16:25 "If you asked the Ukrainian people a month ago, they wouldn't have been prepared either." I'm not sure how true that is. Part of Russia's problem is that the lower intensity war started 8 years ago, so Ukraine has been militarizing and training (and fighting in actual war is a kind of training) since then, and they were concerned about Russia's military build-up on their border for about a year before the actual invasion, doing things like amassing lots of weapons from sympathetic countries. Thus, when added with some more specific things I've seen about Ukraine, I think they were about as ready for invasion as you could expect them to be. (I guess there are more extreme things they could have done, like building massive walls or premptively arming and/or evacuating everyone, and there certainly were plenty of people who, like me, were not expecting an invasion right up until it happened.)
You are very correct, some people have this incorrect notion that 2022 Ukraine was 2014 Ukraine, they have been at war with the Donbas region for 8 years, and a lot of their troops do have some experience, this the Russians underestimated Whereas Taiwan has NEVER had ANY form of organized military conflict on the island for few hundred years, the last time was in 1895.
@@obsidianstatue Technically the government on Taiwan has institutional memory of the Chinese civil war and the few times Taiwan and the mainland have traded artillery fire since then.
@@obsidianstatue I think her point is that you don't know how prepared you are until the bullets actually starts flying. I do agree that today's Ukraine is not the same Ukraine of 2014, but for the people drafted by the mass conscription right before the war I don't think they're prepared.
@Samuel Jackson Riiight also, Ukraine surrendered and Russia's victory is complete right dear comrade? Go peddle your Russian propaganda somewhere else.
A lot of people don't know, including most younger Taiwanese, that the constitution of both PRC (China) and ROC (Taiwan) claims sovereignty over the whole "China", that is why the relationship is so complicated and unique. From the ROC's constitution, there's the "Fallen Mainland" & "Free Taiwan" regions . From Beijing's pov, there's the unclaimed Taiwan province.
When ROC was founded, Taiwan was part of Japan. Even less people know that: ROC did not claim Taiwan before 1940s, ROC even had a consulate of China in Taipei during 1930s. How ironic…
@@bctvanw Taiwan was part of China in the Qing Dynasty. Japan took over Taiwan because Qing lose the the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. ROC is a Chinese government that overthrew the Qing government. So, when the ROC army defeat the Japanes invation of China in 1945, they took Taiwan back.
Taiwanese have to include the whole China in their constitution, not because they want to, but because they have to. Otherwise it would be seen as a declaration of independence by China and risk an invasion. Most Taiwanese don't really care about China aka Chinese mainland.
Along similar lines, there are Chinese government songs and literature that portray the ruling party as a greater existence than one's own Mother. What do you think about that?
When asked about an outright conflict between China and Taiwan that guy who answered, "I would be disappointed." really summed up my feeling about war. It's extremely disappointing that we haven't been able to figure out a better way of dealing with our conflict other than by using violence against one another. 😕 Worried for humanity.
The most worrying thing is the growing gap between the new generation of mainlanders and Taiwanese. Hatred on the Internet has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Cross-strait exchanges are becoming less and less. A new generation of Mainlanders and Taiwanese faces a future full of uncertainty as their friendly predecessors depart. I hope the future is not war.
From 1949 till 1990, Taiwan's top military goal was to strike back mainland China. Around those decades, both Nationalists and Communities were prepered to start the 2nd Chinese Civil War. So as a Chinese mainlander, I would say our predecessors had much more serious relationship between each other than right now. The only difference is who is the stronger brother.
@@saint_matthias Winner takes all, that is the rule. When will the US government give their land back to their natives? How many dynaties have changed in China?
thing is. ukraine is recognized as a country on all fronts, including russia. That includes on paper, diplomatic relationship with other countries, involvement in international organizations and its official status as a soviergh nation. I feel that Taiwan always had this european mentality that america is always coming to save them so nothing will go wrong. Have they ever thought what if that is not true? What if Americans votes in a more conservative leader and says im sorry, things changed and we have our own problems to deal with. or... nope, not gonna ignite ww3 or a nuclear fallout Remember there are no friends in politics, only mutual interest. The more Taiwanese drill these words in, the better the outlook for them if war ever breaks out
This is so true. Plus, Taiwan is a bait for the US, whether china is going to take the bait is up to the politicians… every decision for the US is made based on its own benefit regardless of what kind of peril it brings to Taiwan or China.
Interestingly enough, conservatives have been more outwardly supportive of Taiwan than liberals. The anti-China help them really align well with Taiwan.
Or you know... Russia.. in Afghanistan, Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine little green men, Ukraine ‘22. I don’t see where people see the rivalry between the USA and Russia, as the rivalry between global bully and a global dove (USA and Russia respectively). Every superpower has had significant wars *post WWii*... with the exception of China who has fought defensively for N.Vietnam and N.Korea, and offensively *only once*, during a campaign against Vietnam in 1979. Granted, your point stands. Basically every generation of USA’s professionally enlisted forces have had someplace they’ve been deployed.
@@smillman437 I’m not dismissing any of that. I just find it astonishing that there’s so much hypocrisy going around. When the US invades and destroys sovereign countries its noble. When Russia does it its terror. Makes zero sense. Not to mention this is pretty much the new Cuban Missile Crisis just in Ukraine and on Russia’s side this time. Consistency is essential to be taken seriously
"If you visit the Mainland and bump into someone named Chen, and your name is Chen, can you tell if you're a Taiwanese Chen and he's a Mainland Chen? Impossible." What this guy said hits hard. My father, also surnamed Chen, came from mainland in 1973 when he was 8 years old. His cousins, uncles, aunties are all still in mainland. When we visit, it feels like home. It does not feel like there is any difference between us. Though many of my friends who are from 2nd and 3rd generation above do not feel anything to mainland, for us we are like one people and one country. I think many people of Russia-Ukraine may have similar circumstances like us considering their history. It must have been very hurtful being attacked by someone like your own people.
Most Taiwanese’s ancestors immigrated out of China more than 100 years ago. They have no relatives in China anymore. Some even married aboriginals such as Taiwanese president Tsai’s grandfather. The old guy in cap is the second generation of Chinese Mainlanders-Waishenren. His situation is more like yours. A lot of Chinese thought Taiwan’s population were mostly those kinds of people, but not true… Taiwan is like a mini Canada or USA rather than Mini China.
Chinese culture only? Guess what “Chen” is one of the most common surname in many regions in Asia. In Korea, it is pronounced as 진(Jin/Chin). In Vietnam, it is Trần. In China, it’s written as 陈. In Taiwan, it’s 陳. Other variations of the same surname are Tan, Chan, Hartanto… In China, overall, Chen is ranked the 5th most common. While in Vietnam, it is ranked the second overall. Btw. Because of the old KMT’s policies, Taiwanese aboriginals had to adopt Chinese names after 1945. Of course some Taiwanese aboriginals adopted Chen as their last names. Are they related to any people in China? They are even not related to other ethnic Chinese Chen family in Taiwan. In the video, that old guy’s story is true, but it applies to his family only.
@@limk8994 Is your last name Lim? Lim is another most common name in Asia. From China to Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and many Southeast Asian have this last name. It is ranked the 10th most common in Korea. Lim=Lin=Lam=Rin I guess you have a lot of brothers and sisters in Korea too.
Personally I dont think the Ukraine-Russia conflict is a good comparison to the Taiwan Issue, since both Ukraine and Russia are sovereign states recognised by the UN (as well as the vast majority of its members), while the Republic of China (or Taiwan if you’d prefer) is unresolved Chinese civil war, where both governments (PRC and ROC)claims to be the legal government of China (the region including the mainland and the island of Taiwan), and, as of now, the PRC is more internationally recognised.
Actually it's a very good comparison if you really know the context since 1991 like I do (my country, Belarus, is Russia's unwilling ally in this horror). It doesn't matter if Ukraine is recognized as a sovereign state by the UN, it only matters if Russia recognizes it as a sovereign state which unfortunately it doesn't, just as for Taiwan it really matters what China thinks of Taiwan and not what the rest of the world thinks of them bc it's China their only threat not the world. What the world around thinks about Ukraine is of no importance to Russia and short of nuclear bombing some sense into Russia there's nothing the world can really do. The comparison is actually incredibly apt. Russians consider Ukrainians ethnically as Russians who invented a new identity out of the blue and were let astray by the west, same as what Chinese think of Taiwanese. Just as they consider Belarusians part of the Russian world, too.
@@sir_humpy I’m no expert in Belarusian or Ukrainian history, but according to what you just said, you think that Belarus and Ukrainian are separate cultures and peoples to Russians, which I will not comment on since I don’t know much. However, the vast majority of citizens of ROC (or Taiwan), are descendants of Chinese mainland citizens who fled to the island of Taiwan with the KMT government, with the ultimate goal of one day reoccupying mainland China (which obviously failed). Therefore, unwilling to admit to its own failure, the ROC government would not forfeit the civil war, which gave the opportunities for separatists (i.e. the DPP) on Taiwan in developing a “Taiwanese” identity that is not Chinese, hence the current situation Taiwan. If the ROC recognised its failure in the civil war and just forfeited, there would be no such issue.
@@sir_humpy personally I think a more accurate comparison would be, in the American civil war, if the south didn’t just surrendered, but fled to Hawaii instead, and called themselves the legal government of the United States of America, with the goal of one day reoccupying the rest of the U.S. After failing to do so they decided that they’re not just gonna forfeit but call themselves Replublic of Hawaii, claiming Hawaii is a independent nation, but not part of the U.S.
@@johntitor8294, as far as I see it, rather cynically I admit, it doesn't really matter what the weaker defending side thinks of itself (Ukraine or Taiwan), it doesn't matter if they have or haven't developped a separate culture because the ball is not in their hands, they cannot act, they can only react. What matters is what motivates the stronger aggression-prone side to start aggression, what justifications the aggressor will use to sell the necessity and the righteousness of the impending conflict to its own people to support the war and here we find that Russian and Chinese narratives are a carbon copy of each other and both russian and chinese populations are already very much sold on that and the Chinese are obviously watching very closely how the world reacts to something similar to what they've had in their military plans since forever.
@@euphyyu2417 So angry. Go watch the episode of "What Do the Chinese Think of Russia? | Street Interview" in this channel. No every single person reads news that much, but you can clearly see the difference between average Taiwanese live in "rich information" and average Chinese live in "censorship".
All of the people evaded a fundamental difference: Ukraine is a recognised sovereign state while a majority of the 190 some countries acknowledge Taiwan is part of China. That really makes the whole thing more complicated and sensitive.
@@bohu1267 Suez crisis you mean the following? The Suez Crisis was the result of the American and British decision not to finance Egypt's construction of the Aswan High Dam, in response to Egypt's growing ties with communist Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. If you read the Northatlantic Treaty you will understand that helping Egypt is against the very reason why NATO exists. Egypt is not stable even today, took them 3yeats to sign the EEZ border lines between Greece, Libya, Cyprus, Israel, de facto ignoring Erdogan.
The girl interviewed: Wars are a thing of the past. Me: In the last 2 years there`s been more than 50 armed conflicts. +10 just right now, Some with casualities in the 100k.
@@PuffySofty How true. But u cant really blame them. Its the news that are fed to them and the news they choose to listen/watch and believe. The gov plays an important roles to make sure their citizen are well inform by both side of the story but its politic. You cant show your own ppl the bad side of their believe.
1:47 where the response translated as "I feel that having a war nowadays is really stressful" is incorrect. What she really said is "I feel that having a war nowadays is really a shock to me(訝異)"
Re; Chinese citizens not believing China will invade Taiwan I do believe they genuinely believe this. I have made many Chinese friends who all consider Taiwanese their brothers and sisters, and are extremely friendly and show nothing but love for them. I do, however, share the Taiwanese belief that a war in the region is highly possible. At the end of the day, the interests of the government does not always align with the interest of the people, that's true regardless of if you're in China, the US, or many other places. A war between the two countries will be nothing but a disappointment not just to Taiwanese citizens, but also to those of China.
Russia also said Ukrainians are their brothers and sisters...... Look what happened next. Like i said before. Be pragmatic and realistic. In real life, even your own blood family may betray you much less than someone unrelated.
It’s inevitable. As Taiwan grows, China will continue to attempt to reassert their authority over Taiwan until an invasion occurs. China is just waiting for the right moment to strike. Just because it isn’t obvious, doesn’t mean it’s not being planned.
You are right, at least from my end. I don’t want either side of people get hurt, Taiwan people not only speak Mandarin but also speak the same dialect Minnanese in my region (South of Fujian Province)
thanks to good old US of A and USSR who made some of these possible, East and West Germany, China and Taiwan, North and South Korea. well, at least East and West Germany is now reunified.
3 years before, I don’t want to war with Taiwan, I have a very close friend since kid time. 3 years later: nuke them. He and his family are all in the mainland now. Couldn’t care less
"USA is like a mom, caring for it's child." 🤯🤯 Jesus!! If she only knew about Nord Stream 2, and what really pushed Ukraine Russia war to start. Hell if she knew the "hand" behind ANY of the Middle Eastern wars or South American wars. I'm honestly LMAO in sadness and disbelief!!!
now we need russian perspectives IN russia, why i capitalize the IN because there is interview they make about russian people but not in the russia country itself
We should unify and attack the serpent which is America who installed a puppet taiwanese ministers. We will die and destroy America if they want to play with family matter. We’ll take down everyone who stands in the way
I’m from Ukraine 🇺🇦, to make it short, you shouldn’t count on your similarities, or that you share the same language. We had pretty same opinion about Russia and that war will never happen, so the best way to avoid war is to be prepared to it…
There is a great book I read written by an American elitist politician in 1996. It’s called the Grand Chessboard. It talked abt geographic politics and actually pointed out how important Ukraine is to Russia. It said if war happens, US and Europe need to try their best to stop Russia taking over Ukraine for the best interest of them. Nothing to do with so called "humanity". You can google it and I feel it’s worth reading.
@@vliushaFrom what I heard in this video, the Taiwanese do not understand this conflict; russians started this war because they hate Ukrainians and want to kill us, anti-Ukrainian sentiments have always been widespread in russia, Ukraine has long been the main topic of discussion on russian TV, when the average russian comes home, he turns on the TV and listens about how Ukrainians are non-humans and we need to be killed, they are obsessed with Ukraine; The notion that russia attacked Ukraine because of the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO is complete nonsense, Finland recently joined NATO, and russia did nothing
It’s a totally different situation here. Taiwan is not a member of the UN and almost all UN members recognize it as part of China at least formally. There will be no legal basis to intervene if a war breaks out since technically it will be a Chinese civil war. The military imbalance here is even greater. Russia is a failing power that struggles to finance its military. China is the largest economy in the world if you consider price levels. The ROC military is a laughing stock of Asia. The “strawberry soldiers” can’t even hold a gun. Bottom line, China can take Taiwan anytime it wants but they don’t need to. Unlike Russia, they have time on their side.
An amphibious landing is much harder than a land one so there is that. And despite the USs growing isolationism I do believe they and Japan probably will support Taiwan. Also look at how much the sanctions are hurting Russia which is a commodities exporter. If the same sanctions where leveled against china an commodities importer it would be much worse, with potentially millions of Chinese facing starvation.
First, the government is fully capable of reunifying Taiwan. Even the Taiwanese themselves admit this. Secondly, China has every reason and necessity to reunify, which is the only way for China to develop. Third, as young People in Taiwan are less and less willing to reunify, the chances of peaceful reunification are less and less likely, and the Chinese are more and more willing to reunify by force (everyone I know thinks that will eventually be done by force). So, I just hope that when the time comes, the Taiwanese government will be smart enough to minimize casualties. I believe this will be done by 2035.
go, go Taiwan. go, go KMT !!!! The Kuomintang (KMT) or the Chinese Nationalist Party of Taiwan. KMT is trying to cool things down by dialogue. very refreshing. the China and Taiwan Cross Straight relationship will improve from the present DPP's worst time, worst troublemaker, with so many threats and warnings, to peaceful dialogue that brings forward PEACE and prosperity to Taiwan. One Country, Two Systems is crucial to taiwan's long-term stability and prosperity. One Country, Two Systems is the biggest respect for Taiwan…
1:45 "I feel that having a war nowadays is really surprising. This is a more civilzed era. War seems like a thing of the past." This lady is not even aware that NATO countries initiated one war after another and kill millions civilians all over the world. Then this lady said 9:47 "I think Taiwanese enjoy rich info, and high freedom of expression"...........
