Sharing below written by a Malaysian RUclipsr: I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French (with supports from the US), started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance. These ,8-Robbers were: Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire (including India), France, USA, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not by looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.
Was that from Dr. Mahathir? I remembered he said something similar but briefly, and I doubt someone like him would have the time to watch RUclips videos.
I was nodding in agreement with what was said until that part about supporting “democracy “ in Hong Kong. I personally saw the atrocities perpetrated by the US-incited violence on the streets. The western world should have realised by now that the riots in Hong Kong had nothing to do with democracy but a U.S. ruse to destabilise China.
I suspect Varoufakis knows this too, but if he tries to explain the Chinese position, he will risk sounding too sympathetic of china and turning off his intended audience.
Agreed with everything except hk and the rest. As someone who knows about foreign/western imperialism, does he expect china to allow foreign countries to meddle and control it's domestic politics, even supporting separatists factions and trying to divide and break apart china? Yanis knows the answer to this question, so I don't know why he said he supports the students, who are most likely to be the more violent and radical of the protesters. He should have just said he supports peaceful protests, but the students were anything but peaceful. Didn't he see when they took over a few universities and turned them into a fortress to make thousands of Molotov fire bombs? Does he support that? Of course not. That's the majority of the students, and "bringing mainland down with Hong Kong" was their main tactic and strategy. Their spokesperson joey siu went on Germany's DW and would not even denounce a rioter who tried to kill a cop with a knife completely unprovoked.
Even Anti-imperialism leftists like Aaron Mate and Jimmy Dore also repeat the repeat the same lies about HK, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet. Max Blumenthal actually investigated the US propaganda against China, so he corrected Jimmy Dore.
You dont understand! Technically Beijing not wanting HK to be a safe haven from the law for criminals anymore does make it "less free" (I'm being sarcastic)
@Yanis, I agreed alot with you, but for some support what you give to some, is very strange. HK riots started with Taiwan, as you know about the murder of a young prengnant lady. Taiwan asked HK to handover the murderer, HK has to introduce a law. When the riot began, Taiwan cancelled the handover off the murderer. If you did some backgroundchecking of the HK riot parties and also the leaders of it, you will find that they are sponsert by the NED. Incase you do not know, National Endowment for Democracy (probebly also active in Greece). Isnt it also very strange that you visit the US, see congress, and asked them for all kinds of help openly. And showing the flag of foreign countries in China, because you want to be one of the foreign country. Beating up people who are not agree with you. Have you seen the pictures off beatenup elderly, policemen stabbed with knives? Please also do a backgroundcheck of the president of Taiwan and her ministers, you will also see that they are sponsert by the NED. Taiwan is already an onofficial state of the US, used as a proxy. Uighers, this is already debunked. It's report was written by someone called Adrian Zenz, and ASPI from australia. As you know ASPI is sponsert by defence industrie. There are no proves and facts. All minorities in China has alot of privilige, like, educations, healthcare, jobs. Even the restaurants at the university campas is halal. Just lookup for some youtube (easiest way) from western expats, tourist, or moslims, who made some vlogs. Or better, just visit China, also Xinjiang. It is open for everyone. China also invited all countries to visit, all excepted, except western countries. I watched your interview about China, where you talked about the harbour Piraeus and also the Cambridge Forum where you told the lady about China.
@@Qjemuse No, but I have 2 friends who live there. And in my company, the manager is also from Xinjiang, who traveled regulary to visit his family. We regulary seeing photo's and films from both family's, that's what happens alot when you have kids :-) So I do not believe what msm is accusing China for. And what about you?
@@Qjemuse There's no excuses. This eurocentrism and european idealism is just racism. The Honk Kong riots were backed and funded by western imperialism. They were burning people alive, period. He is also completely wrong about Xinjiang. Tragically wrong. China has the most humane way of treating with fanatics, unlike the US, UK etc that pretty much create these fanatics and then fund and arm them (and then bomb everyone around except them). I vote for mera25 but when it comes to criticizing western imperialism they do a very very bad job.
I am from Hong Kong and you are wrong about Hong Kong, when normal citizens get beat up who have a different opinion, living in fear of those so called democracy protesters !?!!!? You are wrong !
@@issactian3143 it's no joke !!! They put your personal information out online for others to attacks you, normal citizens lost their freedom and that's the truth.
hearing his other talks about US imperialism and its hidden agendas, i'm baffled at his statement on HK and Xinjiang... perhaps more context is needed... but you can't say you understand the toxicity of US/Western imperialism and turn around to say you support the HK protesters and the Uyghurs... that statement is pure contradiction - especially coming from a person like Yanis...
well, if it's true ofcourse you should be against genocide and oppression of students. but it's difficult to prove a negative and since most anti china people will use that to derail the discussion and to label him as a genocide supporter, it is better to get that out of the way first to focus on what really matters.
@Shimmy Shai HK already had democracy before the protests. Do you agree with the HK man murdering a woman in Taiwan and fleeing to HK to avoid trial and prison? You agree with the protests, which were about preventing HK’s legal system from extraditing criminals like that to face trial? You agree with those who created the protests (the billionaire’s very rightwing Apple Daily newspaper and US-sponsored professional activists)?
I agree in every point you made except the part about supporting HK riots and Uyghur jihadists. They were extremely violent with the purpose of causing harm to society.
@@neovxr 2014 bombings perpetrated by the ETIM separatists in Urumci killing and injuring people in south Station. China has every right to combat terrorists on its territory. Look how the US behaved after the 9/11 attack.
@@francoisehembert3243 instead of smart bombs and drones that Merica uses as tools China wanted to reform and win the hearts and minds of the Xinjian people with training and jobs.... something that is far more effective and sustainable to stamp out violence....
@@soothsayer2406 they locked up over a million people. China is criticized because they addressed terrorism by a small part of the population by implementing collective punishment over the entire region.
I can't agree with your opinion about what really happened in HK 2019. I'm an original citizen in HK. The opposition , the thugs, the mobs and some of the student leaders are funded by the NED. Violent crimes happened last for more than seven months. During that period he so-called peaceful students always attached police and innocent people who tried to clean up the blockade in the roads or disagreed with them. They robbed banks' etc machines, they destroyed or burned the shops don't stand with them, they burned mtr stations, they stopped the public transportation from providing service to people who want to go to work. They did all kinds of terrorist attacks in name of democracy but without the consent of majority. Their purpose is just to overthrow the HKSAR govt, then divided HK from the mainland China.
Must I say when he went off to a cliff: 3 words: Hong Kong, Uyghurs, and "saving democracy" plz word freedom of democracy is long over, over... That's the ideology many believe (ed) me from a former Yugoslavia..
Yeah he is too eurocentric. They are the best we got in Greece but when it comes to western imperialism they really toe the line. Which I think pretty much makes them useless tbh, shooting blanks. Everytime he talks about China he makes a fool for himself. Except for when he compares the offers he was given for the port of Piraeus by China VS by EU countries. China's was a win win deal, EU was a looting deal. He can't lie about that, his remaining sanity doesn't let him.
@@wilhelm2398 Nice, another meaningless non-argument coming from western hypocrites with zero moral and intellectual honesty. Keep it up, I'm sure Xi is preparing his resignation papers as we speak.
Yanis you're contradicting your argument about no cold war against china and imperialism and talking about support hk protest and Xinjiang genocide narrative That s a cold war right there go to China and look 4 yourself bring your own conclusion
@Yanis, I agreed with everything you said at the beginning, BUT I do not agreed with you when you start talking about Xinjiang, HK, etc., so please visit Xinjiang to see how the Uighur lives and please check who was behind the riots in HK...
@Shimmy Shai If anyone have basic common sense and logic, would know there is no genocide in Xinjiang, cause the Uighur ethnic group is quite large compared to before. How can a population grow if there is genocide? The Han Chinese is doing a great job educating and helping the other ethnic groups to grow and becoming fully integrated with other ethnic groups under the leadership of President Xi Jinping. Another reason, why the news are fake...When the Uighur woman was interviewed, she stumbled upon answering the question how many Uighur are in the concentration camp and then she said, 3M+! This clearly explain, it was a lie. She had no clue how much space it takes to house 3M+ people. Another pointer, many of these Uighur were educated and radicalized by the USA to fight the government, just like what the USA are doing at other countries. After 2016, there hasn't been any Uighur extremist activities in Xinjiang. Myanmar is one of the best example of foreign power influence the people to fight its own government! The coup was really to stop the BRI project, it was never about the benefit of the Myanmar people. Even the HK riot! Those HK people were educated and radicalized by the PTA that was part of the NED, while the NED is funded by USAID that is part of the CIA program to train people to fight their own government in the named of so called freedom, right, and democracy.
