What the West Doesn't Get about China's Rise
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- In this video, I explain how you may expect a rising China to behave. I cover issues like how China looks at the world, why it flexed its muscles around Taiwan, and the anxiety of the American people (aka the West). References down below.
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- Chapters -
[0:00] intro
[1:41] China's wordview
[4:54] Taiwan
[8:31] The West's anxiety
[12:01] Chitchat
References:
F. W. Mote (1999) Imperial China: 900-1800, Harvard University Press, pp. 614-15.
Fukuyama, Francis. “The End of History?” The National Interest no. 16 (summer 1989): 3-18, Global Fund. Results Report 2017.
Harry S. Stout, “Religion, War, and the Meaning of America,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 19, no. 2 (summer 2009): 284. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/...
Kissenger, H. (2011) On China, Penguin Press, chapter 1
Mahbubani. K. (2020) Has China Won, PublicAffairs, chapter 4
Rudd, K. (2022) The Avoidable War, PublicAffairs
Sachs, J. (2018) A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American exceptionalism, Columbia University Press
Spence, J. D. (1991) The Search for Modern China, W. W. Norton Company
America's military base map: • The End of American Ex...
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Hello friends, Zheng He sailed in Ming dynasty, not Yuan. It was a mistake, so highlighting here :)
Yes, I was about to say that
While we are on the Yuan dynasty, I would like to add something.
In 1292, Yuan Dynasty sent an expeditionary force to Java (now Indonesia) to subjugate Singhasari Kingdom. This kingdom refused to pay tribute to Yuan and maimed one of the emissaries.
As you have said, the Chinese, or should I say Mongols (?), didn't want to lose face. The humiliation should be punished accordingly.
@@onisuryaman408 Yet, Zheng He came to Java on friendship, not to punish anyone!!!!
I do like your videos, they are very thought provoking. Just one comment on the Jen Psaki quote. She was speaking in the context of President Biden’s threat toward ISIS-K terrorists who killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service members in a suicide bombing attack in Kabul.
From what I understand, China punished Uyghur terrorists very harshly and they were executed. Biden has to speak that bluntly, because otherwise he will be seen as weak. I don't like it either, but it's a cultural difference. A government can choose not to discuss problems publicly, but act brutally behind closed door. Many countries have abolished the death penalty. The US and China have not.
@@sabinereynaudsf Yes, exactly! There are cultural differences! Therefore it's important to understand each other and not to be so judgemental as if one is superior to the other(s)!! Peace!!!
I was born in Mexico, my dad is Mexican and my mom was chinese. She was born in Taiwan and until her last day she maintained that Taiwan was part of China.
"The U.S. side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. *The United States Government does not challenge that position.* "
Until now, apparently. That's why the USA has been sending official delegations to Taipei, selling arms to Taiwan, conducting naval exercises off China's coast, adding new military bases in the Philippines, and creating military pacts against China (Quad and AUKUS). The USA has demonstrated its duplicity, much to the dismay of Beijing.
At last, someone articulating the Chinese perspective in a way that an English-speaking person can understand. All power to you, I hope you save us from WW3 : )
It all boils down to Chinese pride doesn't it.
Currently the threat of WWIII comes from China'' s aggression in the Philippines.
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@@douglasnakamura6753 US exeptionalism is also about pride, it is spreading chaos and destruction around the world to preserve it.
Please continue to make more videos, they are super informative and bring in so much perspective into complex issues. Great work!
Very good video. As someone from South America, we get fed a lot of this "threat of China's rise" discourse from the pro-American media. A lot of people end up buying into it, sadly. It's great that channels like yours promote alternative views to a mostly Western audience. You gained a follower!
A lot of these so called lies about China are true. She omits to mention so many facts, she is almost a PR person for the CCP. Be very careful about what she says. She also compares Black Lives Matter to the possible invasion of Taiwan
Just look at how USA freaks out about Cuba
El comunismo no ha hecho más que arruinar nuestro continente
I'm a 67-year-old American. In my lifetime the US has invaded other countries at least 55 times.
War, i.e. invasion, is almost always a bad idea. I have seen it from the bloody front.
The Devil embodied.
What does that have to do with this conflict?
@@theoracle9873 Perhaps, you need to work on the devils you don't know?...😶😶😶😶
@@frank-ko6de What could American geopolitics have to do with a geopolitical conflict? 🤔
I just want to say to you and to the algorithm that I wish there were more thoughtful videos like this, from people who wish to bridge the divide by providing insightful perspectives that help rehumanize those we don't fully understand. Please keep up the great work! It's much needed...
I sort of already knew China's motivation but you explained it so well. I kind of wish though that more people have a certain level of common sense and intuition especially politicians. Got yourself a new subscriber here👍
hello, i'm 3rd generation chinese heritage living overseas and i totally agree with your general breakdown between china and the west. keep up the good work.
aw thank you :)
Ah..so u might be another son of the Opium wars waged against the good harmless Chinese people 150 years ago.
And I totally disagree.
You’d be wumao shilling for the Chinese communist party.
@@BrianBaileyedtech stop watching CNN.
Thank you for your videos. I discovered your channel a week ago and since watched a dozen of your videos. Your analyses are balanced and intelligent! Great job you do! I learn a lot with you.
thanks for making these videos. I like the approach you try to find the truth from history and culture perspective. But also want to point out that it's not logic to predict how China will behave based on what it had behaved in the past. There are simply too many geographic and political factors at different times for a country/regime to interact with other countries in distinctive ways. If we look at the full history of how China geographically expanded from a limited central region to current mainland China from 3000 years ago, our ancestors conquered/assimilated/eliminated many other ethnic groups.
If you compare what happened in Western history with what happened in China, you may question your statement "it's not logic to predict how China will behave based on what it had behaved in the past". If it is still China, it is predictable.
