I am sure that China does not believe in God. They believe in many gods. In fact, the Chinese do not believe in the standards of the Americans. The Chinese regard God as the dung, and the Americans should be angry. LoL
@@19ars92 the problem is the murican wasn't dip its nose in Vietnam to colonize it but rather to prevent the spread of communism. But due to the north vn having more trust of people because they won the French thus the US and south vn lost, etc but too lazy to list them all.
Drive from DC to parts of West Virginia, or the Mississipi Delta, or reservations in South Dakota, and you probably get a similar experience. America is mostly wealthy around the coasts. What you have in China is mostly a difference of degree.
Reservations are reservations. How can you compare that to the rest of the US? They get small funding from the government, but they run the entire area without interference. I've been all over the US and can confidently say that nowhere in the US is even close to the type of poverty China has outside of their coastal cities.
lmao, you've clearly never been to the rural areas of China... it's not even remotely comparable. I stayed in a hostel on the outskirts of Beijing that hadn't washed the sheets in 5 months because they didn't have running water. You could see black outlines on the blue sheets from where others had slept previously. The bathroom was basically an outhouse inside the room. A room that was -28C because they didn't have heat. The son of the hostel owner was playing with his toys (a rock, stick and empty soap bottle). This was the nicest hostel in the area btw... and still inside Beijing. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Hey look at the two oceans sandwiching the US. So according to this expert, really the only two countries that America can actually invade are Canada and Mexico. Good job!
@@michamalina5530 Clearly you have no idea what point I was making in my previous comment. Oh and also in case you didn't know, that's spelled "sea" not "see", mate.
@@longxiao9823 The oceans "sandwiching" the US belong to them - the US navy is the most powerful navy in the world. Since the Chinese navy is weak the South China sea is a barrier for them - in case of war it would be dominated by the US navy, trade will collapse and the economy will follow.
@@jonesaffrou6014 You still don't get it man. I was making a point about the "expert" in the video saying that China cannot invade anybody because of the grass and dessert and Mt. Everest surrounding it. That assertion was absurd considering the mobility of modern military. Regarding what you just suggested, though it was true that the Chinese navy is not remotely as strong as the American one, you have to know that "achieving naval hegemony" has never been high on China's to-do list. It wants to maintain status quo, which is its dominance over the South China Sea. US Navy can surely blockade the Chinese ports, in the situation of a war, but you have to realize they are the ones playing away-game, while the Chinese playing at home. Don't forget about China's ally, Russia, too.
@@longxiao9823 They surely can theoretically invade through these landscapes, but it would be ridiculously expensive. Especially the Himalayas. Chinese dominance over the South China sea is very unlikely, since Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia and to a less degree the Philippines are all allies of the US. A blockade also may be possible without war - during Cuban crisis US navy has successfully stopped Soviet ships that were carrying nuclear missiles, why can't they stop Chinese trading vessels in case of a crisis of some sort? Because if direct military conflict will break out between US and China nukes will be fired, and then we're all fucked. And Russia can't possibly be an ally of China that they can count on. Their interests are just partly overlapping right now because of their mutual rivalry with the US. Each of the three would be more than happy to play other two against each other while abstaining from participation. There's another video of similar contents but of much higher quality from Wendover Productions - "China's geography problem".
Anyone can hurt women and children. Military lost was 4 million Chinese vs 1.1 million Japanese dead. At end of 1945, each Japanese soldier only gets 10 around of bullet per day. Appears you think hurting women and children are ok. During bombing of Tokyo, women run out of building with their baby on fire on their back and only to find out river has boiled. I hope this is paints a picture for you.
And the 'war' did come, only it was economic rather than military. It was known as the Plaza Accord War and Japan surrendered unconditionally without firing a single shot.
The comments section in for this video is ridiculous. Nevertheless, most of what he said was fine. The only real error is that the cost of living is quite a bit lower in China, so even though they only make 2-4 USD, people can easily live off of that and have pretty happy lives. (BTW, I live in a rural part of China, East of the rain line.
Are you saying that the way Chinese people desire to live is inadequate or that they do not have access to higher quality infrastructure. If you are saying the former, than I would recommend caution. If you are stating the latter, which I assume you are, you would be very correct in some places and wrong in others. Many Chinese have learned how to survive and live happily independently from the national/international market place. From my experience, however, this is becoming more difficult since the cities are expanding quite rapidly. In response to purchasing power, a country can have a high quality of life but use a currency with low purchasing power. That phenomenon only become apparent when trading or traveling internationally.
You got to be kidding me? Take Hunan province as example. 2 dollars a day? According to Wikipedia, per capita GDP of Hunan province is $6900 in 2016 while you are telling me average yearly income is $700?
I'm not saying that (I can't tell if you are responding to me or the other guy or the guy in the video). I don't live in Hunan, but I think you are probably correct based on what I've heard about it.
If you take the upper level World Bank Indicator of $5.50 a day you will see figures that don't match a more reliable figures (53.4% 2010, 49.1% 2011, 44.3% 2012, 36.3% 2013, 31.5% 2014...meanwhile a more reliable figure like rural-urban merely indicates a slow steady annual decline of 14 m rural 2010-14 thus a slow steady decline of poverty). data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.UMIC?end=2014&locations=CN&start=2010&view=chart data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL?end=2016&locations=CN&start=2010&view=chart China also doesn't have access to the giant foreign bundles that American stores like Best Buy or Home Depot offer (the Samsung foreigner kitchen bundle of refrigerator, oven & stove, and microwave $3333-$9999). Same deal with the $700 Samsung Galaxy S 9. George Friedman mentions Walmart, but Mexico Walmart > China Walmart.
I want to say that too. Manchu race was only a small tribe of refugees, who was chased out of Korea by Korean, and Ming Dynasty allowd them to live in JianZhou County.
+Xiao Liu No, Manchus are a Tungusic ethnic group, and Tungusics like Evenks, Evens, Orochens, Oroks live all across eastern Siberia and Northeast Asia. Manchuria is their southernmost extent.
Sorry America is not no1.. They are not as strong as you think they are...they only strong with other countries behind them...its always been that way.
@@anarungamotu6068 I agree the only victory in war I'm aware of USA winning was WW2 when they joined right at the end !! But claimed to of won it all. Forgetting that England/U.K and another 28 plus countries fought in the war. They also seem to forget how there country came about, if it wasn't for the Vikings , English, French and Dutch it would still be Native American land.
Those islands among the seas are the "aircraft carriers" and as the islands are "artificially" expanded and built they become powerful take off and landing runway strips
When you have 8% GDP growth per year, you don't _need_ to be a military threat to anyone, as long as you maintain good diplomatic relations and have a military just strong enough to deter invasions. Power projection can be useful to eradicate piracy if you are a trading power, but the US is already doing that and the trading routes are fairly safe. China is just following the optimal strategy for a country in its position: just focus on economic growth and international influence will naturally follow from that.
Meanwhile in 2019 "If we were to fight a war with them today in east asia we would strugle to win and might possibly even lose that war" Former acting CIA director Mike Morell
This guy really knows his stuff, I bet even many Chinese didn't understand their geopolitical and economic standing. It is the same with Brazil. Rio, Sao Paulo looks quite impressive and welcoming but as soon as you leave those cities you see how unstable and poor the other areas are.
