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- How Xi Jinping became China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong
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Xi Jinping, president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, is one of the most powerful political figures in the world. By initiating an unprecedented third term as China’s leader in October, 2022, Xi has signaled that he may plan to remain in power for life - making him the first Chinese leader since Mao Zedong to hold unchecked power over the People’s Republic of China.
But Xi’s connection to Mao goes deeper than a shared outlook that emphasizes unifying the party around a single leader. When Xi was just a young boy, his family - who had held elite party status thanks to his father’s pivotal role in Mao's “Long March” in 1935 - was denounced during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, a chaotic decade of purges and persecution that saw even Mao’s closest allies removed from power. During this time, a teenaged Xi was forced to work hard labor in the countryside outside of Beijing, and his father was imprisoned.
Xi’s subsequent rise after Mao died in 1976 was a methodical process in using his restored elite status as leverage to gain prominent party positions in rural provinces around China, culminating in his promotion to the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 2007.
From there, Xi pulled from Mao’s playbook: purging his political rivals and promoting those with whom he shared close personal ties. This process undid the work of Mao’s successor, Deng Xiaoping, to prevent the consolidation of power around a single leader in China.
By the time his third term began in October 2022, Xi had reshaped the party and Chinese military leadership to be fully packed with Xi loyalists. And even in the face of social upheaval surrounding his failed Zero Covid policy, Xi has shown no sign of giving up any of the power he has consolidated since taking over as leader of the country.
Further reading:
These books and podcasts below helped us understand Xi Jinping’s rise, Xi’s similarities to Mao, how politics changed in the PRC since its founding, and the structure and culture of the CCP:
Coalitions of the Weak by Victor Shih (Associate Professor in China and Pacific Relations at the University of California, San Diego)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/...
Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era by Cheng Li (scholar and expert in Chinese elite politics)
www.brookings.edu/books/chine...
Party of One by Chun Han Wong (Reporter at the Wall Street Journal)
www.simonandschuster.com/book...
Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century by Orville Schell and John Delury
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
The Prince by Sue-Lin Wong (Correspondent at The Economist)
www.economist.com/audio/podca...
These databases and papers were also helpful in gaining a better understanding of Xi Jinping’s alliances and the CCP structure under his terms:
Decoding Chinese Politics interactive by Asia Society Policy Institute
asiasociety.org/policy-instit...
CCP Elite Database by UCSD/Victor Shih
chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/elites/
China’s Political System in Charts: A Snapshot Before the 20th Party Congress by Susan V. Lawrence and Mari Y. Lee
crsreports.congress.gov/produ...
Xi Jinping’s Inner Circle by Cheng Li
www.brookings.edu/wp-content/...
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now this feels like a classic Vox video
And now, these types of videos will lead to a third world war as it justifies the continued US decoupling from China and heightened tensions. Anything that challenges the unipolar superpower that is the US is unacceptable to the US, and requires immediate regime change.
100% true
yep butchering xi's name lol, not offended. just dissapointed they didnt make an effort.
@@user-zt1qx3db1yhow u pronounce it?
@@user-zt1qx3db1yChinese names is difficult to pronounce so I’d cut them some slack 😂
Deng Xiaoping once said “Hide your strength, bide your time.”
Xi certainly heeded those words.
And he's still doing this today, building his military and economy. His intentions are clear as they expand their claim on territories that don't belong to them.
@@Flakester gtfoh what are you talking about? They're not the US, France, UK or Russia.
@@FlakesterNo, not at all. He gained his power following that well-known motto for us Chinese, but his philosophy of governance has gone the opposite way. Otherwise you may never know our expanding desire.
“In fact, Xi Jinping, unlike Bo Xilai, who is a more honest person, is basically a faithful implementer of this basic plan that was laid down by the party hierarchy decades ago. What he is implementing is the next step in the "three-step reform and opening-up" strategy. Originally, when Deng Xiaoping formulated the reform and opening-up policy, the first step was to solve the economic problems and realize a moderately prosperous society; after the realization of a moderately prosperous society, the next step was to end the biding of light and to build a strong socialist country. Xi Jinping is carrying out this next stage, and he is just concretizing Deng Xiaoping's plan, which was still a vision at that time. In the process of materialization, he did not betray the basic plan of the party and the state (in Trump's terms: the deep state) for the party and the state, but rather won greater support than Bo Xilai and Wen Jiabao because of the considerable prudence and loyalty he demonstrated in carrying it out, and because he was much more reliable than either of them.”--Liu Zhongjing
@@Flakester Thats an issue that goes back to forever everywhere. The problem is old world mentalities that is a global problem.
He did the classic moves. "If you want to change the game, join the game and eventually be the game."
Thank you for proving that journalism and education today doesn't need to have unnecessary humour to be entertaining. This is amazing stuff.
4:55 Dum doom music
Yes it does! Because humor is entirely necessary!
But you don’t know that tho
Tired of Wendoverr productuons?