From your perspective, How do you explain the colonial practices of Western powers, the African slave trade and the genocide of indigenous peoples
If you look at British and American history, you’d rather kick yourself for your comments……😂……
Thank you Siming. It is work like this that will help people understand and be understood, to give cooperation and peace a chance. Keep it up!❤
Why don’t you let the Taiwanese decide their fate? It would be like a subjugation if it’s not something they want.
I've spent a lot of my life living and working in Taiwan. I never met a single person who wanted to be part of China. There is no consent.
I agree, and as an American I do subscribe to the ideals of self-determination. But for the sake of playing devil's advocate, the Union did not simply allow South Carolina and any of the states making up the Confederacy secede from it and an entire civil war was fought to bring them back into the fold (and as someone from New York I agree with the Union's decision to bring the Confederacy back by force despite the bloodshed during the civil war.)
Why not let those who support reunification in Taiwan return? Why doesn't the United States withdraw from Guantanamo?
@@michaelheschong4855haha well. There was a time where they would have said they would retake the mainland and end the communist rebellion. But that generation is dying off.
@@dingxiong8604 I agree they should leave. But that’s just a detention center and not a full takeover and imposition of a repressive political system on an entire population that should have the right to chose their own destiny.
Great video. I agree it's a polarizing topic. It's also a complex and deep topic. It's hard to cover all of it's subtleties in a short video. I think you did great at bringing some perspectives to the surface.
Totally support your views and clear explanations. Thanks you and keep on doing more of it.
Congratulations. i enjoy your videos, analysis of China and the "western" viewpoint. I am English, as a child in Liverpool I read a pamphlet (1957) as to the Slave trade , then read up about the Opium wars and realised the reality of how my nation had progressed exploiting both its own peoples and those of the world. I became interested in China in 1971. Amazed at it's regrowth and the achievements of the people, the leadership.
Yes the growth of the censored citizens who dont have legal access to the rest of the worlds search engines.... why do you think that might be? Literally equates to book burning.
Yes, slave labour will do that. Don't forget to study how millions upon millions died from hunger for China's development under the great leader Mao.
@S Myzeqari Where are you from, friend? Want to bet which population is happier and more educated? China's or yours?
@@supahsmashbro Likely the population that can freely critique their nation in a youtube video without potentially being prosecuted.... Or perhaps even being able to hold up a blank sheet of paper in the street....
@@sgtbeercanyt critique their government then what? get shot and trampled? and then what changes? nothing, too corrupt. dont have the illusion your plutocracy/oligarchy is superior, that's how our media makes you complacent and deflects accountability
Omg I appreciate you so much for this video!!
Entire video contradicts chinas current 5 year plan but hey this lady knows better.
@@sgtbeercanyt they relying upon the stereotype of the western world and particularly English speaker's don't know squat about geopolitics. This is at best a lame propaganda video
@@sgtbeercanyt You must be American ex-military. Go figure. Looking for another war this week?
@@sgtbeercanyt contradicts? And your source is: Trust me bro?😂
This is such a great video. You do such amazing work and I hope you continue
Excellent, and delightfully presented! I'm a South African who has been living in China for 6 years. It has taken time to learn about the culture and people but overtime I have grown to love and appreciate what an amazing nation it is. I hope your content can reach more people in the West.
2:29 - it is Ming, not Yuan.
Also, this idea that "China was #1" and "did not invade others" is very problematic. China was indeed powerful during its Four Golden Ages and powerful even during the weaker dynasties. I would just be happy by stating something like when China was powerful, it did not seek the same type of biological/race-based conquest and colonialism like European powers. Determining who is #1, #2, and #3 before modern economics is quite hard.
It's just a Chinese propaganda ministry worker doing her job bro, cut her some slack and act like we believe it
thanks for the comment 😊
@@SimingLan any time. Please don't think that any of my other messages was directed at you personally, i have nothing bad to say about you. I prey that things go well for you and your people
@@smyzeqari4897 You called her "a Chinese propaganda ministry worker..." How is that not a personal attack? You literally tried to negate everything she said in the video by claiming it's just propaganda...
@@johnyossarian9059 anyone Chinese using RUclips via VPN (bypassing the Great Firewall) is either a dissident against CCP or a propagandist. There is no middle ground.
Hi thanks for posting on different perspectives. I agree that China is misunderstood due to western media claims. Just one small thing I noticed, Zheng He was from the Ming Dynasty. Tink I heard Yuan dynasty earlier in the video
Great video. Excellent job.
4:12 - Korea and Vietnam which are historically and culturally distinct from China would beg to differ.
Also as much as one can (validly) ask "What does it mean to be an American?" (you provided a somewhat accurate, but limited answer that downplays the same exclusivity that especially the WASP founding stock of modern America would have over Scotch-Irish, Germans, the Dutch, and later the subsequent groups to migrate to the U.S.), I'll ask in kind: "What does it mean to be a Chinese?" You omit the debate in the early 20th century within China over whether the eventual successor state of the Qing Empire should be a Han ethnostate or a more civic nationalist one, the latter of which was more-or-less the adopted model for the ROC during its Mainland Era.
I assume you consider the other constituents of the "Five Races" (i.e. Tibetans, Mongolians, Uyghurs, and Manchus) as "core parts" of the Chinese state.
This is the modern product of a long process of cultural assimilation and the idea that a Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu, and/or a Uyghur would have in times past (or even many to this day) as some sort of default setting (in lack of better phrasing) have assumed the identity of being "Chinese" is at best a naive misunderstanding and at worst obfuscating the historical context of both America and China.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since you don't outwardly come off as having bad intent, but I do think you and those who share similar sentiments are projecting. China is the last country to be critiquing America or anyone for "hubris."
China still claims to this day many facets of Korean culture came from them. There are some shared features of each respective group but again like you there is a severe omission of crucial information and a tendency to lean towards the most sympathetic / advantageous view from the vantage point of Beijing.
I agree w u here, from a Vietnam point of view, we were assimilated in the past and also being invaded multiple times by China. Our country also adapted this “assimilation” approach as well and do it on local tribal groups. Probably not as extreme as China tho.
