m.otransformers4855 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Lol, funny and sad

  • @theworld9247
    @theworld9247 Pƙed 3 lety +1581

    4:46 "The Chinese Elite thinks in terms of centuries, the American in weeks."
    Harsh, but true.

    • @juliantheapostate8295
      @juliantheapostate8295 Pƙed 3 lety +57

      Do they though? Or are they happy with us thinking that?
      Maybe they are the true subtle rulers

    • @Agarwaen00
      @Agarwaen00 Pƙed 3 lety +149

      @@juliantheapostate8295 For the last year they have been planning and setting targets for the next 5, 15 and 30 years.

    • @theworld9247
      @theworld9247 Pƙed 3 lety +18

      @@juliantheapostate8295 It's probably based on public / predictable plans.

    • @anonymousanonymous4690
      @anonymousanonymous4690 Pƙed 3 lety +244

      @@theworld9247 we can't stick to a plan. Republicans set a plan the incoming Dems destroy it. The Dems set a plan and the incoming Repubs destroy it. Can't do shit. Not a problem for the Chinese.

    • @beautifulworld4455
      @beautifulworld4455 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@juliantheapostate8295 llllll

  • @engineeredarmy1152
    @engineeredarmy1152 Pƙed 2 lety +15

    7:05 You are wrong here. The rivers which flow into India gain plenty of water via rainfall in Indian region not Tibet. Even if China were to build damns it won't harm India infact it might help combat floods to some tiny extent in the northeast region.

  • @nekozombie
    @nekozombie Pƙed 3 lety +32

    this is now my favourite video on CZcams

  • @SoApost
    @SoApost Pƙed 3 lety +741

    I'd like to hear more about the statement, 'Russia is a more natural American ally, but the US has hold ups.'

    • @ThatCrazyKid0007
      @ThatCrazyKid0007 Pƙed 3 lety +292

      Russia has always leaned more to Europe than Asia, hell most of Russia on the map is just the imperial colony of the chunk of Russia that lies in the eastern part of the great Northern European plain. Russia was on good terms with America until end of WWII when the capitalist-socialist disagreement about how to manage the recovering European continent lead to the Cold War. As much as Russia wants to spite America, at least America can't encroach on their soil directly. Meanwhile China is right there just salivating at the opportunity to take the increasingly fertile chunk of land that is far east Russia which could really weaken the country, plus to take away the Russian influence in central Asia which Russia benefits from in terms of oil and natural gas. Ultimately if it hadn't been for the Cold War Russia would definitely be an American ally against China, but for now they are playing along with them for their gains, but they are more than cautious of letting China grow too powerful before and inevitably turn on them.
      Meanwhile, America's best bet of slowing China down and keeping them in check would be a strong Russia and somewhat capable India as they could suit a good support role to Russia in keeping China in check. Unfortunately America turned Russia away too much during the Cold War that until China starts directly fucking with Russia and their interests, America cannot count on them.

    • @1j9hd97
      @1j9hd97 Pƙed 3 lety +77

      no cap: Corona virus is a bio weapon released by the CCP from their Wuhan lab. (not a man made virus or genetically engineered). China had already discovered a vaccine for it. That's how they got it under perfect control, their aim is to cripple western economies which they have successfully done. The WHO are corrupted by Chinese officials and funding. Their "investigation" relies entirely on info and samples provided by CCP, who agrees?

    • @LudicrousTorpedo
      @LudicrousTorpedo Pƙed 3 lety +12

      @@1j9hd97, I guess I agree with you. If this is true, I bet the EU and the US will just add more tariffs on China, forcing their companies to pull out and settle in another country, this will be a huge disaster for the CCP.

    • @horsingaround1276
      @horsingaround1276 Pƙed 3 lety +44

      @@1j9hd97 No if the virus was man made by the CCP they would make it much deadlier.

    • @jimmym3352
      @jimmym3352 Pƙed 3 lety +42

      @@ThatCrazyKid0007 Russia has always been an outlier, even though they lean towards Europe. They are unpredictable at best. No one really knows what will happen when Putin is out of power.

  • @user-sy8zt1ty3o
    @user-sy8zt1ty3o Pƙed 3 lety +447

    Alright, I respect your work but as a Russian I am obliged to voice my objection. No, Chinese are NOT projected to become a majority in Far eastern Russia in 2040, or 2050, or ever. Russian Chinese diaspora is tiny, and most of it is concentrated in Moscow ant Saint Petersburg, not in the Far East. Chinese aren't migrating to Russia for the same reason Japanese are't - China is now wealthier than Russia, there is no economic incentive for any sane Chinese to move there. I've seen some wild estimates of hundreds of thousands of Chinese living in Russia on English Wikipedia - that's probably where your ideas come from, and you are not the first one to fall for this - but they are batshit false, based on exaggerated numbers from 15 years ago (back when China was still poorer than Russia so Chinese immigrants in Russia still existed; they've largely returned to China long ago).
    It's also important to remember that while Chinese Notheast is indeed much more populous than Russian Far East, it is also the Rust Belt of China with one of the lowest standarts of living in the country, so its population is quickly declining due to internal migration to the much wealthier provinces of Southern China; it also has one of the lowest fertility in the world, way below 1 child per family. Chinese Northeast might look like a demographic Behemoth in comparison to Russian Far East, but it's going through lardge scale depopulation: there is no demographic pressure to expand there. I don't even mention the fact that Russia has nukes so going to war with it to annex one of its worst lands is pretty unreasonable to say the least.

    • @hazzmati
      @hazzmati Pƙed 3 lety +101

      Thanks for correcting him. Half of what this guy says sounds like nonsense I don't take him that serious anymore

    • @grassyvillain9549
      @grassyvillain9549 Pƙed 3 lety +23

      @@hazzmati some of his views are very worry,

    • @grassyvillain9549
      @grassyvillain9549 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      @@hazzmati I want to say many but I don't want to be mean.

    • @grassyvillain9549
      @grassyvillain9549 Pƙed 3 lety +17

      if China don't have one-child policy, billions of people will crush China. He also amplify the side effect of this policy.

    • @CosmicValkyrie
      @CosmicValkyrie Pƙed 3 lety +28

      Imagine trying to attack Russia via land, as if the last few centuries weren't a good enough demonstration of the effects of such an action.

  • @adrianmahdian2683
    @adrianmahdian2683 Pƙed 3 lety +10

    Amazing research! Nice work! This video has been broken down by other channels into smaller pieces with better graphics and gets millions of views. But this video sums everything up in such a nice manner! Don't need graphics to get quality info!

  • @goodcitizen4587
    @goodcitizen4587 Pƙed 3 lety +10

    Man this was a dope video. Really opened my eyes. Sub'd!

  • @yiyi3926
    @yiyi3926 Pƙed 3 lety +885

    I expected this to be all fear mongering about China's inevitable rise, or a superiority complex about China inevitably failing against the US. But it was actually one of the best commentaries on China, it's issues and power, that I've seen in a while.

    • @andy.8444
      @andy.8444 Pƙed 3 lety +37

      Actually I feel like he said many stupid things.

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 Pƙed 3 lety +24

      @@andy.8444 I'm sure he did but a list from someone who's thought about this more would help.

    • @johncunningham8213
      @johncunningham8213 Pƙed 3 lety +60

      I wish he would have touched on the HK protests and the Uyger genocide going on in China. Those are very important events that I'm sure will cause a lot of internal problems and instability in China. I could be wrong, though.

    • @johncunningham8213
      @johncunningham8213 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      @mo gamer
      Hmm. I didn't think about that. Good point.

    • @cuddlemuffin.9545
      @cuddlemuffin.9545 Pƙed 3 lety +18

      @@johncunningham8213 the genocide is seen as a good thing in China lol

  • @Makem12
    @Makem12 Pƙed 3 lety +1374

    "The Americans are far more naive" you're the first person to neatly sum up what I've observed about my fellow countrymen

    • @jomo2483
      @jomo2483 Pƙed 3 lety +69

      "Far more" is putting it lightly

    • @tritium1998
      @tritium1998 Pƙed 3 lety +12

      Naive being a synonym for dumb. About themselves and others.

