One of the top brains out of Singapore 🇸🇬. Very proud of BG Yeo. Prof Kishore, Prof Wang Gungwu and BG Yeo form the bedrock of modern day Singapore intelligentsia.
However, the few pragmatic men u mentioned are in their 70's and 80's.I hope to see more scholars in their 50's and 60's emerged from the Singapore intelligentsia.
@@中華傲訣 Prof Wang is in his nineties. Singapore needs young minds like theirs who dare to wander off into a larger landscape and seek reward on the world stage.
Mr. George Yeo was such a brilliant and courageous scholar and person. I proud of him for standing up for China and the Chinese people and will always be remembered by me, who by way is his fellow Singaporean. Mr Yeo, jiayou!
I first came to know Mr. George Yeo a few days ago through an interview he had in the STG series with Mr. Alex Stubb on YT。 I'm Taiwanese in my 40s and like the Chinese, we too studied 5000-year-old Chinese history through junior/senior high schools years (Not the new generation in Taiwan....as starting in 2012 or so, after the pro-independent party DDP in Taiwan took power, it changed the textbook content and unilaterally moved Chinese history into the World History section in the curriculum). So coming from this background with an understanding of Chinese history, with friends and family living/working on both sides of the strait, and having been wildly exposed to Western media's narratives, I concur, am thoroughly impressed, sometimes very emotional, by Mr. Yeo's understanding, interpretation, and thoughts regarding China's history, philosophy, and worldview.... because they resonate deeply. I also couldn't agree more with Mr. Yeo when he mentioned how Western governments take Taiwan as a chess piece and talk about/take Taiwan's future lightly and use it as a weapon to poke China simply because they can fit that into their political agenda.....It shows ignorance and disrespect, and total disregard for millions of other Taiwanese citizens who do not want independence, who aren't hostile toward China, and who aren't necessarily against reunification. Thank you so much, Mr. Yeo, for your contribution in raising awareness and understanding of China from historical and geo-political perspectives in the West... A multi-polar world is of such importance when the US sees China as a threat/enemy to their hegemony, all the while that all China much prefers is common prosperity.
Just to elaborate on 1:05:30 "China treating minorities sometimes better than Han people' : From my experience, this is also true. For example, when Chiang Kai Shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan 70+ years ago, the ethnic minorities were given extra credits on top of their total scores (25%) when taking the National Entrance exam into Taiwanese high schools/universities. It was a continuation of the policy from old China...the China in mainland also has the same policies for ethnic minorities in their NCEE 高考 (It is a HUGE deal if one knows the importance of these exams is in our societies). In China, there're plenty of inclusive policies like this for ethnic minorities, and the Western MSMs are claiming China suppresses ethnic minorities? In today's digital age, a simple Google on the statistics of the Uyghur population growth, the infrastructure and economic development of Xinjiang decades ago and now, the number of Muslim Mosques in China, and thousands of real visitors touring China's travel vlogs can easily debunk their lies. But the image of China surpassing minorities is set among Westerners, thanks to MSM, why is this even allowed to happen? I firmly support China's assertiveness and firmness on its ground against all smearing.
@@laraw840 It's not the minority but mostly of the powerful from mainland China were given extra credit and better job offerings. The KMT discriminated local Taiwanese people
The lecture tried to bridge the China gap with entertaining and easy to relate language for Western audience. The depth and breath of knowledge presented was impressive: From China to Western culture, politics to legislative matters, religion to philosophical concepts etc.. Well done!
Wang Yi told Annalena Baerbock "We supported German reunification, we hope Germany will support our reunification when the time comes". And no Western media dared to report this. "Germany was divided because it was the aggressor, while China was divided because it was the victim!. The moral cause for China's reunification is on any balance greater than the cause for German reunification." TOUCHE!
Great respect to Mr Yeo. it is amazing to see a Singaporean to talk about Chinese history. Frankly, you know much more history about China than most of the Chinese🎉
Europeans’ view: “We killed native people around the world by the millions is very very good! China’s lifting poor people out of poverty is very very evil!”
Do the European audience even understood the significance of what George Yeo meant by Xi JP and Ma YJ splitting the bill 50/50? It's such an Asian thing to squabble over the bill that it's of important symbolic significance.
Due to its size, design of its economy, and status as a free port for over 200 years, Singaporeans are outward looking almost by nature. We understand the nuance of global affairs for both academic and entertainment purposes.
@@MikeyJJJ please don’t say we, most of my friends are fucking idiots and only cares about eating haidilao and open bottles at marquee on weekend,the depth of knowledge George Yeo possess is due to his profession and well as his past position in the government, the everyday man in Singapore isn’t all that outer-worldly and care so deeply about current affairs, they just read on CNA and Straits Times like some gossip news, and I am speaking as an Singaporean.
The concern is the US forcing Taiwan to go to war with China so that those American officials could watch the Chinese people on both sides killing each other! Which is what the US did to Ukraine against Russia!
I am glad that one of the audiences touched on the question of genocide. I would like to remind my friends to look up the history of Marshall Islands where United States ruthlessly committed mass genocide that nearly wiped out nearly the entire civilization.
I would say that is in the past.... that that is where he says China is coming from. SE Asia to be dominated by China, Indonesia to be a holiday destination ... and vassal. Yhe we are going back to the Imperial age. WW1 & WW2 needn't of happened.
Mr. Yao understands Chinese culture better and deeper than 90% Chinese in China! We must pay respect to him! This explain why Singapore has been so successful. With such talents in country’s leadership team, it is very hard Not Success!
They helped spread the fake news about China. Don't expect too much. You can only expect them to act for the benefit of their own country. Not acting for the truth. Hope they could see the benefits of working together with China and the global south instead of blindly following the US.
@Andy .P sadly European leaders forget that it was the US that was involved in the overthrowing of the democratically elected govt of Ukraine in 2014 that was one of the current war. Failure of people like you to look at history and the consequences of actions of so called self proclaimed democratic saviours like the US in the middle east, South America, Vietnam etc has an impact on future events.
Kudos to George Yeo, he did his best to explain China to EU. However, until EU and US becomes less arrogant/self righteous these words will be in one ear and out the other. If having a war in Ukraine, in Europe cannot bring them some humility, I fear it will take a bigger event. Hopefully not another war
Arrogant? You mean free people...in so far as we can be free. China is incredibly arrogant because it hasn't learned that its policies collapse countries in the end. China has appalling stats and that is all due to the CCP. China is collapsing now. They won't make it past 2035 at the latest.
Yeo is great as usual. Just one suggestion about the HK One Country Two System question: PRC kept its promise with Macau because Macau kept its end of bargain by working with PRC. One Country comes before Two Systems. When HK or Macau respects the Center, it will have its Two Systems. When HK or Macau challenges the Center, it will lose its Two systems.