Hey siming, really great work, you are like a professional geo politicians, i am surprised that you dont have more subscribers, i suppose you may be new in RUclips, whatever keep the good work and try to post this kinds of video every week, you will surely get popular.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed watching it and agree with almost everything in it. There are many more things to be said about China, that I don't think Americans are aware of. I lived in Taiwan for 19 years and I became very impressed with how peaceful and cooperative people who live in Chinese culture are. I could never have lived so long without the fact that Chinese people were so helpful and supportive. When I arrived I became an English teacher (what else could I do). After about a year of teaching English, I watched a video about the freedoms and rights people have in America. I thought I need to teach my students about it. So I devised a whole lesson to illustrate democracy and freedom to help the students learn about it. I made up a long lesson providing examples of all the freedoms and rights people have in America. When I was in class giving my lesson, the students did not seem as impressed as I thought they should. One nice young lady told me "We have all those freedoms here." I thought for a minute and was shocked, she was right! All these freedoms that I thought were exclusive to the USA, were not only here too, but even better! I was always much more guarded and careful about what I said and did in the USA. The reason I felt much freer in Taiwan is not because of the government but because of Chinese culture. The Chinese culture in Taiwan provided me with more freedom and opportunity than I ever had in the USA. That is why I suggest that people should not pay very much attention to western media accounts of China.
Thank you James for sharing :) yes, we always learn the best about the world through new experiences and conversations. appreciate the story😊
你是个正直的男人！
bro, have you ever talk these to Taiwanese? I'm sure you'll piss off most of them.
As a Chinese who live in Taiwan for 4 years, I'm sure that Taiwanese are more friendly than Chinese in average. And for another reason, you are white, and Asian like white.
And for “freedom”, they have, we don't have. that's clearly. their government? well, the most democratic government in Asia, more democractic than the US, according to data. If you don't believe, go to Henan or Shandong.
I'm just wondering what you think what Chinese culture is. Cause it's very complicated issue, you have to read about history, politics and culture, to understand these three of China is not a easy task. After learning them you'll not Chinese culture isn't essentially "peaceful".
You can't compare free and democratic Taiwan to China. They may have similar cultures, but you can't say and do the same things in Beijing that you can in Taipei.
Taiwan is not China. I've met plenty of Taiwanese who would punch in the face anyone who, knowing they were from Taiwan, still called them Chinese.
This was so good. Please make more. I'm subscribing.
Excellent video - again!
By the way I love your videos they are informative very well done, thanks
Very interesting video. Not only this one. Will also look other ones from your channel. It is really good to learn things about China not only from our media here in Germany.
I agree with you 100 percent. You're doing good job educating the west about China.
Not really. She is quite biased.
Lmao. Not really.
@@TJCMN Another western-based Chinese troll?
Any argument for your point? @@vinivini8969
@@vinivini8969another anti china troll?
good reporting
Chinezoaică frumoasă și deșteaptă! Am văzut câteva vloguri ale tale și am fost impresionat de claritatea și corectitudinea argumentelor tale!
Iubesc China! Iubesc oameni ca tine!
Thank you so much Siming! It is rare to find someone who can explain the history and facts of China in such clear English.
I'm proud of you for maintaining objectivity and letting the world hear China's true voice.
Thank you for a very informative video once again! Keep this up and thank you for sharing your world with us! ☸
Absolutely Very Detailed & Thoroughly Gone Thru. The Facts & Truth Of Past & History...Well Done Well Spoken.
👏👏👏👏👏
Your videos are very thoughtful, well written and presented and you deserve a wider audience. You speak with a genuineness many others don't.
I’m a 90s from HK and I pretty enjoy this video. Here in HK we are experiencing the clash between PRC and the West in our daily life so I fully understand why ppl in the West might have the misunderstanding u mentioned in the video. Rational and balancing view is rare nowadays and I hope you would continue the great work. Maybe u can also talk about some of your personal background to let your audience to know more about you.😊
There's nothing very rational or balanced about listing off a bunch of conflicts another country has been involved in, without context, as one down manship as compared to China who were involved in none.
People in the West are not stupid. They understand China quite well. They are just jealous, anxious and afraid. In a word, they do not want to see an economic giant in the East.
@@WistrelChiantiYou forget the part that most, if not all, of China’s conflicts have been that of sovereignty ie its boarders. On the other hand, the U.S. goes around invading and stroking wars the world over. Wake up!
Brilliant!
Siming, as a young boy, I used to ride my bike 8 kilometers to work in a Chinese garden, supplying a town of 12,000 with food. For me, it was a natural labor. of fung shue and focus, I learned to speak some words and return the next day, before going back to school. I was 11. That was in 1954. I used to think that New Zealand Society was asleep, yes, post-war, people returning were not recognized. I kept on working. in many districts, Gold Mining was undertaken by, Chinese people, my brain ticked on. I met many and have lived with many since. your potent delivery has struck a resonant chord. Keep delivering, Namaste............
I just found your channel and I agree with most of what you say and very well made videos! 👏👏👏
I hope you make a video about china's relationship with its neighbors (especially in southeast asia) and the controversies regarding the BRI (they say predatory lending strategies).
I'm a filipino living in Italy for several years now and I've always admired the chinese culture and its people.
Our people have been friends long before the Spaniards colonized our archipelago and crushed our asian identity.
This is why it saddens me that our people seem to have forgotten this ancient bond.
It breaks my heart to see the tensions happening in the contested waters in the south china sea (or west philippine sea as it is now called in my country). Innocent filipino fishermen are shown on television being aggressively thrown out of the fishing grounds by the Chinese coast guard while huge chinese fishing vessels harvest vast amounts of fish and even endangered animals.
Filipino fishermen just want to fish on waters that have been their fishing grounds for generations.
Of course the tensions aren't just about the fish and it's more complex than that but it's just to illustrate the absurdness of the situation.