This is not some worthy documentary.
going out of Beijing to other province and even rural area is not simply Xi's strategy, it's actually a political tradition for people who want to go to the high level in the central government in China even at ancient time. It's a kind of training system for central government. Both in ancient China and nowadays PRC, most of the high level central government leaders have some experience of governing local governments.
中国虽然是中央集权制国家，但在某些领域地方的权限并不比联邦制地方的权限小，更不要提香港澳门还有将来的台湾。
这就意味着，中央领导人必须得有主政一方的历练。
央地矛盾是从古至今都存在的，毛泽东主席的论十大关系中也曾论述过。
Same pattern for now mexico president. He did this same approaxh with rural providences.
Xi thinks he is Mao, you know since Mao's grandson is a ... genius ;) and couldn't be bothered with politics, Xi believes that he is the one to be Mao's true successor.
In big companies, candidates to be CEO have to have experience across multiple verticals of the business so they can understand the whole org.
@@abrahamgomez8832 Mingling, living, working with ordinary people gives you a different perspective on how to govern. This is something Western leaders lack.
Most of the content is very good, but Xi Jinping did not leave Beijing to go to the bottom to escape anything. For most officials in China to be promoted, going to the bottom is a must. After the Cultural Revolution, after Deng Xiaoping resumed his work, most officials and their families were rehabilitated. There is no danger. Going to the bottom is just to accumulate political capital.
Plus, the places he went were not exactly rural.
@@leezhieng like Shanghai!
@@prayunceasingly2029shanghai was the very end. the provinces he went before Shanghai were indeed rural back then.
They expressed that sentiment; they said the party wanted humble leaders
@@demal1010 The party wanted control of the outlying provinces. Sending leaders from Beijing to rule over them was only nominally about humility. Allowing provinces to grow their own leadership was a recipe for a new, competing political movement. Mao and his successors were determined that they would not make the same mistake Lin Sen did.
A very well made short video about a brief chinese history. I loved the economist podcast as well called The Prince. It is much more in depth but this video is pretty much covered all the key points.
事实上他只是把西方的刻板印象做成了视频而已，当中拥有大量错误。自然灾害的发生与政策毫无干系，同时文革的发动原因也不仅仅只是为了巩固自己的权利。
@@user-js7qh6dp8y说的对
This is a correct overall description. A lot of relevant details missing though
This was very informative. You should turn this into a series on world leaders including Netanyahu, Erdogan, Putin and MBS
There already is a pretty good MBS video out there from a couple years ago
@@dwaynekeenum1916 I think, except Netanyahu, they have already covered all the leaders the OP mentioned.
@@anotheryoutubeuserThe media is not allowed to cover Netanyahu in a negative light." Netanyahu is the father of democracy and defender of freedom" is the only acceptable narrative.
@@redox4088lol.
also modi
Vox should continue doing this type of videos
they've been doing them for like 10 years...
@@iansteelmatheson * Johnny Harris has been doing them.
@@iansteelmathesonNope, they had Harris doing it
@@NicodemusT plenty of examples of similar work they've done since Harris left
@@KtenEditing i wonder why Johnny Harris left Vox?
Subscribed.. I like the production quality as much as the content. Good job.
A very well made video. The narration, animation, timelines and many other aspects have fit in so well with each other. Please make more of these : )
4:55 Those Chinese character they are carrying on their backs are meant to teach the troops how to identify and write Chinese while marching, which is why the red army had a much high literacy rate than the nationalist later in the civil war.
Amazing thanks for sharing that piece of knowledge.
The red army during the civil war ate better generally
This is a really cool fact, and i want to use it in a quiz I'm writing, but I just can't find a source.
It sounds plausible, but can you please point me to one?
@@milanvondelft268 Everyone in Chinese know it😂. but where the pictures from is a difficult. Maybe you can get more information by reading a book……《红星照耀中国》.
Its English name is "red star over china". written by Edgar Parks Snow. it tells the story about red army.
写英文好费劲😢。
（“图片的来源在哪”是个困难的问题）写到一半不知道“问题”该用哪个词，结果给忘了😅。
Xi studied chemical engineering at university, not philosophy. The program at the time required 15% of student's time be committed to studying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and 5% of the time doing work in the country side.
overall this video has massive mistakes Zhejiang and Fujian provinces are not rular China they are industrial hubs.
What you said is not entirely correct, because he majored in chemical engineering as an undergraduate in Tsinghua University, but his postgraduate is Marxism.
@@mandalorian3246 i dont think Zhejiang has much rural areas left, all their villages are quite suburban. Fujian on the other hand varies greatly, and thats why so many of them go to Myanmar to commit scams, or illegally immigrate to america
Xi never studied anything in any uni. He only went through elementary school.
Xi received a Chemical Engineering Degree and a PHD of law from Tsinghua University.
Great piece Vox!!
Ty for educating us further
Awesome content. Thank you for making this 👍👍👍
His policies aside, what Xi did to consolidate power is political play at one of its finest. From exiled to the top, he knew how to use the system to his advantage.
