That line of poem actually means “when traveling west of YANG pass, you will see no more old friends”. It is written to a friend of the poet saying farewell.
@@michaelli4016 yeah they don’t show enough how bad the dictator Xi and his inner circle of thugs are for the entire world. They’re no better than the european colonizers hundreds of years ago. Genocide of people in their own country, and so many human rights abuses to their own people
@@tinameadows462 How could your conclusion like this be made? Based on this biased documentary or perhaps other rumors as well? Can't you see how well China protects its people during the pandemic? Can't you understand how great effort China has been made to develop its country and people's living standard in passing years with the huge costs? As far as genocide, it is a pure lie and fictitious allegation!!! I am an ordinary Chinese and I also blame the government from time to time when I was unhappy with something. But I have zero tolerance for lies, no matter who made it. If genocide was a true fact, there should already be a flood of refugee flood to everywhere from China to other countries. There would be tons of videos or photos appearing on the internet. However, so far, such things haven't come! Pls think with an open mind and critical thinking! If you meant to spread lies and rumors with no pieces of root evidence, I could only be speechless. Mercy on you.
Same question, when is Dirty French going leave their greedy hands off West Africa with their Franco de France? I can only see double standard European propagenda here.
@@merrick6484 there is no doubt...however...the western media always got their double standard, especially when they are reporting about the east, whether it is about the good things or bad things. I feel like they have envyness in their heart🤪🤢
In what way would it be a comparison? Chinese loans aren't based on economic fundamentals as the IMF (which has had to give bailout loans bc of Chinese lending practices) and the world bank, which often focus on hard to support soft infrastructural projects. World Financial system, can easily fund all profitable hard infrastructural projects. China funding on political terms and then wanting the IMF to bail out borrowers. To mention nothing of Chin paying SOE contractors in China in RMB and demanding Dollars back from foreign borrowers.
Wang Wei’s poem is mistranslated. He was signing that his friend is leaving and that friend does not have old pals out there. Please don’t use google translate when trying to translate Chinese poems.
Apart from that, they filmed the wrong place. The poem is talking about Yang Guan, or Yang Gate, while they filmed Yumen Guan, or Jade Gate. They are actually not far apart from each other, probably 60km away, connected by high-quality paved road. However, it is true that Yang Guan doesn't have much left. The last time I visit, it was pretty much a dune. There are ample amounts of poems about Yumen Guan, or Jade Gate as well. I guess they were just too illiterate to know which one fits their malicious narrative.
This doc emphasizes the bad impact of China's investment, but from a business point of view, it makes a sound investment. At the same time, the doc does not mention that the West would not have invested in these countries and that these countries would not be able to withstand the financial and economic burden insisted by IMF.
It is not emphasizing the bad impacts of investments, they are just showing the outcomes and results which brought up and this is really "bad"....its about people of the country which has to suffer...see srilanka how much they got help?....their airports is still vacant And in the last.. IMF is trying to help that country to get out of the bankruptcy and inflation
@@विजयशर्मा-ख8ल actually studies have been made. Most of the deals China made was concluded to be fine. Sri Lanka case was the only one that was on the borderline. China has helped debt nations with leaner terms so they could pay back. Many advanced nations from the US and India refused to invest in them because there is little chance of being profitable. China however saw the investment as a long-term strategy. Even now The US and the West learned to begin to invest in the same way that China did decades ago. The West uses IMF which shows no sign of long-term interest in any investment and likes to interfere with local government from politics to economics to ensure they get something back. China, being a govt can take a long-term view. The Western media in the West doesn't like to applaud Chinese progress for they are jealous of its success without their help and want to prevent their continuous independence. They want to control the world. How dare China breaks their hold. :) Major Infrastructure is important to any society, so it is empty now, but when the worldwide economy gets better, Sri Lanka is ready to receive tourists again. It is not just in underdeveloped countries but in developed countries as well.
@@cczsus6513 How can you compare yourself to a whole country. In a country there are several corrupt officers, politicians who can be bribed by the loan lending party.
@@cczsus6513Why so many poor countries would like to commit an economical suicide one after other. In a row. Obviously their leaders are getting bribed under the table. And CCP have plenty of money to do so.
I do find it interesting that the germans of all people would say they have never seen an airport like this before considering the vacant berlin airport
There is Tegel and Schoenfeld in (near) Berlin. Brandt airport is under construction, originally scheduled to open in 2011. Basically conplete except for everything that does not work it would appear to a visitor very similar to the airport in this video
@bro ha naah, it's in remotest area of SL and it's more poorer area where ppl ain't wanna visit. Recently India bought this whole airport to counter China.
Dunhuang is a very interesting place. I've been there twice and really enjoyed it. The secret is to avoid the massive crowds who hang around the dunes at the entrance to that park, and just enter for free a few hundred metres either side of the gate. If you veer to the right of the gate you'll find yourself in a graveyard with very interesting tombs, and you can walk around there for hours looking.... I recommend an overnight trip to the desert where you will see stars like you'll never see anywhere else in China. Sitting under the night sky by a fire is really an awesome experience, and there will be nobody around (most of the Chinese tourists won't even consider this option). The best part is you see the dunes in all their splendour.....
40:06 the engineer was literally bragging about how hardworking they are and their work ethics... but the voice Dub seemed to understand it as some sort of complaint... man I know the work ethics sound bad but don’t over-interpret it to serve your own good.
It is not a simple project, its a dream project near to be completed soon. You named it documentary on silk road but instead I felt it is an American propaganda documentary against China. Gash you have highlighted the positive outcome of this project and how it is going to change future of many poor countries.
I just hope that it can make enough revenue to pay back 7 billion to China, the interest rate is high. Bangladesh was un able to pay China back and had to forfeit the port. Now China has control of their port as payment. I hope pakistan doesn't suffer the same. And has success.
I agree. Its propeganda running against china. West and india badly jealous of china progress. Chinese are committed and hardworking ppl. Indian and west want to grab progress by mockery plotting and propegandas
@@MuhammadAdnan-sn1ct I guess no country was bothered about China’s progress before the SIlk route project. After this project started it started troubling other countries. So the other countries are saying don’t disturb or create troubles for others while you are progressing. Is that too much to ask for ?? Imagine, If Russia and all other China neighbours starting building roads, railways and bridges near their respective China borders, will China be happy about it ? Just asking
@@yogeshsomasundaram4187 all the countries along the belt and road has given consent. The only country that is against it is US since they aren’t able to rip the Middle East countries off any longer. Also the countries are happy to participate because China is funding the entire project and it’s neutral benefit.
Hey @DW a little correction here the cemetery shown at 37:44 is the final resting place of Chinese workers and engineers who died during the construction of the Karakoram Highway (KKH) in Pakistan in the 1960s and 1970s and not for CPEC . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cemetery_(Danyor)
19:57 is this how dw makes documentaries? The man in black shirt ask :”how can you define the quality of the jade” then the man in white said :”with years of experience”. But DW subtitles says how good the man in white good at bargaining. I don’t understand, it’s a mistranslation from their local translator or dw does this on purpose
The mistranslation happens all the time on purpose with almost all western media when issues towards east so that west can gain political favours from foreign audiences
What purpose does the West Media serve at the silk road only to criticize,why are the West critical of such an enormous and gigantic project undertaking by the great super power China it's almost absurd and ridiculous. All because it's not a western project, shame on you.
@@michaelf.2449 China never forces any to borrow from it. SL has total of 67 billion dollars debt from all institutions, but only from 7 billion dollars from China. Hambantota port is not a debt trap.
Silk Routes: There were at least 5 different routes that are known as Silk Routes: At least three were most used. Northern China, via Mongolia, Central via Central Asia and Southern via India. The two sub routes were split in Central. Most ended at Anatolia, Turkey. China, then, was the most technically advanced country
The Jade market part is also not making sense. If you think the price is too low, you don't sell to that buyer. If nobody is offering a better price? Then your stone is not worth more at the current circumstances. This is just how the market economy works. BTW don't you see the irony here that China, the one that's been accused by many western countries of not being a market economy, is being criticized by a market economy country's public TV station for doing business in the market way.
@@williamperez492 no I don't. Dominating and colonizing are two different things. A strong state of 1.4 billion people is bound to dominate regionally and eventually internationally but that's not colonialism.
@@michaelhayes4231, Yeah right, have you heard what happend to tibet, have you heard that China's been the first to militarizing the border it has with India, have you heard that China told taiwan should be annexed since it's the "latest trend", have you heard that China pushed more than 50m in scarborough shoal than what was diplomatically settled with.
The translation of the Chinese poem is out of context and deliberately misleading. The poem was a farewell song wrote by Wang Wei to his old friend who was about to travel to the west, the poem says:" i invite you to drink one more cup of wine, for you won't see us OLD friends once you go west beyond Yang pass", it doesn't have the hostility towards the west as the Documentary suggested.
It's kinda ironic when they show an empty Airport and mention about how absurd it is to have this kinda Airport in Sri Lanka while they in fact have this very same kinda airport back home in Berlin.
@@SL-pn6qb Corruptions between government officials and businessmen + downturn of economy + bad plannings (fail to foresee what is coming) always leads to disastrous result.