CNN, FOX News, BBC and DW should invite this guy to their studio for a Town Hall style debate. Let the voters decide what political decisions are best for them.
Absolutely brilliant speech and responses to typical western bias questions. Some things to add regarding Hong Kong in addition to what Mr. Yeo said. During its entire British rule. There were 3 major crackdowns by the British, all of them resulting in massive loss of Chinese ppl lives. Not one person was killed by Hong Kong police during more than a year of violent unrest. During the British rule the governor was crown appointed the entire time. The legislature body was crown appointed until the last few years before handover to China. And the first ethnic Chinese police commissioner was not until the late 80”s about 10 yrs before handover. So by objective measure Hong Kong’s experience of democracy and self rule didn’t occur until she was back under Chinas rule. You simply cannot argue this fact no matter how biased you are. Lastly Mr. Yep did not have to the time to point out that the Hong Kong protest started because of a horrific murder by a gong king man of his girlfriend in Taiwan on vacation. He fled back to HK afterwards. The subsequent extradition treaty drafted by HK parliament which then added mainland China for obvious reason of one China principle was the catalyst of the unrest. It was not to assert more democracy which according to Kato institute HK was already one of the freest places in the world by objective measures.
unfortunately you must also realise he sits on a large number of Chinese companies' boards (invited or otherwise) and holds alot of their shares...so...think again.
Thought provoking is hardly the term to be used by the closing remarks of the narrator to describe Mr. Yeo's speech. It's more a learning and eye opening of Europeans' lack of knowledge about China.😊
Very astute speaker, one who can flow off topic and read the audience at the same time, adjusting his emphasis and tenor as the audience engages or disengages. A clever man.
A brilliant piece by Mr George Yeo as always. Recounting all the facts with sharp precision and intense knowledge. A man who has worn various hats from military to governmental (Minister of Info and Arts, Minister of Health, Minister of Trade and Minister of Foreign Affairs) and private sector (Chairman of Kerry Logistics). A very proud Singaporean for Mr Yeo flying our flags high around the world.
Yeo is truly impressive. He reminded me of Biden. Yeo spoke for hours without referring any notes. I don't have to tell my friends how Biden deliver his speech.😂
@@pahatpahat9566 don’t worry about us, we love George Yeo but we won’t see it as a loss, we are doing fine and our PM has done a great job by and large, go somewhere else to spread your hate and worry about yourself lol.
why would they since what he said about china are all lies. and since you china are so "strong", you dont need other countries understanding. hi wumao.
THIS IS THE MOST INFORMED SPEECH OF A LIFETIME AND SHOULD BE THE BASIS OF ANY EDUCATIONAL HISTORY OF OUR WORLD....ALL LEADERS NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND LISTEN TO PROF . GEORGE YU'S SPEECH.
Hello everyone! I am a worker with a Chinese "peasant identity" (under Chinese identity politics and household registration system, farmers are considered the lowest end of the population). After Professor Qin Hui's ideological enlightenment and awakening, I very agree with Professor Qin Hui's point of view: in the current context of globalization, the constitutional democratic system is being challenged by the autocratic Chinese model (that is, bad money drives out good money). Democratic countries around the world must deeply understand and understand the fact that since the CCP came into power in 1949, hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers have worked hard to pay public food, agricultural taxes The construction of water conservancy projects for free provided the CCP with the original financial accumulation at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Under the family planning policy, Chinese farmers were forced to have abortions, ligation and ring fencing, and payment of fines for excess births. Farmers were restricted by the household registration system in rural areas and could not move freely, leading a serf like life. During the three-year period from 1959 to 1961, there were no natural disasters at all. It was entirely due to Mao Zedong's policies such as the "Great Leap Forward" and "Great Steel Refining" that local officials, in response to Mao Zedong's policies, falsely reported ultra-high grain yields and plundered the surplus food of farmers, which resulted in the tragic starvation of 40 million people in human history. The vast majority of these were farmers, At that time, not a single Communist official starved to death. After China's reform and opening up in 1980, the first generation of farmers went to cities to work as construction workers, sanitation workers, cleaners, and miners Waiting for the most tiring and dirty jobs, China joined the WTO in the early 21st century under the background of economic globalization. For example, the second generation of farmers entered red sweatshops as workers, manufacturing cheap goods for the world. Due to the lack of independent trade unions to fight for their legal rights, they could not enjoy social welfare benefits such as work-related injuries, unemployment, medical care, elderly care, housing, and children's education in urban areas, Their children were forced to return to rural areas for education due to their household registration as "farmers" and the "school district housing" system, resulting in the world's largest tragic situation of left behind children and elderly people living alone in rural areas in China. Nowadays, the first generation of farmers have become old and lose their ability to work. They are ruthlessly driven back to the countryside and struggle to make ends meet with a monthly pension of over 100 yuan. The minimum standard for urban household registration is over 2000 yuan per month, which is more than 20 times that of rural household registration. Communist Party officials enjoy privileges and benefits, and the annual medical and health expenses are as high as several million yuan. National level officials spend one billion yuan on tourism in a year. Due to the enormous sacrifices and contributions of these two generations of Chinese farmers, China has become the world's second-largest economy. However, the Chinese farmer group has received exploitation and negative welfare treatment time and time again in the process of national wealth distribution and redistribution, while civil servants and high-ranking officials within the Communist Party system enjoy privileges and high welfare treatment. The Communist Party government utilizes the advantage of low human rights and cheap labor to attract a large amount of international financial capital investment, making China the largest red sweatshop in the world. The reason why cheap goods made in China are popular worldwide is due to the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" of the Chinese "farmer identity" worker group. Even if they work overtime for extended periods of time every day, they barely survive with a meager income. To change the Communist Party government's use of the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" system of China's vast vulnerable group of farmers in unfair competition in the globalized trade market, democratic countries around the world have the responsibility to supervise and pressure the Chinese government to demand an increase in the human rights and social welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and disadvantaged groups, in order to solve the problem of trade fairness under economic globalization. The trade sanctions imposed by the United States and anti-dumping measures by the European Union cannot solve the problem of trade deficits. If democratic countries believe that the human rights and welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and vulnerable groups are not related to you, it will gradually lead to a decrease in the standards of wages and welfare protection for labor in democratic countries (such as left-wing political parties in the United States proposing policies to reduce social welfare protection), because although labor in various countries cannot move freely, But capital is profit driven and can flow freely. Which capitalist doesn't like a labor market like China without strong trade unions. If the human rights and welfare standards of Chinese "farmer identity" workers cannot be gradually raised to align with those of democratic countries, then the human rights and welfare standards of democratic countries' workers can only be gradually lowered to align with those of Chinese "farmer identity" workers (this can be seen from the documentary "American Factory"). Democratic countries around the world cannot turn a blind eye to the history of labor tears behind China's "peasant identity" after enjoying nearly 40 years of cheap goods and economic benefits made in China. Please stop having illusions about the CCP and implementing appeasement policies. While paying attention to the human rights of Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and people in exile, it is more important to pay attention to the human rights situation of all Chinese people, Only by constantly putting pressure on the CCP to improve the human rights of all Chinese people and the welfare protection of vulnerable groups, cultivate the rights awareness of Chinese citizens and taxpayers, help China establish free and independent trade unions, learn from the welfare accountability of Polish Solidarity Trade Union, force financial openness and budget transparency, will China gradually embark on the path of constitutional democracy. A free and democratic China is indispensable for the stability and peace of the world, and it is also a responsibility that democratic countries around the world cannot evade, because we are all citizens of the Earth. I hope that people with conscience around the world can work together to make constitutional democracy overcome dictatorship, let good currency overcome bad currency, and make this world more civilized.