I don't mean to point fingers and start a fight. I'm just asking, why are we doing this? The Phillipine government tried to repair ties with China under Duterte but since not much changed in how they treat us, Marcos returned to the USA's arms and now we have new philippine military bases in the north of Luzon island near Taiwan that are now available to US troops. It doesn't make any sense to me. Instead of fellowship and solidarity between asian people, we keep fighting and bickering among each other and for what?
I never trusted the americans. They have always betrayed us everytime it becomes convenient for them. My people have been fooled into thinking that the americans have our best interest at heart.
I wouldn't mind a chinese regional power in south east asia if China proved to be a wiser and just, but most filipinos don't feel safe and mistrust the chinese government so they cling to uncle sam's missiles for a sense of false safety.
I don't know how things will go but I strongly believe that if only asians stopped bickering amongst each other and resume collaboration and cultural exchange like in ancient times, our region would prosper and even surpass the 'west'.
Hi lloyd5611
Previously and even now there are no real problems between China and the Philippines.
It’s only after ‘the pivot on Asia’ policy of Obama and the need for USA to have a new enemy, surrounding China in all fronts and getting bases nearer to China, China have no choice but to claim all South China Sea before US entice Philippines, Vietnam to allow it to set up more and even nearer bases to lock up China.
This point was conveniently ignored by all nations under the thumb of US.
The islands in the South China Sea have always been the traditional fishing grounds for Chinese fishermen. Every year, fishermen from Hainan and Guangdong Province of China travel southward along the ocean currents to the islands in the South China Sea to catch fish and collect pearls, etc., and return back to the South China Sea along the ocean currents half a year later, and many of the islands in the South China Sea are paved with the ruins of wells and houses left by the Chinese fishermen. Other countries around the South China Sea could not take advantage of the ocean currents, and before the industrial revolution, they would at best fish on the coast, not in the middle of the South China Sea.
The Philippines is the least qualified country to claim the South China Sea. The Philippine tree has been colonized for centuries, and during the colonial period, the territorial waters of the Philippines never included the islands of the South China Sea. Even when the Philippines later became a colony of the United States, its territory did not include the islands in the South China Sea. Without going into history, just the recent ones, did you know that China drew its territorial sea baseline after WWII on a US warship? If the islands in the South China Sea belong to the Philippines, then how could the US allow Chinese soldiers on US warships to claim that the islands belong to China?
In 1999, the day after the U.S. bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, the Philippines beached Renai Reef with a raggedy boat, an act that was shameless. The Philippines has repeatedly promised to tow away the broken boat, but it has always gone back on its word. Do you think that China cannot tow away that broken boat? We have put up with you for a long time.
If China were like Western countries, they would have colonized the Philippines hundreds of years ago. Filipinos would have been exterminated and enslaved like North American Indians, Central American Indians, or Africans. The islands in the Philippines would be full of Chinese. .There will be no country called the Philippines. There will also be no island sovereignty claimed by the Philippines.
I love your ability to see both China and the west’s view of each other, and the reasons for each . Well done 👍
Totally agreed. It is very informative and key to the point.
good stuff you go girl
Aside from the Yuan/Ming error, it is worth pointing out that the way Zheng He sailed for glory rather than gold was his downfall. Europeans made money from their voyages, which meant they were sustainable. Zheng He did not, so the court Eunochs burnt all his ships. So it is not really an indication for China in the future.
This not logical. One could have made profit of these new contacts later.
@@karstenburger9031 Europeans not only want money and also all the land with no original people.
@@rexluk yes, true. But this is not limited to Europeans. Think of Tibet. Did they want to be conquered? But it was a very large country, in self chosen political isolation, very poorly defended, and in a strategic place, with large supply of natural resources. Clearly tempting to take it by force with no effort.
@@karstenburger9031 - yes but do you know how many original peoples in north South America to be killed from 1500？
You are too arrogant and shortsighted. China culture looks at long term relationship in business. While the western error pure capitalism short fall looks at business like the stock market, take profit and run who cares the consequences. For example the Ukraine/ Russian war, resulted in energy and food inflation. A short term 4 years cycle of winning a political election. Short term thinking generally always.
I’m part of your target audience. I studied History in university and took a class on the People’s Republic. I even visited China in 2017. I am also, as an American, anxious about even the possibility of war in the Pacific. You bring a lot of knowledge, experience, and perspective to the table. Keep up the good work. Xie xie
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Great info. Ms. Lan!!!
Very well made video. Well researched. I truly enjoyed it, and agree with your point of view.
I love seeing your videos. A very well English speaking chinese youtuber on western platform. I hope many people like you will speak up the truth about China.
Speaking for myself, I am unconcerned about China's rise or America's decline.
I'm much more worried about the possibility that China will become a failed state. Which would be catastrophic.
Peter Zeihan's arguments are difficult for me to refute.
What has China created to sustain its rise, besides its population?....🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Peter Zeihan ignores factors that don't fit his narrative.
@@pedrob3953 he certainly does not have a monopoly on sagacity.
He does make mistakes. For example, I have heard him say things about AI which are nonsensical. He does not understand recent advancements in this field.
No single authority suffices to describe China or predict its future.
Nevertheless, he accurately summarizes China's geopolitical and demographic vulnerabilities. His points merit our attention.
Time will tell how accurate Peter is. Let us see.
Peter is a moron. Just look at all his wrong takes on Ukraine.
Very well done
Great video Siming Lan, keep them coming!
keep a few things in mind when considering the ideas of this video
The first is that she makes no mention whatsoever of how the Taiwanese feel about their relationship with America
I have stayed, add that China has, in fact, benefited more than any other society on earth from the international trade, facilitated through the postwar consensus led by America .
She also does not mention the feelings of other nationalities in China’s neighborhood, particularly the Vietnamese, the South Koreans, or the Japanese to mention a few. How enthusiastic are they about the prospect of a unipolar world where China is the regional power in their neighborhood?
Spot on. I hope we see comment on this from her.