Some debts are good. If China helps the Philippines build bridges and roads that will improve the Phil economy, then why criticize it? But if the corrupt government of the Phils ask China to over-build useless roads/buildings while China uses its own resources to do so, then it must be the Phil government fault. After all China does not go the Phils forcibly to build anything, the corrupt government of the Phils go to China and ask them to build
@@billionfollowers6528 China is investogating 1.2 million muslims and U.S killed 7 million muslims just in Iraq alone. Trump Threatened another way to win Afghan war. Just kill 10 million peoples there and win it. But he thinks its a bad idea. 😂😂
yeah... love that communism, and ALL those freedoms that China represents. Thanks, I'll stand with the Stars and Stripes and hold tight to my guns to protect those freedoms. So how about not glorifying repressive regimes.
As a Chinese, I have been to a lot of communities in both China and America, I felt that, it is hard to stay in bad life in China even you are in bad community as the government force you to chase good life. In America, It is hard to chase good life if you stay in bad community as bad community has freedom to stay in bad life.
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Same here in the Philippines. Chinese culture is already part of the Philippines even before the Spanish colonization. But the new influx of Chinese citizens is comparable to an economic and cultural invasion.
Wait, why the tune of this documentary appears to be so sarcastic. I thought the documentary should remain neutral and tell what it is in a third person's eye
@@worthit5064 If it is really a trap the govt won't make a deal with China. there is something they can drain from the work China has done in their country, or in short, the benefit > its cost. Any person with some FUNCTIONAL brain can see the sweetness of taking risks.
EroSkulled Walter maybe your "Functional brain" doesn't see the situation of sri lanka and pakistan. sri lanka have to give their port for 99 years. pakistan can't able to return the dept.
There's one backdraw of democracy , parties keep themselves in power , therefore they take dept from China at higher return prices even though they can't able to return that.
@@worthit5064 OKay, 99 years port usage for Srilanka, and what do they get in return (I do is not familiar with those situations cuz I'm not from Srilanka or Pakistan.)? For Pakistan, have you asked yourself why would they even loan from China if they can't return it? That's like you go to BOA or any bank and make a loan for a house. A few years later you tell the bank: sorry I can't pay the debt, and just walk away?
I'm a Pakistani, I don't it will change much. North will stay as it is for a long time. Current Government is working hard to make the right decision. They are changing policies with China. Karakoram Highway is not a new thing, homework is done badly on the Pakistani side.
If your relations with India are solved then there will be a great neo-silk road from.... *China's* Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Wuhan, Chengdu - to - *Bangladesh's* Cox Bazaar, Chittagong, Dhaka. - to - *India's* Guwahati, Kolkata, Nalanda, Varanasi, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar - to - *Pakistan's* Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Islamabad, Karachi, Gwadar, Quetta, Peshwar.
This documentary is absurd. Trying hard to create negative image of China. From Pakistan perspective most of our side investments on projects are 'BOT' "Built, operate, transfer" means Direct investments from China will operate project to obtain certain amount of profit to a certain amount of time and then transfer to Pakistan. Loans are hardly $6-7 billions of total $62 billions CPEC. At 37:50 He says that graves of Chinese workers are resembling with the graves of Chinese soldier, and then he says these are Chinese soldiers after saying this he says it's a sign of a Conquest is Underway. lmao. The amount of stupidity is so high in this Documentary. These graves are of Chinese workers died in 1960s and 70s building this highway and I bet he didn't knew this, All this documentary is about is to portray negative image of China.
@Will Y Will they allow Indians to populate China? after all, they don't have enough room for themselves anymore. Maybe the Chinese will give them some space of their own. Somehow I doubt it.
@@ShahanshahShahin Yeah u r right, I think relations could come to a stalemate. Pakistan and India can't become friends but for the greater good, this needs to stop.
I've lived with Chinese for several years in the UK as a student I never had any problems with them ever. The problem is actually with the local Cambodian govt who is accepting bribes , not relocating its own citizens and not punishing a minority of rowdy Chinese. So actually the Cambodian govt is the problem.
If you can come and live in China for a few months, your impression of China and Chinese people will change again.Every country has its bad side and its good side, depending on how fairly you look at it
@@jackyzhang4324 but the video quite subtlety is being unfair to all Chinese. Or course there is good and bad everywhere and I am sure the hippies from the west living in Cambodia are not saints either
So because you lived with "a" or a "few" Chinese in the UK, you're able to generalize Chinese, their culture, mannerisms, behavior, behavior abroad, etc? Try living in China amongst locals in different cities for years and maybe then just maybe you can form a fair opinion, assessment, or generalization of Chinese. The Cambodian's opinions of what they experience amongst the Chinese tourist in their city is not wrong or unfair just because they have had a different experience than you. Not to mention their encounters are seemingly more frequent & of higher quantity than yours.
The Chinese that come to study in the UK are not the same as the Chinese who are tourists. I studied alongside the former in Manchester, and (while visiting relatives) saw the behaviour of the latter in Seychelles. Unfortunately, I can confirm the Cambodians' experience.
Despite all the negatives mentioned in this video, KKH has benefitted the local population immensely, I can now travel conveniently in two hours from my home in Baltit Hunza to Gilgit town, which I travelled in three days when I was a student of 8th class.
How can you lie to the people??? At 19:56 the guy in the blue T-shirt said:”He said, How can you tell the quality of the jade?” Then the guy in the white T-shirt said:”It’s all based on my experience.”
Look up Berlin Brandenburg Airport. The biggest empty airport of them all. The DW crew is so funny because they don't even remember the white elephant in their capital
Its because of the western world and it's profound influences in every corner of the world through the spread of it's globalization that the rest of the world through it's tremendous influences are becoming developed. So really, you can talk about a period of colonialism, but remember the days 100 years ago when Asia was one big massive undeveloped, uncivilized shithole with bamboo huts and wooden houses. It's because of the western civilization that this all changed. Now China has 1.4 billion people and all the knowledge gotten from countries like Germany which extensively spread knowledge to China, it is now trying in the regard it performs best in, in the speed of everything as once technology is learned, one can use it in a country of 10 million or 1.4 billion, it simply goes much faster in a country of 1.4 billion people. But mark my words, China is a FAR worse civilization to work with. Ultimately! Because this is a new thing, you already see the many issues with depending yourself on China. Many countries already suffer under China, even though it's still in an early phase. I think it will get worse down the road. And the fact that you don't know that peoples like the Uighur people in China are being wiped out in the most filthy ways. Women get stuff injected so that they dont menstruate, and they are all in punishment camps/prison. But towards the world China is sending out video's of how great everything is for the people and so on. Pure propaganda while they're wiping out this population. It's pathetic. And you talk about colonial power. Jeez. Educate yourself
wy y the problem with your narrative is that China is in bed a bunch of country with strong dictatorship. What China is doing is bribing corrupt leaders in to selling their country while the people of the country do not get anything for it. It is a sugar daddy diplomacy and it is wrong!
They also made other deals in return for some shitty artillery and planes to hello cull the ltte. This is the cost of doing deal with the devil. Many countries have learnt the hard way if you let china sleep over for one night in your house when you wake up the next morning he will be charging you rent claiming it's his house.
Its new international airport, about 40 kms. south of Beijing and scheduled to open on 30 September, took less than 4 years to complete the construction.
They won't give you loan if they can't see any chance to trap your country. Haven't you learnt anything from thr documentary? Better to build own country with slow pace will full freedom than to build it instantly with poor quality with no freedom.
I note the dark music nearly all in minor keys with much percussive component indicating bad things happening. DW used to have quality output with independent thinking. What happened? This is just groupthink bashing China.
19:56 - the translator asks the appraiser "he asks how do you tell this stone is good or not?". The appraiser says "you look at it and base on experience. Experience is critical". Look at the DW translation: "There's a black vein here! The color's not green enough. No, I don't like it" DW turned a friendly exchange into something negative by completely mistranslated the conversation. Makes you wonder how many interview with locals are locals' words vs DW's words
Thinking forward on the airport. Build it and they will come !! I love Pork Fried Rice at the tunnel construction site. They know how to treat their workers. Nothing American can build like that. We had a hard time building a subway tunnel extension in NYC.
Such a shame. Says "we are the first western crew given coverage" and then continues with his propaganda. There are 100s of western vloggers there at this time alone. How do these people lie and show faces to their families.
Many white people believe anything they see on the Media, if they go and invade a poorer country right now and kill millions of civilians nobody but the westerners would be seen as the victims of War, China is actually helping us Africans and Asians but the West don't want that because it'll be more difficult for them to have friendships and above all; valuable resources
@@kalakaritasansar9636 no money? they have lesser population living in better condition with a gdp much larger when compared fairly they just don't want to colonise anymore its not in their own interest they have much to lose whilst china being less developed doesn't.
@@actualfactual8737 Everyone 😂😂Come on its some who hardly goes to west if he/she gets some jobs . Your western countries dont give jobs to everyone and stop crying as always . There are many countries in the world and central asia is just wonderful as your western you can check on your own
I am Chinese. I want to tell you some truth after watching this movie. First, weger people have a good life. For example, he built a new house. The government gave some help to him, but another religion does not have this support. Second, weger people go to some cities to sell some food on the street. They can do it, but other people are not allowed. Third, they can have some babies all the time, but others are not allowed. etc. About re-education camps we have, just to tell them do not believe the lies, become radicals. Wegar city has a different coulter, we like it and keep it.