One observation. Europe has already lost its sphere of influence once Europe devotes its autonomy and became the vassal state of US. The sad part is European leaders can NOT face the reality and continuing acting as an independent and decisive pole in the multipolar world. Once you lost ability to make decision for your own people or country, you lost automatically a seat in the table to discuss world affairs at all. I always like this excerpt from “Clash of Civilization” by Samuel P. Huntington which stated “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
You believe Germans in Germany are subserviant to Germans in the USA? Please explain then how the USA, and Canada, targeted Russia after the war and elevated Germany going so far as to bring them into NATO to defend the "Americans'" invasion genocide and occupation of Natives lands. France maybe and Italy definitely with over 90 "American" bases in italy.
I can sense the deep silence and attention of the audience in this video , imparting , that , what the speaker said are truly intriguing , informative and mind boggling new to them , for the first time , understanding China as they have not heard before. Bravo Mr. George Yeo 👍🏻
As a Chinese born in the British colony of HK, I used to have keen interest in Chinese readings and history. With that background, I can understand Mr Yeo's speech and all the rationale why he believe the Chinese think and act as such. However I wonder how the European audience can follow his speech without much Chinese background. This is for those with post-grad level knowledge in China.
Not really, I don't have a post graduate degree in China studies and I find it very interesting and informative! Academia fails when it creates a cast of "intellectuals" who believe that only their club is capable of understanding something. All it takes is curiosity and a strong desire to learn. You don't need a specific degree to have those!
A most insightful sharing by Mr GY. Always hear sommething different and deep from him. But the underlining difficulty is US/West thinks highy of supremacy of their own values and hegemony ..
Hello everyone! I am a worker with a Chinese "peasant identity" (under Chinese identity politics and household registration system, farmers are considered the lowest end of the population). After Professor Qin Hui's ideological enlightenment and awakening, I very agree with Professor Qin Hui's point of view: in the current context of globalization, the constitutional democratic system is being challenged by the autocratic Chinese model (that is, bad money drives out good money). Democratic countries around the world must deeply understand and understand the fact that since the CCP came into power in 1949, hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers have worked hard to pay public food, agricultural taxes The construction of water conservancy projects for free provided the CCP with the original financial accumulation at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Under the family planning policy, Chinese farmers were forced to have abortions, ligation and ring fencing, and payment of fines for excess births. Farmers were restricted by the household registration system in rural areas and could not move freely, leading a serf like life. During the three-year period from 1959 to 1961, there were no natural disasters at all. It was entirely due to Mao Zedong's policies such as the "Great Leap Forward" and "Great Steel Refining" that local officials, in response to Mao Zedong's policies, falsely reported ultra-high grain yields and plundered the surplus food of farmers, which resulted in the tragic starvation of 40 million people in human history. The vast majority of these were farmers, At that time, not a single Communist official starved to death. After China's reform and opening up in 1980, the first generation of farmers went to cities to work as construction workers, sanitation workers, cleaners, and miners Waiting for the most tiring and dirty jobs, China joined the WTO in the early 21st century under the background of economic globalization. For example, the second generation of farmers entered red sweatshops as workers, manufacturing cheap goods for the world. Due to the lack of independent trade unions to fight for their legal rights, they could not enjoy social welfare benefits such as work-related injuries, unemployment, medical care, elderly care, housing, and children's education in urban areas, Their children were forced to return to rural areas for education due to their household registration as "farmers" and the "school district housing" system, resulting in the world's largest tragic situation of left behind children and elderly people living alone in rural areas in China. Nowadays, the first generation of farmers have become old and lose their ability to work. They are ruthlessly driven back to the countryside and struggle to make ends meet with a monthly pension of over 100 yuan. The minimum standard for urban household registration is over 2000 yuan per month, which is more than 20 times that of rural household registration. Communist Party officials enjoy privileges and benefits, and the annual medical and health expenses are as high as several million yuan. National level officials spend one billion yuan on tourism in a year. Due to the enormous sacrifices and contributions of these two generations of Chinese farmers, China has become the world's second-largest economy. However, the Chinese farmer group has received exploitation and negative welfare treatment time and time again in the process of national wealth distribution and redistribution, while civil servants and high-ranking officials within the Communist Party system enjoy privileges and high welfare treatment. The Communist Party government utilizes the advantage of low human rights and cheap labor to attract a large amount of international financial capital investment, making China the largest red sweatshop in the world. The reason why cheap goods made in China are popular worldwide is due to the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" of the Chinese "farmer identity" worker group. Even if they work overtime for extended periods of time every day, they barely survive with a meager income. To change the Communist Party government's use of the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" system of China's vast vulnerable group of farmers in unfair competition in the globalized trade market, democratic countries around the world have the responsibility to supervise and pressure the Chinese government to demand an increase in the human rights and social welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and disadvantaged groups, in order to solve the problem of trade fairness under economic globalization. The trade sanctions imposed by the United States and anti-dumping measures by the European Union cannot solve the problem of trade deficits. If democratic countries believe that the human rights and welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and vulnerable groups are not related to you, it will gradually lead to a decrease in the standards of wages and welfare protection for labor in democratic countries (such as left-wing political parties in the United States proposing policies to reduce social welfare protection), because although labor in various countries cannot move freely, But capital is profit driven and can flow freely. Which capitalist doesn't like a labor market like China without strong trade unions. If the human rights and welfare standards of Chinese "farmer identity" workers cannot be gradually raised to align with those of democratic countries, then the human rights and welfare standards of democratic countries' workers can only be gradually lowered to align with those of Chinese "farmer identity" workers (this can be seen from the documentary "American Factory"). Democratic countries around the world cannot turn a blind eye to the history of labor tears behind China's "peasant identity" after enjoying nearly 40 years of cheap goods and economic benefits made in China. Please stop having illusions about the CCP and implementing appeasement policies. While paying attention to the human rights of Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and people in exile, it is more important to pay attention to the human rights situation of all Chinese people, Only by constantly putting pressure on the CCP to improve the human rights of all Chinese people and the welfare protection of vulnerable groups, cultivate the rights awareness of Chinese citizens and taxpayers, help China establish free and independent trade unions, learn from the welfare accountability of Polish Solidarity Trade Union, force financial openness and budget transparency, will China gradually embark on the path of constitutional democracy. A free and democratic China is indispensable for the stability and peace of the world, and it is also a responsibility that democratic countries around the world cannot evade, because we are all citizens of the Earth. I hope that people with conscience around the world can work together to make constitutional democracy overcome dictatorship, let good currency overcome bad currency, and make this world more civilized.
