The moral of current geopolitical situation is “when the best student recognised that someone is catching up and be more smarter than him, he will do whatever to press that person down’.
Just so you know. The PLA pushed Americans out of Korea. Without a navy or an air force. Westerners, stop poking the dragon. It breaths fire if you go too far.
@Akimbo Soulassassin the mention of the Korean War is significant not because anybody won, as you point out , the PLA with no navy , offensive air capability , poorly equipped , managed to beat US and UN forced to a stalemate despite atrocious casualties .
@Akimbo Soulassassin Westerners think that winning wars is a bean counting game - it is not the weapons or money that wins wars but people behind the weapons - Russians lost 20 million fighting Hitler and that's how Hitler was stopped - Ditto for Chinese and Vietnamese - war is not for softies - the Hollywood popcorn munching versions of great wars are for suckers.
@@andrewlim7751 Russian war planes were sent as air cover to help China - if not for that China would have still won but with more casualties and entire Korean peninsula would have been taken by China - If Korea was taken both Russia and China would have been in danger - same situation applies today - if they do not stick together they would be taken apart and Cannibalized.
Look at the facts. 1. China has one base outside it while the US has 800 bases. 2. China's last war was in 1979 when it aided cambodia and entered Vietnam territory for two to show support for its ally, the US according to data released by the US Congressional Research Service, from 1789 to 2022, the United States launched 469 military interventions overseas. 3. China has 350 nuclear warheads while the US has 3,750 warheads. 4. China has never sanctioned anyone except in retaliation while the US does it left and right. 5. China has never done color revolution, coup d'etats while the US has done it so many times it's not even funny. 6.etc. etc. China have never been a threat to world peace, it is the US.
Interesting talk. However, although it might look balanced from a Western perspective, it isn't. Seems like the main purpose is to comfort an academic Western audience by trying to convince them that China isn't *that* threatening and apart from that Western security is always guaranteed by the nuclear option as ultima ratio. Not for a second they thought about how the West has been and still is the major threat to the rest of the world, especially to China most recently. Not for a second they thought about what should be done about it.
how to label countries and cultures... it is confucius who was able to discern tribes kingdoms traditions and cultures: the psyche of a peoples in the making and shaping of a vast and great everlasting-existince civilization through MORALITY...
not exactly "bias"... they lack real knowledge about henry V napoleon bonaparte, john locke karl marx, how can they be able to understand confucius qin shi huang mao tse tung xi jinping... much less to understand the vast china civilization to their newly formed eu...
This guy is wrong, the East has their own priorities in terms of human rights. The East does not object the western human rights ( the right to vote ? ). Look at the Middle East, how does democracy doing there ? Does Democracy work well in Asian, EU or Africa ? To China at this period of time, human rights means the ability to live, to work, to be educatied, to enjoy health care services ... etc.
Not what the government wants but what the people wants that is concerning. The Chinese government is doing a fine job curbing excessive nationalism and impatience of the Chinese people.
Thanks guys that was time well spent, I enjoyed very much. My wife is Chinese’s so I have been going there for the last 15 years, I remember the first time I went to China I was very apprehensive leaving Australia which is one of the world’s leading democracy, going to a country that is one of the world’s leading communist countries, but my fears were unfounded I found the people to be very friendly, I felt at home in China its now a country I love, BTY ordinary people are not communist, just the ruling party, CCP.
Thank you for a very insightful look into China, and I am very impressed with Mr Sheikh understanding and analysing China's potential rise to be a superpower. My wish is that the world will come together united as one and learn to respect and treat each other with courtesy and common decency. Peace and love to all mankind.
The only difference between 'west' and 'east' is the way people deal with responsibilities. The system built upon lies and blood by you is collapsing, and you still trying to save it by making it looks good. How selfish, and how narrow minded.
"The biggest democracy is India", this statement is wrong, basically, I only agree "The biggest country with election is India", because, 【Democracy is not equal to Election】, if Western people still think democracy is equal to election, anyone can tell me why you elected Hitler to lead Germany? "the Communist party speaks of democracy as well", that's right, because Chinese philosopher started to talk about "democracy" around 2500 years ago, if I use western concept to describe what this Chinese philosopher said, he thought that "democracy" is 【of the people plus for the people】, that's the "democracy" in Chinese people's concept.
Very objective and balanced. Haroon brought up the prejudices that the West has and its sense of superiority it has in terms of having very strong opinions about what China does in Hong Kong, Taiwan etc. and threw it back to the audience to imagine flipping it the other way where Chinese has very strong opinions about what the West do.
The rise of China is a blessing to the world especially the poor and undeveloped countries. Unlike the west China never use gun diplomacy and rob resources from them. China comes with real development of ports, railways, roads, telecommunications to boost the people standard of living and make them more prosperous. Poverty will be alleviated. When that is achieved there will be fewer conflicts or wars. That is China version of human rights contribution to the world. That is exactly what the west fears as they want to keep others poor and weak so they can manipulate to their whim and fancy. That is why they keep smearing China and suppressing China using all sorts of means but they will fail miserably.
Is India really a democratic country. If so then why is there still drastic discrimination amongst the lower caste by the Indian Government. Is there actually freedom of speech,expression,information etc in India. Are the people of the democratic world living in peace or fear or perhaps in a delusional world or yesteryears.