What a propaganda piece against the One Belt One Road (OBOR) and China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). I can only talk about the CPEC part as that is what I personally know about. But start to finish that whole section was BS. The locals are more than happy that the highways China built for CPEC will bring thousands more tourists to their areas, which creates wealth for the locals. No one stops westerners from filming on the khunjrab pass. Anyone can visit the Khunjrab Pass and film there, RUclips is filled with their videos (including westerners). The highway up to the Khunjrab pass is excellent! the landslide they were showing was not a regular landlisde but a massive earthquake that happened in 2005 which created the Attabad lake, and this earthquake happened before the CPEC route to Khunjrab Pass was made. The reason he doesn't see a lot of trade activity on the route is because the whole CPEC trade route is under construction, including routes going through the Punjab and Baluchistan, along-with new train lines to transport cargo. The related industry that is to be set up is in the implementation phases. He talks as if the trade route is complete yet no one is using it. These CPEC routes are making the most inaccessible parts of Pakistan accessible not just to tourists but traders year round. Most of Pakistan's indebtedness is to western lenders, not Chinese. Time for the western world to stop with its BS and let other countries prosper.
@@karthikeyanm.v8381 Ha ha whole world knows which kashmir is occupied which one is administered. Pakistan didn't killed one lac kashmiri people and raped more than ten thousand Kashmiri women India is the one who did all of this
Pakistan isn't in severe debts by china... The Chinese debt is even less than 10% of total of Pakistan's debt. But if it was in severe Chinese debts then why would IMF make a $6billion deal with Pakistan? Anyways, I think Pakistan needs to be cautious and not just accept everything that China offers it. Thanks for the Doc
"This graveyard full of dead workers. Is this the sign of conquest?" DW, I have no issue with reporting negative aspects about China's BRI, but this is a really low blow and shameful line. Disgusting.
Thanks for such an interesting and informative documentary. It is glad to see how technology and prosperity had reached Chinese society but countries around them are insecure about its independence, freedom as one own country can maintain and support tradition, believe, religion that define the identity of each nation.
We know! We play the game but the tables are being changed. We The People have had enough! China will see we need no one but like the world, China is about to see how much they need the American BUYER!
americans ups jewmericans are so done-so DONE!!!!--the future is china... 20 years ago CHINA had only 8 big company's in fortune 500,today she is the top dog with 128 USA 121!!!! in two decades, that is just unbelievable it really is!!!!!
"China's New Silk Road" is an eye-opening journey that reveals the grandeur and complexity of this monumental project. It offers valuable insights into China's global ambitions and the impact on the regions along the route. Thank you for shedding light on this significant endeavor.
Yeah and apparently countries have a new view of China. It has went down, obviously. Having a nice reputation is a good way to become the top economic power. As you can tell China wants to be the strongest power, but that means passing the US. And the US has a lot of soft power. American songs, American movies, and American food. (Mostly fast food restaurants around the world.) You don’t see Chinese songs, movies, and food (food is debatable.) around the world or/as popular.
Chinese welcome you in Algeria, we haven't seen better than you in Algeria, they built Algeria, DW don't lie too much , that means you are afraid from your weakness and from the new powers
@Brownsugar M ok, let me explain the added benefits for you, africa gains infrastructure and they can reach and transport resources faster than before for lower cost, they can now make goods at a lower production cost and sell it for a higher price. African workers can gain experience working together with chinese workers and china gains a sphere of influence. its a win-win and no one dies. Happy? its okay for usa to have influence over the world but when china does that oh no they cant, so hypocritical.
Apparently the only theme is to discredit China but we the audience wants an objective view of BRI ‘s impact on the participating countries, no matter bad or good. You can’t reap the benefits without any cost.
This video brought me up with a question: is the modernization process good or bad? Not everyone will benefit from this process, and an ideal transition is that people get skill and financial aid from governments with this change (which is unlikely in poor countries). However, this is not the reason to leave them in backwardness - they ought to have their own convenient life no less than people in western countries, not by charity but by their own hands. Apart from this, in this documentary I cannot see any topic with pros but only cons well documented, as if modernization is bad for local people. It does not seem like an unbiased documentary IMO.
Are you dreaming? Those loans to poor countries will make them slaves financially and in every other way. Don't you understand how brutal China and every other Communist dictatorship is? Ask people who live next to Russia like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine when left under Russia's rule after WW2 until 1989. Unless you like torture, beatings and death camps you may need to wake up. Africa already told China to stuff it as they deceived them on their loans. They also bring in their military with them.
It is very biased, full of thinly veiled racism. They'd rather see sleepy poor villages begging for western handouts than free wealthy ones with Chinese tourists.
The China rapid rise in the globe is a positive one for all nations based on win-win solution for both through mutual understanding,unlike Western imperialist countries and US who brought war,chaos, weapons and bomb to disintegrated the latter nations. Which was a true evil force of nightmare for the peoples.
The problem is not modernization, the problem is the western imperialists' desire for world domination with its utopian ideal: *"New World Order"* "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Thought provoking and controversial. I enjoyed the documentary. I speak only English so I have no idea if translations were accurate. Being a "Western" documentary I am sure it is biased in one form or another as is the case in most productions. What most interests me are the comments below. Extremely wide range of thoughts. Thank you for the upload. All the best. Mitch
SIDDHARTH Gautama was Born in Kapilavastu (Modern Day Nepal) and He Traveled to Become BUDDHA after Enlightenment IN BODHYGAYA. MAYURA Empires (MODERN DAY INDIA)
Where Highest-Spending Tourists Come From The nationality of tourists also seems to be a factor in these total expenditures. Chinese tourists spent $277 billion internationally in 2018, likely thanks to the increasing consumption of an emerging, affluent middle class. Interestingly, this amount is almost twice the combined $144 billion that American tourists spent overseas in the same year
Hahahah ya thats why they jailed uighar muslims in china and they dont even want you they just want power and profit. They dont like western people u pakistanis are westerners to them wake up. They are very mean and full of greed for power.
It's also happening here in a lot larger countries. If they can't curb it, smaller countries are in trouble as well. It's so sad to me, makes me feel aweful. Money always talks, no matter where it is in the world. Always has, always will. Again, makes me sad.
@Gojohnny gp1 LOL the Uyghur problem was because they wanted to break away as a country, biased reporting as no one told you that. Trying to break this tie, shame on you.
I am Sri Lankan. This documentary is good . You should do documentary about Sri Lanka like this. We were British Colony until 1948 from 1815. You can find here what did british do distroying our culture and economy. And how British ruled our country without humanrights.
I have a question for you. How did you get your interviews with these Chinese citizen? Some unintentional misleading must be involved. I was to be here to see a non-biased documentation. But in the end, I was still so naive. In this episode, it is filled with the negativity of China-based initiative. There is no positive thing at all. The western always say that the China`s opening up back in 70s benifited the Chinese a lot, it brought prosperity and massive wealth to Chinese. And westerners played an quite important role in this process, sounds like the angel in the bible. But westerner never mentioned that they also brought something quite negative to the Chinese, such as AIDS, greed, inequality, impact to our traditional culture. They never mentioned that. They choose to be blind to these kind of issues. And when China does the same thing, suddenly their eye disease are gone, they can see the negative things accompanying the great change again. Democracy, fairness, equality, what a joke!
China says Pakistanis are 'LAZY' ..well Pakistanis have NOT known a good days work because they smoke and pray and do no LABOR ...because LABOR is for NON-MUSLIMS..! Like you and me ..etc..!
We visited KHUNJRAB PASS as a local tourist few years ago but now-a-days many Pakistan tourists and foreigners too used to visit this pass. Yes, casually landsliding incidents happen, but overall its worth a fun. Traveling into Northern Areas of Pakistan is passion now-a-days but on the other side you have showed negative side. Visit this summer and find the reality.
@@tellodoroteos5976 only luzon. Chinese have been part of Philippines for so long. Who owns most giant businesses in the Philippines? mostly filipino-chinese but still chinese nonetheless. You can only feel the presence of these chinese tourist in luzon. I doubt they will ever set foot in some places in MIndanao. They can try taking us over but that wont happen. Luzon is more poverty stricken than mindanao. Metro Manila may be rich but the normal people there can't even have a decent space to sleep. So please. If you think the chinese can take over Philippines, may be it will just be Luzon.
Loll how are they supposed to manage?! When China controls everything regarding the projects even in their country...they can't even use local workers..
@@Baargu Except they can, use a decent amount of local worker and teach them how to be a constructer is part of the deal. Know your facts before open your mouth.
@@w8ingsim43 you are the one who needs to do research...it's not just the Chinese workers, the countries even have to pay for the Chinese army... Google Chinese workers and army in Pakistan and their involvement in projects..
@@w8ingsim43 can't you read...I already said they can't use local workers on the project...the only extent they are allowed is to supply the materials..