Just One point. as a Chinese from 'Manchuria', it is every bit Chinese as the rest of China. Two races mixed together hundreds of years ago. It may be a buffer zone 400 years ago, not any more. Otherwise there would be no problem on Korea peninsula.
this is very true. The Manchus ruled all of China for 400 years and have very much sinicized, most of them are mixed in and indistinguishable with the original Han Chinese. Manchuria today have a Han majority population.
China is actually pretty strong, though they may not be as strong as America. They still have a good economy and are creating the BRI. which will also help their military on the sea.
none of this matters. live your life be a good person. china is fine, usa is fine, russia is fine. earth has never been anywhere near as good as it is right now in 2019. peace
I'm not Chinese but what a bullshit analysis, here is why: 1.) 90% of the population is Han Chinese, Manchuria & Inner Mongolia are happily a part of China. Tibet & Xinjiang are integrated with China and only have successionist movements because of heavy outside interference. There is no ethnic problem in China, which can't be easily handled. 2.) The "rainfall line" is within the arable and agriculturally productive part of China where 85% of the population lives. China neverthless is still building canals, forests to improve agriculture in Inner Mongolia and the West. 3.) The interior is still poor, that is correct but not as poor as this video suggests, thanks to remittances from the Coast, subsidies, and relocation of industries to the interior to exploit cheaper land and labour. 4.) China is building the OBOR to reduce the importance of relying on the South China Sea and using rail and road connections through Myanmar, Pakistan and Kazakhstan/Russia.
Amidat ..... Stratfor is a part of the US security apparatus, their job is to convince consumers & decision-makers that the best investment is the US, they will never criticize the US, but they will criticize every other country, that being said the only true danger I see for China is the high level of government and state-owned debt/subsidies.
Why is this a ''bulshit'' analysis? for 1) He never question that 90% of the population are or not Han Chinese. He just stated that those provinces in the west are not really that important (meaning that they do not define what China is or reflect how China is presented in the media). And generally your argument num 1 really proves that as yourself have confirm that those areas are sparsely populated thus not making a big impact although they are geographically large in size. Also no ethnic problem was highlighted in the vid. for 2) the rainfall line was used to show in the east part the areas is more prosperous in terms of agriculture thus more people living on the east side and it was a way to show that the east part of china is the most important, powerful and prosperous and not the whole China we see on the map for 3) GDP per capita in China is indeed NOT as high as other countries with powerful economies. This is a true fact and this is what the video stated. Also another fact is that prices of houses as you go from east (coast) to west are significantly decreasing thus showing the relative importance of those areas. for 4) the Belt and Road Initiative you are talking about considers South China sea as a very important aspect of the idea. I mean south China sea is OBOR to be honest. A country that has an export led growth mentality needs to be able to trade it's products via the really important shipping routes. China has access to those shipping routes ONLY though the South China sea it is really important that she controls the South China sea. I'm not gonna discuss the oil and gas reserves located in the same sea (another point why it's important). And that's why they are spending resources on building man made islands. They wouldn't build any man made island in the first place if it was not important and armed them with expensive military equipment. Overall the video wanted to point out that China's trade can easily being disturbed any time if USA wanted (by having the most powerful navy and air-force in the world) Thus China is not as powerful as people think. Not a great superpower. At least for now. So i don't really agree with your idea of ''bullshit'' video or your assumption of posting such vids to make people prefer investing in USA instead of China. He just stated some true facts and the consequences of those facts. Sorry for the long reply but i have seen that many people agreed (49 likes??) with your perspective of saying this video is worthless which is not really the case.
Today I learned that China is not as strong as one imagined. In what way. With vintage equipment vasco da gama went through those difficulties to get there. And a fully equipped 21 century China may be stronger than you think.
All I can say is duh! CCP has tried to control everyone from the internet, to who gets a work visa, to religious people( christians, buddhist monks)... and HONG KONG HAS HAD ENOUGH.... They know the banks are next and the CCP will try and seize other people's wealth of what's left over. President Trump KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING.
There are two thi gs this video got wrong: 1. Carriers aren't invincible 2. China has its own Carriers. Also: its a dictatorship and whoever has seen rules for rulers knows that a high gdp per capita is bad for a dictatorship. A dictatorship is pretty much defined by its capital and its coastal cities, they normally only have good infrastructure to connect their ressources to the ports and their palace to the airport. China is a rich dictatorship which makes it a very stable country. #RULESFORRULERS
A high GDP growth is a sign of the country being unstable. You do not simply create wealth out of nothing. If it looks, smells and sounds like a economic miracle then it is likely a bubble. Just because china builds a bunch of useless infrastructure and housing projects doesn't make it wealthy. It is simply just digging a hole and then filling the hole with concrete and saying "Hey look how productive we are". The problem with the modern economy is that it appears to believe that by just being a sassy economist you can create wealth out of nothing. When China can't take enough loans to make construction market go around they will be left with a bunch of industries that are planning on leaving China and a bunch of ghost cities.
@@MegaBanne "A high GDP growth is a sign of the country being unstable. " it can also means the country has alot of market space and usable labour to expand from
@@williampan29 China's GDP is growing even if the unemployment rate is increasing. A market for what? The main factor in the GDP growth is the building of useless infrastructure.
@@MegaBanne I'm not talking about their current GDP growth. I'm saying in general what could rapid gdp growth also indicates. China's growth of more than 12% in their past coupled with increase in income shows real sign of economic improvement, albeit the data might be a bit over-exaggerated. But now its policies do make it increasingly grim.
Ok this video proves they aren't spending a lot of that 10 to 12 trillion a year revenue, which they have had for the past ten years. So I would argue my good sir! You are very good at showing what the cost of living is, BUT not so much at showing how much accumulated wealth China actually has. Because they sure spend it like they got it outside their country.
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies represented the Second World.
@Qinhua Zi , Waited to see a Chunhua comment . Yes , they were our vassal states . The correct statement about Tibet is that it belongs to the Han family . The US has protected the state of Israel .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_GDP_per_capita THE poorest province Gansu reached 7,419dollars for the ppp indicatior.
DEI TESUTO Everything they are officially provided are CPI index, and Chinese experts are extracting data from it to indicate it. Is CPC really provide it? And even if they are providing it, I won't really trust it given the circumstances.
As a Chinese I agree with most of the opinions in the video, but there are two mistakes.The first point is that China has no Manchu。My mother's hometown is in Harbin. She is a Manchu. I have been to Harbin a few times. Now there are Han people. The Manchu people are like my mother's family. When my grandfather died, no one in our mother's family could speak Manchunese. The second point is that xingjiang and tibet .The rainfall in Xinjiang and Tibet is small, but the water data in Xinjiang comes from the melting snow in the Tianshan Mountains, and the water in Tibet comes from the lake.
As a Chinese, I totally agree with this topic! China is way behind other countries!!! So, we need more resources and we living harder than you can probably think!!! We could use some help from international politics, maybe just leave us alone and let us develop ourselves?