Because India is poor and can never compete the west that is why they don't care about India whether it is a true or false democracy. For example the west give us a headache by labeling Turkey as non democratic country (despite it is a clear democracy) and forgetting the military regime in Egypt.... it is simply because the regime in Turkey is strong enough to ignore western concerns whereas the Egyptian regime is a puppet regime came by coup supported by the US directly it is simply that they don't care about democracy as long as the regime is obeying them and follow their leadership and orders. So the simple definition of democracy is "following the US order" this is the basic true
Americans accept the idea that democracy is procedural: i.e., voting. This is faults. Democracy = outcome: majority-rule. American policies serve a tiny minority: less than 1%. Therefore, America is anti-democratic. Chinese policies serve the vast majority of the people. In the last 30 years 800 million people have been brought into the middle-class; absolute poverty has been irradicated. Therefore, China is a Democracy. Further: America sees itself in competition with everyone. The reason, it believes in Realism: i.e., Imperialism. China does not see itself in competition with anyone. China rejects Realism. China is anti-Imperialistic. Finally: the Thucydides Trap is a Western concept. If there's military conflict, it will be started by America.
China fought Korea Allies with US ,Canada ,India,Philippines ,many countries ,China fought alone ,Russian border war ,Vietnam border war , US fought Vietnam jungle wars ,American war in West Asians countries no results...
Why do we have to emphasize west and east? “Community of shared future for mankind”. Nobody heard about that? I am a Chinese traveled over 40 countries and now living in US. I often question myself how much westerners know about China? The west MSM did very bad job. The reports of China are mostly one side and biased. Even worse it’s politically not correct if they pro-China. Many expatriates visited China and they found China is completely different than what they have been told. Many decided to stay in China because its safety, rapid growth and more opportunities. When I travel, I always can find the common value and interest in other countries. So I hope people can abandon prejudice, let go of your mind to accept difference. “Seek common ground while reserving differences”. It’s ancient Chinese philosophy.
some history enthusiasts realized that all wars since 19th century is in the east hemisphere... and peoples of the west hemisphere bringing their soldiers bombs and guns to the east hemisphere...
You can easily understand China by looking at her history. Except for some border disputes she has never invaded any country, unlike European countries. In the 16th century she had an armada of hundreds of huge vessels sail far away, from east Africa to SE Asia, to So America, & never colonizing any place, although they could have done so. It is not in her DNA to go out & conquer. In fact china's Chinese name is "Jung guo" which means "central kingdom" (not "middle kingdom" as it's commonly mis-translated). "Central kingdom" meaning, they are the world's headquarters. China has a 5000 year history & for most of that, it was the richest & the dominant country in Asia. Now it feels it's returning to her rightful place after a century of humiliation when the west (& Japan) took advantage of her temporary weakness. She's back.
It's natural human behavior to feel threaten esp the number one power in the world by a fast rising country. However I think the US should work and cooperate with China in its own interest to stay number one . Because any road block by US would propel China to press further ahead to have its own dynamic to move forward to achieve its goal to surpass the US as the number one economic power in the world. From an economic point of view,in a competition,I think China would beat the US because in China,it is run by engineers/scientists while the US is run by lawyers .
Well Said >>> "coloniasm/imperialism/interventionism still exist in the name of democracy in the western world " Its not about east vs west as coloniasm still exist in the name of democracy. West always get annoyed when they see any colonized country rise in the world order. They think that only they have the right or whatsoever to rule the world.
@Studium Generale Delft, nice lecture. Maybe an idea to have an add-on to this e.g about the harbour in Greece, Greece’s former finance minister and professor, Yanis Varoufakis. On one of his interview he was also talking, lecturing about the harbour of Greece. And Professor Kishore Mahbubani, former ambassador at the UN and Singapore, he's one of the most well known expert in this field, he's also giving a lot of lecture, summits and interview. Also he has a very interesting book, also in Dutch, Has China Won? Perhaps you guys can invite these two experts to tell us more about this.
An often quoted of "debt-trap", 1. most of Sri Lanka's debts are owed to the West, not China 2.China in not going to move the harbour to China,are they?
@@tonytan6547 the debt trap is debunked for 2 years now. Watch this ruclips.net/video/4JHbR8HgcSI/видео.html Or do a search on Deborah Bräutigam She is a professor on John Hopkins University, she did reasearch on this with her team. The whole debt trap story and how is started is explained, but on the MSM we never will hear or read about this.
You guys are interesting as if "democracy" is a patent in the West. You have never defined clearly what democracy is and should be, what the true objective of democracy is and should be. So you can easily say China is not democratic, it's authoritarian.
yes... they dont even know what socrates said about democracy then what demogenes said about plato leaning to the ruling elites instead of what socrates talked about the peoples...
they only talk about their present superficial definitions of democracy... and they impose their definition of democracy to other nations by pointing guns and funding reactionaries to create chaos in the peoples' streets... where is MORALITY... and using the bible... the very fact that china has buddhist books and the middle east has quran... wonder if they converted the middle east war refugees to christianity...