This gentle and kind-hearted woman is saying what she believes. War is uncivilised and inhumane, all the more so if clearly unnecessary. She also says it’s a nightmare. Many in China agree with her. That there are still such large scale destructive wars is abhorrent wherever they are. Please understand this and quit being vengeful and trying to continue nonexistent vendettas like creepy gangsters. Taiwan citizens and others did so much for their cousins in Mainland China, as it was known then, in recent decades to lift them out of poverty. I feel very sorry for this girl who speaks from the heart and wants peace for her home. She is absolutely civilised and pleads to be understood. These interviews are excellent and informative for Taiwanese and others. They clearly caused stress but the interviewees did their best to give genuine, honest answers, and can all be congratulated. Peace and forgiveness, wherever, please!
@@paulgrieve7031 I don’t mean to condemn this lady. Her situation is very typical in taiwan. My point is that her opinion shows how taiwan “free media” works. People are fed on one side information and propaganda. Then they form opinions and make judgments based on selective facts, which make them easy to be manipulated.
10:30 The thing is Russia and Ukraine are also supposedly "brother nations" that share history, culture, and in some places, language. Sometimes the most vicious fighting comes between countries and cultures that are similar or identical.
@@caocao4266 Is acknowledgment by outsiders the only definition of independence wumao? If a place like Taiwan has it’s own area of land it controls, it’s own currency, military, separate political and economic system, and a population that largely identifies with belongings to said place it definitely is a de facto country even if other countries don’t recognize it as such because of the CCP’s bullying.
@@seanbinkley7363 The acknowledgement from other countries hold a deep meaning to one country status on the world stage organizations. I am not on anyone side on this topic. US is influential country, why dont they and their allies not support Taiwan to be a country in legal way and lift up their status? I almost forget they are the one who make the decision Taiwan is not a country in the first place.
ikr? I am taiwanese and I can sense how clueless the Taiwanese are about international affairs. HK incident was entirely china's domestic affair and they never had any form of independence! They got no military and a self-sustainable economy. Getting independence is merely a daydream for HK people.
Sure, per paper britain ended its rule over hong kong. But the people of Hong Kong wanted to stay independent of the central government in China. Now a lot of their rights of self-expressions are stripped. Dozen of thousands moved away. And dozen of thousands continue to protest. What a nice reunification. Everybody is happy :)
Hong Kong was unfortunately "returned" to a China that never owned Hong Kong in the first place. It should have remained with the UK, left independent, or joined Taiwan. China has clearly broken the treaty about the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland China. In my eyes, it gives Hong Kong the right to leave.
@@ratchetjoker1317 Lol. It doesn't matter if people in Hong Kong wants to stay independent. That piece of land belongs to China since the very beginning. That city prospered by tapping into China's market. Even their electricity and water come from China. People like you would think they can survive if China shuts them out. What a joker.
@@peterfireflylund Sure, then it is within China's right to embargo that city, void them of electricity, water and common necessities. Let's see who will come begging.
The lesson for Taiwan is don’t let someone use you as cannon fodder to advance their foreign policy. They supply you with enough arms so you’ll fight to the last Taiwanese like the last Ukrainian but won’t ever get their own hands dirty.
You must know that being in military, it means you are pawn.. being sent to frontline is what you can expect being a professional soldier No crying and criticizing about your deployment, or foreign policy.. You are a soldier.. stop blaming Politicians and the elites of Government If you dont want to be a cannon fodder, just quit being a soldier
@@dmitchel0820 it’s a war that you can’t win either way. Even if Taiwan fights it will lose and that’s the point I’m making. whether you fight our not if your outcome is the same, why would you let yourself be use to advance someone else’s agenda. If Americans support Taiwan the main purpose is not independence, it’s to bleed China using Taiwanese lives. It’s realpolitik, people should understand it before offering their lives.
14:53 "I feel that Japan would help us", what a naive gal...... These Taiwanese young people need to understand a key point in geopolitics: "Every country only cares about their own core interests", Taiwan is China's core interest, not Japan's core interest. 15:18 "And the US is kind of like a mom who protects her child" C'mon Miss, you're NOT her children, you're her pawns......I found that young Taiwanese often try to naively use simple interpersonal relationships to understand the international political situation, which is dangerous.
Interviewer asks question assuming China and Russia are allies. But didn't point out China and Ukraine is as close as China is to Russia and China immediately called Putin on the second day to urge for negotiations
Its just a facade. British scientist just found out evidences that China started the cyberattack on Ukraine, which led to more conflict from Russia. All of the "negotiations" are just meetings without any purpose for the sake to slow down the crisis in Russia.
China-Ukraine are by far not as close as China-Russia. It turns out, rather the contrary. There is no will of China to help Ukraine, but to help Russia. And what China says and what China does are two very different things.
@@dwa_3507 well, China has been aiding Ukraine with humanitarian supplies and urging Russia to go to the negotiations table. But your western media kept trying to tell you China might supply Russia with arms, China might help Russia with cyber warfare ... Whereas US is the one pushing Ukraine to war and giving them weapons to drag the war and let civilians die.
@@dwa_3507 China isn't up to help anyone tbh. They just wait staying neutral to be on the side of winners. Their gov doesn't care about people nor to help Russia, as Russia always was China's muppet. They just don't want to lose any money or go into economic crisis because of war. They are neutral because Russia is rich in natural resources, so they don't want to lose this relationship. But on the other hand, they don't want to worsen the relationship with Europe because they also hope to get into european market. For them, like for the most asian countries (i think Japan is the only one who isn't like that) they only calculate risks, not really making any action, to not lose anything.
Summary and observation from the interview: 1) Taiwanese: We know why russia attacks ukraine, the US and the west is partially the cause and forces russia to attack Ukraine. Also Taiwanese: I think the US will help Taiwan if China attacks. Me: Yes, the US will help taiwan fight China to the last taiwanese just like how the US help ukraine to fight russia to the last ukrainian. 2) Chinese thinks and treats taiwanese like their own kin (according to the interviewer), taiwanese treats chinese from the mainland like stranger at best and hostile enemy at worst (according to the younger generation interviewee). The older generation still have a sense of Chinese identity. Young Taiwanese do not support reunification. Cultural and economic exchange is useless while propaganda and regionalism are having the main influence. 3) Taiwanese thinks that war between mainland and taiwan is always a possibility, but it is very unlikely in the near future despite the ukraine war, but still clueless and guessing about the real reason there is still peace across the strait despite acknowledging that China can take Taiwan easily. 4) Many (not all) taiwanese thinks that the world = the west+ american vassal states. They claim that russia is against the world when clearly the majority of countries does not sanction russia. I would like to stress the effectiveness of american propaganda in spreading the religion of neo liberalism using the word "democracy" and "freedom" like the ten commandment.
I like your notes. As a Ukrainian, I will mention if you ask older and younger generations if we feel like we are part of Russia or that we are Russians, believe me, you won’t find more than 3% of people who would say “yes”.
Everyone loses in sanctions wars. You’ll notice it by the increase cost of living in the country where you live. Everyone gets affected. Nowadays countries are so very interconnected.
ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's government and vision of China is ROC not PRC.
@@John-hp2hg The winners are the 100+ countries outside of the US/NATO/EU that did not join the sanctions and can now increase their trade with Russia.
This was a great street interview on Taiwanese perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war. Just so many points on both sides of using the current global situation to relate it back to China-Taiwan tension.
@@saint_matthias no one is orginal or copy if you fight civil war and lose .....winner will get all loser nothing thats how it works Roc government loss the battle so they got nothing PRC won the battle they won the government power they are ruleinh ...history has been sayinv winner gets everything loser nothing example veto power winner of ww2
The initiative and general concept of this series of street interviews is great. BUT, that's a big but, the fact you are translating parts of the conversations INACCURATELY and even WRONGLY (for example, translating "軍工" (military industry) to "metalworking") can DANGEROUSLY and SUBTLELY mislead audiences and viewers who may not be familiar with the background of the issue or be carefully interpreting the logic within the conversation, and can cause harmful confusion and misunderstanding. So, please please take multiple rounds of proofreading of your translated subtitles. Your brand advertise yourself as trying to help the world and especially the English-speaking people to understand better Asia and Asian people. It is VERY VERY important to NOT misguide people by wrong subtitles. Are you even aware you've been frequently making this mistake?
So glad you flagged that. 軍工 is military-industrial complex. Couldn't agree more re having multiple rounds of reviews with not only Mandarin and English speakers, but actually local bilingual speakers who can hear the difference in pronunciation.
They also subtitled "Ukraine and Taiwan don't want to ADMIT they are part of Russia and China". Despite she said they don't accept/recognize Russia and China (承認).
Always take everything off the internet with a grain of salt. But unfortunately we have too many gullible people thinking they’re the smartest in the world.
i am from Hong Kong and I believe a large proportion of general public in China is friendly. I also have Chinese friends that are nice and friendly. But don't forget "war or no war", it is the government's call, not the citizens.
The CPC has made its position clear. They do not want war. But they will also not accept Taiwan independence. Taiwanese people would be wise to keep the status quo. Which is also what 70% of them want to do.
It all come down to politics. The US first established an diplomatic relation with the Taiwanese ROC when they had control over China but later on decided to cut the tie and built new relationship PRC in which they recognize as the sole legal Government of China. It would be interest to see how the West and rest of world chooses this time.
@@saint_matthias ROC started out noble but after the founder died, it turned bad quickly, there were too much suffering, to the point where the majority of China decided to abandon that model and searched for 'something new'. They have founded that 'something new' in the PRC and China recovered from strength to strength since. The Christian faction within the KMT party took over the ROC and ran for many years. They did a good job kicking the Japanese out. Mr Mao could have easily taken Taiwan back but he decided not to. Overtime, the ROC became aimless and stuck in the past. The original old guards, the Hakka, were slowly driven out. This allowed the USA increase their influence and undermined the reunification. They intended to drag it out as long as possible. They wanted to use the Taiwan island as a proxy and as a foothold to fight China. USA already abandoned Taiwan in 1972 to establish normal relation with China. And USA still fully recognise the one China today in 2022. USA truly never care about Taiwan nor the Chinese living on the Taiwan island. It has always been about destroying China anyway it can If you truly believe ROC is the original Chinese political party, the one and only to rule China, that China belongs to Taiwan, then once your dream came true, you would end up with One China anyway. Realise this, whether ROC or PRC is in power, the USA was, is and will be your biggest enemy.
@@saint_matthias Yeah right, and the Qin dynasty emperor was the first to unify China so therefore all the rest are imposters After all even the country is called China, Qin=Chin, now go and restore the original government.
1:37 I wonder if this fellow is aware of 2014 annexation of Crimea. Russia and Ukraine have been unofficially in War for the last 8 years. So I wouldn't necessarily call it an impulse. This is mostly about leverage, and natural resources, in this case wheat, natural gas and oil. In addition to this, Ukraine closed the river leading into Crimea after it was annexed which caused huge agricultural problems and Russia was forced to import fresh water into Crimea. Which is justified and understandable considering Russia is the aggressor.
Yea, it's almost as if there is no reason for russians who have been treated poorly by ukrainian government to want freedom from it... HMMMM. Interesting point. Too bad it falls into water. Ukraine openly supports nationalist paramilitary groups for the last 20 years and tons of incidents over the years where russians in ukraine suffered just shows how much Ukraine doesn't care about minorities, when they are just that. "Kijev Rus" or kyiv russians is what ukrainians are by history... This is just blatant neonazism... Could Russians leave Ukraine? Sure. But why would they? It was part of soviet union and it still is homeland to many russians no matter how you look at it(unless you look from logically false viewpoint) Moscow office is not the sole courier of russian culture, homeland and traditions. For all it is, ukrainians, especially after euromaidan government came into being(the moment people stage coup d'etat they are not innocent bystanders and are as responsible as politicians/leaders) are to blame for the escalation of the conflict. And Zelensky just shows his retardation/stupidity from day to day. He didn't have Crimea before the "invasion" and refused to rework/restate Donbas region and their autonomy. He is going to get out of the "invasion" still without Crimea, all while losing Luhansk and Donbas AND millions of lives. It is not even a discussion anymore. He openly said on multiple occassions during negotiations how he didn't plan on making any kind of "peace"...
@@shaco2731 If you don't like the Ukrainian government, vote don't try to put pro-russian puppets into government by force. Also you can just go to Russia if that government treats you better :DD Kremlin Bot or just washed?
I wish there was a media source that can dive deeper into internal political and economic issues in taiwan and introduce them to the world. All we talk about is the relationship between china and taiwan, no one outside taiwan (maybe inside as well) knows what really has been happening in taiwan these few decades.
Let's wait and see how many Ukraine refugee will be accepted by NATO，becase them alway stand with Ukraine , so sad for the Ukraine ； 国小而不处卑,力少而不畏强,无礼而侮大邻
We certainly know more of the inside of Taiwan than the inside of China. Taiwan is a relatively very open country compared to China. You can do your own reporting or investigation on almost anything there. Try that in China.
As a person whose country (Belarus) is forced by Russia to be part of this conflict, I have to say that it's very reductive and dangerous to assume that it was Ukraine's NATO ambitions that has caused this. NATO issue is not the key here, it's just the straw that broke the camel's back. The actual reason should be much more worrying for the Taiwanese because it's the widespread conviction in Russia from Putin to a good 60-70% of Russians that Ukraine as an artificial state without sovereignty and Ukrainians are ethnically Russians just misled by the West. The real culprit is this _"Russian world"_ concept that has developped in Russia since the break up of the Soviet Union and which posits that Ukrainian and Belarusian people/nations should be brought back and united willingly or by force to Russia for their own good of course and it is Russia's duty to help the little brothers led astray by western powers. Does this ideology seem familiar to the taiwanese?
This is a correct statement in my view. Ukraine was never going to join NATO (at least in short/mid term) because it has to be accepted by all members, so practically it's impossible. It's more about they not wanting Ukraine to be part of the western world in general.
Yes, that answer by one of the interviewees was misleading. If Ukraine is really sovereign and Russia respects that, then Russia should respect Ukraine's choice to try to join the EU or NATO. But of course Russia doesn't respect that as a choice and sees only threats. Ultimately it should be up to the Ukrainian people whether they want to join NATO/EU/Russian-bloc. Russia should make their argument to Ukrainians in a civilized manner and see who they choose.....(too late for that!)
@@user-sl6tv9vc3u yes, but it’s not something you invade someone about. International politics is pragmatic and they know Ukraine will never be accepted.
About time, people really need to understand the actual comments and also the historical context around Ukraine and also the comments many of the Russian elite over the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. NATO is just a scape goat argument with barely any evidence to support it, yet we have real records and actions of Russia to see the problem. As soon as an previously USSR memberstate can get energy independence or undercut the control Russia can exert with it's raw resources all of a sudden you have "seperates" and "Russians". Is the same as the US with them picking a minority faction in a country. And china has developed its own technique in Africa too. The big three always meddle
The only reason for this is fear of retaliation by China, but many states already deal with Taiwan as a de facto independent state, its people want self-determination from China, business deals for semiconductors and manufacturing are done with Taiwan specifically, etc.