I feel that the commentary is that a Chinese monk and an Indian monk are dragging the dice... This is the translation of your sentence.... I still don't get it..😂 Btw thanks to google Respect to China from India🇮🇳❤️🇨🇳
Aditya Tiwari hardly a war if you consider the scale of their populations and the size of their armies. Just a minor border skirmish in the grand scheme of things. What the guy is saying is that a massive assault across the Himalayas to Delhi or vice versa is not going to happen.
Roadkill 67 during the 1960s war between China and India, Chinese managed to annihilate many Indian troops and penetrated into Northern India. Everyone in Delhi that time was afraid of attacking Chinese paratroopers due to rumours
Ong Zen Ye just hysteria and propaganda. By the time the Chinese got past the mountains they would face the rest of the Indian army, who now can properly deploy in their home country. One issue the Indians had was that the roads on their side of the border to the Himalayas were much poorer than on the Chinese. That's no longer a problem if the fighting went past the mountains. Also now the Chinese would face supply problems. Moving supplies through Tibet to take on the entire Indian army would be very difficult. But as long as the fighting is limited to the Himalayas, the Chinese would have the upper hand and have more chance of success, something they knew. That's why they set limited goals and went about achieving them.
War ??? More like a border conflict with a couple of skirmishes. Indians were ill prepared and had only themselves to blame. Even now Indian Army and Air Force is rubbish but Indian Navy can project some naval power close to Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal.
I guess that the conclusion of 'two dollars a day' comes from the farmer's annual income of grain cultivation. But there are very few Chinese farmers simply living on farming income. They could easily get a job in cities with monthly payment of 300-400 USD. There is no income declaration system in China, so it is really difficult to accurately figure out the annual income of an ordinary Chinese worker. Thats why IMF drew such a ridiculous conclusion.
Well... bluffing is a tactical strategy that we Chinese use all the time. What's better than winning a battle is avoiding a battle, and bluffing scares off enemy... most of the time.
I agree with his opinion that China won't become a true world superpower like the USA. China is an isolated country that can only access the ocean by the east side, and even that side has been "locked-up" by US Navy and other nearby powerful countries competing for international power. The western part of China has harsh climate and is not ideal for any meaningful developments. Other big countries, such as Russia (too cold, lack of infrastructure and lack of seaports), Canada (too cold, lack of seaports and lack of manpower) and Australia (too dry, too isolated and lack of manpower) etc. all have their problems, although Australia as a giant island continent has great access to the ocean. In my opinion, only Brazil, India and a unified United States of Europe (USE) can ultimately challenge the USA for global domination in a Big Four world. What I don't agree with his opinion is that there are no four buffer states in China, Inner Mongolia and Manchuria have been fully integrated into China Proper. Xinjiang and Tibet are the only places in Mainland China that have serious secession movements with Tibet gaining more support from the Western World.
Insightful and thoughtful statements but I do believe the future will change what is considered power and what makes countries strong. AI, Drones, Gene Mutation, and host of other advances will give a country a leg up. And China is the industry leader in all these categories because it precisely knows about what you stated. (land and sea locked)
at 2:44 a map of China with apparently intentional removal of inner Mongolia, a way of “separating” China used a lot by Western media, is used but includes Taiwan of which the Communist Party is not actually controlling but has been eager to retake for 70 years. What can I say... Well described comrade...
Thank you so much for buying us more time. And there are more material to use in the future: All the guns shown during the parade are wood sticks with paint job, all the missiles and large weapons are just cardboard models, and all the airplane and boats are animation done by Hollywood.
just because china can't mound a full out naval battle that doesn't mean they cant launch guided attacks from land and air that deal devastating blows. this video is too short sighted
American Navy can stay out of range of their missiles and shoot them down as they come. You forget how advanced the American Navy has gotten over the last twenty years.
If you're going to say, well they have air power- well you forget America can gun the jets out of the sky. You also forget their jets don't have the range to stay in the air long. They are also toying with an old Soviet Aircraft carrier that can be knocked out. Then you also don't factor in combat experience. When was the last time China got in a conflict? The 1970s? Then you don't also toss in all the American allies in the region either.
these are theoretical discussion of extremely unlikely conflict, so take with grain of salt, as neither China nor USA interested in fight each other, since the Nixon-Mao meetings... In terms of theoretical military issue, USA would be at a natural disadvantage try to block China access to the sea, as USA would be far extended from its own mainland, and even highly advanced NAVY tech like from USA, could not withstand very long a full scale assault from a mainland with as much staffing & technology as China, so would need to depend on other countries like Japan, Taiwan, Korea to support them, so the conflict would have to turn into not just China vrs USA, but China vrs all its neighbors with the addition of USA military technology & staffing... Both countries interested in keeping a high level of military powers, the threat & talk of a possible conflict between each other helps sell that idea to the public too & maintain military financing, however the most likely place any military skirmishes between USA & China take place, and all that high tech equipment & staffing both country have, is in some type of proxy conflict far away from both China & USA themselves! It's unstable & often poor countries around the world, that the ones should be scared by a turn for the worse in USA-China relationship! Not actual Americans or Chinese especially though! For both of them it would just mean higher prices, and economic depression! For other little people, in little countries it could mean difference between life & death!! Thankfully for these "little people", both Americans and Chinese scared-to-death of economic uncertainty, depression, or even collapse!!! ...With practical hopes in mind, and realizing there is some mild rivalry between USA & China, some trade/economic/technological conflicts tend to be likely from time to time, here and there, and are the best way to settle any differences that come up, one can expect mild victories and mild losses by both of them depending on the day at hand, the key for both is to control such things well enough, so that these small victories & losses do not turn so large as to escalate exponentially an economic or technological based "fencing" or "skirmish", so that the two countries lose control of the situation, hot heads & prejudice takes over, in fact even human control of situation lost even if no hotheads & prejuduce, and economic spiral of doom happen, perhaps militaries would get involved perhaps not, but either way, economic spiral of doom could eventually suck in not just China & USA, but entire world! And ya know, Yu can starve & buildings collapse because of war ya that bad stuff, but Yu can starve & buildings collapse because everybody broke & poor! End result can be about the same....
The ancestors of Chinese people figured out agriculture very early in the history of civilization. Though Han Chinese are dominant, I am surprised he does not mention the separation between northern and southern China by the Yangtze and Yellow rivers that have separate ethic groups of Chinese and dialects.
Maybe the title of this video should be " USA, Not As Strong As You Think " American Empire is in decline - and all of your military posturing will NOT help you !!!
The Chinese are really SENSITIVE people. A lot of it is because of the abuses China suffered at the hands of foreign powers. China is surrounded militarily. However, take war out of the equation and China's geographical position gives it big advantages in trade.