@Shimmy Shai If there is any Han dominance in China in Xinjiang, it pales in comparison to what the white Americans did to the native Americans. See how few native Americans there are today. And see how they live in poverty in “reservations”, while their lands continue to be taken away to build oil and gas pipelines, or for resource extraction, eg oil, shale, coal etc. Same thing happens in Australia and Canada as well. With the Uighur, at least they still occupy most of their ancestral lands and their population today is much greater than what it was when PRC was formed.
The Cold War was Communists vs Capitalists. The new Cold War is Keynesians vs Neo Classics. If China liberalizes capital markets, privatizes SOEs, reduces public investments and "deregulates" the economy, everyone would be friendly with them. China has seen what happened to Japan (in 1989) and to South East Asia (in 1997) when they were forced to abandon their very successful development model and is doing its best to avoid the same thing happening to them.
To me, joint ventures seems to be the right way mooving forward. No foreign country/Business should be allowed to have total ownership. WE invest together, and we follow the rules set by soverign countries inside a country and rules set by a «democratic» WTO between countries. No colonialism, no western rules are the right rules.
@@ellengran6814 Go for it and you will end up with a nuclear war believe me you will. The United States accept second to nobody you will end up with Armageddon.
@@ne0ge049 China and Russia are working together on their military, Russia has the world's best subs and ground to air missile defence systems and natural resources and China has the brain power and manufacturing ability to put _both_ countries military well ahead of the Americans. That's part of the reason why the NED is so active, they are already afraid of China's military, think how it will go if China gets the Russian S-500 defense system along the coast of the South China Sea and that doesn't even take into account that they may have advanced hypersonic missiles capable of hitting anywhere on Earth.
@@L98fiero China and Russia would get the crap beat out of them they're not going to beat the US and all its allies that's not going to happen no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.
@@ne0ge049 What allies, the UK? As for the rest, most of them don't trust America and would be unwilling allies at best. That's what happens when you continually stab others in the back.
@@L98fiero Japan said they would interfere NATO said that they are going to get into it as well and Australia came out today and stated that it would be inconceivable for them not to fight with the United States against China for the sake of Taiwan what else do you want to hear? No China will not beat the United States, No the United States allies will not abandon the United States and not fight alongside them, no China will not win even with the help of Russia. Get all of these lies out of your head none of this will happen no matter how much you want to believe otherwise, no matter what you say, no matter how you try to portray it or try to convince me it's all a lie and you are completely wrong. China will lose and get destroyed completely destroyed and be forced to shoot their nukes and we will shoot ours as well and the world will end. So goodbye I have no need for no lie trying to portray strength out of a paper tiger because that's all China is, is a paper tiger, I'm done.
I'm sorry, sir, but how do you say you are absolutely against a cold war with China when you just spouted every single Western propaganda that the cold war is being built upon? Hong Kong, Xinjiang, calling China an authoritarian regime when it is one of the very few government in the world that actually cares and delivers common good for its people? I am confused by your declaration. How exactly are you against cold war with China?
@Robert Leruyet Oh interesting you should want to know, I voted for Mar Roxas, who lost in a landslide to Rodrigo Duterte. Prior to that, I voted for a capable guy named Gilberto Teodoro, who lost in a landslide to Benigno Aquino. Prior to that I voted for another losing candidate, but that one was pretty predictable, because Gloria Arroyo was in the unique position of being a sitting president (having overthrown Joseph Estrada) not barred by the one-term limit, and some say she rigged the election in her favor. Before that, I voted for long-time mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, but he lost to the popular actor Joseph Estrada despite his reputation as a womanizing, heavy-drinking sloth. So yeah, I've voted in quite a few national elections, ain't much to write home about, mate. I at least pretend my vote will matter election after election, but some 10 million eligible Filipinos don't even register or turn up. So maybe, speaking as someone who lives in a democratic country, I am in a position to say, if 95.5% of the Chinese are happy with their guy in office (Harvard survey says they are), even if they didn't get to elect him in a popular election, they don't need to break what's working for them to satisfy the West's idea of a "correct" political system. Their guy is delivering good governance to them, whereas here, we keep listening to campaign promises every 6 years, choose one of a handful, declare the most popular guy the president, and wait impatiently for the next 6 years to pass because we realized the election yielded another incompetent president. By the way, the 95.5% of Chinese who say they're happy, is 10x the population of the Philippines. That tells me I have am in no position to tell them we're better here in the Philippines because hey, we have national elections.
for instance a case such as that of Julian Assange makes me suspect that the West is falling into some form of corporate autocracy, the way that constitutional law, fair trial and even relation with other States (as Julian is an australian citizen) is alarming. I have known for a while of the power of big corporations to rewrite laws and to be "to big to fail" but those perks are progressing fast
Yes any country where the government is controlled by big corporates is doomed to fail like in US now where WH is largely dictated by business oligarchs.
the right honourable Mr Yanis Varoufakis has some very outdated preconception of what the Chinese can or can't do base on outdated cliché.. i do hope he has managed to go and checkout Brian Berletic channel ''the new atlas'' what Mr Yanis said the last time i watch him on this channel is shockingly ignorant for an ex minister of a country..
I don't get it. He so clearly understands and describes the power mechanism of the empire, but belives every word of imperialist propaganda-war on Hong Kong and Uighurs. I've been in Hong Kong plenty of times during the chaos and the so-called freedom-loving pro-democracy fighters had much more in common with fascists brown shirts creating fear, attacking ordinary people (not just the police) and smashing shops they decided were their enemies. Yanis, I agree that not every person and organisation that receives money from the NED must have dishonest motives (even though propably 99% do), but if the NED funds so extensively a movement I would check the facts again and better look for an alternative, not western narrative!
China had a deal with the british about Hong Kong, that after a certain time that Hong Kong would return back to China. and thats it. no beating around the bush. but USA wanted to cause problems to china by telling Hong Kong to rise against China. when there is a deal you have to be 100% with me or else there is no deal. and as for Uighurs, all the USA media telling that Uighurs are being mistreated, that is all USA media give china a bad attention. USA has powerful propaganda, do not underestimate it. USA has military bases all over the world way above 700+. and that flight that disappeared, USA shot it down because there was a USA technology and was bound to China and USA didn't want china to get it so they had to shot it down, how? well USA has a secret (not anymore) military base in that ocean part. does not show on the map. but it's there.
This comment (copied from someone's comments - someone more erudite/knowledgeable than me) is an epiphany: " The existence of political parties and elections in any country are the preferred path for intrusion of "charitable" organisations such as the CIA." " The main reason the US always pushes for elections in developing countries is that with a suitcase full of dollars, you can create, buy influence and/or control politics in a foreign country."
That's true, not everyone shares the same values, interpretation and definition of "human rights". China needs to implement policies to keep more than $1 billion people from anarchy and feudalism. They have different issues and unique challenges to tackle, we need to see both sides of the story.
Xinjiang is a u.s. made lie. It’s part of u.s. objectives against China. In a video u.s. said that one of the three objectives in going to Afghanistan was to instigate Uyghur unrest in Xinjiang. The so called genocide without a single dead body is beyond lying.
I was following this talk with great interest right until (almost) the end when he mentioned Hong Kong, Uyghurs and the like when I suddenly sat up and rub my eyes - wait a minute, did I hear him earlier saying the Americans are stupid and a bunch of hypocrites? Has he actually been to Hong Kong; never mind Xinjiang - for him to criticize the Chinese govt in the way these two provinces were handled to become what they are today?
you have my respect for relatively "fairly" judging the whole situation without too much bias as a westerner. But when you mentioned Hongkong, Uyghurs, I am not sure which is the case: case 1: clearing up the whole HK, Uyghur propaganda is simply political suicide in the west, or you are concerned about your own safety from CIA. case 2: as a former high ranked official in EU, you REALLY don't know what's actually happening in HK and Xinjiang, which is hard for me to believe. I don't know where to start, but for high intellectuals as yourself, how can you believe in such silly propaganda??????? In a whole year of HK rioters vandalizing public facilities, beating up people who they don't agree with or look like mainland Chinese, stabbing police with knifes, setting old man on fire because they don't agree with him and everything else, a whole freaking year, there is ZERO confirmed death caused by HK police, ZERO. all the tragedies I mentioned are very easy to search on YT for anyone with basic Chinese. For the uyghurs, MSM kept on saying Millions of uyghurs are forced to pick cottons on the fields and held in prison....I can't believe there are people actually believing in that, I don't even need you to search for YT channels of some uyghurs, where they show us how the cotton-picking machine works(yes, this is 21th century and machine replaced people already in many industries). Just answer me one thing, if millions of people are working on cotton fields under the sunlight, WHY THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE PHOTO from U.S sattelites??? If you really curious about what's happening there, just go to Xinjiang or at least check their Vloggers on YT....It's mind boggling that people intelligent as you to fall in such simple BS. I really don't get it. These stories are so easy to prove fake. But anyway... thank you for giving the right message, that is no one wants conflict except the weapon companies!
