I'm the opposite of what you had experienced. I'm Chinese Malaysian(3rd generation) and grew up pretty westernised though I speak Mandarin at home. Most Chinese in Malaysia are more traditional but I'm in the 20percent of those of English educated background. Growing up I looked down on China and worshipped and only believe the west but since about 7 years ago, I had a real paradigm shift and realised that a lot of what the west had fed me about China was double standards, hypocrisy and even lies. And I also understood much deeper about western political system's flaws and weaknesses. And not forgetting the atrocities committed by them in many countries and regime change operation by NED and CIA. And I wouldn't be surprised if they are involved in the Tiananmen protest. I found out that I'm not alone in such a big change of mindset towards China and the west. I have seen many of my countrymen experienced the same and even more and more westerners who had realised this as well and they now are defending China instead! My only regret is I should have realised much earlier and not subscribing to the western narratives for so long. And after I really understand Chinese political system which promotes meritocracy instead of western ways of sweet talking speeches to get elected, I knew China was on the right track. And China is changing politically too, remember it is unimaginable that 40 years ago that today people could express their views quite freely. Me too I have made peace with myself because I had misunderstood China for so long. Anyway I could understand your situation whereby people are often attracted to what they don't have. In your case, you find the western countries fascinating and when you're an outgoing person, it fascinated you more. But you have to understand that every society is different and there is no one political system that fits all. The comparison of China vs other countries with large population like India, Brazil, Indonesia and even the US had proven that China was right in how they governed their country according to traditions, culture and most importantly being pragmatic instead of being obsessed with ideology.
i am not chinese but asian and i totaly feel the same as you. Younger I was thinking that China is bad and the collective west are the good guys. I was so wrong... After learning more and more about all the lies and atrocities the west has committed all over the world I came to feel sick to my stomach. How could I have thought the west are the good when they clearly has no moral ground to point finger at anyone with all those horrible things they have done and are still doing blatantly ? China's government needs to improve on lot of issues but I believe it's on the right path to slowly correct itself and advance while the west is falling more and more into depravity, totalitarism and lies.
@@SimingLan Does it not disturb you that you make a video about the impact of learning about the massacre on you and how you learnt to reconcile your feelings and all people do in the comments is talk about the west demonising China? You showed footage even and everyone is ignoring this? What the???? I don't understand how people can just ignore this stuff in preference for harping on about politics. What about respect for the dead?
I grew up in a so-called democratic country, where so-called freedom of speech was highly valued. But when I received a scholarship to pursue my bachelor's degree in China, my decision shocked my friends and family. However, I was eager to explore the other side of the world, and it turned out to be the best decision of my life. During my four years at a university in China, I was blown away by how open-minded Chinese people were about different cultures and religions. Their curiosity and respect for diversity were amazing, not just among young people but even among elderly folks in rural areas. I remember countless dinner table conversations that went on for hours, where we discussed various topics and I witnessed their genuine respect for other cultures and religions. It was simply awesome. One thing that really stood out to me in China was the sense of safety. I've lived in five different countries, but nowhere else did I feel as secure as I did in China. I could walk alone late at night without worrying about getting robbed or harassed. However, there's a major problem among young people in China: the immense social and economic pressures they face. The younger generation is constantly striving to meet society's expectations, which often leads to depression. It's disheartening to see them gradually forgetting their own cultural values, like the teachings of Taoism and Confucianism, which emphasize that true success lies in finding happiness, not in material wealth or luxury possessions. Chinese parents could play a crucial role in alleviating these pressures by providing more support to their children. A supportive family, a circle of good friends, and access to decent meals three times a day are enough to lead a happy life. While corruption does exist in China, I believe that the primary cause of this issue stems from the societal and economic pressures faced by individuals. No country is perfect, but China has shown that Western democracy isn't the only path to progress. Personally, I've developed a deep love for China. It has become an integral part of my life, transforming me from a boy into a man. I cherish the experiences and lessons I gained there, and I'm grateful for how it broadened my perspective on the world.
I dont think communism is a natural part of Chinese culture. Asian countries that adopted more democratic systems are much better countries than China. Like Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. In those countries people have much better rights and freedoms.
Interesting Comment and thanks for sharing. China current growth model is failing and like many countries it has many difficulties. Lets see how the CCP deal with these. Lets see if the Chinese people are happy with future low growth and a lack of social services - like unemployment benefit. There are new challenges for China. The west has been here before. Maybe the people will want real political change - maybe not.
@@Andy-P I can't imagine why they'd copy the west. Having two parties breeds corruption, deadlock, and instability. The US is hardly a democracy. It's a broken and deeply corrupt representative republic which only serves the obscenely wealthy. We don't get to choose the vision or the policy. People don't get rich _first_, they take it all. I wanted to vote for peace and cooperation with China. My choices were between provoking a war with China or provoking a war with China. Our society is so unenlightened that it would be funny if it wasn't tragic.
@@Andy-P Even if China fail, it will not be worst than the 100s years of looting by the west. China in her weakest still whipped Americans and her allies asses in Korean war.
British Born Chinese here. My thanks for this video it resonated with my own experience but in reverse. For all of my childhood I was brought up believing China bad, West good. My epithany came when I read about the Opium War. From then on I understood that I had only been taught parts of the truth and it was up to me to find the missing parts.
Ya man, its never too late. Anyone with grandfathers in their 90s can talk about Opium addiction. WanRong died in her 30s after addiction and a loveless marriage to Aisin Goryo Puyi. Just a footnote to the Century of Humiliation.
News is mostly / only about negative things in the world, it’s not a history lesson. Sure, they talk a little about sports, but you must be interested, to really know. There use to be only one TV channel in Norway, and we only knew what they were interested in telling the people about. If watched the news you get really black and white picture of the world, without any shades of gray. I think it’s so refreshing to have the internet, and being able to express what we think, and be able to find information about almost anything. It a shame that some countries do not allow free speech and access to world.
@tb3667 When I learnt about the war here in Britain it was called the Anglo-Sino war and was barely a footnote in the class. Is it was not for my own heritage I would not even have bothered finding out more about it.
The difference is that the Opium wars were in the 19th century, and the knowledge of them are not suppressed, in fact you literally learn about it in school. They also have no bearing on the current situation of China being an authoritarian and hostile state in the 21st century. You must have been on some strange drugs if that's the epiphany you had.
your story resonates with me strongly. i went through similar proud-shamed-nuanced-content evolution. now that I've stayed in US for >20 years and seeing the western demonization, i'm now very proud of my Chinese descent. :)
Nationalism only promotes the narrative of governments. Nationalism was the root of both world wars. With the internet, we're now living in a "global village". So why choose sides? All political borders were just man-made borders. It only separates us. Fight for humanity, not your government.
The demonisation is only there because the empire is being threatened by the newcomer. Don't take it personal. If it was Brazil that rose up, it would have been demonised. The point she makes in the video is good though. Each system has its pros and cons. If we could have the stability of the east and the freedom of the west, man, that would be awesome. And please don't say "what stability? Their belt and road is failing and their exports dropped by 30%, blah blah" or "what freedom? With the NSA spying on the population". There is more stability in China and more freedom in the west, comparatively.
Demonization???? When you know the contagious nature of Corona, even for a moment we agree if China does not know how can you justify, China stopped domestic flights while allaowing International Flights ... do not fool your self we do not have problem with Chinese but problem with how PLA is treating the world and its neighbors.
I love your videos. It's very refreshing to hear your perspective. I'm Russian, I used to live in Fuzhou, China from 2016 to 2019. I love your country and it always holds a special place in my heart. In 2019 I moved to NYC. I was unpleasantly surprised and shocked by how negatively China is portrayed in western media. Took me some time to get used to this. Or hearing another crazy rumor about China from someone I know. I hope this can change one day.
Your story resonates with me. Growing up in Taiwan, I have always believed China's government is no saint. They can be ruthless, heavy-handed and brutal. They can make mistakes, sometimes big ones, and do not acknowledge them. I am sure other overseas Chinese like myself can see the flaws in the Chinese government. I am sure many would like reforms to happen, or to happen at a faster pace than currently. On the other hand, over the last five years or so, it is becoming self-evident to me that China's rise, economically and militarily, has rattled the US. American foreign policy has become overwhelmingly focused on containing China, for the self-serving reason of maintaining its hegemony. For all the fault of the Chinese government, at least they are incentivised to advance China's interest, while the English-speaking world led by the US is clearly against China. Fundamentally, this is why I support the Chinese government. The open hostility displayed by the US and others is having the effect of uniting the Chinese people behind the Communist Party. If the West just left China alone - or remain friendly even - I am sure the people will seek more and more reforms.
If china wasnt in such a hostile environment where all other major powers resented it, then it might feel comfortable enough to give these freedoms to its people, but instead it has adopted a siege mentality. The same most state-socialist countries have used to defend themselves from constant attack. China is just another one of these.
He's alive and living well. And if you look at ALL the evidences,..... you would notice that most victims were actually soldiers ki.ll.ed brutally by the mob of students brainwashed by the C.I.A backed operatives and Western media that wants to take down Chiiina.
😂 did you watch the entire length of the video? It only took me 25 years to see the rest of the clip where the guy with grocery bag walked away. So undramatic exit, it's no wonder CNN won't show the remaining clip.
Great video. Living in the west - I grew up with a chip on my shoulder. Frankly there is an ingrained dislike and discrimination against Chinese people - not just China itself. The claim about "communism" is false. The Chinese Exclusion Act pre-dated communism in China. I watched all the Tiananmen stuff growing up but it wasn't until I was an adult that I learned how the western narrative was definitely not the full story. My comment would take too long to explain completely - but I will touch on just a few. For one thing - it never dawns on people in the west that the Chinese government ALLOWED the protestors to camp out for weeks. How many so called democracies would let so many people camp out in the capital city like that?? Let's be honest - it is not likely. The other major point is that which is not emphasized is everyone was given warning that time was over. It was at that time rioters (mainly workers and not students) attacked police and soldiers in vicious ways - killing many. it was at that time armed soldiers were sent in. That part of the narrative is NOT discussed in the west (though if you search you can find traces of it in the first few days of reporting). The western media shaped the narrative to make it seem like the Chinese government just decided to machine gun people and run them over in tanks - when that is not what happened. There are countless examples of these things being done - not just about China. I mean Gulf of Tonkin - Iraq WMD's and on and on. But most people don't take note of such things.
but you have to ask yourself why the Chinese are discriminated against, because most Chinese people are not credible, they are inhuman, liars, hypocrites, in general the Chinese have nothing good, I know them very well
I also hope that more foreign friends can learn about China's modern history here, so that more people can understand China. Firstly, you need to study the history of China. In 1840, the British government forced Chinese people to use drugs, but the Chinese government refused. As a result, Britain launched a war of aggression against China: China was called the Opium War. In 1900, the armed war of aggression against China was composed of eight major countries headed by Britain, Russia, Japan, France, Italy, the United States, Germany and Austria. They indiscriminately massacred and plundered China's wealth, forced the Qing government of China to sign many unequal treaties with these countries, invaded China, and demanded that China compensate these countries for their losses. In 1912, Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat sen jointly overthrew the Qing Dynasty government and established the Republic of China. However, the government of the Republic of China was composed of warlords, landlords and evil gentry, and some puppet mouthpiece intellectuals. These warlords and landlords spread all over China's cities and villages, with about 8 million people. These over 8 million warlords, landlords, and other cruel enslavements against humanity oppress approximately 500 million Chinese people, who are all enslaved by the government of the Republic of China. In 1931, when Japan invaded China, the President of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai shek, chose the policy of capitulation and compromise. The government chose to flee because of the terror war and fear of Japan. The government of the Republic of China ran away for six years. During these six years, the government of the Republic of China did not dare to resist Japanese aggression, but hid and let Japan burn, kill and loot millions of territory in the northeast of China. Therefore, Japan conducted experiments on human biochemical viruses in three provinces in Northeast China, with a record of crimes against humanity pressing. Later, after Japan surrendered, it was taken by the United States. As a result, the United States became the world's most powerful biochemical laboratory and the country with the largest number of biochemical laboratories worldwide. Note: During the Japanese invasion of the Republic of China in 1931, Because of fear of the war launched by Japan,Chiang Kai shek chose to flee rather than fight against Japanese aggression. He hid in the south for six years and dared not fight against Japanese aggression. At this time, the poorest and lacking in good weapons, the Communist Party of China, consisting of the poorest workers, farmers, students, and teachers, emerged. In order to resist Japanese aggression, the Communist Party of China launched a war against Japanese aggression in three northeastern provinces of China in 1931. However, due to the fact that the Communist Party of China was composed of poor people at that time and lacked weapons, It is to use outdated handguns and some steel forks and knives to resist Japan's invasion. President Chiang Kai shek of the ROC government and their warlords and landlords did not dare to resist Japanese aggression, but chose to besiege the Communist Party of China. Because the Chiang Kai shek government was afraid that the Communist Party of China would win the support of the people and threaten Chiang Kai shek's regime, most of the time, more than 7 million troops of the ROC government Chiang Kai shek were used to arrest and shoot the Communist Party of China rather than fight against Japanese aggression. Japan is burning, killing, and looting three provinces and cities in Northeast China, covering millions of territory, while the government of the Republic of China is besieging and slaughtering the Communist Party of China. Therefore, on the one hand, the Communist Party of China used the most backward weapons to fight against Japanese aggression in the three northeastern provinces, on the other hand, it was also encircled and massacred by millions of troops of the Chiang Kai shek government of the Republic of China. At the same time, you should know that the government of the Republic of China is a puppet state supported by the United States. This government is cruel slavery and oppression of the people. At that time, the Chinese people were slaves. This is the most important historical background. You must know that this is the main reason for the false history of the Communist Party of China that you heard in your country. Because the Communist Party of China led the Chinese farmers, workers and other brave struggles to break away from the enslavement and oppression of the people by the warlord government of the Republic of China. The Communist Party of China led the people throughout the country to resist the oppression and control of the warlord landlord group of the Republic of China, launched China's all-round people's democratic struggle movement, defeated Chiang Kai shek's warlord government of the Republic of China, and liberated all Chinese people. Therefore, The soldiers of the People's Republic of China are called the People's Liberation Army, which is the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. They helped the entire Chinese people to be liberated and completely defeated the Chiang Kai shek warlord government of the Republic of China, which enslaved and oppressed the Chinese people. This government of the Republic of China is a puppet that the United States likes and supports. After being defeated by the Communist Party of China, Chiang Kai shek went to Taiwan Province of China. Started propaganda against the Communist Party of China. The greater historical background is the opposition between NATO and the Soviet Union, that is, the opposition between Western capitalism and the Soviet socialist system. This is one of the reasons why you have heard many lies about China in your country. In 1949, Mao Zedong led the Communist Party of China, led Chinese farmers, workers, students and some intellectuals, businessmen, etc., to defeat the Chiang Kai shek warlord landlord group of the Republic of China, and founded the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. At the same time, the people's democratic struggle continued throughout China, because part of China at that time was still under the control of the warlord government of the Republic of China, Many people in rural areas are still slaves to landlords and have not yet achieved comprehensive liberation. At the same time, it is important to understand the current situation in China at that time, which is a poor and backward agricultural country that has gone through a century of aggression, war, and civil war. Rural areas account for over 92% of the entire China, almost all of which are rural, and over 90% of farmers are slaves to landlords. Mao Zedong led the Communist Party of China to launch the people's democratic struggle throughout China, finally defeated the Chiang Kai shek warlord regime that enslaved and oppressed the Chinese people, and established the People's Republic of China. After several years of people's democratic struggle, the Chinese people were finally liberated, and the government of the Republic of China's enslavement of the people was smashed. Chiang Kai shek's regime fled to Taiwan Province of China. The Chiang Kai shek warlord group of the Republic of China, which was defeated by the Chinese people, was unwilling to be defeated by the Communist Party of China. They hated the Communist Party of China for destroying the good life of their warlords and landlords. So, in Taiwan, China, and in combination with the strong anti socialist public opinion and propaganda in the West, you heard many lies that discredited China. This is the background of history. It is important to know that the Communist Party of China saved the Chinese people and established the People's Republic of China. What discredited China and the Communist Party of China and oppressed the Chinese people by anti human enslavement was the Chiang Kai shek warlords, landlords and evil gentry who fled to Taiwan Province of China, about 5 million people, and some landlords and anti Communist intellectuals went to Hong Kong, China. If you understand this historical process, you will understand China's modern history and why the Communist Party of China has been slandered and hated by some people. What you have heard has always been lies and falsehood. Please tell your friends around you not to trust modified news reports. If you have the opportunity, be sure to go to China and take a look. I am a Chinese and I am more aware of my country than anyone else. Welcome to China to take a look and don't believe the erroneous reports of China by some media in your country.