George Friedman is so on point. I spent 7 years living, working and researching in china from 09-16. My cynical view is this, the CPC made a huge mistake 40 years ago, when they decided to moved 400 million farmers into the coastal cities to work as cheap labors. They love to talk about how they lifted 400 million chinese out of poverty. What they won’t tell you is that, these farmers were forced out of their farms and lands. How do you think all those ghost cities got built. And these cities are meant for 10 of million inhabitants. All those ghost cities were built on land once belonged to the farmers, who are now trapped in these factories. They can’t go back because they’ve lost their land. Now that President Trump started the economic war, these farmers are really screwed, and the government can not have them laid off. The CPC knows what would happen to the party if 800 to 1 billion people goes hungry and cold. Not pretty. Which lead me to the military. The modernization of china military is for keeping 1.4 billion chinese in place, should shit ever hit the fan, as it’s looking more and more realistic with this recent economic war, and to some extent to threaten Taiwan. Taiwan #1 btw. Like George Friedman said, china is isolated and is not interested in fighting any one, not even over Taiwan. Unfortunately for china, the CPC are not known for changing position, they tend to double down, i give you Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 as an example. This means, the economic war will extend beyond President Trump. No future Presidents will surrender, or end the war until either china economy utterly collapsed, and or the CPC is over thrown. Never say never. Look at the Soviet Union.
"to the west... grasslands, really desserts, that keep them from going west"
Genghis Khan: "LOL"
Well he didn't say not going to east from there.
taboo97 I thought the same. He almost conquered and they were riding horses.
Horses are precisely why Genghis Khan was able to maneuver that terrain. Try driving 500 tanks from Beijing to Xinjiang. It's not gonna be easy.
I am sure that China does not believe in God. They believe in many gods. In fact, the Chinese do not believe in the standards of the Americans. The Chinese regard God as the dung, and the Americans should be angry. LoL
LOL
2:12 Today I learnt that Iraq is not a country but a sea
Yeah what the hell is going on in that map. China's borders are all wrong, the Red Sea looks weird, what is that island east of the horn of Africa?
I think its an equidistant projection focused on the yellow line. Everything else gets distorted.
lol
He did the same with the Russia video. This guy is a clown.
This video should be labelled as "How Americans viewed the world"
I see.. That's why they have an interest in West Philippine Sea
To keep the trade route open so that the bully USA dont block it.
You mean South China sea?
Yep, a problem we can't seem to be rid of.
@@josephsaafan7838 you mean the Taiwan sea
"Japan is an isolated country, it wont make ware against..."
And there goes a theory!
“A Comunist country like Vietnam doesn’t stand a chance vs the capitalist USA”
@@19ars92 the problem is the murican wasn't dip its nose in Vietnam to colonize it but rather to prevent the spread of communism. But due to the north vn having more trust of people because they won the French thus the US and south vn lost, etc but too lazy to list them all.
@@omuffin1854 excuses excuses blah blah blah
good one
@@崔莱 lol
2:00 loving the cloned Mongolia, the Mega Sicily and the Latvian, Estonian, and Iraqi seas
Lmao. Good observation. Shows you how delusional these "experts" are.
america: we have nukes to destroy the entire world 10 times over
china:sadly, we can only destroy the world once
@sefred7 yeah Angery because they suck at controlling the virus
@@tz4217 Well the statistics don't seem to agree with you
@@leey7972 I implied that America sucked at controlling it
@@tz4217 are you sure
They own america now, so there goes that theory.
Drive from DC to parts of West Virginia, or the Mississipi Delta, or reservations in South Dakota, and you probably get a similar experience. America is mostly wealthy around the coasts. What you have in China is mostly a difference of degree.
Reservations are reservations. How can you compare that to the rest of the US? They get small funding from the government, but they run the entire area without interference. I've been all over the US and can confidently say that nowhere in the US is even close to the type of poverty China has outside of their coastal cities.
@@WhiskeyDip facts and we get paid more
WhiskeyDip yeah, this is why China classify herself as a developing country.
lmao, you've clearly never been to the rural areas of China... it's not even remotely comparable. I stayed in a hostel on the outskirts of Beijing that hadn't washed the sheets in 5 months because they didn't have running water. You could see black outlines on the blue sheets from where others had slept previously. The bathroom was basically an outhouse inside the room. A room that was -28C because they didn't have heat. The son of the hostel owner was playing with his toys (a rock, stick and empty soap bottle). This was the nicest hostel in the area btw... and still inside Beijing. You have no idea what you're talking about.
WhiskeyDip I’ve seen rural America on google maps. It’s pretty first world
2:02 OH MY GOD CENSOR THIS MAP GORE THIS IS BUSINESS INSIDER YOU SHOULD HAVE HIGHER STANDARDS
HOW HARD IS IT TO GET AN ACTUAL MAP?!?!
Зачем эту карту цензуритт что с ней не так?
2015:China may not be as strong as you think.
2019:China is much stronger than you think.
Louis Wu i am Chinese people and I don't think China is strong !
@@CalanYes you just didn't catch my point, these two topic all said by this channel. Ironically, isn't it?
Louis Wu china is weaker than 10 years ago!
@@CalanYes sounds like indian
Louis Wu No.i am chinese people
2:12 When you see this map you can also see how qualified this "expert" and every other person that worked on this video are
I'm bad with maps so I don't see the problem
spot on
Hey look at the two oceans sandwiching the US. So according to this expert, really the only two countries that America can actually invade are Canada and Mexico. Good job!
Is there any other nation that could block US's ports? No. That is the point you did not get about south china see mate
@@michamalina5530 Clearly you have no idea what point I was making in my previous comment.
Oh and also in case you didn't know, that's spelled "sea" not "see", mate.
@@longxiao9823 The oceans "sandwiching" the US belong to them - the US navy is the most powerful navy in the world. Since the Chinese navy is weak the South China sea is a barrier for them - in case of war it would be dominated by the US navy, trade will collapse and the economy will follow.
@@jonesaffrou6014 You still don't get it man. I was making a point about the "expert" in the video saying that China cannot invade anybody because of the grass and dessert and Mt. Everest surrounding it. That assertion was absurd considering the mobility of modern military.
Regarding what you just suggested, though it was true that the Chinese navy is not remotely as strong as the American one, you have to know that "achieving naval hegemony" has never been high on China's to-do list. It wants to maintain status quo, which is its dominance over the South China Sea. US Navy can surely blockade the Chinese ports, in the situation of a war, but you have to realize they are the ones playing away-game, while the Chinese playing at home. Don't forget about China's ally, Russia, too.
@@longxiao9823 They surely can theoretically invade through these landscapes, but it would be ridiculously expensive. Especially the Himalayas. Chinese dominance over the South China sea is very unlikely, since Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia and to a less degree the Philippines are all allies of the US.
A blockade also may be possible without war - during Cuban crisis US navy has successfully stopped Soviet ships that were carrying nuclear missiles, why can't they stop Chinese trading vessels in case of a crisis of some sort? Because if direct military conflict will break out between US and China nukes will be fired, and then we're all fucked.
And Russia can't possibly be an ally of China that they can count on. Their interests are just partly overlapping right now because of their mutual rivalry with the US. Each of the three would be more than happy to play other two against each other while abstaining from participation.
There's another video of similar contents but of much higher quality from Wendover Productions - "China's geography problem".
Sounds like a joke when watching it in 2019.
When their economy is going into recession? I don’t think so.