Yanis Knows，He sees through all those BS. He is just playing along to make sure more people get the more important message. Instead of directly confronting the propoganda he is trying to push more people to the right side in a tactful way.
@@elppadiordnakerhs2867 You are right. When I first heard he mentioned Uyghurs briefly with Zizek in the same manner, I was so disappointed and upset the same way he/she felt. But after reading his Adults in the Room and hearing more of his talks here and there recently, I realized that it's impossible for someone like him so well informed, so analytical and actively engaged in left wing movements since a young age to NOT KNOW what's going with the propaganda war against China... The chances of Varoufakis falling for those kindergarten CIA BS is as good as a dolphin drowning in the ocean...
Because we know how propaganda works and we see the patterns, I'm from Eastern Europe and I can see what's happening in HK is what happened in my country and I don't want that for Hong Kong's working class - neo-liberalism is not the answer especially since we see that it's policies are biting the west back as it should. The "global south" is rising and thank god. If you want to stay on this sinking ship, go right ahead.
"don't be mad at the mirror if you are ugly." This is the most accurate expression to describe what the US is like right now. The US should introspect much about the reasons why its human rights record is bad, before questioning others.
I can't figure out Yanis when he talks about non-existent authoritarianism in China and equally non-existent democracy in the west, complete rubbish. Frankly, China is far more democratic than Europe or the US.
I am not sure if Mr Yanis has any knowledge of the Chinese culture. They value order and peace in their society above all else. Who ever can bring that to China, they will support. If Mr Yanis you need to understand this point.
Agreed on everything except the failure to understand that HK student protesters and Uighur issue, is already part of the Cold War on China. HK protests were financed and supported by foreign powers in plain vision to all and Uighur issue is not even an issue, but a constracted issue financed by warmongering politicians and ASPI. I hope that Yanis just haven't research about these enough yet and may have been misled to conclude the wrong conclusions.
If you only listened to the reports about Xinjiang and HK, you’d support them. That’s if you take these reports as the truth. I suggest that you go to these places, live there, talk to them, to find the truth for yourself.
Astonishing how on the one hand Yanis claims to be against the New Cold War, yet in the same breath will parrot the very propaganda that is fueling said New Cold War. Zero self-awareness and zero critical analysis. I'm sure you're a busy man, Yanis, but still as a politician it's your job to know the current geopolitical situation. Do better.
How many times when you go voting, you know exactly for whom you vote and for what cause? And how many times you have been disappointed by those you have voted for? And this is the system we claim to be the best for all? When your politicians preach you about equality and human right, do you really think you are equal as they are and enjoy exactly the same rights?
This guy is misinformed about China. There is no issues with how the government dealt with HK, Xinjiang and Taiwan. He must be watching too much CNN and Fox. Only sees one side of the story. I’m Chinese Canadian. Stop being one sided in general about China n not just “stop Cold War”
Varoufakis is correct that a cold war with China would be devastating, but it is because he is a pragmatist, which is why he's disappointing so many people in this comment section that he's not 100% pro-China. Many people in the West want an open, liberalized China that we freely exchange goods, culture and people with, they're not closet communists.
It has nothing to do with being pro or anti-China. People commenting here are upset about the fake and misleading statements about HK and Xinjiang! Someone like Yanis is educated and intelligent enough to do his research and analysis? Making statements like that is just inciting cold war sentiments, is it not? It is contrary to everything Yanis has previously said, according to his experiences as an ex-Greek Minister, thus the disappointment? I am sure it is not his intention but ...!
I think all the folks on this board criticising Tania about Hong Kong etc should wash out their ears - he said clearly he supports the students in HK etc,,. Open your ears folks. 👍
No1 first in world choas. No1 first in jealous and greedy. No1 first in stubborn of democracy never change the world. World United are in cooperation, multifunction, multiregional, multiculturalism without these world in choas even hated different colours of your skin. That why still continues for 300 years.
@@GARDNERXYZ National Endowment for Democracy, funded partly by US government to support opposition parties and organizations all over the world (literally). Check out channels eg New Atlas (Brian Berlatic) or Daniel Dumbrill, Grayzone (Max Blumenthal) to learn more about what this “benevolent” organization is doing in other countries.
OMG, I stumbled across this guy by accident and found immense intelligence between those ears. Apart from Lee Kwan Yew, he is probably the next best person to listen to.
Capitalism has turned into a Financial Oligarchy where Oligarchy is too restrictive a word. Even Hegemony is too restrictive a word since the dominance is done by a group of countries. It is a system that has turned into a system where it brings out the worst in how humans behave. When humans misbehave, humanity becomes chaotic. The root of competition is also a cause for chaos, since it is based on the emotion of vengeance. The drive of vengeance does not improve the human condition, however, cooperation does.
Have you witnessed the genocide against the Uyghur in Xinjiang and have you seen the brutally of the Police in HK against the rioters.? If you have not please don't parrot the anti China MSM of the US... please visit Xinjiang and witnessed the truth and as for HK what the rioters did to those who voiced their displeasure were burnt or beaten to death.. do you agree that what the HK Police did to the rioters are pale in comparison to the brutal force the US dis to their own rioters ? I have much respect for you on the views you present but at times please don't be carried away by emotion .. a clear mind and heart will see through things clearer .. how many more people and children will be killed had China not take drastic action against the extremist that terrorised the local population with bombings and random killings ? Will you do the same if it were to happen in your own country ? What China has done to Greece is a clear indication on how China tretes its own citizens... Greece was pariahed by some EU members and imposed great obstacles for Greece to pay back its debts leaving no avenue for Greece to get back on its feet again until China willingly lend a helping hand without any conditions to Greece and because of this some EU members were not too happy and bear grudge against China for helping Greece .. although China did have the access to Europe through the Port of Pireaus it is a win win deal and the relationship between both countries will continue to grow ... remember you are a former minister and you should know better the precarious situation Greece experienced during the debts crisis ..
He could add the Chinese electric car indusry as one that Western countries also want to crush. BYD (Build Your Dreams) is a successful car and battery company. I agree with Yanis. Leave China alone. Live and let live.
I appreciate many if y our well- elaborated thoughts. I do, however, urge you to study the Chinese political system in more depth, and also investigate the truth about the Uighurs and about the Hong Kong riots. I think you are buying into American propaganda to try to weaken China. I’d call their political system very closely managed rather than just authoritarian. It is doing quite a few things that the US should do rather than let it’s industrial capitalism have free reign and destroy the future f or much of the middle class. Anyways, I appreciate the open dialogue on all of this.
I have to say, my respect for all greeks has rosen to the rooftops, yes just like the example he used in this very video, I was constantly agreeing with everything, until we reached China's governments topic, I can understand why you feel that way, but the reason behind it was definitely the US risen, if not for the constant provoking by the US, this would never have happened. I didn't expect you to agrree with the violence, therefore I have my suspect and a hint of understanding since any other path chosen would've brought you in a bad position. Nonetheless, I could not agree with you further with everything else you stated.
Abortion should be obligatory!!! Why? Because none/parents has the right to decide about others/children life. Animals reproduce because don´t think, but people do. Avoid throw, irresponsably, others to life. To suffer, aging and death. Life and presions are the same. None choose any by his own will but by the will/needs of others. And none of both can be less rejectable/ugly by changing its decoration or the adminstration system. The true liberation is from life not in life.
I'm always amazed when people you think are savvy completely blow their credibility . You then have to write them off as somebody's stooge/drinking buddy club
I love how the finance minister of a country in an absolute economic collapse is lecturing us that countries with incredibly strong economies and high standards of living are stupid and smack of idiocy. So along with financial understanding, we can strike irony off the list of things Yanis understands.