Some random thoughts come to mind - Ironic to hear that the interviewees were hoping US or Japan, countries that invaded China in the late 1800s and early 1900s, would help Taiwan to fight Mainland China. Generations of Chinese people struggled decades to finally fight off off the invaders and gained independence. The separation today is really caused by civil war and should have stayed as a domestic matter. Who would have thought the former invaders would be considered as allies and the motherland would be considered as enemy some decades later. Have to admit, we might be too separated to ever be united.
Everytime I see interviews like this, I cringe. At this point, I think that the older generations are far milder than us younger generation, who are seeing the hate and slander coming from the younger Taiwan people.
Nothing ironic about it. This is how world works. there isn't an eternal enemies just like there isn't an eternal friend. China was invaded by Russia and concede territory on outer Manchuria (Treaty of Aigun, Convention of Peking) but now consider Russia as China most reliable partner. US and UK has waged a war for US independence. The world evolved and right now it's more a fight of ideology (Democracy vs. Authoritarianism). And it's not a domestic matter as 2 sides has been separated far too long and have pretty oppose ideology and value. Only partial culture are shared now. (e.g. Russia originate from Ukraine but the separation lead to own identity and became 2 distinct country)
@@vilester Older generations were also brainwashed, except it was the KMT's military government brainwashing people and killing Taiwanese intellectuals.
I’m mainland Chinese ，and I don’t want Taiwan to be reunified for now。It will only cause problems if we do so，let’s focus our own development ，after ten or twenty years ，we’ll see what happens 。
The mother at the end alluded to how if you'd asked Ukrainians if they were capable of standing up and fighting, there may have been doubt whereas now the everyday Ukrainians and taking none of this lying down. I think she was hinting that Taiwanese people likewise wouldn't know what they were capable of until they were up against such a situation. Cheers
@@andrewcutler1380 I mean… 1.6 billion people vs 23 million people. Even if Taiwan draft and arm every adult men it’s a lost cause. The only possible deterrence would have been nuclear weapons a la North Korea, which Taiwan was close to developing in the 80s until a whistle blower told the US, who then forced a shut down of the program.
@@M0ebius the US penetrated the programme by placing a CIA spy in the Taiwan’s scientific department, which forced the Taiwan government to give up the materials for the nuclear weapons development due to the subsequent US interference The spy escaped Taiwan since then and now still lives in the US
@@JohnWick-cz3ph At that time, US valued their 'new relation' with China more because they would like to use it to encircle and press Soviet Union in the international stage.
I only learned recently after reading a biography of Chiang KaiShek and the Chinese Civil War, that actually China before 1949 could have been divided at the Yangtze River (so North Communist China and South Nationalists China) but Mao refused to listen to Stalin's recommendation to divide China, and the fact Chiang was unwilling to give into peace conditions with the communists. Taiwan was the only remaining solution as the nationalist lost region and city after the other. Interestingly enough, because China came under rule by the communists, this provided the catalyst to not repeat the fall of China to Soviet influence and for the American domino theory that would be the basis for Korean and Vietnam wars.
Taiwan was part of Japan with 6 million people living on it before CKS took over the island shipped by the 7th fleet. CKS is part of Taiwan’s history, but it will be misleading to learn about Taiwan only through CKS.
@@bctvanw But befor Japan looted taiwan, Which country did taiwan belong to? China.（Qing dynasty claimed itself as China) Who are those 6 million ppl? Are they Yamato?No, 90%+ are Han Chinese who were enslaved and exploited by Japanese.
@@lawrencezhang3050 Qing only conquered half of the island. Qing’s rulers are the Manchus. Were Taiwanese the Manchus by your logic? How about before Qing? Taiwan had Koxinga, Spanish, and the Dutch colonies. Before that ? Austronesian people. Taiwan has its own uniqueness. Stop Sinocentric way of thinking all the time.
The lady in fan clothes thinks that war is an ancient thing. Why is the war in Ukraine so concerned, while the wars in the Middle East and Africa happen every day, but they are ignored?
My favorite part is that they watch different yt news channels but no one even questioned why all Russian news channels were banned long time ago by yt
@@markchiu1716 just to be clear im not trying to be rude mate but if someone says with serious face that he/she is observing whole situation of the conflict i expect them to watch the news from both of the sides , not from one. If it’s from one side then it’s just propaganda, if from two sides then it’s observation. We have this old saying “Кто ищет - тот всегда найдёт” which you can translate as where is a will there is a way. So yt algorithm is not a real question here
Love hearing from people in Taiwan. More videos like this please, Asian Boss! In terms of war, I'll quote the movie Wargames: "The only winning move is not to play."
@@user-vy4fe8nj9d than who drop the atom bomb on Japan? Who land the normady beach?? Did china did that?? I don't think so"~how about ccp?? Last time I check ccp is hiding during ww2 not helping fight back Japanese empire but gathering resources for their interests ~
The truth has been spoken. I love being right. You who know who you are - your lies are worth less by the month. The majority of Taiwan (newer generations) knows better because they were allowed to think freely.
I was gonna debate with some of the points but I then realized there is no right and wrongs. Just different perspectives. So I wish everyone happy and let’s looking forward to a peaceful world! ❤️
except there are right and wrongs. at 6:01 the girl said russia saw ukraine as a part of them, which is totally untrue, as russia has officially recognized ukraine's sovereignty. Meanwhile, mainland china doesn't seen taiwan as a country at all, and all countries are faced with choosing between mainland china and taiwan via the one china policy in order to create diplomatic relations. and the fact is, the majority recognizes the mainland, not taiwan. therefore, if mainland china were to attack taiwan, it legally would not be the same implication AT ALL. This is what happens when you don't know the law or any history and just go by feel. that girl said many things that just were straight up factually untrue lol
@@TheHoonJin help taking care of the nazi nato problem that has corrupted Ukraine ever since pdobiden and his crack addict son started raping Ukraine for it's energy reserves. No innocent civilians are being killed, only violent nazi's and radical western thugs. zelensky sold out his own people, and ever since the US coup in 2014, he taunted and threatened Russia. Putin said NO MORE war, and went to task cleaning up Ukraine.
Ukraine at least had 8 years of civil war before the current war with Russia. Ukraine has been training their army and preparing for fights, but Taiwan does not.
@7 Wei Taiwan has got worse equipment. The US is shorting the ROC govt big time. Won’t ever get the F35 as they don’t expect Taiwan to hold out in case of invasion, and they don’t want the F35 to fall into the hands of the PLA. The West has been much more generous and trusting towards Ukraine
@@asw654 And we constantly have multi-billion dollar weapons sales to Taiwan. Taiwan can afford it is the the difference, so we sell, instead of just donate. They also get much nicer systems because Ukraine is still using old Russian/Soviet legacy tech. Taiwan’s ground forces are pretty sad, though, true.
There were many. The reason of the recent tension is simply because the current Tsai administration doesn't want to agree with the description of the mainland-Taiwan relationship that all previous Taiwan administrations agreed with, in the name of democracy.
geopolitics is and always will be the issue between China and Taiwan. I personally will never want war, and I don't care about weather Taiwan should reunion with China. But unfortunately the risk of war will only decrease if China-US relation become better.
Not sure when this video was made, but several Taiwanese channels already did street interviews weeks ago regarding this topic, with literally the same questions. You can find them on youtube too, but it's in Mandarin or Taiwanese (Hokkien).
Dude why keep miss leading the meaning when it come to topic related to China. That reporter ask 4:35 will china help russia in this war, the guy reply should be " there is just very little chance " for china to help russia. Instead you guys twist it to there is a small chance?? Even though both word is about same meaning but it is not same in this situation. Again and again and now I am convinced that you guys are intend to twist the meaning for sure. Many of your vids has proven again and again, disappointed
Great interviews also reflect how precious peace we currently enjoy across taiwan strait and in east asia. A 40 years of peace we have is a true blessing
good to see that not all Taiwanese think like those lunatic green camp extremist. The couple girl who said China will not invade for now because they would've already if they want to is really smart and observant. Also the guy who pointed out using military force will remain in China's table regardless of Russia-Ukraine situation. I'm not sure what the interviewer is trying to get here, China's view on Taiwan is based on deep historical relation and it will not be strengthened or lessened based on arbitrary conflicts between foreign nations. Lastly the girl in pink hoodie is utterly clueless of what she's talking about. When she said Taiwan could be similar to Ukraine because Russia views Ukraine as part of their nation territory I facepalmed 🤦♂️
@@benzi19951 chinese so called wumaos think taiwanese peoples logic will be the same as them which is funny. You can't put authoritarian values and beliefs on to countries like taiwan
@@bobhair1554 Why funny? are you actually laughing? You said countries, which one? They never promoted their values to other countries. If you're saying Taiwan, I'm sorry Taiwan is not a country. Wake up.
"US is like a mom protecting its children" Joke of the century ft. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Palestine and now Ukraine (Bringing leader of choice;Zelensky, and making them join NATO).
The losers' repeated lies a thousand times will not change the international fact that Taiwan belongs to China and the Communist Party is China's only legitimate government
Nikapika "Taiwan" has never been a country. Its governed by Republic of CHINA, a CHINESE state that claims to be the country called CHINA. And even once sat in the UN representing the country called CHINA. The matter between Republic of China and Peoples Republic of China is a matter of civil war. Civil war means war within the SAME country. Its not 2 different countries
I don't have much words to say. But sharing a piece of text from the Literature Art textbook of grade 1 in China's Mainland: 一隻船，揚白帆， 漂呀漂呀到台灣。 接來台灣小朋友， 到我學校玩一玩。 伸出雙手緊緊握， 熱情的話兒説不完。 ----《歡迎台灣小朋友》出自中國大陸人教版語文教科書一年級上冊 Eng(please don't mind it's translated by website): A boat with white sails, Drift and drift to Taiwan. Pick up Taiwanese children, Come to my school, Hold out your hands, There is no end to warm words. ----"Welcome Taiwan children" comes from the first volume of the first grade of the Chinese textbook published by the people's education edition of mainland China NOBODY wants war🙏🙏🙏
@@christianli1578 you do realise if China thinks Taiwan will not be unified, it has said it is willing to use full and bomb all the Taiwanese families and cities in Taiwan cities? what do you think war is?
Ukraine seems to be holding off Russia well. I don't think Ukrainians ever seriously thought the US would intervene militarily on their behalf. It doesn't hurt to guilt the US for as much support as possible though.
@@KM-jf6bn Oh you know, they are just making money with this war... Ukraine will never recover its previous borders, lots of people are suffering (for 8 years actually) and EU's countries are acting against their vital interests... It's a really really sad moment for Europe, and it was absolutely avoidable, US weapons in Europe aren't a peace guarranty, all the contrary.
@@glegof999 The US isn't making much money off this. It's largely just giving weapons to Ukraine. Weapons manufacturors may make a bit more money but given the sanctions on Russia, US companies are losing far more in sales overall. To suggest this conflict is some sort of massive economic win for the US is hilarious. This is primarily a political matter. Because maybe people have more than just economic interests, I know, shocking.
I am a Chinese mainland and my girlfriend is Taiwanese. She told me that Taiwanese people have completely considered themselves independent. If China starts a war, then Taiwanese will resist the last one. To be honest, I do not agree with her. Because now is the missile age. If China really wants to solve the Taiwan issue, it will only need some missiles to solve it. Unfortunately, the Taiwanese are too naive. And deliver their own destiny to the United States, which will run away at any time，However, there will be many problems after the war. First, there are many Taiwanese in China. Maybe those Taiwanese will establish a Resistance Army in China after the war, which will have a certain impact on China. Second, western countries will not intervene in the war, but will take the opportunity to impose economic sanctions and blockade on
@@dianasweet2385 I think opposite, If China think that using war and missiles can fix the issue, that is naïve! it will only fall into the trap. It doesn't matter U.S or western support Taiwan or not.
@@dianasweet2385 1.During WWII Japanese empire’s invasion of China, China should have just given up. 2. It is ok to kill your girlfriend, girlfriends family, and friends if they don’t summit to China.
Great interviews as always. Amazed how well-spoken people are. I would have such a hard time finding words when randomly interviewed. Guess it comes more natural to some.
15:05 She made a very bad judgement. Taiwanese might think foreign forces can stop China’s attempt of landing, but that is not true. The main reason PLA has not yet landed on Taiwan is that a lot of Mainlander indeed consider ethnical Chinese in Taiwan as their brothers. Thus, military operations which might cause severe casualties on both side is not what they seek. However, if Japanese come to help Taiwan, this war will turn from “an attempt to reunificate”into “an anti-invasion war against Japanese”. This will boost Chinese morales, and increase their endurance to economic sanctions-which is a crucial part of regional conflict.
But Taiwan's situation is not similar to the one of Ukraine. Rather, it's similar to the situation of Donbas. Neither Taiwan nor Donbas are internationally recognized countries, and both are "threatened" with reunification. In the China - Taiwan scenario, China would be like Ukraine: Trying to reconquer its own lost territories, while Taiwan would be like Donbas, trying to achieve independence, while the USA would be like Russia: a foreign country intervening to prevent the mother country (i.e, Ukraine and China) to reconquer its secessionist province (i.e. Donbas and Taiwan)
I am a bit disappointed in these answers. Taiwan expects the USA to die for them, if attacked. But they seem to not give so much thought about Ukraine being murdered… If they are so indifferent, why should we be?
I think these are fair comparisons for people who aren’t too invested in the facts but technically and obviously wrong. The USSR/Russia formally recognized Ukraine as a sovereign country whereas neither the PRC nor the ROC nor even the UN recognize Taiwan as its own country. Also, everyone just needs to stop saying Russia’s attack on Ukraine “came out of the blue”. That comes from the most ignorant people who haven’t paid any attention to the past two decades. Without even getting into minor events like NATO v Russian political and military posturing, Russia actually invaded Georgia back around 2008 and later invaded Ukraine in 2014 taking Crimea. They’ve since been fighting limited scope battles with Ukrainian paramilitary/military in the South East eg Donbas for 8 years. And the Ukrainian military blockaded/dammed a canal cutting water supply to Crimea which was costing the Russians millions to supply Crimea. For some reason, even Western reporters were either ignored or censored after they reported it. No one paying any attention to this should be saying the Russian invasion came out of nowhere You tell me anything between the PRC and ROC comparable to this in the past 20 years. There hasn’t been any hints of it aside from usual empty Sabre rattlings. The Chinese ambassador and other officials’ shock at Russians actually acting this out and attacking directly at the Ukrainian capitol and not just limiting the fighting to the East.. that just reveals how many in the CPC top ranks themselves find an actual war/invasion to be crazy Note, that I am actually sympathetic to green Taiwanese (ie independence advocates), but ultimate care more for peace as I do have family there. However, I am also on the side of objectivity. We should not compare Taiwan to Ukraine. They are not the same.
What Russia formally recognized is of no importance to Russia first and foremost as Russia herself backed off several times on her own formal recognitions and signed agreements. Ukraine signed in 1994 the Budapest memorandum releasing it's nuclear arsenal in exchange for territorial guarantees and Russia offered those guarantees along with other western signatories. Well, that lasted only 20 years until Crimea. Putin has stated multiple times in the past year that Ukraine in an artificial state with no sovereignty because it's manipulated by the west and we see that his actions run along those absurd claims rather than the formal recognitions. You really should've followed your own advice and invested a tad more into knowing the facts about Russia and the Soviet Union to learn to separate Soviet and Russian words and promises from their actions and facts.
Haha funny... Chinese appreciate Chinese as peaceful lol Better to ask your neighbors for their opinions, such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines or India, not yourself
@@jonjeong1178 Sino-Indian 1962 ; Sino-Soviet 1969; Sino-Vietnam 1979; Sino-Indian border conflict 2020~present There is also the Korean war 1950 as well where China participated living now the north koreans in poverty and famine. Don't ever paint China as anything as good they are they are also as shitty as US or Russia in the everything as well
@@jonjeong1178 I showed your ignorance by high lighting the wars China did in the past few decades as well as border conflicts that are still happening now to debunk your ignorance of the peaceful China. Your view of China and your blindness towards the world reality is shown. I will say it again. China is the same as any other country. They are trying to wrestle political points by only highlighting their good points while ignoring their bad and you still cannot see that.