    • @Arcaryon
      @Arcaryon Pƙed 3 lety +21

      @Clint Loran Rand This is something that is kind of true in most places on the planet, at the same time, a man like D. Trump is symptomatic of the problems of claiming to be a democratic Republic while not fully committing to the concept and similar issues.
      The US is home to many powerful men and women but they do not always manage to make their mark.

    • @kristopherbell7158
      @kristopherbell7158 Pƙed 3 lety +23

      Im american, most could care less what happens outside if their neighborhood, its crazy how careless theu can be.. Whats china lol, you mean food?

    • @TrU_homie
      @TrU_homie Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Could be a smoke screen

  • @glntv5217
    @glntv5217 Pƙed 3 lety +11

    25:16 tbh in germany the situation is different because of the very complex voting system which encompasses two votes for each person to determine which parties are chosen and which representatives are elected. Most elected representatives are conservative, but the conservative party has just about 30% of the seats

  • @chairde
    @chairde Pƙed 3 lety +4

    China is almost landlocked. Has no replacement generation. Has a fast aging population. It’s armed forces are awful. China is dependent upon exports and lacks oil.

  • @firelordmarklin6166
    @firelordmarklin6166 Pƙed 3 lety +306

    Alright time to finally take a nap-
    "Sees new geopolitics video by Whatifalthist"
    I'm nocturnal anyways.

    • @ThatCrazyKid0007
      @ThatCrazyKid0007 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      Literally started watching this at 5:30am after an allnighter, definitely feel this hahah

    • @1j9hd97
      @1j9hd97 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      no cap: Corona virus is a bio weapon released by the CCP from their Wuhan lab. (not a man made virus or genetically engineered). China had already discovered a vaccine for it. That's how they got it under perfect control, their aim is to cripple western economies which they have successfully done. The WHO are corrupted by Chinese officials and funding. Their "investigation" relies entirely on info and samples provided by CCP, who agrees?

    • @The_Real_Grim_Reaper
      @The_Real_Grim_Reaper Pƙed 3 lety

      It's 6 AM right now

  • @JustHatcheted
    @JustHatcheted Pƙed 3 lety +478

    I'm vibing with this geopolitics arc đŸ€™đŸœ

    • @kyokyodisaster4842
      @kyokyodisaster4842 Pƙed 3 lety +22

      Same, this is really cool since there is just no real youtuber that talks about this.

    • @rattypie
      @rattypie Pƙed 3 lety

      czcams.com/video/rgj4Nqrurcs/video.html

    • @demun6065
      @demun6065 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Can anybody tell me if there's a word/theory for what he describes at 12:20?
      Eg. "The force with the larger numbers usually beats the technologically advanced force"
      I want to look up other examples of this happening in history.

    • @kyokyodisaster4842
      @kyokyodisaster4842 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @@demun6065
      Its a point of population that quality obessed nations (The Nazi Reich, Napoleon's france, Imperial Japan, etc) end up fighting nations that have qualitatively worse nations with enormous populations and lose horrendously usually with large marches away from the invaded nation's interior that causes enormous causalities.
      I don't know what to call it other then, "Quantity is always better then Quality."

    • @p0sn
      @p0sn Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Vibing? What you do in the confines of your bedroom is your own business xD

  • @benvanfossen7614
    @benvanfossen7614 Pƙed 3 lety +11

    the point you mentioned about China’s cultural problems is good, but unfortunately i think the U.S. is starting to suffer from this problem as well

  • @saulbasurto3627
    @saulbasurto3627 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    Your channel is amazing. Glad I found it!

  • @meneither3834
    @meneither3834 Pƙed 3 lety +288

    The issue with all the "it's been that way for thousand of years" argument is that the Americas effectively did not exist 500 years ago. The connecting of the continents drastically changes everything. It does make sense geographically for Japan to side with the US over China for example.

    • @alanetchetto8908
      @alanetchetto8908 Pƙed 3 lety +28

      You make it sound like if usa is a superhero "But there's a problem with your plan.
      -what?
      He was not there 1000 years ago to face you" or something like that, lol.

    • @demun6065
      @demun6065 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      When did he say that? Timestamps help with context...

    • @BraintrustDoesStuff
      @BraintrustDoesStuff Pƙed 3 lety +20

      @@demun6065 near the end he said that Korea and Japan would side with China "like they always have."

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 Pƙed 3 lety +64

      ​@@BraintrustDoesStuff Japan hasn't even "always" sided with China. the Yuan invasion of Japan (which failed), the Sino-Japanese war over Korea, the Rape of Nanking, and many more conflicts all come to mind.

    • @KateeAngel
      @KateeAngel Pƙed 3 lety +5

      Americas did exist. I think you meant the USA

  • @bacon_1866
    @bacon_1866 Pƙed 3 lety +165

    It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this instilled in Sparta, that made war inevitable.
    -Thucydides

    • @Arcaryon
      @Arcaryon Pƙed 3 lety +9

      Which is a scary thing to think about because should this war repeat herself, those nations would be devastated.
      But even more interesting would be to ask, whether or not America's & Chinas allies would all follow their call to arms. Because perhaps, history repeats herself in that case - with two powers burning each other with their glaze while others step in their place - as has happened to the European powers during the last two world wars.

    • @brendakayyy
      @brendakayyy Pƙed 3 lety +9

      Neither Athens nor Sparta had nukes

    • @Arcaryon
      @Arcaryon Pƙed 3 lety +18

      @@brendakayyy But their war lead to the destruction of a free Greece. And the rise of Alexander’s empire after his fathers conquest. Nukes make it easier to kill but you can still destroy a lot with traditional warfare.

    • @SordMasta
      @SordMasta Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@Arcaryon "free greece"? why wouldnt greece be free under alexander?
      it was more like a unification and transition to empire, instead of city states and kingdoms.

    • @Arcaryon
      @Arcaryon Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@SordMasta It went from relatively independent democracies and kingdoms with individual cultures to a single state ruled by a king. There is little difference between a unification and an invasion if you actually take this as an example. You literally declare against others, take an army and then beat anyone who stands against you. If someone comes to your house, beats you up, empties your fridge and force your sun to join their gang, what does this sound like? A unification of the neighbourhood?
      I am not against unification via diplomacy and in a historic context, it was certainly a different time but overall, nothing about going to war against the Greek city-states was a "unification". He just conquered what was on the peninsula and then moved on to Persia. Just like the US of North America didn't "unify" the North American plains.
      Now, Alexander remains a brilliant leader and an inspiring figure and his victories ended up doing Greece (as a region) a lot of good but he was by no means someone who cared an awful lot about freedom.
      The only people who did at the time, were folks like the Athenians - who he and his father oppressed as all rules as the time did with their subjects. By force. He can pardon them as much as he wants, still literally a tyrant by the ancient definition of the word.
      www.britannica.com/topic/tyrant
      "Tyrant, Greek tyrannos, a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power. "
      And Athens and Sparta, the two local were never independent after the Macedonians invaded.

  • @artevoyin5938
    @artevoyin5938 Pƙed 3 lety +26

    As a Chinese, there are a lot of differences between the video and my perception, but I don't want to point out them one by one. But I want to say that competition is good.
    The US government says that democracy is the best, while the Chinese government says it is fighting for the interests of the Chinese people. The world is realistic and cold. For 30 years, the United States has dominated the world and fostered allies to suppress competitors. Now it has a strong competitor. Competition will expose the opponent’s shortcomings, and a good government will try to improve the shortcomings.
    World peace will not be achieved overnight, and political struggles and technological development will continue for a long time. Everyone must be strong and take good care of their relatives and friends!

    • @Clarity520
      @Clarity520 Pƙed 3 lety +3

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    • @KillerofWestoids
      @KillerofWestoids Pƙed 2 lety +1

      The only thing CCP cares about is staying in power. I know that they implemented reforms but they keep spreading fake news. It wasn't so bad before covid but after covid, they started spreading fake news everyday.

    • @Clarity520
      @Clarity520 Pƙed 2 lety +8

      @@KillerofWestoids the US is doing nothing less than what CPC is doing. Imagine having 622k death toll due to their own negligence yet still managing to blame the country on the other side of the planet.