Learned a lot from this video. Now THIS is the kind of videos I subscribed to Vox for.
Vox made a mistake of his rural humble training.
At that time every single youth of a certain age are sent to rural areas to contribute to the society. It's not of Xi's own desires.
I learned a lot too. Going to copy his skills to consolidate power at my kid's gradeschool.
CSIS has a more in depth series of interviews with experts on this topic. The book reviews are all really good.
Hes actually very smart. I give him that
This sounds like a manhwa story
My dad, who lived through the Cultural Revolution, often said this about Mao: “Chiang only taught you how to fire a gun. Mao taught you how to fight with your spirit. This is why he (proverbially) won the civil war in the end.”
Mao was an incredible wartime leader, but he was a garbage peacetime leader.
Im sure it wasnt because he convinced the peasants by providong them promises of food and wealth
@@nunosilva187 yes, land reform was a very effective policy that he did follow up upon
besides, during the civil war, there were many genuine reasons why many peasants had grievances against Chiang's government. having a coherent ideology instead of being a coalition of feudal warlords only helped.
No he only won cause Japan helped weaken his rivals.
@@mathewlett9104 doesn't explain all the mass defections to the PLA once Japan surrendered
@@mathewlett9104 When the Japanese surrendered, Chiang had 4.3 million troops, and Mao had 1.2 million.
Chiang started the war again with the support of the USSR and the USA.
In fact, Chiang had some advantages at the beginning.
However, after the success of land reform, Mao took back the initiative on the battlefield.
Then, the USSR started supporting weapons and supplies.
1.6 million of Chiang's army died, 4 million surrendered, and the last 4 million run to Taiwan is the end of the story.
Vox did an amazing job on this video. If only the video were 3 hours long. 😊🤔😊
I put this as background sound and ended up stopping what I was doing to pay attention to the video. very good educational video!
He really played the long game to gain power.
Not really he played the game of not stepping on people, not becoming beholden because of corruption and being technically proficient.
He learned from his father that wings could be clipped so unlike Icarus decided not to fly too close to the sun.
That's why he has the role he has now he's considered fairly impartial not a lackey of the military, the political princes or the business elite since he wasn't brought to power by one of them and more importantly he's more of an administrator than a political/philosophical revolutionary... His entire creed is just efficiency if it works study it, if it doesn't get rid of it, if it's corrupt dismantle it, if it threatens stability destroy it and this is all done relatively without prejudice.
His only enemy is inefficiency
play long time to gain power ? but he work hard , very hard for his people . i think is ok to get power in this way
@@danpetrescu4915I don't think unlimited power is great but he won it right and square.
I gotta commend the guy, he played the political game perfectly. I respect it even though I disagree with his ideals.
@@askosefamervehe won it fair-ish sure, but when one holds power for too long it corrupts them. You can have the best person in the world be president of a large country, but the longer they hold power the less good they become, the power gets into their heads and they become corrupt. It’s really sad, many dream of what they could do if they’re in charge but when you actually become in charge those ‘dreams’ become a reality, but those dreams isn’t always 100% pure so… you know, corruption.
This is the craziest revenge story I’ve heard of
@@Huajierenmeiluziye I thought western social media etc. is blocked in China? Is the great firewall not working?
@@AN31DO01RR96那个墙是可以翻的，我今天刚整上，就是得花不少钱😢
@@AN31DO01RR96 Usage of Facebook and messenger is banned in Myanmar as well, but everyone still uses it.
But what exactly did he avenge? Is becoming the leader of a country considered revenge? What decisions did he make that were more harmful than beneficial? Did he intensify the oppression of the people? Did he amass wealth for his own pleasure? I searched but couldn't find reliable information on this. Are some of his decisions controversial, yet on the whole, they are more beneficial than detrimental?
习近平任上反腐干得不错,遏制了邓小平的利益集团
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Some culture are more boring than others ....
@@Moodboard39 and some of those same cultures have reached the top of the global stage while you feed their economic growth..
Thank you all for the amazing work
Deng was rehabilitated and reinstated by Mao himself. This video makes it sound like it happened after Mao's death, but actually it happened BEFORE his death.
是你记错了，邓重反中央是毛死后，叶帅支持的
Some say Deng was rehabilitated by Zhou not long before he was dead.
Yes, but with Mao's consent since the government can hardly run without a strong man like Deng (Zhou was sick at that time@@alexlo7708
@@alexlo7708No. It was by Mao. Mao always liked Deng but sometimes Deng was too stubborn for Mao to tolerate
Mao Covid lol.
Good video, but one major interpretation flaw: Xi’s time away from Beijing wasn’t a ‘strategy’; it’s just how the CCP works. To be part of the Politburo you need to have governed at least 4 different cities - it’s the way to attest to your political and administrative skills. Tbh, it’s a much better system to select leadership than, for comparison, corrupt two-party systems. But in no way this was a “strategy”. It’s a requirement. What Mao did in the second half of his leadership, and Xi is doing now, it’s limiting the ability of the party to distribute and valour competencies and engage with the wider body of the party (which has MILLIONS of members).