@@juliand.l.4310 ......Recession? Are we from the same universe?
@@stevenli2542 are you?
@@Tarly45 If you mean recession then certainly we are not
@@juliand.l.4310 Are you talking about the US economy...?
*The same guy who wrote "The coming war with Japan" in 1991? It never happened. XD*
China got raped by Japan during WW2..with an easy fight
Anyone can hurt women and children. Military lost was 4 million Chinese vs 1.1 million Japanese dead. At end of 1945, each Japanese soldier only gets 10 around of bullet per day. Appears you think hurting women and children are ok. During bombing of Tokyo, women run out of building with their baby on fire on their back and only to find out river has boiled. I hope this is paints a picture for you.
fuck
Funny how you don't deny all the facts presented.
Habib Haque bitches
George co-wrote a book around 1990 called "The Coming War With Japan," (US v. Japan) just to keep things in perspective.
And the 'war' did come, only it was economic rather than military. It was known as the Plaza Accord War and Japan surrendered unconditionally without firing a single shot.
The comments section in for this video is ridiculous. Nevertheless, most of what he said was fine. The only real error is that the cost of living is quite a bit lower in China, so even though they only make 2-4 USD, people can easily live off of that and have pretty happy lives. (BTW, I live in a rural part of China, East of the rain line.
VPN?
Are you saying that the way Chinese people desire to live is inadequate or that they do not have access to higher quality infrastructure. If you are saying the former, than I would recommend caution. If you are stating the latter, which I assume you are, you would be very correct in some places and wrong in others. Many Chinese have learned how to survive and live happily independently from the national/international market place. From my experience, however, this is becoming more difficult since the cities are expanding quite rapidly. In response to purchasing power, a country can have a high quality of life but use a currency with low purchasing power. That phenomenon only become apparent when trading or traveling internationally.
You got to be kidding me?
Take Hunan province as example. 2 dollars a day? According to Wikipedia, per capita GDP of Hunan province is $6900 in 2016 while you are telling me average yearly income is $700?
I'm not saying that (I can't tell if you are responding to me or the other guy or the guy in the video). I don't live in Hunan, but I think you are probably correct based on what I've heard about it.
If you take the upper level World Bank Indicator of $5.50 a day you will see figures that don't match a more reliable figures (53.4% 2010, 49.1% 2011, 44.3% 2012, 36.3% 2013, 31.5% 2014...meanwhile a more reliable figure like rural-urban merely indicates a slow steady annual decline of 14 m rural 2010-14 thus a slow steady decline of poverty).
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.UMIC?end=2014&locations=CN&start=2010&view=chart
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL?end=2016&locations=CN&start=2010&view=chart
China also doesn't have access to the giant foreign bundles that American stores like Best Buy or Home Depot offer (the Samsung foreigner kitchen bundle of refrigerator, oven & stove, and microwave $3333-$9999). Same deal with the $700 Samsung Galaxy S 9. George Friedman mentions Walmart, but Mexico Walmart > China Walmart.
video title: China may not be as strong as you think
in reality: USA is not as good as you think
witnesses: Iraq,Syria,Libya,Afghanistan...
@Your Majesty, Russia will riddle down on you and your country with THE EARTH'S LARGEST NUKES STORAGE the likes of which no one has ever seen before.
There is no more Manchuria. It is just as Han now as the red part.
That was my first thought. Something didn't seem right...
Lonely Dreamer Was it yummy?
I'm from there can confirm =D
I want to say that too. Manchu race was only a small tribe of refugees, who was chased out of Korea by Korean, and Ming Dynasty allowd them to live in JianZhou County.
+Xiao Liu No, Manchus are a Tungusic ethnic group, and Tungusics like Evenks, Evens, Orochens, Oroks live all across eastern Siberia and Northeast Asia. Manchuria is their southernmost extent.
2:12 what the actual hell is that map
Business Insider at its best
Any country is not as strong as you think when you compare with USA.
That because they spend more money on defense than on small businesses.
@@itzmeaaiqa723
What?
USA No. 1.
Sorry America is not no1..
They are not as strong as you think they are...they only strong with other countries behind them...its always been that way.
@@anarungamotu6068 I agree the only victory in war I'm aware of USA winning was WW2 when they joined right at the end !! But claimed to of won it all. Forgetting that England/U.K and another 28 plus countries fought in the war. They also seem to forget how there country came about, if it wasn't for the Vikings , English, French and Dutch it would still be Native American land.
please make a video about Goat right violation in pakistan.
Sayandeep Ghosh make a video on human rights and cow rights in India lol I am not joking it real
arsam kiani are you speaking in pindi English? because we don't understand that. ha ha ha ha.
***** dude your grandfather was a Hindu :))
***** arabs able to conquer pakistan, until 1200 muslims not even able to came to India en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Sultanate
***** kayse is elake pa tumlogh ghus bhi nehi sake puri jindegi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahom_kingdom
As a Chinese, it is interesting to see nonsense from a foreigner who does not understand China completely.
作为一个中国战略忽悠局成员,我警告你,继续发表这样的评论将会有生命危险(`⌒´メ)
What exactly is nonsense? At least justify your argument if you’re going to try and discredit others
And so the US may not be that strong as we think indeed this statement applies to Russia the EU India etc we forget to highlight all the drawbacks
US is actually strong.
The map at 2:16 makes me mad i wanna beat up whoever did that...m
Well, it's an internationally accepted fact no matter if you accept it or not.
@@muktamalakar5771 That Iraq doesnt exist is an internationally accepted fact ?
Look at that map again.
Those islands among the seas are the "aircraft carriers" and as the islands are "artificially" expanded and built they become powerful take off and landing runway strips
BroadAudience they are EASY sitting targets.
they're militarily useless. they would be turned to dust within 30 minutes.
@@Dweller415 who cares about boats when there are nuclear warheads to blow up?
When you have 8% GDP growth per year, you don't _need_ to be a military threat to anyone, as long as you maintain good diplomatic relations and have a military just strong enough to deter invasions. Power projection can be useful to eradicate piracy if you are a trading power, but the US is already doing that and the trading routes are fairly safe. China is just following the optimal strategy for a country in its position: just focus on economic growth and international influence will naturally follow from that.
trading routes are safe because the US makes them safe
@@ragglefraggle9111 US is the biggest warmonger in history. Get real.
Meanwhile in 2019
"If we were to fight a war with them today in east asia we would strugle to win and might possibly even lose that war"
Former acting CIA director Mike Morell
This guy really knows his stuff, I bet even many Chinese didn't understand their geopolitical and economic standing. It is the same with Brazil. Rio, Sao Paulo looks quite impressive and welcoming but as soon as you leave those cities you see how unstable and poor the other areas are.
Just One point. as a Chinese from 'Manchuria', it is every bit Chinese as the rest of China. Two races mixed together hundreds of years ago. It may be a buffer zone 400 years ago, not any more. Otherwise there would be no problem on Korea peninsula.
this is very true. The Manchus ruled all of China for 400 years and have very much sinicized, most of them are mixed in and indistinguishable with the original Han Chinese. Manchuria today have a Han majority population.