I am a Myanmar citizen with Chinese ancestry and the Myanmar part triggers me. Those Bamar and any other ethnic groups like to play victim whenever it involves Chinese, be it local or from outside. They blame us for environmental destruction. They blame us for being more well-off. They blame us for paying bribes to get anything involving officials done when in reality we were the ones being extorted. And the only reason jade will ever be considered a national treasure is because there are Chinese who are willing to spend a shit ton of money on it. Without the Chinese, the jades are just worthless stones. The Myitsone Dam problem should be blamed on the military regime. It was that money-hungry military that signed the project with the Chinese with absolutely no regards to local population. The Chinese were just conveniently used as scapegoat after they got their fair share of money.
Your opinion comprised both right and wrong causes of China involvements in Myanmar. The wrong is not just Chineses who want your jade but a lot of Thai jewelry traders who wish to lay their (dirty) hands on your national treasure(but they have not a chance).The right is retired Gen.Tan Shwe never paid attention to his fellow countrymen when he ruled your country during the late 1980s through early 2000s.from neighbouring thailand
Those stones are worthless except in China! They are playing victims. This document is full of arragance and prejudice. Smart people, don't be fooled or blinded.
That line of poem actually means “when traveling west of YANG pass, you will see no more old friends”. It is written to a friend of the poet saying farewell.
yes, this video seems deliberately mosleading
@@michaelli4016 Translate is really misleading, "I can't go home before i finish the job" ... The misleading translate
@@michaelli4016 yeah they don’t show enough how bad the dictator Xi and his inner circle of thugs are for the entire world. They’re no better than the european colonizers hundreds of years ago. Genocide of people in their own country, and so many human rights abuses to their own people
@@tinameadows462 How could your conclusion like this be made? Based on this biased documentary or perhaps other rumors as well? Can't you see how well China protects its people during the pandemic? Can't you understand how great effort China has been made to develop its country and people's living standard in passing years with the huge costs? As far as genocide, it is a pure lie and fictitious allegation!!! I am an ordinary Chinese and I also blame the government from time to time when I was unhappy with something. But I have zero tolerance for lies, no matter who made it. If genocide was a true fact, there should already be a flood of refugee flood to everywhere from China to other countries. There would be tons of videos or photos appearing on the internet. However, so far, such things haven't come! Pls think with an open mind and critical thinking! If you meant to spread lies and rumors with no pieces of root evidence, I could only be speechless. Mercy on you.
@@yanwu2118 how's that great Xi protection now that alot of your top Construction companies are hugely in debt?
Sounds like you should do a documentary like this one about the loans given out by the IMF and World Bank. Would be great as a comparison.
Agreed. Economic hitmen.
Same question, when is Dirty French going leave their greedy hands off West Africa with their Franco de France?
I can only see double standard European propagenda here.
@@merrick6484 there is no doubt...however...the western media always got their double standard, especially when they are reporting about the east, whether it is about the good things or bad things. I feel like they have envyness in their heart🤪🤢
In what way would it be a comparison? Chinese loans aren't based on economic fundamentals as the IMF (which has had to give bailout loans bc of Chinese lending practices) and the world bank, which often focus on hard to support soft infrastructural projects. World Financial system, can easily fund all profitable hard infrastructural projects. China funding on political terms and then wanting the IMF to bail out borrowers. To mention nothing of Chin paying SOE contractors in China in RMB and demanding Dollars back from foreign borrowers.
@@elliott7706 Hollywood crackpot. Jackals and Coyotes. Insanity and Paranoid Delusional.
Wang Wei’s poem is mistranslated. He was signing that his friend is leaving and that friend does not have old pals out there. Please don’t use google translate when trying to translate Chinese poems.
and they constantly put their words into the interviewee's mouth, as if nobody understand chinese...
DW addressed that in an above reply
Apart from that, they filmed the wrong place. The poem is talking about Yang Guan, or Yang Gate, while they filmed Yumen Guan, or Jade Gate. They are actually not far apart from each other, probably 60km away, connected by high-quality paved road. However, it is true that Yang Guan doesn't have much left. The last time I visit, it was pretty much a dune. There are ample amounts of poems about Yumen Guan, or Jade Gate as well. I guess they were just too illiterate to know which one fits their malicious narrative.
@Aaron haha all of media do the same, but they just need to do it better than their opponents, which for sure the west do.
The white narrative is to twist and lie about anything that’s good of China and Chinese, in history or modern news.
This doc emphasizes the bad impact of China's investment, but from a business point of view, it makes a sound investment. At the same time, the doc does not mention that the West would not have invested in these countries and that these countries would not be able to withstand the financial and economic burden insisted by IMF.
agree
It is not emphasizing the bad impacts of investments, they are just showing the outcomes and results which brought up and this is really "bad"....its about people of the country which has to suffer...see srilanka how much they got help?....their airports is still vacant
And in the last.. IMF is trying to help that country to get out of the bankruptcy and inflation
@@विजयशर्मा-ख8ल actually studies have been made. Most of the deals China made was concluded to be fine. Sri Lanka case was the only one that was on the borderline. China has helped debt nations with leaner terms so they could pay back. Many advanced nations from the US and India refused to invest in them because there is little chance of being profitable. China however saw the investment as a long-term strategy. Even now The US and the West learned to begin to invest in the same way that China did decades ago. The West uses IMF which shows no sign of long-term interest in any investment and likes to interfere with local government from politics to economics to ensure they get something back. China, being a govt can take a long-term view. The Western media in the West doesn't like to applaud Chinese progress for they are jealous of its success without their help and want to prevent their continuous independence. They want to control the world. How dare China breaks their hold. :) Major Infrastructure is important to any society, so it is empty now, but when the worldwide economy gets better, Sri Lanka is ready to receive tourists again. It is not just in underdeveloped countries but in developed countries as well.
@@cczsus6513 How can you compare yourself to a whole country. In a country there are several corrupt officers, politicians who can be bribed by the loan lending party.
@@cczsus6513Why so many poor countries would like to commit an economical suicide one after other. In a row. Obviously their leaders are getting bribed under the table. And CCP have plenty of money to do so.
I do find it interesting that the germans of all people would say they have never seen an airport like this before considering the vacant berlin airport
Berlin is a busy airport. That SL airport has ONE flight lol
Berlin Airport is technically under construction.
There is Tegel and Schoenfeld in (near) Berlin. Brandt airport is under construction, originally scheduled to open in 2011. Basically conplete except for everything that does not work it would appear to a visitor very similar to the airport in this video
@bro ha naah, it's in remotest area of SL and it's more poorer area where ppl ain't wanna visit.
Recently India bought this whole airport to counter China.
Its been partially closed for awhile due to the super hero fights there before the blip.
Dunhuang is a very interesting place. I've been there twice and really enjoyed it. The secret is to avoid the massive crowds who hang around the dunes at the entrance to that park, and just enter for free a few hundred metres either side of the gate. If you veer to the right of the gate you'll find yourself in a graveyard with very interesting tombs, and you can walk around there for hours looking.... I recommend an overnight trip to the desert where you will see stars like you'll never see anywhere else in China. Sitting under the night sky by a fire is really an awesome experience, and there will be nobody around (most of the Chinese tourists won't even consider this option). The best part is you see the dunes in all their splendour.....
Sounds amazing...
I think I'll def do that one day man. Thanks for sharing
@@TheHonestTruth If you have a chance, give it a try. Happy New Year!
The so-called Chinese tourists only want to take a photo there to show to their friends. Most of them have no interest in culture and history.
40:06 the engineer was literally bragging about how hardworking they are and their work ethics... but the voice Dub seemed to understand it as some sort of complaint... man I know the work ethics sound bad but don’t over-interpret it to serve your own good.
I can transfer your comments to the man our chief engineer as you agreed,say what dose he replay you ?
not surprise. That is the way how those media reporting about China
Journalism at its worst.
@S C "subtle"
@S C There is nothing good to be said
It is not a simple project, its a dream project near to be completed soon. You named it documentary on silk road but instead I felt it is an American propaganda documentary against China. Gash you have highlighted the positive outcome of this project and how it is going to change future of many poor countries.
I just hope that it can make enough revenue to pay back 7 billion to China, the interest rate is high. Bangladesh was un able to pay China back and had to forfeit the port. Now China has control of their port as payment. I hope pakistan doesn't suffer the same. And has success.
the construction work in Pakistani are mostly local workers in this documentary. So how long DW wants to lie to people?
How did you know
Aryan Sanan It says 7000 Pakistani workers and 250 workers
I agree. Its propeganda running against china. West and india badly jealous of china progress. Chinese are committed and hardworking ppl. Indian and west want to grab progress by mockery plotting and propegandas
@@MuhammadAdnan-sn1ct I guess no country was bothered about China’s progress before the SIlk route project. After this project started it started troubling other countries. So the other countries are saying don’t disturb or create troubles for others while you are progressing. Is that too much to ask for ?? Imagine, If Russia and all other China neighbours starting building roads, railways and bridges near their respective China borders, will China be happy about it ? Just asking
@@yogeshsomasundaram4187 all the countries along the belt and road has given consent. The only country that is against it is US since they aren’t able to rip the Middle East countries off any longer. Also the countries are happy to participate because China is funding the entire project and it’s neutral benefit.