It’s also kind of odd that this video didn’t talk about internal party politics and ideology.. pretty significant factor to understand who xi is. Disappointed the video just used common western sensationalist tropes.
Indeed, China is a meritocracy, it invented imperial examinations a long time ago for similar reasons after all
@@Q-se5oh Can't really expect much else from Western media though haha. Turned on the cc to find the opening music was [sinister electronic music] lol, such a classic.
Great, so instead of a corrupt two-party system, China has a corrupt one-party system.
“异地为官”is an ancient political practice as an, part of china’s own Confucianist political history, it means “serving as a statesman somewhere that’s not ur hometown” this is why federalism will likely never work in chija
Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.
Amazing work, as always.
I know it's probably out of the scope of this video, but a little more time spent on Bo Xilai would have been fun. He was seen as Xi's main competition for Chairman back around 2012, and the corruption scandal he got put away for was pretty wild. He'd also gained a reputation as a kind of fixer of problematic cities (first Dalian and then Chongqing). The people of Chongqing loved Bo, and in those parts, people didn't really like the way he was prosecuted and saw it as purely political.
Great point - also wish they had discussed Zhao Ziyang, Deng's Premier & General Secretary. Feel like glossing over China's economic growth and classifying it as the "Deng era" broadly is a bit historically lazy and glosses over some key insights that could help viewers interpret the course of Chinese history better and understand the Xi era more deeply. Kind of as with Bo Xilai, without introducing people to these figures I think they run into the mistake of presenting Chinese history as a straight path when it really isn't. Oh well. I recognize it's tough with 20min TH-cam primers.
There was also an international murder case on Bo's lawyer wife. They were wealthy and had properties overseas, their son studied at Oxford. Then their English butler was poisoned to death. The whole thing was super shady. Set-up?
Do you know Bo Xilai hit his father on the public in the Cuturle Revolution? It is a devaster for the people if Bo was elected as Chinese presiden .
It's a good point, but this is a relatively short video. They had to cut a lot of detail out, or they could have gone on for hours, not that that would be a bad thing.
Bo's son is the catalyst of his downfall.
Chinese history is so fascinating. You've put a lot of information in there, surprised that you haven't included information about Russia and China and Mao's relation with Nikita Khrushchev.
How all that affected Cultural Revolution and aftermath of the revolution, after all it was a huge contributing factor.
Can you elaborate how
Well, these are Americans, they are not very good at history, I’ve come to terms with it
@@hellfireboyThe success of MAO ERA under the socialism with Chinese characteristics had droved out all evil foreign powers encroached inside China & laid the foundation for future generations who brought China rising, strong & prosperity.
China is good learner , industrious & self-reliance in all field of innovations & technologies.
@@wongyoonchark5050 yeah like starving and punishing 70 MILLION of your own people to death. In that regard he accomplished more than Hitler
Is there a good book covering this relationship?
Fantastic video. Objective and has all relevant context. Also - the guy commentating looks like an Asian Lawrence Fishbourne
Glad to see Vox going back to its roots of explaining things in an interesting way.
This episode was very informative. Thank you to all the people behind it.
Such videos are needed for people that dont pay attention to world news. Xi has been called dictator / emperor for a while now but there's still ignorant people saying he's not. Xi is the Putin of china right now, where people disappear instead of falling out of tall buildings.
Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?
Xi xuan je shu kemo na che Xi phuc yu ma dar phuc kar xuan ji chi
Não foi informativo, teve inúmeras distorções de narrativa, é um desastre pra quem estuda história
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Fascinating focus on the consolidation of powers. I would be interested to follow up on this video with a deep dive in what is meant by "Xi Jinping Thought" as defined in the Third Resolution and the contrast between its theory of change, rhetorical tone, and consequences.
Certainly worth a video!
Just read his books. The four volumes of the Governance of China. And read Roland Boer's "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, a Guide for Foreigners." Great reads, very informative!
@@nathangibbs246no, its internet everyone wants summarization, so spill it here
The content of the third resolution is unimportant here. The fact that Xi put a thought named after him into the party constitution symbolizes the amount of power Xi has.
@@frankartanis1290 maybe, but it's based on his spoken and written words
How those present western leaders born with golden spoon in their mouths can compete with XI, a guy experienced such hard life suffered hugely in his growth journey ?
Xi jinping should develop positive relationship with india 🇮🇳 to combat poverty unemployment of both country and reduce trade deficit.
Our relations are great, the border conflicts are only for show 😆
I'm thankful that the guy single handedly resolved San Fran's homeless crisis. Albeit for just a week or so. But at least people saw what was possible.
Oh the satire😅
There was nothing resolved. He displaced them temporarily.
@@xprettylightsx3781😂😂😂😂 then you should thank him for showing Cali can get rid of the homeless in the street but they won't do it.