I'm glad Yanis has seemed to come around. I just recently heard him repeat CIA talking points about supposed crimes against the Uyghurs and Hong Kong "protesters."
Karma will fall, on those who did dirty job. Just Covid 19, those who did it, will feel the pain. But those Polilticians got NO feeling at all. Hundred of thousand of their citizens die, they are innocence
That's how grateful the US is when China saved them during the 2008 crash. I disagree with your assessments of the HK police. The HK students beaten up by the Police? Did you see how these rioters tried to grab the policeman's gun? How these rioters beat up innocent HK citizens when they tried to clear the roadblocks and got hit on the head with a steel plate? the taxi driver who got beaten up so badly that he needed to be hospitalised? All of these were not reported in the western media and hence you did not see them.
The first cold war was about stopping the spread of communism by the Soviet Union. The consequence of that included many countries receiving independence particularly from the UK which was pressured by the US to do so, as the Soviet Union was using having colonies against it, as not a sincere champion for freedom, but hypocritical. Decolonization sped up the decline of British power. The cold war with the Soviet Union also influenced the US civil rights movement as some argued that it pushed the US to end segregation as the Soviet Union used this against the US. Is there a new cold war and what will be the consequence? Even nuclear proliferation in the 60s was due to the cold war.
When Yanis Varoufakis was the finance minister of Greece, I thought he was just a populist idiot, because that’s was what he was portrayed to be by the mainstream media, including Bloomberg News. Many years later, after he stepped down, I chanced upon a RUclips video of him speaking and after listening to him in person, I realized how wrong I have been all along. Varoukakis is just such an incredible man: intelligent, analytical, objective, rational.
That's why his comments about Xinjiang and HK blew it and raises eyebrows? Disappointing!!! He is right about "No Cold War" but his comments are contradictory in that western politicians and MSM are basing their cold war push on the fake news of Xinjiang and HK to incite war and he repeats their nonsense propaganda? Difficult to understand? Maybe he thinks and says these things as a compromise to convince western populations but isn't this a disservice as people need to face true facts. Indeed, our world and humanity need cooperation and peace, not confrontation and war. Truly, Make Love, Not War!!!
Much of this is very well said, but what I find puzzling is why you don't (seem to) find any Chinese intellectuals coming out themselves to offer this kind of analysis. In English. Instead you just find them repeatedly shouting slogans.
Everyone is mad at Trump :D But the fact is that he didn't do anything different than every other US ruler. The cold war was started with Labarack Obomba's so called "pivot to Asia" where the military was pivoted against Asia.
Me living in the end of 2021 wondering why they havent finish the war yet. Worst case scenario, i wont be born back in 1992 but hey i dont need to experience all those war shites.
US grand strategy or century is dominant with military might, nuclear arms and USD. US operate more than 800 military bases, 200 bio labs around the world. With such power, they can almost do what they want, regime change, alienated countries, dictate rules, expansionary ambitious and maintain hegemony. US is a great leader in formation of military alliances such as NATO, Quads, AUKUS, instead of partnership for peace and development. Question is, can the US lead cold war able to contain China? Are US & allies prepared to lead a hot war on China without hurting themselves? China is not USSR or any other MidEast or Latin counties that US had alienated. China is a major economic engine that trade with more than three of quarter of the world which includes US and all allies. Striking a hot war on China will ignite China's the bears, rocket man and partners that either push back US and allies or worst scenario lead to devastating doomsday consequences which may be irreversible.
If Varoufakis is such a great democrat, why when he was Finance Minister of Greece, did he ignore the people to mingle with World elites as if he could go at it alone, as if he alone could speak reason to evil? That's not how a democrat takes on such forces. Yanis loves the camera a bit too much to be true democrat.
@@yapkent Yanis' main point and message is about American hypocrisy, double-standards while waving the flag of rules-based order. At the end, he saw the need to establish his cred as an anti-authoritarian stalwart. Nothing wrong with that, but he chose the wrong examples of Xinjiang and Hong Kong, which if he did a bit more research, are clear western propaganda and destabilization operations, something he strongly objects to.
yf is a smart man and a prominentl voice for sane policies. would have made a great leader of greece, but the stage was too small for him. big mistake.
12 Australian submarines 50 billion dollar's to start with 90 billion 2 years later. Now open ended billions for unknown amount of submarines. Stupidity or theft???
You do not need to apologize for supporting China! Who has brains understand, the better wold is coming because of China and Russia. Europe’s economic survival depends on economic and trading partnership with China, no slightest doubt about it! Chinas internal politics is no one else’s business!
I simply click into this video because he looks like Voldemort in Harry Potter 😂. All these geopolitical BS, honest, everyone knows what’s going on and everyone is just talking abt what they want to say. No point waste ur life such issue, it’s purely political.
Lost all respect for him when he came across as a totally ignorant person on HK and Xinjiang. He's just another opportunistic politician pretending to be smart.
As for no cold war Please no cold war against any nations that are rapidly developing progressing n prospering the nation n its people Not just against China
Sharing below written by a Malaysian RUclipsr:
I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another.
When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire.
Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium.
After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government:
1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free.
2. Make opium legal in China.
Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French (with supports from the US), started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor.
In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance. These ,8-Robbers were: Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire (including India), France, USA, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris.
In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone.
Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles.
Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from.
In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height.
For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China.
Everything China does is negatively reported.
They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor.
They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US.
They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US.
When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices:
1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists.
2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes.
China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky.
During the pandemic,
When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman.
When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers.
When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated.
Western Media always have reasons to bash China.
Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good.
Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world.
They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars?
When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down.
The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad.
China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not by looting the world.
I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.
Excellent summary. well done.
Was that from Dr. Mahathir? I remembered he said something similar but briefly, and I doubt someone like him would have the time to watch RUclips videos.
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Many times the biggest power? I think you should return to school.
@@damarmar1001Why is US panicking then
I was nodding in agreement with what was said until that part about supporting “democracy “ in Hong Kong. I personally saw the atrocities perpetrated by the US-incited violence on the streets. The western world should have realised by now that the riots in Hong Kong had nothing to do with democracy but a U.S. ruse to destabilise China.
I suspect Varoufakis knows this too, but if he tries to explain the Chinese position, he will risk sounding too sympathetic of china and turning off his intended audience.
you are right... simply saying "democracy" is too vague too abstract...
US government: We really love peace, the peace when I can be to No.1 leader firmly inside the world.
Totally agree.
Brought to you by the Reaganite NED...
Agreed with everything except hk and the rest. As someone who knows about foreign/western imperialism, does he expect china to allow foreign countries to meddle and control it's domestic politics, even supporting separatists factions and trying to divide and break apart china? Yanis knows the answer to this question, so I don't know why he said he supports the students, who are most likely to be the more violent and radical of the protesters. He should have just said he supports peaceful protests, but the students were anything but peaceful. Didn't he see when they took over a few universities and turned them into a fortress to make thousands of Molotov fire bombs? Does he support that? Of course not. That's the majority of the students, and "bringing mainland down with Hong Kong" was their main tactic and strategy. Their spokesperson joey siu went on Germany's DW and would not even denounce a rioter who tried to kill a cop with a knife completely unprovoked.
He HAD to say that, for d western audience …
He basically drank the Kool aid on that one.
He's a typical western bourgeois leftist.
There's always the obligatory bow to the "democracy" activists. Hence, the distrust of these two-faced people.
Even Anti-imperialism leftists like Aaron Mate and Jimmy Dore also repeat the repeat the same lies about HK, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet. Max Blumenthal actually investigated the US propaganda against China, so he corrected Jimmy Dore.
So Hong Kong was ranked 1st in freedom index when all these less free countries thought Hong Kong needed their help, lol
You dont understand! Technically Beijing not wanting HK to be a safe haven from the law for criminals anymore does make it "less free"
(I'm being sarcastic)
@Yanis, I agreed alot with you, but for some support what you give to some, is very strange.
HK riots started with Taiwan, as you know about the murder of a young prengnant lady.
Taiwan asked HK to handover the murderer, HK has to introduce a law. When the riot began, Taiwan cancelled the handover off the murderer.
If you did some backgroundchecking of the HK riot parties and also the leaders of it, you will find that they are sponsert by the NED. Incase you do not know, National Endowment for Democracy (probebly also active in Greece).
Isnt it also very strange that you visit the US, see congress, and asked them for all kinds of help openly.
And showing the flag of foreign countries in China, because you want to be one of the foreign country.