@@yanaya713 Yes, but people generally condemn whoever started the war without finding out why, like Pearl Harbor. Russia's present is Taiwan's future, forced to go to war first.
But what happens if other countries like Japan or the US continue sending supplies and trading with Taiwan? Do you really think China will be willing to shoot at them and start a war?
@@kingsteam3095 How do you stop cargo ships other than shooting them? And all by air is not impossible at all, have you not heard of the famous Berlin Airlift? And that was a long time ago too.
The people of Taiwan are more likely to absorb all kinds of true and false political information and have no clear international outlook. On the contrary, the street interviews on the mainland are more organized and more kind to point out problems.
Because that's how voting for a candidate for the presidency and freedom of the press work. The presidential candidate to win the election often relied on popular support and therefore say what the people want. Which doesn't help when the Taiwanese are encouraged to fear china and portray the USA as their savor. That's without mentioning the twisted history they should've done to convince the populace that Taiwan is a sovereign country and they're different from the mainland. Taiwan also believes in freedom of the press and therefore is susceptible to all kinds of information whether fake news, biased news or neutral ones.
Yes, because the majority of people in China receive their news from state-run media. Any speech remotely inclined towards criticizing the CCP is strictly forbidden. How can a governmental organization like the CCP be correct when they blatantly oppose any form of constructive critique?
@@kkomentor1037 I don't know what you want to say? Only the people at the bottom of China know whether China's development is good or not. Improving their lives may be their goal! For example, everyone in Taiwan talks about politics, but after entering the 21st century, economic development has stopped! If Chinese mainland is too like this, the false news is flying everywhere, there is never a main thread of thinking, what is the development? China used to be ruled by warlords everywhere. At that time, ideas were in full bloom. It may be more comprehensive to look at the problem with history.
What makes me laugh is why do these people think that the US and Japan will help Taiwan? Their soldiers have their own families and are also other people's sons. Why are they willing to die for Taiwan? for freedom? No, their freedom is to choose not to participate in the war, not to go to Taiwan to die for someone they don't know.
Would like to ask the one who described USA as the mother character,"So, Ukraine is the abandonded child now?" How ironic and what a humiliation to the word,"Mother".
16:25 "If you asked the Ukrainian people a month ago, they wouldn't have been prepared either."
I'm not sure how true that is. Part of Russia's problem is that the lower intensity war started 8 years ago, so Ukraine has been militarizing and training (and fighting in actual war is a kind of training) since then, and they were concerned about Russia's military build-up on their border for about a year before the actual invasion, doing things like amassing lots of weapons from sympathetic countries. Thus, when added with some more specific things I've seen about Ukraine, I think they were about as ready for invasion as you could expect them to be. (I guess there are more extreme things they could have done, like building massive walls or premptively arming and/or evacuating everyone, and there certainly were plenty of people who, like me, were not expecting an invasion right up until it happened.)
Not to forget that NATO forces has trained the Ukraine military for modern warfare since 2014.
You are very correct, some people have this incorrect notion that 2022 Ukraine was 2014 Ukraine, they have been at war with the Donbas region for 8 years, and a lot of their troops do have some experience, this the Russians underestimated
Whereas Taiwan has NEVER had ANY form of organized military conflict on the island for few hundred years, the last time was in 1895.
@@obsidianstatue Technically the government on Taiwan has institutional memory of the Chinese civil war and the few times Taiwan and the mainland have traded artillery fire since then.
@@obsidianstatue I think her point is that you don't know how prepared you are until the bullets actually starts flying. I do agree that today's Ukraine is not the same Ukraine of 2014, but for the people drafted by the mass conscription right before the war I don't think they're prepared.
@Samuel Jackson Riiight also, Ukraine surrendered and Russia's victory is complete right dear comrade? Go peddle your Russian propaganda somewhere else.
I think they should ask the question "do you believe that US will help Taiwan defend militarily (actually sending troops)?"
They did in a previous episode, the young said yes or I'd hope so. The elder ones said probably not and we're useful idiots and will be discarded.
Ask them how will they feel if foreign countries attack China their motherland and burnt it to ash?
they'll do the same as now in Ukraine, nothing more than sanctions to Russia. No country actually helped or will help Ukraine in the war.
Those who ask this kind of question like you. I would say that kind of person is mostly a Wumao
You have to admit the fact that Taiwan is an independent country and absolutely NOT one part of China(PRC)
A lot of people don't know, including most younger Taiwanese, that the constitution of both PRC (China) and ROC (Taiwan) claims sovereignty over the whole "China", that is why the relationship is so complicated and unique.
From the ROC's constitution, there's the "Fallen Mainland" & "Free Taiwan" regions .
From Beijing's pov, there's the unclaimed Taiwan province.
When ROC was founded, Taiwan was part of Japan.
Even less people know that:
ROC did not claim Taiwan before 1940s, ROC even had a consulate of China in Taipei during 1930s.
How ironic…
@@bctvanw but Japan give Taiwan back to china after ww2.
@@bctvanw Taiwan was part of China in the Qing Dynasty. Japan took over Taiwan because Qing lose the the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. ROC is a Chinese government that overthrew the Qing government. So, when the ROC army defeat the Japanes invation of China in 1945, they took Taiwan back.
@@christianli1578 And more ironic thing is they are afrid of mentione that Japan got Taiwan by singing an unequal treaty with China.
Taiwanese have to include the whole China in their constitution, not because they want to, but because they have to. Otherwise it would be seen as a declaration of independence by China and risk an invasion. Most Taiwanese don't really care about China aka Chinese mainland.
The lady in pink describes that US acts like “mother” who protects her children. Literally an insult to the concept of Mother!
Yea I guess it’s really a shame to think of that
how shameful
She's media conditioned.
How ridiculous
Along similar lines, there are Chinese government songs and literature that portray the ruling party as a greater existence than one's own Mother. What do you think about that?
When asked about an outright conflict between China and Taiwan that guy who answered, "I would be disappointed." really summed up my feeling about war.
It's extremely disappointing that we haven't been able to figure out a better way of dealing with our conflict other than by using violence against one another. 😕 Worried for humanity.
If usa support China nationalist then we wouldn’t have this conflict issue
Unfortunally the world is lead by crazy people with a mad ego
@John Murkwater, it is sad indeed. All of that because of the same old Greed.
People are dying because someone wants more power, more...
Humanity is still struggling with finding a better way…
In Europe everyone figured it out other than Putin.
The most worrying thing is the growing gap between the new generation of mainlanders and Taiwanese. Hatred on the Internet has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Cross-strait exchanges are becoming less and less. A new generation of Mainlanders and Taiwanese faces a future full of uncertainty as their friendly predecessors depart. I hope the future is not war.
From 1949 till 1990, Taiwan's top military goal was to strike back mainland China. Around those decades, both Nationalists and Communities were prepered to start the 2nd Chinese Civil War. So as a Chinese mainlander, I would say our predecessors had much more serious relationship between each other than right now. The only difference is who is the stronger brother.
ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
@@saint_matthias 南望王师又一年，王师还剩几个连？
@@nyxulric1846 English
@@saint_matthias Winner takes all, that is the rule. When will the US government give their land back to their natives? How many dynaties have changed in China?
thing is. ukraine is recognized as a country on all fronts, including russia. That includes on paper, diplomatic relationship with other countries, involvement in international organizations and its official status as a soviergh nation.
I feel that Taiwan always had this european mentality that america is always coming to save them so nothing will go wrong. Have they ever thought what if that is not true? What if Americans votes in a more conservative leader and says im sorry, things changed and we have our own problems to deal with. or... nope, not gonna ignite ww3 or a nuclear fallout
Remember there are no friends in politics, only mutual interest. The more Taiwanese drill these words in, the better the outlook for them if war ever breaks out
This is so true. Plus, Taiwan is a bait for the US, whether china is going to take the bait is up to the politicians… every decision for the US is made based on its own benefit regardless of what kind of peril it brings to Taiwan or China.
Hey wumao, ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government. Everyone subconsciously knows this.
Then why your US father still treat you like illegitimate child and born out of wedlock?
ayy big fax tho
Interestingly enough, conservatives have been more outwardly supportive of Taiwan than liberals. The anti-China help them really align well with Taiwan.
“War seems like a thing of the past” Say that to the US and the Middle East
Or you know... Russia.. in Afghanistan, Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine little green men, Ukraine ‘22. I don’t see where people see the rivalry between the USA and Russia, as the rivalry between global bully and a global dove (USA and Russia respectively).
Every superpower has had significant wars *post WWii*... with the exception of China who has fought defensively for N.Vietnam and N.Korea, and offensively *only once*, during a campaign against Vietnam in 1979.
Granted, your point stands. Basically every generation of USA’s professionally enlisted forces have had someplace they’ve been deployed.
@@smillman437 I’m not dismissing any of that. I just find it astonishing that there’s so much hypocrisy going around. When the US invades and destroys sovereign countries its noble. When Russia does it its terror. Makes zero sense. Not to mention this is pretty much the new Cuban Missile Crisis just in Ukraine and on Russia’s side this time. Consistency is essential to be taken seriously
@@ApexCalibre Brainwashing and public opinion warfare are also part of modern warfare.
古代 = pre-mordern times
The translation is garbage
@@ApexCalibre technically it’s been almost 20 years since the US invaded a foreign country
"If you visit the Mainland and bump into someone named Chen, and your name is Chen, can you tell if you're a Taiwanese Chen and he's a Mainland Chen? Impossible."
What this guy said hits hard. My father, also surnamed Chen, came from mainland in 1973 when he was 8 years old. His cousins, uncles, aunties are all still in mainland. When we visit, it feels like home. It does not feel like there is any difference between us. Though many of my friends who are from 2nd and 3rd generation above do not feel anything to mainland, for us we are like one people and one country.
I think many people of Russia-Ukraine may have similar circumstances like us considering their history. It must have been very hurtful being attacked by someone like your own people.
I imagine this has been how things have worked throughout human history, tribes break off and after enough generations they form their own identity.
Most Taiwanese’s ancestors immigrated out of China more than 100 years ago. They have no relatives in China anymore. Some even married aboriginals such as Taiwanese president Tsai’s grandfather.
The old guy in cap is the second generation of Chinese Mainlanders-Waishenren. His situation is more like yours.
A lot of Chinese thought Taiwan’s population were mostly those kinds of people, but not true… Taiwan is like a mini Canada or USA rather than Mini China.
@@bctvanw cut the crap, you are not Chinese, I supposed and you knew nothing about Chinese culture with its history.
Chinese culture only?
Guess what “Chen” is one of the most common surname in many regions in Asia.
In Korea, it is pronounced as 진(Jin/Chin).
In Vietnam, it is Trần.
In China, it’s written as 陈.
In Taiwan, it’s 陳.
Other variations of the same surname are Tan, Chan, Hartanto…
In China, overall, Chen is ranked the 5th most common. While in Vietnam, it is ranked the second overall.
Btw. Because of the old KMT’s policies, Taiwanese aboriginals had to adopt Chinese names after 1945. Of course some Taiwanese aboriginals adopted Chen as their last names. Are they related to any people in China? They are even not related to other ethnic Chinese Chen family in Taiwan.
In the video, that old guy’s story is true, but it applies to his family only.
@@limk8994
Is your last name Lim?
Lim is another most common name in Asia. From China to Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and many Southeast Asian have this last name.
It is ranked the 10th most common in Korea.
Lim=Lin=Lam=Rin
I guess you have a lot of brothers and sisters in Korea too.
It would be interesting to have interviews with people from the mainland who live in Taiwan and people from Taiwan who live in the mainland.
They all subconsciously know ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
@@saint_matthias lol, who is loser ?
@@markchiu1716 Mainland Chinese people who didn't escape CCP
@@saint_matthias really? Then why the US worries about mainland China now? And only loser run away right? Who run to the island?
@@markchiu1716 we don't worry we are just annoyed that you don't know your place
Lol US is like a mom to protect her child🤣🤣🤣 the most naive statement I encountered
@John Wick 15:12
yes，US is father and Japan is a big brother🤣🤣
China is like a stalker
@John Wick Nah man, one would love his/her pet, but barely do so to a pawn, or a cattle.
Most Taiwanese young people are naive
Personally I dont think the Ukraine-Russia conflict is a good comparison to the Taiwan Issue, since both Ukraine and Russia are sovereign states recognised by the UN (as well as the vast majority of its members), while the Republic of China (or Taiwan if you’d prefer) is unresolved Chinese civil war, where both governments (PRC and ROC)claims to be the legal government of China (the region including the mainland and the island of Taiwan), and, as of now, the PRC is more internationally recognised.
Not many people who are from the western countries know about this.
Actually it's a very good comparison if you really know the context since 1991 like I do (my country, Belarus, is Russia's unwilling ally in this horror). It doesn't matter if Ukraine is recognized as a sovereign state by the UN, it only matters if Russia recognizes it as a sovereign state which unfortunately it doesn't, just as for Taiwan it really matters what China thinks of Taiwan and not what the rest of the world thinks of them bc it's China their only threat not the world. What the world around thinks about Ukraine is of no importance to Russia and short of nuclear bombing some sense into Russia there's nothing the world can really do. The comparison is actually incredibly apt. Russians consider Ukrainians ethnically as Russians who invented a new identity out of the blue and were let astray by the west, same as what Chinese think of Taiwanese. Just as they consider Belarusians part of the Russian world, too.
@@sir_humpy I’m no expert in Belarusian or Ukrainian history, but according to what you just said, you think that Belarus and Ukrainian are separate cultures and peoples to Russians, which I will not comment on since I don’t know much. However, the vast majority of citizens of ROC (or Taiwan), are descendants of Chinese mainland citizens who fled to the island of Taiwan with the KMT government, with the ultimate goal of one day reoccupying mainland China (which obviously failed). Therefore, unwilling to admit to its own failure, the ROC government would not forfeit the civil war, which gave the opportunities for separatists (i.e. the DPP) on Taiwan in developing a “Taiwanese” identity that is not Chinese, hence the current situation Taiwan. If the ROC recognised its failure in the civil war and just forfeited, there would be no such issue.
@@sir_humpy personally I think a more accurate comparison would be, in the American civil war, if the south didn’t just surrendered, but fled to Hawaii instead, and called themselves the legal government of the United States of America, with the goal of one day reoccupying the rest of the U.S. After failing to do so they decided that they’re not just gonna forfeit but call themselves Replublic of Hawaii, claiming Hawaii is a independent nation, but not part of the U.S.
@@johntitor8294, as far as I see it, rather cynically I admit, it doesn't really matter what the weaker defending side thinks of itself (Ukraine or Taiwan), it doesn't matter if they have or haven't developped a separate culture because the ball is not in their hands, they cannot act, they can only react. What matters is what motivates the stronger aggression-prone side to start aggression, what justifications the aggressor will use to sell the necessity and the righteousness of the impending conflict to its own people to support the war and here we find that Russian and Chinese narratives are a carbon copy of each other and both russian and chinese populations are already very much sold on that and the Chinese are obviously watching very closely how the world reacts to something similar to what they've had in their military plans since forever.
"War seems like a thing of the past" , "I think Taiwanese enjoy rich information" --Said by the same person
so funny
"the wars waged by westerners and their american bosses are not *war* they are democracy spreaders"
lmao
Taiwanese do enjoy rich information, just not every single person reads news that much… use your common sense instead of random bs
@@euphyyu2417 So angry. Go watch the episode of "What Do the Chinese Think of Russia? | Street Interview" in this channel. No every single person reads news that much, but you can clearly see the difference between average Taiwanese live in "rich information" and average Chinese live in "censorship".
All of the people evaded a fundamental difference: Ukraine is a recognised sovereign state while a majority of the 190 some countries acknowledge Taiwan is part of China. That really makes the whole thing more complicated and sensitive.