@@user-nm8lb7zt7q22 The History missed something, Brit was the drug lord at that time, but the Japanese, Dutch, and Americans were also involved in the trade. Plus many Chinese themselves collaborated in the lucrative business.
I just discovered your videos here on TH-cam, I lived in China for 4 years and loved it. The pandemic changed everythiing but I will never regret my time there and the friends that I have made in China.
@@stephenlock7236 Schools would be shut down even if the area itself was not effected. You are reminded that you live in a Communist country and what the government says you have to follow.
since you talk about 64, i was in beijing at that time, i was for those students. after i come to america, i still hold the same opinion for nearly 20 years. but in the recent years, i started to change. if those students demostration was succesful, given the political trend at that time, china will follow soviet union. compare where those countries are now, i believe deng did the right decision: he did the decision not for the people's opinion at that time, but he made the right decision for history. believe me, now, 20 years later, 50 years later, 100 years later, people, especially chinese people will remember him. he saved the china and made the country prosperous.
This was such a beautiful reflection on your personal journey. Thank you so much for sharing this. I hope for the day where people can feel at home and accepted wherever they find themselves, and whatever their cultural background. The incredible diversity of human thought and life is beautiful, and I hope we can learn to understand and celebrate that, and to love each other for our differences.
I’m 49, been out of China for 40 years. No, there is no shame in the word China. However, as I’ve gotten older and studied more history and read more about the world, the word China has slowly become a word to be proud of. I was never ashamed to say I was from China. But now I am proud to say I’m from China and all that it implies. It means I’m hard working, studious, smart, frugal, open minded, forward looking, and of course, pragmatic. The west has yet to realize this bc it is still hard at work, now more than ever in fact, spreading lies and trying to discredit China. It makes me all the prouder to see that China has not responded in kind but is merely continuing on its way to self improvement. China is me and so many other Chinese around the world. We’ve been though a lot. But we can look back at our extensive history and see that the modern western ideas are quite new and unproven, but our 5000 year old ideas still thrive and are thriving now more than ever. Proud to be Chinese and to come from China. But also proud to be Chinese American. You don’t have to pick. You can do both. Cheers from NYC :)
I was born and raised in Canada (I can't speak Chinese). But I've seen both Canada (and America) and China in person, so I think I have a balanced viewpoint. Neither China nor the West is perfect. Both have their issues. But I think China is a magnificent country. It is not the bad guy that is depicted in Western media. I also believe the scientific surveys that tell us how happy and satisfied the Chinese are. These surveys corroborate my personal experience and observations of China. ■ 79% of Chinese believe their nation is democratic, while only 57% of Americans and 55% of British do. [Source: Latana's Democracy Perception Index 2024.] ■ 85% of Chinese trust their government, while only 40% of Americans and 30% of British do. [Source: Edelman Trust Barometer 2024.] ■ 76% of Chinese trust their politicians, while only 29% of Americans and 20% of British do. [Source: Open Society Barometer 2023.] ■ 91% of Chinese are happy with their life, while only 76% of Americans and 70% of British are. [Source: Ipsos' Global Happiness 2023.] ■ 95.5% of Chinese are satisfied with their government. [Source: Harvard Kennedy School in 2020, "Taking China's Pulse."] ■ 95% of Chinese believe their country is on the right track and moving in the right direction, while only 41% of Americans and 23% of British do. [Source: Ipsos' What Worries The World survey from November, 2019.] ■ most Chinese strongly support their political system. [Source: UC San Diego's China Data Lab since 2019, "WHAT 16 WAVES OF PUBLIC OPINION SURVEYS TELL US ABOUT CHINA AND CHINESE VIEWS."]
I've just discovered this channel. I've been living in the South of China for 2 years now and I'm fascinated by the geo-political/socio-political situation. I think you have a very engaging, genuine and thoughtful approach to telling your story and video making. I'm really inspired. Keep going (Jiayou!)
Such a wonderful video! I have enjoyed watching your other videos as well. Your videos are amazing, and you are so talented in telling the truth from different angles. Look forward to many more!
I think reconciling ourselves with the history of the place we come from is... complicated. In my country, it is known that the state has ordered thousands of extra official executions, that foreign powers (UK, Israel, Spain and particularly the US) have been responsible for mass killings and political unrest, and I have not met a single person that doesn´t have at least one violent history in their extended family. I think it´s comforting to identify and rely upon a national identity. I also think that it´s a comfort countries are eager to count on, to foster. And in many ways, this makes us vulnerable to manipulation. To complacency. So what are we supposed to do? Embrace a country that undoubtedly has killed and that hurts others? All countries are failing someone in the present. Are we supposed to push it away? I think pretending to be morally incorruptible is fundamentally invalid if you want to live in reality. All systems fail somehow, all identities are made up. But we also have to come to terms with the fact that we might have to accept some awful realities in order to live. My grandfather is a lovely man who I´ve fought with when he justifies the killings of innocent people to make our countrie´s army appear more capable. Everything is just a mess, all the time. That´s reality.
Hi Siming, I appreciate hearing your thoughts and experience - thank you for sharing. It's people like who are the true authorities to speak out about their experience as you have experiened the both cultures and can compare, unlike many main stream [western] media. Thanks for your courage. I have been looking for "genuine" opinions - glad I found you. I look forward to more of your sharing.
Hi Siming, thank you for your candid and honest video. You touched a very deep subject, as you can appreciate in the comments. Only people who left their country can know. I left Spain to come to the UK, not such a cultural shift, but still lots of conflicts. As time goes by, I am learning to take the best of both sides, and work the less positive ones, that are also part of me. Like the character inherited from your parents. We do not like everything of ourselves, but learnt to appreciate the whole, and work the less likeable parts. This is maturity, and finally we are lucky to have this opportunity and widen our mind. The world is so big and each one of us is a wonder worth a life of dedication. Thank you again for sharing with us. Your video and the comments from all of you made me feel close to you, understood, and it is a very nice feeling.
If more people were like you and were open to new ideas while also understanding the value in traditional values we would likely have a better chance to at least understand one another. Thanks for posting!
Hi Siming! First of all, I want to say that I really admire your journey of self-development and the articulate way you’ve presented your experiences to us. It must take a lot of resilience to move to a new country and to expose yourself, for the first time, to some new information that makes you see the nation you’ve grown up in in a different light. And in addition to this, I really admire the way you’ve gone back and searched for the “other side” to the story - the one that the western narrative often evades or simply doesn’t have time to talk about - in order to reconcile the warm, supportive China you grew up (and no doubt the one you experience while you’re there) with the much colder, antagonistic one you hear about in the west. I understand and deeply share your desire to not be ashamed of who you are, to not feel lesser to people in the west, and to take pride in your family, your culture, and ultimately yourself. I do, however, have some questions that I would be interested to hear your perspective on. As a bit of background, I was born and raised in New Zealand. One half of my family are Māori (indigenous New Zealanders). The other half of my family are descended from British immigrants (the dominant group in NZ society today). I’m in my late-20s so I suspect not too different in age to yourself. I say all this because I think it is relevant - for the most part I’m interested in our internal politics, but my experience living in NZ obviously informs the way I see politics overseas. Also, for much of the past four years, I have lived in Taiwan and studied 中文. Your videos that address Xinjiang and Taiwan do a great job of adding to the conventional (one-sided) western narrative by presenting the Chinese government’s rationale for intervention in these regions - i.e. suppression of extremism and maintaining sovereignty/territorial integrity so as to not lose face amongst the Chinese public. However, I feel like while you’ve done a great job at explaining the *rationale* of the Chinese government, you haven’t really provided much of a counter/critique to it. Take, for instance, Xinjiang. As you’ve acknowledged, the issue faced by the separatists is that they’re under the rule of a government they never consented to ruling over them. And the issue faced by the government is terrorist attacks by said separatists (on civilians and said government). And I think “consent” is the key word here. Fortunately, we’re at an age where consent is well-understood at the level of individuals. If a man were to try to force himself on a woman without consent, we would (correctly, I believe) tell him not to do so - the obvious solution to this issue is to simply ask the woman “do you want to be with this man?”, and if she doesn’t then most would agree that the man should back away, let the woman live her life, and not try to claim the woman as his own. Of course, no one has asked the Uyghur people of Xinjiang if they consent to be paired with the Han-majority China, despite the desire of the latter. This could be easily achieved by having a free and fair referendum on independence for the region. However, this has not happened, and as such, this rule is not by consent. It seems clear to me, then, that the Chinese government is consequently the aggressor in this situation. China may claim that they have the “right” to rule over Xinjiang due to some constitutional documents (that they wrote), but how ethical is resorting to this justification if the Uyghur people themselves did not choose to be in this position? To me, this seems akin to man claiming he has eternal right to a woman simply because he has over-powered her in the past (see the Dzungar-Qing wars) - something anyone in their right mind surely wouldn’t agree with. ANYWAY, I guess the question I pose to you is twofold - 1) If you believe this analogy is an unfair way to conceptualise the situations in Xinjiang and Taiwan (noting that Taiwanese people *have* been polled and that they strongly oppose unification with China) - why are they different? And 2) If you can justify these contexts as different, how then does this result in greater justification of the actions taken by the Chinese government against these territories and their people? Sorry for the long message, I just want to say I’m really impressed by your videos so far, and I support you fully on your personal journey!
You deserve so much more audience. This video was an amazing experience for me, let's say it had the similar mental impact as your first time watching Tiananmen video (kinda). Thanks Siming Lan, you're a wonderful individual
This is an incredible video. To hear such an honest narrative journey spoken so articulately is rare indeed. I wonder if you have read Wild Swans. A moving novel by Jung Chang who now lives in London :). I think it is one of the most important things for our cultures to understand eachother without prejudice and appreciate and learn rather than have tensions believing each is the right one.
These are the kind of videos I have been looking for a while. As a Chinese living overseas I have the similar mindset as you, but I am not smart enough to elaborate it myself. Please keep up the good work. And I will share these videos with son, he has similar confusion as well. There are 60 million Chinese living overseas, almost 10 million living in the western countries. We definitely need to find our IDENTITY.
Great video, I've never seen anyone approaching this topic with such an intelligent, positive and open-minded disposition. I really respect that you can find a balance and trust your own conclusions without using labels, and without having to throw mud on "the West" to uplift your view of China. That's the easy and wrong path. Too many people (also in the comments to this video) don't seem to be able to understand that there are positive aspects to China AND to the West - as well as negatives - and they are not mutually exclusive.
For me, it took me some time to learn I trusted Western media far too much. And now my opinion of the West and Western media could hardly be worse. The more you learn about their atrocities and the Western media's role aiding and abetting all of it, well it gives you a whole new perspective and it's hard not to be angry. So that's how I'm feeling; outraged. So the more political I got, the more I learned about history, the more negative my perception has gotten of the West and this is inversely true towards China. From a neutral opinion, to curiosity and skepticism, to hope and belief in the Chinese system and in fact a very positive opinion. China stands out to me as a beacon of light for the future. Btw, here is what I know about the Tiananmen Square incident: "a joint MI6-CIA operation known as ‘Operation Yellowbird’ was launched to train ‘pro-democracy’ factions in Chinese universities. On the ground, Triads were sent from Hong Kong to train the students in guerrilla warfare, arming them with iron poles and teaching them insurgency tactics." Here is a video showing the rioters took control of an APC and fired the turrets at the soldiers: th-cam.com/video/oBygE3SaXcE/w-d-xo.html Title of the article on Mango Press: THE TIAN’ANMEN SQUARE ‘MASSACRE’: THE WEST’S MOST PERSUASIVE, MOST PERVASIVE LIE. Maybe I should also list some great channels I follow like Jerry's Take on China, Daniel Dumbrill, Li Jingjing, Barrett, Carl Zha and lots more... Edit: btw, while you might see the Tiananmen incident as a source of shame, take a look at what they've done to all those places where their color revolutions have succeeded like Libya or Syria. Or look at how they've exploited Africa and killed any leader that has tried to escape their control like Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Gaddafi and so on...
people like you will help bridge the differences and misunderstandings that exist in our world. Thank you so much for sharing your views! I wish you all the best in your pursuits!
It never ceases to amaze me how watching videos on TH-cam can truly bring us closer to the speaker, allowing us to sense their emotion and experience it.
Thank you. Great thought provoking video. As an overseas Chinese educated in Chinese in Malaysia and later studied in the UK for five years, and lived in Australia for the past 38 years; my life changing experience was when I visited China in 2000 for the very first time. I was totally blown away by the progress in China in just 22 years of opening up since 1978. Until then I was totally brainwashed by the Western propaganda my whole life. Even with my Chinese upbringing, I always thought somehow the West was better than the Chinese. Since 2000, I started to do some research about China, our civilisation and re-visited Confucianism teaching and its impact on China. To my amazement, the so called communist China is more like the Confucian China with some socialistic characteristics. We may not be far superior than the Western civilisation but definitely we are not below. We are just different. I have done some research in TiananMen incident because I wanted to know what was it all about. My conclusion was that the students thought they knew what was good for China, but they lacked the knowledge and wisdom to move China ahead. Based on youthful emotionalism, ignorance and external Western provocation they did the wrong thing. Sad , but the Chinese government had to look after the safety and well being of 1.4 billion people. In actual counting, estimated about 150 deaths in Beijing during the week. The situation was over exaggerated by the West. People die when you want a revolution. Rome was not built in one day. There are much much more darkness in the West with their hegemonic agenda which resulted in hundreds of thousands deaths and millions of refugees, in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, etc..... Not to mention 200 years of slavery, genoside of Red Indians, Africans, Australian natives, South American Indians, and the brutal colonial rules all over the world. It is great to be Chinese, sister:) And Yes I am proud to have China as my roots.
Dah sedar tu, tolonglah jangan jadi macam kacang lupakan kulit. Bangsa penjajah tu hanya peralatkan pemuja2 mereka untuk kekalkan kuasa mereka. I'm a Malay and I emphatise what the mainland Chinese went through during the Century of Humiliation. They got it far worse than us. TBH, I'm disgusted with those who blindly support the ones who put their ancestors in misery. Those bananas have zero respect from me!
Thank you for sharing your story. I am afraid, however, that the situation is going to continue to worsen, because of great power competition between the US and China. I look forward to seeing more of your content here on TH-cam.
Great video! I think as a person grows, if they do not see the problems with their own country and have a sense of unease about it, then they have not grown enough. There is not a single country that does not have some problems, harms done, or problematic societal structures. This doesn't mean that you cannot be proud of your country and it's history while still acknowledging it. I really appreciate your first hand account of growing up and realizing these things. As a canadian, it seems like Canada has a very simple unproblematic perception to the rest of the world however Canada has a bloody genocidal history that continues to this day. The people whose land this is are the people currently without clean drinking water and often no access to support like the rest of the country does. Canadians will swear up and down that they are not racist, but ask them how they feel about the indigenous populations around them.
The key is Acknowledgement- this is where it hits a snag with the CCP - They will never acknowledge the atrocities done. The west is now moving into the opposite direction of self flagellation..almost just as bad.
@@SimingLan As a Uyghur, do not believe this woman, this woman is a propaganda woman funded by the chinese communist goverment !! you are a liar ! can you sleep well at night ? When Uygurs are tortured !!