Beating up people who are not agree with you. Have you seen the pictures off beatenup elderly, policemen stabbed with knives?
Please also do a backgroundcheck of the president of Taiwan and her ministers, you will also see that they are sponsert by the NED.
Taiwan is already an onofficial state of the US, used as a proxy.
Uighers, this is already debunked.
It's report was written by someone called Adrian Zenz, and ASPI from australia. As you know ASPI is sponsert by defence industrie.
There are no proves and facts.
All minorities in China has alot of privilige, like, educations, healthcare, jobs. Even the restaurants at the university campas is halal.
Just lookup for some youtube (easiest way) from western expats, tourist, or moslims, who made some vlogs.
Or better, just visit China, also Xinjiang. It is open for everyone. China also invited all countries to visit, all excepted, except western countries.
I watched your interview about China, where you talked about the harbour Piraeus and also the Cambridge Forum where you told the lady about China.
"Just visit china, xinjiang"
Have you?
@@Qjemuse No, but I have 2 friends who live there. And in my company, the manager is also from Xinjiang, who traveled regulary to visit his family. We regulary seeing photo's and films from both family's, that's what happens alot when you have kids :-)
So I do not believe what msm is accusing China for.
And what about you?
@@Qjemuse There's no excuses. This eurocentrism and european idealism is just racism. The Honk Kong riots were backed and funded by western imperialism. They were burning people alive, period. He is also completely wrong about Xinjiang. Tragically wrong. China has the most humane way of treating with fanatics, unlike the US, UK etc that pretty much create these fanatics and then fund and arm them (and then bomb everyone around except them). I vote for mera25 but when it comes to criticizing western imperialism they do a very very bad job.
Not sure why this Yanis' option should be heard, someone from a bankrupt country of the broken EU, mind your own business, wouldya?
I am from Hong Kong and you are wrong about Hong Kong, when normal citizens get beat up who have a different opinion, living in fear of those so called democracy protesters !?!!!? You are wrong !
i agreed, my sister lives in HK and she is afraid to go out or using any social media
@@kayhuber7855 your sister is a separatist criminal? Why she scared to use social media?
@@ex0duzz because regular citizens were targeted by the so call pro democracy fighters, burned and beat up, this is why regular citizens were afraid.
@@yenphung8809 tell you sister to off location and placed a sticker
on the camera lens, hahaha
@@issactian3143 it's no joke !!! They put your personal information out online for others to attacks you, normal citizens lost their freedom and that's the truth.
hearing his other talks about US imperialism and its hidden agendas, i'm baffled at his statement on HK and Xinjiang... perhaps more context is needed... but you can't say you understand the toxicity of US/Western imperialism and turn around to say you support the HK protesters and the Uyghurs... that statement is pure contradiction - especially coming from a person like Yanis...
It's because Yanis doesn't have a full understanding on what they really are... coloured by superficial media reports and having 0 context there....
@Shimmy Shai agree with you
well, if it's true ofcourse you should be against genocide and oppression of students. but it's difficult to prove a negative and since most anti china people will use that to derail the discussion and to label him as a genocide supporter, it is better to get that out of the way first to focus on what really matters.
@Shimmy Shai HK already had democracy before the protests.
Do you agree with the HK man murdering a woman in Taiwan and fleeing to HK to avoid trial and prison? You agree with the protests, which were about preventing HK’s legal system from extraditing criminals like that to face trial? You agree with those who created the protests (the billionaire’s very rightwing Apple Daily newspaper and US-sponsored professional activists)?
@N C People who use CCP instantly calls themselves out as western propagandist liars.
I agree in every point you made except the part about supporting HK riots and Uyghur jihadists. They were extremely violent with the purpose of causing harm to society.
what harm exactly? is pluralism harmful?
@@neovxr no, violence and terrorism is. Which is what he Said. Are you slow or you can't read?
@@neovxr 2014 bombings perpetrated by the ETIM separatists in Urumci killing and injuring people in south Station. China has every right to combat terrorists on its territory. Look how the US behaved after the 9/11 attack.
@@francoisehembert3243 instead of smart bombs and drones that Merica uses as tools China wanted to reform and win the hearts and minds of the Xinjian people with training and jobs.... something that is far more effective and sustainable to stamp out violence....
@@soothsayer2406 they locked up over a million people. China is criticized because they addressed terrorism by a small part of the population by implementing collective punishment over the entire region.
I can't agree with your opinion about what really happened in HK 2019. I'm an original citizen in HK. The opposition , the thugs, the mobs and some of the student leaders are funded by the NED. Violent crimes happened last for more than seven months. During that period he so-called peaceful students always attached police and innocent people who tried to clean up the blockade in the roads or disagreed with them. They robbed banks' etc machines, they destroyed or burned the shops don't stand with them, they burned mtr stations, they stopped the public transportation from providing service to people who want to go to work. They did all kinds of terrorist attacks in name of democracy but without the consent of majority. Their purpose is just to overthrow the HKSAR govt, then divided HK from the mainland China.
totally agree
Must I say when he went off to a cliff: 3 words: Hong Kong, Uyghurs, and "saving democracy" plz word freedom of democracy is long over, over... That's the ideology many believe (ed) me from a former Yugoslavia..
Yeah he is too eurocentric. They are the best we got in Greece but when it comes to western imperialism they really toe the line. Which I think pretty much makes them useless tbh, shooting blanks. Everytime he talks about China he makes a fool for himself. Except for when he compares the offers he was given for the port of Piraeus by China VS by EU countries. China's was a win win deal, EU was a looting deal. He can't lie about that, his remaining sanity doesn't let him.
Bejing paid mouthpiece...
@@wilhelm2398 Me? thank you! I wish I were payed, it would have been an honour.
@@wilhelm2398 Nice, another meaningless non-argument coming from western hypocrites with zero moral and intellectual honesty. Keep it up, I'm sure Xi is preparing his resignation papers as we speak.
Yanis you're contradicting your argument about no cold war against china and imperialism and talking about support hk protest and Xinjiang genocide narrative
That s a cold war right there
go to China and look 4 yourself bring your own conclusion
@carlos sori- chief, he deliberately ignores the facts, the core is what his underlying goals!
@Yanis, I agreed with everything you said at the beginning, BUT I do not agreed with you when you start talking about Xinjiang, HK, etc., so please visit Xinjiang to see how the Uighur lives and please check who was behind the riots in HK...
@Shimmy Shai If anyone have basic common sense and logic, would know there is no genocide in Xinjiang, cause the Uighur ethnic group is quite large compared to before.
How can a population grow if there is genocide?
The Han Chinese is doing a great job educating and helping the other ethnic groups to grow and becoming fully integrated with other ethnic groups under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.
Another reason, why the news are fake...When the Uighur woman was interviewed, she stumbled upon answering the question how many Uighur are in the concentration camp and then she said, 3M+! This clearly explain, it was a lie. She had no clue how much space it takes to house 3M+ people.
Another pointer, many of these Uighur were educated and radicalized by the USA to fight the government, just like what the USA are doing at other countries. After 2016, there hasn't been any Uighur extremist activities in Xinjiang.
Myanmar is one of the best example of foreign power influence the people to fight its own government! The coup was really to stop the BRI project, it was never about the benefit of the Myanmar people.
Even the HK riot! Those HK people were educated and radicalized by the PTA that was part of the NED, while the NED is funded by USAID that is part of the CIA program to train people to fight their own government in the named of so called freedom, right, and democracy.
@Shimmy Shai If there is any Han dominance in China in Xinjiang, it pales in comparison to what the white Americans did to the native Americans. See how few native Americans there are today. And see how they live in poverty in “reservations”, while their lands continue to be taken away to build oil and gas pipelines, or for resource extraction, eg oil, shale, coal etc. Same thing happens in Australia and Canada as well. With the Uighur, at least they still occupy most of their ancestral lands and their population today is much greater than what it was when PRC was formed.
You need to get educated regarding Xinjiang and Hong Kong so as to arrive at an informed opinion.
So there are no oppressed minorities in China? Do the non Han ethnic groups face any marginalization? Just questions. Not trying to provoke animosity.
Never bite the hand that feeds you! Even the wild beast knows that.
But the US doesn't know!
@@qinfugu2816 and australia too....😂🤣😅👎
Nice!
Who's doing the feeding? I have to ask because I assume you think China is the one "feeding" America.
The Cold War was Communists vs Capitalists. The new Cold War is Keynesians vs Neo Classics.