Hey @DW a little correction here the cemetery shown at 37:44 is the final resting place of Chinese workers and engineers who died during the construction of the Karakoram Highway (KKH) in Pakistan in the 1960s and 1970s and not for CPEC .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cemetery_(Danyor)
19:57 is this how dw makes documentaries? The man in black shirt ask :”how can you define the quality of the jade” then the man in white said :”with years of experience”. But DW subtitles says how good the man in white good at bargaining. I don’t understand, it’s a mistranslation from their local translator or dw does this on purpose
It's all through the documentary, include a worker's words are translated into "i can't go home before i finished the job", what does that sound like
The mistranslation happens all the time on purpose with almost all western media when issues towards east so that west can gain political favours from foreign audiences
What purpose does the West Media serve at the silk road only to criticize,why are the West critical of such an enormous and gigantic project undertaking by the great super power China it's almost absurd and ridiculous.
All because it's not a western project, shame on you.
@@verranhunter5108 because its a debt trap lol?
@@michaelf.2449 China never forces any to borrow from it. SL has total of 67 billion dollars debt from all institutions, but only from 7 billion dollars from China. Hambantota port is not a debt trap.
2:16 Dunhuang (China)
7:41 Cambodia
13:22 Kashgar (China)
18:27 Myanmar
25:42 Sri Lanka
32:12 Pakistan
Silk Routes: There were at least 5 different routes that are known as Silk Routes: At least three were most used. Northern China, via Mongolia, Central via Central Asia and Southern via India. The two sub routes were split in Central. Most ended at Anatolia, Turkey. China, then, was the most technically advanced country
Would DW do a documentary on the ‘ Economic hit men ‘ of the WB-IMF gang?
Pour praise on them AMERICA good.
They can't
They did.
The Jade market part is also not making sense. If you think the price is too low, you don't sell to that buyer. If nobody is offering a better price? Then your stone is not worth more at the current circumstances. This is just how the market economy works. BTW don't you see the irony here that China, the one that's been accused by many western countries of not being a market economy, is being criticized by a market economy country's public TV station for doing business in the market way.
I think you don't understand how the power works. Once the Chinese jade traders take the monopoly of jade market, then they define the price.
@@koroglurustem1722 It is called capitalism ^.^
@@koroglurustem1722 and the buyers know the jade miners desperately need the money.
@@koroglurustem1722 The Burmese are the sellers, they can always control the price if they organized themselves.
Thank you DW Documentary for a fascinating look at this massive project. Vielen Dank.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. We are glad you liked the documentary!
These days enjoying all DW's Documentaries while Quarantining my slef .....🙏 DW
A very productive way to spend your time :D
@@DWDocumentary such modesty
Same Here
@@DWDocumentary Can you please tell the soundtrack at 0:10
Too bad the CCP virus has you locked away
Wish every country on earth to be prosper and wealthy. Everyone deserved what the world can offered at best.
Not if it comes with cultural and community destruction.Its people that want peace more than money and greedy progress
Avarice
Human nature will prevent that from being the case.
that is imposible, will always there wealthy and poor people
should create documentaries on history of all european massacres on foreign soil
They have plenty of docs about the Nazis and imperialism, you should watch those. This video is about China.
@@veggiedisease123 as though a trading network and European colonisation at gunpoint are the same thing. Delusional.
@@michaelhayes4231 you really dont think they are colonizing through economic trade?
@@williamperez492 no I don't. Dominating and colonizing are two different things. A strong state of 1.4 billion people is bound to dominate regionally and eventually internationally but that's not colonialism.
@@michaelhayes4231,
Yeah right, have you heard what happend to tibet, have you heard that China's been the first to militarizing the border it has with India, have you heard that China told taiwan should be annexed since it's the "latest trend", have you heard that China pushed more than 50m in scarborough shoal than what was diplomatically settled with.
The translation of the Chinese poem is out of context and deliberately misleading. The poem was a farewell song wrote by Wang Wei to his old friend who was about to travel to the west, the poem says:" i invite you to drink one more cup of wine, for you won't see us OLD friends once you go west beyond Yang pass", it doesn't have the hostility towards the west as the Documentary suggested.
It's kinda ironic when they show an empty Airport and mention about how absurd it is to have this kinda Airport in Sri Lanka while they in fact have this very same kinda airport back home in Berlin.
@@SL-pn6qb The airport in Berlin is NOT open, and if it were it would become bankrupt in less than 6 months.
@@SL-pn6qb Corruptions between government officials and businessmen + downturn of economy + bad plannings (fail to foresee what is coming) always leads to disastrous result.
There huge difference between both airports... Germany has not taken a big chunk of loan for that airport...But, Sri Lanka has did....
@@cliffling2220 Germany is one of the least corrupt countries :/
@@DeepakYadav-em6ei , so what?
Citizens will still have to pay for a failed and bogus project.
This video reminds me of what is happening in the Philippines 🇵🇭
What's happening? The same thing or?
Some debts are good. If China helps the Philippines build bridges and roads that will improve the Phil economy, then why criticize it? But if the corrupt government of the Phils ask China to over-build useless roads/buildings while China uses its own resources to do so, then it must be the Phil government fault. After all China does not go the Phils forcibly to build anything, the corrupt government of the Phils go to China and ask them to build
the Chinese build nice air conditioned shopping malls though
@Bugatti Boss guess that is why it is a muslim majority country?
@Rogue_Samurai_47 Ask sri lanka? Or just those Sri Lanka people interviewed by dw? You are so cute to believe what a tv channel tells.
I think if U.S give up his position as world strongest country. This world can become a better place.
Make a Documentary on this.
yaa that's good but what about China's atrocities on minorities
they never create that kind of true documentary because they have been paid to create a documentary that represents their own interest.
@@billionfollowers6528 China is investogating 1.2 million muslims and U.S killed 7 million muslims just in Iraq alone.
Trump Threatened another way to win Afghan war. Just kill 10 million peoples there and win it. But he thinks its a bad idea. 😂😂
Island's nation is the chaos of terrorism on earth. whatever the island big or small.
yeah... love that communism, and ALL those freedoms that China represents. Thanks, I'll stand with the Stars and Stripes and hold tight to my guns to protect those freedoms. So how about not glorifying repressive regimes.
That's what is called a documentary, people! It was a pleasure to watch it.
This is what I called one-sided double standard.
Long live China 🇨🇳 and Pakistan 🇵🇰
Respect for building the most difficult highway
With love from ordinary Indian 🇮🇳
Being a Pakistani I love my country & it's relationship with China is stronger than ever...👊
You have no idea who you sold your country to.
As a Chinese, I have been to a lot of communities in both China and America, I felt that, it is hard to stay in bad life in China even you are in bad community as the government force you to chase good life. In America, It is hard to chase good life if you stay in bad community as bad community has freedom to stay in bad life.
THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY BORN LIVE IN INDIA 🇮🇳🤗, VERY SAFE VERY CLEAN ,ALWAYS RESPECT WOMEN AND WE HAVE TOILET EVERYWHERE , INDIA IS ROLE MODEL COUNTRY TRUST ME 🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳
😂
Same here in the Philippines. Chinese culture is already part of the Philippines even before the Spanish colonization. But the new influx of Chinese citizens is comparable to an economic and cultural invasion.
Which part of Philippines is that happening?
Wait, why the tune of this documentary appears to be so sarcastic. I thought the documentary should remain neutral and tell what it is in a third person's eye
EroSkulled Walter any person with some brain can see it's dept trap .
@@worthit5064 If it is really a trap the govt won't make a deal with China. there is something they can drain from the work China has done in their country, or in short, the benefit > its cost. Any person with some FUNCTIONAL brain can see the sweetness of taking risks.
EroSkulled Walter maybe your "Functional brain" doesn't see the situation of sri lanka and pakistan.
sri lanka have to give their port for 99 years. pakistan can't able to return the dept.
There's one backdraw of democracy , parties keep themselves in power , therefore they take dept from China at higher return prices even though they can't able to return that.
@@worthit5064 OKay, 99 years port usage for Srilanka, and what do they get in return (I do is not familiar with those situations cuz I'm not from Srilanka or Pakistan.)? For Pakistan, have you asked yourself why would they even loan from China if they can't return it? That's like you go to BOA or any bank and make a loan for a house. A few years later you tell the bank: sorry I can't pay the debt, and just walk away?
I'm a Pakistani, I don't it will change much. North will stay as it is for a long time.
Current Government is working hard to make the right decision. They are changing policies with China. Karakoram Highway is not a new thing, homework is done badly on the Pakistani side.
If your relations with India are solved then there will be a great neo-silk road from....
*China's* Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Wuhan, Chengdu - to -
*Bangladesh's* Cox Bazaar, Chittagong, Dhaka. - to -
*India's* Guwahati, Kolkata, Nalanda, Varanasi, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar - to -
*Pakistan's* Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Islamabad, Karachi, Gwadar, Quetta, Peshwar.
This documentary is absurd. Trying hard to create negative image of China. From Pakistan perspective most of our side investments on projects are 'BOT' "Built, operate, transfer" means Direct investments from China will operate project to obtain certain amount of profit to a certain amount of time and then transfer to Pakistan. Loans are hardly $6-7 billions of total $62 billions CPEC.