Always thought of Canadians as being , fair minded , tolerant and welcoming and was shocked by the way they treated indigenous people , even children ! The light skin people of the world need to stop imaging that they are superior , privileged by virtue of their pigments
Well ,aren't you a breath of fresh air ....seriously. Your communications are right on song. Your videos allow us who follow objectively to see a totally different point of view and,that can only be healthy from an intellectual point of view. I'm now going to subscribe to your channel and, watch from the beginning and hopefully learn something new ,for that's the only path to true growth.
Excellent video ! I really like you and the way you communicate and investigate both sides of an issue. No society is perfect. But I think it is detrimental to realize the real issues behind protests in all countries. The one all encompassing theme or reason is FREEDOM FROM REPRESSION !💕🌸🙏
I loved this video. I liked very much your description of the 'reconciliation' process and your self awareness. I think that what the conflict of views you experienced moving to another country is very common, but it takes an active process of self-awareness analysis that is uncommon.
I think you are a wonderful, thoughtful young person People like you, who can translate for westerners and easterners, have a very important role to play in the next years.
Hey Siming So now you know what a c°L°r rev°Lution looks like (Tiananmen). For China to bring 700 thousand people out of poverty is a badge of honor. Here in the states we’re still fighting of Medicare for all, and there’s no way to fight corruption in politics as president Xi did. Please remember the many that made sacrifices before China came into prominence. Be proud of… being Chinese. Happy New Year’s.
@T B ....What brutish regime, you nit->wiit? Have you even been to Ch-->ina? They have more collective freedom than any of your Wes-->tern countries including U->S->A. why do you think 94% of them love their government while 80% of you hate yours? Keep watching your fa-->ke ne-->ws, boi.
@T B .... according to who? C->I->A? Even the IMF says Ch-->ina grows 3-5 times faster than ANY economy in the world every single year.... including this year. No wonder you nit-->wiits in the West are such nit-->wiiits.
The good part of being able to understand both languages and both sides is that it can sharpen your perspectives and also allow you to be a bridge in helping others to question and challenge what is being fed to them via mass media. Your TH-cam channel is doing just that and I applaud your honest efforts! Great job! 加油！ p.s. feel free to add more spoken Chinese (with English subtitles) in your channel
I appreciate your open honesty and personal perspective. Political-narratives shape cultural-narratives, which then shape personal-narratives, identities, and sense of self-worth. To "find oneself" means to "define oneself", and that ultimately means finding your own political voice by navigating your way through the public discourse that shape political-narratives. Participating in a culture is not just a one-way street where we let the culture completely shape our personal identity and self-worth; it should also be a back-and-forth dialogue and negotiation between individual will/aspirations and collective political agendas. This is what I would have told my younger self (though I'm sure it wouldn't make sense to him), and I'm glad to see you embracing political discourse.
I sincerely hope you look into the tiennaman square incident and find that there was no massacre. Yes there were people killed but they were retaliatory in nature where the military officers were being beaten up by students. Also, if you look how the tiannamen protests started, they all started by foreign NGOs at the universities influencing the young ones.
Like I've said in an earlier comment. I grew up in Tianjin, and after having finished my undergrad in China, I spent about 5 years in Australia from 2014 to 2019 (doing my masters and working). Perhaps because I "went abroad" when I was already an adult, I had already thought through some of the stuff you were going through while you were in the UK, doing your undergrad. All I can say is, you are still young, and still need time to properly think about things and eventually form your own perception. Btw, I am gay and out. That might make people think I must lean towwards the so-called "western way". But actually, after having spent many years going through and thinking through stufff, I arrived at the conclusion of "no, I don't". Also I have LONG passed the stage of trying to "fit in" the "civilized world". The things is, the "both truth" you are talking about in the video can be summarized into one thing: the scientific truth. The reason why it appears to have "both" truth is because people get lost in a simplistic right-wrong illogical "logic". That's the reason why I arrived at that conclusion. The west has descended into what I call as "liberal fundamentalism", deviating away farther and farther from the scientific truth. Yet China's system keeps getting upgraded and after each iteration it gets closer to a rule of science. So it always comes down to which system can better reform itself periodically. And China's wins over the western currently.
About this "shame" you are talking about, all I can say is, you haven't realized China's fate doesn't lie with the west. But rather, our fate lies more closely with the developing world. What China stands for globally is a world order of equal civilizations. On the surface, when you hear about western liberal multuculturalism for the first time, it might appear "progressive". But once you think through what that means for the larger world, not just one particular society, you realize the underlying hidden assumption is a world order of unequal civilizations. People cannot really appreciate their birth place but have to escape for a better life and all crowd into the priviliged society in this world system. Had civilizations been equal, people wouldn't have needed to do so, and so no heavily multicultural societies would have existed. Because most people don't need to escape their birth place. Think about your peer students in the UK, who came from the developing world. You are feeling the "shame" because you still want to adapt to and fit in this unequal world order. But why should you? So what if western ordinaries perceive China as "evil"? Let them. Why care at all? It doesn't change anything. The feeling of "shame" is a demonstration that many Chinese still aren't truly self-confident. They are still suffering from the mentality of the weak. They don't realize, time has changed.
@@mrx2062 In a world order of equal civilizations, every indigenous ruling force has natural ruling status within their sovereign borders. Within China's, that indigenous ruling force happens to be the Communist Party of China. There's nothing wrong with that.
@@jeremyz653 There is no "natural" ruling force. Where should such "natural" ruling force come from, what makes it natural ? Who decides that it is natural ? Every government needs legitimacy to rule. In the past kings used religion to do that. The church in Europe legitimized their power saying thereby god legitimized their power. But today of course nobody believes that anymore. Thus, the only way to legitimize a government is by regular election. The other option of factual government is government with the gun, by arresting or killing every opposition or political alternative. That is what the CCP does. And even worse, the CCP which is not legitimized by anybody ( that is why they spend more on internal security than on the army) wants to extend this kind of non legitimized rule to Taiwan, which has a ligitimate government by the way. That is the issue of non-elected governments, ruling by force, they need always to eliminate all potential political opposition and alternatives in order to stay in power. That is likely why the CCP has cracked down on Hongkong and why they want to desperately want to conquer Taiwan. That is also the reason why the Chinese never ever will get freedom of speech or other basic civil rights. The Chinese should never think that has anything to do with their state of development and will come in the future , or other bullshit excuses. No, it has a simple reason, any government withouth legitimacy always needs to eliminate all political opposition and politcal alternatives in order to stay in power. The highest goal of the CCP above all else, is to stay in power. They will prioritze nothing more, in particular not the well being of the Chinese people. The well being of the Chinese people is a preferred way to stay in power as long as the party can deliver that, but if for any reason the CCP cannot deliver that anymore, they will consider any other measure before losing power. Remember, they answer to no one. They have asolute political power. That makes governments like the CCP very dangerous in the long run, in particular with global reach. Such governments can exist in their own countries, but groups with absolute power should never be global super powers. There would be no such an issue with a super power China, if it had a democratic government, where the power is controlled with checks and balances. The US can have shitty presidents which may do some damage, but their power is not abolute, limited and controlled. Shitty US presidents can be elected out of office and their term is limited. A guy like Xi cannot really replaced easily other than by a conspirancy in the party if they do shitty things. The leader of the CCP answers to nearly nobody. Remember, the politics of Mao could cost the lifes of millions of Chinese, but nothing happened to him. Mao could stay in office, despite his disasterous politics. Now imagine, the same type of government structures become a power with global reach and a dangerous idiot becomes leader of the CCP. Then that has global reach and implications.
尽管已经知道要对所有观点开放包容，但以你个人经历来介绍中外之别、对同一问题的不同视角，还是让我获益良多。This is a great video，thank you so much for telling people the diffrence perspective between China and Western country
I'm going through the same thing with India, because in our modern politics, we do have shades of authoritarianism associated with certain cultural and linguistic values, which from a Western perspective I must abandon, but I also need to embrace the good aspects of these teachings by learning more about it and forming my own unique values using my own findings
at the beginning of this video i genuinely was like "omg a girl who got westernized... (I'm Brazilian btw and the narrative that China is a Draconian surveillance state hits hard here on the tropics. BUT, when you showed your conciliation and the embracement of different versions of what happened in tiananmen square really hit me, because it's only through the lense of different versions that I got really nice things about china. How it's growth and struggle for sovereignty is something that ANY country on earth should be inspired by, no matter the political system. Brazil tried that at the 2000's until 2015, but was stopped by the U.S, so it's really refreshing to see a nation so willing to lift itself out of Western imperialism. And just to be clear, I'm a Marxist Leninist, so it's really difficult for me to identify with imperialist capitalism anyway. Loves from Brazil 💕💕
yes the history of Brazil saddens me. the left wing has always been suppressed (well since the 1960's) by the military with US backing. When Brazil finally started to pull itself from under that - it got set back again.
you do realize that the CCP monitors all chinese people abroad on social media, and that she has to be very neutral otherwise she could be arrested if she's currently in china, or as soon as she returns to china, and the local authorities could arrest people in her family (or take their property) as coerced to strongly urge her to come back to china to pay for her crimes against the state. As soon as someone posts their face on the internet, they potentially put a target on their back.
I just returned to HK after studying oversea at about your present age when Tinaman happened. I knew right away after the students met up with the government that the movement got to stop. Becasue I didn't see the students, representing by their leaders, brought anything to the table to further the advance of the progress of reform at that time. If the students and whoever behind them succeeded in toppling the government, China would had entered another round of chaos and the country would never able catch up to the West. My view was at odds with many of my fellow friends in HK to a point that even my career suffered. I moved back to oversea not long after but i'm proud of being a Chinese and all China had achieved. Witnessing so many color revolution conducted by the West thereafter, I admire the courage Deng had and made tough decision for the good of all Chinese during that time. Will support and follow your channel. Keep up your good work, stick to your principle and keep an open mind. Thanks for your effort.
My grandparents fled China during World War II. After World War II, my grandma occasionally took some old clothes back to support her hometown. I remember my grandma told me that the village chief kept her for dinner, and the dinner was a salted egg with rice. Later, my grandma also told me that the most precious food in the whole village is the only salted egg, and the villagers can only live on porridge in normal days. She saw the children in the village hiding by the window, watching the only salted egg drooling, she was too embarrassed to eat it, and gave it to the children. When I was a teenager, I liked western culture very much, and I also learned about the Tiananmen incident from TV by chance. I felt betrayed and angry, I felt that my family had always supported China, but how can China treated the people this way. Since then, I have been very resistant to China, and I have turned a blind eye to China. China hosted the Olympic Games in 2008, and I inevitably came into contact with China again. By chance, I began to recall about the Tiananmen incident. With the experience of mastering the fate of the company, I began to feel that I could understand the point of view of the government at that time, which also changed my view of China. Looking back at the messages about China that the media had been conveying in the past, with China's national conditions at that time, and my experience in managing my own company, I began to understand how difficult the position of China government at that moment. Afterward the 2019 Hong Kong incident made me more aware of the double standards of the Western media. I knew that these are just routine operations of politicians, although so, I still cannot avoid being more supportive to China on the Internet. Perhaps this is the so-called racial sentiment.
This is softer version of the mainstream PR China propaganda. (I really worry you are another form of Wu Mao, paid for by the Chinese Government). Assuming you are human, I mean it's understandable it is hard/impossible to start afresh in your mode of thinking after living in a dictatorship like Communist China for the better part of your life. My point is you have to delve even deeper into your soul as a human. For one thing, do you think this is still your legitimate government after so much killings (in the tens of millions) and human suffering under the Communists in its 74 years of ruling Mainland China? My answer is a definite no.
5:30 the man in the left realizes he's interrupting the filming and politely steps away instead of grabbing atention for himself. This is the kind of thing that I respect about eastern asian nations.
Good video, and good reflections. Never stop your own educational journey. What you did was right, to ask self-critical questions, to investigate, to seek truth from facts: 实事求是. I hope you will continue on this journey, and aim high, don't stop yourself and don't underestimate yourself. You can master even the most difficult scientific disciplines if you want. I look forward to seeing videos about Marxism and Socialism in China,
You do an excellent job. The world needs more young people like you who don't just form an opinion based on hearsay or a single event/narrative but watch the whole movie!
Siming Lan, I am a 3rd generation overseas Chinese. I would say that what ever you see, hear or read never take it at face value. The Chinese civilisation had deep root & has evolved over thousands of years. There are always wisdom. By saying this so are others civilisation. Each has thier own beauty. Keep an open mind think out of the box be critical & analyse facts, don't just simply take others opinions as the whole truth. Experiences will affect your view points. Never forget your own heritage that is your root & that is who we are. If you have never tasted proverty you will not know how does poverty taste. I believe your parents & grand parent generation will know. Talk to them interactions with them & you will understand what is being a Chinese mean. I would say the CCP has done well since her opening & reform from Deng Xiaoping in 1980s. Yes, the CCP have make major mistakes such as the Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution but the CCP has delivered beyond expectations since 1980s. I have done business in China from the early 80s. But today China have completely changed for the better. Off course the future is any body guess. Never forget your roots & heritage & cultural. That is your identity.
Just discovered your video ,I heartily appreciate your honesty to present your struggles and exploration . I lived myself half of my life in Asia and the other half in western Europe ( native Spanish) .I perfectly understand your initial confusion and final resolution.I admire your multiple truths perspective.
Now, imagine what young Hong Kongers felt/experienced before 1997 and after. It's not only the youngsters but almost all the people of Hong Kong who lived under British colonial rule for 150 years. The Chinese diaspora living in ex-British colonies were similarly exposed to Western propaganda and probably share similar experiences like her. Her experience basically tells the story of how young minds are easily propagandized, especially now that we know about the role of American NED (which in actual fact, the propaganda arm of the CIA) in shaping the narratives for American interests. With China rising, the Chinese people like her are slowly waking up to embrace their Chinese heritage and need not feel inferior to White people.
@@mrx2062 The success of the CPC in China's rise had been acknowledged (maybe grudgingly) by most Independent Socialists in the West. This was also evidenced by the fact that Western Capitalists had to resort to demonizing the CPC in the war against Socialism. (The hypocritical phase; I love the Chinese people but hate the CPC). The reason why Taiwanese do not feel inferior is because they had the support of the US. If the US had remained neutral, and not intervene into Chinese internal affairs, Taiwan if it considers itself a nation is too small and insignificant in comparison to China, just like US and Puerto Rico.
@@adamiskandar5107 The CCP is not China. That is not hypocritical. Many other nations also had a good economic development, in particular calculated from a low base, like earlier Brazil, Taiwan, South Korea. The question is if the success is due to the CCP or despite the CCP rule, while CCP just stopped with their destructive policies and stopped to block indiviual economic initative. As far as I know it started when Chinese farmers began to trade their goods more or less secretly on their own initiative what worked and the CCP later did not stop it. By the development many people were lifted out of poverty, as in many other countries before, but there are still many very poor people in China. China had a lot of Western help too. Western investment, in particular in the country side, Western markets for export. Chinese stole Western technology. Yes. without the research costs you can sell stuffmuch cheaper of course.
@@mrx2062 " Chinese stole Western technology". Every country is stealing another's technology. US stole technology from Britain and later from Germany. Japan stole technology from US .... (You can find all these from "the other half of macro economics" by Richard Koo, a Taiwanese with Japanese citizenship).
This is really good to see a Chinese person process the Tinnamen Square protests and exposure to English culture. She is so open and authentic. I will watch more of her videos
I'm a Chinese living in the west, seeing the media talking bad about China all the time it's hard for me to not feel a bit ashamed of my country, even if I know a lot of the western media is a bit exessive there cannot be avoided that China has a few issues. But I hope one day China will be better, and that the west will stop treating China like, shit...
The more I read the Sinophobic propaganda in Western media, the more I feel proud of China for being strong enough to stand up to the US-lead Western bullies. I have known from a young age that my country had and still has serious issues. But the attacks in Western media is not out of good will. Much of it was meant to harm China's national interest. I do not hope the West will stop treating China like shit, because they won't stop. The only way is for China to get stronger and improve itself internally.