Insightful with historical depth. You are spot on on the Taiwan topic. This is about historical Justice. And absolutely glad that Wang Yi’s comments about German unification. I was there and the Germans should be the person on earth to prevent the Chinese unification!!
Good to hear his perspective otherwise fir the last 30+ years Western experts had been predicting China's economy would collapse next year, which fortunately never materialise.
Few predicted that, actually the U.S. and allies active aided and abetted China to become a superpower by giving it most-favored trading status, a decision I'm sure they dearly regret now.
@@richardwills-woodwardHow much longer "underway" since it's been more than 30 years ? Surely, there must be a statue of limitation... even for predictions.
Impressive point on point supported by history,economics,culture,humanity, religion with such granular details. Most well deserving foreign affairs minister.
they won't, I've been living in western countries for over a decade and know the general posture of western media and politicians very well, which makes western ppl in general has too much of big ego and their respective sense of "superiority". The EU will most likely continue to follow the U.S. engineered political talkings, postures and cultures and such, few good examples would be EU's stance in Ukraine war, the promotion of LGDBTQIAPK or whatever happening in EU, or just look at how laughable the Lithuania's stances towards China in nowadays global geopolitical conflict, it's fascinating and makes me feel sad about the EU ppl, most of them are innocent good ppl.
Wang Yi told Annalena Baerbock "We supported German reunification, we hope Germany will support our reunification when the time comes". And no Western media dared to report this. "Germany was divided because it was the aggressor, while China was divided because it was the victim!. The moral cause for China's reunification is on any balance greater than the cause for German reunification." TOUCHE!
Glad to hear from Yeo regarding inflation in China. China inflation is well contained. Electricity prices continuously dropped for the last 20 years. I am sure that our friends outside China will be shocked to hear. Medical, education expense are decreasing. Housing cost is heading for a huge reduction. Cars as well as transportation cost with a high percentage of EV are reducing. This are the reason why such large percentage of Chinese support their government. This is the performance of a country which the west endlessly demonised. Have we ever heard the American's politicians compared China's performance with theirs in front of their people? So all they could do is to demonise China from other angles.
China inflation is not dropping. Go to big cities food and transport every expensive. China is providing huge subsidies to control inflation. How can China inflation can be reduced if China printed trillions of Yuan for the past decade. China have printed more than 150 trillion Yuan from 2007-2021.
@@commie5211 PBOC printed more than the inflow of China trade surplus of $300 - 400 billion. Surely this is inflationary. The only way to reduce inflation is to subside essentials food and energy supply chain. An average apartment in Shanghai cost US$1 million. You think this is not inflationary.
You mentioned that the USA helped China in their quest to rise from their impoverished state. I tend to agree with you but only to a certain extent because as I see it, the US administration did that not for China but for some hidden agenda. For one, it’s for their economic well-being. China has a big population. She has an abundance of natural resources that the US wants. Cheap labour too. To put it in a nutshell, they actually had plans to exploit all of the above. And they in the midst of it will convince the CCP to adopt a democratic system of governance so that they can eventually groom and install a puppet at the top to do their biddings. Should that materialise, Russia will be cornered. No need to bring India into the picture because they know that India will just tag along. That will seal their hegemonic status till eternity. It was never a noble initiative as I see it.
After listening to a few speeches by George Yeo, I slowly realised how smart and insightful he is. No wonder he was an Air Marshall and later a diplomat. Excellent speech!
Thank you, George, for telling these imperialists about China's stance on Taiwan. On Taiwan, if wars what Europe want, wars what Europe will get. A rematch it is, with a completely different result. The Dragon has been very patient.
China doesn't have Taiwan sovereignty. China lost Taiwan to Japan in 1895 in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. After WWII, according to the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1952, Taiwan is not a part of China. We have to admit honestly that Taiwanese doesn't want Taiwan to be a part of China. We must respect the wishes of Taiwan people.
This has been quite illuminating to understand how China thinks and where they come from and to see where the west gets it wrong about China. Quite an amazing lecture.
As a young Chinese individual, I can assure you that many of us grew up in a more open cultural context. We embraced Hollywood movies and Western culture - I'm a fan of Iron Man and freedom, just like you. However, it appears there's significant momentum maintaining the current system. Here's hoping all conflicts can find peaceful resolution.
Thank goodness for a few europeans who were open-minded to attend this eye-opening lecture to know more about China. It's a shame that China's offers of the Confucious Institutes for learning and understanding of China were shut down by the U.S. fear mongering calls. Now, the West mainly learns a glimpse about today's China through Western TH-camrs traveling in China.
You can't deny that Singapore had some of the best brains in the world, much better than those in the West nowadays! There is no more statesmen in the West, but dirty politicians whose only interest is self-serving interest!
Thank you for very uploading this very insightful video, may I make a small suggestion, that auditorium needs a little more soundproofing improvement to prevent echos from bouncing off the walls.
What is a wonderful series in 12 episodes that Mr. Yeo mentioned about the great thing of each country? Please kindly suggest for future learning. Thanks In advance.
He tried to tell the audience that you got to learn and understand your counterparts if you are to interact with them. That was how China learnt of the other countries from the series of "The Rise of Great Nations".
Very important facts from Mr. Morton regarding genocide in Xinjiang, "leading scholars of the law of genocide says there is no evidence there is no proof of genocide and the US state department should stop using this classification unless there is more proof"
@@ACho168 it's no surprise that US would cook such a story based on some ingredients. There are some ingredients but what I'm delighted is the leading scholars of the law of genocide have uphold their profession to debunk US state departments. So, not all west are out for confrontation, just that we couldn't hear them. Rallying the crowd via MSM to construct images of good vs bad, kind vs evil, democracy vs autocratic etc could be dangerous and difficult to end. I thought US had enough lessons over past 70 years in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc you got your short term goal but the long term goal is sticky and tough to wrap up.