At 37:50 He says that graves of Chinese workers are resembling with the graves of Chinese soldier, and then he says these are Chinese soldiers after saying this he says it's a sign of a Conquest is Underway. lmao. The amount of stupidity is so high in this Documentary. These graves are of Chinese workers died in 1960s and 70s building this highway and I bet he didn't knew this, All this documentary is about is to portray negative image of China.
But all the railways are from East coastal areas or important industrial citis in middle China.
@Will Y Will they allow Indians to populate China? after all, they don't have enough room for themselves anymore. Maybe the Chinese will give them some space of their own. Somehow I doubt it.
@@ShahanshahShahin Yeah u r right, I think relations could come to a stalemate. Pakistan and India can't become friends but for the greater good, this needs to stop.
DW, you're my ticket to great documentaries! It's always a pleasure watching you each time. You never fail.
I've lived with Chinese for several years in the UK as a student I never had any problems with them ever. The problem is actually with the local Cambodian govt who is accepting bribes , not relocating its own citizens and not punishing a minority of rowdy Chinese. So actually the Cambodian govt is the problem.
If you can come and live in China for a few months, your impression of China and Chinese people will change again.Every country has its bad side and its good side, depending on how fairly you look at it
@@jackyzhang4324 but the video quite subtlety is being unfair to all Chinese. Or course there is good and bad everywhere and I am sure the hippies from the west living in Cambodia are not saints either
So because you lived with "a" or a "few" Chinese in the UK, you're able to generalize Chinese, their culture, mannerisms, behavior, behavior abroad, etc? Try living in China amongst locals in different cities for years and maybe then just maybe you can form a fair opinion, assessment, or generalization of Chinese. The Cambodian's opinions of what they experience amongst the Chinese tourist in their city is not wrong or unfair just because they have had a different experience than you. Not to mention their encounters are seemingly more frequent & of higher quantity than yours.
The Chinese that come to study in the UK are not the same as the Chinese who are tourists. I studied alongside the former in Manchester, and (while visiting relatives) saw the behaviour of the latter in Seychelles. Unfortunately, I can confirm the Cambodians' experience.
Everything this narrator said about China is negative. He has been bribed to do this fake documentary.
narrator: "How did this happen?"
everyone else: Bribes.
Pakistani part starts at 32:15 for those who can't wait like me
china policy is to debt all these country if you are from pakistan my advice beware of these chinnese
@@vinay11163 what about IMF.
Thanks for guideline....
@@vinay11163
Thanks for you concern but Chinese are a thousand times better than western imperialists.
Despite all the negatives mentioned in this video, KKH has benefitted the local population immensely, I can now travel conveniently in two hours from my home in Baltit Hunza to Gilgit town, which I travelled in three days when I was a student of 8th class.
highway is in disputed territory!!
How can you lie to the people???
At 19:56 the guy in the blue T-shirt said:”He said, How can you tell the quality of the jade?”
Then the guy in the white T-shirt said:”It’s all based on my experience.”
They (DW) are islamist supporters. They will lie for it
@@pg5353 ohhh please don't go shooting your stupidity everywhere you go.... Hypocrite
What did you expect? if there is one thing englishmen are experts in. it's lying and spying.
This documentary is very biased against China. It's laughable.
I am Chinese. I can confirm this comment is correct.
30:11
Sri Lanka : we have the world's emptiest international airport
North Koreans in Pyongyang : hold my beer
Pyongyang has regular flights...but just 1 or 2, Sri Lanka had no flights :)
@@UninstallingWindows 🤣🤣🤣🤣 no flights 🤤Really
Look up Berlin Brandenburg Airport. The biggest empty airport of them all. The DW crew is so funny because they don't even remember the white elephant in their capital
@@Peizxcv that's truth
always seeing something in front of you while refusing to see things in the future, which means no plan for the future
Development is bad, the old colonial power taking resources without bringing development is much better.
Hol Up, shouldn't that be the opposite? Haha
@First Last Sarcasm rather.
@@zsarimaxim692 I want my town to stay as a fishing village for the Europeans to experience poor SE Asian life.
Its because of the western world and it's profound influences in every corner of the world through the spread of it's globalization that the rest of the world through it's tremendous influences are becoming developed. So really, you can talk about a period of colonialism, but remember the days 100 years ago when Asia was one big massive undeveloped, uncivilized shithole with bamboo huts and wooden houses. It's because of the western civilization that this all changed.
Now China has 1.4 billion people and all the knowledge gotten from countries like Germany which extensively spread knowledge to China, it is now trying in the regard it performs best in, in the speed of everything as once technology is learned, one can use it in a country of 10 million or 1.4 billion, it simply goes much faster in a country of 1.4 billion people.
But mark my words, China is a FAR worse civilization to work with. Ultimately!
Because this is a new thing, you already see the many issues with depending yourself on China. Many countries already suffer under China, even though it's still in an early phase. I think it will get worse down the road. And the fact that you don't know that peoples like the Uighur people in China are being wiped out in the most filthy ways. Women get stuff injected so that they dont menstruate, and they are all in punishment camps/prison. But towards the world China is sending out video's of how great everything is for the people and so on. Pure propaganda while they're wiping out this population. It's pathetic. And you talk about colonial power. Jeez. Educate yourself
@First LastSarcasm
The engineer who builds a road through the mountains one stone at a time at the end of the video. 👍👍👍
Engineers don't actually build anything lol...if they're physically laying down anything, its not an engineer performing that action
@@dondaddah9141 rt rree
Confucius
@@dondaddah9141 they do the hardest jobs
Im wondering if the political analyst described the deal to be so one-sided, why sri lanka signed that deal instead of walking away?
just west propaganda
Sri lanka has indebted itself, its ports will be taken over by Chinese government for next 100 years.
2004 tsunami devastated Sri Lanka and Chinese seized the opportunity
wy y the problem with your narrative is that China is in bed a bunch of country with strong dictatorship. What China is doing is bribing corrupt leaders in to selling their country while the people of the country do not get anything for it. It is a sugar daddy diplomacy and it is wrong!
They also made other deals in return for some shitty artillery and planes to hello cull the ltte. This is the cost of doing deal with the devil. Many countries have learnt the hard way if you let china sleep over for one night in your house when you wake up the next morning he will be charging you rent claiming it's his house.
My city should hire the Chinese to complete the metro work. Its almost 10 years now and it is still not finished LOL
Its new international airport, about 40 kms. south of Beijing and scheduled to open on 30 September, took less than 4 years to complete the construction.
Dublin?🤣
10 years 🙄 for metro and i thought India was slow.
Must be Bogotá
They won't give you loan if they can't see any chance to trap your country. Haven't you learnt anything from thr documentary? Better to build own country with slow pace will full freedom than to build it instantly with poor quality with no freedom.
your documentaries are really good but let's be honest, not only you knew of another airport like that but up until recently, you had one!
Very clear and easy to understand. Keep going
I note the dark music nearly all in minor keys with much percussive component indicating bad things happening. DW used to have quality output with independent thinking. What happened? This is just groupthink bashing China.
Yeah I hate these manipulative film techniques in a documentary.
Well who among us isn’t even a little biased
China Pakistan Economic Corridor is particularly a game changer for Pakistan and generally for all of South and Central Asia.
Lets see
When they find only Chinese people lived in Pakistan
Yeah it will become a paragon of neocolonialism
How much money Pakistan owns China?
@@berns8314 about 60 billion dollars something
19:56 - the translator asks the appraiser "he asks how do you tell this stone is good or not?". The appraiser says "you look at it and base on experience. Experience is critical". Look at the DW translation: "There's a black vein here! The color's not green enough. No, I don't like it"
DW turned a friendly exchange into something negative by completely mistranslated the conversation. Makes you wonder how many interview with locals are locals' words vs DW's words
The translation literally faked the whole conversation. Just to prove "Chinese only care about the quality of jade". What a shame.
@@haotianchen2268 They do it on purposes , it's not mistake
Thank you for such useful videos it would be better if you download them with subtitles
Thinking forward on the airport. Build it and they will come !! I love Pork Fried Rice at the tunnel construction site. They know how to treat their workers. Nothing American can build like that. We had a hard time building a subway tunnel extension in NYC.
well then move to china since it is so great.
DW consistently tells the other side of the story. Love it!
Rudy Amid the side where is the true fact.
This will provoke prejudice against China by many refugees. It's happening in the comments section.
Such a shame. Says "we are the first western crew given coverage" and then continues with his propaganda. There are 100s of western vloggers there at this time alone. How do these people lie and show faces to their families.
Many white people believe anything they see on the Media, if they go and invade a poorer country right now and kill millions of civilians nobody but the westerners would be seen as the victims of War, China is actually helping us Africans and Asians but the West don't want that because it'll be more difficult for them to have friendships and above all; valuable resources
GOOD MONING FAMILIE EU AM FOST DROGATA PE TIMP DE NOAPTE DAR VREAU SI EU 2 CAMILIE AMI SANT TARE DRAGI .
@@omohamed702 oh boy, you are really clueless
@@saraaaaa9803 sorry to say you are a sheepo !