Only, repeat only the UN recognizes Countries, not the countries one another as they please.
Not really. Taiwan is a Sovereign nation whether its recognized by the U.N or not.
messed up with the UN though. As long as the US is an ally Taiwan has a chance not to become HK.
@@behuman868 nearly all US allies ended up in deep xxxx, even the first cousin UK -- remember what happened during Suez Crisis?
@@bohu1267 Suez crisis you mean the following?
The Suez Crisis was the result of the American and British decision not to finance Egypt's construction of the Aswan High Dam, in response to Egypt's growing ties with communist Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.
If you read the Northatlantic Treaty you will understand that helping Egypt is against the very reason why NATO exists.
Egypt is not stable even today, took them 3yeats to sign the EEZ border lines between Greece, Libya, Cyprus, Israel, de facto ignoring Erdogan.
The girl interviewed: Wars are a thing of the past.
Me: In the last 2 years there`s been more than 50 armed conflicts. +10 just right now, Some with casualities in the 100k.
War is never a thing of the past, it's just most of us including the girl are not involved, or maybe not informed
Maybe she should say: Wars begun by russia are a thing of the past😂
the well is the world.that’s all they,people in Taiwan,know.
Shows you how out of touch youngsters are in TW with world news.
@@PuffySofty How true. But u cant really blame them. Its the news that are fed to them and the news they choose to listen/watch and believe. The gov plays an important roles to make sure their citizen are well inform by both side of the story but its politic. You cant show your own ppl the bad side of their believe.
1:47 where the response translated as "I feel that having a war nowadays is really stressful" is incorrect. What she really said is "I feel that having a war nowadays is really a shock to me(訝異)"
I guess the subtitler mishear the "訝異" to "壓抑".
@@HenOOXX I thought so too!
Re; Chinese citizens not believing China will invade Taiwan
I do believe they genuinely believe this. I have made many Chinese friends who all consider Taiwanese their brothers and sisters, and are extremely friendly and show nothing but love for them.
I do, however, share the Taiwanese belief that a war in the region is highly possible. At the end of the day, the interests of the government does not always align with the interest of the people, that's true regardless of if you're in China, the US, or many other places.
A war between the two countries will be nothing but a disappointment not just to Taiwanese citizens, but also to those of China.
Russia also said Ukrainians are their brothers and sisters...... Look what happened next.
Like i said before. Be pragmatic and realistic. In real life, even your own blood family may betray you much less than someone unrelated.
It’s inevitable. As Taiwan grows, China will continue to attempt to reassert their authority over Taiwan until an invasion occurs. China is just waiting for the right moment to strike. Just because it isn’t obvious, doesn’t mean it’s not being planned.
You are right, at least from my end. I don’t want either side of people get hurt, Taiwan people not only speak Mandarin but also speak the same dialect Minnanese in my region (South of Fujian Province)
thanks to good old US of A and USSR who made some of these possible, East and West Germany, China and Taiwan, North and South Korea. well, at least East and West Germany is now reunified.
3 years before, I don’t want to war with Taiwan, I have a very close friend since kid time.
3 years later: nuke them. He and his family are all in the mainland now. Couldn’t care less
"USA is like a mom, caring for it's child." 🤯🤯 Jesus!!
If she only knew about Nord Stream 2, and what really pushed Ukraine Russia war to start.
Hell if she knew the "hand" behind ANY of the Middle Eastern wars or South American wars.
I'm honestly LMAO in sadness and disbelief!!!
Well actually from the tone of your comment it appears you certainly don't.
go touch grass
So true. Then again, they were being interviewed at scene so haven't had the time to think through what they say.
Thanks for keeping us informed Asian Boss. It is always good to hear the different perspectives and so important for the rest of the world to know.
now we need russian perspectives IN russia, why i capitalize the IN because there is interview they make about russian people but not in the russia country itself
Yes. ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
I hope you feel comfortable by them cutting away the "unpleasant opinions" and showing you only what you should hear 😄
We should unify and attack the serpent which is America who installed a puppet taiwanese ministers. We will die and destroy America if they want to play with family matter. We’ll take down everyone who stands in the way
@@helldronez and risk them getting jailed, poisoned, killed or worse?
I’m from Ukraine 🇺🇦, to make it short, you shouldn’t count on your similarities, or that you share the same language. We had pretty same opinion about Russia and that war will never happen, so the best way to avoid war is to be prepared to it…
你好，我想问一下你觉得俄罗斯发动战争的真实原因是什么？
There is a great book I read written by an American elitist politician in 1996. It’s called the Grand Chessboard. It talked abt geographic politics and actually pointed out how important Ukraine is to Russia. It said if war happens, US and Europe need to try their best to stop Russia taking over Ukraine for the best interest of them. Nothing to do with so called "humanity". You can google it and I feel it’s worth reading.
@@vliushaFrom what I heard in this video, the Taiwanese do not understand this conflict;
russians started this war because they hate Ukrainians and want to kill us, anti-Ukrainian sentiments have always been widespread in russia, Ukraine has long been the main topic of discussion on russian TV, when the average russian comes home, he turns on the TV and listens about how Ukrainians are non-humans and we need to be killed, they are obsessed with Ukraine;
The notion that russia attacked Ukraine because of the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO is complete nonsense, Finland recently joined NATO, and russia did nothing
@vliusha no nato nuclear missile in Ucraina, after they talk about this , Russia atacked. Maybe are more motives, but that was a important one.
Well, the thing is Russia and Ukraine are two independent countries whereas Mainland China and Taiwan are not, at least de jure.
It’s a totally different situation here.
Taiwan is not a member of the UN and almost all UN members recognize it as part of China at least formally. There will be no legal basis to intervene if a war breaks out since technically it will be a Chinese civil war.
The military imbalance here is even greater. Russia is a failing power that struggles to finance its military. China is the largest economy in the world if you consider price levels. The ROC military is a laughing stock of Asia. The “strawberry soldiers” can’t even hold a gun.
Bottom line, China can take Taiwan anytime it wants but they don’t need to. Unlike Russia, they have time on their side.
Yes, it is totally different. ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
An amphibious landing is much harder than a land one so there is that. And despite the USs growing isolationism I do believe they and Japan probably will support Taiwan. Also look at how much the sanctions are hurting Russia which is a commodities exporter. If the same sanctions where leveled against china an commodities importer it would be much worse, with potentially millions of Chinese facing starvation.
@@majormung8304 欧美什么时候放弃对中国的制裁？
Yep. CCP has never touched Taiwan for a second since 1949. How nice of CCP.
First, the government is fully capable of reunifying Taiwan. Even the Taiwanese themselves admit this. Secondly, China has every reason and necessity to reunify, which is the only way for China to develop. Third, as young People in Taiwan are less and less willing to reunify, the chances of peaceful reunification are less and less likely, and the Chinese are more and more willing to reunify by force (everyone I know thinks that will eventually be done by force). So, I just hope that when the time comes, the Taiwanese government will be smart enough to minimize casualties. I believe this will be done by 2035.
The girl who said the uS would protect Taiwan like a mother protecting her child is out of her mind.
Tell that to half of Korea.
Sure America will protect Taiwan, if OIL 🛢 is discovered in that island 🏝 !
Taiwanese people are surprisingly pretty sheltered from the realities of the world
what do you mean?
Haha meaning they living inside a tiny box. FREEDOM is the end goal. Naive
@@rays7004 i think what OP mean was "they think the us would defend them"
how ?
@@CJONTHEHOUSE Yep. After the Ukraine crisis they still believe US would step in. This is naive beyond imagination
This is really difficult interview for both Taiwanese civilians and the interviewer.
Good job Asian Boss and thanks for providing this.
go, go Taiwan. go, go KMT !!!!
The Kuomintang (KMT) or the Chinese Nationalist Party of Taiwan.
KMT is trying to cool things down by dialogue. very refreshing. the China and Taiwan Cross Straight relationship will improve from the present DPP's worst time, worst troublemaker, with so many threats and warnings, to peaceful dialogue that brings forward PEACE and prosperity to Taiwan.
One Country, Two Systems is crucial to taiwan's long-term stability and prosperity. One Country, Two Systems is the biggest respect for Taiwan…
1:45 "I feel that having a war nowadays is really surprising. This is a more civilzed era. War seems like a thing of the past."
This lady is not even aware that NATO countries initiated one war after another and kill millions civilians all over the world.
Then this lady said 9:47 "I think Taiwanese enjoy rich info, and high freedom of expression"...........
I know right? selective blindness or brainwashed beyond repair.
They probably just don’t follow international events. It’s a quite common mindset
This gentle and kind-hearted woman is saying what she believes. War is uncivilised and inhumane, all the more so if clearly unnecessary. She also says it’s a nightmare. Many in China agree with her. That there are still such large scale destructive wars is abhorrent wherever they are. Please understand this and quit being vengeful and trying to continue nonexistent vendettas like creepy gangsters. Taiwan citizens and others did so much for their cousins in Mainland China, as it was known then, in recent decades to lift them out of poverty. I feel very sorry for this girl who speaks from the heart and wants peace for her home. She is absolutely civilised and pleads to be understood. These interviews are excellent and informative for Taiwanese and others. They clearly caused stress but the interviewees did their best to give genuine, honest answers, and can all be congratulated. Peace and forgiveness, wherever, please!
@@paulgrieve7031 I don’t mean to condemn this lady. Her situation is very typical in taiwan. My point is that her opinion shows how taiwan “free media” works. People are fed on one side information and propaganda. Then they form opinions and make judgments based on selective facts, which make them easy to be manipulated.
Rich info = full of propaganda
10:30 The thing is Russia and Ukraine are also supposedly "brother nations" that share history, culture, and in some places, language. Sometimes the most vicious fighting comes between countries and cultures that are similar or identical.
not sometimes but most of the times I would say. Examples:
1) South korea vs North Korea
2) India Vs Pakistan
3) China Vs Taiwan
4) Ukraine Vs Russia
The difference is Taiwan has never been a sovereign country.
@@clarkl7027 says the CCP who pays you in social credits ;)?
@@caocao4266 Is acknowledgment by outsiders the only definition of independence wumao? If a place like Taiwan has it’s own area of land it controls, it’s own currency, military, separate political and economic system, and a population that largely identifies with belongings to said place it definitely is a de facto country even if other countries don’t recognize it as such because of the CCP’s bullying.
@@seanbinkley7363 The acknowledgement from other countries hold a deep meaning to one country status on the world stage organizations. I am not on anyone side on this topic. US is influential country, why dont they and their allies not support Taiwan to be a country in legal way and lift up their status? I almost forget they are the one who make the decision Taiwan is not a country in the first place.
Why always equate Hong Kong with Taiwan, these two are entirely different. Hong Kong returned to China as early as 1997, this was doubtless!
ikr? I am taiwanese and I can sense how clueless the Taiwanese are about international affairs. HK incident was entirely china's domestic affair and they never had any form of independence! They got no military and a self-sustainable economy. Getting independence is merely a daydream for HK people.
Sure, per paper britain ended its rule over hong kong. But the people of Hong Kong wanted to stay independent of the central government in China. Now a lot of their rights of self-expressions are stripped. Dozen of thousands moved away. And dozen of thousands continue to protest.
What a nice reunification. Everybody is happy :)
Hong Kong was unfortunately "returned" to a China that never owned Hong Kong in the first place. It should have remained with the UK, left independent, or joined Taiwan.
China has clearly broken the treaty about the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland China. In my eyes, it gives Hong Kong the right to leave.
@@ratchetjoker1317 Lol. It doesn't matter if people in Hong Kong wants to stay independent. That piece of land belongs to China since the very beginning. That city prospered by tapping into China's market. Even their electricity and water come from China. People like you would think they can survive if China shuts them out. What a joker.
@@peterfireflylund Sure, then it is within China's right to embargo that city, void them of electricity, water and common necessities. Let's see who will come begging.
The lesson for Taiwan is don’t let someone use you as cannon fodder to advance their foreign policy. They supply you with enough arms so you’ll fight to the last Taiwanese like the last Ukrainian but won’t ever get their own hands dirty.
THIS
You must know that being in military, it means you are pawn.. being sent to frontline is what you can expect being a professional soldier
No crying and criticizing about your deployment, or foreign policy.. You are a soldier..
stop blaming Politicians and the elites of Government
If you dont want to be a cannon fodder, just quit being a soldier
The alternative is losing their sovereignty forever. I can't fault them for wanting to prevent that from happening.
@@dmitchel0820
I am from Taiwan. This situation is more complex than that. Also you are missing the point entirely
@@dmitchel0820 it’s a war that you can’t win either way. Even if Taiwan fights it will lose and that’s the point I’m making. whether you fight our not if your outcome is the same, why would you let yourself be use to advance someone else’s agenda. If Americans support Taiwan the main purpose is not independence, it’s to bleed China using Taiwanese lives. It’s realpolitik, people should understand it before offering their lives.
14:53 "I feel that Japan would help us", what a naive gal......
These Taiwanese young people need to understand a key point in geopolitics: "Every country only cares about their own core interests", Taiwan is China's core interest, not Japan's core interest.
15:18 "And the US is kind of like a mom who protects her child" C'mon Miss, you're NOT her children, you're her pawns......I found that young Taiwanese often try to naively use simple interpersonal relationships to understand the international political situation, which is dangerous.
And she thought Russia invaded Ukraine because they claim Ukraine is part of Russia???
Japan and South Korea have both publicly stated that they consider the defense of Taiwan an essential part of the defense of their own countries.
@@peterfireflylund R u serious, they can’t even protect themselves….😅
@@peterfireflylund 中国是核大国，你觉得韩国和日本有任何立场和任何能力干涉中国内政？
yes , this girl is a gem😀
Interviewer asks question assuming China and Russia are allies. But didn't point out China and Ukraine is as close as China is to Russia and China immediately called Putin on the second day to urge for negotiations
Its just a facade. British scientist just found out evidences that China started the cyberattack on Ukraine, which led to more conflict from Russia. All of the "negotiations" are just meetings without any purpose for the sake to slow down the crisis in Russia.
China-Ukraine are by far not as close as China-Russia. It turns out, rather the contrary. There is no will of China to help Ukraine, but to help Russia. And what China says and what China does are two very different things.
@@dwa_3507 well, China has been aiding Ukraine with humanitarian supplies and urging Russia to go to the negotiations table. But your western media kept trying to tell you China might supply Russia with arms, China might help Russia with cyber warfare ... Whereas US is the one pushing Ukraine to war and giving them weapons to drag the war and let civilians die.
@@dwa_3507 China isn't up to help anyone tbh. They just wait staying neutral to be on the side of winners. Their gov doesn't care about people nor to help Russia, as Russia always was China's muppet. They just don't want to lose any money or go into economic crisis because of war. They are neutral because Russia is rich in natural resources, so they don't want to lose this relationship. But on the other hand, they don't want to worsen the relationship with Europe because they also hope to get into european market. For them, like for the most asian countries (i think Japan is the only one who isn't like that) they only calculate risks, not really making any action, to not lose anything.
@@dwa_3507 没有永远的朋友 只有永远的利益
Summary and observation from the interview:
1) Taiwanese: We know why russia attacks ukraine, the US and the west is partially the cause and forces russia to attack Ukraine. Also Taiwanese: I think the US will help Taiwan if China attacks. Me: Yes, the US will help taiwan fight China to the last taiwanese just like how the US help ukraine to fight russia to the last ukrainian.
2) Chinese thinks and treats taiwanese like their own kin (according to the interviewer), taiwanese treats chinese from the mainland like stranger at best and hostile enemy at worst (according to the younger generation interviewee). The older generation still have a sense of Chinese identity. Young Taiwanese do not support reunification. Cultural and economic exchange is useless while propaganda and regionalism are having the main influence.
3) Taiwanese thinks that war between mainland and taiwan is always a possibility, but it is very unlikely in the near future despite the ukraine war, but still clueless and guessing about the real reason there is still peace across the strait despite acknowledging that China can take Taiwan easily.