The US State Dept is even going against the advise of it's own lawyers who stated that there's simply insufficient evidence to qualify China's action as a genocide.. Actually China is just a victim of US domestic policy - Fatso Pompeo declared it a genocide on the last day of Tramps' presidency to trap the Biden & Democrats with little option to work with China and as payback for the Democrats for pass a legislation making sanctioning Russia for election interference mandatory by law a few days before Tramp took power. If you recall , just weeks before Tramp's inauguration, his national security adviser-designate Mike Flint was already negotiating with the Russians to lift older sanctions. This was leaked and Tramp was forced to fire him. Tramp strategy is to cooperate with Russia to confront CHina.
george bush said Iraq had WMD, where was it? It was saddham who angered bush on the floor mat photo of older bush and george bush wanted to punish saddham for that matter.
China has an idiom called 学贯中西 'well-versed in the learning of both Chinese and Western cultures,' and Yeo is such a scholar and visionary politician who understands the politics and logic of the Western world, while also having a profound understanding of Chinese Confucian thought and culture.
É impressionante com este senhor ve todas as ações dos mundo externo à China como erros provocados pela ignorância e nunca assume uma única falha à China, está sempre sendo sendo sempre correcta nas suas avaliações porque é de uma sabedoria sem fim. É também impressionante que o projecto europeu só será viável se a Europa se abrir e integrar todas as culturas e a China sendo o país mais fechados das grandes economias tem o seu futuro grandioso escrito na história tal como a URSS.
é impressionante que nao Intendentes nada que ele disse e se há pais que fala em Excepcionalismo toda hora é os políticos dos EUA e se nao vivesses numa bolha saberias que o resto do mundo inclusive a china sabe mais sobre europa do que a europa sobre o resto do mundo e já tinhas reparado que a europa nunca esteve tanto isolada como está hoje duvido as guerras de procuração que europa faz sempre com a américa sanções a maior parte do mundo que a desdolarizaçao do mundo foi tao rápida como está acontecer este ano nao admira que o numero de países que pedirem a entrada aos Brics explodiram vai desde a Indonésia até ao México . E nem os lideres do sul global já nem tem medo de dizer o que pensam ao Blican e Macron mesmo na frente deles já estão fartos de sanções e de lições de paternalismo e nos chama de hipócritas até no youtube tem vídeos disso kk . Em que planeta vives? vai ver qual é o pais que mais turistas do mundo emite e qual dos países que mais turistas recebe vai ver os números antes de abrires a boca saberias que a china o nº4 sem incluir Macau e Hong Kong e o primeiro emitir .Sabes que 10 melhores universidades da Asia 6 estão na china ? nao preciso dele para saber que a economia do mundo está a deslocar-se para a asia e que africa é o continente onde a população mais cresce. O mundo esta a mudar tu é que nao queres reconhecer isso . E vai ver onde foram todas a comitivas empresariais europeias foram correr depois dos necons americanos ter explodido Nord Stream 2 po que sabiam que esses idiotas levaram á recessão e desindustrialização da Alemanha e verás que foram basicamente onde os europeus queriam chegar desde pelo menos a época de marco polo eles sabem onde está o mercado e quem é o principal parceiro económico da União Europeia hoje . esses lideres medíocres da europa em que a Liz Truss é um bom exemplo disso só escutam a si mesmos e vem com essas tretas de jardins e o resto é selva nao entendem nada sobre a cultura dos outros povos p resultado desastroso de todas as guerras que a europa meteu-se é prova disso tornamos vassalos da América e vens falar de fechado? Quem está fechado somos nós que só escutamos a nós próprios . E nao preciso de um ex ministro da Singapura ele nao disse nada que eu nao saiba e nao tenha escutados de vários asiáticos inclusive africanos que eu já nao saiba além de que estudo eu chines e cultura chinesa.
Great comment, i agree with Yeo's analysis on some points but the same also stroke me: he wants to project objectivity, but he is just providing the chinese version, which on some points seems as lecturing the west just like he accuses the west to do
@@federicocampatelli1056 the issue here is the lecture is always one sided from the west and when even a Singaporean with Chinese ethnicity gives a lecture to the west, comments like this goes viral.
George is amazing but honestly as he depicted clearly Europe and western mentality will never understand the rest of the world .. why? Their culture represent throughout history an exploitive civilisation …as George Elaborated here westerners and the rest of the world are divided simply through historical difference values …that Chinese and Muslims are NOT exploitive cultures and see it as a threat against their future … Western culture grew through exploitation and see the world under their order … salute to George 🙏
Quote: "someone told me what and Italian professor in Chengdu said it's quite interesting take it in the rest period you know this is the Chinese the Americans are not known to love Chinese they're not known to love Muslims but somehow they love Chinese Muslims a lot so that's my answer to your question yes please"
The European audience seem to be so incalcitrant to the gist of his lecture that makes me wonder why they even invited him for a speech in the first place.
European had to understand that China signed Treaty of Nanjing at gunpoint. China did not want the British to be the tenant of Hong Kong. The lease was for 99 years. At the end of the lease, the tenant should just leave without any fuss. Chinese being more than courteous to the British in 1997. Being a unwanted tenant, the British should just pack up and leave. I think that is the normal relationship between a tenant and the landlord, is not?! The Chinese do not want colonial influence of the Britain! Whatever bad or good, it is upon the Chinese to determine what they want for Hong Kong!
inspiring take on many issues close to asean and the attempt to bridge understanding between west and east is commendable and should be shadowed by other leaders towards a just world. for my small part, i will post shorts of this video in my non profit yt channel
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George is an icon for Singapore. He is brilliant and everything he said was back up with facts & histories.
aka China lackey
Mr George Yeo makes Singapore look so good as always. Thanks!
One of the top brains out of Singapore 🇸🇬. Very proud of BG Yeo. Prof Kishore, Prof Wang Gungwu and BG Yeo form the bedrock of modern day Singapore intelligentsia.
However, the few pragmatic men u mentioned are in their 70's and 80's.I hope to see more scholars in their 50's and 60's emerged from the Singapore intelligentsia.
@@中華傲訣 Prof Wang is in his nineties. Singapore needs young minds like theirs who dare to wander off into a larger landscape and seek reward on the world stage.
BG Yeo. Prof Kishore, Prof Wang Gungwu all the 3 of them are paid by ccp..,, cut the act. wumaos...
Yes, Singapore ‘s success is due to the meritocratic leaderships.
@@slly4276 utter bullshit.