@@chuanmeixu1246 It cannot be about China, since in China all political decisions are made by the CCP. The CCP stands beyond the law by constitution, the CCP answers to no one and cannot be elected out of office. The CCP totally controls the information space, press, and educatiuon. China spends according to my understanding more money for internal security and surveillance of her own citizens than for the army and China spends a lot on their army in order to rival the US. Ironically, the Chinese people work and pay for the repression and surveillance by the CCP themselves. A state who has to do that is not really superior in my eyes, by any means. Democracies do not need to do that. There is also no other political body in China which evaluates the politicial success of the work of the government. No surprise that corruption is exploding under such conditions and is a systemic feature to secure political loyalty. Corruption, thus will never be overcome or limited in China. It is a tool for political power struggle. I guess CCP politicians pay all the real estate and their familiy members in foreign countries just from their salaries, like politicians in Russia of course. The CCP only evaluates herself and controls all media and you can imagine how the results of this evaluation process will always be if everything is controlled by the same entity. Mao could kill millions with his politics which was no reason to step down for the party. Thus, talking about "China" in politics makes no sense and is really incorrect and diverts responsibility since the Chinese population has basically no influence at all on Chinese politics. Thus, everything that "China" does means really what one party of China does which has absolute power. Thus, talking about xenophobia when someone critizises Chinese politics which means really the politics of one party only in China is really stupid.
Wow! so young yet so mature and wise in your thinking. I admire your honesty in relating your feelings about both cultures, unpretentious and unapologetic. In my opinion, your youtube videos are worthy of my time. Thank you!
I just came across your TH-cam and this is the first video that was recommended to me. I feel very similar to your experience as an American who currently lives in China and has been here for the past 6 years. Simply put: I have seen it all. From Trump, to trade war, to the WHOLE covid events, to Biden and post covid to where now China is opening back up to the world. In the past years, I have grown so much in my understanding of my own country and China which both have very nuanced feelings; however, in the end I cannot help but to feel that China and the US are inextricably linked and much more similar than they are different with ultimately, the same longterm goal. Allowing myself to release the notion to "defend" which side is right or wrong and simply allowing myself to understand this: Two seemingly opposing viewpoints can be equally valid and true at the same time. Applying this mindset to the criticisms of the West, the US, or China allows for more detailed and multifaceted understanding and I WISH more people would be like you in holistically observing countries instead of simply "picking sides". Seeing mature and developed perspectives like yours from people who have actually LIVED in both the West and China (like you and myself) it makes me feel less alone in my thinking. Also, please know that I am an American who speaks fluent Mandarin and I absolutely love Chinese culture and people. While the 🇨🇳 government is completely different, I have learned that my love of China and her DIVERSE cultures, peoples, religions, and languages does not have to be limited due that aspect. 我真的好期待发现你的其他TH-cam的内容，也希望都过得顺利，你天天开心哦～cheers ❤
The very good (excellent) thing about you Siming --- is that you appear to have a good understanding of both sides. That makes for a very smart and wise person.
It was nice to discover your channel. This was the 2nd video I picked up, and I will watch it all in a few days or weeks. I was born in Hong Kong, and my parents were Chinese from Guangdong. Time flies. I am an American who has lived in the US for 49 years. For a starter, I loved China and her culture, and the government is doing a good job. During my first 18 years in Hong Kong, we were educated by the English system. I was unaware of nationality, guessing they wanted us not to think about China. Off to America for college at 18 years old, which sounds like you in the UK. I got my degree in engineering, married a German girl, and was happy ever after. Back to the China topic, I had not had many issues with China growing up in Hong Kong; I had a nice childhood and my middle-class parents who don't talk much about China. They were born in the mid-1910s after Qing Dynasty fell. So the period was not great, but they had a good life being "wealthy" in Guangdong from a kid's point of view. They moved to Hong Kong before 1949 to escape from "communism." I learn Chinese literature and history in high school but no Chinese geography under the British system. During the cultural revolution, I saw dead bodies in newspapers flowing into Hong Kong harbor. I started liking Chinese culture and history in the US even more. I studied I-Ching philosophy with a friend. The feeling that China would rise again grew stronger. I have no issue being Chinese and an American, and I am thankful my Chinese background gave me a competitive advantage in America. Last six years American proganada machine turned full-on against China when China rose to the top of the world power.
This is the third video I saw from you. You are excellent. You feelings about west and east perspective is good. You are very sensible and fair. Very intelligent and articulate.
Very, very nice production. Love the visuals, the backgrounds, the editing. I am coming from one of your initial videos. This feels like a professional production on a broadcast channel, almost. Love how you handle a sensitive topic like this, your courage and sincerity.
Thank you very much for your personal, honest and truthful opinions on your country. I totally agree with your logic. Your videos are very enlightening and made me smile. Best of luck!!!🌹
I appreciate your nuanced approach. I really believe no one can claim absolute purity throughout their bloodline, we all come from complicated histories. I think it's important to have these conversations with yourself like you're doing, and make peace with your history and heritage, and embrace yourself as a rational human being who can see people for what they truly are. I myself come from a complicated history and I had to make peace with that, otherwise you'll just traumatize yourself forever 😂 peace and Blessings to you. Thank you for sharing your story openly and honestly.
I'm kinda creeped out that you investigated the massacre and came to the conclusion that "maybe it was ok" or that it may have brought about later economic prosperity. Why could that not have happened without a massacre? I'm kinda disturbed that anyone could convince themselves that turning guns on unarmed civilians was in any way shape or form an "understandable mistake". How would it be if the Germans were like "ah well,... the killing of the jews,... it was an understandable mistake given the situation at the time" or something? What would you think of them? In Hong Kong before the CCP stopped them, every damn year they held candle lit vigil to remember the massacre and damn rightly so. In the same way we all remember the world wars on the 11th of November. It's really important to remember and educate people about this stuff "lest we forget". As the saying goes, "those who fail history are doomed to repeat it". I'm not saying you should feel ashamed to be Chinese or even of your country or its current government because of what happened in the 80's, none of you were around so it isn't your fault, but please don't simply just become, "OK with it" or even convince yourself it is somehow excusable. I'm British and recently found out about some of the horrific experiments we did on our own troops with Nukes. To make myself feel better, I don't excuse it or convince myself it was necessary! I bloody well tell people about it. I want folks to know. Not because I want them to uprise or do anything about it but because I want them to learn the reality of what their country has done to people in the past so that hopefully, in some small way, that might prevent it from happening again.
I don't know any Chinese who thinks that turning guns on unarmed civilians is OK. Not even the CCP, who after 1989 decided to revise internal security practices to make sure such thing never happens again. Hong Kong is a perfect example. I think you're purposefully misinterpreting her words and her sentiments which are very common among Chinese people.
I think I agree. To shove it under the rug is not acceptable. But she be proud to be chinese because of the people and their culture, not the government. I never understand people who kinda mix this up. I am not surprised that governments around the whole world still attempt covering up a lot of things that are already out
As a Chinese living in US, I totally feel what you said. The first day I started my internship, during lunch break, my coworker showed me the tank man picture. Although I knew this incident and I kinda of know it better than him, I cannot hold my head up and put my words together in front of my team. Later in 2008, when beijing olympic torch rally protest happening, my indian coworkers asked me about Tibet. Again, that turns out to be a very bad experience. After all these years living in western country, I realize the ideal system does not exist. Just look at USA, how many school shootings per year, and yet people cannot do much to protect their kids. Yet I deeply understand why western world cannot understand China. Why Chinese people don't want the so-called freedom. Why some of my friends in China are holding a bias view towards anyone criticizing China...From this point onwards, I don't know how China will evolve further under such a big pressure. I am hoping for the best.
Sorry I don't think it's accurate to say that "Chinese people don't want the so-called freedom". I do think that Chinese people also want more freedom. This is an area we Chinese need to work on - both the people and the government. I think more freedom of expression would be welcome, and government should not overdo with censorship.
@@chuanmeixu1246 It is impossible. The CCP and her claim to absolute power cannot exist if there is freedom of speech, because then they would have to accept political alternatives. Then it is game over for CCPs abolute political power over China. They never can escape their dictatorship. China will never get basic civil rights with the CCP in power. It is just impossible to keep the present system of government in China in place and grant civil rights, like freedom of speech. If Chinese traded freedom for prosperity, they may get none of both at the end.
Thank you for sharing. Most of my impressions of China are from news media, your personal view as someone with a window into both "East and West" is very insightful and enjoyable. As for personal guilt, you are not your country. You be you Siming!
Keep up the good work. We need more Chinese voice in the English speaking world, not from the government, but just commoners like you. I wish you great successes for all your social media platforms. You are making a difference. 加油！
I too have a complicated relationship with my own country (I am from NYC, and live in LA). and I appreciate your described "reconciliation" with your country. as someone who has lived during in several countries in my younger years, including china as well as Japan, as well as my own your videos are extremely insightful and I appreciate hearing your experiences
It's often been said: You can take a Russian out of Russia, but you cannot take Russia out of that Russian. Likewise, it's the same with the Chinese people because, while I am only half Chinese and 3rd generation to boot, China is in my soul. Always be proud of your lineage Siming, because the Chinese people are an ancient and resilient race with thousands of very rich and continuous histories.
So true. While my political view had a road-to-Damascus turnaround now compared to when I left China for a Western country, I have always been fiercely proud of being Chinese. I recall my former boss once tried to praise me in front of others saying I was "Westernised", and I disagreed. He realised it wasn't the right word to describe me. I've had the PR visa for many years but always tell both Chinese from China and locals that I'm Chinese.
因为新疆的那个视频无意间发现了这个频道，很能体会到你的情感。我自己也是大学才出来的，记得大一的时候第一次上youtube，疯狂的看各种关于64，人权的东西，各类视频都在批判中国。那个时候自己也很思想不成熟，一度也会为自己的中国身份感受到羞愧。后来自己有机会去到了更多的国家交换，工作，学习。随着自己英语水平以及认知水平的提升，慢慢的发现了，原来很多问题并不是中国独有的，甚至所谓的“问题”完全是外媒夸大，甚至编造的结果 回过头看到自己的国家，她依旧不完美，但是这么庞大的体量，能够发展到今天这个地步真的很不容易。 很感谢你的视频，你也说出了很多我的想法。很难得在youtube上有一个中国人的频道能辩证的看待中国，不是一味贬低，也不是一味夸赞。 可能现在这个频道流量还不高，但是我相信只要youtube不给你主动限流，未来一定可以成长的不错。觉得可以多拍一些类似新疆那期的实地走访。相比纯理论的探讨，很多观众可能还是更爱看那种类型 （当然，我也很爱看你其他的视频，只是单从流量角度分析而已） Wish you all the best, Siming!
I'm the opposite of what you had experienced. I'm Chinese Malaysian(3rd generation) and grew up pretty westernised though I speak Mandarin at home. Most Chinese in Malaysia are more traditional but I'm in the 20percent of those of English educated background. Growing up I looked down on China and worshipped and only believe the west but since about 7 years ago, I had a real paradigm shift and realised that a lot of what the west had fed me about China was double standards, hypocrisy and even lies. And I also understood much deeper about western political system's flaws and weaknesses. And not forgetting the atrocities committed by them in many countries and regime change operation by NED and CIA. And I wouldn't be surprised if they are involved in the Tiananmen protest.
I found out that I'm not alone in such a big change of mindset towards China and the west. I have seen many of my countrymen experienced the same and even more and more westerners who had realised this as well and they now are defending China instead! My only regret is I should have realised much earlier and not subscribing to the western narratives for so long.
And after I really understand Chinese political system which promotes meritocracy instead of western ways of sweet talking speeches to get elected, I knew China was on the right track. And China is changing politically too, remember it is unimaginable that 40 years ago that today people could express their views quite freely. Me too I have made peace with myself because I had misunderstood China for so long.
Anyway I could understand your situation whereby people are often attracted to what they don't have. In your case, you find the western countries fascinating and when you're an outgoing person, it fascinated you more. But you have to understand that every society is different and there is no one political system that fits all. The comparison of China vs other countries with large population like India, Brazil, Indonesia and even the US had proven that China was right in how they governed their country according to traditions, culture and most importantly being pragmatic instead of being obsessed with ideology.
Hello. I am also Chinese Malaysian. Have the same thought and feeling just like you.
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for speaking up, I'm Chinese living abroad. I totally agree with you.
I also met many Malaysian and Singaporen here, they support China too!
i am not chinese but asian and i totaly feel the same as you. Younger I was thinking that China is bad and the collective west are the good guys. I was so wrong... After learning more and more about all the lies and atrocities the west has committed all over the world I came to feel sick to my stomach. How could I have thought the west are the good when they clearly has no moral ground to point finger at anyone with all those horrible things they have done and are still doing blatantly ? China's government needs to improve on lot of issues but I believe it's on the right path to slowly correct itself and advance while the west is falling more and more into depravity, totalitarism and lies.
Well said and share the same thought with you
Appreciate your honesty and willingness to grapple with the internal struggles that come from trying to objectively weigh perspectives.
Thank you Leon, that's very kind of you :)
@@SimingLan Does it not disturb you that you make a video about the impact of learning about the massacre on you and how you learnt to reconcile your feelings and all people do in the comments is talk about the west demonising China? You showed footage even and everyone is ignoring this? What the???? I don't understand how people can just ignore this stuff in preference for harping on about politics. What about respect for the dead?
"long term stability"
I grew up in a so-called democratic country, where so-called freedom of speech was highly valued. But when I received a scholarship to pursue my bachelor's degree in China, my decision shocked my friends and family. However, I was eager to explore the other side of the world, and it turned out to be the best decision of my life.
During my four years at a university in China, I was blown away by how open-minded Chinese people were about different cultures and religions. Their curiosity and respect for diversity were amazing, not just among young people but even among elderly folks in rural areas. I remember countless dinner table conversations that went on for hours, where we discussed various topics and I witnessed their genuine respect for other cultures and religions. It was simply awesome.
One thing that really stood out to me in China was the sense of safety. I've lived in five different countries, but nowhere else did I feel as secure as I did in China. I could walk alone late at night without worrying about getting robbed or harassed.
However, there's a major problem among young people in China: the immense social and economic pressures they face. The younger generation is constantly striving to meet society's expectations, which often leads to depression. It's disheartening to see them gradually forgetting their own cultural values, like the teachings of Taoism and Confucianism, which emphasize that true success lies in finding happiness, not in material wealth or luxury possessions.
Chinese parents could play a crucial role in alleviating these pressures by providing more support to their children. A supportive family, a circle of good friends, and access to decent meals three times a day are enough to lead a happy life.
While corruption does exist in China, I believe that the primary cause of this issue stems from the societal and economic pressures faced by individuals.
No country is perfect, but China has shown that Western democracy isn't the only path to progress.
Personally, I've developed a deep love for China. It has become an integral part of my life, transforming me from a boy into a man. I cherish the experiences and lessons I gained there, and I'm grateful for how it broadened my perspective on the world.
I dont think communism is a natural part of Chinese culture. Asian countries that adopted more democratic systems are much better countries than China. Like Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. In those countries people have much better rights and freedoms.
Interesting Comment and thanks for sharing. China current growth model is failing and like many countries it has many difficulties. Lets see how the CCP deal with these. Lets see if the Chinese people are happy with future low growth and a lack of social services - like unemployment benefit. There are new challenges for China. The west has been here before. Maybe the people will want real political change - maybe not.
@@Andy-P I can't imagine why they'd copy the west. Having two parties breeds corruption, deadlock, and instability. The US is hardly a democracy. It's a broken and deeply corrupt representative republic which only serves the obscenely wealthy. We don't get to choose the vision or the policy. People don't get rich _first_, they take it all. I wanted to vote for peace and cooperation with China. My choices were between provoking a war with China or provoking a war with China. Our society is so unenlightened that it would be funny if it wasn't tragic.
China and the dictatorship of one party are two very different things, even if the CCP tries everything to convince the world that that was the case.
@@Andy-P Even if China fail, it will not be worst than the 100s years of looting by the west. China in her weakest still whipped Americans and her allies asses in Korean war.
British Born Chinese here. My thanks for this video it resonated with my own experience but in reverse. For all of my childhood I was brought up believing China bad, West good. My epithany came when I read about the Opium War. From then on I understood that I had only been taught parts of the truth and it was up to me to find the missing parts.