The biggest issue with people declaring how "Taiwanese feel" is that the west generally doesn't care about how they feel. They don't try to understand the nuanced politics of the DPP, KMT or their platforms. They see Taiwanese position as extremely bifurcative: "either you want reunification or independence." and leave no room for middle. Majority of the people looking in .. tend to marginalize all of Taiwan into one position .. the DPP. As for your mention of SK and Japan .. lets be brutally honest here .. they are deeply rooted with the US and their foreign policy is reliant on cooperating with the US. They are also the vanguard in facilitating most of the US anti-sino posture. Being ideological enemies of China, it is obvious they dont want China to be in any position of power.
Without chips, Taiwan is fodder to the Americans. Just another chip on the chessboard like Ukraine.
Your video was so refreshing. I loved learning about China from a different perspective, it has truly helped understand China a lot more as an outsider to China. Thank you for putting effort into making video like this.
Extremely well spoken and thank you!!
Excellent historical and cultural context. Thanks for your video.
作为海外华人，祖国有你这样的女孩儿感到骄傲，虽然我听不懂英文，用翻译软件看的。支持你加油！
看这个视频，自动翻译不管用了😂
Do you agree with what she said that only people of Chinese descent can be Chinese? What if people agree with China’s vision and want to join them, can they hope to be integrated ?
Thanks for this video. In the West, our media only gives us the American view of China. I am so glad to have seen the Chinese view of its place in the world. You have given us much to think over.
Nice !
Nicely done
I not only agree, I also think that you explain your position very clearly and honestly. So that should help many who do not understand China and who do not take the problem to see all the parts, you do it with sincerity and sometimes it even causes you a double feeling, but I think you are correct and that helps us a lot to understand what a wonderful country that is China. I wish everyone would give themselves that research paper and be more honest. No more that sinophobia, the world is vast enough to contain different options and respect others in their idiosyncrasies. Thanks you do a great job. Congratulations!
US is not the world Sheriff any more, west must iníciate to understand that the world is changing.
Most succinct voice of China from a UK educated Chinese. As a South East Asia Chinese, I am impressed by the objective presentation of facts. 👍👍👍
I really appreciate your perspective.
Great points
I love your arguments. They make perfect sense and indeed persuasive.
Love your approach, style and delivery - so free, empathetic and yet right on point.
It put a smile on my face after watching this video. Thank you!
We need many more like Siming Lan who can explain clearly and convincingly to the world what China stands for. Thank you for stepping forward to fill in this very important role.
She's explaining nothing while being very dishonest by omitting very important facts that can easily be confirmed by everyone.
I totally agree, her views are awesome and we need more of that type of content on RUclips.
Foreigners cannot be Chinese, but China has citizens in every country on Earth. Han Master race? Siming Lan should explain China's claim to the bases in the South China sea.
@@smokescreen2146she ignores the reality that the people in Taiwan are NOT Han Chinese and do not speak the same dialect much like Uyghurs. Sooner, rather than later, China is going to have to answer the difficult questions behind the origin behind the pandemic, what role the ccp's delay in notifying the who and what, if any connection all of this had with the international military games taking place around the time of the outbreak. This is why the west is divesting its manufacturing and technology from Chinese territories as a result of the actions of the government, the pandemic and outright espionage by both government and corporations loyal to the ccp.
@@stevengoldfein1591 Too much reading western propaganda huh.
No wonder you know nothing about geopolitics
enjoyed your video, truly do
Good job!
I think the most logical comparison between China and USA is : China is more focus on trade while the USA is more on military which nobody could argue that's a false acessment . As trade nation there's absolutely no reason to keep your customers poor or even invade but on the other hand the USA military hegemony is a diffrent story. its serve their intrest to keep their neighbour poor and corrupt that they wont pose a threat in anyway so they can move their military focus on other continent like Asia / Europe
If that is the case,
why is China spending so much on its military?
why China threatens Taiwan with an invasion?
why China threats its neighbirs with war, unless they complay with its demands?
Absolutely so. When you want to trade and invest, you want your partners to grow. When you want to exploit and dominate ove others, you want your 'targets' to be poor and weak. That's a huge difference in mindset!
@@Time4Peace So, why China is investing so much money in the army and threat other countries to bend its will if they just want to trade?
Why China's partners remained poor and debt trapped?
Your answer failed to provide any reasonable explanation remaining just a baseless statement anchored in the dreamworld rather then reality
If that were true then why did the US make the investments it did in China? China could not have made the rise it did without foreign investment. This is not a good analogy.
@@trogdor8942 It's US corporations that invested in China. Not the US government who has always been busy waging wars around the world.
Very balanced, objective and well thought explanation and insight. Thank you for this interesting topic and background description 👍
Again, superb!
Greetings to you Siming Lan. You offer ideas I have never encountered, which give much food for thought. You make a compelling case for your point of view. Blessings of health and prosperity to you and yours.
You say that China cannot accept this "loss of face" by being denied the runification of Taiwan to China; but what about the Taiwanese, do they not get to have a choice as to be part of China or not? This is history and you explained this is not acceptable to China but I think China needs to find a way around this issue or they risk WW3 and armageddon. Perhaps a symbolic reunification with and immediate separation of Taiwan as and independent nation and friend of China.
Isn't just the Taiwanese voices but the 1.4 billions Chinese voices that also need to be heard. An independent Taiwan is farfetch, but a peaceful re-unification is possible.
@@pleiadesstarr453No that isn't how it works... Recognizing Taiwan's independence has no material impact on people in China. The only voice that matters is Taiwanese voices cuz it impacts them the most.
Any time a country has a separation référendum, it's only the place that is demanding to separate that votes. China's doesn't deserve special treatment
And remember this, the UK handed a Ferrari to China when Hong Kong was returned to China. They turned HK into one of the best cities in the world. And in just 20 years China ruined it. HK is merely a broken down Fiat rather than the Ferrari that the UK gifted to China.
Why would you want to ruin Taiwan.
@@marvinsulzer8258 Taiwan will elevate it status from a no nothing territory to a powerful behemoth giant under the ONE China policy if it re-unified with the motherland, HK is a perfect example of such proudness. 💪👏.