  • @mastersonogashira1796
    @mastersonogashira1796 Pƙed 3 lety +7

    Thumbnail: exist
    Russia: wtf

  • @snowman6408
    @snowman6408 Pƙed 3 lety +1085

    America is playing call of duty while china is playing civilization

    • @Arcaryon
      @Arcaryon Pƙed 3 lety +77

      What if I were to tell you that they are one and the same game?

    • @kinglee4517
      @kinglee4517 Pƙed 3 lety +57

      Are you saying that the US Navy conducts live-fire exercises in the South China Sea and the East China Sea every day? Americans look forward to war among Asian countries every day, so that he can sell more arms, no matter whether the people of other countries live or die. This is the fundamental reason why the United States is waging war all over the world. The United States has been founded for more than 200 years, but it has not fought a war in only 16 years. The United States has more than 200 military bases all over the world. Why do you always shout about the China threat? Just because China is the only country in the world that rises peacefully without war, why don't you think that the United States is a threat to the world?

    • @impulse8278
      @impulse8278 Pƙed 3 lety +185

      @@kinglee4517 Are you aware of the Uighur genocide?

    • @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368
      @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Are we talking Civ 1 or Civ 6?

    • @DZ477
      @DZ477 Pƙed 3 lety +185

      @@impulse8278 Leave him alone, my man just wants some social credit points so that he can ride the bus again.

  • @rhemajumbo-nze154
    @rhemajumbo-nze154 Pƙed 3 lety +128

    I live in a 3rd world country and we have a literal chinese learning centre at my school

  • @ayushtiwari8870
    @ayushtiwari8870 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    after seeing around 10 of your videos on a single day..... I will definitely be sharing some as much as possible .... you definitely need more subs...
    great work

  • @Liam-up2wm
    @Liam-up2wm Pƙed 3 lety +10

    Can you do a video about Japan as it's a prime example of country that naturally has a aging and declining population which is likely what rest of the world will follow and what rest of the world can learn from

  • @Amaling
    @Amaling Pƙed 3 lety +375

    Joe Biden: we're getting back to diplomacy
    Whatifalist: so with the US pulling out of the world stage due to oil-independence...

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy Pƙed 3 lety +84

      Doesn't change the reality that the US is pulling away from many areas of the world.

    • @wilberdebeer4696
      @wilberdebeer4696 Pƙed 3 lety +62

      I think he made the videos before Trump lost or hasn't paid attention to Bidens politics at all.

    • @anonymousalias.5059
      @anonymousalias.5059 Pƙed 3 lety +26

      joe isnt going to make big plays. the most i see him doing is getting involved with russia and maybe criticizing china

    • @Munchausenification
      @Munchausenification Pƙed 3 lety +83

      The US is pulling out of the Middle East because of oil being of a lesser concern. So maybe he should have said the US is switching focus from creating enemies in the Middle East to instead boost relations in Europe, Africa and Asia

    • @bradwilles5152
      @bradwilles5152 Pƙed 3 lety +16

      Probably more referring to the tactic of subtle negotiation and underhanded threats said with a smile, with slight concessions respecting foreign industry rather then the bully, assholish antagonism that Trump made the norm

  • @XtoDoubt25
    @XtoDoubt25 Pƙed 3 lety +105

    I think the problems of modern Chinese society can be summed up with the quote, "But men are not piano keys" from Notes from Underground

    • @OrangeJuiceDripping
      @OrangeJuiceDripping Pƙed 3 lety +2

      I dont understand the reference but it sounds interesting. Would you mind explaining?

    • @XtoDoubt25
      @XtoDoubt25 Pƙed 3 lety +28

      @@OrangeJuiceDripping basically the CCP is convinced Chinese society is can be constructed rationally and if they give the people wealth then they will be happy. But that's not the case as it fails to factor in the more subjective parts of human nature. Heree's the link though Jordan Peterson has a good explanation of the passage:
      czcams.com/video/8cyNk9uPC6Q/video.html

    • @OrangeJuiceDripping
      @OrangeJuiceDripping Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@XtoDoubt25 cheers for taking the time to write that and give the link. Appreciated, im gonns watch it right now

    • @thomaspynchon1868
      @thomaspynchon1868 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@OrangeJuiceDripping I would also like to suggest that read Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's provoking novella, either to you or fellow men. It shooks me.

    • @BaneRain
      @BaneRain Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@XtoDoubt25 well new china is one of the youngest most immature countries in the world. So makes sense that they dont really know what they're doing yet

  • @SK-bw8ek
    @SK-bw8ek Pƙed 3 lety +9

    Why can't there be two world powers who cooperate?

    • @danieldjz
      @danieldjz Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Because China will NOT cooperate. They weaponized the Wuhan Coronavirus. They are, in essence, the world's biggest terrorist state.

    • @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368
      @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Pƙed 3 lety

      Because you don't understand humanity.

    • @tommysharp
      @tommysharp Pƙed 3 lety

      It’s beneficial to corporate when u are small and weak, but when ure the biggest elephant in the room, it’s the opposite

  • @orboakin8074
    @orboakin8074 Pƙed 2 lety +4

    China may have the title of world's 2nd largest economy but they have so many underlying issues (all ignored by western MSM) that currently and will later severely hinder/undermine the country:
    1. Demographic crisis (rapidly aging population, declining birth-rates, gender imbalances)
    2. Water security and purity issues due to pollution and desert encroachment
    3. Energy insecurity
    4. Food insecurity (China imports most of its food)
    5. Infrastructure degredation (wobbling sky scrappers, broken dams, exploding sewers, poor flood drainage systems etc)
    6. Flawed economic management
    7. Multiple border disputes
    8. Unsustainable debt (it's actually way worse than that of the USA!)

    • @llubay3970
      @llubay3970 Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci

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      I disagree with your statement that "China has a food crisis". Although China imports food, it is also the world's largest producer, and a large part of China's imported food is used to improve taste and animal feed. rather than a staple food. On the contrary, India's per capita food consumption is much lower than that of China, but it is still exporting food. This is irresponsible to the people of its own country.

  • @mandersson6754
    @mandersson6754 Pƙed 3 lety +151

    You forget the fact that people older than 35 rarely migrates. Especially as the dependency ratio is getting worse in most countries. Fewer people will desire to move abroad creating a labor shortage. Please make a video: What if people stops migrating.

    • @R3GARnator
      @R3GARnator Pƙed 3 lety +4

      That's only for a certain threshold. If there is a failed state or starvation, they go too.

    • @mandersson6754
      @mandersson6754 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@R3GARnator Could be, but older migrants will generally be harder to integrate well into a new labor force.

    • @effervescentevanescenttran6331
      @effervescentevanescenttran6331 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      I'd say more like over 40, but yeah

  • @donovan5656
    @donovan5656 Pƙed 3 lety +305

    “China’s spent 800 of the last thousand years unified.”
    Taiwan: exists

    • @oniichanmk7346
      @oniichanmk7346 Pƙed 3 lety +28

      Taiwan was never really integral part of china and before ww2 Han chinese weren't really ethnic majority,

    • @oniichanmk7346
      @oniichanmk7346 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      @La nova renaissance Before ww2 there was a large Japanese population which was repatriated back to Japan , +after a ww2 Kuomitang pursued a policy of sinification.
      "For much of the KMT era the government definition of aboriginal identity had been 100% aboriginal parentage, leaving any intermarriage resulting in a non-aboriginal child. Later the policy was adjusted to the ethnic status of the father determining the status of the child."
      This is why the mathematics don't add up

    • @bobjones2959
      @bobjones2959 Pƙed 3 lety +44

      @@oniichanmk7346 So much misinformation. Japanese rule over Taiwan started in 1895 and lasted 50 years until the Japanese ceded it to China in 1945. Taiwan was officially a part of Qing China since 1683, and truthfully it was a part of China even before then, since 1664 when the Ming dynasty remnants expelled the Dutch from the island. It's pretty dishonest of you to ignore the over 200 prior years of Chinese rule over the island in favor of 50 years of Japanese rule that ended with them ceding the island to China anyway.