If China liberalizes capital markets, privatizes SOEs, reduces public investments and "deregulates" the economy, everyone would be friendly with them.
China has seen what happened to Japan (in 1989) and to South East Asia (in 1997) when they were forced to abandon their very successful development model and is doing its best to avoid the same thing happening to them.
To me, joint ventures seems to be the right way mooving forward. No foreign country/Business should be allowed to have total ownership. WE invest together, and we follow the rules set by soverign countries inside a country and rules set by a «democratic» WTO between countries. No colonialism, no western rules are the right rules.
@@ellengran6814 Unfortunately the US wants to monopolise all digital technologies globally, with themselves controlling all data.
@@ellengran6814 Go for it and you will end up with a nuclear war believe me you will. The United States accept second to nobody you will end up with Armageddon.
China will not dance to Wall-Street tune or play by Western Banks rules!!!
China just has to be ready for nuclear Armageddon because war is coming. ☢️
@@ne0ge049 China and Russia are working together on their military, Russia has the world's best subs and ground to air missile defence systems and natural resources and China has the brain power and manufacturing ability to put _both_ countries military well ahead of the Americans. That's part of the reason why the NED is so active, they are already afraid of China's military, think how it will go if China gets the Russian S-500 defense system along the coast of the South China Sea and that doesn't even take into account that they may have advanced hypersonic missiles capable of hitting anywhere on Earth.
@@L98fiero China and Russia would get the crap beat out of them they're not going to beat the US and all its allies that's not going to happen no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.
@@ne0ge049 What allies, the UK? As for the rest, most of them don't trust America and would be unwilling allies at best. That's what happens when you continually stab others in the back.
@@L98fiero Japan said they would interfere NATO said that they are going to get into it as well and Australia came out today and stated that it would be inconceivable for them not to fight with the United States against China for the sake of Taiwan what else do you want to hear? No China will not beat the United States, No the United States allies will not abandon the United States and not fight alongside them, no China will not win even with the help of Russia. Get all of these lies out of your head none of this will happen no matter how much you want to believe otherwise, no matter what you say, no matter how you try to portray it or try to convince me it's all a lie and you are completely wrong. China will lose and get destroyed completely destroyed and be forced to shoot their nukes and we will shoot ours as well and the world will end. So goodbye I have no need for no lie trying to portray strength out of a paper tiger because that's all China is, is a paper tiger, I'm done.
I'm sorry, sir, but how do you say you are absolutely against a cold war with China when you just spouted every single Western propaganda that the cold war is being built upon? Hong Kong, Xinjiang, calling China an authoritarian regime when it is one of the very few government in the world that actually cares and delivers common good for its people? I am confused by your declaration. How exactly are you against cold war with China?
@Robert Leruyet Oh interesting you should want to know, I voted for Mar Roxas, who lost in a landslide to Rodrigo Duterte. Prior to that, I voted for a capable guy named Gilberto Teodoro, who lost in a landslide to Benigno Aquino. Prior to that I voted for another losing candidate, but that one was pretty predictable, because Gloria Arroyo was in the unique position of being a sitting president (having overthrown Joseph Estrada) not barred by the one-term limit, and some say she rigged the election in her favor. Before that, I voted for long-time mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, but he lost to the popular actor Joseph Estrada despite his reputation as a womanizing, heavy-drinking sloth. So yeah, I've voted in quite a few national elections, ain't much to write home about, mate. I at least pretend my vote will matter election after election, but some 10 million eligible Filipinos don't even register or turn up. So maybe, speaking as someone who lives in a democratic country, I am in a position to say, if 95.5% of the Chinese are happy with their guy in office (Harvard survey says they are), even if they didn't get to elect him in a popular election, they don't need to break what's working for them to satisfy the West's idea of a "correct" political system. Their guy is delivering good governance to them, whereas here, we keep listening to campaign promises every 6 years, choose one of a handful, declare the most popular guy the president, and wait impatiently for the next 6 years to pass because we realized the election yielded another incompetent president. By the way, the 95.5% of Chinese who say they're happy, is 10x the population of the Philippines. That tells me I have am in no position to tell them we're better here in the Philippines because hey, we have national elections.
@Robert Leruyet Hitler came into power by winning a free and open election.
China has elections
for instance a case such as that of Julian Assange makes me suspect that the West is falling into some form of corporate autocracy, the way that constitutional law, fair trial and even relation with other States (as Julian is an australian citizen) is alarming. I have known for a while of the power of big corporations to rewrite laws and to be "to big to fail" but those perks are progressing fast
Yes any country where the government is controlled by big corporates is doomed to fail like in US now where WH is largely dictated by business oligarchs.
the right honourable Mr Yanis Varoufakis has some very outdated preconception of what the Chinese can or can't do base on outdated cliché.. i do hope he has managed to go and checkout Brian Berletic channel ''the new atlas'' what Mr Yanis said the last time i watch him on this channel is shockingly ignorant for an ex minister of a country..
America's behavior during covid and Trump was the last straw, it has turned me into a full on Tankie Marxist.
The anti-fascist force will get stronger. The working class should wakeup from hatred misguided by Trump.
Relax
I'm sorry for your disability.
Don't speak up for Marxism here in the states it can cost you your very life.
@@ne0ge049 average america is brainwashed beyond all hope. Idiocracy move is a documentary
This shows the sadistic characters of the American provocateurs that exceeds insanity.
I don't get it. He so clearly understands and describes the power mechanism of the empire, but belives every word of imperialist propaganda-war on Hong Kong and Uighurs. I've been in Hong Kong plenty of times during the chaos and the so-called freedom-loving pro-democracy fighters had much more in common with fascists brown shirts creating fear, attacking ordinary people (not just the police) and smashing shops they decided were their enemies. Yanis, I agree that not every person and organisation that receives money from the NED must have dishonest motives (even though propably 99% do), but if the NED funds so extensively a movement I would check the facts again and better look for an alternative, not western narrative!
China had a deal with the british about Hong Kong, that after a certain time that Hong Kong would return back to China. and thats it. no beating around the bush.
but USA wanted to cause problems to china by telling Hong Kong to rise against China.
when there is a deal you have to be 100% with me or else there is no deal.
and as for Uighurs, all the USA media telling that Uighurs are being mistreated, that is all USA media give china a bad attention. USA has powerful propaganda, do not underestimate it.
USA has military bases all over the world way above 700+.
and that flight that disappeared, USA shot it down because there was a USA technology and was bound to China and USA didn't want china to get it so they had to shot it down, how? well USA has a secret (not anymore) military base in that ocean part. does not show on the map. but it's there.
Greece needs china to balance turkey and germany
This comment (copied from someone's comments - someone more erudite/knowledgeable than me) is an epiphany:
" The existence of political parties and elections in any country are the preferred path for intrusion of "charitable" organisations such as the CIA."
" The main reason the US always pushes for elections in developing countries is that with a suitcase full of dollars, you can create, buy influence and/or control politics in a foreign country."
I have a great respect for Yanis but I would encourage him to get himself more educated on HK & Xinjiang and not to insult his own intelligence.
That's true, not everyone shares the same values, interpretation and definition of "human rights". China needs to implement policies to keep more than $1 billion people from anarchy and feudalism. They have different issues and unique challenges to tackle, we need to see both sides of the story.
Agree, Yanis should stick to economics, when it comes to HK & Xinjiang, he is completely ignorant.
I thought he did well until he touched on HK and Xinjiang.
Xinjiang is a u.s. made lie. It’s part of u.s. objectives against China. In a video u.s. said that one of the three objectives in going to Afghanistan was to instigate Uyghur unrest in Xinjiang. The so called genocide without a single dead body is beyond lying.
Absolutely!
Please follow The New Atlas with Brian Berletic regarding Shinjiang and H.K.Peace
I was following this talk with great interest right until (almost) the end when he mentioned Hong Kong, Uyghurs and the like when I suddenly sat up and rub my eyes - wait a minute, did I hear him earlier saying the Americans are stupid and a bunch of hypocrites? Has he actually been to Hong Kong; never mind Xinjiang - for him to criticize the Chinese govt in the way these two provinces were handled to become what they are today?
The moment he talk about his support for those student rioters in HK, he loses my respect for him.
you have my respect for relatively "fairly" judging the whole situation without too much bias as a westerner.
But when you mentioned Hongkong, Uyghurs, I am not sure which is the case:
case 1: clearing up the whole HK, Uyghur propaganda is simply political suicide in the west, or you are concerned about your own safety from CIA.
case 2: as a former high ranked official in EU, you REALLY don't know what's actually happening in HK and Xinjiang, which is hard for me to believe.