U have a fantastic comments almost like a historian with facts that can not be challenged, this prompted me to write as follows: 1. These Western Oriented Genes have learned the wrong concept of democracy.. the Westerners does not have the patent neither the copy rights on the word democracy, using India is the largest democracy is an absolute wrong perspective about the real meaning n tenets of democracy base on the fact, the current Modi's leadership is one of the most fascist....... democracy is present in all forms of society since historical record of humanity.. while the degree n perspective of democratic values in varying levels..for example there was no historical discrimination of branding gay or LGBT in ancient society n the freedom from the dictate of systemic religion such as difference between Christianity n Islam, then it was truly freedom of expression ...there is democracy within socialism that common good n human responsibility is primary compared the individual freedom of choice just like the refusal to wear a mask during the Covid 19 pandemic against common good.. 2. The US n China rivalry is a conflict between a Western n Asian Culture, democracy is only the easiest playbook base on past 200 years of indoctrination against the Yellow Peril .. that manifested this Western Neo Liberal Christianity White Supremacy Egoism derived from past guilt, insecurity n paranoia of a REJUVENATING CHINA WITH THE STRENGTH OF A CIVILIZATION STATE THAT HAS LEARNED ITS LESSON FROM PAST 100 YEARS OF HUMILIATION MAINLY DUE TO ITS CULTURAL SELF SUFFICIENCY N SELF CONTAINMENT THAT MANIFESTED THE LACK OF WESTERN CULTURAL INSTINCT TO DOMINATE WITH AGGRESSION... 3. CHINA HAPPENS TO BE THE EASY TARGET FOR SCAPEGOATING BASE ON IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE AS A SOCIALIST STATE. BUT REALLY THE STRENGTH OF CHINA IS THEIR CULTURAL N CIVILIZATION STATE LEGACY, SOCIALISM IS ONLY A TOOL OF CONVENIENCE TO MANAGE ITS POPULATION SIZE.. secondly. It is the ills of modern democracy to have Donald Trump being elected in the most advanced democracy of America.. Another democratic ills is populism n patronage by selfishness of capitalist/capitalism... So democracy has different shades for different society to suit its national life Cycle...that is no absolute democracy! 4. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MAJORITY OF WESTERN INTELLECTUALS ARE OFTEN BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT IN ORDER TO MAKE A LIVING ...to capture the imagination of their audience.. so often their narratives are subjective !( Well this speaker is much more balanced n objective....)
China does not care whether it is a superpower or not. What China needs is to get what it deserves through its own efforts. Unlike the western world, which gets rich through war and exploitation of other countries, China is taking the road of peace and cooperation to develop itself and help other countries, While developing, the first two generations of our country have suffered a lot! China's rise is unrepeatable and irresistible. Don't be afraid of China's rise. China is an agricultural civilization and has no genes for Western pirates to plunder. Finally, we welcome people who really care about China to visit China, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. You will find different scenes from those reported by Western media. Don't just listen to CNN / BBC lies, go and have a look in person!
this guy talks in a self-congratuary manner, the rhetoric is that the Western system is far superior than the Chinese system, even praise the backwards Taiwan so called "democracy". Never mentioned any words about that only the Chinese practice has lifted hundreds of millions people out of poverty and built the best infrastructures, sent millions youths to study in STEM and achieved the best science and technology advancements in almost fields and many more. The West can still tell themselves and others that the best system and their universal suffrage system doesn't have major frauds, then it's doomed. They have never studied the Chinese efficient and result-driven select-and-elect political system. I think instead of wasting time to listen this non-chinese speaking "expert", i recommend you watch and listen to Martin Jacques, professor Kishore Mahbubani and Eric Lee.
Taiwan is not a sovereign country, if you guy wants to talk on world geopolitical issue, you should be clear on that...repeat Taiwan is not a country...Chinese PRC isn't a regime but a government...if you call PRC is a regime, that applies to US and UK France, Germany and Saudi Arabia...as well...other eise your argument is flawed. And that diminishes your integrity as a scholar as you are parroting those leaders from those western regimes as well...
See the national defense strategy put forth by the Pentagon. The president is irrelevant in this. The focus shifted to secondary powers, doesn't matter which side is in office. Ideology, values, morality, it's all window dressing, none of it matters beyond propaganda purposes. The only thing that matters is domination. The ability of your country to project its will onto others. The US does this by domination of most of the worlds air space and all of the oceans. The superiority of it's military, it's many allies, it's economic influence. All of it are ways to force its will on any secondary power and that is all that matters. There will be no conventional war. China, the US and Russia will all try to play each other, each trying to erode each others power. A new type of war will evolve that will feature: -Supporting insurrections (Tibet, Uyghurs) -Pirates around Chinese shipping lanes around poor countries. -Japan, S.Korea, Taiwan, India rearmed and pushed to contest territorial claims backed by the US. -Sabotage of industrial warehouses, factories, ammunitions depots, shipyards, dry-docks, chemical storage sites, critical industry. -Sabotage of infrastructure, trains, bridges, dams, fires, skyscrapers, stations, schools. -arming and funding of various cults, sects, competing/suppressed religious groups etc -regional conflicts around natural recourses. -funding of political opposition. -Terrorism. -Bioweapons. (it's a WMD with no known source). -Economic warfare. -Surrounding countries will be pushed to conflict over the water ways flowing through China. -Business will be deincentivized to produce in China and will be economically incentivized to move to competing economies such as India. -Human rights violations will be called out when the time is right and the allies of the US will be sanctioned for doing business with China after that. -Ultimate culmination (last point before outright war) -> naval blockade. Option 2: They form a triumvirate and keep competing relatively peaceful. The US is unlikely to let itself be superseded as the worlds first and foremost power. They are not just going to sit there and watch their power erode until they get overtaken.
Isn't that a human nature when you can't compete you try to find excuses for that inability to do so? The West had all the industrial complexes over the past three hundreds plus years when the older societies were bogged down by all traditions and beliefs, well many still do. To the few which had decided to change within their style and tradition, they had proven that they could achieve the material results faster and better albeit in a more stricter environment. And China is leading in this aspect and unable to compete with her, the West began to behave just like any gangster down the street is doing!
@@feather563 very wrong... korea is the GATEWAY of the west(britain-washington) to INVADE CHINA & RUSSIA... FAILED... the then tried gateway is istanbul/turkey, defeated the ottoman empire but failed... the next GATEWAY is afghanistan... recently, FAILED...