4) Many (not all) taiwanese thinks that the world = the west+ american vassal states. They claim that russia is against the world when clearly the majority of countries does not sanction russia. I would like to stress the effectiveness of american propaganda in spreading the religion of neo liberalism using the word "democracy" and "freedom" like the ten commandment.
Well said...couldn't agree more
asian boss interviews are little biased towards china
@@bobhair1554 How is this interview biased? I don't think any of the interviewee except for the old people views China in positive light.
Go do votes among young people of Taiwan. They don’t hate China, but they don’t think Taiwan and China are of the same country.
I like your notes. As a Ukrainian, I will mention if you ask older and younger generations if we feel like we are part of Russia or that we are Russians, believe me, you won’t find more than 3% of people who would say “yes”.
Everyone loses in sanctions wars. You’ll notice it by the increase cost of living in the country where you live. Everyone gets affected. Nowadays countries are so very interconnected.
Yes yes and agree. That’s why starting a war today is different from starting a war back in 1900
ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's government and vision of China is ROC not PRC.
There's plenty of winners in the long run. Russia's gdp will drop and so will all their other industries. Other countries will take advantage of this.
@@John-hp2hg The winners are the 100+ countries outside of the US/NATO/EU that did not join the sanctions and can now increase their trade with Russia.
You mean unjust and inhuman agressions should be just overlooked and pardonned?
Chinese: No war because we are brothers.
Taiwanese: We are not brothers.
Good luck.
Chinese: That's all your fault for a war!
This was a great street interview on Taiwanese perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war. Just so many points on both sides of using the current global situation to relate it back to China-Taiwan tension.
Yes. ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
@@saint_matthias 成王敗寇，現實就是如此
@@saint_matthias Cry more🤣
@@saint_matthias no one is orginal or copy if you fight civil war and lose .....winner will get all loser nothing thats how it works Roc government loss the battle so they got nothing PRC won the battle they won the government power they are ruleinh ...history has been sayinv winner gets everything loser nothing example veto power winner of ww2
@@kagamitaiga7055 nope the original government still exists lol PRC will forever be a rebel imposter government if it doesn't take taiwan lolol
The initiative and general concept of this series of street interviews is great. BUT, that's a big but, the fact you are translating parts of the conversations INACCURATELY and even WRONGLY (for example, translating "軍工" (military industry) to "metalworking") can DANGEROUSLY and SUBTLELY mislead audiences and viewers who may not be familiar with the background of the issue or be carefully interpreting the logic within the conversation, and can cause harmful confusion and misunderstanding. So, please please take multiple rounds of proofreading of your translated subtitles. Your brand advertise yourself as trying to help the world and especially the English-speaking people to understand better Asia and Asian people. It is VERY VERY important to NOT misguide people by wrong subtitles. Are you even aware you've been frequently making this mistake?
Totally agree!
So glad you flagged that. 軍工 is military-industrial complex.
Couldn't agree more re having multiple rounds of reviews with not only Mandarin and English speakers, but actually local bilingual speakers who can hear the difference in pronunciation.
The old man's accent probably threw them off, but still. Mistranslation is a BIG problem for them.
They also subtitled "Ukraine and Taiwan don't want to ADMIT they are part of Russia and China". Despite she said they don't accept/recognize Russia and China (承認).
Always take everything off the internet with a grain of salt. But unfortunately we have too many gullible people thinking they’re the smartest in the world.
i am from Hong Kong and I believe a large proportion of general public in China is friendly. I also have Chinese friends that are nice and friendly. But don't forget "war or no war", it is the government's call, not the citizens.
The CPC has made its position clear. They do not want war. But they will also not accept Taiwan independence. Taiwanese people would be wise to keep the status quo. Which is also what 70% of them want to do.
我只希望習近平別幹蠢事。
It all come down to politics. The US first established an diplomatic relation with the Taiwanese ROC when they had control over China but later on decided to cut the tie and built new relationship PRC in which they recognize as the sole legal Government of China. It would be interest to see how the West and rest of world chooses this time.
ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government. Diplomatic relations won't change historical facts
@@saint_matthias ROC started out noble but after the founder died, it turned bad quickly, there were too much suffering, to the point where the majority of China decided to abandon that model and searched for 'something new'.
They have founded that 'something new' in the PRC and China recovered from strength to strength since.
The Christian faction within the KMT party took over the ROC and ran for many years. They did a good job kicking the Japanese out.
Mr Mao could have easily taken Taiwan back but he decided not to.
Overtime, the ROC became aimless and stuck in the past. The original old guards, the Hakka, were slowly driven out.
This allowed the USA increase their influence and undermined the reunification. They intended to drag it out as long as possible. They wanted to use the Taiwan island as a proxy and as a foothold to fight China.
USA already abandoned Taiwan in 1972 to establish normal relation with China. And USA still fully recognise the one China today in 2022.
USA truly never care about Taiwan nor the Chinese living on the Taiwan island. It has always been about destroying China anyway it can
If you truly believe ROC is the original Chinese political party, the one and only to rule China, that China belongs to Taiwan, then once your dream came true, you would end up with One China anyway.
Realise this, whether ROC or PRC is in power, the USA was, is and will be your biggest enemy.
@@misterhill5598 too long didn't read
@@saint_matthias Yeah right, and the Qin dynasty emperor was the first to unify China so therefore all the rest are imposters
After all even the country is called China, Qin=Chin, now go and restore the original government.
@@saint_matthias Was that also too long for your attention span?
1:37 I wonder if this fellow is aware of 2014 annexation of Crimea. Russia and Ukraine have been unofficially in War for the last 8 years.
So I wouldn't necessarily call it an impulse. This is mostly about leverage, and natural resources, in this case wheat, natural gas and oil.
In addition to this, Ukraine closed the river leading into Crimea after it was annexed which caused huge agricultural problems and Russia was forced to import fresh water into Crimea.
Which is justified and understandable considering Russia is the aggressor.
Yea, it's almost as if there is no reason for russians who have been treated poorly by ukrainian government to want freedom from it... HMMMM. Interesting point. Too bad it falls into water. Ukraine openly supports nationalist paramilitary groups for the last 20 years and tons of incidents over the years where russians in ukraine suffered just shows how much Ukraine doesn't care about minorities, when they are just that. "Kijev Rus" or kyiv russians is what ukrainians are by history... This is just blatant neonazism... Could Russians leave Ukraine? Sure. But why would they? It was part of soviet union and it still is homeland to many russians no matter how you look at it(unless you look from logically false viewpoint) Moscow office is not the sole courier of russian culture, homeland and traditions. For all it is, ukrainians, especially after euromaidan government came into being(the moment people stage coup d'etat they are not innocent bystanders and are as responsible as politicians/leaders) are to blame for the escalation of the conflict. And Zelensky just shows his retardation/stupidity from day to day. He didn't have Crimea before the "invasion" and refused to rework/restate Donbas region and their autonomy. He is going to get out of the "invasion" still without Crimea, all while losing Luhansk and Donbas AND millions of lives. It is not even a discussion anymore. He openly said on multiple occassions during negotiations how he didn't plan on making any kind of "peace"...
@@shaco2731 If you don't like the Ukrainian government, vote don't try to put pro-russian puppets into government by force.
Also you can just go to Russia if that government treats you better :DD
Kremlin Bot or just washed?
@@unknownentity8256 don’t even pay attention. They are singing the same song all the time. They are unchangeable.
I'd say Ukraine has been unofficially in war with its own citizens, not Russia 🤔 And it's 100% not an impulse, I'll agree on that.
@@TimmcraftJitney So what happened with Crimea? Clearly the Russian military was heavily involved with what happened in Eastern Ukraine.
I wish there was a media source that can dive deeper into internal political and economic issues in taiwan and introduce them to the world. All we talk about is the relationship between china and taiwan, no one outside taiwan (maybe inside as well) knows what really has been happening in taiwan these few decades.
Let's wait and see how many Ukraine refugee will be accepted by NATO，becase them alway stand with Ukraine , so sad for the Ukraine ； 国小而不处卑,力少而不畏强,无礼而侮大邻
We certainly know more of the inside of Taiwan than the inside of China. Taiwan is a relatively very open country compared to China. You can do your own reporting or investigation on almost anything there. Try that in China.
@@tianko5609 Not only in taiwan,Asia boss do interview in other provinces China.
@@zakuwang9407 taiwan arnt a province of china mate. chinese cant even travel to taiwan anymore unless on business or marriage visa
@@tianko5609 I thought we were talking about taiwan? Who asks about china? And who are WE?
As a person whose country (Belarus) is forced by Russia to be part of this conflict, I have to say that it's very reductive and dangerous to assume that it was Ukraine's NATO ambitions that has caused this. NATO issue is not the key here, it's just the straw that broke the camel's back. The actual reason should be much more worrying for the Taiwanese because it's the widespread conviction in Russia from Putin to a good 60-70% of Russians that Ukraine as an artificial state without sovereignty and Ukrainians are ethnically Russians just misled by the West. The real culprit is this _"Russian world"_ concept that has developped in Russia since the break up of the Soviet Union and which posits that Ukrainian and Belarusian people/nations should be brought back and united willingly or by force to Russia for their own good of course and it is Russia's duty to help the little brothers led astray by western powers. Does this ideology seem familiar to the taiwanese?
This is a correct statement in my view. Ukraine was never going to join NATO (at least in short/mid term) because it has to be accepted by all members, so practically it's impossible. It's more about they not wanting Ukraine to be part of the western world in general.
Yes, that answer by one of the interviewees was misleading. If Ukraine is really sovereign and Russia respects that, then Russia should respect Ukraine's choice to try to join the EU or NATO. But of course Russia doesn't respect that as a choice and sees only threats. Ultimately it should be up to the Ukrainian people whether they want to join NATO/EU/Russian-bloc. Russia should make their argument to Ukrainians in a civilized manner and see who they choose.....(too late for that!)
@@moocorp4574 bs.. it is literally in their constitution. they might be refused, but they were trying their best.
@@user-sl6tv9vc3u yes, but it’s not something you invade someone about. International politics is pragmatic and they know Ukraine will never be accepted.
About time, people really need to understand the actual comments and also the historical context around Ukraine and also the comments many of the Russian elite over the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
NATO is just a scape goat argument with barely any evidence to support it, yet we have real records and actions of Russia to see the problem.
As soon as an previously USSR memberstate can get energy independence or undercut the control Russia can exert with it's raw resources all of a sudden you have "seperates" and "Russians".
Is the same as the US with them picking a minority faction in a country.
And china has developed its own technique in Africa too.
The big three always meddle
I would say that Taiwan cannot be compared to Ukraine at all, since Ukraine is an internationally recognized independent country, while Taiwan is not.
ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
The only reason for this is fear of retaliation by China, but many states already deal with Taiwan as a de facto independent state, its people want self-determination from China, business deals for semiconductors and manufacturing are done with Taiwan specifically, etc.
China not calling it an "invasion" doesn't support the notion that they see it as an independent sovereign state
@@darkale658 If Taiwan claims its independence, it’s actually against its own constitution (of ROC)
Some random thoughts come to mind - Ironic to hear that the interviewees were hoping US or Japan, countries that invaded China in the late 1800s and early 1900s, would help Taiwan to fight Mainland China. Generations of Chinese people struggled decades to finally fight off off the invaders and gained independence. The separation today is really caused by civil war and should have stayed as a domestic matter. Who would have thought the former invaders would be considered as allies and the motherland would be considered as enemy some decades later. Have to admit, we might be too separated to ever be united.
Younger generation has been brainwashed. Example is that pink cloth girl. Didn't they revise all their textbooks a few decades back?
Everytime I see interviews like this, I cringe.
At this point, I think that the older generations are far milder than us younger generation, who are seeing the hate and slander coming from the younger Taiwan people.
Nothing ironic about it. This is how world works. there isn't an eternal enemies just like there isn't an eternal friend.
China was invaded by Russia and concede territory on outer Manchuria (Treaty of Aigun, Convention of Peking) but now consider Russia as China most reliable partner. US and UK has waged a war for US independence. The world evolved and right now it's more a fight of ideology (Democracy vs. Authoritarianism).
And it's not a domestic matter as 2 sides has been separated far too long and have pretty oppose ideology and value. Only partial culture are shared now. (e.g. Russia originate from Ukraine but the separation lead to own identity and became 2 distinct country)
Yes. ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government. Of course ROC won't join PRC.
@@vilester Older generations were also brainwashed, except it was the KMT's military government brainwashing people and killing Taiwanese intellectuals.
I’m mainland Chinese ，and I don’t want Taiwan to be reunified for now。It will only cause problems if we do so，let’s focus our own development ，after ten or twenty years ，we’ll see what happens 。
We don't want, thanks we stay independent.
just mind our own buisness. what china is doing to taiwan now won't make things better. it's only pushing taiwan to have closer ties to the US
If China is democracy and free, Taiwan and China can be like USA and Canada or UK and EU.
@@bctvanw bomb brown children?
Yes. ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
You missed the biggest question: if Taiwan was indeed invaded, would the Taiwanese people fight as severely as the Ukrainians.
Taiwan is too small to fight against China . It's a question that is best not questioned.
@@mindful47 Ukraine is also too small to fight Russia lmao
Reunification...not invasion. Invasion is what happened to Hawaii...Iraq..and Afghanistan..
@@evonnec1711 source
The mother at the end alluded to how if you'd asked Ukrainians if they were capable of standing up and fighting, there may have been doubt whereas now the everyday Ukrainians and taking none of this lying down. I think she was hinting that Taiwanese people likewise wouldn't know what they were capable of until they were up against such a situation.
Cheers
"just the other day, our mirage 2000 jet crashed in to the ocean *again*"
Somehow I find that statement hiliarious lol
I found you are pathetic... making fun on a pilot life lost
It’s not. It’s very serious. It means Taiwanese aren’t militarily ready to take on China.
@@andrewcutler1380 I mean… 1.6 billion people vs 23 million people. Even if Taiwan draft and arm every adult men it’s a lost cause. The only possible deterrence would have been nuclear weapons a la North Korea, which Taiwan was close to developing in the 80s until a whistle blower told the US, who then forced a shut down of the program.
@@M0ebius the US penetrated the programme by placing a CIA spy in the Taiwan’s scientific department, which forced the Taiwan government to give up the materials for the nuclear weapons development due to the subsequent US interference
The spy escaped Taiwan since then and now still lives in the US
@@JohnWick-cz3ph At that time, US valued their 'new relation' with China more because they would like to use it to encircle and press Soviet Union in the international stage.
I only learned recently after reading a biography of Chiang KaiShek and the Chinese Civil War, that actually China before 1949 could have been divided at the Yangtze River (so North Communist China and South Nationalists China) but Mao refused to listen to Stalin's recommendation to divide China, and the fact Chiang was unwilling to give into peace conditions with the communists. Taiwan was the only remaining solution as the nationalist lost region and city after the other. Interestingly enough, because China came under rule by the communists, this provided the catalyst to not repeat the fall of China to Soviet influence and for the American domino theory that would be the basis for Korean and Vietnam wars.
Taiwan was part of Japan with 6 million people living on it before CKS took over the island shipped by the 7th fleet. CKS is part of Taiwan’s history, but it will be misleading to learn about Taiwan only through CKS.
Read the short report of “Island Redoubt” in 1949 to understand the other side of the history.
@@bctvanw But befor Japan looted taiwan, Which country did taiwan belong to? China.（Qing dynasty claimed itself as China) Who are those 6 million ppl? Are they Yamato?No, 90%+ are Han Chinese who were enslaved and exploited by Japanese.
True, they do not want to be the guilty person of history, it is a fighting only one person can stand.
@@lawrencezhang3050
Qing only conquered half of the island.
Qing’s rulers are the Manchus.
Were Taiwanese the Manchus by your logic?