Mr. George Yeo was such a brilliant and courageous scholar and person. I proud of him for standing up for China and the Chinese people and will always be remembered by me, who by way is his fellow Singaporean. Mr Yeo, jiayou!
aka China lackey
I first came to know Mr. George Yeo a few days ago through an interview he had in the STG series with Mr. Alex Stubb on YT。 I'm Taiwanese in my 40s and like the Chinese, we too studied 5000-year-old Chinese history through junior/senior high schools years (Not the new generation in Taiwan....as starting in 2012 or so, after the pro-independent party DDP in Taiwan took power, it changed the textbook content and unilaterally moved Chinese history into the World History section in the curriculum). So coming from this background with an understanding of Chinese history, with friends and family living/working on both sides of the strait, and having been wildly exposed to Western media's narratives, I concur, am thoroughly impressed, sometimes very emotional, by Mr. Yeo's understanding, interpretation, and thoughts regarding China's history, philosophy, and worldview.... because they resonate deeply. I also couldn't agree more with Mr. Yeo when he mentioned how Western governments take Taiwan as a chess piece and talk about/take Taiwan's future lightly and use it as a weapon to poke China simply because they can fit that into their political agenda.....It shows ignorance and disrespect, and total disregard for millions of other Taiwanese citizens who do not want independence, who aren't hostile toward China, and who aren't necessarily against reunification. Thank you so much, Mr. Yeo, for your contribution in raising awareness and understanding of China from historical and geo-political perspectives in the West... A multi-polar world is of such importance when the US sees China as a threat/enemy to their hegemony, all the while that all China much prefers is common prosperity.
Just to elaborate on 1:05:30 "China treating minorities sometimes better than Han people' : From my experience, this is also true. For example, when Chiang Kai Shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan 70+ years ago, the ethnic minorities were given extra credits on top of their total scores (25%) when taking the National Entrance exam into Taiwanese high schools/universities. It was a continuation of the policy from old China...the China in mainland also has the same policies for ethnic minorities in their NCEE 高考 (It is a HUGE deal if one knows the importance of these exams is in our societies). In China, there're plenty of inclusive policies like this for ethnic minorities, and the Western MSMs are claiming China suppresses ethnic minorities? In today's digital age, a simple Google on the statistics of the Uyghur population growth, the infrastructure and economic development of Xinjiang decades ago and now, the number of Muslim Mosques in China, and thousands of real visitors touring China's travel vlogs can easily debunk their lies. But the image of China surpassing minorities is set among Westerners, thanks to MSM, why is this even allowed to happen? I firmly support China's assertiveness and firmness on its ground against all smearing.
Taiwan doesn't want to be ruled by China
@@laraw840 Uighurs are first in line to those 'education' centers
@@laraw840 It's not the minority but mostly of the powerful from mainland China were given extra credit and better job offerings. The KMT discriminated local Taiwanese people
you should vote your traitor president out of office. she is a total disgrace
George Yeo is my choice for UN secretary General.
Whole lecture without scripts and teleprompter. Wow. That’s actually how Lee Kwan Yew lectured too. Proud of being a Singaporean.
The US mafia state has gone too far! Way way too far!
The lecture tried to bridge the China gap with entertaining and easy to relate language for Western audience. The depth and breath of knowledge presented was impressive: From China to Western culture, politics to legislative matters, religion to philosophical concepts etc.. Well done!
China is an evil government that needs to be stopped at all costs.
wumaos....get a life.
@poohloveswarcriminals
Still waiting inline at CIA dogfood dispensary?
@poohloveswarcriminals .
Wang Yi told Annalena Baerbock "We supported German reunification, we hope Germany will support our reunification when the time comes". And no Western media dared to report this. "Germany was divided because it was the aggressor, while China was divided because it was the victim!. The moral cause for China's reunification is on any balance greater than the cause for German reunification." TOUCHE!
Great respect to Mr Yeo. it is amazing to see a Singaporean to talk about Chinese history. Frankly, you know much more history about China than most of the Chinese🎉
Thank you Mr Yeo. Your a great speaker, an excellent historian on China, and yours words are greatly appreciated and needed.
Fantastic speech without reading any script, and memorizing it.
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super impressed by his knowledge and deep understanding of the workings of the world. one of the greatest talent of singapore apart from LKY
Singapore leaders are always so intelligent, knowing well about China and the west
The US mafia state has gone too far! Way way too far!
Hat off to George Yeo, he is so knowledgeable and patient when educating the European's view on China.
Educating the European view on China. Do you even realize how patronising you sound? Why doesn’t the educating go both ways?
wumaos....get a life.
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Europeans’ view: “We killed native people around the world by the millions is very very good! China’s lifting poor people out of poverty is very very evil!”
Do the European audience even understood the significance of what George Yeo meant by Xi JP and Ma YJ splitting the bill 50/50? It's such an Asian thing to squabble over the bill that it's of important symbolic significance.
😂😂😂
The Q&A was even better than the prepared remarks, shows the calibre of the man
As a Chinese, I am shocked that a Singaporean is so knowledgeable about Chinese history and our ideas, unbelievable！
Due to its size, design of its economy, and status as a free port for over 200 years, Singaporeans are outward looking almost by nature. We understand the nuance of global affairs for both academic and entertainment purposes.
@@MikeyJJJ please don’t say we, most of my friends are fucking idiots and only cares about eating haidilao and open bottles at marquee on weekend,the depth of knowledge George Yeo possess is due to his profession and well as his past position in the government, the everyday man in Singapore isn’t all that outer-worldly and care so deeply about current affairs, they just read on CNA and Straits Times like some gossip news, and I am speaking as an Singaporean.
@@fhetfet6402you sound more like the dog you described
@@calvyncraven1141 very "mature" comment from u.
@@fhetfet6402 said the person who use dog to describe one of Singapore's most distinguished leader. 😒
I am not afraid of China attacking Taiwan. I am most concern if USA get its troops into south east Asia.
No, no, no. The narrative is chinese spy balloons, russian spy whale. Be afraid, and we will protect you.
The concern is the US forcing Taiwan to go to war with China so that those American officials could watch the Chinese people on both sides killing each other! Which is what the US did to Ukraine against Russia!
I am glad that one of the audiences touched on the question of genocide. I would like to remind my friends to look up the history of Marshall Islands where United States ruthlessly committed mass genocide that nearly wiped out nearly the entire civilization.
Wumao, CCP propaganda. China does all the bad things that had occurred in the past by knowingly and there is no excuse for this.
No need to look at Marshall Islands. The creation of U.S., Canada and Australia were a product of genocide.
dude, you dont even have to go that far, indian "wars"?
but look at the views of this lecturer. The world is under control
I would say that is in the past.... that that is where he says China is coming from. SE Asia to be dominated by China, Indonesia to be a holiday destination ... and vassal. Yhe we are going back to the Imperial age. WW1 & WW2 needn't of happened.
Mr. Yao understands Chinese culture better and deeper than 90% Chinese in China! We must pay respect to him! This explain why Singapore has been so successful. With such talents in country’s leadership team, it is very hard Not Success!
Singapore is succeeding because it is getting Hong KONG’s talents and money. Hong Kong is failing because of China. Go figure.
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Mr. Yeo is a treasure, all world leaders should listen to this lecture. Sadly even if they did, probably won't make much of a difference.
They helped spread the fake news about China. Don't expect too much. You can only expect them to act for the benefit of their own country. Not acting for the truth. Hope they could see the benefits of working together with China and the global south instead of blindly following the US.