不想统一的可以走 台湾这块土地是中国的 由于战争没有统一 如果不想回归中国 那就离开中国的土地。这个不难理解吧。我在美国买一百亩地 我能宣布脱离美国独立吗？想想这个道理。
是的，台湾人没有选择的权利。他们现在还没有回归中国也是因为美国从中作梗，台湾的回归与否事实上是中美的事情
A good video and you tried very hard to present both sides of the China issue - in the end, I remain convinced that the West cannot and won't get it with regard to China and it will be the US downfall. It's just a matter of time.
It is not coming from a place of ignorance. The US is intentionally treating China as the geopolitical rival it is (just as the US is rightly seen as a geopolitical rival by China). The US was party to victory in WW1, WW2, and the Cold War, and the US is hedging its bets that it can prevail once more.
@@BuddyLee23 I feel that the US problems are in the US, and that a bipolar world could benefit all, if handled well.
@@BuddyLee23 It's not coming from a place of ignorance but of intolerance or bigotry, the US just can't stand that a country with different and in some ways opposite views on economics, policy and ideology is raising to their level of influence in the globe so they push against China instead of just trying to coexist. As I read somewhere, the West but more specifically the US, act as modern day religious crusaders.
@@BuddyLee23If you look at the map you'll see US is quite far from China, across the largest ocean in the world, so it's not geopolitics - in fact, US' attempts to get involved with politics in Asia were clearly overstretched and harmed both US' image in the world and their internal politics - like in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Americans are in fact just anxious about even distant threat of other country becoming more technologically advanced or politically / economically influential. Trade with China was/is actually very beneficial for American economy in so many aspects, a good portion of US economic growth for last 30 years or so would be impossible without China being ready to produce all sorts of things for cheap but for US it is very important to have that image of the leader of humanity so to speak. US is actually going to lose more than China from those recently strained relationships with China.
well said👍👍
Thanks for the lecture
Another point the American and Chinese economies are so dependent on each other that conflict hurts both of us economically.
Actually, Chinese economy is dependent on American investment. America, not such much. Hence the reason the Biden administration is quickly divesting to closer supply chain locations like Mexico. USA built China up when it allowed it into the wto.
False. China depends on stealing our IP and now that we’re pulling out more and more that’ll be a problem. They can’t even fab the latest chips.
@@frank-ko6de true, you even can not find any made-in-China products in US
@@frank-ko6de The largest source of foreign direct investment in China is from Chinese circles like Hong Kong, Taiwan or Macau. Heck even Japanese investment is higher then that of the United States in most cases. Also these are often made by business people wanting to get things done. On the other hand, China holds more than $1 trillion of the U.S. national debt and the Chinese people contribute a large amount to the American economy, Silicon Valley an the infrastructure projects of the World. Also, about half of the world's wealth in the world belong to about the top four or five richest people on earth. So NO. America didn't "built up" China. The Chinese middle class did. Heck, America didn't even "built up" America. The name behind the company and the ones getting rich may largely be American and white but everyone else contributed to the pie.
"So China is unlikely to initiate a project where it uses violence and coercion to further its political agenda"
Tell that to the Falun Gong practictioners or the citizens of Xinxiang/Tibet/Hong kong :/
对于你来说，四分五裂的中国是你最愿意看到的，如果世界上随便一小群人宣布所在地方要独立都可行的话世界马上会陷入无休无止的战争中，南斯拉夫就是一个很好的例子
Thank you for explaining your perspective. It makes sense to me.
谢谢，I like to hear I from you in very professional and reasonable way
Time has been slapping Fukuyama's face for decades due to his arrogance about end of history. 😂
I can't believe people still refer to Fukuyama, the quack just like G0rdon Chang, these are amarikan wannabes. If their predictions is only half true, at least they could be respected, but they have all been wrong ALL the time.
Gordon predicted China will collapse like every decades since 80s, U$ is so d00med with these experts.
You present an excellent argument about the hubris of American exceptionalism what gives one nation the right to project its will on the rest of the world? However, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a Chinese exceptionalism that believes it has the right to assume the sovereignty over the entirety of the South China Sea to include the territorial waters of its neighbors. An example would be the harassment of Philippine vessels by the Chines Coast Guard within Philippine territorial waters. It could be reasoned that this hubris could expand over time if left unchecked.
在南海的九段线并非共产党提出的，1945国民政府宣布的11段线，而且是乘坐美国军舰划定的。CCP只是继承了上一个政府的遗产。
Wow, you bring up points historical points I've been aware of, but connect the dots in a way that makes sense from China's perspective vs what ive been used to seeing here in America. Ill definitely wqtch more of your videos
Thank you for sharing
Very interesting video, it's nice to see the Chinese perspective, because most of the time we don't get to hear you guys, maybe because you guys use different social media platforms idk. Also I have a question for you, if China isn't all that bad after all, why do they trade with North korea, why they outsource the production of textile there? And about the Foxcon why they install net for people to not suicide? One last thing, why they 'reeducate' the Muslim community or whatever. The west say they are committing extermination of that population.
You are reading uniquely anglo saxon media. It lies. Suggest you start reading, watching media from other non western sources and you'll be amazed . n.b. NOT ONE Islamic state agrees with your views as to the treatment of muslim faith adherents in China ( they live in other provinces as well) ... that should give you a clue
None of your questions will be acknowledged because this is a propaganda video meant to shame the west..... Chinas zero covid policy in which they are locking entire apartment buildings full of people in for a week at a time , who cares? Expolited cheap labor due to 0 care for its work force who are actively suffering , who cares?
@@pearsonfrank if I could speak Chinese or Arabic I definitely would, that's what I've always thought, the best way to get info is to watch the medias of language concerned but yeah unfortunately I haven't learn anything but English and French, so it's cool to see someone that is Chinese that can speak a language I can understand
On your last question, it's because American trained and funded terrorists kept entering China through Xinjiang and killing locals. Extremist ideology claimed many lives, and now we see ZERO terrorism in Xinjiang as well as a rapidly rising population and standards of living there.