    • @oniichanmk7346
      @oniichanmk7346 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@bobjones2959 you guys are completely missing the original point and creating strawman argument so I see no further point in this discussion, so this is last message, Taiwan was a colony of qing china the same way it was colony of Japan afterwards and just like Tibet is colony of china today, you dont need Tibet to claim you unified china just like you dont need Taiwan because its only been part of chinese empire for a relatively short period of time given how long China exists.

    • @oniichanmk7346
      @oniichanmk7346 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @Information why would Mossad pay me for this? Are you payed by CCP?

  • @prashantpatel1664
    @prashantpatel1664 Pƙed 2 lety +4

    12:49 this ain't going to happen ,INDIAN ARMY Standing there , we taught them in GALWAN valley , THEY KNow what INDIAN army can do . . .. jai hind

  • @grantt1589
    @grantt1589 Pƙed 2 lety +6

    To prevent Chinese expansion into Siberia we could replace the nomadic horsemen with nomadic T-90s and T-14 Armadas

  • @euprenumescu8275
    @euprenumescu8275 Pƙed 3 lety +122

    Now I would like a similar video about the future of the EU/European continent.

    • @shibe3879
      @shibe3879 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      especially in eastern europe, both turkey and poland will be trying to expand their spheres of influence

    • @joseandrade7392
      @joseandrade7392 Pƙed 3 lety +29

      I wouldn’t be particularly excited about that tbh. Conservative Americans like him or Zeihan tend to ignore most of the subtle, extremely intricate ways EU nations are intertwined. Because (at least until now) EU institutions mostly lack sweeping executive powers and visible charismatic heads, some American observers get annoyed by the EU and dismiss it as a glorified free market, that will lose its grip on its eastern (former Soviet or Ottoman) portions
      All of which ignores some of the most important features of EU politics such as its successful efforts for societal cohesion (Erasmus, common currency, interconnected energy grids...) the fact that Brexit has actually made the EU stronger by undermining “separatist” movements in other nations... Not to mention the EU’s lead in many technologies, sustainable development and the soft power and example it poses to many other blocs, like Latin America, the AU and ASEAN.
      In the end, the fact that Americans and Europeans tend to look down on each other for sport won’t help this channel get an accurate, nuanced view of Europe imo

    • @ThatCrazyKid0007
      @ThatCrazyKid0007 Pƙed 3 lety +19

      It's pretty complicated. Russia will try to encroach further into eastern Europe as it always has, except this time the eastern European nations aren't going to wait to be sacrificed by the west to slow down Russia. There are strong movements already for collaboration and economic relations between the eastern European states, there is a good video about it over on Caspian Report. If Russia comes knocking, they will be ready to flip them off and will have enough western aid to stand by themselves. Crimea was a big red alert for them, especially Poland who knows all too well how it goes with Russia. I don't think Russia will be able to exercise its muscles militarily yet, but the economic influence is definitely going to be their main tool to strongarm the region, so expect a mostly economic tug of war for the time being.
      Unfortunately Belarus and Ukraine are stuck in Russia's sphere of influence entirely, Belarus especially is entirely fucked and might even cease to exist in the near future as they integrate back in Russia (though the people seem to be resisting so there is hope), while Ukraine could potentially split in half or entirely fall into Russia's hands due to historical and cultural ties between the two, as well as the mixed Russian population.
      The Balkans are interesting too. Turkey will try to influence the region once more, which again will mostly be an economic tug of war as they are limited militarily by NATO. Contrary to what this channel thinks, if there is one thing that could unite the Balkans it would be a Neo-Ottoman threat, so Turkey would have a really hard time to step a foot in the Balkans outside eastern Thrace. This is why they'll mostly focus in spreading influence and control over the Middle East and Caucases, leading and supporting Turkic nations such as Azerbaijan. The Balkans will see a continued stream of investment from all sides and it will be a real multipolar economic war of influence in the region. If they play their cards right, they could profit well off of it, unfortunately the corruption in most of their governments will make that difficult, but for the most part expect an economic growth in the region. The EU countries will continue to benefit from the Western alliance, while the rest of the Balkans will have investment from China, Russia and the Arabs. The only problem is the unstable Bosnian status quo that God knows how much longer will be kept and if Albania gets too aggressive with their minorities abroad trying to unify them.
      As for the EU, it entirely depends which direction the EU political elite wants to steer it. The British fucked off from the continent and are looking to establish their trading zone with their commonwealth allies, so continental Europe will largely depend on how well Germany and France play nice with each other. I expect it to continue functioning fairly well as a trading union, but as a unified political and legislative entity I can definitely see friction and tension with the Eastern European members as well as their own populace not being too keen on certain immigrants. For the most part it will be business as usual unless something really major happens of course. Nordics will continue as they have enjoying prosperity and being too far from any realistic external threat (don't think Russia is too keen to take on Finland once more for now). The central European countries bar Hungary and Poland will follow whatever Germany's lead is, France will continue to focus on their continental and abroad interests in Africa and I've no fucking clue where the Mediterranean EU nations (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece) will be headed, their economies are struggling and are all too dependent on EU loans, largely from Germany. The Benelux states will be pretty much business as usual as well, while Switzerland gonna Switzerland some more. Like I mentioned, Poland is leading the charge in making Eastern Europe work together and to be strong enough to resist a potential Russian threat, meanwhile Hungary seems to be trending towards some moderately closed off conservative Christian society that is gonna stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the liberal EU in Central Europe.
      This is a layman's expectations for the next 10, maybe 20 years. Farther than that there is a lot more take into account and who knows what'll happen.

    • @x_croner
      @x_croner Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@shibe3879 poland?

    • @mees9704
      @mees9704 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@ThatCrazyKid0007 I'm personly very interested in geopolitics. Where did you learn so much? I'm interested in learning more

  • @robertking4645
    @robertking4645 Pƙed 3 lety +124

    "China is going to be the new Super Power and US is in decline" - this is the most depressing thing I could hear regarding Chinese way of life with social credit score (or whatever the f it's called), firewall, no freedom of speech, concentration camps, the list goes on

    • @timstauffacher8663
      @timstauffacher8663 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      Lets hope it wont come this far

    • @notlucas6859
      @notlucas6859 Pƙed 3 lety +38

      i can predict some troll coming in here saying the us did nothing good and blah blah blah etc

    • @rattypie
      @rattypie Pƙed 3 lety +1

      czcams.com/video/rgj4Nqrurcs/video.html

    • @notlucas6859
      @notlucas6859 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@rattypie no

    • @robertking4645
      @robertking4645 Pƙed 3 lety +18

      @@notlucas6859 only a moron can say that US did nothing good. If it was not for US, South Korea, Japan, Germany, entire Western Europe would have been a communist shit hole, the same as North Korea, countries of Warsaw Pact and so on.

  • @forbeginnersandbeyond6089
    @forbeginnersandbeyond6089 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    This is a very well thought out analysis and forecast.

  • @groceryliszt3346
    @groceryliszt3346 Pƙed 3 lety +15

    When you think about it, it would have been horribly ruthless but effective for the Chinese government to deliberately allow
    COVID-19 to run rampant instead of cracking down on it like they did. The majority of COVID caused deaths occur among the elderly, so this approach could have mitigated China's demographic issues in the short term.

    • @FrostbitexP
      @FrostbitexP Pƙed 2 lety +7

      And ruin the party's reputation in the process...Which they are quite sensitive about

  • @trevormurphy6042
    @trevormurphy6042 Pƙed 3 lety +315

    As someone who lived in China, Beijing may be gray but most of its cities are incredibly beautiful. I lived in Hangzhou and the picture you used for how beautiful china “used to be” is literally just a picture of how Hangzhou looks today.

    • @williedigital
      @williedigital Pƙed 3 lety +34

      You mean the 2km ring around west lake. Walk 10 kilometers straight in any direction and it's not beautiful.

    • @trevormurphy6042
      @trevormurphy6042 Pƙed 3 lety +59

      @@williedigital I lived about 10km north, not beautiful per say. Most cities aren’t beautiful but I’d put in on par with Boston, NY, and Chicago.