America is a great country but the politicians in CH spend too much time interfering and warmongering. Most of us believe they should spend more time on improving their people's live in every sense and give more fairness to the minorities.
Reply to a comment: @素食吉祥净心净土 it takes a Chinese diaspora in particular having partly enlightened by the colonial legacy of a Western English education to have such in depth understanding of Asian value systems in particular Chinese history to have such understanding of China past , present n expectation of the future.. while US n Western Collectives continue to use their past 100 years of unipolar hegemonic playbook to dominate devoid of morality n ethics to appreciate the altruistic value system of sharing prosperity with world communities but continue to exploit their cultural heritage to dominate n manifest upmanship with the classic 1st public Speech as president of U.S.A, Biden said" China will not become number one during my tenure.........." I am so encouraged with persons like u that has the foresight to appreciate The REJUVENATION OF CHINA WITH THE INTRINSIC OBJECTIVE TO CONTINUOUSLY UPGRADE N IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE BY MERE HARD WORK, TENACITY TO FACE CHALLENGES ( WESTERN TRADE WAR. TECHNOLOGY N INVESTMENT EMBARGO, INTIMIDATION, SLANDER N DEMONIZATION .) USING IT'S PRAGMATISM UNDERPINNED BY THE CULTURAL LEGACY TO STRIVE FOR BETTERMENT OF SELF, FAMILY, SOCIETY , NATION N PUBLIC GOODS FOR WORLD COMMUNITIES...中國加油!.
expressing thoughts and learning things has no end as time ticks on... learning is not a waste of time... some things you are curious and poke your nose... some things you are not curious... some things you like, some things you dislike, leave it...
A cook need more than 4 years to learn the skills. After 8 years he is more comfortable with it and time to go. Worst still they are not talent select in the first place. Strong man Johnson (?) is going to cook?
fact is india is very very very wealthy nation with very wealthy and strong territories... then britain appeared, colonized them into all but one "india" and drew borders for "india" without the consent of neighbouring nations... how to govern "india" has since been the problem up to the present... cannot blame leaderships since nehru up to the current, modi...
@@daqiansun7944 if you live in the past you will be stuck in the past there are so many issues with india now just faint to look at them I really wish india well but its just too much dirt that needs to be taken out of the system
The ruling party is named as Chinese Communist Party, but China is not a communist country nor does it practice communist ideology. It’s a mix of state capitalism and socialism.
Very good discussion. People have to be realistic about what actions have meaningful impact and what consequences are totally unavoidable. In democratic institutions, people live in constant rage and paranoia because of ideological conflicts both internal and external. This often lead to populism and extremism which can in turn hurt oneself in the long run. People have to try to make a decision like a chess game and not rush into something just because it's popular for the time. Political decision making has become a fashion show and this contributes to the stagnation and contradiction of a country's key priorities.
The moral of current geopolitical situation is “when the best student recognised that someone is catching up and be more smarter than him, he will do whatever to press that person down’.
That has been the moral for the last 25 centuries, not at all the current landscape. (Thucydides trap)
What had China did to push the world 2nd down when it was the Best student 200 years ago ?
Just so you know. The PLA pushed Americans out of Korea. Without a navy or an air force.
Westerners, stop poking the dragon. It breaths fire if you go too far.
Without nuke, navy & air force
very correct...
Why dont ask someone who visited and lived in China to host such topic?
The moment I hear you say "countries like Taiwan, Japan and S Korea", I take a deep discount to your "scholarly" discourse.
I didn't know that Taiwan is a country.
@@zephira994 that's my point exactly.
give chance to a novice to learn more... directly point out to him his many lackings to research more and study more...
@eQuilibrium 2 Good for you mate
We Muslims support China.
You forgot about the Korean War ! The forgotten war which you have forgotten because the US did badly .
@Akimbo Soulassassin the mention of the Korean War is significant not because anybody won, as you point out , the PLA with no navy , offensive air capability , poorly equipped , managed to beat US and UN forced to a stalemate despite atrocious casualties .
@Akimbo Soulassassin Westerners think that winning wars is a bean counting game - it is not the weapons or money that wins wars but people behind the weapons - Russians lost 20 million fighting Hitler and that's how Hitler was stopped - Ditto for Chinese and Vietnamese - war is not for softies - the Hollywood popcorn munching versions of great wars are for suckers.
Korean War
PLA vs U.S. + 26 nations
PLA with zero air force and Navy, the war started at China border end at 38 parallel.
Enough said. 😁
@@andrewlim7751 Russian war planes were sent as air cover to help China - if not for that China would have still won but with more casualties and entire Korean peninsula would have been taken by China - If Korea was taken both Russia and China would have been in danger - same situation applies today - if they do not stick together they would be taken apart and Cannibalized.
China-US death count was around 10:1 and the war ended in an armistice. I wouldn't brag about this one.
Never underestimate China's military. This guy needs to learn more about the PLA.
Look at the facts.
1. China has one base outside it while the US has 800 bases.
2. China's last war was in 1979 when it aided cambodia and entered Vietnam territory for two to show support for its ally, the US according to data released by the US Congressional Research Service, from 1789 to 2022, the United States launched 469 military interventions overseas.
3. China has 350 nuclear warheads while the US has 3,750 warheads.
4. China has never sanctioned anyone except in retaliation while the US does it left and right.
5. China has never done color revolution, coup d'etats while the US has done it so many times it's not even funny.
6.etc. etc.
China have never been a threat to world peace, it is the US.