How about before Qing? Taiwan had Koxinga, Spanish, and the Dutch colonies. Before that ? Austronesian people.
Taiwan has its own uniqueness.
Stop Sinocentric way of thinking all the time.
Damn didn't know everyone in the comment section have a PhD in History and Law.
No need to have a PhD, when these are the kinds of information that people know in their daily lives.
The lady in fan clothes thinks that war is an ancient thing. Why is the war in Ukraine so concerned, while the wars in the Middle East and Africa happen every day, but they are ignored?
The media there only emphasize the war in Europe
Cause Taiwanese lick the USA’s boots
My favorite part is that they watch different yt news channels but no one even questioned why all Russian news channels were banned long time ago by yt
@@user-ck6iq6ud2n they don’t watch rt anyway. The algorithm won’t recommend those news or channel to them .
@@markchiu1716 just to be clear im not trying to be rude mate but if someone says with serious face that he/she is observing whole situation of the conflict i expect them to watch the news from both of the sides , not from one. If it’s from one side then it’s just propaganda, if from two sides then it’s observation. We have this old saying “Кто ищет - тот всегда найдёт” which you can translate as where is a will there is a way. So yt algorithm is not a real question here
PAST IMPERIALISM DOES NOT JUSTIFY PRESENT EXPANSIONISM that's all I can say
Will you tell that to the USA?
So tell nato is stop expanding hypocrite.
Love hearing from people in Taiwan. More videos like this please, Asian Boss!
In terms of war, I'll quote the movie Wargames: "The only winning move is not to play."
Yes. ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
Yes, thats exactly why US will never send troops to fight against Russia and China.
Usa didn’t directly take part in most of WW2, and he’s the biggest winner of WW2
Not to play and watch Taiwan become a colony of the US and block China within the 1st island chain?
Lmao for this logic
@@user-vy4fe8nj9d than who drop the atom bomb on Japan? Who land the normady beach?? Did china did that?? I don't think so"~how about ccp?? Last time I check ccp is hiding during ww2 not helping fight back Japanese empire but gathering resources for their interests ~
下面有些人很驚訝台灣人的想法怎麼好像離現實很遠。
以我觀察到的現象，台灣人的確享用資訊自由，但我看到的多數台灣人，並沒有好好運用這份自由去拓展視野。
尤其現在年輕一代很多只在乎台灣獨立，而無條件支持反中的任何組織，並聽信「綠共」的各種言論 。
因為中華人民共和國的「壓迫」，台灣人對自由與身份格外敏感，敏感到...會為了爭取自由而看不見其他東西。
比如當大家看到美國的陰謀時，很多台灣人還是會因為覺得美國會幫台灣對抗中共而支持美國。
這種盲目，何不也是被洗腦?
台湾年轻人真的太幼稚了
事實證明那兩位老人家是最理智的
What I understand is that the countries that even have "independent" medias still lacks knowledge.
Having independent medias doesn't mean everyone is smart
The truth has been spoken. I love being right. You who know who you are - your lies are worth less by the month. The majority of Taiwan (newer generations) knows better because they were allowed to think freely.
@@user-zk4ns9uf5d most people will just tend to listen to the information they want to hear and get stuck in their own information cocoons.
@@yangz1803 you mean the little pinky CHINAZI?
Independent=biased
Damn, I wish they can interview me lol. Maybe I should start walking in that area.
Haha, you're so cute.
what is your opinion, then? :)
@@dcar6530 judging from his name, I would say he's a part of the 5 cents army. I could be wrong tho 😂
@@12823matthewkao umm no lol
I was gonna debate with some of the points but I then realized there is no right and wrongs. Just different perspectives. So I wish everyone happy and let’s looking forward to a peaceful world! ❤️
It's horrifying what Ukrainian military with Ukrainian Neo Nazi are doing to it's own people. Thank God for sending Vladimir Putin to help.
except there are right and wrongs. at 6:01 the girl said russia saw ukraine as a part of them, which is totally untrue, as russia has officially recognized ukraine's sovereignty. Meanwhile, mainland china doesn't seen taiwan as a country at all, and all countries are faced with choosing between mainland china and taiwan via the one china policy in order to create diplomatic relations. and the fact is, the majority recognizes the mainland, not taiwan. therefore, if mainland china were to attack taiwan, it legally would not be the same implication AT ALL. This is what happens when you don't know the law or any history and just go by feel. that girl said many things that just were straight up factually untrue lol
@@AUMINER1 help? Destroying a whole country and killing lots of innocent people?
@@NO1xANIMExFAN lets just save the argument and get out of our own little world. ❤️I hope people don’t die fighting others war!
@@TheHoonJin help taking care of the nazi nato problem that has corrupted Ukraine ever since pdobiden and his crack addict son started raping Ukraine for it's energy reserves. No innocent civilians are being killed, only violent nazi's and radical western thugs. zelensky sold out his own people, and ever since the US coup in 2014, he taunted and threatened Russia. Putin said NO MORE war, and went to task cleaning up Ukraine.
Ukraine at least had 8 years of civil war before the current war with Russia. Ukraine has been training their army and preparing for fights, but Taiwan does not.
@7 Wei Taiwan has got worse equipment. The US is shorting the ROC govt big time. Won’t ever get the F35 as they don’t expect Taiwan to hold out in case of invasion, and they don’t want the F35 to fall into the hands of the PLA. The West has been much more generous and trusting towards Ukraine
@@asw654 How do you figure, the US won't even help Poland give Ukraine outdated Migs, let alone F-16s.
@@KM-jf6bn The US has donated billions' dollars of equipment to Ukraine in the past few yrs. But you're right about the air force.
@@asw654 And we constantly have multi-billion dollar weapons sales to Taiwan. Taiwan can afford it is the the difference, so we sell, instead of just donate. They also get much nicer systems because Ukraine is still using old Russian/Soviet legacy tech.
Taiwan’s ground forces are pretty sad, though, true.
It's actually 300 years of Russian aggression.
that pink girl is super funny. US is a big mum, lol.
很多还是挺幼稚的
American mom and dad will help Tanwai…there is even no military alliance agreement between them.
But USA must will provide weapons to Taiwanese to fight till last Taiwanese.😂
Asian Boss seek to hear the opinion of Taiwanese on Ukraine-Russia War, but ended up discussing heavily on China-Taiwan topic. LOL !
Btw I love it :D
In Taiwan, every topic will eventually connect to China-Taiwan issue. Even entertainment.
CHINA and TAIWAN should have a meaningful talk and find a peaceful solution
There is only one soulution： Taiwan reunify with China，peacefully or not, we don’t care.
There were many. The reason of the recent tension is simply because the current Tsai administration doesn't want to agree with the description of the mainland-Taiwan relationship that all previous Taiwan administrations agreed with, in the name of democracy.
guess who refuse to do that
ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government. PRC should surrender to ROC
@@saint_matthias They lost the war.
geopolitics is and always will be the issue between China and Taiwan. I personally will never want war, and I don't care about weather Taiwan should reunion with China. But unfortunately the risk of war will only decrease if China-US relation become better.
ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
It is so funny that one of the interviewers condemned war but said the US was like Taiwan's mother. So Hilarious!
感觉大部分的台湾人应该都这么想的，只是她用通俗的话说出来。小国其实也只能依附大国，没有资源，土地，人口，军事，你叫它拿什么靠自己。如何在大国之间摇摆，获取利益最大化才是小国的生存之道。
@@yingquanwang6662 ???小国？台湾是个省……而且，依附美国的利益最大化就是吃莱猪咩？大陆怎么对不起台湾了，那么多惠台政策，那么支持，然后一被美国媒体还有民进党媒体洗下脑，就美国妈妈了？就大陆没人权了？就香港动乱成了大陆压迫了？台湾同胞们，还看不清美国这个国家的本质吗？它给多少国家带来了战火，给多少国家带来了灾难，然后拍拍屁股就走人了！
@@yingquanwang6662 说实在的，我这一代从小是受两岸一家亲的思想宣传长大的，也经历过马英九期间两岸关系比较融洽的时期。所以，我对现在的台湾一代，真的是感情复杂。别的不说，就那种给美国舔鞋子的态度，真的让我很难受。但我也不想过多去谴责他们这种态度--因为我知道，在台湾的政治宣传下，太多不过随波逐流罢了。
Not sure when this video was made, but several Taiwanese channels already did street interviews weeks ago regarding this topic, with literally the same questions. You can find them on youtube too, but it's in Mandarin or Taiwanese (Hokkien).
and they have better answers too bc they weren't cherry-picked by this garbage channel
I just want more touchy and sensitive street interviews. Good Job AB!
The fighting between the KMT and CCP is very fierce with heavy casualties with millions dead. of course they are brothers. it's just brotherly love.
The textbook was changed in early 2000s, after that the new identity was given to the young people. Is this a type of brainwash ?
Of course
Claiming Taiwan is part of PRC in textbook is a type of brainwash too.
@@user-zk4ns9uf5d how? ROC constitution does not say that? And ROC textbook did not say that before?
@@markchiu1716 I can't understand your words.
@@user-zk4ns9uf5d I man ROC constitution does not say Taiwan is not part of China?
Dude why keep miss leading the meaning when it come to topic related to China.
That reporter ask 4:35 will china help russia in this war, the guy reply should be " there is just very little chance " for china to help russia. Instead you guys twist it to there is a small chance?? Even though both word is about same meaning but it is not same in this situation. Again and again and now I am convinced that you guys are intend to twist the meaning for sure. Many of your vids has proven again and again, disappointed
I like Asian Boss because "rich information" from media has very low value, which is true in every corner of the world.
Great interviews also reflect how precious peace we currently enjoy across taiwan strait and in east asia. A 40 years of peace we have is a true blessing
"Since USSR and China were communist countries[...] China might help [Russia]" man this kid knows nothing.
good to see that not all Taiwanese think like those lunatic green camp extremist. The couple girl who said China will not invade for now because they would've already if they want to is really smart and observant. Also the guy who pointed out using military force will remain in China's table regardless of Russia-Ukraine situation. I'm not sure what the interviewer is trying to get here, China's view on Taiwan is based on deep historical relation and it will not be strengthened or lessened based on arbitrary conflicts between foreign nations.
Lastly the girl in pink hoodie is utterly clueless of what she's talking about. When she said Taiwan could be similar to Ukraine because Russia views Ukraine as part of their nation territory I facepalmed 🤦♂️
I'm pretty sure pink hoodie having a brainwashed head
she really said "war is a thing of the past"....
@@benzi19951 chinese so called wumaos think taiwanese peoples logic will be the same as them which is funny. You can't put authoritarian values and beliefs on to countries like taiwan
@@bobhair1554 Why funny? are you actually laughing? You said countries, which one? They never promoted their values to other countries. If you're saying Taiwan, I'm sorry Taiwan is not a country. Wake up.
@@benzi19951 taiwan is a country, why not ? even the Chinese government doesn't recognize taiwanese passport
"US is like a mom protecting its children"
Joke of the century ft. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Palestine and now Ukraine (Bringing leader of choice;Zelensky, and making them join NATO).
The generational differences are very apparent here. I hope there is only peace for both countries. 🙏
Taiwan is not a country.
@Tunnelext Taiwan and West Taiwan is a country. One day they will be unified again and Greater Taiwan will finally rival the US.
The losers' repeated lies a thousand times will not change the international fact that Taiwan belongs to China and the Communist Party is China's only legitimate government
China and Taiwan is one country. The outsiders please step out of our civil conflicts.
Nikapika "Taiwan" has never been a country. Its governed by Republic of CHINA, a CHINESE state that claims to be the country called CHINA. And even once sat in the UN representing the country called CHINA.
The matter between Republic of China and Peoples Republic of China is a matter of civil war. Civil war means war within the SAME country. Its not 2 different countries
战争很遥远？美国不是几乎天天都在打仗吗😂
她竟然说战争是发生在古代的🤣
It's really funny that they think the USA would defend Taiwan because of "freedom".
I don't have much words to say. But sharing a piece of text from the Literature Art textbook of grade 1 in China's Mainland:
一隻船，揚白帆，
漂呀漂呀到台灣。
接來台灣小朋友，
到我學校玩一玩。
伸出雙手緊緊握，
熱情的話兒説不完。
----《歡迎台灣小朋友》出自中國大陸人教版語文教科書一年級上冊
Eng(please don't mind it's translated by website):
A boat with white sails,
Drift and drift to Taiwan.
Pick up Taiwanese children,
Come to my school,
Hold out your hands,
There is no end to warm words.
----"Welcome Taiwan children" comes from the first volume of the first grade of the Chinese textbook published by the people's education edition of mainland China
NOBODY wants war🙏🙏🙏
Every mainland Chinese knows this poem
@@christianli1578 you do realise if China thinks Taiwan will not be unified, it has said it is willing to use full and bomb all the Taiwanese families and cities in Taiwan cities? what do you think war is?
However we don't want to belong to you, a country has no freedom 😮💨
From what happened in Ukraine, the taiwanese people should consider it's not a great idea to trust in the
USA to defend your future...
well it's more of a "it would be nice if you help, but i don't expect you would." attitude.
They were also very unlucky, to have to deal with Trump that tried to use Ukraine for his own personal gains.
Ukraine seems to be holding off Russia well. I don't think Ukrainians ever seriously thought the US would intervene militarily on their behalf. It doesn't hurt to guilt the US for as much support as possible though.
@@KM-jf6bn Oh you know, they are just making money with this war... Ukraine will never recover its previous borders, lots of people are suffering (for 8 years actually) and EU's countries are acting against their vital interests... It's a really really sad moment for Europe, and it was absolutely avoidable, US weapons in Europe aren't a peace guarranty, all the contrary.
@@glegof999 The US isn't making much money off this. It's largely just giving weapons to Ukraine. Weapons manufacturors may make a bit more money but given the sanctions on Russia, US companies are losing far more in sales overall. To suggest this conflict is some sort of massive economic win for the US is hilarious. This is primarily a political matter.
Because maybe people have more than just economic interests, I know, shocking.
Some interviewees are naive to think US will help them if war breaks out.
I think you’re naive if you think the US won’t intervene
@@Ivan-td7kb last time ukraine had been told the same thing
@@christianli1578 Ukraine is worthless for the US. Taiwan, on the other hand, is a precious ally.
@@akapilka precious ally?
@@akapilka usa will defend the country which she herself doesnot recognize as a country?
Thanks for giving us different points of view Asian Boss!!!
Ukraine is being used as a condom by klaus schwab and the WEF globalists....
I am a Chinese mainland and my girlfriend is Taiwanese. She told me that Taiwanese people have completely considered themselves independent. If China starts a war, then Taiwanese will resist the last one. To be honest, I do not agree with her. Because now is the missile age. If China really wants to solve the Taiwan issue, it will only need some missiles to solve it. Unfortunately, the Taiwanese are too naive. And deliver their own destiny to the United States, which will run away at any time，However, there will be many problems after the war. First, there are many Taiwanese in China. Maybe those Taiwanese will establish a Resistance Army in China after the war, which will have a certain impact on China. Second, western countries will not intervene in the war, but will take the opportunity to impose economic sanctions and blockade on
@@dianasweet2385 民进党真的祸害年轻人啊，这么多台湾年轻人都被洗脑了，他们只把国家的命运寄托给那以自身利益为最大的美国😔
@@dianasweet2385 I think opposite, If China think that using war and missiles can fix the issue, that is naïve! it will only fall into the trap. It doesn't matter U.S or western support Taiwan or not.
@@dianasweet2385
1.During WWII Japanese empire’s invasion of China, China should have just given up.
2. It is ok to kill your girlfriend, girlfriends family, and friends if they don’t summit to China.
Great interviews as always. Amazed how well-spoken people are. I would have such a hard time finding words when randomly interviewed. Guess it comes more natural to some.
These interviews aren't random, Asian Boss has been known to pre-determine the opinions expressed, then fake like they are random street interviews.