Ya man, its never too late. Anyone with grandfathers in their 90s can talk about Opium addiction. WanRong died in her 30s after addiction and a loveless marriage to Aisin Goryo Puyi. Just a footnote to the Century of Humiliation.
News is mostly / only about negative things in the world, it’s not a history lesson. Sure, they talk a little about sports, but you must be interested, to really know. There use to be only one TV channel in Norway, and we only knew what they were interested in telling the people about. If watched the news you get really black and white picture of the world, without any shades of gray. I think it’s so refreshing to have the internet, and being able to express what we think, and be able to find information about almost anything. It a shame that some countries do not allow free speech and access to world.
@tb3667 When I learnt about the war here in Britain it was called the Anglo-Sino war and was barely a footnote in the class. Is it was not for my own heritage I would not even have bothered finding out more about it.
The difference is that the Opium wars were in the 19th century, and the knowledge of them are not suppressed, in fact you literally learn about it in school. They also have no bearing on the current situation of China being an authoritarian and hostile state in the 21st century. You must have been on some strange drugs if that's the epiphany you had.
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your story resonates with me strongly. i went through similar proud-shamed-nuanced-content evolution. now that I've stayed in US for >20 years and seeing the western demonization, i'm now very proud of my Chinese descent. :)
There is no western demonization, clown
Nationalism only promotes the narrative of governments. Nationalism was the root of both world wars.
With the internet, we're now living in a "global village".
So why choose sides?
All political borders were just man-made borders. It only separates us.
Fight for humanity, not your government.
The demonisation is only there because the empire is being threatened by the newcomer. Don't take it personal. If it was Brazil that rose up, it would have been demonised.
The point she makes in the video is good though. Each system has its pros and cons. If we could have the stability of the east and the freedom of the west, man, that would be awesome.
And please don't say "what stability? Their belt and road is failing and their exports dropped by 30%, blah blah" or "what freedom? With the NSA spying on the population". There is more stability in China and more freedom in the west, comparatively.
Demonization???? When you know the contagious nature of Corona, even for a moment we agree if China does not know how can you justify, China stopped domestic flights while allaowing International Flights ... do not fool your self we do not have problem with Chinese but problem with how PLA is treating the world and its neighbors.
Where are the 4 comments that I can't see here 🤔 Freedom of speech???
I love your videos. It's very refreshing to hear your perspective. I'm Russian, I used to live in Fuzhou, China from 2016 to 2019. I love your country and it always holds a special place in my heart. In 2019 I moved to NYC. I was unpleasantly surprised and shocked by how negatively China is portrayed in western media. Took me some time to get used to this. Or hearing another crazy rumor about China from someone I know. I hope this can change one day.
Your story resonates with me. Growing up in Taiwan, I have always believed China's government is no saint. They can be ruthless, heavy-handed and brutal. They can make mistakes, sometimes big ones, and do not acknowledge them. I am sure other overseas Chinese like myself can see the flaws in the Chinese government. I am sure many would like reforms to happen, or to happen at a faster pace than currently. On the other hand, over the last five years or so, it is becoming self-evident to me that China's rise, economically and militarily, has rattled the US. American foreign policy has become overwhelmingly focused on containing China, for the self-serving reason of maintaining its hegemony. For all the fault of the Chinese government, at least they are incentivised to advance China's interest, while the English-speaking world led by the US is clearly against China. Fundamentally, this is why I support the Chinese government. The open hostility displayed by the US and others is having the effect of uniting the Chinese people behind the Communist Party. If the West just left China alone - or remain friendly even - I am sure the people will seek more and more reforms.
If china wasnt in such a hostile environment where all other major powers resented it, then it might feel comfortable enough to give these freedoms to its people, but instead it has adopted a siege mentality. The same most state-socialist countries have used to defend themselves from constant attack. China is just another one of these.
So because other people also noticed china fucked up side ur on the ccp's!,weird as logic ,so do u back Nazi Germany cos the USA hates them 😂
@@liamjones7322 when did i say i was on the CCP’s side, why are u aggressively straw manning me?
Having a rational debate with some people on China is just impossible. Don't waste your time!
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Thanks!
2:16 I watched the tank man video many times. I wondered, if the PLA was so vicious, why did the tank have to dodge left and dodge right?
He's alive and living well. And if you look at ALL the evidences,..... you would notice that most victims were actually soldiers ki.ll.ed brutally by the mob of students brainwashed by the C.I.A backed operatives and Western media that wants to take down Chiiina.
我到是希望坦克狠一点，那些解放军战士死的太冤了，他们在保卫我们的国家就这样死了，而那些人杀害保卫我们的战士，还想推翻我们的国家，
😂 did you watch the entire length of the video? It only took me 25 years to see the rest of the clip where the guy with grocery bag walked away. So undramatic exit, it's no wonder CNN won't show the remaining clip.
@@inkbold8511 ... Do you have any link to any and all those videos from that event?
@@alanque159 You are definitely a Red Nazi
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you :) i appreciate you😊🙏
Great video. Living in the west - I grew up with a chip on my shoulder. Frankly there is an ingrained dislike and discrimination against Chinese people - not just China itself. The claim about "communism" is false. The Chinese Exclusion Act pre-dated communism in China. I watched all the Tiananmen stuff growing up but it wasn't until I was an adult that I learned how the western narrative was definitely not the full story. My comment would take too long to explain completely - but I will touch on just a few. For one thing - it never dawns on people in the west that the Chinese government ALLOWED the protestors to camp out for weeks. How many so called democracies would let so many people camp out in the capital city like that?? Let's be honest - it is not likely. The other major point is that which is not emphasized is everyone was given warning that time was over. It was at that time rioters (mainly workers and not students) attacked police and soldiers in vicious ways - killing many. it was at that time armed soldiers were sent in. That part of the narrative is NOT discussed in the west (though if you search you can find traces of it in the first few days of reporting). The western media shaped the narrative to make it seem like the Chinese government just decided to machine gun people and run them over in tanks - when that is not what happened. There are countless examples of these things being done - not just about China. I mean Gulf of Tonkin - Iraq WMD's and on and on. But most people don't take note of such things.
but you have to ask yourself why the Chinese are discriminated against, because most Chinese people are not credible, they are inhuman, liars, hypocrites, in general the Chinese have nothing good, I know them very well
Even in North America, we crush the long-standing demonstrators like pests.
I also hope that more foreign friends can learn about China's modern history here, so that more people can understand China.
Firstly, you need to study the history of China. In 1840, the British government forced Chinese people to use drugs, but the Chinese government refused. As a result, Britain launched a war of aggression against China: China was called the Opium War. In 1900, the armed war of aggression against China was composed of eight major countries headed by Britain, Russia, Japan, France, Italy, the United States, Germany and Austria. They indiscriminately massacred and plundered China's wealth, forced the Qing government of China to sign many unequal treaties with these countries, invaded China, and demanded that China compensate these countries for their losses. In 1912, Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat sen jointly overthrew the Qing Dynasty government and established the Republic of China. However, the government of the Republic of China was composed of warlords, landlords and evil gentry, and some puppet mouthpiece intellectuals. These warlords and landlords spread all over China's cities and villages, with about 8 million people. These over 8 million warlords, landlords, and other cruel enslavements against humanity oppress approximately 500 million Chinese people, who are all enslaved by the government of the Republic of China.
In 1931, when Japan invaded China, the President of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai shek, chose the policy of capitulation and compromise. The government chose to flee because of the terror war and fear of Japan. The government of the Republic of China ran away for six years. During these six years, the government of the Republic of China did not dare to resist Japanese aggression, but hid and let Japan burn, kill and loot millions of territory in the northeast of China. Therefore, Japan conducted experiments on human biochemical viruses in three provinces in Northeast China, with a record of crimes against humanity pressing. Later, after Japan surrendered, it was taken by the United States. As a result, the United States became the world's most powerful biochemical laboratory and the country with the largest number of biochemical laboratories worldwide.
Note: During the Japanese invasion of the Republic of China in 1931, Because of fear of the war launched by Japan,Chiang Kai shek chose to flee rather than fight against Japanese aggression. He hid in the south for six years and dared not fight against Japanese aggression. At this time, the poorest and lacking in good weapons, the Communist Party of China, consisting of the poorest workers, farmers, students, and teachers, emerged. In order to resist Japanese aggression, the Communist Party of China launched a war against Japanese aggression in three northeastern provinces of China in 1931. However, due to the fact that the Communist Party of China was composed of poor people at that time and lacked weapons, It is to use outdated handguns and some steel forks and knives to resist Japan's invasion.
President Chiang Kai shek of the ROC government and their warlords and landlords did not dare to resist Japanese aggression, but chose to besiege the Communist Party of China. Because the Chiang Kai shek government was afraid that the Communist Party of China would win the support of the people and threaten Chiang Kai shek's regime, most of the time, more than 7 million troops of the ROC government Chiang Kai shek were used to arrest and shoot the Communist Party of China rather than fight against Japanese aggression. Japan is burning, killing, and looting three provinces and cities in Northeast China, covering millions of territory, while the government of the Republic of China is besieging and slaughtering the Communist Party of China.
Therefore, on the one hand, the Communist Party of China used the most backward weapons to fight against Japanese aggression in the three northeastern provinces, on the other hand, it was also encircled and massacred by millions of troops of the Chiang Kai shek government of the Republic of China.
At the same time, you should know that the government of the Republic of China is a puppet state supported by the United States. This government is cruel slavery and oppression of the people. At that time, the Chinese people were slaves. This is the most important historical background. You must know that this is the main reason for the false history of the Communist Party of China that you heard in your country. Because the Communist Party of China led the Chinese farmers, workers and other brave struggles to break away from the enslavement and oppression of the people by the warlord government of the Republic of China. The Communist Party of China led the people throughout the country to resist the oppression and control of the warlord landlord group of the Republic of China, launched China's all-round people's democratic struggle movement, defeated Chiang Kai shek's warlord government of the Republic of China, and liberated all Chinese people. Therefore, The soldiers of the People's Republic of China are called the People's Liberation Army, which is the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. They helped the entire Chinese people to be liberated and completely defeated the Chiang Kai shek warlord government of the Republic of China, which enslaved and oppressed the Chinese people.
This government of the Republic of China is a puppet that the United States likes and supports. After being defeated by the Communist Party of China, Chiang Kai shek went to Taiwan Province of China. Started propaganda against the Communist Party of China.
The greater historical background is the opposition between NATO and the Soviet Union, that is, the opposition between Western capitalism and the Soviet socialist system. This is one of the reasons why you have heard many lies about China in your country.
In 1949, Mao Zedong led the Communist Party of China, led Chinese farmers, workers, students and some intellectuals, businessmen, etc., to defeat the Chiang Kai shek warlord landlord group of the Republic of China, and founded the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. At the same time, the people's democratic struggle continued throughout China, because part of China at that time was still under the control of the warlord government of the Republic of China, Many people in rural areas are still slaves to landlords and have not yet achieved comprehensive liberation. At the same time, it is important to understand the current situation in China at that time, which is a poor and backward agricultural country that has gone through a century of aggression, war, and civil war. Rural areas account for over 92% of the entire China, almost all of which are rural, and over 90% of farmers are slaves to landlords. Mao Zedong led the Communist Party of China to launch the people's democratic struggle throughout China, finally defeated the Chiang Kai shek warlord regime that enslaved and oppressed the Chinese people, and established the People's Republic of China. After several years of people's democratic struggle, the Chinese people were finally liberated, and the government of the Republic of China's enslavement of the people was smashed. Chiang Kai shek's regime fled to Taiwan Province of China.
The Chiang Kai shek warlord group of the Republic of China, which was defeated by the Chinese people, was unwilling to be defeated by the Communist Party of China. They hated the Communist Party of China for destroying the good life of their warlords and landlords. So, in Taiwan, China, and in combination with the strong anti socialist public opinion and propaganda in the West, you heard many lies that discredited China. This is the background of history.
It is important to know that the Communist Party of China saved the Chinese people and established the People's Republic of China. What discredited China and the Communist Party of China and oppressed the Chinese people by anti human enslavement was the Chiang Kai shek warlords, landlords and evil gentry who fled to Taiwan Province of China, about 5 million people, and some landlords and anti Communist intellectuals went to Hong Kong, China.
If you understand this historical process, you will understand China's modern history and why the Communist Party of China has been slandered and hated by some people. What you have heard has always been lies and falsehood.
Please tell your friends around you not to trust modified news reports. If you have the opportunity, be sure to go to China and take a look. I am a Chinese and I am more aware of my country than anyone else. Welcome to China to take a look and don't believe the erroneous reports of China by some media in your country.
@@user-nm8lb7zt7q22 The History missed something, Brit was the drug lord at that time, but the Japanese, Dutch, and Americans were also involved in the trade. Plus many Chinese themselves collaborated in the lucrative business.
If that's the case, why don't we have video of the protesters attacking and killing police? Why isn't that the image we see instead of the tank man?
谢谢！
I just discovered your videos here on TH-cam, I lived in China for 4 years and loved it. The pandemic changed everythiing but I will never regret my time there and the friends that I have made in China.
How did the pandemic affected your view of China?
@@stephenlock7236 Schools would be shut down even if the area itself was not effected. You are reminded that you live in a Communist country and what the government says you have to follow.
since you talk about 64, i was in beijing at that time, i was for those students. after i come to america, i still hold the same opinion for nearly 20 years. but in the recent years, i started to change. if those students demostration was succesful, given the political trend at that time, china will follow soviet union. compare where those countries are now, i believe deng did the right decision: he did the decision not for the people's opinion at that time, but he made the right decision for history. believe me, now, 20 years later, 50 years later, 100 years later, people, especially chinese people will remember him. he saved the china and made the country prosperous.
This was such a beautiful reflection on your personal journey. Thank you so much for sharing this. I hope for the day where people can feel at home and accepted wherever they find themselves, and whatever their cultural background. The incredible diversity of human thought and life is beautiful, and I hope we can learn to understand and celebrate that, and to love each other for our differences.
I’m 49, been out of China for 40 years. No, there is no shame in the word China. However, as I’ve gotten older and studied more history and read more about the world, the word China has slowly become a word to be proud of.
I was never ashamed to say I was from China. But now I am proud to say I’m from China and all that it implies. It means I’m hard working, studious, smart, frugal, open minded, forward looking, and of course, pragmatic. The west has yet to realize this bc it is still hard at work, now more than ever in fact, spreading lies and trying to discredit China. It makes me all the prouder to see that China has not responded in kind but is merely continuing on its way to self improvement.
China is me and so many other Chinese around the world. We’ve been though a lot. But we can look back at our extensive history and see that the modern western ideas are quite new and unproven, but our 5000 year old ideas still thrive and are thriving now more than ever.
Proud to be Chinese and to come from China. But also proud to be Chinese American. You don’t have to pick. You can do both. Cheers from NYC :)
Your sincerity is infectious and charming. Thank you for sharing your life and experiences
Keep up the great work!
I was born and raised in Canada (I can't speak Chinese). But I've seen both Canada (and America) and China in person, so I think I have a balanced viewpoint.
Neither China nor the West is perfect. Both have their issues. But I think China is a magnificent country. It is not the bad guy that is depicted in Western media.
I also believe the scientific surveys that tell us how happy and satisfied the Chinese are. These surveys corroborate my personal experience and observations of China.
■ 79% of Chinese believe their nation is democratic, while only 57% of Americans and 55% of British do. [Source: Latana's Democracy Perception Index 2024.]
■ 85% of Chinese trust their government, while only 40% of Americans and 30% of British do. [Source: Edelman Trust Barometer 2024.]
■ 76% of Chinese trust their politicians, while only 29% of Americans and 20% of British do. [Source: Open Society Barometer 2023.]
■ 91% of Chinese are happy with their life, while only 76% of Americans and 70% of British are. [Source: Ipsos' Global Happiness 2023.]
■ 95.5% of Chinese are satisfied with their government. [Source: Harvard Kennedy School in 2020, "Taking China's Pulse."]
■ 95% of Chinese believe their country is on the right track and moving in the right direction, while only 41% of Americans and 23% of British do. [Source: Ipsos' What Worries The World survey from November, 2019.]