Interesting talk. However, although it might look balanced from a Western perspective, it isn't. Seems like the main purpose is to comfort an academic Western audience by trying to convince them that China isn't *that* threatening and apart from that Western security is always guaranteed by the nuclear option as ultima ratio. Not for a second they thought about how the West has been and still is the major threat to the rest of the world, especially to China most recently. Not for a second they thought about what should be done about it.
But surely, Russia and China would win a nuclear war against America.
Sorry Taiwan isn't a country it's a small district of China torn away from mainland by twisted history.
As a young student, I read Huntington’s books how to labeled other countries and cultures. After 40 year, I realized his “theories” are bs.
Feel the same here.
thats why he is gonna be immortalized for his brilliant work, and u r gonna perish as a nobody, lol
how to label countries and cultures... it is confucius who was able to discern tribes kingdoms traditions and cultures: the psyche of a peoples in the making and shaping of a vast and great everlasting-existince civilization through MORALITY...
I can already tell in the first minute of this video that the biased against China is real. Stopped watching.
thank u for saving my time
You should actually watch it. Balanced view
@@tjij-mbai balance? maybe not. But not too biased either. It is a piece worth watching.
@@user-bq8kn3bn2b I suggest that you see and judge for yourself rather than listen to the opinion of some fragile ego
not exactly "bias"... they lack real knowledge about henry V napoleon bonaparte, john locke karl marx, how can they be able to understand confucius qin shi huang mao tse tung xi jinping... much less to understand the vast china civilization to their newly formed eu...
This guy is wrong, the East has their own priorities in terms of human rights. The East does not object the western human rights ( the right to vote ? ). Look at the Middle East, how does democracy doing there ? Does Democracy work well in Asian, EU or Africa ? To China at this period of time, human rights means the ability to live, to work, to be educatied, to enjoy health care services ... etc.
The problem is democracy doesn’t work well for the west too.
Not what the government wants but what the people wants that is concerning. The Chinese government is doing a fine job curbing excessive nationalism and impatience of the Chinese people.
Thanks guys that was time well spent, I enjoyed very much. My wife is Chinese’s so I have been going there for the last 15 years, I remember the first time I went to China I was very apprehensive leaving Australia which is one of the world’s leading democracy, going to a country that is one of the world’s leading communist countries, but my fears were unfounded I found the people to be very friendly, I felt at home in China its now a country I love, BTY ordinary people are not communist, just the ruling party, CCP.
Thank you for a very insightful look into China, and I am very impressed with Mr Sheikh understanding and analysing China's potential rise to be a superpower. My wish is that the world will come together united as one and learn to respect and treat each other with courtesy and common decency. Peace and love to all mankind.
WEST N ITS ALLIES ARE VERY JEALOUS OF CHINA'S. THEY ARE ACCUSING CHINA OF BEING AUTHORITARIUN
china great power REJUVENATION IS ENOUGH... "super power" is self-destructive EGO...
The only difference between 'west' and 'east' is the way people deal with responsibilities.
The system built upon lies and blood by you is collapsing, and you still trying to save it by making it looks good.
How selfish, and how narrow minded.
"The biggest democracy is India", this statement is wrong, basically, I only agree "The biggest country with election is India", because, 【Democracy is not equal to Election】, if Western people still think democracy is equal to election, anyone can tell me why you elected Hitler to lead Germany?
"the Communist party speaks of democracy as well", that's right, because Chinese philosopher started to talk about "democracy" around 2500 years ago, if I use western concept to describe what this Chinese philosopher said, he thought that "democracy" is 【of the people plus for the people】, that's the "democracy" in Chinese people's concept.
highly correct... one-man one-vote election to be a total definition of democracy is truly erroneous...
This guy was an intruder from Europe but had forgotten who he was and try to lecture a country that was thousands of years in Asia.
Very objective and balanced. Haroon brought up the prejudices that the West has and its sense of superiority it has in terms of having very strong opinions about what China does in Hong Kong, Taiwan etc. and threw it back to the audience to imagine flipping it the other way where Chinese has very strong opinions about what the West do.
The rise of China is a blessing to the world especially the poor and undeveloped countries. Unlike the west China never use gun diplomacy and rob resources from them. China comes with real development of ports, railways, roads, telecommunications to boost the people standard of living and make them more prosperous. Poverty will be alleviated. When that is achieved there will be fewer conflicts or wars. That is China version of human rights contribution to the world. That is exactly what the west fears as they want to keep others poor and weak so they can manipulate to their whim and fancy. That is why they keep smearing China and suppressing China using all sorts of means but they will fail miserably.
Is India really a democratic country. If so then why is there still drastic discrimination amongst
the lower caste by the Indian Government. Is there actually freedom of speech,expression,information
etc in India. Are the people of the democratic world living in peace or fear or perhaps in a delusional world
or yesteryears.
It has discrimination because its a democracy. If over 50% vote for a discriminatory policy, it will be a discriminatory nation
Democracy protects the rich majority and doesnt protect the poor minority
Because India is poor and can never compete the west that is why they don't care about India whether it is a true or false democracy.
For example the west give us a headache by labeling Turkey as non democratic country (despite it is a clear democracy) and forgetting the military regime in Egypt.... it is simply because the regime in Turkey is strong enough to ignore western concerns whereas the Egyptian regime is a puppet regime came by coup supported by the US directly it is simply that they don't care about democracy as long as the regime is obeying them and follow their leadership and orders.
So the simple definition of democracy is "following the US order" this is the basic true
It has elections,but is it genuinely by the people,of the people ,
for the people(esp for all its people)?
as one commenter said, the west define democracy as one-man one-vote election... so... india is democracy...