@@xprettylightsx3781 Which is one of the resolutions for the problem. Not the best, of course, but given the city is going to be run by democrats forever, I don't see any other resolution. Just move them permanently.
@@earthwormjim6962 fun fact, your tax dollars are spent by the millions on this problem in an ever incompetent fashion
This episode was very informative
Good
Good one
Best
That was Great,you peaked my interest and I learned something.
Insightful, Thank you :)
Thank you so much for this well presented piece! I loved the infographics 🌟
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After everything you've produced so far, I wonder if you've got plans to create multi-hour documentaries?
Thank you for your work! You people produces some of the best content on the internet.
I wish. I bet the economics of it are prohibitive though.
Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?
HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What?@@rongyaowang1075
This was a very good video. Good job Vox!
Informative and easy to understand.
Just pointing out what a lot of Westerners miss, China's presidency is a very symbolic position not a position with a lot of political power. Xi is party chairman which is the highest position of power in China and that has no term limits. So Xi already had 'power for life' if he wants it just like every Chinese leader before him.
CCP=dictatorship.
Exactly.
No you're wrong. After Deng Xiaoping it was changed to a limit of two terms, but successors of Deng followed the Constitution. Xi, however, changed the Constitution a few years before his third term. So he was aiming to be like Mao for sure.
Westerners wouldn't care because we see China as the enemy.
lol Xi absolutely has more power in China than the president of the USA has inside the USA. China is literally one or two steps away from being an autocracy.
A MASTERPIECE! Thank you, Vox!
吓死我了，这些老外太可怕了，好好的国家被扭曲的不成样子了，满满恶意，这么恐怖这国家还能变成世界第二经济体？
@@wengbx在和平年代，有着如此大量的如此吃苦耐劳且有强烈意愿改善自己生活的国民，在东亚文化的加持下，用了半个多世纪才成为世界第二大经济体，才是天理不容的。
thank dee's nuts
i wouldnt call it a "masterpiece". its our perspective on china and xi, doesnt mean this has to be the absolute right one
Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?
Brilliant video! I learnt a lot👏
Great video - showing the importance of knowing history and understanding leaders as more than a one dimensional brand.
just to be clear in 00:43 , ‘president’ is not the most powerful man in china’s political field, there are ‘general secretary of the party’ and ‘chairman of the military’ above the president. As a result Mr. yang and Mr. li were not the number one person at that time for they didn’t control the military
Wow, this was a great history lesson. Thank you! More of these please.
This is history for u 😂
Brainless western exceptionalist chewing up the manufacturing consent made by the "independent media" literally always aligning with state department talking points when it comes to foreign issues😂
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“Striping democratic process in Hong Kong”, the most American thing to say
Yep. Just like with every accusation of imperialism by the US, over 96% of the time it's pure projection...
Top notch video, Vox crew. One of your best in a while. Thank you
This is prolly one of the most informative Channel I’ve ever came across
Until it talks about the topic that you’re familiar with.
Manufacturing consent
Learn about it
until t comes to the palestine-israel conflict and trump videos where they spew missinformation
@@williamxu2402I'm familiar with most of their topics. Some points they miss and they do issue corrections but most are pretty spot on honestly.
@@isakpetterssonmusicjust because they disagree with you doesn't mean that it's wrong.
Wow, Laurence Fishburne sure does know a lot about Chinese history and political system.
不，没你想象的那么了解
Great video. Great insights.
As a Chinese, I think the information of documentary is still too simplified; it doesn't means about good or bad, but underrating of the complexity of the society of China
what would you add
What is oversimplified?
There’s only so much you can squeeze into a 20 minute film though.
20 min
typical Chinese netizen - quick to criticize and never to offer any actual values. it's 20 minutes for christ's sake
LOVE this video style. I hope you guys do more like this!!
This was a very very informative source of information that is incredibly difficult to find these days. Thank you so much for providing clear cut information
Good video, good information for the most part.
This reminds me of the similar situation in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 and Italy 🇮🇹 too and geopolitically in the government.
He's not only the most powerful leader in china but also doing it during the most powerful era of the history of china
Vox also glossed over the fact that Xi's family are as corrupted. They are billionaires and have properties all over the world.
Interesting point.
Tbf ancient China was pretty nice too
He pushed china towards its most powerful era
But now they have to clash with the US and you know what that means.
Thank you for this fabulous work. My respect from Iraq ❤❤
-" father, father"-
Never felt so alone
I appreciate top tier content and johnny never let me down
Excellent piece, really well done to everyone involved in this!
150 countries in BRI and there is 195 countries in the world. This says a lot about Xi's leadership 🐉🇨🇳
This video on Chinese govt is a lot better than the older one ..
This is such a fantastic video. Well done and thank you.
Shen Yun is a beautiful Theater show in Los Angeles to watch with the family I promise, Come to Los Angeles, California ❤🙏🇺🇸
Thanks!! I needed this for my class!!