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She made a very bad judgement. Taiwanese might think foreign forces can stop China’s attempt of landing, but that is not true.
The main reason PLA has not yet landed on Taiwan is that a lot of Mainlander indeed consider ethnical Chinese in Taiwan as their brothers.
Thus, military operations which might cause severe casualties on both side is not what they seek.
However, if Japanese come to help Taiwan, this war will turn from “an attempt to reunificate”into “an anti-invasion war against Japanese”. This will boost Chinese morales, and increase their endurance to economic sanctions-which is a crucial part of regional conflict.
Well said. The nature of conflict would change completely if Japan, or any other country really, interfered militarily.
You are right. I am in the domestic environment, and I know the attitude of our domestic people and media towards Japan.
But Taiwan's situation is not similar to the one of Ukraine. Rather, it's similar to the situation of Donbas.
Neither Taiwan nor Donbas are internationally recognized countries, and both are "threatened" with reunification.
In the China - Taiwan scenario, China would be like Ukraine: Trying to reconquer its own lost territories, while Taiwan would be like Donbas, trying to achieve independence, while the USA would be like Russia: a foreign country intervening to prevent the mother country (i.e, Ukraine and China) to reconquer its secessionist province (i.e. Donbas and Taiwan)
the only different are , ukraine didnt have nuke , if us invade china , we will see nuke war
The girl that said "War seems like a thing of the past".
Where she been? There are conflicts for the last 50 years.
Most Taiwanese young people are naive
I am a bit disappointed in these answers. Taiwan expects the USA to die for them, if attacked. But they seem to not give so much thought about Ukraine being murdered… If they are so indifferent, why should we be?
Another great interview thanks Asian boss
作为一个普通的中国人，我想最好还是维持现状，不统不独的状态，感觉双方矛盾这几年越来越激化，台湾媒体每天报道大陆如何打压台湾，大陆媒体每天报道台湾民进党想搞台独，把台湾从中国（一中各表，按你理解的来）分裂出去，和你们的天然独一样，大陆年轻人天然认为台湾是中国的，双方在各自的教育和新闻影响下无法理解对方，民粹的声音越来越高涨，希望双方政府可以在未来寻找一个更明智的方法解决此事。
我希望尽快统一，大陆希望不统的有几个？当年以为要打战了，我们的位置在最前线，老人准备带着我们这些小孩去内陆，但大家依然很高兴国家可以统一了。他们并非不懂战争的残酷，恰恰因为他们经历过战争，所以非常清楚国家统一的重要性。我们当然希望和平统一，以更明智的方法解决，但以台湾和美国目前的行为来看，和平统一的可能性微乎其微
I think these are fair comparisons for people who aren’t too invested in the facts but technically and obviously wrong. The USSR/Russia formally recognized Ukraine as a sovereign country whereas neither the PRC nor the ROC nor even the UN recognize Taiwan as its own country.
Also, everyone just needs to stop saying Russia’s attack on Ukraine “came out of the blue”. That comes from the most ignorant people who haven’t paid any attention to the past two decades. Without even getting into minor events like NATO v Russian political and military posturing, Russia actually invaded Georgia back around 2008 and later invaded Ukraine in 2014 taking Crimea. They’ve since been fighting limited scope battles with Ukrainian paramilitary/military in the South East eg Donbas for 8 years. And the Ukrainian military blockaded/dammed a canal cutting water supply to Crimea which was costing the Russians millions to supply Crimea. For some reason, even Western reporters were either ignored or censored after they reported it. No one paying any attention to this should be saying the Russian invasion came out of nowhere
You tell me anything between the PRC and ROC comparable to this in the past 20 years. There hasn’t been any hints of it aside from usual empty Sabre rattlings. The Chinese ambassador and other officials’ shock at Russians actually acting this out and attacking directly at the Ukrainian capitol and not just limiting the fighting to the East.. that just reveals how many in the CPC top ranks themselves find an actual war/invasion to be crazy
Note, that I am actually sympathetic to green Taiwanese (ie independence advocates), but ultimate care more for peace as I do have family there. However, I am also on the side of objectivity. We should not compare Taiwan to Ukraine. They are not the same.
Yes. ROC is the original and real government whereas PRC is a rebel and imposter government.
@@saint_matthias using that logic then all government in china is fake and the real one is the Xia dynasty
@@CJONTHEHOUSE nope that's a very bad logic
@@CJONTHEHOUSE just report. She’s been spamming the same thing across multiple posts. wartime propaganda bots are everywhere these days…
What Russia formally recognized is of no importance to Russia first and foremost as Russia herself backed off several times on her own formal recognitions and signed agreements. Ukraine signed in 1994 the Budapest memorandum releasing it's nuclear arsenal in exchange for territorial guarantees and Russia offered those guarantees along with other western signatories. Well, that lasted only 20 years until Crimea. Putin has stated multiple times in the past year that Ukraine in an artificial state with no sovereignty because it's manipulated by the west and we see that his actions run along those absurd claims rather than the formal recognitions. You really should've followed your own advice and invested a tad more into knowing the facts about Russia and the Soviet Union to learn to separate Soviet and Russian words and promises from their actions and facts.
People in Taiwan even thought War is distant to them. It shows China is a real peaceful country
Haha funny... Chinese appreciate Chinese as peaceful lol
Better to ask your neighbors for their opinions, such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines or India, not yourself
@@JohnWick-cz3ph How many wars did China launch in these decades??
As a top power what about US and UK and Russia or etc??
@@jonjeong1178 Sino-Indian 1962 ; Sino-Soviet 1969; Sino-Vietnam 1979; Sino-Indian border conflict 2020~present
There is also the Korean war 1950 as well where China participated living now the north koreans in poverty and famine.
Don't ever paint China as anything as good they are they are also as shitty as US or Russia in the everything as well
@@klsan4249 2020’s one isn't war, No purpose, no benefit collide, just a small fight. and terminal with China‘s excellent action
@@jonjeong1178
I showed your ignorance by high lighting the wars China did in the past few decades as well as border conflicts that are still happening now to debunk your ignorance of the peaceful China.
Your view of China and your blindness towards the world reality is shown.
I will say it again. China is the same as any other country. They are trying to wrestle political points by only highlighting their good points while ignoring their bad and you still cannot see that.
更加堅定我的看法，台灣年輕人真的眼光需要提升檔次
“Taiwanese enjoy rich information and high freedom of expression”
She did not even know that Taiwan's constitution forbids independence
I guess she means free RUclips access. She doesn't know how the RUclips recommendation algorithm works.
you heard different opinions and a lot, so it's funny because a lot of comments are coming from people who only received heavily biased informations
@@yanaya713 still better then ch*na
When she said that, I cracked up lmao
This was so ridiculous that I became speechless
China should not choose war, using warships or missiles can block Taiwan. Taiwan is an island so it lacks supplies. Taiwan also has no escape routes.
Blockage is war. Otherwise, NATO now can intercept Russian cargo ships.
@@yanaya713 Yes, but people generally condemn whoever started the war without finding out why, like Pearl Harbor. Russia's present is Taiwan's future, forced to go to war first.
But what happens if other countries like Japan or the US continue sending supplies and trading with Taiwan? Do you really think China will be willing to shoot at them and start a war?
@@KM-jf6bn no war.Just stop the cargo ship. All by air is impossible.Then it becomes a game of who will go to war first.
@@kingsteam3095 How do you stop cargo ships other than shooting them? And all by air is not impossible at all, have you not heard of the famous Berlin Airlift? And that was a long time ago too.
The people of Taiwan are more likely to absorb all kinds of true and false political information and have no clear international outlook. On the contrary, the street interviews on the mainland are more organized and more kind to point out problems.
Because that's how voting for a candidate for the presidency and freedom of the press work. The presidential candidate to win the election often relied on popular support and therefore say what the people want. Which doesn't help when the Taiwanese are encouraged to fear china and portray the USA as their savor. That's without mentioning the twisted history they should've done to convince the populace that Taiwan is a sovereign country and they're different from the mainland.
Taiwan also believes in freedom of the press and therefore is susceptible to all kinds of information whether fake news, biased news or neutral ones.
Yes, because the majority of people in China receive their news from state-run media. Any speech remotely inclined towards criticizing the CCP is strictly forbidden. How can a governmental organization like the CCP be correct when they blatantly oppose any form of constructive critique?
@@kkomentor1037 The only thing you got right is china state-own media outlet, everything else are false.
viewpoints from countries like China are really different.
@@kkomentor1037 I don't know what you want to say? Only the people at the bottom of China know whether China's development is good or not. Improving their lives may be their goal! For example, everyone in Taiwan talks about politics, but after entering the 21st century, economic development has stopped! If Chinese mainland is too like this, the false news is flying everywhere, there is never a main thread of thinking, what is the development? China used to be ruled by warlords everywhere. At that time, ideas were in full bloom. It may be more comprehensive to look at the problem with history.
What makes me laugh is why do these people think that the US and Japan will help Taiwan? Their soldiers have their own families and are also other people's sons. Why are they willing to die for Taiwan? for freedom? No, their freedom is to choose not to participate in the war, not to go to Taiwan to die for someone they don't know.
Would like to ask the one who described USA as the mother character,"So, Ukraine is the abandonded child now?" How ironic and what a humiliation to the word,"Mother".
我厭惡台灣人的狂妄，喜歡台灣政府的自信和強勢，我為中國軍力的膨脹感到驕傲，也為中國政府的軟弱忍讓感到羞恥。
Like a mom? Funniest joke ever heard today, keep dreaming
我对这一期台湾采访失望，原因是没有营养。我完全没有听到任何有深刻见解的政治观点，更无专业的政治术语。
无论你的立场如何，你都应该清晰地表达自己的观点，有可靠的信息来源、保证逻辑上的缜密，以便于让听众真的明白你为何选择这样的立场。很遗憾我听到的是一些过于模糊且朴素的观点，以及抽象的感觉。受访者的信息来源也很单一。
相较之下，上海街头那一期采访好太多太多太多。不仅频繁出现专业政治术语，而且观点很丰富。我为上海同胞的思辨能力和受教育程度感到自豪。
為什麼一定要會專業術語😂😂這只是一般人民的想法。好太多太多太多的哪期可以給個連結嗎 想看😂
@@colourless2843 其实上海的那一期我觉得也一般，普通人对政治的理解都差不多，基本是以关心自己的生活为主。我说一下自己的观点供你参考吧。
关于台湾主权的定义：台湾拥有治权（即独立的司法，军队，政体）而没有主权（被大多数主权国家承认的主权）
关于台海两岸关系的国际大背景：在新的科技革命到来之前，中国的发展必然伴随着对发达国家对应产业的替代（家电-新能源汽车-5G通信-发展中的半导体/光刻机等）。再加上一带一路倡议对石油美元体系的严重威胁，得出的结论是中美的结构性矛盾无解，即中美对抗会长期存在。
台湾的地理位置：所谓“永不沉没的航母”，处于第一岛链的关键位置，又极为靠近大陆，对中国的重要性远超日韩等国，达到左右国家安全的地步。台海问题本质是中美问题。
那么台湾的可能性就只有两个：1亲中，那水到渠成的回归。2亲美，那中国更不可能容忍这个区域有一个亲美的独立国家存在，想尽办法也要统一。就像美国不惜拉全世界下水打核战争也不能让苏联在古巴部署导弹一样，就像俄罗斯不惜顶着全世界的指责也不让乌克兰加入北约一样。这一点无关道德，喜好，意识形态。纯就是中美俄这样的国家对地缘安全的重视程度远超其他国家。（其实还有个选项是中立，但由于台湾特殊的地理位置和与大陆同文同种的历史关系，这个选项等于不存在）
至于会不会武力统一：我个人的观点是不会。除非台湾发起独立公投改宪法，或者美国直接部署导弹系统等极小概率事件。
主要原因有三，详细说一下：
一是统一的最大困难不在统一本身而是统一后的治理。治理需要当地民众的支持，不要相信什么信息审查能控制思想，短视频时代政府信息过滤的能力小了很多很多（插句题外话，美国疯了一样要封禁tiktok大概也是因为tiktok没法审核，俄亥俄火车出轨和明尼苏达核废水排放都是tiktok爆出来的），人民有不满光靠信息压制是没用的，高压锅压到最后就是灾难性的大爆炸。所以武力统一无疑是给自己增加难度。
二是在目前的战略上看，随着2016年中美南海对峙最后美军撤退，菲律宾转换立场，以及RCEP建立，中国在亚太地区占据主动，毕竟台湾岛又跑不了（笑）。而美国的内部矛盾也在加大，所谓“时间在我”。这一点跟俄乌关系有本质的不同。
三是中国政府目前在国际上推行和平外交，沙特伊朗的斡旋就是第一步，现在已经在跟乌克兰和俄罗斯通电话了，希望能取得成果。这个时候武力统一台湾就是自己打自己的脸，可以说是外交上的重大失败。
@@colourless2843 至于统一之后：看了几期视频，台湾民众最大的担忧一个是自己的文化消失，一个是言论自由被践踏。
文化消失完全不用担心，时至今日大陆的每个省份都有自己的文化，我国是唯物主义实用主义国家，不存在文化歧视的法理土壤（个人行为不代表国家立场）。
言论自由是我目前对中央政府意见很大的点。我国的言论环境没有台湾民众想象的那么糟糕，也没有采访中的部分大陆民众描述的那么自由。就我目前感受到的是：各平台的屏蔽算法不一样，共同点是都很蠢，用谐音字可以规避，由此衍生出了一大批键政黑话和梗。至于什么讲反动言论会被抓起来这个完全不用担心，我之前也是铁反动派了，出国之前天天在网上骂政府，帖子被删了不知道多少也没被人找过，一般只有当你影响力特别大（如公众号等）会被约谈，或者是想组织示威游行的话有概率被找，但绝大多数情况不会真的把你关进监狱里。
但这并不代表我喜欢目前的国内互联网的言论自由环境，我觉得对于一部分议题应该放开管制，2010年后大量留学生出国（可以自行谷歌在美中国留学生数量），完成了对西方民主世界的祛媚，中国大陆年轻人看待世界和政治的观点总体上是更理性全面客观了，政府可以对人民多一些信任，没必要如此严防死守。我也大概明白顾虑在于想要避免互联网信息茧房效应导致的言论极端化，所以这个问题见仁见智。
但依然，我个人希望有朝一日两岸统一之后，能够连带着开放一部分互联网舆论管制，让该发出的声音被发出来，没什么好怕的。
@@theguiltypleasuresmurf3881 你寫了好多😂😂但不好意思啊，以我的觀察你們那言論沒有自由 生活也特卷（我不是透過台灣媒體了解的我真的有到微博豆瓣b站等去了解）我還是比較喜歡台灣，雖然台灣自身也有很多問題，但生活真的很自在 就算領最低薪資也還算可以負擔生活，相對的也比較開放自由和快樂。
@@theguiltypleasuresmurf3881 不懂你有來過台灣嗎，或者可以來這裡生活一陣子就能知道我們眼裡的中國或中國人是怎樣的😂你可以怪台灣媒體或政黨帶風向，我也覺得有些台灣人看多了有點偏激。但不管怎麼說問題的核心真的就是你們政府的所作所為，烏魯木齊和北京醫院的那場火難道燒得還不夠旺嗎。也許你們看的是集體的榮耀，犧牲一些人沒什麼，但台灣是一個相對看重自我幸福感的地方。兩岸的思想早已經差得很遠了，又何必講什麼本是同根生硬要在一塊呢😂全世界那麼多華裔，就各自安好吧
Who normal would like to join a country where there is a communist system? which is a totalitarian system.
If the Nationalist party had won the civil war, would Taiwan today still declare themselves as an independent country?
Taiwan likely would have never had the chance. They wouldn't have had 70 years of self-rule.
What I want to mention is that Taiwan is just a province of China. It's definitely not a country.
好吧，你怎么敢反对中国共产党！！！！！！！！，你要去再教育营。