Americans accept the idea that democracy is procedural: i.e., voting. This is faults. Democracy = outcome: majority-rule.
American policies serve a tiny minority: less than 1%. Therefore, America is anti-democratic.
Chinese policies serve the vast majority of the people. In the last 30 years 800 million people have been brought into the middle-class; absolute poverty has been irradicated. Therefore, China is a Democracy.
Further: America sees itself in competition with everyone. The reason, it believes in Realism: i.e., Imperialism.
China does not see itself in competition with anyone. China rejects Realism. China is anti-Imperialistic.
Finally: the Thucydides Trap is a Western concept. If there's military conflict, it will be started by America.
China fought Korea Allies with US ,Canada ,India,Philippines ,many countries ,China fought alone ,Russian border war ,Vietnam border war , US fought Vietnam jungle wars ,American war in West Asians countries no results...
Why do we have to emphasize west and east? “Community of shared future for mankind”. Nobody heard about that?
I am a Chinese traveled over 40 countries and now living in US. I often question myself how much westerners know about China? The west MSM did very bad job. The reports of China are mostly one side and biased. Even worse it’s politically not correct if they pro-China.
Many expatriates visited China and they found China is completely different than what they have been told. Many decided to stay in China because its safety, rapid growth and more opportunities.
When I travel, I always can find the common value and interest in other countries. So I hope people can abandon prejudice, let go of your mind to accept difference.
“Seek common ground while reserving differences”. It’s ancient Chinese philosophy.
some history enthusiasts realized that all wars since 19th century is in the east hemisphere... and peoples of the west hemisphere bringing their soldiers bombs and guns to the east hemisphere...
its not emphasizing... its what is truly happening since 19th century up to the present 21st century in afghanistan iraq syria palestine and israel...
the lecture is about the general, not individual to individual...
You can easily understand China by looking at her history. Except for some border disputes she has never invaded any country, unlike European countries. In the 16th century she had an armada of hundreds of huge vessels sail far away, from east Africa to SE Asia, to So America, & never colonizing any place, although they could have done so. It is not in her DNA to go out & conquer. In fact china's Chinese name is "Jung guo" which means "central kingdom" (not "middle kingdom" as it's commonly mis-translated). "Central kingdom" meaning, they are the world's headquarters. China has a 5000 year history & for most of that, it was the richest & the dominant country in Asia. Now it feels it's returning to her rightful place after a century of humiliation when the west (& Japan) took advantage of her temporary weakness. She's back.
highly agree...
Admire Haroon Sheikh’s empathy and integrity as a scholar.
NO one could escape
the destruction if they
choose the WAR
Except Africa 😂😂😂😂😂
It's natural human behavior to feel threaten esp the number one power in the world by a fast rising country. However I think the US should work and cooperate with China in its own interest to stay number one . Because any road block by US would propel China to press further ahead to have its own dynamic to move forward to achieve its goal to surpass the US as the number one economic power in the world. From an economic point of view,in a competition,I think China would beat the US because in China,it is run by engineers/scientists while the US is run by lawyers .
Asia Rising ❤️❤️❤️. The decline of the US as a super power is long over due.
Well Said >>> "coloniasm/imperialism/interventionism still exist in the name of democracy in the western world " Its not about east vs west as coloniasm still exist in the name of democracy. West always get annoyed when they see any colonized country rise in the world order. They think that only they have the right or whatsoever to rule the world.
@Studium Generale Delft, nice lecture.
Maybe an idea to have an add-on to this e.g about the harbour in Greece, Greece’s former finance minister and professor, Yanis Varoufakis. On one of his interview he was also talking, lecturing about the harbour of Greece.
And Professor Kishore Mahbubani, former ambassador at the UN and Singapore, he's one of the most well known expert in this field, he's also giving a lot of lecture, summits and interview.
Also he has a very interesting book, also in Dutch, Has China Won?
Perhaps you guys can invite these two experts to tell us more about this.
An often quoted of "debt-trap", 1. most of Sri Lanka's debts are owed
to the West, not China 2.China in not going to move the harbour to
China,are they?
@@tonytan6547 the debt trap is debunked for 2 years now.
Watch this ruclips.net/video/4JHbR8HgcSI/видео.html
Or do a search on Deborah Bräutigam
She is a professor on John Hopkins University, she did reasearch on this with her team.
The whole debt trap story and how is started is explained, but on the MSM we never will hear or read about this.
The main difference between China and America is their financial systems. Financialization vs State capitalism
You guys are interesting as if "democracy" is a patent in the West. You have never defined clearly what democracy is and should be, what the true objective of democracy is and should be. So you can easily say China is not democratic, it's authoritarian.
yes... they dont even know what socrates said about democracy then what demogenes said about plato leaning to the ruling elites instead of what socrates talked about the peoples...
they only talk about their present superficial definitions of democracy... and they impose their definition of democracy to other nations by pointing guns and funding reactionaries to create chaos in the peoples' streets... where is MORALITY... and using the bible... the very fact that china has buddhist books and the middle east has quran... wonder if they converted the middle east war refugees to christianity...
"' FOR MAINTENACNCE OF PEACE, NATIONS SHOULD AVOID THE PIN-PRICKS WHICH FORERUNS CANNON-SHOTS " ( Napoleon ) 1769-1821
Jealousy and phobias in every country ways of people .
One of the more intelligent and realistic lectures regarding China; and he directly deals with the hangups the West has over China.