■ most Chinese strongly support their political system. [Source: UC San Diego's China Data Lab since 2019, "WHAT 16 WAVES OF PUBLIC OPINION SURVEYS TELL US ABOUT CHINA AND CHINESE VIEWS."]
I've just discovered this channel. I've been living in the South of China for 2 years now and I'm fascinated by the geo-political/socio-political situation. I think you have a very engaging, genuine and thoughtful approach to telling your story and video making. I'm really inspired. Keep going (Jiayou!)
Such a wonderful video! I have enjoyed watching your other videos as well. Your videos are amazing, and you are so talented in telling the truth from different angles. Look forward to many more!
關於中國：
中華文明在很早期就拋棄了類似西方的“國家（Country）”這種基於表征而非切實利益和命運關聯的概念。
中華文明選擇的是基於切實利益和命運關聯的“家國天下”。
家、國、天下是個體利益和命運外延的三個代表性層次，
但是事實上遠不止這三個層次，只是用這三個層次代表這種利益和命運的延展關係。
所以，中國並不是西方意義上的國家或者民族，我們是在漫長的歷史中形成的利益和命運共生體。
我們不完美，總是也必然一直都存在各種問題，
我們選擇直面問題和解決問題，
而不會/不允許選擇通過分裂來掩蓋或規避問題，
原因很簡單：分裂是一條不歸路，無限分裂後的零碎個體或小群體，根本無力承載自己的終極利益和命運。
對於政權，
時間長了總容易滋生腐敗和墮落，
我們的會改朝換代，也會暫時地分裂，
但是統一才是常態和自然狀態，
這是源自終極的利益和命運共生關係的凝聚力。
關於中國人：
類似於“國家”，我們很早就捨棄了類似西方的“民族（Nation）”的概念，
我們會有“漢人”、“羌人”、“夷人”等描述個體或者群體表征的詞彙，
但是我們不會僅僅以界定利益和命運的共生關係。
所以中國人並不是用西方所謂國家、國籍、民族等表征可以劃分的群類。
近代屈辱時期，全世界的華人全力支援抗戰和救亡，
不是因為之前大家和母國的利益聯繫有多緊密，
而是因為現實已經讓大家真實地感受到這種終極利益和命運的共生關係，
救國就等於救自己和自己的後代。
西方人（確切的說是“島國文明”）很喜歡玩博弈，搞分化，收漁利。
在西方主導的輿論體系內，
不僅僅是中國，很多國家和民族都有很多自恨黨，
當母國尚在時，它們靠攻訐母國來諂媚西方，
只有道母國真正孱弱，它們自身利益和命運面臨現實威脅的時候，
才會開始不得不維護母國。
西方人用這種方式裂解和消滅了很多人類文明，
這是對人類文明多樣性永久性的損耗，
是對人類整體可持續發展力和創造力的嚴重損害，
事實上也是從根本上損害了西方人自己的終極利益和命運。
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總結：
人類不能再迷信西方人建立的當代人類社會秩序體系。
家國天下的人類社會秩序體系未必是完美的、人類終極的社會秩序體系，
但至少是目前看到的更先進、更有利於人類整體發展的社會秩序體系。
感性而言，
我個人極度鄙視和厭惡西方人缺乏敬畏之心、盲目自大的說教甚至強迫，
也極度惋惜和痛恨西方人對人類文明造成的破壞和浩劫，
每次想到被毀滅的非洲、美洲和澳洲文明，
心中更是悲憤！
但是很遺憾，
西方人就是我們人類的一部分，
我們不能在人類內部裂解和敵視。
但是，
我們必須要約束西方人繼續損害人類整體利益的行為！
這不是為了“全人類”，
而是為了每個人自己的終極利益和命運。
這不是對西方人的歧視或者苛責，
這是對人類內部任何個體和族群同等的基本要求。
有天道，無人道。
遵從天道，則人類存續；悖逆天道，則自取滅亡。
@@tigerwild1164 最近大陆抖音，头条很多漂亮国超市超级便宜物价的小视频。大家都觉得漂亮国很为民。缺不知道，整个美洲杯美国奴化，产品干的多么廉价。掠夺是他们的本性。他们不会灭亡的，我们也不会，这两种制度竞争会越来越激烈，少一个，世界就会更黑暗。
感觉还是小女孩，对世界理解不太成熟。主要经历留学后，思维模式被西化。也留学过，西方宣传下，如果年纪太小，接触他们宣传，容易自我怀疑
@@謝綾音 我也感觉是。在西方影响下，年轻人多数会被影响。年龄越大越清醒
I think reconciling ourselves with the history of the place we come from is... complicated. In my country, it is known that the state has ordered thousands of extra official executions, that foreign powers (UK, Israel, Spain and particularly the US) have been responsible for mass killings and political unrest, and I have not met a single person that doesn´t have at least one violent history in their extended family.
I think it´s comforting to identify and rely upon a national identity. I also think that it´s a comfort countries are eager to count on, to foster. And in many ways, this makes us vulnerable to manipulation. To complacency.
So what are we supposed to do? Embrace a country that undoubtedly has killed and that hurts others? All countries are failing someone in the present. Are we supposed to push it away?
I think pretending to be morally incorruptible is fundamentally invalid if you want to live in reality. All systems fail somehow, all identities are made up. But we also have to come to terms with the fact that we might have to accept some awful realities in order to live. My grandfather is a lovely man who I´ve fought with when he justifies the killings of innocent people to make our countrie´s army appear more capable.
Everything is just a mess, all the time. That´s reality.
Hi Siming, I appreciate hearing your thoughts and experience - thank you for sharing. It's people like who are the true authorities to speak out about their experience as you have experiened the both cultures and can compare, unlike many main stream [western] media. Thanks for your courage. I have been looking for "genuine" opinions - glad I found you. I look forward to more of your sharing.
This is the Channel I needed!
Amazing, deeply touching but also informative video! Thank you Siming!
You are so welcome! 😊💛
“Appreciating the nuances of different perspective and just being ok with living with different truths, keep an open hearth”. 准确的智慧👍
Hi Siming, thank you for your candid and honest video. You touched a very deep subject, as you can appreciate in the comments. Only people who left their country can know. I left Spain to come to the UK, not such a cultural shift, but still lots of conflicts. As time goes by, I am learning to take the best of both sides, and work the less positive ones, that are also part of me. Like the character inherited from your parents. We do not like everything of ourselves, but learnt to appreciate the whole, and work the less likeable parts. This is maturity, and finally we are lucky to have this opportunity and widen our mind. The world is so big and each one of us is a wonder worth a life of dedication. Thank you again for sharing with us. Your video and the comments from all of you made me feel close to you, understood, and it is a very nice feeling.
If more people were like you and were open to new ideas while also understanding the value in traditional values we would likely have a better chance to at least understand one another. Thanks for posting!
Mao destroyed all traditional values.
Keep on bringing light to people's understanding of other cultures! Bravo!
Hi Siming!
First of all, I want to say that I really admire your journey of self-development and the articulate way you’ve presented your experiences to us.
It must take a lot of resilience to move to a new country and to expose yourself, for the first time, to some new information that makes you see the nation you’ve grown up in in a different light. And in addition to this, I really admire the way you’ve gone back and searched for the “other side” to the story - the one that the western narrative often evades or simply doesn’t have time to talk about - in order to reconcile the warm, supportive China you grew up (and no doubt the one you experience while you’re there) with the much colder, antagonistic one you hear about in the west.
I understand and deeply share your desire to not be ashamed of who you are, to not feel lesser to people in the west, and to take pride in your family, your culture, and ultimately yourself.
I do, however, have some questions that I would be interested to hear your perspective on.
As a bit of background, I was born and raised in New Zealand. One half of my family are Māori (indigenous New Zealanders). The other half of my family are descended from British immigrants (the dominant group in NZ society today). I’m in my late-20s so I suspect not too different in age to yourself. I say all this because I think it is relevant - for the most part I’m interested in our internal politics, but my experience living in NZ obviously informs the way I see politics overseas.
Also, for much of the past four years, I have lived in Taiwan and studied 中文.
Your videos that address Xinjiang and Taiwan do a great job of adding to the conventional (one-sided) western narrative by presenting the Chinese government’s rationale for intervention in these regions - i.e. suppression of extremism and maintaining sovereignty/territorial integrity so as to not lose face amongst the Chinese public.
However, I feel like while you’ve done a great job at explaining the *rationale* of the Chinese government, you haven’t really provided much of a counter/critique to it.
Take, for instance, Xinjiang. As you’ve acknowledged, the issue faced by the separatists is that they’re under the rule of a government they never consented to ruling over them. And the issue faced by the government is terrorist attacks by said separatists (on civilians and said government).
And I think “consent” is the key word here. Fortunately, we’re at an age where consent is well-understood at the level of individuals. If a man were to try to force himself on a woman without consent, we would (correctly, I believe) tell him not to do so - the obvious solution to this issue is to simply ask the woman “do you want to be with this man?”, and if she doesn’t then most would agree that the man should back away, let the woman live her life, and not try to claim the woman as his own.
Of course, no one has asked the Uyghur people of Xinjiang if they consent to be paired with the Han-majority China, despite the desire of the latter. This could be easily achieved by having a free and fair referendum on independence for the region. However, this has not happened, and as such, this rule is not by consent. It seems clear to me, then, that the Chinese government is consequently the aggressor in this situation.
China may claim that they have the “right” to rule over Xinjiang due to some constitutional documents (that they wrote), but how ethical is resorting to this justification if the Uyghur people themselves did not choose to be in this position? To me, this seems akin to man claiming he has eternal right to a woman simply because he has over-powered her in the past (see the Dzungar-Qing wars) - something anyone in their right mind surely wouldn’t agree with.
ANYWAY, I guess the question I pose to you is twofold - 1) If you believe this analogy is an unfair way to conceptualise the situations in Xinjiang and Taiwan (noting that Taiwanese people *have* been polled and that they strongly oppose unification with China) - why are they different? And 2) If you can justify these contexts as different, how then does this result in greater justification of the actions taken by the Chinese government against these territories and their people?
Sorry for the long message, I just want to say I’m really impressed by your videos so far, and I support you fully on your personal journey!
Well said. These are excellent questions for ms lan and the wider Chinese audience to answer.
You deserve so much more audience. This video was an amazing experience for me, let's say it had the similar mental impact as your first time watching Tiananmen video (kinda). Thanks Siming Lan, you're a wonderful individual
lovely video! Was really fascinating to hear your point of view
我在加拿大生活20多年，作为一名85届参加过64的毕业生，很清楚自己当时为什么要参与，也经历过毕业后一年的强制实习惩罚和再教育。但我真心庆幸64运动没有成功。贪污腐败是让人痛恨，但在当时如果真的民主不专制了，真的好吗? 坦克压了吗？大屠杀? 海外生活20多年，没有任何人和事实让我知道它发生过。 我很清楚和我们一起游行示威的人中有多少仅仅是热血者而已，我就是，我当时22，可我喊自由民主，我真的懂吗？我们系又有几个人真懂? 低年级的一脸兴奋好奇的学弟学妹们? 我可是当时全国每年仅有的50万大中专生的一员啊，不谈农村，城市里有多少人真懂? 如果当时真民主了，咋玩啊? 谁玩啊? 不怕玩成前苏联? 恐怕那就不是民主国家关心的了。民主和专制，是要根据具体的国家和国情文化来说，每个国家都有自由选择适合自己制度的自由。而不应该说，你不选择我的制度，那你就不对，你就活该被打压。更何 况事实上和制度无关呢
广场没有一个人伤亡，然而谎言被重复三十多年。
This is an incredible video. To hear such an honest narrative journey spoken so articulately is rare indeed. I wonder if you have read Wild Swans. A moving novel by Jung Chang who now lives in London :). I think it is one of the most important things for our cultures to understand eachother without prejudice and appreciate and learn rather than have tensions believing each is the right one.
These are the kind of videos I have been looking for a while. As a Chinese living overseas I have the similar mindset as you, but I am not smart enough to elaborate it myself. Please keep up the good work. And I will share these videos with son, he has similar confusion as well.
There are 60 million Chinese living overseas, almost 10 million living in the western countries. We definitely need to find our IDENTITY.
Great video, I've never seen anyone approaching this topic with such an intelligent, positive and open-minded disposition. I really respect that you can find a balance and trust your own conclusions without using labels, and without having to throw mud on "the West" to uplift your view of China. That's the easy and wrong path. Too many people (also in the comments to this video) don't seem to be able to understand that there are positive aspects to China AND to the West - as well as negatives - and they are not mutually exclusive.
Spot on!
For me, it took me some time to learn I trusted Western media far too much. And now my opinion of the West and Western media could hardly be worse. The more you learn about their atrocities and the Western media's role aiding and abetting all of it, well it gives you a whole new perspective and it's hard not to be angry. So that's how I'm feeling; outraged.
So the more political I got, the more I learned about history, the more negative my perception has gotten of the West and this is inversely true towards China. From a neutral opinion, to curiosity and skepticism, to hope and belief in the Chinese system and in fact a very positive opinion. China stands out to me as a beacon of light for the future.
Btw, here is what I know about the Tiananmen Square incident: "a joint MI6-CIA operation known as ‘Operation Yellowbird’ was launched to train ‘pro-democracy’ factions in Chinese universities. On the ground, Triads were sent from Hong Kong to train the students in guerrilla warfare, arming them with iron poles and teaching them insurgency tactics."
Here is a video showing the rioters took control of an APC and fired the turrets at the soldiers: th-cam.com/video/oBygE3SaXcE/w-d-xo.html
Title of the article on Mango Press: THE TIAN’ANMEN SQUARE ‘MASSACRE’: THE WEST’S MOST PERSUASIVE, MOST PERVASIVE LIE.
Maybe I should also list some great channels I follow like Jerry's Take on China, Daniel Dumbrill, Li Jingjing, Barrett, Carl Zha and lots more...
Edit: btw, while you might see the Tiananmen incident as a source of shame, take a look at what they've done to all those places where their color revolutions have succeeded like Libya or Syria. Or look at how they've exploited Africa and killed any leader that has tried to escape their control like Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Gaddafi and so on...
I'm a follower to all of the channels you named 😂 they really open my eyes to reality on the group on China and many other countries.
@@inkbold8511 Ditto. I follow all of those mentioned. 😂
people like you will help bridge the differences and misunderstandings that exist in our world. Thank you so much for sharing your views! I wish you all the best in your pursuits!
It never ceases to amaze me how watching videos on TH-cam can truly bring us closer to the speaker, allowing us to sense their emotion and experience it.
Thanks for a great video. From the more than a thousand comments, it did struck a note with those who viewed it. Keep up the good work.
Thank you. Great thought provoking video. As an overseas Chinese educated in Chinese in Malaysia and later studied in the UK for five years, and lived in Australia for the past 38 years; my life changing experience was when I visited China in 2000 for the very first time.
I was totally blown away by the progress in China in just 22 years of opening up since 1978. Until then I was totally brainwashed by the Western propaganda my whole life. Even with my Chinese upbringing, I always thought somehow the West was better than the Chinese. Since 2000, I started to do some research about China, our civilisation and re-visited Confucianism teaching and its impact on China. To my amazement, the so called communist China is more like the Confucian China with some socialistic characteristics. We may not be far superior than the Western civilisation but definitely we are not below. We are just different.
I have done some research in TiananMen incident because I wanted to know what was it all about. My conclusion was that the students thought they knew what was good for China, but they lacked the knowledge and wisdom to move China ahead. Based on youthful emotionalism, ignorance and external Western provocation they did the wrong thing. Sad , but the Chinese government had to look after the safety and well being of 1.4 billion people. In actual counting, estimated about 150 deaths in Beijing during the week. The situation was over exaggerated by the West. People die when you want a revolution. Rome was not built in one day.
There are much much more darkness in the West with their hegemonic agenda which resulted in hundreds of thousands deaths and millions of refugees, in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, etc..... Not to mention 200 years of slavery, genoside of Red Indians, Africans, Australian natives, South American Indians, and the brutal colonial rules all over the world.