    • @xinyeyang7515
      @xinyeyang7515 Pƙed 3 lety +40

      @@williedigital Another Chinese hater ....

    • @williedigital
      @williedigital Pƙed 3 lety +16

      @@trevormurphy6042 So you think Chicago is "incredibly beautiful"?

    • @scottwilliamson7703
      @scottwilliamson7703 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      Kunming is a stunning city, best in China IMO. Hangzhou, Wuhan (I know) and Nanning aren’t far behind.

  • @iamgreat1234
    @iamgreat1234 Pƙed 3 lety +341

    Something wrong here, Malaysia only has defence agreement with United Kingdom, Australia & New Zealand only not USA. Indonesia, Vietnam & Malaysia never sign any defence agreements with USA.

    • @calvyncraven1141
      @calvyncraven1141 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@melvinklark4088 that's what most people think only. But that's not what the experts think.

    • @TheAmubis
      @TheAmubis Pƙed 3 lety +19

      @@melvinklark4088 "The Americans are far more naive" more likely sums about your thought. A lot of country wouldn't even care if US are under attack. Moreso if they don't have any agreements.

    • @TheAmubis
      @TheAmubis Pƙed 3 lety +42

      @@melvinklark4088 No, you missed my point. They don't want to go against US, but they don't want to help either. Indonesia already stopped buying weapons from US. If US under attack, most SEA would probably be "sucks to be you, buddy" and look the other way.

    • @guacre2675
      @guacre2675 Pƙed 3 lety +13

      @@TheAmubis Nobody would or could attack US soil, but if it happened, I think the world would end, so yeah, I think everyone would probably care

    • @patrickchung2697
      @patrickchung2697 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      Malaysia, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Vietnam may side with China since they established the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership with China besides joining China-led Belt and Road Initiative

  • @santhoshtalla2423
    @santhoshtalla2423 Pƙed 3 lety +9

    this is what i call view of china from the eyes of USA

  • @sideshow00
    @sideshow00 Pƙed 3 lety +6

    The Space Needle was built in Seattle in under a year in 1962. A whole skyline in modern times for 3 decades isnt impressive. Especially with their money.

  • @innosam123
    @innosam123 Pƙed 3 lety +170

    “The Chinese Elite think in terms of Centuries.”
    *Remembers One-Child Policy.*
    Hmm....
    The “think in centuries” part is honestly kind of overblown and is the perception is partially a product of Chinese Propaganda.
    I would also point out a minor point that, as a Korean, I doubt Japan would be a Chinese Ally even with a honorable government due to the pains of WW2.
    Korea still hates Japan due to its occupation by the Japanese. Ireland still hates Britain from the Potato famine. Arguably, the hatred amongst the South Slavs goes back to at least the rise of the Ottoman Empire, several *centuries* ago. Some wounds never properly heal.

    • @najayanlama4048
      @najayanlama4048 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      I think the one-child policy is like accelerating downhill or spending a month's salary in a week.

    • @pujanshah7868
      @pujanshah7868 Pƙed 3 lety +12

      It is a stereo type the Chinese aren't good planners and if you give the example of the Chinese economy well it was because of your capitalist greed you guys created this monster.

    • @pababoyM2
      @pababoyM2 Pƙed 3 lety +20

      *Takes a look at the Chinese Miracle and their unprecedented economic growth*
      Yeah, no, they're terrible planners...

    • @innosam123
      @innosam123 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      @@pababoyM2 It doesn’t take a genius to achieve enormous economic growth by dumping money into infrastructure and opening your economy to trade. Tsarist Russia also had enormous economic growth despite not really being run all that well.

    • @nikolavideomaker
      @nikolavideomaker Pƙed 3 lety +13

      @@innosam123 Why is not Africa or India rich yet? In the 80s China poorer than any country in Africa, not it is reversed.

  • @kamanashiskar9203
    @kamanashiskar9203 Pƙed 3 lety +316

    Qin Empire wasn't atheist; their god was the Emperor himself.

    • @OkurkaBinLadin
      @OkurkaBinLadin Pƙed 3 lety +46

      The author gets basic stuff about religion wrong all the time. He doesnt seem to realize how important it is either.

    • @kamanashiskar9203
      @kamanashiskar9203 Pƙed 3 lety +20

      @@OkurkaBinLadin Same with the Empire of Japan; I think it was Buddist or Shinto.

    • @sinoroman
      @sinoroman Pƙed 3 lety +1

      i think the people then still had some monotheism or polytheism in them

    • @DilbeardAlbeard
      @DilbeardAlbeard Pƙed 3 lety +16

      No, Qin Empire was never atheist and worshipping Emperor doesn't equate him to God. Still, Qin is no worse than communist, truly Atheist.

    • @kamanashiskar9203
      @kamanashiskar9203 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@DilbeardAlbeard The Qin Empire united China.

  • @blitz8425
    @blitz8425 Pƙed 2 lety +5

    Something that interests me about China-India relations is that both have close ties with Russia, so I really wonder where Russia would ultimately fall in that conflict.

    • @Averageyoutubeenjoyerr
      @Averageyoutubeenjoyerr Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Russia stayed neutral when China made Chinese and Indian soldiers clash in 2020.
      Just like how India is neutral in the Russia Ukraine conflict.

    • @krishpatel3156
      @krishpatel3156 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Neutral at best but with China being the more militarily powerful and basically the entire reason Russia is still relevant today, I expect some back support to China from the Russians.

  • @renderproductions1032
    @renderproductions1032 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    As an American, I think the one child policy is a great idea for China!

  • @spandexter1234
    @spandexter1234 Pƙed 3 lety +200

    A future where China is a world power is scary to me
    Edit: Here's a nice debate to get involved in

    • @grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338
      @grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338 Pƙed 3 lety +119

      20 social credit score has been deducted from your account, you are no longer eligable for a mortgage .

    • @Amaling
      @Amaling Pƙed 3 lety +45

      Honestly, Chinese diplomacy has been better than Western diplomacy, speaking as a westerner. Just look at the treatment of Africa for comparison. I will say the free speech stuff is concerning, but I'll rest relatively easy for now.

    • @Jackal_007
      @Jackal_007 Pƙed 3 lety +45

      Communism is the worst form of governance there is.

    • @SweetPotatoDingo
      @SweetPotatoDingo Pƙed 3 lety +43

      @@Jackal_007 Communism is an economic form not a government form idiot

    • @Jackal_007
      @Jackal_007 Pƙed 3 lety +19

      @@SweetPotatoDingo ight proffessor/philosopher/historian/economics guy. How did it feel to call someone an idiot on youtube for a small mistake

  • @thelivingstorm6600
    @thelivingstorm6600 Pƙed 3 lety +254

    Like an old man I'm to early for this also how about a video explaining how Christianity ended up how we know it as today or in better terms the history of Christianity and maybe other religions.

    • @user-kt1st4uu9x
      @user-kt1st4uu9x Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Christianity was created from a sect of the qumeran community, id recommened reading the study of israel knohl.

    • @1j9hd97
      @1j9hd97 Pƙed 3 lety

      no cap: Corona virus is a bio weapon released by the CCP from their Wuhan lab. (not a man made virus or genetically engineered). China had already discovered a vaccine for it. That's how they got it under perfect control, their aim is to cripple western economies which they have successfully done. The WHO are corrupted by Chinese officials and funding. Their "investigation" relies entirely on info and samples provided by CCP, who agrees?

    • @verigumetin4291
      @verigumetin4291 Pƙed 3 lety

      i would like an analysis on the falling influence of religions, the rise of atheism and a prediction on how islam will become moving forward, if it will follow in the footsteps of christianity or not.

    • @martytu20
      @martytu20 Pƙed 3 lety

      Christianity had the benefit of Pax Romana that allowed safe and easy travel for Christians to preach, an appeal that resonates with the poor (works doesn’t save a person, but faith), and being one of the few groups that actively treated the sick during the Antoine Plague.
      By the third century CE, the Greco-Roman pantheon already declined. The two religions vying for supremacy by the late Roman period was Christianity and Sol Invicta.