Thank you all for the amazing work ❤
I love documentaries about China's history during the 20th century, that was one of my favorite subjects in high school. Does anyone have any documentaries to recommend that I could watch?
Watch Joris Ivens's How Yukong Moved the Mountains if you haven't yet
@@atomabg5498 I have never heard of it, no. Thank you, I'll give it a look!
Watch the movie the last emperor
Coogan has good one as does jabzy
Ryan Chapman as well
Is it just me or the intro sounded like a nice action movie plot filled with spy 🕵 action 🎭
Thank you for this info. Great journalism. It helps to complete the understanding about China.
Great informative piece. Could have done with a bit more on the recent developments at the end, like Hu Jintao's soft purging (and his supporters). China's politics is really an underreported affair in the west, glad you covered some of it.
It's underreported EVERYWHERE especially in CHINA LOL...
A lot of China watching and China current events news is heavily paywalled. Too many of those sources have the market cornered and it’s sad they take advantage of it.
"Hu Jintao's soft purge"? Can you elaborate? Do you have some insider's information that I don't know?
take everything with a grain of salt especially when hearing opinons that are not from the people in china.
They are talking about the most recent video (a year ago) of hu jintao sitting next to Xi, then getting escorted out in front of everyone, I'm assuming for show.
A small error at 9:58 : Zhu De was not purged at all; he remained his post as the Chairman of People's Congress until his death but he had been sidelined even before the foundation of PRC
Also Deng Xiaoping came after Mao’s short serving successor Hua Guofeng left office in 1981.
Maybe he mean Pang Dehuai, the commander-in-chief of the Korean War.
Zhu De was freezed to death, like a Russian guy falls out of window
However his grandson became a criminal and be executed in 1980s😂
@@jeremybiggs8413他是政变上的！
Wow the story look so interesting, cool 😎
Deng xiaoping seems like a magnificent leader
Lin Biao death by plane crash was no mystery, it was mostly likely shot down by the PLA due to the fact that he or his son depending how you look at it, attempted a coup against Mao. When it failed they first flew south towards Guangdong were assuming he had support, but change direction to the Soviet Union to flee. His final years was quite sad as he was a schizophrenic and have clinical PTSD from the war. He wanted to retire but Mao kept him within party leadership and appointed him as his second and successor over Zhou Enlai and cried over it. One of the most noticeable military strategist of 20th century who took Beijing during the civil war to have his have his end to be so tragic.
ok
@@ishredder4006you must be slow or a ccp bot.
He was also the guy responsible for the cult of Mao and the cultural revolution.
Technically impossible at that time.
what the exact flip are you talking about...historians don't even know fully why his plane crashed and here you are blabbering
Here's the problem. If a westerner who watched this video tried to have a conversation with a Chinese person about Mao or Xi, they would have nothing in common after the Long Match.
You completely omitted The Gang of Four or the country's forgiveness of Mao. Tiananmen (and other protests): I've never seen this explained well in the west. But, you made it seem like Xi was the first leader to consolidate the top three roles in the government but that was considered the _correct_ thing to do by the time I studied Chinese law in Beijing in 2007.
This video is better than most of the tripe made by other media companies, but that shouldn't be how we measure quality. If an educated Chinese national who was opposed to Xi were to talk to one of your viewers, your viewer wouldn't understand anything the person was talking about.
The video wasn't bad, but it didn't make any progress.
Do you have recommendations for a better video?
its 20 minutes mate, I think it goes over the major events well, save for a few inaccuracies
It’s the length. Something like what you are describing would need to be a full on movie length piece. With 20 minutes, they can’t really do much.
@@nothere2994 No, I'm not suggesting more; I'm saying that they should have described things differently.
@@HunterHogan My bad, sorry. I think I misinterpreted you.
Vox really turned it around with these amazing videos the past couple years
Really good video.
Please keep informing us on foreign powers, this video was so fascinating. Much more interesting than the typical WWII stuff im used to studying. Very refreshing, keep up the good work!
very detailed.very impressive.🇰🇪
These are the only types of videos that Vox should be making. Real, good journalism that isn't afraid to talk about topics that other news sites are too afraid of to do so themselves.
Haha there's real historical channels with fact on TH-cam do you know or you listen only Vox.
@@GromkiiiThat grammar is atrocious.
@@GromkiiiName them. Too many humans think and believe their sources are good but they are not. You could be one.
@@coldarcticoasis From 1952 to the end of the Maoist era, steel production increased from 1.4 million tons to 31.8 million tons, coal production increased from 66 million tons to 617 million tons, cement production increased from 3 million tons to 65 million tons, and lumber production increased from 11 million tons. tons increased to 51 million tons, electricity increased from 7 billion kilowatts/hour to 256 billion kilowatts/hour, crude oil production increased from a fundamental blank to 104 million tons, and fertilizer production increased from 39,000 tons to 8.693 million tons. . By the mid-1970s, China was still producing large quantities of jet aircraft, heavy-duty tractors, railway locomotives, and modern sea-going ships. The People's Republic of China also became a major nuclear power, completing the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles. China successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1964, produced its first hydrogen bomb in 1967, and launched a satellite into orbit in 1970.
