The subject matter of the Opium Wars and the subsequent evil fall out are huge and apologies on taking a very simplistic route but I wanted to plant curiosity so people could do their own research. See below link for a starting point. ruclips.net/video/nDwoBC_DtGc/видео.html
So, at that time Britain is a drug cartel and queen Victoria is the world's biggest drug dealer. Oh and why Britain Free Trade feels very familiar? Oh yeah American Free Trade 🤣🤣🤣
The Disunited States were also complicit in the Opium Trade as Harvard University was formed out of selling opium in China too. If you are able watch the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 documentary by PBS American Experience, do so, as the reasons proffered to exclude the Chinese after toiling with their blood and muscles to build the east to west railroad, they were excluded from migrating to the Disunited States. Without stealing the land from Canada to Australia, the Anglo Saxon population in Britain would be living in crowded conditions and thus fighting with each other for space. It is this subjugation that has allowed them to form what is today called the collective west. I am very saddened by the sight of this Summer Palace despite knowing the background to it. The scale model is a magnificent testimony of the great Chinese civilisation throughout the centuries.
Tq so much Lian for making this video, if I'm not mistaken as I have suggested. It's heart breaking to see what's left of it after the criminal arsonists, mainly the British and the French looted and burned it to the ground. Its majesty can now only be appreciated viewing the surviving photographs of the exquisite buildings, lakes and palaces. Destroying it is an understatement when one consider what it was done for. It's equivalent to burning down 10 Buckingham Palaces, with the Windsor Castle thrown in.
Thanks Spadey Say, you made a great connection to what it would have been the equivalent too… burning down Buckingham Palace. It is sad that we do this kind of stuff and I wish we could all get along and build great things as humans. ❤️
Great video about an element of history that I was never taught in school. When I was in Beijing I was accused a few times of ransacking the Summer Palace and being involved in the 8 national invasion that squashed the Boxer revolution. Funny how Chinese mates would suddenly get nasty and accuse me personally! By the way, I've just last week arrived in Tianjin and I'm doing my quarantine, after which I'll be getting back to Changchun to see the wife after two years.
It was in retaliation for an attack in defence and so it was robbed and then burnt to make a statement. This is would have been the equivalent of burning down Buckingham Palace!! 😬
It would have been great to visit in the summer Jason but some days it is unbearably hot so never much fun… but well done if you braved it during that kind of heat!! 👍
@@ForAllLifesAdventures We did the Forbidden Palace as well and that was a really hot day. We did find an air conditioned room with a photo exhibition, which we stayed in for awhile to cool down. That was the last trip we decided to do in the summer, now we generally visit China in the Spring or late Autumn.
@@ForAllLifesAdventures I will do, but we won't be heading over there until Covid restrictions are reduced for visitors. Also I don't think we can get direct flights at the moment to Shenyang from the UK.
Thank you Ben, that is something I am trying to work on in preparation for retirement in many years as I enjoy doing the editing. It feels like doing a jigsaw puzzle and my dad, who is no longer with us, and I used to do jigsaws together so it is a calming, peaceful experience for me.
@@ForAllLifesAdventures Editing is the most challenging thing for me, sometimes I just can't get it right. It is definitely something that needs practice. Keep it up! I will be watching.
Are you feeling guilty and uneasy after the truth had been told...let me phrase it for you... the EIC ( East India Company ) is a British Government controlled and they are the biggest opium dealer and cartel in the whole world... they robbed and stole priceless treasures from China and colonised Hong Kong... the British had their hands full of Chinese blood and payback time is just over the horizon .
@@CarpsterKing I can’t change the past but we can learn so we can have a better future. I also think you will find that the same things were perpetrated on my country if you take some time to research that. 🙏 👍
G'day Iain, good on you to bring a new lens to the heinous activities of the West including the Disunited Kingdom. How can any of the military personnel commit such vandalism is beyond me? In Malaysia, as late as the 1960s, they build lots of "new villages" aka concentration camps to contain the Communist insurgency waged by the MPAJA aka Malayan People Anti Japanese Army who fought and died for the Federation but was betrayed by the British on defeating the Japanese Imperial Army. They were denied a seat at the table of independence and demonised as communist and a threat to the newly declared independent Malaysia. That is why I challenged Jerry Take on China channel, for praising the monarchy as he worked with the current incumbent king and family members. He opined that they are good people. I took him to task as it is not a matter of nice people or not but the monarchy represent an anachronism and was complicit in lots of these crimes against humanity and wanton destruction and subjugation of people across the colonies from slavery to this instance, the subjugation of the Chinese through the opium trade. Just like now, they continue to goad China into a war over Taiwan for no reason other than their racism to think this race is not entitled to progress and cannot be better than they are. If they left Taiwan alone to develop in tandem with the PRC, I am of no doubt that re-unification will eventually take place. Such is life. 🌹🌹🌹
Hi Hang, I am not a fan of any monarchy - a throwback to days gone and their very beginnings were brutal as they clung onto religion to terrorise the masses. A belief that they had divine rights because they were put her by a god sounds ridiculous these days. As for Taiwan, I always felt if left alone time will bring both together. 👍
It is an anger that every Chinese should rightly feel and you have expressed that bitterness very eloquently. It may be impolite, but it cannot be denied that the British has yet to account for the iniquities that they imposed on China and the Chinese people over the past 3 centuries. What's worse is they seemed determined to want to reimpose the evil again with their current bellicosity towards a China that has done them no harm or wrong. That is other than getting up to stride in peace, progress and development.