How else should China deal with this issue? I can't think of a rosy solution. We can't earnestly believe westerners care about Muslims or Chinese, much less Muslims in China. My honest advice is to avoid anything western media says about China like the plague.
- On NOrth Korea - If China stop trading with North Korea, it wouldn't do any good, especially to the North Korean people. The west likes to use sanction, but the truth is sanctions don't work. Asians have a different way of thinking. The western thinking is "us vs them". But the Asian thinking is to be inclusive.
- Foxcon is a Taiwanese company who manufacture electronics in maindland China, and they are the largest manufacturer for Apple. The profit margin of of an iPhone is 319 dollars, but Foxcon only makes 8 dollars per iphone while Apple takes all the rest. So Foxconn is sequeezed for proft and so in turn Foxconn squeezes the workers. This is why you see a lot of negative news about the poor treatment of Foxconn workers in China. But if you look at the real Chinese brands such as Huawei and Xiaomi, then you don't hear about unfair worker compensations. This is because Huawei and Xiaomi are Chinese companies and therefore unlike Foxconn they don't have foreign overloreds who take 90% of the profits from them, and so they can distribute the pie more evenly with their workers. By the way, this is all the more reason you should buy Chinese brands such as Huawei and Xiaomi, if you really care about the well being of the people in China.
- If you look at the Uyghur population in Xinjian, it did not decline but in fact it has grown 10 times since 1980. In the early 2000s some Uyghurs joined radicalized Islam and they comitted a lot of terrorist attacks in the region. They hurt a lot of innocnent people. the Chinese government worked out those who are likely to become radicalized are the unemployed who don't have skills. So they built "re-education" camps and they made those people attend the camps and learn empoyable skills, so they can find a job and join the mainstream society. So in summary that is China's solution to fight against religious terrorism. I guess from the western perspective, China's policy sounds wrong becuase it forces people to attend schools against their will. But let's remember, during the period, the west's solution to fight religious terorrism was by invading the Middle East and bombed millions of Middle Eastern civilians half way to hell. Maybe there is some cultural difference between the west and China, but to me, China's solution is so much better, because it did not kill any body and it successfully helped the radical pepole to join the society. So I don't know how anyone, especially those in the west, can point a finger at China and critize its policy while the west's corresponding solution killed millions of civilians in the middle east and also created 40 million refugees.
By the way of mentioning, in the USA, the average life expectancy of minority groups (such as black people and hispanics) is 45 years old. In China's Xinjiang province, the average life expectancy of Uyghurs is 72 years old. Those figures are very telling about which country is better at protecting the human rights of its ethnic minority group.
In USA the parties kick China around like every other political football. But China is the one buzzing Taiwan not the other way around. Both countries both have these political football games going on. There's legitimate concern for Taiwan though. China wants to single them out for destruction, and for what? Democracy? Once that starts no one knows where it will end.
You were not paying attention or just brainwashed on west media. China has always said it’s goal is peaceful reunification with Taiwan and there is no deadline. Taiwan is being setup as a proxy like Ukraine as provocation to start conflict w China as U.S. clearly has a deadline. It believes in a few more years China will be too strong to defeat. News is it is already to late as unfolding conflict in Ukraine clearly demonstrates. US has lost arms race, economic war and diplomatic war.
Thank you Siming. Your videos are very thoughtful！
Very well done, Siming Lan!
Thanks for this concise overview of China's mentality. We will never understand it because we don't understand cooperation. We are all about competition, and we must win.
If you believe one side represents all that is good and the other all that is bad, you have been deceived by one of them. The human heart has both. Neither good nor bad belong to any group.
What makes the West nervous about China's rise isn't its economic power as much as its totalitarian control of political dissent and its lack of respect for intellectual and other property rights. The Chinese government has not only suppressed dissent at home, but has attempted to control what others say about it and even sent out agents to kidnap native Chinese who have emigrated to other countries if they criticize the Chinese government. Western democracy is based on the idea of individual freedom and the right of the individual and private corporations to own their work and speak freely about what they think. If the Chinese government were as tolerant and respectful of these rights as the video you showed supposedly reenacting the visit of a Chinese emissary to the east coast of Africa in the 15th century, I don't think westerners and Chinese emigres would be as concerned about doing business with China. The CCP runs a surveillance state that knows where everyone is and what they are doing at every moment. That's Orwellian Big Brother invasion and denial of all individual rights to privacy. As the digital age gives more and more power to surveillance states, the rights that individuals in the West take for granted will be threatened far beyond the boundaries of China. The Taiwanese have built their own industry and have chosen to do business with the West. If China has its way, that privately owned industry will be put under the ownership and control of the CCP, which will not do business with the West until it has gained technological supremacy and can dictate terms that are entirely favorable to its surveillance state. This is a big deal. It's not just a misunderstanding.
This is completely false. China has been open to trade since the 1970s when they clashed with the soviets. China bought licenses and private companies invested in China in mass. A lot of copies of things are just tech transfer from the west. Specially in heavy industry and military machines. Their 1980s tanks all had western engines cannons, suspension, fire control systems, etc.
Its exactly the open trade which enriched China and they took advantage of being a demographic behemoth to be highly competitive and grow. Then the US saw it as a threat after profiting from them for decades. When China grew and their people became wealthy to have better life conditions and consumer habits and their market allowed local companies to compete with western ones it didn't seem funny anymore to the US .
You say china doesn't respect intellectual property and steal tech. They do, but as any country they do the other when they can. The whole US industrialization was built on stealing European technology and copying without license. The US banned imports and their industries just copied everything. You know the ballpoint pen?. It was invented and patented in Argentina, in the 1960s s US citizen saw them in Buenos Aires, bought a box and just copied in the US ruining the Argentine company. The US one now is a massive multinational that bought the Argentine one after selling their unlicensed pens around the world.