Don't jumble . Qing is Manchu . South China has absorbed lots of other ethnicities than North , patriarchy is the line to decide .
China is actually pretty strong, though they may not be as strong as America. They still have a good economy and are creating the BRI. which will also help their military on the sea.
none of this matters. live your life be a good person. china is fine, usa is fine, russia is fine. earth has never been anywhere near as good as it is right now in 2019. peace
Captain Grizzly ✌️ Peace
This aged like milk.
I'm not Chinese but what a bullshit analysis, here is why:
1.) 90% of the population is Han Chinese, Manchuria & Inner Mongolia are happily a part of China. Tibet & Xinjiang are integrated with China and only have successionist movements because of heavy outside interference. There is no ethnic problem in China, which can't be easily handled.
2.) The "rainfall line" is within the arable and agriculturally productive part of China where 85% of the population lives. China neverthless is still building canals, forests to improve agriculture in Inner Mongolia and the West.
3.) The interior is still poor, that is correct but not as poor as this video suggests, thanks to remittances from the Coast, subsidies, and relocation of industries to the interior to exploit cheaper land and labour.
4.) China is building the OBOR to reduce the importance of relying on the South China Sea and using rail and road connections through Myanmar, Pakistan and Kazakhstan/Russia.
Mr X - totally correct... You should have done the video rather than this dude... How could he have no clue about what the OBOR is all about...?
Amidat ..... Stratfor is a part of the US security apparatus, their job is to convince consumers & decision-makers that the best investment is the US, they will never criticize the US, but they will criticize every other country, that being said the only true danger I see for China is the high level of government and state-owned debt/subsidies.
mr x are you sure you are not Chinese? Your way of writing is very Chinese
Why is this a ''bulshit'' analysis?
for 1) He never question that 90% of the population are or not Han Chinese. He just stated that those provinces in the west are not really that important (meaning that they do not define what China is or reflect how China is presented in the media). And generally your argument num 1 really proves that as yourself have confirm that those areas are sparsely populated thus not making a big impact although they are geographically large in size. Also no ethnic problem was highlighted in the vid.
for 2) the rainfall line was used to show in the east part the areas is more prosperous in terms of agriculture thus more people living on the east side and it was a way to show that the east part of china is the most important, powerful and prosperous and not the whole China we see on the map
for 3) GDP per capita in China is indeed NOT as high as other countries with powerful economies. This is a true fact and this is what the video stated. Also another fact is that prices of houses as you go from east (coast) to west are significantly decreasing thus showing the relative importance of those areas.
for 4) the Belt and Road Initiative you are talking about considers South China sea as a very important aspect of the idea. I mean south China sea is OBOR to be honest. A country that has an export led growth mentality needs to be able to trade it's products via the really important shipping routes. China has access to those shipping routes ONLY though the South China sea it is really important that she controls the South China sea. I'm not gonna discuss the oil and gas reserves located in the same sea (another point why it's important). And that's why they are spending resources on building man made islands. They wouldn't build any man made island in the first place if it was not important and armed them with expensive military equipment. Overall the video wanted to point out that China's trade can easily being disturbed any time if USA wanted (by having the most powerful navy and air-force in the world)
Thus China is not as powerful as people think. Not a great superpower. At least for now. So i don't really agree with your idea of ''bullshit'' video or your assumption of posting such vids to make people prefer investing in USA instead of China. He just stated some true facts and the consequences of those facts.
Sorry for the long reply but i have seen that many people agreed (49 likes??) with your perspective of saying this video is worthless which is not really the case.
how hard is it to sabatage a railway man
Videos from this guy is for fun purposes.
Please don’t take seriously.
sikander zaheer No, this video has logic.
its worse than learning ABC when you are in college.
Oh really? Or you're just prejudice?
Terroristan
It's the democrats paradise
Lol. He sounds like a 5 th grader read 2 books about China from 1850 but never step outside of the state of Alabama
Peixi Yuan well he isn’t wrong about anything, he just didn’t say anything of importance
lol if you connect the name "Friedman" with Alabama, then you sound like you've never set foot in the USA.....
Today I learned that China is not as strong as one imagined. In what way. With vintage equipment vasco da gama went through those difficulties to get there. And a fully equipped 21 century China may be stronger than you think.
This guy can't even say Xinjiang properly and he's supposed to be an expert? He put Manchuria as a buffer state, but included Lanzhou with Han China?
@Traveling Burrito Salesman woah...how did I miss that?!?
Taiwan is not a part of China! Please correct your map!
What about Hong Kong and Tibet ?
YES. TAIWAN IS PART OF JAPAN.
Now 2nd half of 2019, China PPP(Purchase Power Parity) GDP is 130% of US in 2018.
All I can say is duh! CCP has tried to control everyone from the internet, to who gets a work visa, to religious people( christians, buddhist monks)... and HONG KONG HAS HAD ENOUGH.... They know the banks are next and the CCP will try and seize other people's wealth of what's left over. President Trump KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING.
Logic and facts and a calm tone how refreshing. Thank you.
Lol its propaganda
@Duffy63 wbu? fbi bot?
@Duffy63 yep im very sure you are a FBI bot
@@najeebshah. exactly
Very well thought out and articulated. Thanks for making us all a little more knowledgeable!
Every Chinese agrees with this video! Thumb if you like it!
As I Chinese i gotta thank you for making the Americans as calm as they can be so that we can easily surpass them😂
It seems like he himself lived in the country, man he was describing the country just as how I would describe mine.
So the British empire was falling apart and getting smaller。
There are two thi gs this video got wrong:
1. Carriers aren't invincible
2. China has its own Carriers.
Also: its a dictatorship and whoever has seen rules for rulers knows that a high gdp per capita is bad for a dictatorship. A dictatorship is pretty much defined by its capital and its coastal cities, they normally only have good infrastructure to connect their ressources to the ports and their palace to the airport.
China is a rich dictatorship which makes it a very stable country.
#RULESFORRULERS
A high GDP growth is a sign of the country being unstable. You do not simply create wealth out of nothing. If it looks, smells and sounds like a economic miracle then it is likely a bubble.
Just because china builds a bunch of useless infrastructure and housing projects doesn't make it wealthy. It is simply just digging a hole and then filling the hole with concrete and saying "Hey look how productive we are".
The problem with the modern economy is that it appears to believe that by just being a sassy economist you can create wealth out of nothing.
When China can't take enough loans to make construction market go around they will be left with a bunch of industries that are planning on leaving China and a bunch of ghost cities.
@@MegaBanne "A high GDP growth is a sign of the country being unstable. " it can also means the country has alot of market space and usable labour to expand from
@@williampan29
China's GDP is growing even if the unemployment rate is increasing. A market for what?
The main factor in the GDP growth is the building of useless infrastructure.
@@MegaBanne I'm not talking about their current GDP growth. I'm saying in general what could rapid gdp growth also indicates. China's growth of more than 12% in their past coupled with increase in income shows real sign of economic improvement, albeit the data might be a bit over-exaggerated.
But now its policies do make it increasingly grim.
America wants to consider how its capabilities are merely limited to what its interests within China are limited to.