A pretty simple solution would be to not actively claim Taiwan. And as for the racism aspect, doubtful. Its nothing to do with race and is just about a rival country having different views than them. And also not upholding their commitments to democracy in HK.
@@twopercentflat4766 If you don't already know, Taiwan is a province of China. And it's not a claim. It's a fact of history and reality. HK never had democracy, certainly not from day 1 to the last day of British rule. It is enjoying more democracy since its return to the motherland than the Brits ever permitted. Learn some accurate history, not the fiction in your head.
Words fail me when I see such a beautiful splendid building destroyed by foreign colonial powers.
It is sad… so many things around the world were destroyed and lost forever, although a lot ended up int he British Museum! 😬
Many Cultural artifacts destroyed by the revolution...
Many cultures suppressed during China's history.
@@twopercentflat4766 that is also factual. Thank you for sharing.
The subject matter of the Opium Wars and the subsequent evil fall out are huge and apologies on taking a very simplistic route but I wanted to plant curiosity so people could do their own research.
See below link for a starting point.
ruclips.net/video/nDwoBC_DtGc/видео.html
So, at that time Britain is a drug cartel and queen Victoria is the world's biggest drug dealer. Oh and why Britain Free Trade feels very familiar? Oh yeah American Free Trade 🤣🤣🤣
The Disunited States were also complicit in the Opium Trade as Harvard University was formed out of selling opium in China too. If you are able watch the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 documentary by PBS American Experience, do so, as the reasons proffered to exclude the Chinese after toiling with their blood and muscles to build the east to west railroad, they were excluded from migrating to the Disunited States. Without stealing the land from Canada to Australia, the Anglo Saxon population in Britain would be living in crowded conditions and thus fighting with each other for space. It is this subjugation that has allowed them to form what is today called the collective west. I am very saddened by the sight of this Summer Palace despite knowing the background to it. The scale model is a magnificent testimony of the great Chinese civilisation throughout the centuries.
Essentially, Queen Victoria sanctioned the drug trade far and wide and Parliament permitted that and so much more… how so little changes. 😆
Tq so much Lian for making this video, if I'm not mistaken as I have suggested.
It's heart breaking to see what's left of it after the criminal arsonists, mainly the British and the French looted and burned it to the ground. Its majesty can now only be appreciated viewing the surviving photographs of the exquisite buildings, lakes and palaces. Destroying it is an understatement when one consider what it was done for. It's equivalent to burning down 10 Buckingham Palaces, with the Windsor Castle thrown in.
Thanks Spadey Say, you made a great connection to what it would have been the equivalent too… burning down Buckingham Palace. It is sad that we do this kind of stuff and I wish we could all get along and build great things as humans. ❤️
Buck house is a crude building compared to the Summer Palace.
@@AnnieT369 that’s true… 👍
If you want to see the artifacts, art, antiques from the Old Summer Palace Beijing come check it out in the London museum in uk.
Been there done that.
Summer Palace is really huge and beautiful
Both summer palaces are huge and beautiful and this was my first time in the old summer palace. ❤️
I wish I could see how the Summer Palace was before the burn down 😭
That would have been beautiful to see. 👍
@@ForAllLifesAdventures It seems like majority of the architecture and temples were made from stone.
@@RamMohammadJosephKaur they were but also plated with jade and jewels but a lot of that was stolen.
planning to visit this place next week. Beautiful place
I hope you get a beautiful blue sky day as it is a great place to visit especially when the weather is good. ❤️
Great video about an element of history that I was never taught in school.
When I was in Beijing I was accused a few times of ransacking the Summer Palace and being involved in the 8 national invasion that squashed the Boxer revolution. Funny how Chinese mates would suddenly get nasty and accuse me personally!
By the way, I've just last week arrived in Tianjin and I'm doing my quarantine, after which I'll be getting back to Changchun to see the wife after two years.
Thanks Robin… yeah, great to hear you at getting closer to being back to your wife and home. Sound news. 👍
I like the Charlie Chaplin's dance you did. It looks easy to do, but hard on the knees.
It is not easy and my knees are not the best… old age hasn’t been kind to my knees!! 😂
Wow, excellent find.
Why would they burn this beauriful place down. To cover up their robbery??