    • @irenejohnston6802
      @irenejohnston6802 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@martytu20 the 1st century true Christians became the heretics and the heretics became the Church of Rome and the holy (unholy) Roman Empire. Christendom a political construct. True Christians are persecuted for their Neutrality.cf. Russia, Sth Korea, Eritrea, Tajikistan etc. Loss of employment in certain countries cos their refusal to hve a political party card. Historically: cf. Google Purple Triangles. You know who they are. Scripturally, the 6th world power is Rome+ it's daughter off shoots until 1700s 7th world power GT Britain-Anglo American ( 2horned) it looks lamblike, benign cos ideology of so-called freedom and democracy. But it is still a beast. US 7th and last world power since WW1. Book of Revelation. UN is its image 8th 'king', can only reflect the authority invested in it by the 7th 'king'. Daniel 2:44.

  • @JJ-sf6sz
    @JJ-sf6sz Pƙed 2 lety +2

    who wants to bet on a purple turban rebellion

  • @mikev4621
    @mikev4621 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    To say that China has no naval history would be wrong- they had a fleet of huge ships in the 1400's

  • @Asdf-wf6en
    @Asdf-wf6en Pƙed 3 lety +239

    7:36 how the hell is Antarctica a Chinese ally

    • @user-yj8pt7gt3g
      @user-yj8pt7gt3g Pƙed 3 lety +180

      You see, Antarctica has been part of China's sacred territory since ancient time

    • @Asdf-wf6en
      @Asdf-wf6en Pƙed 3 lety +47

      @@user-yj8pt7gt3g in case of war would Antarctica send business geese to fight for the Chinese

    • @bigboineptune9567
      @bigboineptune9567 Pƙed 3 lety +46

      It's neutral, although he picked a bad color for neutral

    • @Asdf-wf6en
      @Asdf-wf6en Pƙed 3 lety +30

      @Kue Eh Htoo are the penguins going to fight for the chinese?

    • @vyktorehon5995
      @vyktorehon5995 Pƙed 3 lety

      IMAO

  • @williamstevenson8454
    @williamstevenson8454 Pƙed 3 lety +54

    I love these deep depth looks into geopolitics, I livvvve for it. Personally I think its clear that your alternate history is some of best thought out and informative available. Keep up the good work!

  • @norikofu509
    @norikofu509 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Welp... Looking at the situation right now, I don't know if there would be any single superpower left...

  • @klown463
    @klown463 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    If I were to agree with your assertion that military power ultimately determines the nation’s power, China would have the upper hand.
    On paper, the US is much more powerful but they have a crippling weakness; morale. The US, despite winning every battle in Vietnam and Iraq, have ultimately pulled out because the American people not only didn’t support the conflicts but actively disrupted the war effort (draft dodging, protesting, etc.). All China would have to do is inflict a few thousand casualties on the Americans and you’d instantly have at least 50% of the population (liberals) actively undermine the war effort because it’s trendy.
    The US is already defeated from within, so China doesn’t really need to do or be anything to beat us in the next couple of decades.

    • @karenwang313
      @karenwang313 Pƙed 2 lety

      That's because most Americans didn't want to be there in the first place. If there was a pearl harbor or 9/11 type of attack that threatened the existence of the country itself, you can bet there'll be hundreds of thousands of Americans lining up to go fight, my anti war ass included.

    • @klown463
      @klown463 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@karenwang313 and then you would be sent to combat, lose a few thousand people, start crying and pull out, as you have throughout all of history

  • @greyscaleb1537
    @greyscaleb1537 Pƙed 3 lety +223

    People are joking around and trying to downplay China but it's coming, that's all there needs to be known.

    • @Loading-lg6hs
      @Loading-lg6hs Pƙed 3 lety +56

      Bruh... the entire point of this video explain how it's not black and white like that, and it's a lot more nuanced than people make it out to be. The economy is not the only thing that qualifies to make you the World Power, there's geopolitical factors, their influence over other nations, the demographics etc.

    • @tritium1998
      @tritium1998 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      @@melvinklark4088 If anything you're crying either way because it's not turning out how you wish.

    • @waterchicken4477
      @waterchicken4477 Pƙed 3 lety +20

      @@tritium1998 either way I would rather not have China being a world player because of its authoritarian regime and its crimes against humanity

    • @theZXDgames
      @theZXDgames Pƙed 3 lety +11

      @@tritium1998 I was hopping around the comment section to see what people thought of the video, and my, oh my, was I surprised to see you replying everything which daresay something bad about China or not predict it a flawless smooth-sailing future. So I decided to just look a thing or two on your channel, and yeah, your "woke" videos are all about how China is going to be great and how the Western system is "failing", some made by channels owned by the CCP.
      Tell me, are you being paid to say dumb shit or are you that stupid for free? I'm really curious on whether your replies lacking any real facts about your position are the result of actual wishful thinking or an actual payroll, as the Chinese are known for doing.

    • @igkslife
      @igkslife Pƙed 3 lety

      Go to horny jail.

  • @dcoulter2685
    @dcoulter2685 Pƙed 3 lety +100

    20:56 you didn’t have to call out the demographic who watches your channel

  • @nikhilwasnik5574
    @nikhilwasnik5574 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    Love from India, China.

    • @danieldjz
      @danieldjz Pƙed 3 lety

      China is the enemy and you know it.

  • @arthurschildgen5522
    @arthurschildgen5522 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    Water bout to fuck China up tho.

  • @CarsoN648
    @CarsoN648 Pƙed 3 lety +61

    More videos dedicated to possible futures for other countries would be pretty awesome. The United States (a video you’re probably already making), United Kingdom, Russia, the European Union (and specific countries in the EU), etc would all be great options.

    • @averyshaw2142
      @averyshaw2142 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Check out Peter Zeihan, he does tons of presentations on stuff like this, just type his name into youtube and some will come up. He has some really interesting theories and ideas, but can be a bit too alarmist sometimes

    • @hughmungus2760
      @hughmungus2760 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@averyshaw2142 Zeihan is amerian exceptionalism embodied, he totally ignores the same problems that plague america's rivals when it comes to dealing with the US itself.

  • @priyanks91
    @priyanks91 Pƙed 3 lety +91

    This is fantastic, it is so well made.
    As an Indian, I feel your assessment about India being the sole holdout being spot on. We're pretty insecure about Chinese economic influence and feel pretty negatively about them in general as compared to our neighbors. What doesn't help is an absolute absence of Chinese citizens from these platforms that doesn't help us to understand them better. I have zero idea of what an average Chinese mindset is, because of lack of conversations.
    On another note, your content and maps are fantastic, it really takes me 45 mins to get through a 25 min video of yours, to stop and loom at the maps & comments!
    I would love to get my hands on your merch but it's extremely expensive getting it here, shipping wise.

    • @baskapat5239
      @baskapat5239 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      You just need to plant a flag on Mars before China.

    • @patrickgreen8023
      @patrickgreen8023 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      No big deal about CN economic influence. It will collapse in one decade.

    • @doomslayer4276
      @doomslayer4276 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @@patrickgreen8023yes indeed its going to collapse today according to experts predicted before a decade lol

    • @yoghurt888
      @yoghurt888 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@doomslayer4276
      @Пётр ĐšĐ°Đ»ĐžŃŃ‚Ń€Đ°Ń‚ĐŸĐČ ć“ˆć“ˆć“ˆ çŹ‘æ­» æˆ‘ćœš2008ćčŽć°±çœ‹ćˆ°China collapseçš„äž€çł»ćˆ—æ–‡ç« äș†ă€‚ä»Šć€©èż™æ ·çš„æ–‡ç« æČĄæœ‰äș†ïŒŒæ›Žć€šæ˜Żć…łäșŽäž­ć›œćšèƒçš„æ–‡ç« ă€‚ 10 years ago( i was taking the ToEFL test then, the articles in the Economist and other medias had lot of articles on China will Collapse within 5 years. However, today, articles on China Collapse just become less and less ,and articles on "threats from China" emerges as the mainstream. In my view,Chinese people usually do not care about international political issues and viewpoints from various channels of anti-China youtube. The reason, i guess, is the heavy mortgage on us. in Tier 1 Cities, the entrance price for an apartment of 100 square meters is 1M USD. in Tier 2 Cities, the entrance price for an apartment of 100 square meters is 0.3M USD. And usually, people in China is always industrious, so many of us have at least 2 apartments. Chinese people do not worship God, we just worship MONEY. make more money, use our every precious second. then you know, we just want to pay the mortgage. the consequence, for example the economy is just the result we did not expect. i admire the mild life in western countries, However, the world is even.