Japan and South Korea also copied s lot of things. The US seems to have this constant selective memory, but in the 1970s they insulted constantly the Japanese for their low quality rip offs of US brands. Toyota and Mitsubishi were called shit boxes and their models were all licensed and stolen models of US and European car brands.
China currently is being besieged by the US to slow down their progress and try to block them from accessing new technology. Of course they will do industrial spionage when they need. Nothing rare, the US keeps doing it, the US is the major industrial soy in the world, as per the Intel leaks show how the US intelligence collaborates with US companies to spy industrial secrets and steal propietary technology from Europesn, Japanese, Russian and any country that has something nice on their desks.
The US accusations against China is because they don't like China growing and that the Chinese time to time spies on them. They feel offended that others do what they do, the US is an spoiled delusional and entitled entity that believes they have the exclusivity to do whatever they want and tell the rest of the world they cannot.
Finally currently the Chinese are the largest publishers of scientific research on international peer reviewed portals and largest patent creater in the world. Simply there is little niches the Chinese are behind, they already catched up to most tech and now they are further advancing. It is unavoidable, they have too much population and now the resources, in s few decades they will the technology superpower ahead of the rest by sheer brute force of demographics. For worse in the west education has fallen and natives don't study STEM, US scientific research depends mostly on immigrants and exchange college studies or contracted foreign specialists. China don't do gender studies, and such useless college studies, they do what matters, science.its s country of engineers, statistics, scientists. Even their politicians are all engineers, not doctors and lawyers discussing what a woman is in the congress... They discuss serious matters like infrastructure, space programs, trade routes, foreign investment in poor countries to elevate their economy so they can buy their stuff.
Nice! Also, if people listen carefully China's whole purpose is always about saving face? Anyone that has ever led in anything, knows in the real world you must pitch battles to win wars. There is no set standard on this in China but at the whim of its current leader. In short, none of us forgot about Mao's cultural revolution and his little red book. Or how 30 million Chinese were starved to death. Or all the land stolen by the state. Or the actual purpose of their social experiment failing and what actually created the mass exodus to Taiwan in the first place. All this video is about China trying to re-brand itself because they are going broke/failing. Their GDP figures are a proven lie as it is not $13 trillion but $8 trillion. Making their real internal/external dept to GDP over -300%. My guess is China MUST make BRICS successful as they roll into a gold currency back system to survive or start over. They have a greater than 90% failure rate. The actual purpose of the video.
great double standard job👍
Your so called western democracy is full of shits. Look at San Francisco and California now, full of drug addicts, homeless people and horrible crimes on the streets. This kind of freedom and human rights should be kept inside your pocket. No thanks, we don't want any of them.
You just repeat here the common criticism of China by the mainstream western media. But is a bit silly to continue to parrot the virtues of western democracies when you seen what is happening in the US: a widening gap in inequality, a rise in poverty, a toxic social environment, a violent gun culture, a total disrespect for the individual vs. corporate greed, and a rigged electoral system. The US lost its moral high ground many years ago, is a power in decline and is quite anxious about it.
The reality is in fact a bit more complex than the simplified one liners about China that you see on BBC and CNN. It is a fact that the one party system has been tremendously effective in accomplishing a transformation from a rural poor China to a modern but still in development country. China is becoming a regional power, and getting more assertive, yes....as expected after the humiliations of the past. But in the very long history of China there is no tradition of aggressive expansionism as one has seen in the few centuries of power of Pax Americana. And certainly I have not seen China faking intelligence to justify a foreign country invasion. Ah, but yes, we don't talk much about that in the West right ?
Very interesting.
Very honest and truthful reflection . Eloquently presented. Well-done
Please keep making shows like this Si Ming. Our young overseas Chinese who are heavily influenced by the west need you to wake them about themselves before they are brainwashed to hate their own mother, father and themselves.
Not brainwashed to hate. Just taught that the CCP has a lot of warts under that nice looking suit
This issue I have with this description is it not truly representative, no country is just good, and has done only good things, but to frame the country as such is disingenuous and doesn’t depict the country it depicts propaganda for an ideal. No countries hands are free of blood, and to speak if it is is either naive or deceptive.
Ok, so how do you explain China's asserting herself with the 9dash line? Some of the Spratley islands do belong to the Philippines but China just gets it and puts bases on it.
Spot on! I hope we see a reply to this.
The Spratley islands are claimed by both China and the Philippines. There would be no need for Chinese base if there were no U.S. military bases throughout the Pacific surrounding China. China never had and there is no historical precedent of China’s ambitions on territories of its neighbors. The same can not be said of western nations.
Who told you that the island belongs to the Philippines? When China declared its sovereignty, the Philippines was only a colony of the United States. You should know that when the Chinese government recaptured the South China Sea, it even went on American warships. It's just that the United States wants to suppress China now and doesn't acknowledge it
How can the Philippines be so critical about some islands yet your history of being conquered and pillaged by the Spanish, Japanese and American twice. Maybe it’s the Americans that are using you as pons and having their bases on your islands a threat to the region?
Seems to strange that your people worked with the Americans to fight off the Spanish only for them to turn around and massacre your people.
So well explianed
Just found your channel, loved ur video. Nice content, and view point.
Thank you for these enlightening videos. As an American, I am happy to learn more about your people and country. The more we warm up to each other as human beings, the less we will see each other as “the enemy”.
I look forward to watching more of your videos.
Yes let not the peple in the media turn us to enemies. We all can live in peace on this earth. Bring back globalization so we all can entangled with each other, no more war only diplomacy.
China's behavior in the West Philippine Sea has been anything but benign. Intimidating small-time fishermen, shining laser beams at Philippine patrol ships, removing buoys, blocking supply ships, etc. are but a few examples of China's aggressive behavior. These after assurances from top CCP leaders that these things can be resolved through "friendly consultations". There is a trust deficit between what is being said and what is happening on the ground ( or water ).
Take care of your slums. Stop being a toad living under a coconut shell. No Philippine sea but South China sea
Lan, I just love the way you share your thoughts and views about China.
Thanks!
That's so kind of you, thank you!!❤️