U have a fantastic comments almost like a historian with facts that can not be challenged, this prompted me to write as follows:
1. These Western Oriented Genes have learned the wrong concept of democracy.. the Westerners does not have the patent neither the copy rights on the word democracy, using India is the largest democracy is an absolute wrong perspective about the real meaning n tenets of democracy base on the fact, the current Modi's leadership is one of the most fascist....... democracy is present in all forms of society since historical record of humanity.. while the degree n perspective of democratic values in varying levels..for example there was no historical discrimination of branding gay or LGBT in ancient society n the freedom from the dictate of systemic religion such as difference between Christianity n Islam, then it was truly freedom of expression ...there is democracy within socialism that common good n human responsibility is primary compared the individual freedom of choice just like the refusal to wear a mask during the Covid 19 pandemic against common good..
2. The US n China rivalry is a conflict between a Western n Asian Culture, democracy is only the easiest playbook base on past 200 years of indoctrination against the Yellow Peril .. that manifested this Western Neo Liberal Christianity White Supremacy Egoism derived from past guilt, insecurity n paranoia of a REJUVENATING CHINA WITH THE STRENGTH OF A CIVILIZATION STATE THAT HAS LEARNED ITS LESSON FROM PAST 100 YEARS OF HUMILIATION MAINLY DUE TO ITS CULTURAL SELF SUFFICIENCY N SELF CONTAINMENT THAT MANIFESTED THE LACK OF WESTERN CULTURAL INSTINCT TO DOMINATE WITH AGGRESSION...
3. CHINA HAPPENS TO BE THE EASY TARGET FOR SCAPEGOATING BASE ON IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE AS A SOCIALIST STATE. BUT REALLY THE STRENGTH OF CHINA IS THEIR CULTURAL N CIVILIZATION STATE LEGACY, SOCIALISM IS ONLY A TOOL OF CONVENIENCE TO MANAGE ITS POPULATION SIZE.. secondly. It is the ills of modern democracy to have Donald Trump being elected in the most advanced democracy of America.. Another democratic ills is populism n patronage by selfishness of capitalist/capitalism... So democracy has different shades for different society to suit its national life Cycle...that is no absolute democracy!
4. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MAJORITY OF WESTERN INTELLECTUALS ARE OFTEN BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT IN ORDER TO MAKE A LIVING ...to capture the imagination of their audience.. so often their narratives are subjective !( Well this speaker is much more balanced n objective....)
China does not care whether it is a superpower or not. What China needs is to get what it deserves through its own efforts. Unlike the western world, which gets rich through war and exploitation of other countries, China is taking the road of peace and cooperation to develop itself and help other countries, While developing, the first two generations of our country have suffered a lot! China's rise is unrepeatable and irresistible. Don't be afraid of China's rise. China is an agricultural civilization and has no genes for Western pirates to plunder. Finally, we welcome people who really care about China to visit China, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. You will find different scenes from those reported by Western media. Don't just listen to CNN / BBC lies, go and have a look in person!
They cant handle it.
this guy talks in a self-congratuary manner, the rhetoric is that the Western system is far superior than the Chinese system, even praise the backwards Taiwan so called "democracy". Never mentioned any words about that only the Chinese practice has lifted hundreds of millions people out of poverty and built the best infrastructures, sent millions youths to study in STEM and achieved the best science and technology advancements in almost fields and many more. The West can still tell themselves and others that the best system and their universal suffrage system doesn't have major frauds, then it's doomed. They have never studied the Chinese efficient and result-driven select-and-elect political system. I think instead of wasting time to listen this non-chinese speaking "expert", i recommend you watch and listen to Martin Jacques, professor Kishore Mahbubani and Eric Lee.
Pakistan Afghanistan and China will free India and remake of East Pakistan soon 😘
Taiwan is not a sovereign country, if you guy wants to talk on world geopolitical issue, you should be clear on that...repeat Taiwan is not a country...Chinese PRC isn't a regime but a government...if you call PRC is a regime, that applies to US and UK France, Germany and Saudi Arabia...as well...other eise your argument is flawed. And that diminishes your integrity as a scholar as you are parroting those leaders from those western regimes as well...
Who creates the conflict. The speaker itself
See the national defense strategy put forth by the Pentagon. The president is irrelevant in this. The focus shifted to secondary powers, doesn't matter which side is in office.
Ideology, values, morality, it's all window dressing, none of it matters beyond propaganda purposes. The only thing that matters is domination. The ability of your country to project its will onto others. The US does this by domination of most of the worlds air space and all of the oceans. The superiority of it's military, it's many allies, it's economic influence. All of it are ways to force its will on any secondary power and that is all that matters.
There will be no conventional war. China, the US and Russia will all try to play each other, each trying to erode each others power.
A new type of war will evolve that will feature:
-Supporting insurrections (Tibet, Uyghurs)
-Pirates around Chinese shipping lanes around poor countries.
-Japan, S.Korea, Taiwan, India rearmed and pushed to contest territorial claims backed by the US.
-Sabotage of industrial warehouses, factories, ammunitions depots, shipyards, dry-docks, chemical storage sites, critical industry.
-Sabotage of infrastructure, trains, bridges, dams, fires, skyscrapers, stations, schools.
-arming and funding of various cults, sects, competing/suppressed religious groups etc
-regional conflicts around natural recourses.
-funding of political opposition.
-Terrorism.
-Bioweapons. (it's a WMD with no known source).
-Economic warfare.
-Surrounding countries will be pushed to conflict over the water ways flowing through China.
-Business will be deincentivized to produce in China and will be economically incentivized to move to competing economies such as India.
-Human rights violations will be called out when the time is right and the allies of the US will be sanctioned for doing business with China after that.