It was in retaliation for an attack in defence and so it was robbed and then burnt to make a statement. This is would have been the equivalent of burning down Buckingham Palace!! 😬
It's a great place to visit, when I went it was during the summer and was really to hot to enjoy wandering around.
It would have been great to visit in the summer Jason but some days it is unbearably hot so never much fun… but well done if you braved it during that kind of heat!! 👍
@@ForAllLifesAdventures We did the Forbidden Palace as well and that was a really hot day. We did find an air conditioned room with a photo exhibition, which we stayed in for awhile to cool down. That was the last trip we decided to do in the summer, now we generally visit China in the Spring or late Autumn.
@@Big_Blue_Monkey Beijing in the Summer is very hot so I try and stay away from trips during the day. The Forbidden City is a great place to visit.
@@Big_Blue_Monkey let me know if you are heading to Beijing and we could grab a beer.
@@ForAllLifesAdventures I will do, but we won't be heading over there until Covid restrictions are reduced for visitors. Also I don't think we can get direct flights at the moment to Shenyang from the UK.
Great editing mate 👍 I subscribed.
Thank you Ben, that is something I am trying to work on in preparation for retirement in many years as I enjoy doing the editing. It feels like doing a jigsaw puzzle and my dad, who is no longer with us, and I used to do jigsaws together so it is a calming, peaceful experience for me.
@@ForAllLifesAdventures Editing is the most challenging thing for me, sometimes I just can't get it right. It is definitely something that needs practice. Keep it up! I will be watching.
@@beninchina 🙏 I have subscribed to your channel. It’s great 👍
@@ForAllLifesAdventures Thanks mate! Just getting started.
@@beninchina keep going, you are excellent 👍
#neverforget
We should never forget 👍
Never again.
U.K. doesn’t have the capability
You are an exceptional puppet, blink twice if you were forced or paid to do this .
Fact is fact.
I am ‘exceptional’ - thank you, that’s great. As G Liu said, fact is fact.
Weird perception.
Are you feeling guilty and uneasy after the truth had been told...let me phrase it for you... the EIC ( East India Company )
is a British Government controlled and they are the biggest opium dealer and cartel in the whole world... they robbed and stole priceless treasures from China and colonised Hong Kong... the British had their hands full of Chinese blood and payback time is just over the horizon
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@@CarpsterKing I can’t change the past but we can learn so we can have a better future. I also think you will find that the same things were perpetrated on my country if you take some time to research that. 🙏 👍
G'day Iain, good on you to bring a new lens to the heinous activities of the West including the Disunited Kingdom. How can any of the military personnel commit such vandalism is beyond me? In Malaysia, as late as the 1960s, they build lots of "new villages" aka concentration camps to contain the Communist insurgency waged by the MPAJA aka Malayan People Anti Japanese Army who fought and died for the Federation but was betrayed by the British on defeating the Japanese Imperial Army. They were denied a seat at the table of independence and demonised as communist and a threat to the newly declared independent Malaysia. That is why I challenged Jerry Take on China channel, for praising the monarchy as he worked with the current incumbent king and family members. He opined that they are good people. I took him to task as it is not a matter of nice people or not but the monarchy represent an anachronism and was complicit in lots of these crimes against humanity and wanton destruction and subjugation of people across the colonies from slavery to this instance, the subjugation of the Chinese through the opium trade. Just like now, they continue to goad China into a war over Taiwan for no reason other than their racism to think this race is not entitled to progress and cannot be better than they are. If they left Taiwan alone to develop in tandem with the PRC, I am of no doubt that re-unification will eventually take place. Such is life. 🌹🌹🌹
Hi Hang, I am not a fan of any monarchy - a throwback to days gone and their very beginnings were brutal as they clung onto religion to terrorise the masses. A belief that they had divine rights because they were put her by a god sounds ridiculous these days. As for Taiwan, I always felt if left alone time will bring both together. 👍
It is an anger that every Chinese should rightly feel and you have expressed that bitterness very eloquently. It may be impolite, but it cannot be denied that the British has yet to account for the iniquities that they imposed on China and the Chinese people over the past 3 centuries. What's worse is they seemed determined to want to reimpose the evil again with their current bellicosity towards a China that has done them no harm or wrong. That is other than getting up to stride in peace, progress and development.
A pretty simple solution would be to not actively claim Taiwan. And as for the racism aspect, doubtful. Its nothing to do with race and is just about a rival country having different views than them. And also not upholding their commitments to democracy in HK.
@@twopercentflat4766 you should dig deeper in your research, you are most there. 👍
@@twopercentflat4766 If you don't already know, Taiwan is a province of China. And it's not a claim. It's a fact of history and reality. HK never had democracy, certainly not from day 1 to the last day of British rule. It is enjoying more democracy since its return to the motherland than the Brits ever permitted. Learn some accurate history, not the fiction in your head.