I don't know where to start, but for high intellectuals as yourself, how can you believe in such silly propaganda???????
In a whole year of HK rioters vandalizing public facilities, beating up people who they don't agree with or look like mainland Chinese, stabbing police with knifes, setting old man on fire because they don't agree with him and everything else, a whole freaking year, there is ZERO confirmed death caused by HK police, ZERO. all the tragedies I mentioned are very easy to search on YT for anyone with basic Chinese.
For the uyghurs, MSM kept on saying Millions of uyghurs are forced to pick cottons on the fields and held in prison....I can't believe there are people actually believing in that, I don't even need you to search for YT channels of some uyghurs, where they show us how the cotton-picking machine works(yes, this is 21th century and machine replaced people already in many industries). Just answer me one thing, if millions of people are working on cotton fields under the sunlight, WHY THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE PHOTO from U.S sattelites??? If you really curious about what's happening there, just go to Xinjiang or at least check their Vloggers on YT....It's mind boggling that people intelligent as you to fall in such simple BS. I really don't get it. These stories are so easy to prove fake.
But anyway... thank you for giving the right message, that is no one wants conflict except the weapon companies!
couldn’t agree more
Totally agree with you! Hard to believe Yanis who I would have thought, a man in the know, would be so ignorant about this.
Yanis Knows，He sees through all those BS. He is just playing along to make sure more people get the more important message.
Instead of directly confronting the propoganda he is trying to push more people to the right side in a tactful way.
@@elppadiordnakerhs2867 You are right. When I first heard he mentioned Uyghurs briefly with Zizek in the same manner, I was so disappointed and upset the same way he/she felt. But after reading his Adults in the Room and hearing more of his talks here and there recently, I realized that it's impossible for someone like him so well informed, so analytical and actively engaged in left wing movements since a young age to NOT KNOW what's going with the propaganda war against China... The chances of Varoufakis falling for those kindergarten CIA BS is as good as a dolphin drowning in the ocean...
Because we know how propaganda works and we see the patterns, I'm from Eastern Europe and I can see what's happening in HK is what happened in my country and I don't want that for Hong Kong's working class - neo-liberalism is not the answer especially since we see that it's policies are biting the west back as it should. The "global south" is rising and thank god. If you want to stay on this sinking ship, go right ahead.
"don't be mad at the mirror if you are ugly." This is the most accurate expression to describe what the US is like right now. The US should introspect much about the reasons why its human rights record is bad, before questioning others.
I can't figure out Yanis when he talks about non-existent authoritarianism in China and equally non-existent democracy in the west, complete rubbish. Frankly, China is far more democratic than Europe or the US.
@Robert Leruyet China has democratic elections. Where do you get your info from? Rich people’s media?
Are you insane China is a communist authoritarian totalitarian country with no liberal freedoms, that is a pure disgusting lie.
I am not sure if Mr Yanis has any knowledge of the Chinese culture. They value order and peace in their society above all else. Who ever can bring that to China, they will support. If Mr Yanis you need to understand this point.
Order,Peace, Fairness and Respect.
You are wrong about Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
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Agreed on everything except the failure to understand that HK student protesters and Uighur issue, is already part of the Cold War on China.
HK protests were financed and supported by foreign powers in plain vision to all and Uighur issue is not even an issue, but a constracted issue financed by warmongering politicians and ASPI.
I hope that Yanis just haven't research about these enough yet and may have been misled to conclude the wrong conclusions.
China is doing great things and has a cultural tradition of honor above all.
Come on professor! Hong Kong and Xinjiang both leads right to the NED! Even Myanmar and Thailand, same thing...NED!
@gocolago- you better refer him to Brian Berletic's video footage and articles, he posted on his website!
If you only listened to the reports about Xinjiang and HK, you’d support them. That’s if you take these reports as the truth. I suggest that you go to these places, live there, talk to them, to find the truth for yourself.
Astonishing how on the one hand Yanis claims to be against the New Cold War, yet in the same breath will parrot the very propaganda that is fueling said New Cold War. Zero self-awareness and zero critical analysis. I'm sure you're a busy man, Yanis, but still as a politician it's your job to know the current geopolitical situation. Do better.
Stupidity mixed with hypocrisy? ….. absolutely!!!
How many times when you go voting, you know exactly for whom you vote and for what cause? And how many times you have been disappointed by those you have voted for? And this is the system we claim to be the best for all? When your politicians preach you about equality and human right, do you really think you are equal as they are and enjoy exactly the same rights?
makes so much sense.
I have a lot of respect for Yanis. Everything he says are absolutely correct, except for Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
This has aged well
This guy is misinformed about China. There is no issues with how the government dealt with HK, Xinjiang and Taiwan. He must be watching too much CNN and Fox. Only sees one side of the story. I’m Chinese Canadian. Stop being one sided in general about China n not just “stop Cold War”
Varoufakis is correct that a cold war with China would be devastating, but it is because he is a pragmatist, which is why he's disappointing so many people in this comment section that he's not 100% pro-China. Many people in the West want an open, liberalized China that we freely exchange goods, culture and people with, they're not closet communists.
It has nothing to do with being pro or anti-China. People commenting here are upset about the fake and misleading statements about HK and Xinjiang! Someone like Yanis is educated and intelligent enough to do his research and analysis? Making statements like that is just inciting cold war sentiments, is it not? It is contrary to everything Yanis has previously said, according to his experiences as an ex-Greek Minister, thus the disappointment? I am sure it is not his intention but ...!
I think all the folks on this board criticising Tania about Hong Kong etc should wash out their ears - he said clearly he supports the students in HK etc,,. Open your ears folks. 👍
But, what were the students "fighting" for? Freedom? What freedom did they lose?
US government: We really love peace, the peace when I can be to No.1 leader firmly inside the world.
No1 first in world choas. No1 first in jealous and greedy. No1 first in stubborn of democracy never change the world. World United are in cooperation, multifunction, multiregional, multiculturalism without these world in choas even hated different colours of your skin. That why still continues for 300 years.
I think Yanis has applied for a job with the NED.Sad
What is NED!!
NED is the new name for the CIA .They sponsor all regime change activities around the world.They are pure evil
@@GARDNERXYZ National Endowment for Democracy, funded partly by US government to support opposition parties and organizations all over the world (literally). Check out channels eg New Atlas (Brian Berlatic) or Daniel Dumbrill, Grayzone (Max Blumenthal) to learn more about what this “benevolent” organization is doing in other countries.
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OMG, I stumbled across this guy by accident and found immense intelligence between those ears. Apart from Lee Kwan Yew, he is probably the next best person to listen to.
Capitalism has turned into a Financial Oligarchy where Oligarchy is too restrictive a word. Even Hegemony is too restrictive a word since the dominance is done by a group of countries. It is a system that has turned into a system where it brings out the worst in how humans behave. When humans misbehave, humanity becomes chaotic. The root of competition is also a cause for chaos, since it is based on the emotion of vengeance. The drive of vengeance does not improve the human condition, however, cooperation does.
Have you witnessed the genocide against the Uyghur in Xinjiang and have you seen the brutally of the Police in HK against the rioters.? If you have not please don't parrot the anti China MSM
of the US... please visit Xinjiang and witnessed the truth and as for HK what the rioters did to those who voiced their displeasure were burnt or beaten to death.. do you agree that what the HK Police did to the rioters are pale in comparison to the brutal force the US dis to their own rioters ? I have much respect for you on the views you
present but at times please don't be carried away by emotion .. a clear mind and heart will see through things clearer .. how many more people and children will be killed had China not take drastic action against the extremist that terrorised the local population with bombings and random killings ? Will you do the same if it were to happen in your own country ? What China has done to Greece is a clear indication on how China tretes its own citizens... Greece was pariahed by some EU members and imposed great obstacles for Greece to pay back its debts leaving no avenue for Greece to get back on its feet again until China willingly lend a helping hand without any conditions
to Greece and because of this some EU members were not too happy and bear grudge against
China for helping Greece ..
although China did have the access to Europe through the Port of Pireaus it is a win win deal and the relationship between both countries will continue to grow ... remember you are a former minister and you should know better the precarious situation Greece experienced during the debts crisis ..
Very good video to educate the peoples fm the west,to cooperate for a better world.
They will never cooperate or accept second to China that's not an option. You're only going to get a hot war that goes nuclear nothing else.