@@saraaaaa9803 give it a couple generations
you should continue this but in south america and other places, great work!
Why do not US, UK and other western countries invest in south east Asia countries such as Cambodia and Philippine?
They do, it's call the stock market.
They have no money? They have no resource. They just complain of others doing!
Guns and cannons conquer faster
harry Smith Usually because were too busy bombing them
@@kalakaritasansar9636 no money? they have lesser population living in better condition with a gdp much larger when compared fairly they just don't want to colonise anymore its not in their own interest they have much to lose whilst china being less developed doesn't.
The Silk road existed even when there was no Europe on the world map..
That's why they can not process the idea in depth...the Western is just too shallow.
@@rtgtx Then why does everyone want to go to the west and Europe. Dont be a nieve fool.
@@actualfactual8737 Everyone? On the crack?
@@rtgtx Westerners do not need any more dollar store crap.
@@actualfactual8737 Everyone 😂😂Come on its some who hardly goes to west if he/she gets some jobs . Your western countries dont give jobs to everyone and stop crying as always . There are many countries in the world and central asia is just wonderful as your western you can check on your own
I am Chinese. I want to tell you some truth after watching this movie. First, weger people have a good life. For example, he built a new house. The government gave some help to him, but another religion does not have this support. Second, weger people go to some cities to sell some food on the street. They can do it, but other people are not allowed. Third, they can have some babies all the time, but others are not allowed. etc. About re-education camps we have, just to tell them do not believe the lies, become radicals. Wegar city has a different coulter, we like it and keep it.
Then why not let them get interviewed?
五毛😂
does Warner bros know you're using their soundtrack for "the dark knight"?
No man they alleged took it. I was also enjoying the music
I think hans zimmer approve this 😎
I was gonna say.... “Batman?”
😂
Can anyone tell the soundtrack at 0:10
Do they not give warnings about using their soundtracks?
What a propaganda piece against the One Belt One Road (OBOR) and China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). I can only talk about the CPEC part as that is what I personally know about. But start to finish that whole section was BS. The locals are more than happy that the highways China built for CPEC will bring thousands more tourists to their areas, which creates wealth for the locals. No one stops westerners from filming on the khunjrab pass. Anyone can visit the Khunjrab Pass and film there, RUclips is filled with their videos (including westerners). The highway up to the Khunjrab pass is excellent! the landslide they were showing was not a regular landlisde but a massive earthquake that happened in 2005 which created the Attabad lake, and this earthquake happened before the CPEC route to Khunjrab Pass was made.
The reason he doesn't see a lot of trade activity on the route is because the whole CPEC trade route is under construction, including routes going through the Punjab and Baluchistan, along-with new train lines to transport cargo. The related industry that is to be set up is in the implementation phases. He talks as if the trade route is complete yet no one is using it. These CPEC routes are making the most inaccessible parts of Pakistan accessible not just to tourists but traders year round. Most of Pakistan's indebtedness is to western lenders, not Chinese. Time for the western world to stop with its BS and let other countries prosper.
Khan 77 excellent information. All i heard in this documentary is blaming chinese projects in every country.
Khan 77 indeed
That road will eventually be used for invasion of Pakistan by China.
Pakistani part is beautiful those mountains are mesmerizing..
The middle east is beautiful in general, if you visit you will see why religion has sprouted here.
@@kingboo843 pakistan is mostly south Asian and a little central asian though. Not middle east though lmao
That is actually Pakistan occupied Kashmir
@@karthikeyanm.v8381 it's Azad Kashmir Indian have occupied Kashmir
@@karthikeyanm.v8381 Ha ha whole world knows which kashmir is occupied which one is administered. Pakistan didn't killed one lac kashmiri people and raped more than ten thousand Kashmiri women India is the one who did all of this
This SHOULD BE SHOWN around the world ASAP ! ! ! ! Before it's too late ! ! ! ! Just like in Cambodia & Sri Lanka ! ! ! !
Pakistan isn't in severe debts by china... The Chinese debt is even less than 10% of total of Pakistan's debt. But if it was in severe Chinese debts then why would IMF make a $6billion deal with Pakistan? Anyways, I think Pakistan needs to be cautious and not just accept everything that China offers it. Thanks for the Doc
IMFs role is to save countries from bankruptcy. And they did that couple of times for Pakistan. Pakistan is now firmly in hand of chinese banks.
"This graveyard full of dead workers. Is this the sign of conquest?"
DW, I have no issue with reporting negative aspects about China's BRI, but this is a really low blow and shameful line. Disgusting.
Thank you for your comment, I will stop watching this typical western BS!
DW, VICE, BBC and countless other western media houses will keep propagating against china
am I crazy or do I hear Hans Zimmer's score for The Dark Knight in this
you got it. it is indeed dark knight score.
Thanks for such an interesting and informative documentary. It is glad to see how technology and prosperity had reached Chinese society but countries around them are insecure about its independence, freedom as one own country can maintain and support tradition, believe, religion that define the identity of each nation.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Elena!
Really sad to see what has happened to Cambodia... Their politicians horribly failed their citizens!!
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what_p @ +
China failed the people. Only China is to blame.
@@samlsd9711 how ? please give details. thanks.
聰明的人不會給這節目洗腦，西方媒體經常對中國造謠也不是什麼新鮮事
You interviewed one dude. Amazing
I had a good laugh at your comment lol
West: Silk road is no more
China: That's what you think
We know! We play the game but the tables are being changed. We The People have had enough! China will see we need no one but like the world, China is about to see how much they need the American BUYER!
Serdar Joshua
The Silk road never was China it was a trade route from Egypt/Greece to China.
americans ups jewmericans are so done-so DONE!!!!--the future is china... 20 years ago CHINA had only 8 big company's in fortune 500,today she is the top dog with 128 USA 121!!!! in two decades, that is just unbelievable it really is!!!!!
@@Lapsontheboy Of the 80 Trillion Dollars World Economy China makes 15.4 Trillion Dollars and the US 24.39 Trillion Dollars.
@@theclephane2914
At the most 4% of Chinese GDP, dropping.
"China's New Silk Road" is an eye-opening journey that reveals the grandeur and complexity of this monumental project. It offers valuable insights into China's global ambitions and the impact on the regions along the route. Thank you for shedding light on this significant endeavor.
"The new China with eyes clearly focused on the West." COVID-19 has put a halt to that for now.
u got the serious point dude.. :XD !!!!!!!!!!!
i was gonna say "its allllll over nowwww"
Karole withaK or did it accelerate the plan? Clear the way... cause major distraction?
Yeah and apparently countries have a new view of China. It has went down, obviously. Having a nice reputation is a good way to become the top economic power. As you can tell China wants to be the strongest power, but that means passing the US.
And the US has a lot of soft power. American songs, American movies, and American food. (Mostly fast food restaurants around the world.)
You don’t see Chinese songs, movies, and food (food is debatable.) around the world or/as popular.
@@resilience4lyfe331 Time will tell, but IMHO for now, it has slowed down their unchecked advance.
Nice documentry guys,but u miss one leg of the chicken.
The tone of the documentary was biased. Surprised that DW would try paint an entire population in such poor light.
Chinese welcome you in Algeria, we haven't seen better than you in Algeria, they built Algeria, DW don't lie too much , that means you are afraid from your weakness and from the new powers
@Brownsugar M ok, let me explain the added benefits for you, africa gains infrastructure and they can reach and transport resources faster than before for lower cost, they can now make goods at a lower production cost and sell it for a higher price. African workers can gain experience working together with chinese workers and china gains a sphere of influence. its a win-win and no one dies. Happy? its okay for usa to have influence over the world but when china does that oh no they cant, so hypocritical.
Apparently the only theme is to discredit China but we the audience wants an objective view of BRI ‘s impact on the participating countries, no matter bad or good. You can’t reap the benefits without any cost.
sftu twerp
"China fears the influence of anything they see as different or foreign"... OH the irony.
I somehow read this as the documenter said it.
while jade is just some stone, if no one want such stone, it's useless
Same as diamond! It's just a rock. lol
@@1313hyme And much more common than people think. The value from diamonds comes from the vanity and stupidity of people, more than anything else.
Maybe you should mention how much the compensation is for relocation. I'm curious to know.
because there is none or it disappears in local and corruipt government coffiers.
@@jessehess8628
Ha ha ha
Trickle down effect ?
Equally distributed ? No , the top get their cut, the bottom got nothing .
This video brought me up with a question: is the modernization process good or bad? Not everyone will benefit from this process, and an ideal transition is that people get skill and financial aid from governments with this change (which is unlikely in poor countries). However, this is not the reason to leave them in backwardness - they ought to have their own convenient life no less than people in western countries, not by charity but by their own hands.
Apart from this, in this documentary I cannot see any topic with pros but only cons well documented, as if modernization is bad for local people. It does not seem like an unbiased documentary IMO.
Are you dreaming? Those loans to poor countries will make them slaves financially and in every other way. Don't you understand how brutal China and every other Communist dictatorship is? Ask people who live next to Russia like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine when left under Russia's rule after WW2 until 1989. Unless you like torture, beatings and death camps you may need to wake up. Africa already told China to stuff it as they deceived them on their loans. They also bring in their military with them.