    • @zijun01
      @zijun01 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @Priyank. You can consider watching videos featuring Kishore Mahbubani. He can offer a lot of insights on the Chinese mindset, and as his parents are Hindus of Indian ancestry (before the partition), he can also relate it to the Indian mindset. He is a former Singaporean diplomat and used to be president of the United Nations Security Council.

  • @aakarshmaurya2265
    @aakarshmaurya2265 Pƙed 2 lety +4

    After seeing up so much chaos on Earth I am singing up SpaceX to settle me on Mars.
    Who is with me ?

  • @Asdf-wf6en
    @Asdf-wf6en Pƙed 3 lety +4

    when people talk about the trade deficit they always forget the dollar is the reserve currency. You have to send out capital to have the reserve currency because if we keep our dollars and sell stuff then nobody else will be using US dollars because they don't have any.

  • @craftthemoon
    @craftthemoon Pƙed 3 lety +62

    When the aging population is sus!!

  • @willsilent
    @willsilent Pƙed 3 lety +55

    "Life sucks and people need to believe in things to make it tolerable" *cries in nihilism*

    • @khoaluong9982
      @khoaluong9982 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      nihilists believed that nothing is more important than anything else

    • @nowdefunctchannel6874
      @nowdefunctchannel6874 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      Nihilism is stupid

    • @nowdefunctchannel6874
      @nowdefunctchannel6874 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @TJ lmao no he isnt

    • @nowdefunctchannel6874
      @nowdefunctchannel6874 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      @TJ his point was that atheist societies generally have a hard time avoiding nihilistic tyranny. And they do. America wasnt an atheist society, they were religious but knew theocracy was tyrannical

    • @nowdefunctchannel6874
      @nowdefunctchannel6874 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      @TJ i never said that religion made america the power it is today. I dont believe in God, or any deity, i am not religious. Stop putting words in my mouth

  • @ddandymann
    @ddandymann Pƙed 3 lety +2

    One important point on the belt and road initiative and it's economic potential is the difference in the scale that can be achieved transporting good on land vs by sea. The maximum capacity of a fully scaled freight train is approximately 12,000 tonnes, in comparison the maximum capacity of a fully loaded cargo ship can be well over 15,000 tonnes. Although this difference in capacity is not that dramatic the key difference is that from this point transport by sea can scale nearly indefinitely as there's a lot of room in the oceans and even maritime choke points can fit many vessels. On the other hand freight trains are limited by the simple fact that they have to fit on a railway. That being said it is theoretically possible for rail to match the scale achieved by shipping yet in order to do so it would require dozens of rail lines for each route which, when done on a continental scale, is something even China is not capable of.
    Besides this there is the issue that the markets that China is able to access by land are far poorer than the ones that they can access by sea and the majority of them have extremely low per-capita growth rates which is the key indicator of an emerging consumer market. This severely limits the potential of the belt and road initiative to remove Chinas reliance on western consumers for their goods.

  • @pullt
    @pullt Pƙed 3 lety +5

    21st century will be competidative, for sure

  • @jonathanvilario5402
    @jonathanvilario5402 Pƙed 3 lety +49

    I'm glad to see you branching out to geopolitics. Its really informative! You give a very nuanced perspective on things

  • @nbayoungboydagoat5376
    @nbayoungboydagoat5376 Pƙed 3 lety +246

    Lmao HK housing is more depressing than Chinese housing at least in China you will buy a big ass house but in HK most houses are as tiny as the size of a toilet

    • @bobmocarsky7943
      @bobmocarsky7943 Pƙed 3 lety +53

      Hong Kong, the First World City with Third World Housing

    • @hzmx727
      @hzmx727 Pƙed 3 lety +12

      Well if u don’t mind the building quality
      Well most Chinese in China will it called the tofu building

    • @lif3andthings763
      @lif3andthings763 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@bobmocarsky7943 What city doesn’t have that?

    • @calvyncraven1141
      @calvyncraven1141 Pƙed 3 lety +10

      @@lif3andthings763 no.. HK housing is the worst. Luxury housing starts at 400sq ft. Public housing is btw125& 250 sqft

    • @jakefastf
      @jakefastf Pƙed 3 lety +5

      IKR, people spend their whole lives working for a 4x4 feet slot. Really sad

  • @sanuku535
    @sanuku535 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    21:25
    Love this text.

  • @TerryB751
    @TerryB751 Pƙed 2 lety

    Good video with a lot of content. I had to stop and go back a number of times since the narration is so quick.

  • @FelipeJaquez
    @FelipeJaquez Pƙed 3 lety +58

    China is the candle that glows twice as bright, but burns twice as fast.

    • @Rudenbehr
      @Rudenbehr Pƙed 3 lety +14

      They've been burning bright for about 800 years now, must be a huge fucking candle they're burning lmao

    • @creativeopinion7609
      @creativeopinion7609 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      @@Rudenbehr I think you're overlooking the absolute shitshow that was the Qing Dynasty collapse during the 19th and early 20th centuries

    • @5hiranai
      @5hiranai Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@Rudenbehr China proper has only been united sporadically throughout history

    • @alfalafelstine1536
      @alfalafelstine1536 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@5hiranai 800 of the last 1000 years according to the video.

    • @5hiranai
      @5hiranai Pƙed 3 lety

      @Hernando Malinche no it wasn't lol, both after each unifying dynasty fell they were punctuated with periods of warlordism, one being as recent as the 20th century

  • @scrambledeggy
    @scrambledeggy Pƙed 3 lety +129

    I like how the birthrate is 1.69, I'm starting to wonder if that was intentional

    • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 Pƙed 3 lety +22

      Clearly they’re not doing enough 69 otherwise it would be higher and they wouldn’t have a birth rate problem at all😏

    • @praisethesun.praisedeussol6051
      @praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 no maybe they should do something different than only 69

    • @avix8987
      @avix8987 Pƙed 3 lety +28

      @@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 how tf u want to get preganant with 69

    • @vyktorehon5995
      @vyktorehon5995 Pƙed 3 lety

      nice

  • @gansini7798
    @gansini7798 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    Coming back 8 months later, this guy really looks like a prophet.

  • @jamestaylor8577
    @jamestaylor8577 Pƙed 2 lety

    I just found your channel, it's sick!. Very interesting vids

  • @donaghb7307
    @donaghb7307 Pƙed 3 lety +128

    Like the US, China is just too big and wealthy to ever not be a relevant power even if it doesn't become a superpower

    • @khangminhlo2886
      @khangminhlo2886 Pƙed 3 lety +28

      @@1j9hd97 I agree , the CCP is the most dangerous threat the world right now , they need to stop as soon as possible

    • @frangelo9733
      @frangelo9733 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@khangminhlo2886 he’s a bot bro

    • @curtiswong7280
      @curtiswong7280 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@khangminhlo2886 That's purely subjective. It can hardly control its own people, how do you expect it to become the next evil? Knowing the greys of the world can bring you far.

    • @grassyvillain9549
      @grassyvillain9549 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@frangelo9733 I don't think he is a bot

    • @frangelo9733
      @frangelo9733 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@grassyvillain9549 He has replied the exact same thing to EVERY single comment in this comment section. Check his account

  • @haha-ui3fp
    @haha-ui3fp Pƙed 3 lety +92

    6:55 "By 2040 the Chinese are projected to become a majority in far eastern Russia"
    Projected by whom? 2002 census found 35 000 Chinese in all of Russia and 2010 census found 29 000 Chinese. Khabarovsk region had the most Chinese ( 3898 out of 1343869 people ) and the biggest share in total population of the region (0.29%). The numbers for 2002 census in Khabarovsk region were 3815 people and 0.27% There is another census ongoing and the results ought to be available by next year.
    Based on personal experience I'd say the share of each nationality doesn't change much and what changes do happen are driven mostly by the migration from Far East to warmer and richer European parts of Russia or by migrant workers from Central Asia.