Dear Mr Yanis, sound like you support colour revolution
Sadly, yes. Which contradicts with the first half of his anti Cold War talk.
He could add the Chinese electric car indusry as one that Western countries also want to crush. BYD (Build Your Dreams) is a successful car and battery company. I agree with Yanis. Leave China alone. Live and let live.
xingjiang and hk are a part of the us war effort. you got confused.
I appreciate many if y our well- elaborated thoughts. I do, however, urge you to study the Chinese political system in more depth, and also investigate the truth about the Uighurs and about the Hong Kong riots. I think you are buying into American propaganda to try to weaken China. I’d call their political system very closely managed rather than just authoritarian. It is doing quite a few things that the US should do rather than let it’s industrial capitalism have free reign and destroy the future f or much of the middle class.
Anyways, I appreciate the open dialogue on all of this.
I hope Yanis revise his position on HK and Uyghurs jihadi, his kantian a priori fundaments are making him terribly wrong on those issues
Taiwan is independent country
Who pumped the finance to China, Americans. So way the long story.
I have to say, my respect for all greeks has rosen to the rooftops, yes just like the example he used in this very video, I was constantly agreeing with everything, until we reached China's governments topic, I can understand why you feel that way, but the reason behind it was definitely the US risen, if not for the constant provoking by the US, this would never have happened. I didn't expect you to agrree with the violence, therefore I have my suspect and a hint of understanding since any other path chosen would've brought you in a bad position.
Nonetheless, I could not agree with you further with everything else you stated.
Abortion should be obligatory!!! Why? Because none/parents has the right to decide about others/children life. Animals reproduce because don´t think, but people do. Avoid throw, irresponsably, others to life. To suffer, aging and death. Life and presions are the same. None choose any by his own will but by the will/needs of others. And none of both can be less rejectable/ugly by changing its decoration or the adminstration system. The true liberation is from life not in life.
Yes, spot on..thank you
I'm always amazed when people you think are savvy completely blow their credibility . You then have to write them off as somebody's stooge/drinking buddy club
Totally agree with you on US stupidity and hypocrisy!
I love how the finance minister of a country in an absolute economic collapse is lecturing us that countries with incredibly strong economies and high standards of living are stupid and smack of idiocy. So along with financial understanding, we can strike irony off the list of things Yanis understands.
I'm glad Yanis has seemed to come around. I just recently heard him repeat CIA talking points about supposed crimes against the Uyghurs and Hong Kong "protesters."
Todays colonization are in the economic sector.. my country capitulated to the US colonization via IMF back in 1998.
Karma will fall, on those who did dirty job. Just Covid 19, those who did it, will feel the pain. But those Polilticians got NO feeling at all. Hundred of thousand of their citizens die, they are innocence
My sentiments completely, I was afraid of this in early 2000's
That's how grateful the US is when China saved them during the 2008 crash. I disagree with your assessments of the HK police. The HK students beaten up by the Police? Did you see how these rioters tried to grab the policeman's gun? How these rioters beat up innocent HK citizens when they tried to clear the roadblocks and got hit on the head with a steel plate? the taxi driver who got beaten up so badly that he needed to be hospitalised? All of these were not reported in the western media and hence you did not see them.
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The first cold war was about stopping the spread of communism by the Soviet Union. The consequence of that included many countries receiving independence particularly from the UK which was pressured by the US to do so, as the Soviet Union was using having colonies against it, as not a sincere champion for freedom, but hypocritical. Decolonization sped up the decline of British power.
The cold war with the Soviet Union also influenced the US civil rights movement as some argued that it pushed the US to end segregation as the Soviet Union used this against the US. Is there a new cold war and what will be the consequence? Even nuclear proliferation in the 60s was due to the cold war.
Message makes sense to me.
When Yanis Varoufakis was the finance minister of Greece, I thought he was just a populist idiot, because that’s was what he was portrayed to be by the mainstream media, including Bloomberg News. Many years later, after he stepped down, I chanced upon a RUclips video of him speaking and after listening to him in person, I realized how wrong I have been all along. Varoukakis is just such an incredible man: intelligent, analytical, objective, rational.
That's why his comments about Xinjiang and HK blew it and raises eyebrows? Disappointing!!! He is right about "No Cold War" but his comments are contradictory in that western politicians and MSM are basing their cold war push on the fake news of Xinjiang and HK to incite war and he repeats their nonsense propaganda? Difficult to understand? Maybe he thinks and says these things as a compromise to convince western populations but isn't this a disservice as people need to face true facts. Indeed, our world and humanity need cooperation and peace, not confrontation and war. Truly, Make Love, Not War!!!
He’s pulling his punches even now
Much of this is very well said, but what I find puzzling is why you don't (seem to) find any Chinese intellectuals coming out themselves to offer this kind of analysis. In English. Instead you just find them repeatedly shouting slogans.
Everyone is mad at Trump :D But the fact is that he didn't do anything different than every other US ruler. The cold war was started with Labarack Obomba's so called "pivot to Asia" where the military was pivoted against Asia.
Countries should be unite bring peace weather it is dem or autoc We’re all ppl with feelings
Me living in the end of 2021 wondering why they havent finish the war yet. Worst case scenario, i wont be born back in 1992 but hey i dont need to experience all those war shites.
There are Thinkers who have not spoken yet....
Truth of the matter
US grand strategy or century is dominant with military might, nuclear arms and USD. US operate more than 800 military bases, 200 bio labs around the world. With such power, they can almost do what they want, regime change, alienated countries, dictate rules, expansionary ambitious and maintain hegemony. US is a great leader in formation of military alliances such as NATO, Quads, AUKUS, instead of partnership for peace and development.
Question is, can the US lead cold war able to contain China? Are US & allies prepared to lead a hot war on China without hurting themselves?
China is not USSR or any other MidEast or Latin counties that US had alienated. China is a major economic engine that trade with more than three of quarter of the world which includes US and all allies. Striking a hot war on China will ignite China's the bears, rocket man and partners that either push back US and allies or worst scenario lead to devastating doomsday consequences which may be irreversible.
Capitalist economy doesn't make sense. How can 'printing' save anything?
Thks for speaking truth
Thank you, sir 🙏🙏🙏
If Varoufakis is such a great democrat, why when he was Finance Minister of Greece, did he ignore the people to mingle with World elites as if he could go at it alone, as if he alone could speak reason to evil? That's not how a democrat takes on such forces. Yanis loves the camera a bit too much to be true democrat.
Coocoo for Cocoa Puffs....
Factual
Yanis, you might want to look a bit deeper on Xinjiang and the Uyghers, and what transpired in Hong Kong is 2019-2020.
Desperately deflecting using fake news about Uyghurs and Hong Kong convert actions by the gringos?
@@yapkent Yanis' main point and message is about American hypocrisy, double-standards while waving the flag of rules-based order. At the end, he saw the need to establish his cred as an anti-authoritarian stalwart. Nothing wrong with that, but he chose the wrong examples of Xinjiang and Hong Kong, which if he did a bit more research, are clear western propaganda and destabilization operations, something he strongly objects to.
yf is a smart man and a prominentl voice for sane policies. would have made a great leader of greece, but the stage was too small for him. big mistake.
A New Cold War: Global Strategy
Another guy with a right head. ✅
12 Australian submarines 50 billion dollar's to start with 90 billion 2 years later. Now open ended billions for unknown amount of submarines. Stupidity or theft???
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Bravo
You do not need to apologize for supporting China! Who has brains understand, the better wold is coming because of China and Russia.
Europe’s economic survival depends on economic and trading partnership with China, no slightest doubt about it! Chinas internal politics is no one else’s business!
The world is worse off with China and Russia they are the devil and they are going to be taken down one way or another even if the nukes have to fly.
Uighurs lol
I simply click into this video because he looks like Voldemort in Harry Potter 😂. All these geopolitical BS, honest, everyone knows what’s going on and everyone is just talking abt what they want to say. No point waste ur life such issue, it’s purely political.
westerner much jelous
no lol... we laugh at your system and see your demographic problems.
You're going to fall just like the USSR did. We got a heck of a plan you're going to be back to eating congee and dirt again.
Lost all respect for him when he came across as a totally ignorant person on HK and Xinjiang. He's just another opportunistic politician pretending to be smart.
No it's that he doesn't agree with your totalitarian communist beliefs that are poison to this world so that's why you don't like what he says.
As for no cold war
Please no cold war against any nations that are rapidly developing progressing n prospering the nation n its people
Not just against China