I agree. But too much talk Vs do is two different things.
Fortunately European leaders will remember Chinese support for the Russian invasion.
@Andy .P sadly European leaders forget that it was the US that was involved in the overthrowing of the democratically elected govt of Ukraine in 2014 that was one of the current war. Failure of people like you to look at history and the consequences of actions of so called self proclaimed democratic saviours like the US in the middle east, South America, Vietnam etc has an impact on future events.
@@Andy-PChina would be the only way ending this war, if the US doesn't screw it.
Thank you Mr Yeo for your wise and eloquent speech. Hopefully it does not fall on deaf ears.
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Kudos to George Yeo, he did his best to explain China to EU. However, until EU and US becomes less arrogant/self righteous these words will be in one ear and out the other. If having a war in Ukraine, in Europe cannot bring them some humility, I fear it will take a bigger event. Hopefully not another war
Arrogant? You mean free people...in so far as we can be free. China is incredibly arrogant because it hasn't learned that its policies collapse countries in the end. China has appalling stats and that is all due to the CCP. China is collapsing now. They won't make it past 2035 at the latest.
china should knows its place in the international stage, and so do you. go to the back.
Yeo is great as usual. Just one suggestion about the HK One Country Two System question: PRC kept its promise with Macau because Macau kept its end of bargain by working with PRC. One Country comes before Two Systems. When HK or Macau respects the Center, it will have its Two Systems. When HK or Macau challenges the Center, it will lose its Two systems.
I am still wondering who betrayed the “One Country Two Systems” as in the joint Sino-British Declaration, the people of HK or the CCP?
@@tslow1829it was Winnie the Poop
@@tslow1829 CCP took it as " one country two standards" but HK backers read it as "one system two countries"
That is called bullying. Hong Kong shares nothing with China. They are now under a dictatorship and are no longer free.
@@qingzhou9983 Drivel. People were protesting as they didn't want to belong to the disgusting regime that is the CCP.
Insightful speech by George Yeo. Audience members also asked some very good questions. High quality forum all around!
CNN, FOX News, BBC and DW should invite this guy to their studio for a Town Hall style debate. Let the voters decide what political decisions are best for them.
These platforms do not make news but propagandas and misinformations.
Why would he have to waste time on those dogmatic, moronic people?
Absolutely powerful delivery... Mr George Yeo is 100x better than aichatgpt !!! A walking talking encyclopaedia ❤😂
Absolutely brilliant speech and responses to typical western bias questions. Some things to add regarding Hong Kong in addition to what Mr. Yeo said. During its entire British rule. There were 3 major crackdowns by the British, all of them resulting in massive loss of Chinese ppl lives. Not one person was killed by Hong Kong police during more than a year of violent unrest. During the British rule the governor was crown appointed the entire time. The legislature body was crown appointed until the last few years before handover to China. And the first ethnic Chinese police commissioner was not until the late 80”s about 10 yrs before handover. So by objective measure Hong Kong’s experience of democracy and self rule didn’t occur until she was back under Chinas rule. You simply cannot argue this fact no matter how biased you are. Lastly Mr. Yep did not have to the time to point out that the Hong Kong protest started because of a horrific murder by a gong king man of his girlfriend in Taiwan on vacation. He fled back to HK afterwards. The subsequent extradition treaty drafted by HK parliament which then added mainland China for obvious reason of one China principle was the catalyst of the unrest. It was not to assert more democracy which according to Kato institute HK was already one of the freest places in the world by objective measures.
Please note CIA, MI6 were in HK to engineer the riots, Azov Battlion was imported to HK too.
@@Whatis2468
These are lies, including yours. 😂 😂
China has severely breached the Sino British Joint Declaration.
Read the Declaration ! Duke !
❤ can always learn a lot from Mr George, every time listening to your speech on history..
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if you learnt anything from him, is to make sure you get paid by the ccp for speaking up for them.
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i don’t think the audience can understand a single word of this great speech.
Oh I think they did.
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Very absorbing. Once I started watching, I couldn't stop.
George Yeo is brilliant and a great communicator.
China is so misunderstood and reviled.
unfortunately you must also realise he sits on a large number of Chinese companies' boards (invited or otherwise) and holds alot of their shares...so...think again.
He is ethnically and obviously proud Chinese. Why don't you just say that?
i don't think truth cares about who he sits with@@takanna
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Thought provoking is hardly the term to be used by the closing remarks of the narrator to describe Mr. Yeo's speech. It's more a learning and eye opening of Europeans' lack of knowledge about China.😊
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Excellent speaker.
Very astute speaker, one who can flow off topic and read the audience at the same time, adjusting his emphasis and tenor as the audience engages or disengages. A clever man.
he's probably the best of his generation, shame he left govt in 2011, your observations are very accurate
A brilliant piece by Mr George Yeo as always. Recounting all the facts with sharp precision and intense knowledge. A man who has worn various hats from military to governmental (Minister of Info and Arts, Minister of Health, Minister of Trade and Minister of Foreign Affairs) and private sector (Chairman of Kerry Logistics). A very proud Singaporean for Mr Yeo flying our flags high around the world.
Yeo is truly impressive. He reminded me of Biden. Yeo spoke for hours without referring any notes. I don't have to tell my friends how Biden deliver his speech.😂
I thought he would have make a good PM for Singapore! What a loss of talent to Singapore in selecting their PM!
Great comments Mr Choi
@@pahatpahat9566 don’t worry about us, we love George Yeo but we won’t see it as a loss, we are doing fine and our PM has done a great job by and large, go somewhere else to spread your hate and worry about yourself lol.
a great guy with the fascinating speech.
Well done, Mr George Yeo. Hope the Europeans will have a better understanding of China.
why would they since what he said about china are all lies. and since you china are so "strong", you dont need other countries understanding. hi wumao.
They won't.
THIS IS THE MOST INFORMED SPEECH OF A LIFETIME AND SHOULD BE THE BASIS OF ANY EDUCATIONAL HISTORY OF OUR WORLD....ALL LEADERS NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND LISTEN TO PROF . GEORGE YU'S SPEECH.
Well said Mr Yeo, you reminded us of history & it cannot be changed to suit one's agenda.
History can not change. The future history can. Tell me of anything that doesn’t change.
George Yeo is the new China mouth piece ?