    • @v.suarez8383
      @v.suarez8383 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      You're right 👍👍👍

    • @oleunis7921
      @oleunis7921 Pƙed 3 lety +15

      he mean't that there are more 24 chinese to 4 russians in SIBERIA, not russia, china owns the southeast of siberia, that's what he was saying

    • @haha-ui3fp
      @haha-ui3fp Pƙed 3 lety +7

      @@oleunis7921 But he said "far eastern Russia" not Siberia. Besides Siberia in most definitions does not extend to the Pacific Ocean and is bordered by the Far Eastern region around the Baikal lake. That means the only border with China Siberia has is to the west of Mongolia and is less than 100km long and runs through the snowy peaks of Altay mountains. I've never heard anyone considering anything south of those mountains as part of Siberia, nor considering Mongolia or territories east of it as part of Siberia given how different they are from Siberian boreal forest.
      But even if you somehow extend the definition naming parts of China - Siberia and say there's a lot of Chinese in China's Siberia, it's still hardly a reason for concern in Russia. Only if they somehow cross the border into Russia can they do anything to Russia and for now Moscow is still very much in control of its territories and borders. And there is no ongoing trend to change that.

    • @johnl.7754
      @johnl.7754 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      But nuclear weapons changes the rules of being able to conquer land with large force.

    • @RainlineX
      @RainlineX Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Russia will fuck China

  • @roanlancephil9915
    @roanlancephil9915 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    I've found a possible problem that you might have overlooked. Chinese people had migrated all over the world. Although they might not completely like the CCP, if push comes to shove, these people will likely side with the mainland.
    Just in my country alone ---- the Philippines, a large part of the top entrepreneurs/billionaires come from mainland China. They had migrated during the 20th century and dominated the business sector because of their cohesive social circles.
    The problem is that even though generations had passed, these Chinese families don't want to integrate with local people. Most of them either go back to mainland China or establishes half their foot there.
    And I don't think the Philippines is the only case, most of southeast Asia has a deep-rooted Chinese population that doesn't want to integrate with the local people.
    If these Chinese migrants were just regular people, they might not be a major problem, but the thing is... they hold immense financial and political power.

    • @thisismyusername7282
      @thisismyusername7282 Pƙed 2 lety

      In military terms: Indeed this would cause major issues in weaker countries, but in countries with large military powers, such as the US, any Chinese insurrection within its territory would be squashed. The US and other western countries probably would distribute foreign aid in smaller countries as well.
      In economic terms: if the Chinese do become the wealthy majority in a foreign country, the natives will most likely start boycotting Chinese owned businesses, forcing them out of the market in favor of more local businesses.

    • @roanlancephil9915
      @roanlancephil9915 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@thisismyusername7282 I'm pertaining to the ability of the wealthy Chinese migrants to assert soft power.
      Even now, when there hasn't been any outright military clash from both sides, these Chinese billionaires are already influencing their respective spheres. The CCP has even used these Chinese migrants to insert their spies deep within US and western institutions.
      If ever a confrontation were to happen, these powerful Chinese migrants could hamper military mobilization or even sabotage it.
      And once the US and western countries were to try to root out their local Chinese subjects, then that would be akin to the nazis attacking all jews.
      You might have underestimated the cohesiveness of these Chinese migrants. Even if they detest another Chinese, they will still be in solidarity if their collective "face" is tarnished.

    • @roanlancephil9915
      @roanlancephil9915 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@thisismyusername7282 the natives do not boycot the Chinese owned businesses. Look at my country, Jollibee and other F&B company giants are owned by chinese migrant. Yet, the native are patronizing these chinese owned F&B companies.
      And that is not an isolated case, the retail industry has also been hijacked by Chinese people. A few example of these are SM, Shopee, Lazada, and BDO, China Bank, and a slew of small Chinese merchants selling Chinese-made products by the roadside.

  • @FATHOLLYWOODB123
    @FATHOLLYWOODB123 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Where can I find the interactive map used at 25:18, it can be really helpful! Please if anyone knows, I cant find it!!!!

  • @Lado909
    @Lado909 Pƙed 3 lety +174

    I’ve always wondered if Chinese officials watch videos like these and say “ alright write all this down it might be useful”

    • @hongchengdu889
      @hongchengdu889 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      we don't care about what others say . thank you

    • @pababoyM2
      @pababoyM2 Pƙed 3 lety +63

      @@hongchengdu889 Then why'd you comment? LMAO

    • @bigboineptune9567
      @bigboineptune9567 Pƙed 3 lety +38

      @@hongchengdu889 How is it on the other side of the firewall?

    • @bennygoodmanisgod
      @bennygoodmanisgod Pƙed 3 lety +27

      @@hongchengdu889 we have a Chinese spy here

    • @DarkTheFailure
      @DarkTheFailure Pƙed 3 lety +9

      They know this already most likely

  • @hardheadjarhead
    @hardheadjarhead Pƙed 2 lety +2

    Imperial Japan believed the emperor to be a god, and their reluctance to surrender surrounded their concern for what happened to him. It wasn’t an atheistic tyranny. It’s arguable whether Nazi Germany was, as they played the religious angle.

  • @yuqizhao6508
    @yuqizhao6508 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    Just because China is building Dam on rivers that runs to India doesn't mean that China is controlling the water supply of India. Those streams are gaining most of its water from inside India not in China. Although it sounds horrifying that one day china may flood India's river side cities into wasteland, it is simply imposible because the propotion of water that China can control is highly limited.

    • @TheSimLord
      @TheSimLord Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Yeah, lots of India's water comes from underground sources. India is already facing a water crisis and this crisis is mostly caused by climate change and negative externalities of industries.

  • @jdputt8329
    @jdputt8329 Pƙed 3 lety +35

    This geopolitics videos are great, I’d love to see more of this

  • @Sharkman0625
    @Sharkman0625 Pƙed 3 lety +87

    I don’t think China will over take the us as the super power at least not for a long time. Mostly because of geography and natural resources they also have an aging population which isn’t good. Unlike America they don’t sit on both oceans so they need larger oil reserves which they don’t have the capability for right now and by definition they would have to be able to exert influence anywhere in the world to be a superpower

    • @theebs1
      @theebs1 Pƙed 3 lety +16

      Right. China's population is rapidly aging, and China NEEDS to develop quickly before this demographic crisis gets out of hand. Poor and old is not a good recipe for success and Russia is the perfect example!

    • @amrahmed7856
      @amrahmed7856 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      China's main objective is _regional_ hegemony, not world hegemony.

    • @fpsserbia6570
      @fpsserbia6570 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      it is hard to predict the future,
      "The world will run out of oil in 2030, and other fossil fuels in 2050."
      but it is odd to me that no one ever talks about Germany, i think they are going to slowly get their independence back and when they do.......... Germany already got most of the things prepared, almost whole Balkan is under German control, if they get their independence from USA and France there is nothing to stop them they will cut Europe in half without a bullet fired.
      and growing military powers in Asia is only playing in their favor because USA will have to deal with that and have less time to watch over Europe, Africa is slowly growing as well but very slow.
      i would like ti hear others people opinions on Germany

    • @55hondafit53
      @55hondafit53 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      The thing is the Chinese have the belt and road initiative, if that gets completed that means China would no longer need to rely on the sea for trade thus cutting out their dependency of a already U.S controlled ocean.

    • @constantinethecataphract5949
      @constantinethecataphract5949 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      >implying they'll give their boomers pentions instead of covertly killing them
      >implying they dont have secret artificial womb factories to shit out bug men worker drones for the Chinese empire
      >implying they wont annex resource rich siberia and central Asia

  • @patrickslevin6424
    @patrickslevin6424 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    Thank You..........so much about China I didn't know.

  • @jaredangell5017
    @jaredangell5017 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Hey man, do you have a video on Hawaii? If not can you make one? Your projections for it's future I mean. Also, you should do an April fool's video on the United Federation of Planets and how the Vulcan introduction to earth radically alters our history right after world war 3