On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were only 205 general colleges and universities in the country, with only 117,000 students enrolled. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the national literacy rate increased from 20% to 80%. The four literacy campaigns of New China enabled more than 100 million people to get rid of illiteracy. The number of students increased by 8.4 times. The number of students enrolled in primary schools reached a record high of 150 million, and the enrollment rate reached 97.3%. The number of students enrolled in ordinary middle schools reached a record high of 67.8 million in 1977;
After 1949, it experienced the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and India, the Sino-Soviet border military pressure, the Sino-Vietnamese Xisha naval battle, the anti-American Chiang Kai-shek invasion on the southeast coast, the international comprehensive economic blockade and embargo, the policy of diplomatic isolation, and the domestic rich and evil rebels. 26 years of destruction by right rebels. However, Mao Zedong relied on self-reliance and developed at an average annual GDP growth rate of 9.8%, which is extremely rare in world history and unmatched by capitalist developed countries. Compared with the United States, the gap between my country's economy and the United States increased from 28 times in 1949 to 1978. The difference between years is 5.52 times. In fact, from 1949 to 1976, China's GDP rose to sixth place in the world, while in 2005 it was seventh. At that time, China was the sixth largest industrial country in the world, the third largest military power, and the eighteenth scientific and technological power. It gradually established an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system.
Morris Meissner, a professor at Yale University in the United States, concluded after extensive research: The Mao Zedong era was one of the greatest modernization eras in world history, and was closely related to the industrialization processes of several major rising stars in the modern industrial arena, such as Germany, Japan, and Russia. Not inferior to the most intense period. The United States believed in the book "The Modernization of Japan and Russia" published in the 1970s that New China has achieved achievements that no other country has achieved.
As former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger said: "China has emerged as one of the six largest industrial countries in the world." Deng Xiaoping also said in his speech at the Party's Theoretical Work Retreat on March 30, 1979: "We In thirty years, we have made progress that old China had not made in hundreds and thousands of years."
just because it satisfies your expectation doesn't mean it's real😅
Usually I don’t care for anything coming out of Vox, but this is a quality video
错误和偏见太多了。我们国内也有许多讲解世界各国的视频，现在我也不敢完全相信了，因为彼此不可能完全了解。
this video absorbed me into its world, what a mind-blowing experience. amazing work from vox.
This video was amazing. It was worth every second I spent on watching it. Thank you for your work!
But as a Chinese, I'd like to tell you that this video interprets the politics and history of modern China in a completely wrong way, which will only make Western readers more misled.🤣🤣🤣
@@kennpaqizaraki5707
well said
@@kennpaqizaraki5707 exactly, no chinese historians in the video, no actual chinese people gave their opinions on this, just a white american producer and opinions of asian americans that have no knowledge/experience of history of china
In Chinese system, officials are moving around for different positions and those who do well according to the KPI, they get promoted. The whole Chinese system works like a company. It is not the strategy of Xi building up his power as the video claim. I suggest VOX first understand how the Chinese system work first.
💯 Vox is making stuff up out of nothing. He even said tgat Xi stripped Hong Kong of democratic process!! He ain't got a clue how HK was governed when the British were in control!
Yes, but that's not the narrative they want to push.
@rupigo exactly...Hong Kong has a more democratic process than when the UK Opium druglord's selected HK Governor that they helicoptered in straight from Westminster.
Wow, there is nothing like a company in the chinese system, calm down a little.
If you ever worked in a big corporation you will know that there is no such thing as "promotion by merit", is based by who you are and who you know more than how much you are capable, and also, if you are rich to begin with, you already will be at the top of the company, if companies where like Chinese government, half of company holders would be holders, look at Elon Musk for example, the man cant have a single company which does not take revenue from the US State, remember Tesla is only rentable because carbon credit, and Elon Musk never did anything to be worth being holder of a eletric car company.
The chinese system has nothing equal to a company.
Maybe not American company but in China, society and business is highly meritocratic. It's been that way for hundreds of years. @@davidchristenes9062
14:29 I'm a little mad that the young Xi is actually a bit of a looker 😅
I wonder if Xi can also hear this intense background music in his daily life.
The misunderstanding of Chinese history is a primary reason behind the current Western misperception of Xi Jinping and China. Whether these are misunderstandings or deliberate distortions is something I cannot definitively say. In reality, neither Deng Xiaoping nor Jiang Zemin were in power for merely a decade. Jiang Zemin served as the General Secretary across three terms, having come to power after the Tiananmen Square incident in June 1989, and remained in this position until the leadership transition in 2002. Even after Hu Jintao became the General Secretary of the party, Jiang retained his position as the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. Only Hu Jintao served as the General Secretary of the party for two terms and as the Chairman of the Military Commission for less than two terms. The era of Hu and Wen Jiabao was also a time when central power was at its weakest, leading to a surge in economic and political corruption, as well as issues with local organized crime and other problems.