It is great to be Chinese, sister:) And Yes I am proud to have China as my roots.
Dah sedar tu, tolonglah jangan jadi macam kacang lupakan kulit. Bangsa penjajah tu hanya peralatkan pemuja2 mereka untuk kekalkan kuasa mereka. I'm a Malay and I emphatise what the mainland Chinese went through during the Century of Humiliation. They got it far worse than us. TBH, I'm disgusted with those who blindly support the ones who put their ancestors in misery. Those bananas have zero respect from me!
Thank you for sharing your story. I am afraid, however, that the situation is going to continue to worsen, because of great power competition between the US and China. I look forward to seeing more of your content here on TH-cam.
Great video! I think as a person grows, if they do not see the problems with their own country and have a sense of unease about it, then they have not grown enough. There is not a single country that does not have some problems, harms done, or problematic societal structures. This doesn't mean that you cannot be proud of your country and it's history while still acknowledging it. I really appreciate your first hand account of growing up and realizing these things.
As a canadian, it seems like Canada has a very simple unproblematic perception to the rest of the world however Canada has a bloody genocidal history that continues to this day. The people whose land this is are the people currently without clean drinking water and often no access to support like the rest of the country does. Canadians will swear up and down that they are not racist, but ask them how they feel about the indigenous populations around them.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Tim!😊
The key is Acknowledgement- this is where it hits a snag with the CCP - They will never acknowledge the atrocities done. The west is now moving into the opposite direction of self flagellation..almost just as bad.
You get cricket chirping if you talking about something they done to native people. Or maybe a silent sorrrrry.
@@SimingLan As a Uyghur, do not believe this woman, this woman is a propaganda woman funded by the chinese communist goverment !! you are a liar ! can you sleep well at night ? When Uygurs are tortured !!
Always thought of Canadians as being , fair minded , tolerant and welcoming and was shocked by the way they treated indigenous people , even children !
The light skin people of the world need to stop imaging that they are superior , privileged by virtue of their pigments
Well ,aren't you a breath of fresh air ....seriously.
Your communications are right on song.
Your videos allow us who follow objectively to see a totally different point of view and,that can only be healthy from an intellectual point of view.
I'm now going to subscribe to your channel and, watch from the beginning and hopefully learn something new ,for that's the only path to true growth.
Excellent video ! I really like you and the way you communicate and investigate both sides of an issue. No society is perfect. But I think it is detrimental to realize the real issues behind protests in all countries. The one all encompassing theme or reason is FREEDOM FROM REPRESSION !💕🌸🙏
I loved this video. I liked very much your description of the 'reconciliation' process and your self awareness. I think that what the conflict of views you experienced moving to another country is very common, but it takes an active process of self-awareness analysis that is uncommon.
I think you are a wonderful, thoughtful young person
People like you, who can translate for westerners and easterners, have a very important role to play in the next years.
You are a brave girl. Keep the content coming. I don't know much about china, glad to learn about it. Greets from Frankfurt
Hey Siming So now you know what a c°L°r rev°Lution looks like (Tiananmen). For China to bring 700 thousand people out of poverty is a badge of honor. Here in the states we’re still fighting of Medicare for all, and there’s no way to fight corruption in politics as president Xi did. Please remember the many that made sacrifices before China came into prominence. Be proud of… being Chinese. Happy New Year’s.
Thank you BH, I appreciate your kind words and happy new year's!
with the help of foreign factories, which are actually moving out these days ...
Wrong. NOT 700 thousand...... but 800 MILLION Chiinese lifted out of poverty.
@T B ....What brutish regime, you nit->wiit? Have you even been to Ch-->ina? They have more collective freedom than any of your Wes-->tern countries including U->S->A. why do you think 94% of them love their government while 80% of you hate yours? Keep watching your fa-->ke ne-->ws, boi.
@T B .... according to who? C->I->A? Even the IMF says Ch-->ina grows 3-5 times faster than ANY economy in the world every single year.... including this year. No wonder you nit-->wiits in the West are such nit-->wiiits.
Such a well made video! You are well spoken, thoughtful, and insightful gal. Thank you
The good part of being able to understand both languages and both sides is that it can sharpen your perspectives and also allow you to be a bridge in helping others to question and challenge what is being fed to them via mass media. Your TH-cam channel is doing just that and I applaud your honest efforts! Great job! 加油！ p.s. feel free to add more spoken Chinese (with English subtitles) in your channel
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I appreciate your open honesty and personal perspective. Political-narratives shape cultural-narratives, which then shape personal-narratives, identities, and sense of self-worth. To "find oneself" means to "define oneself", and that ultimately means finding your own political voice by navigating your way through the public discourse that shape political-narratives. Participating in a culture is not just a one-way street where we let the culture completely shape our personal identity and self-worth; it should also be a back-and-forth dialogue and negotiation between individual will/aspirations and collective political agendas. This is what I would have told my younger self (though I'm sure it wouldn't make sense to him), and I'm glad to see you embracing political discourse.
It was beautiful to see your thought process. Being a human is messy. Being a thoughtful human is really messy. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Excellent video, and the comments are as eye-opening to me as your presentation. TY
I sincerely hope you look into the tiennaman square incident and find that there was no massacre. Yes there were people killed but they were retaliatory in nature where the military officers were being beaten up by students. Also, if you look how the tiannamen protests started, they all started by foreign NGOs at the universities influencing the young ones.
People killed/injured happened outside of the square while conflicts happened with the military. None in the square.
You are so delightful to listen to. Your narrative resonates wisdom.
我是中國人! 在台灣土生土長的中國人!!! 我以中國共產黨為榮,並且不認為西方的政治制度較為優越! 因為目前台灣就是一人一票的政治制度!
您好，看民调台湾持有您这样观点的人好像只有1-2%左右吧？
一人一票 是 当今 "民主" 世界的 愚民 大騙局。。
盧梭 說，「就 民主制 這個 名詞的 嚴格 意義 而言， 真正的 民主制 從來 就 不曾有過，而且 永遠 也 不會 有」，因為「多數人 統治 而 少數人 被統治，那是 違反 自然的 秩序的」
其实，誰 来 当 总统、省長、市長，這 根本 不是 一般人的 责任， 正如， 你 只是 一大公司的 普通 员工，難道 誰 来 当 CEO 要 你 来 出 主意 ?
Very good reflection on your growing in spirit. Thank you for sharing. I had similar path like you.
Like I've said in an earlier comment. I grew up in Tianjin, and after having finished my undergrad in China, I spent about 5 years in Australia from 2014 to 2019 (doing my masters and working). Perhaps because I "went abroad" when I was already an adult, I had already thought through some of the stuff you were going through while you were in the UK, doing your undergrad. All I can say is, you are still young, and still need time to properly think about things and eventually form your own perception. Btw, I am gay and out. That might make people think I must lean towwards the so-called "western way". But actually, after having spent many years going through and thinking through stufff, I arrived at the conclusion of "no, I don't". Also I have LONG passed the stage of trying to "fit in" the "civilized world". The things is, the "both truth" you are talking about in the video can be summarized into one thing: the scientific truth. The reason why it appears to have "both" truth is because people get lost in a simplistic right-wrong illogical "logic". That's the reason why I arrived at that conclusion. The west has descended into what I call as "liberal fundamentalism", deviating away farther and farther from the scientific truth. Yet China's system keeps getting upgraded and after each iteration it gets closer to a rule of science. So it always comes down to which system can better reform itself periodically. And China's wins over the western currently.
About this "shame" you are talking about, all I can say is, you haven't realized China's fate doesn't lie with the west. But rather, our fate lies more closely with the developing world. What China stands for globally is a world order of equal civilizations. On the surface, when you hear about western liberal multuculturalism for the first time, it might appear "progressive". But once you think through what that means for the larger world, not just one particular society, you realize the underlying hidden assumption is a world order of unequal civilizations. People cannot really appreciate their birth place but have to escape for a better life and all crowd into the priviliged society in this world system. Had civilizations been equal, people wouldn't have needed to do so, and so no heavily multicultural societies would have existed. Because most people don't need to escape their birth place. Think about your peer students in the UK, who came from the developing world. You are feeling the "shame" because you still want to adapt to and fit in this unequal world order. But why should you? So what if western ordinaries perceive China as "evil"? Let them. Why care at all? It doesn't change anything. The feeling of "shame" is a demonstration that many Chinese still aren't truly self-confident. They are still suffering from the mentality of the weak. They don't realize, time has changed.
@@jeremyz653 It is just about the CCP not about China really.
@@mrx2062 In a world order of equal civilizations, every indigenous ruling force has natural ruling status within their sovereign borders. Within China's, that indigenous ruling force happens to be the Communist Party of China. There's nothing wrong with that.
@@jeremyz653 There is no "natural" ruling force. Where should such "natural" ruling force come from, what makes it natural ? Who decides that it is natural ? Every government needs legitimacy to rule. In the past kings used religion to do that. The church in Europe legitimized their power saying thereby god legitimized their power. But today of course nobody believes that anymore. Thus, the only way to legitimize a government is by regular election. The other option of factual government is government with the gun, by arresting or killing every opposition or political alternative. That is what the CCP does. And even worse, the CCP which is not legitimized by anybody ( that is why they spend more on internal security than on the army) wants to extend this kind of non legitimized rule to Taiwan, which has a ligitimate government by the way. That is the issue of non-elected governments, ruling by force, they need always to eliminate all potential political opposition and alternatives in order to stay in power. That is likely why the CCP has cracked down on Hongkong and why they want to desperately want to conquer Taiwan. That is also the reason why the Chinese never ever will get freedom of speech or other basic civil rights. The Chinese should never think that has anything to do with their state of development and will come in the future , or other bullshit excuses. No, it has a simple reason, any government withouth legitimacy always needs to eliminate all political opposition and politcal alternatives in order to stay in power. The highest goal of the CCP above all else, is to stay in power. They will prioritze nothing more, in particular not the well being of the Chinese people. The well being of the Chinese people is a preferred way to stay in power as long as the party can deliver that, but if for any reason the CCP cannot deliver that anymore, they will consider any other measure before losing power. Remember, they answer to no one. They have asolute political power. That makes governments like the CCP very dangerous in the long run, in particular with global reach. Such governments can exist in their own countries, but groups with absolute power should never be global super powers. There would be no such an issue with a super power China, if it had a democratic government, where the power is controlled with checks and balances. The US can have shitty presidents which may do some damage, but their power is not abolute, limited and controlled. Shitty US presidents can be elected out of office and their term is limited. A guy like Xi cannot really replaced easily other than by a conspirancy in the party if they do shitty things. The leader of the CCP answers to nearly nobody. Remember, the politics of Mao could cost the lifes of millions of Chinese, but nothing happened to him. Mao could stay in office, despite his disasterous politics. Now imagine, the same type of government structures become a power with global reach and a dangerous idiot becomes leader of the CCP. Then that has global reach and implications.
@@jeremyz653 That did not just happen to be the CCP.
尽管已经知道要对所有观点开放包容，但以你个人经历来介绍中外之别、对同一问题的不同视角，还是让我获益良多。This is a great video，thank you so much for telling people the diffrence perspective between China and Western country
I'm going through the same thing with India, because in our modern politics, we do have shades of authoritarianism associated with certain cultural and linguistic values, which from a Western perspective I must abandon, but I also need to embrace the good aspects of these teachings by learning more about it and forming my own unique values using my own findings
yes bro , true , same feeling , from India
Beautifully done on what is a very difficult topic.I think you will enjoy Thailand as a future base for yourself.
at the beginning of this video i genuinely was like "omg a girl who got westernized... (I'm Brazilian btw and the narrative that China is a Draconian surveillance state hits hard here on the tropics. BUT, when you showed your conciliation and the embracement of different versions of what happened in tiananmen square really hit me, because it's only through the lense of different versions that I got really nice things about china. How it's growth and struggle for sovereignty is something that ANY country on earth should be inspired by, no matter the political system. Brazil tried that at the 2000's until 2015, but was stopped by the U.S, so it's really refreshing to see a nation so willing to lift itself out of Western imperialism. And just to be clear, I'm a Marxist Leninist, so it's really difficult for me to identify with imperialist capitalism anyway. Loves from Brazil 💕💕
obrigada pelo commentario, angxl! tô feliz que voce assistiu! abraço😊
(perfect opportunity to practice portuguese)
@@SimingLan que fofoooo, magina
yes the history of Brazil saddens me. the left wing has always been suppressed (well since the 1960's) by the military with US backing. When Brazil finally started to pull itself from under that - it got set back again.
Are you willing to emigrate to China ? That will be the real proof of your belief in her narrative .
you do realize that the CCP monitors all chinese people abroad on social media, and that she has to be very neutral otherwise she could be arrested if she's currently in china, or as soon as she returns to china, and the local authorities could arrest people in her family (or take their property) as coerced to strongly urge her to come back to china to pay for her crimes against the state.
As soon as someone posts their face on the internet, they potentially put a target on their back.
I just returned to HK after studying oversea at about your present age when Tinaman happened. I knew right away after the students met up with the government that the movement got to stop. Becasue I didn't see the students, representing by their leaders, brought anything to the table to further the advance of the progress of reform at that time. If the students and whoever behind them succeeded in toppling the government, China would had entered another round of chaos and the country would never able catch up to the West.
My view was at odds with many of my fellow friends in HK to a point that even my career suffered. I moved back to oversea not long after but i'm proud of being a Chinese and all China had achieved. Witnessing so many color revolution conducted by the West thereafter, I admire the courage Deng had and made tough decision for the good of all Chinese during that time.
Will support and follow your channel. Keep up your good work, stick to your principle and keep an open mind. Thanks for your effort.
You do not know what would have happened if China just democratized.Color revolutions were not conducted by the "West".
absolutely love your video. I really appreciate your honesty.
My grandparents fled China during World War II. After World War II, my grandma occasionally took some old clothes back to support her hometown. I remember my grandma told me that the village chief kept her for dinner, and the dinner was a salted egg with rice. Later, my grandma also told me that the most precious food in the whole village is the only salted egg, and the villagers can only live on porridge in normal days. She saw the children in the village hiding by the window, watching the only salted egg drooling, she was too embarrassed to eat it, and gave it to the children.
When I was a teenager, I liked western culture very much, and I also learned about the Tiananmen incident from TV by chance. I felt betrayed and angry, I felt that my family had always supported China, but how can China treated the people this way. Since then, I have been very resistant to China, and I have turned a blind eye to China.
China hosted the Olympic Games in 2008, and I inevitably came into contact with China again. By chance, I began to recall about the Tiananmen incident. With the experience of mastering the fate of the company, I began to feel that I could understand the point of view of the government at that time, which also changed my view of China. Looking back at the messages about China that the media had been conveying in the past, with China's national conditions at that time, and my experience in managing my own company, I began to understand how difficult the position of China government at that moment.
Afterward the 2019 Hong Kong incident made me more aware of the double standards of the Western media. I knew that these are just routine operations of politicians, although so, I still cannot avoid being more supportive to China on the Internet. Perhaps this is the so-called racial sentiment.
agree with u .As a chinese,i know how difficult it is for the chinese government to do its job even if there exist many unsatisfactory things.
This is softer version of the mainstream PR China propaganda. (I really worry you are another form of Wu Mao, paid for by the Chinese Government). Assuming you are human, I mean it's understandable it is hard/impossible to start afresh in your mode of thinking after living in a dictatorship like Communist China for the better part of your life. My point is you have to delve even deeper into your soul as a human. For one thing, do you think this is still your legitimate government after so much killings (in the tens of millions) and human suffering under the Communists in its 74 years of ruling Mainland China? My answer is a definite no.
Hong Kong made you more aware of the double standard of Western Media? Did you avoid the million protesters?
@@鹿兆谦 Does that justify the cult of personality surrounding Xi?
@@tijldeclerck7772 This is not human, as I argue in my earlier comment. This is a softer form of PRC propaganda.
5:30 the man in the left realizes he's interrupting the filming and politely steps away instead of grabbing atention for himself. This is the kind of thing that I respect about eastern asian nations.
Good video, and good reflections. Never stop your own educational journey. What you did was right, to ask self-critical questions, to investigate, to seek truth from facts: 实事求是.