-Ultimate culmination (last point before outright war) -> naval blockade.
Option 2:
They form a triumvirate and keep competing relatively peaceful.
The US is unlikely to let itself be superseded as the worlds first and foremost power. They are not just going to sit there and watch their power erode until they get overtaken.
Well Said >>> "colonialism/imperialism/interventionism still exist in the name of democracy in the western world "
You are the Sinologist. You have tuly understood China. You need to literate the rest of the people/west in partucular.
Regs from Kathmandu, Nepal
Isn't that a human nature when you can't compete you try to find excuses for that inability to do so? The West had all the industrial complexes over the past three hundreds plus years when the older societies were bogged down by all traditions and beliefs, well many still do. To the few which had decided to change within their style and tradition, they had proven that they could achieve the material results faster and better albeit in a more stricter environment. And China is leading in this aspect and unable to compete with her, the West began to behave just like any gangster down the street is doing!
What ever goes up will come down.this is nature.only god knows what to do.
Goed gedaan TU
Your video is impossible to follow because of the annoying grunting sounds you make every 5 seconds
Why he avoids mentioning the Korea war?
@Akimbo Soulassassin what are you saying. your hatred for china will take you no where.
that war was between the Soviets and US. China and Korea were the proxies
@@feather563 very wrong... korea is the GATEWAY of the west(britain-washington) to INVADE CHINA & RUSSIA... FAILED... the then tried gateway is istanbul/turkey, defeated the ottoman empire but failed... the next GATEWAY is afghanistan... recently, FAILED...
Waste of time
We in the USA know that we are bankerup.
America is a great country but the politicians in CH spend too much time interfering and warmongering. Most of us believe they should spend more time on improving their people's live in every sense and give more fairness to the minorities.
ALLAH HO ALAM, THE WAR IS OUT THOUGHT, NO PLACE IS SAFE, (SHIEKH)
I think you don't know nothing about China today.
You forgot About Korea war.
Reply to a comment: @素食吉祥净心净土 it takes a Chinese diaspora in particular having partly enlightened by the colonial legacy of a Western English education to have such in depth understanding of Asian value systems in particular Chinese history to have such understanding of China past , present n expectation of the future.. while US n Western Collectives continue to use their past 100 years of unipolar hegemonic playbook to dominate devoid of morality n ethics to appreciate the altruistic value system of sharing prosperity with world communities but continue to exploit their cultural heritage to dominate n manifest upmanship with the classic 1st public Speech as president of U.S.A, Biden said" China will not become number one during my tenure.........."
I am so encouraged with persons like u that has the foresight to appreciate The REJUVENATION OF CHINA WITH THE INTRINSIC OBJECTIVE TO CONTINUOUSLY UPGRADE N IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE BY MERE HARD WORK, TENACITY TO FACE CHALLENGES ( WESTERN TRADE WAR. TECHNOLOGY N INVESTMENT EMBARGO, INTIMIDATION, SLANDER N DEMONIZATION .) USING IT'S PRAGMATISM UNDERPINNED BY THE CULTURAL LEGACY TO STRIVE FOR BETTERMENT OF SELF, FAMILY, SOCIETY , NATION N PUBLIC GOODS FOR WORLD COMMUNITIES...中國加油!.
Do you know Korean war?
East or West I want the best nothing else.dont waste your time glorification one word over other.+(world over other).
expressing thoughts and learning things has no end as time ticks on... learning is not a waste of time... some things you are curious and poke your nose... some things you are not curious... some things you like, some things you dislike, leave it...
A cook need more than 4 years to learn the skills. After 8 years he is more comfortable with it and time to go. Worst still they are not talent select in the first place. Strong man Johnson (?) is going to cook?
taiwan is a province of china.dude
🤣🤣🤣🤣 🇺🇸 containing 🇨🇳 have fail‼️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Regarding the Chinese military forces, your information is wrong, completely wrong, you need to update your information
Thank God the YT Mans reign is done.
D word competition is a misnomer coming from d Americans. How can it be a fair competition when US equip it self w/ a ⚾️ bat. 😂🤣😂
India is another emerging superpower. Please give your opinion on India
They ain't lol
India Cannot be a superpower because of corruption and it will be hard for them to find a solution until the top continue practicing.
India won't become superpower before they get fully industrialized. Former superpowers all have strong manufacture and military capacity.
fact is india is very very very wealthy nation with very wealthy and strong territories... then britain appeared, colonized them into all but one "india" and drew borders for "india" without the consent of neighbouring nations... how to govern "india" has since been the problem up to the present... cannot blame leaderships since nehru up to the current, modi...
@@daqiansun7944 if you live in the past you will be stuck in the past there are so many issues with india now just faint to look at them I really wish india well but its just too much dirt that needs to be taken out of the system
Don't say the world. but U.s only
Haroon wil be dropped like hot potato once use by date is over.
"China is a communist country, but not communism". What does he really mean???
The ruling party is named as Chinese Communist Party, but China is not a communist country nor does it practice communist ideology. It’s a mix of state capitalism and socialism.
Like many others, you know very little about China.
Very good discussion. People have to be realistic about what actions have meaningful impact and what consequences are totally unavoidable. In democratic institutions, people live in constant rage and paranoia because of ideological conflicts both internal and external. This often lead to populism and extremism which can in turn hurt oneself in the long run. People have to try to make a decision like a chess game and not rush into something just because it's popular for the time. Political decision making has become a fashion show and this contributes to the stagnation and contradiction of a country's key priorities.
Glad he recognised that Taiwan is a country.