China recently attained the ability to launch supersonic missiles with 1,000+ mile range: carrier killers.
Ok this video proves they aren't spending a lot of that 10 to 12 trillion a year revenue, which they have had for the past ten years. So I would argue my good sir!
You are very good at showing what the cost of living is, BUT not so much at showing how much accumulated wealth China actually has.
Because they sure spend it like they got it outside their country.
Lewis J. Because a few people have a lot of wealth . It’s like saying Nigeria is powerful because they bought up Mayfair in London
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies represented the Second World.
Too many obvious errors about the video, please, try to be professional.
@Qinhua Zi , Waited to see a Chunhua comment . Yes , they were our vassal states .
The correct statement about Tibet is that it belongs to the Han family . The US has protected the state of Israel .
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oh wait! 2$ per day 760 per year! but the poorest province got 4000$per year! where did u get this informantion?
Have you ever heard diffrence between GDP or GNP per capita to PPP per capita which your contury didn't provide it for Public information?
Each indicator you mentioned has been provided.
The per capita GDP and GNI of china almost the same
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_GDP_per_capita
THE poorest province Gansu reached 7,419dollars for the ppp indicatior.
DEI TESUTO Everything they are officially provided are CPI index, and Chinese experts are extracting data from it to indicate it.
Is CPC really provide it?
And even if they are providing it,
I won't really trust it given the circumstances.
Dude.. this is a war about influence not a standard fighting match..
you've changed my thinking about Business Insider.
as a Chinese, this video is telling the truth, we are poor, please invest us. we cannot afford an egg for each meal.
单车男孩35 taiwan is strong,so 🇺🇸 should pay att attention to it~
@@CalanYes Indeed. They have learned to generate electricity using love. What a miracle. Mainlander should definitely steal that tech.
Steven Zhao 秀
In 2022, things have slightly changed. China is now assertive. And US lost one of its F35.
《The Coming Collapse of China 》
The best book in the world.
Cause he would like you to believe what the book says
It quite literally purchased Chinese extra ages to silently develop, so your statement is very much true.
I come from 2021
还buffer states。。这是在自欺欺人,已经开始营造分裂氛围,就差中国崩溃,就可以开始瓜分啦!
Yeah, yeah.
太搞笑了,老外真会创造概念
As a Chinese I agree with most of the opinions in the video, but there are two mistakes.The first point is that China has no Manchu。My mother's hometown is in Harbin. She is a Manchu. I have been to Harbin a few times. Now there are Han people. The Manchu people are like my mother's family. When my grandfather died, no one in our mother's family could speak Manchunese. The second point is that xingjiang and tibet .The rainfall in Xinjiang and Tibet is small, but the water data in Xinjiang comes from the melting snow in the Tianshan Mountains, and the water in Tibet comes from the lake.
As a Chinese, I totally agree with this topic! China is way behind other countries!!! So, we need more resources and we living harder than you can probably think!!! We could use some help from international politics, maybe just leave us alone and let us develop ourselves?
感觉评论就是一个中国🇨🇳人和一个印度🇮🇳人在扯犊子
I feel that the commentary is that a Chinese monk and an Indian monk are dragging the dice...
This is the translation of your sentence....
I still don't get it..😂
Btw thanks to google
Respect to China from India🇮🇳❤️🇨🇳
Brace yourself for a bunch of CCP bots
Kanjani 8 lmao, hello, I guess
if there is an iron wall between India and China, explain the Indo-China war?
Aditya Tiwari hardly a war if you consider the scale of their populations and the size of their armies. Just a minor border skirmish in the grand scheme of things. What the guy is saying is that a massive assault across the Himalayas to Delhi or vice versa is not going to happen.
Roadkill 67 during the 1960s war between China and India, Chinese managed to annihilate many Indian troops and penetrated into Northern India. Everyone in Delhi that time was afraid of attacking Chinese paratroopers due to rumours
Ong Zen Ye just hysteria and propaganda. By the time the Chinese got past the mountains they would face the rest of the Indian army, who now can properly deploy in their home country. One issue the Indians had was that the roads on their side of the border to the Himalayas were much poorer than on the Chinese. That's no longer a problem if the fighting went past the mountains. Also now the Chinese would face supply problems. Moving supplies through Tibet to take on the entire Indian army would be very difficult. But as long as the fighting is limited to the Himalayas, the Chinese would have the upper hand and have more chance of success, something they knew. That's why they set limited goals and went about achieving them.
War ??? More like a border conflict with a couple of skirmishes. Indians were ill prepared and had only themselves to blame. Even now Indian Army and Air Force is rubbish but Indian Navy can project some naval power close to Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal.
easy: Pakistan
Map of Tibet has been wrongly potraited. Two major geogeaphical area of Amdo & kham and some part of Yunan are Tibet
@Bob Bob So you are still living in 17th century. Wake up bro it 21st
@Bob Bob Depends on the circumstances and how the international community views it.
The guys living in the early to mid 90's 🤣🤣🤣🤣
哈哈哈哈,台湾莫名被统一了,东北莫名被分裂出去了,看得我一脸问号。求东北老爷们和台湾小青年的心理阴影面积。
Zian Tang 对啊,这让东北大老爷们儿看见,估计都是一脸懵逼。。。
He pointed all weak points that China have. It is gravely sad that an opponent knew that much
Geographic features don't absolutely rule-out wars since the invention of air forces, missiles, boats, etc
这视频正确地把台湾归入中国好评。
Praise this vedio‘s maker who correctly includes taiwan area in China.
2:40 This did NOT age well.
China:Thank you for reminding,so let's build some carrier battle group.LOL
At this moment, the USA launches the latest middle range missiles, and stationed in Taiwan
That was so concise. That happens when you really know a subject.
Nice work, can you show this video to Trump so that he can ignore China,,
I guess that the conclusion of 'two dollars a day' comes from the farmer's annual income of grain cultivation. But there are very few Chinese farmers simply living on farming income. They could easily get a job in cities with monthly payment of 300-400 USD. There is no income declaration system in China, so it is really difficult to accurately figure out the annual income of an ordinary Chinese worker. Thats why IMF drew such a ridiculous conclusion.
2:18 There is something really wrong with this map.
Sir Klug von Scheiß nthada myre nintamme kanunile avide
Mongolia is so messed up
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After 5-10 years I bet everyone will comment "This aged well" like in the Russia's video
向中国战忽局北美分部科长敬礼!
he just explained that China is nothing like economically, militarily..what a joke!
Truth hurts no?
Well... bluffing is a tactical strategy that we Chinese use all the time. What's better than winning a battle is avoiding a battle, and bluffing scares off enemy... most of the time.
I agree with his opinion that China won't become a true world superpower like the USA. China is an isolated country that can only access the ocean by the east side, and even that side has been "locked-up" by US Navy and other nearby powerful countries competing for international power. The western part of China has harsh climate and is not ideal for any meaningful developments. Other big countries, such as Russia (too cold, lack of infrastructure and lack of seaports), Canada (too cold, lack of seaports and lack of manpower) and Australia (too dry, too isolated and lack of manpower) etc. all have their problems, although Australia as a giant island continent has great access to the ocean. In my opinion, only Brazil, India and a unified United States of Europe (USE) can ultimately challenge the USA for global domination in a Big Four world.