I hope you will continue on this journey, and aim high, don't stop yourself and don't underestimate yourself. You can master even the most difficult scientific disciplines if you want. I look forward to seeing videos about Marxism and Socialism in China,
Thank you, AD!
Your personal insights for the greater view of your country and chinese people are very good examples to learn about China. Kudos😊
You do an excellent job. The world needs more young people like you who don't just form an opinion based on hearsay or a single event/narrative but watch the whole movie!
Great stuff you are doing. Please continue on that path
Siming Lan, I am a 3rd generation overseas Chinese. I would say that what ever you see, hear or read never take it at face value. The Chinese civilisation had deep root & has evolved over thousands of years. There are always wisdom. By saying this so are others civilisation. Each has thier own beauty. Keep an open mind think out of the box be critical & analyse facts, don't just simply take others opinions as the whole truth. Experiences will affect your view points. Never forget your own heritage that is your root & that is who we are. If you have never tasted proverty you will not know how does poverty taste. I believe your parents & grand parent generation will know. Talk to them interactions with them & you will understand what is being a Chinese mean. I would say the CCP has done well since her opening & reform from Deng Xiaoping in 1980s. Yes, the CCP have make major mistakes such as the Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution but the CCP has delivered beyond expectations since 1980s. I have done business in China from the early 80s. But today China have completely changed for the better. Off course the future is any body guess. Never forget your roots & heritage & cultural. That is your identity.
Just discovered your video ,I heartily appreciate your honesty to present your struggles and exploration .
I lived myself half of my life in Asia and the other half in western Europe ( native Spanish) .I perfectly understand your initial confusion and final resolution.I admire your multiple truths perspective.
Now, imagine what young Hong Kongers felt/experienced before 1997 and after. It's not only the youngsters but almost all the people of Hong Kong who lived under British colonial rule for 150 years. The Chinese diaspora living in ex-British colonies were similarly exposed to Western propaganda and probably share similar experiences like her. Her experience basically tells the story of how young minds are easily propagandized, especially now that we know about the role of American NED (which in actual fact, the propaganda arm of the CIA) in shaping the narratives for American interests. With China rising, the Chinese people like her are slowly waking up to embrace their Chinese heritage and need not feel inferior to White people.
The rule of the CCP has nothing to do with China as such. It is just one party. I do not think that the Taiwanese feel inferior.
@@mrx2062 The success of the CPC in China's rise had been acknowledged (maybe grudgingly) by most Independent Socialists in the West. This was also evidenced by the fact that Western Capitalists had to resort to demonizing the CPC in the war against Socialism. (The hypocritical phase; I love the Chinese people but hate the CPC). The reason why Taiwanese do not feel inferior is because they had the support of the US. If the US had remained neutral, and not intervene into Chinese internal affairs, Taiwan if it considers itself a nation is too small and insignificant in comparison to China, just like US and Puerto Rico.
@@adamiskandar5107 The CCP is not China. That is not hypocritical. Many other nations also had a good economic development, in particular calculated from a low base, like earlier Brazil, Taiwan, South Korea. The question is if the success is due to the CCP or despite the CCP rule, while CCP just stopped with their destructive policies and stopped to block indiviual economic initative. As far as I know it started when Chinese farmers began to trade their goods more or less secretly on their own initiative what worked and the CCP later did not stop it. By the development many people were lifted out of poverty, as in many other countries before, but there are still many very poor people in China. China had a lot of Western help too. Western investment, in particular in the country side, Western markets for export. Chinese stole Western technology. Yes. without the research costs you can sell stuffmuch cheaper of course.
@@mrx2062 " Chinese stole Western technology". Every country is stealing another's technology. US stole technology from Britain and later from Germany. Japan stole technology from US .... (You can find all these from "the other half of macro economics" by Richard Koo, a Taiwanese with Japanese citizenship).
@@Starwarrior9831 The Chinese do it in a systematic manner. There is no rule of law in China. The CCP is beyond the law.
I love this! thank you for sharing it. I often feel this exact way.
This is really good to see a Chinese person process the Tinnamen Square protests and exposure to English culture. She is so open and authentic. I will watch more of her videos
I enjoy your videos immensely , your thoughts, musings are so insightful and it resonates with me . Keep it up
This was really enlightening, thanks for making this
thank you
I really enjoyed both hearing you and your views!
I'm a Chinese living in the west, seeing the media talking bad about China all the time it's hard for me to not feel a bit ashamed of my country, even if I know a lot of the western media is a bit exessive there cannot be avoided that China has a few issues.
But I hope one day China will be better, and that the west will stop treating China like, shit...
The west will never stop at treating China like shit! China is the epitomy of "bad" and West is "good"!
The more I read the Sinophobic propaganda in Western media, the more I feel proud of China for being strong enough to stand up to the US-lead Western bullies. I have known from a young age that my country had and still has serious issues. But the attacks in Western media is not out of good will. Much of it was meant to harm China's national interest. I do not hope the West will stop treating China like shit, because they won't stop. The only way is for China to get stronger and improve itself internally.
@@chuanmeixu1246 It is not about China, but about the CCP.
@@mrx2062 Cliche. I disagree.
@@chuanmeixu1246 It cannot be about China, since in China all political decisions are made by the CCP. The CCP stands beyond the law by constitution, the CCP answers to no one and cannot be elected out of office. The CCP totally controls the information space, press, and educatiuon. China spends according to my understanding more money for internal security and surveillance of her own citizens than for the army and China spends a lot on their army in order to rival the US. Ironically, the Chinese people work and pay for the repression and surveillance by the CCP themselves. A state who has to do that is not really superior in my eyes, by any means. Democracies do not need to do that. There is also no other political body in China which evaluates the politicial success of the work of the government. No surprise that corruption is exploding under such conditions and is a systemic feature to secure political loyalty. Corruption, thus will never be overcome or limited in China. It is a tool for political power struggle. I guess CCP politicians pay all the real estate and their familiy members in foreign countries just from their salaries, like politicians in Russia of course. The CCP only evaluates herself and controls all media and you can imagine how the results of this evaluation process will always be if everything is controlled by the same entity. Mao could kill millions with his politics which was no reason to step down for the party. Thus, talking about "China" in politics makes no sense and is really incorrect and diverts responsibility since the Chinese population has basically no influence at all on Chinese politics. Thus, everything that "China" does means really what one party of China does which has absolute power. Thus, talking about xenophobia when someone critizises Chinese politics which means really the politics of one party only in China is really stupid.
Wow! so young yet so mature and wise in your thinking. I admire your honesty in relating your feelings about both cultures, unpretentious and unapologetic. In my opinion, your youtube videos are worthy of my time. Thank you!
I just came across your TH-cam and this is the first video that was recommended to me. I feel very similar to your experience as an American who currently lives in China and has been here for the past 6 years.
Simply put: I have seen it all. From Trump, to trade war, to the WHOLE covid events, to Biden and post covid to where now China is opening back up to the world.
In the past years, I have grown so much in my understanding of my own country and China which both have very nuanced feelings; however, in the end I cannot help but to feel that China and the US are inextricably linked and much more similar than they are different with ultimately, the same longterm goal.
Allowing myself to release the notion to "defend" which side is right or wrong and simply allowing myself to understand this: Two seemingly opposing viewpoints can be equally valid and true at the same time.
Applying this mindset to the criticisms of the West, the US, or China allows for more detailed and multifaceted understanding and I WISH more people would be like you in holistically observing countries instead of simply "picking sides".
Seeing mature and developed perspectives like yours from people who have actually LIVED in both the West and China (like you and myself) it makes me feel less alone in my thinking.
Also, please know that I am an American who speaks fluent Mandarin and I absolutely love Chinese culture and people. While the 🇨🇳 government is completely different, I have learned that my love of China and her DIVERSE cultures, peoples, religions, and languages does not have to be limited due that aspect.
我真的好期待发现你的其他TH-cam的内容，也希望都过得顺利，你天天开心哦～cheers ❤
The very good (excellent) thing about you Siming --- is that you appear to have a good understanding of both sides. That makes for a very smart and wise person.
It was nice to discover your channel. This was the 2nd video I picked up, and I will watch it all in a few days or weeks. I was born in Hong Kong, and my parents were Chinese from Guangdong. Time flies. I am an American who has lived in the US for 49 years. For a starter, I loved China and her culture, and the government is doing a good job. During my first 18 years in Hong Kong, we were educated by the English system. I was unaware of nationality, guessing they wanted us not to think about China. Off to America for college at 18 years old, which sounds like you in the UK. I got my degree in engineering, married a German girl, and was happy ever after.
Back to the China topic, I had not had many issues with China growing up in Hong Kong; I had a nice childhood and my middle-class parents who don't talk much about China. They were born in the mid-1910s after Qing Dynasty fell. So the period was not great, but they had a good life being "wealthy" in Guangdong from a kid's point of view. They moved to Hong Kong before 1949 to escape from "communism." I learn Chinese literature and history in high school but no Chinese geography under the British system. During the cultural revolution, I saw dead bodies in newspapers flowing into Hong Kong harbor.
I started liking Chinese culture and history in the US even more. I studied I-Ching philosophy with a friend. The feeling that China would rise again grew stronger. I have no issue being Chinese and an American, and I am thankful my Chinese background gave me a competitive advantage in America. Last six years American proganada machine turned full-on against China when China rose to the top of the world power.
This is the third video I saw from you. You are excellent. You feelings about west and east perspective is good. You are very sensible and fair. Very intelligent and articulate.
Very, very nice production. Love the visuals, the backgrounds, the editing. I am coming from one of your initial videos. This feels like a professional production on a broadcast channel, almost. Love how you handle a sensitive topic like this, your courage and sincerity.
Thank you very much for your personal, honest and truthful opinions on your country. I totally agree with your logic. Your videos are very enlightening and made me smile. Best of luck!!!🌹
I appreciate your nuanced approach. I really believe no one can claim absolute purity throughout their bloodline, we all come from complicated histories. I think it's important to have these conversations with yourself like you're doing, and make peace with your history and heritage, and embrace yourself as a rational human being who can see people for what they truly are. I myself come from a complicated history and I had to make peace with that, otherwise you'll just traumatize yourself forever 😂 peace and Blessings to you. Thank you for sharing your story openly and honestly.
Great video. I have always wanted to see what it is really like in China.
I'm kinda creeped out that you investigated the massacre and came to the conclusion that "maybe it was ok" or that it may have brought about later economic prosperity. Why could that not have happened without a massacre? I'm kinda disturbed that anyone could convince themselves that turning guns on unarmed civilians was in any way shape or form an "understandable mistake". How would it be if the Germans were like "ah well,... the killing of the jews,... it was an understandable mistake given the situation at the time" or something? What would you think of them?
In Hong Kong before the CCP stopped them, every damn year they held candle lit vigil to remember the massacre and damn rightly so. In the same way we all remember the world wars on the 11th of November. It's really important to remember and educate people about this stuff "lest we forget". As the saying goes, "those who fail history are doomed to repeat it".
I'm not saying you should feel ashamed to be Chinese or even of your country or its current government because of what happened in the 80's, none of you were around so it isn't your fault, but please don't simply just become, "OK with it" or even convince yourself it is somehow excusable. I'm British and recently found out about some of the horrific experiments we did on our own troops with Nukes. To make myself feel better, I don't excuse it or convince myself it was necessary! I bloody well tell people about it. I want folks to know. Not because I want them to uprise or do anything about it but because I want them to learn the reality of what their country has done to people in the past so that hopefully, in some small way, that might prevent it from happening again.
I don't know any Chinese who thinks that turning guns on unarmed civilians is OK. Not even the CCP, who after 1989 decided to revise internal security practices to make sure such thing never happens again. Hong Kong is a perfect example. I think you're purposefully misinterpreting her words and her sentiments which are very common among Chinese people.
I think I agree.
To shove it under the rug is not acceptable.
But she be proud to be chinese because of the people and their culture, not the government.
I never understand people who kinda mix this up.
I am not surprised that governments around the whole world still attempt covering up a lot of things that are already out
Your introspection is really amazing and meaningful.
As a Chinese living in US, I totally feel what you said. The first day I started my internship, during lunch break, my coworker showed me the tank man picture. Although I knew this incident and I kinda of know it better than him, I cannot hold my head up and put my words together in front of my team. Later in 2008, when beijing olympic torch rally protest happening, my indian coworkers asked me about Tibet. Again, that turns out to be a very bad experience.
After all these years living in western country, I realize the ideal system does not exist. Just look at USA, how many school shootings per year, and yet people cannot do much to protect their kids. Yet I deeply understand why western world cannot understand China. Why Chinese people don't want the so-called freedom. Why some of my friends in China are holding a bias view towards anyone criticizing China...From this point onwards, I don't know how China will evolve further under such a big pressure. I am hoping for the best.
Sorry I don't think it's accurate to say that "Chinese people don't want the so-called freedom". I do think that Chinese people also want more freedom. This is an area we Chinese need to work on - both the people and the government. I think more freedom of expression would be welcome, and government should not overdo with censorship.
@@chuanmeixu1246 It is impossible. The CCP and her claim to absolute power cannot exist if there is freedom of speech, because then they would have to accept political alternatives. Then it is game over for CCPs abolute political power over China. They never can escape their dictatorship. China will never get basic civil rights with the CCP in power. It is just impossible to keep the present system of government in China in place and grant civil rights, like freedom of speech. If Chinese traded freedom for prosperity, they may get none of both at the end.
Stabbings happen in China. Even in schools
Thank you for sharing. Most of my impressions of China are from news media, your personal view as someone with a window into both "East and West" is very insightful and enjoyable. As for personal guilt, you are not your country. You be you Siming!
Keep up the good work. We need more Chinese voice in the English speaking world, not from the government, but just commoners like you. I wish you great successes for all your social media platforms. You are making a difference. 加油！
I too have a complicated relationship with my own country (I am from NYC, and live in LA). and I appreciate your described "reconciliation" with your country. as someone who has lived during in several countries in my younger years, including china as well as Japan, as well as my own your videos are extremely insightful and I appreciate hearing your experiences
You are an incredibly intelligent woman, and this was an extremely well-thought out analysis.
Thank you Ray, I appreciate this :)
Impressive! Amazing vídeo! Thank you!
It's often been said: You can take a Russian out of Russia, but you cannot take Russia out of that Russian. Likewise, it's the same with the Chinese people because, while I am only half Chinese and 3rd generation to boot, China is in my soul.
Always be proud of your lineage Siming, because the Chinese people are an ancient and resilient race with thousands of very rich and continuous histories.
So true. While my political view had a road-to-Damascus turnaround now compared to when I left China for a Western country, I have always been fiercely proud of being Chinese. I recall my former boss once tried to praise me in front of others saying I was "Westernised", and I disagreed. He realised it wasn't the right word to describe me. I've had the PR visa for many years but always tell both Chinese from China and locals that I'm Chinese.
I love that you show the nuances of both cultures as you see them.
因为新疆的那个视频无意间发现了这个频道，很能体会到你的情感。我自己也是大学才出来的，记得大一的时候第一次上youtube，疯狂的看各种关于64，人权的东西，各类视频都在批判中国。那个时候自己也很思想不成熟，一度也会为自己的中国身份感受到羞愧。后来自己有机会去到了更多的国家交换，工作，学习。随着自己英语水平以及认知水平的提升，慢慢的发现了，原来很多问题并不是中国独有的，甚至所谓的“问题”完全是外媒夸大，甚至编造的结果
回过头看到自己的国家，她依旧不完美，但是这么庞大的体量，能够发展到今天这个地步真的很不容易。
很感谢你的视频，你也说出了很多我的想法。很难得在youtube上有一个中国人的频道能辩证的看待中国，不是一味贬低，也不是一味夸赞。
可能现在这个频道流量还不高，但是我相信只要youtube不给你主动限流，未来一定可以成长的不错。觉得可以多拍一些类似新疆那期的实地走访。相比纯理论的探讨，很多观众可能还是更爱看那种类型 （当然，我也很爱看你其他的视频，只是单从流量角度分析而已）
Wish you all the best, Siming!