@@sharischoll9411 Rubbish
It is very biased, full of thinly veiled racism. They'd rather see sleepy poor villages begging for western handouts than free wealthy ones with Chinese tourists.
The China rapid rise in the globe is a positive one for all nations based on win-win solution for both through mutual understanding,unlike Western imperialist countries and US who brought war,chaos, weapons and bomb to disintegrated the latter nations.
Which was a true evil force of nightmare for the peoples.
The problem is not modernization, the problem is the western imperialists' desire for world domination with its utopian ideal: *"New World Order"*
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Guess who worked the most for the last 30/40 years?
As a nation they are working hard like ants and bees.
Oh yea? Did u miss the part about what they are doing to their own citizens, for being Muslim
Even a donkey works hard
they're racist supremist lol why else would they treat the Uyghurs that way...
the ccp ideology will one day pay the price
and no I have nothing to do with china lol I'm from west europe
@@brassicaolaraceaolaracea1115 CCP don't believe in God so they are erasing them.
Thought provoking and controversial. I enjoyed the documentary. I speak only English so I have no idea if translations were accurate. Being a "Western" documentary I am sure it is biased in one form or another as is the case in most productions. What most interests me are the comments below. Extremely wide range of thoughts. Thank you for the upload. All the best. Mitch
I think DW meets all the criteria of Western MSM. Bias and misleading.
@@cliffling2220 yeah china should’ve made the documentary instead, telling us how great all of this destruction of culture and lives is!
4:36 Buddha was born in Nepal and buddhism is from Nepal not from India ...
SIDDHARTH Gautama was Born in Kapilavastu (Modern Day Nepal) and He Traveled to Become BUDDHA after Enlightenment IN BODHYGAYA. MAYURA Empires (MODERN DAY INDIA)
GAUTAMA was from NEPAL
BUDDHA is from INDIA and gave Birth to BUDDHISM IN India
india behave like this so nepal, bhutan, pakistan ., china, sirlanka
and bangladesh dont like india
@Henonaga greeks use to call Hind ,India...
And nepal was part of ancient india
Where Highest-Spending Tourists Come From
The nationality of tourists also seems to be a factor in these total expenditures. Chinese tourists spent $277 billion internationally in 2018, likely thanks to the increasing consumption of an emerging, affluent middle class.
Interestingly, this amount is almost twice the combined $144 billion that American tourists spent overseas in the same year
Chinas middle class is the size of the US population.
Why spend money in POS nations that are dominated by Chinese
@@jtxo9305 middle class under constant surveillances
We love our brother China our best friend 🇵🇰🇨🇳❤❤❤
China and Pakistan are everlasting iron bro!!! let the west get jealous.
Hug my friend
Haha. Fake Friendship. One day they will stab you from behind.
@@mustanggt5713 China is unlike the west. In other words, China is not a bloodthirsty barbarian.
Hahahah ya thats why they jailed uighar muslims in china and they dont even want you they just want power and profit. They dont like western people u pakistanis are westerners to them wake up. They are very mean and full of greed for power.
It's also happening here in a lot larger countries. If they can't curb it, smaller countries are in trouble as well. It's so sad to me, makes me feel aweful. Money always talks, no matter where it is in the world. Always has, always will. Again, makes me sad.
You're so naive.
typical american propanganda..
Rubbish and rubbish reporting ... Honestly nothing true about pakistan and china economic roads
@Allah Ask Indians ;)
@Gojohnny gp1 Take the poo to the loo
@Gojohnny gp1 LOL the Uyghur problem was because they wanted to break away as a country, biased reporting as no one told you that. Trying to break this tie, shame on you.
who care what you have to say
I am Sri Lankan. This documentary is good . You should do documentary about Sri Lanka like this. We were British Colony until 1948 from 1815. You can find here what did british do distroying our culture and economy. And how British ruled our country without humanrights.
බොරු කියන්න එපා..උන් පාලනය කලානම් අපිට මෙහෙම වෙන්නෙ නෑ
China should make exactly the same biased documentary about Germans and Germany and let 1.4 billion viewers watch them.
we are not them, and China never make biased news against anyone. but thank you very much for your objective perception.
you think 1.4 billion chinese have access to free press? OK.
I have a question for you. How did you get your interviews with these Chinese citizen? Some unintentional misleading must be involved.
I was to be here to see a non-biased documentation. But in the end, I was still so naive. In this episode, it is filled with the negativity of China-based initiative.
There is no positive thing at all.
The western always say that the China`s opening up back in 70s benifited the Chinese a lot, it brought prosperity and massive wealth to Chinese.
And westerners played an quite important role in this process, sounds like the angel in the bible. But westerner never mentioned that they also
brought something quite negative to the Chinese, such as AIDS, greed, inequality, impact to our traditional culture. They never mentioned that.
They choose to be blind to these kind of issues.
And when China does the same thing, suddenly their eye disease are gone, they can see the negative things accompanying the great change again.
Democracy, fairness, equality, what a joke!
In their own country in the west, their president says "send them back", when they come to China, they cares about the local culture. lol.
China says Pakistanis are 'LAZY' ..well Pakistanis have NOT known a good days work because they smoke and pray and do no LABOR ...because LABOR is for NON-MUSLIMS..! Like you and me ..etc..!
We visited KHUNJRAB PASS as a local tourist few years ago but now-a-days many Pakistan tourists and foreigners too used to visit this pass. Yes, casually landsliding incidents happen, but overall its worth a fun. Traveling into Northern Areas of Pakistan is passion now-a-days but on the other side you have showed negative side. Visit this summer and find the reality.
Whenever the soundtrack plays, I keep thinking of Batman!
Because it is. Its Zimmer music from nolan bat trio
Batman Begins: my best forever Batman movie.
Yep
Bat from Wuhan maybe lol!
What exactly is the purpose of this documentary? Its profound irony - europians warning about imperial designs of a nation!
We in the Philippines feel the same way too as the Cambodians.
I feel bad for you guys. I hope you can survive the take over.
Duterte sold out the phillipines to China...for cheap..I doubt they will ever recover..however hopefully..but doubtful.
@@tellodoroteos5976 only luzon. Chinese have been part of Philippines for so long. Who owns most giant businesses in the Philippines? mostly filipino-chinese but still chinese nonetheless. You can only feel the presence of these chinese tourist in luzon. I doubt they will ever set foot in some places in MIndanao. They can try taking us over but that wont happen. Luzon is more poverty stricken than mindanao. Metro Manila may be rich but the normal people there can't even have a decent space to sleep. So please. If you think the chinese can take over Philippines, may be it will just be Luzon.
I didn't see any improvement in the life of the people, the US has been there 50 years !?!?!!
same as indonesian...
Thank you for presenting us another informative documentary which says a lot.
Thanks for watching!
fake news for most things,or maybe it just show the bad side of all the things.
You mean pretending, right?
CPEC is an amazing project. Pakistan and China are friends. Pak Cheen Dosti Wang Woye.
Shame on the Cambodian politicians who have sold their soul to Chinese money
Sri Lanka too!
Australia too!
Feels like most of the negativity are from poor management by other countries. However it's all Chinese fault
Loll how are they supposed to manage?! When China controls everything regarding the projects even in their country...they can't even use local workers..
@@Baargu Except they can, use a decent amount of local worker and teach them how to be a constructer is part of the deal.
Know your facts before open your mouth.
@@w8ingsim43 you are the one who needs to do research...it's not just the Chinese workers, the countries even have to pay for the Chinese army...
Google Chinese workers and army in Pakistan and their involvement in projects..
@@Baargu first answer my question directly, can they use local workers?
@@w8ingsim43 can't you read...I already said they can't use local workers on the project...the only extent they are allowed is to supply the materials..
Development is what people actually need.
I am a Myanmar citizen with Chinese ancestry and the Myanmar part triggers me. Those Bamar and any other ethnic groups like to play victim whenever it involves Chinese, be it local or from outside. They blame us for environmental destruction. They blame us for being more well-off. They blame us for paying bribes to get anything involving officials done when in reality we were the ones being extorted. And the only reason jade will ever be considered a national treasure is because there are Chinese who are willing to spend a shit ton of money on it. Without the Chinese, the jades are just worthless stones.
The Myitsone Dam problem should be blamed on the military regime. It was that money-hungry military that signed the project with the Chinese with absolutely no regards to local population. The Chinese were just conveniently used as scapegoat after they got their fair share of money.
Your opinion comprised both right and wrong causes of China involvements in Myanmar.
The wrong is not just Chineses who want your jade but a lot of Thai jewelry traders who
wish to lay their (dirty) hands on your national treasure(but they have not a chance).The right is retired Gen.Tan Shwe never paid attention to his fellow countrymen when he ruled your country during the late 1980s through early 2000s.from neighbouring thailand
Those stones are worthless except in China! They are playing victims. This document is full of arragance and prejudice. Smart people, don't be fooled or blinded.
Funny how its "noble" when any other region besides the West practices *Imperialism* LOFL !!
Deeply impressed. I reserve my comments till I watch Part 2.
Thankful to Dw, Receiving idea about many hidden think of belt road