What I don't agree with his opinion is that there are no four buffer states in China, Inner Mongolia and Manchuria have been fully integrated into China Proper. Xinjiang and Tibet are the only places in Mainland China that have serious secession movements with Tibet gaining more support from the Western World.
Insightful and thoughtful statements but I do believe the future will change what is considered power and what makes countries strong. AI, Drones, Gene Mutation, and host of other advances will give a country a leg up. And China is the industry leader in all these categories because it precisely knows about what you stated. (land and sea locked)
This dude could not be more wrong lol
Is there a chance that you are Chinese? > bias
Why did you put Taiwan in the same country as China? Next time remember to put Canada and USA under the U.K.
at 2:44 a map of China with apparently intentional removal of inner Mongolia, a way of “separating” China used a lot by Western media, is used but includes Taiwan of which the Communist Party is not actually controlling but has been eager to retake for 70 years. What can I say... Well described comrade...
China actually owns 1 carrier
They bought that from Ukraine and copycat their second carrier.
Leon Guo a refurbished piece of shit
That is uslessp
the US has 22 carriers, enough to stop trade from China
It’s now five carriers.
Just like US is not strong as you think.
Thank you so much for buying us more time. And there are more material to use in the future: All the guns shown during the parade are wood sticks with paint job, all the missiles and large weapons are just cardboard models, and all the airplane and boats are animation done by Hollywood.
just because china can't mound a full out naval battle that doesn't mean they cant launch guided attacks from land and air that deal devastating blows. this video is too short sighted
American Navy can stay out of range of their missiles and shoot them down as they come. You forget how advanced the American Navy has gotten over the last twenty years.
If you're going to say, well they have air power- well you forget America can gun the jets out of the sky. You also forget their jets don't have the range to stay in the air long. They are also toying with an old Soviet Aircraft carrier that can be knocked out. Then you also don't factor in combat experience. When was the last time China got in a conflict? The 1970s? Then you don't also toss in all the American allies in the region either.
these are theoretical discussion of extremely unlikely conflict, so take with grain of salt, as neither China nor USA interested in fight each other, since the Nixon-Mao meetings... In terms of theoretical military issue, USA would be at a natural disadvantage try to block China access to the sea, as USA would be far extended from its own mainland, and even highly advanced NAVY tech like from USA, could not withstand very long a full scale assault from a mainland with as much staffing & technology as China, so would need to depend on other countries like Japan, Taiwan, Korea to support them, so the conflict would have to turn into not just China vrs USA, but China vrs all its neighbors with the addition of USA military technology & staffing... Both countries interested in keeping a high level of military powers, the threat & talk of a possible conflict between each other helps sell that idea to the public too & maintain military financing, however the most likely place any military skirmishes between USA & China take place, and all that high tech equipment & staffing both country have, is in some type of proxy conflict far away from both China & USA themselves! It's unstable & often poor countries around the world, that the ones should be scared by a turn for the worse in USA-China relationship! Not actual Americans or Chinese especially though! For both of them it would just mean higher prices, and economic depression! For other little people, in little countries it could mean difference between life & death!! Thankfully for these "little people", both Americans and Chinese scared-to-death of economic uncertainty, depression, or even collapse!!! ...With practical hopes in mind, and realizing there is some mild rivalry between USA & China, some trade/economic/technological conflicts tend to be likely from time to time, here and there, and are the best way to settle any differences that come up, one can expect mild victories and mild losses by both of them depending on the day at hand, the key for both is to control such things well enough, so that these small victories & losses do not turn so large as to escalate exponentially an economic or technological based "fencing" or "skirmish", so that the two countries lose control of the situation, hot heads & prejudice takes over, in fact even human control of situation lost even if no hotheads & prejuduce, and economic spiral of doom happen, perhaps militaries would get involved perhaps not, but either way, economic spiral of doom could eventually suck in not just China & USA, but entire world! And ya know, Yu can starve & buildings collapse because of war ya that bad stuff, but Yu can starve & buildings collapse because everybody broke & poor! End result can be about the same....
exactly sink those tiny islands make someone think they found atlantis in 100 years
The ancestors of Chinese people figured out agriculture very early in the history of civilization. Though Han Chinese are dominant, I am surprised he does not mention the separation between northern and southern China by the Yangtze and Yellow rivers that have separate ethic groups of Chinese and dialects.
😂😂😂that's the real expert 😂😂😂
Gives me info so different to I have. 😂😂😂
Maybe the title of this video should be " USA, Not As Strong As You Think "
American Empire is in decline - and all of your military posturing will NOT help you !!!
Lol that was a good laugh u gave me.
And yet the us needs to surround China with military bases.
The comment section in one word:
SALT
Hahahaha. Time will only tell the truth! Let's give another 10 years. 😁
That was accurate! Hahaha!!!
一看就是来自战忽局的
YaoLian chen 天天战忽局 没别的啊
给这视频点赞!!把这视频顶到最上面去
这里竟然台湾也算进去了……
@@wutangforever4744 默默地问,什么是战忽局?
是啊,让他们自己继续做梦!我们不强大!
The Chinese are really SENSITIVE people. A lot of it is because of the abuses China suffered at the hands of foreign powers. China is surrounded militarily. However, take war out of the equation and China's geographical position gives it big advantages in trade.
Due, you're definitely right, you must be a genius.
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人家标台湾是说台湾人也是汉族的意思
George Friedman is so on point. I spent 7 years living, working and researching in china from 09-16. My cynical view is this, the CPC made a huge mistake 40 years ago, when they decided to moved 400 million farmers into the coastal cities to work as cheap labors. They love to talk about how they lifted 400 million chinese out of poverty. What they won’t tell you is that, these farmers were forced out of their farms and lands. How do you think all those ghost cities got built. And these cities are meant for 10 of million inhabitants. All those ghost cities were built on land once belonged to the farmers, who are now trapped in these factories. They can’t go back because they’ve lost their land.
Now that President Trump started the economic war, these farmers are really screwed, and the government can not have them laid off. The CPC knows what would happen to the party if 800 to 1 billion people goes hungry and cold. Not pretty. Which lead me to the military. The modernization of china military is for keeping 1.4 billion chinese in place, should shit ever hit the fan, as it’s looking more and more realistic with this recent economic war, and to some extent to threaten Taiwan. Taiwan #1 btw.
Like George Friedman said, china is isolated and is not interested in fighting any one, not even over Taiwan. Unfortunately for china, the CPC are not known for changing position, they tend to double down, i give you Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 as an example. This means, the economic war will extend beyond President Trump. No future Presidents will surrender, or end the war until either china economy utterly collapsed, and or the CPC is over thrown. Never say never. Look at the Soviet Union.
这货对中国的印象还停留在二战时期吧
What a lovely video! I believe you perhaps never read papers and totoally fresh off the boat in international relations. Wonderful dream.
Need an update on this video pls
Nice job, my dear comrade from Strategic Fooyou Agency. Salute!