"incident"
@@potato_nugget Yes, "incident". The whole truth is not touched on in this film.
@@oswarz Nope. "Incident" is the term used by the CCP to hide their atrocities
As I understand it, both Xi Jinping and Putin came into power into corrupted regimes and had to clean house and both did a great job and today we see they are the TOP TWO power centers in the World. I am proud of them bc having lived thru all the corruption in America my entire life since the 1950s, it is refreshing to see that the World's Peoples have a chance now to prosper. Becuz the US made sure most countries could not prosper. US Evil Empire is finally dying and Thank God something Good is replacing us.
@@oswarz Watch the documentary "The Gate of Heavenly Peace", it's the best analysis on the subject and has a ton of footage. And indeed, the protests were tolerated for quite a while, before they ended up shaming the moderate clique of the CPC in front of the hardliners, who eventually dissolved the marchs with violence.
Mostly correct, though you did make a rather large error in saying Mao never gave up power in his lifetime - between the end of the Great Famine and the start of the Cultural Revolution, he was actually effectively politically exiled
Sure, he maintained influence - but the point the video was trying to make was that he never lost the top job, which isn't true
不把中国说的那么坏，怎么让你们去仇恨呢😅
now i know how the French people feel when they watch Ridley Scott's Napoléon film😅
i was wrong,this is much more disgusting🤢
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.
*coughs* Netanyahu has been PM for Israel for 16 years and counting.
Cough, and he's been elected every time by the people who chose him again and again. Don't you really see the difference between democracy and dictatorship?
@@yadusolparterrecough cough he keeps trying to overthrow the courts and replace them with himself
Netanyahu lost and was replaced by opposition leaders Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid from 2021-2022.
Fictional country
This is a very informative video that unvailed China's political structure and power conflicts over the years.
But this is only from a Western perspective. As a Chinese, I am convinced that 99.9% of Chinese people would not call Xi Jinping a dictator. The West always looks at things with their prejudices and ignores many realities in China, especially the fact that China is a huge country with 56 ethnic groups and 14 billion people.
@@luohuapiaomiao correction -- 1.4 billion
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
most of the content r true, except for the Tibent and Xinjiang oppression. Actually minority groups like tibentan people and uyghur people r treated pretty well during xi's rule. For example, minority ethnic groups can have more than one kid while the majority han ethnic group must obey the one-child policy, and whats more, Ethnic minorities can receive additional government subsidies and gain extra points in the college entrance examination.
Where do they get off on controlling how many children individuals can have?
@@SogMosee The US controls what people can say, what they can protst about, who they can associate with... No good reason for those things. However, overpopulation is real. So China did the sensible thing.
@@TD1237 no the us doesn't do any of those things.. it just prevents unlawful assembly. nice try though
@@TD1237I suggest that the Han people should also be listed as ethnic minorities to promote equity among ethnic groups.😋
One think for sure, he is not corrupted. He had to get rid of corruption among the leaders. Other things can wait but not corruption.
The china gov is surely more efficient now compare to era before Xi. His corruption purge helped a lot.
He uses agent/proxy to get money. His family owns the whole Covid testing/vaccine industry and now EV.
One of the best Vox videos I’ve seen in ages. Brilliant return to form.
GENIUS!!
Wondererful work.
This was great although I’d love to learn more about his possible motivations and long-term plans.
Right, this video makes it seem like Mao and Xi are just power accumulators, with little to say about what it is they want to do with that power
One of the big reasons is uncertainty regarding the state of the USA leadership. Changing leaders now without any idea of which direction the USA will go in is very difficult.
long term plan is to build chinatowns everywhere so chinese people can eat well anywhere
What is the long-term plan? It is very straightforward, as he always says, "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", yeah... "make China great again". If he could achieve it, he would get his reward: being recognized as a great leader in Chinese history, which is the dream of most rulers in China.
There are two specific goals for him to claim success: the first is to grow the GDP to the No.1 in the world. The second is "bring Taiwan back". These two are the cores, but they are somewhat contradictory, it is impossible for him to get support in Taiwan and peacefully take Taiwan, but a war will make China's economy fall down significantly. China's growth is slowing down, and the economic crisis is rising, pushing Xi further away from his long-term plan.
The bad news is Xi knows little about the economy, while he is hardworking to put his fingers here and there. The good news is that the recent diplomatic move shows he hasn't given up Deng's “take economic construction as the central task” and wants to resume a good relationship with the US and the developed world; this means taking Taiwan by force will unlikely happen recently.
But we never know what will happen in the next 5 years. It is obvious to the Chinese that he wants to seize power for at least another 10 years. What will he do if he finds he cannot achieve his dream? At least taking Taiwan by force is much easier than economic growth.
Long term plans are generally published and followed to the letter. So you just have to research it.