Hello everyone! I am a worker with a Chinese "peasant identity" (under Chinese identity politics and household registration system, farmers are considered the lowest end of the population). After Professor Qin Hui's ideological enlightenment and awakening, I very agree with Professor Qin Hui's point of view: in the current context of globalization, the constitutional democratic system is being challenged by the autocratic Chinese model (that is, bad money drives out good money). Democratic countries around the world must deeply understand and understand the fact that since the CCP came into power in 1949, hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers have worked hard to pay public food, agricultural taxes The construction of water conservancy projects for free provided the CCP with the original financial accumulation at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Under the family planning policy, Chinese farmers were forced to have abortions, ligation and ring fencing, and payment of fines for excess births. Farmers were restricted by the household registration system in rural areas and could not move freely, leading a serf like life. During the three-year period from 1959 to 1961, there were no natural disasters at all. It was entirely due to Mao Zedong's policies such as the "Great Leap Forward" and "Great Steel Refining" that local officials, in response to Mao Zedong's policies, falsely reported ultra-high grain yields and plundered the surplus food of farmers, which resulted in the tragic starvation of 40 million people in human history. The vast majority of these were farmers, At that time, not a single Communist official starved to death. After China's reform and opening up in 1980, the first generation of farmers went to cities to work as construction workers, sanitation workers, cleaners, and miners Waiting for the most tiring and dirty jobs, China joined the WTO in the early 21st century under the background of economic globalization. For example, the second generation of farmers entered red sweatshops as workers, manufacturing cheap goods for the world. Due to the lack of independent trade unions to fight for their legal rights, they could not enjoy social welfare benefits such as work-related injuries, unemployment, medical care, elderly care, housing, and children's education in urban areas, Their children were forced to return to rural areas for education due to their household registration as "farmers" and the "school district housing" system, resulting in the world's largest tragic situation of left behind children and elderly people living alone in rural areas in China. Nowadays, the first generation of farmers have become old and lose their ability to work. They are ruthlessly driven back to the countryside and struggle to make ends meet with a monthly pension of over 100 yuan. The minimum standard for urban household registration is over 2000 yuan per month, which is more than 20 times that of rural household registration. Communist Party officials enjoy privileges and benefits, and the annual medical and health expenses are as high as several million yuan. National level officials spend one billion yuan on tourism in a year. Due to the enormous sacrifices and contributions of these two generations of Chinese farmers, China has become the world's second-largest economy. However, the Chinese farmer group has received exploitation and negative welfare treatment time and time again in the process of national wealth distribution and redistribution, while civil servants and high-ranking officials within the Communist Party system enjoy privileges and high welfare treatment. The Communist Party government utilizes the advantage of low human rights and cheap labor to attract a large amount of international financial capital investment, making China the largest red sweatshop in the world. The reason why cheap goods made in China are popular worldwide is due to the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" of the Chinese "farmer identity" worker group. Even if they work overtime for extended periods of time every day, they barely survive with a meager income. To change the Communist Party government's use of the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" system of China's vast vulnerable group of farmers in unfair competition in the globalized trade market, democratic countries around the world have the responsibility to supervise and pressure the Chinese government to demand an increase in the human rights and social welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and disadvantaged groups, in order to solve the problem of trade fairness under economic globalization. The trade sanctions imposed by the United States and anti-dumping measures by the European Union cannot solve the problem of trade deficits. If democratic countries believe that the human rights and welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and vulnerable groups are not related to you, it will gradually lead to a decrease in the standards of wages and welfare protection for labor in democratic countries (such as left-wing political parties in the United States proposing policies to reduce social welfare protection), because although labor in various countries cannot move freely, But capital is profit driven and can flow freely. Which capitalist doesn't like a labor market like China without strong trade unions. If the human rights and welfare standards of Chinese "farmer identity" workers cannot be gradually raised to align with those of democratic countries, then the human rights and welfare standards of democratic countries' workers can only be gradually lowered to align with those of Chinese "farmer identity" workers (this can be seen from the documentary "American Factory"). Democratic countries around the world cannot turn a blind eye to the history of labor tears behind China's "peasant identity" after enjoying nearly 40 years of cheap goods and economic benefits made in China. Please stop having illusions about the CCP and implementing appeasement policies. While paying attention to the human rights of Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and people in exile, it is more important to pay attention to the human rights situation of all Chinese people, Only by constantly putting pressure on the CCP to improve the human rights of all Chinese people and the welfare protection of vulnerable groups, cultivate the rights awareness of Chinese citizens and taxpayers, help China establish free and independent trade unions, learn from the welfare accountability of Polish Solidarity Trade Union, force financial openness and budget transparency, will China gradually embark on the path of constitutional democracy. A free and democratic China is indispensable for the stability and peace of the world, and it is also a responsibility that democratic countries around the world cannot evade, because we are all citizens of the Earth. I hope that people with conscience around the world can work together to make constitutional democracy overcome dictatorship, let good currency overcome bad currency, and make this world more civilized.
One observation. Europe has already lost its sphere of influence once Europe devotes its autonomy and became the vassal state of US. The sad part is European leaders can NOT face the reality and continuing acting as an independent and decisive pole in the multipolar world. Once you lost ability to make decision for your own people or country, you lost automatically a seat in the table to discuss world affairs at all. I always like this excerpt from “Clash of Civilization” by Samuel P. Huntington which stated “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
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You believe Germans in Germany are subserviant to Germans in the USA?
Please explain then how the USA, and Canada, targeted Russia after the war and elevated Germany going so far as to bring them into NATO to defend the "Americans'" invasion genocide and occupation of Natives lands.
France maybe and Italy definitely with over 90 "American" bases in italy.
I always love listening to George Yeo, always have something insightful and smart in his sharing!
I can sense the deep silence and attention of the audience in this video , imparting , that , what the speaker said are truly intriguing , informative and mind boggling new to them , for the first time , understanding China as they have not heard before. Bravo Mr. George Yeo 👍🏻
The USA should listen to the wisdom of George Yeo! Thanks for such an enlightening speech!
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As a Chinese born in the British colony of HK, I used to have keen interest in Chinese readings and history. With that background, I can understand Mr Yeo's speech and all the rationale why he believe the Chinese think and act as such.
However I wonder how the European audience can follow his speech without much Chinese background. This is for those with post-grad level knowledge in China.
Not really, I don't have a post graduate degree in China studies and I find it very interesting and informative! Academia fails when it creates a cast of "intellectuals" who believe that only their club is capable of understanding something. All it takes is curiosity and a strong desire to learn. You don't need a specific degree to have those!
@@knittingnirvana well said!
@@knittingnirvana That's good to know, thanks!
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A most insightful sharing by Mr GY. Always hear sommething different and deep from him. But the underlining difficulty is US/West thinks highy of supremacy of their own values and hegemony ..
Thank you, George, for a great lecture to the Western audience, very much appreciated
traitors of Singapore ? mouth piece for China ?
Hello everyone! I am a worker with a Chinese "peasant identity" (under Chinese identity politics and household registration system, farmers are considered the lowest end of the population). After Professor Qin Hui's ideological enlightenment and awakening, I very agree with Professor Qin Hui's point of view: in the current context of globalization, the constitutional democratic system is being challenged by the autocratic Chinese model (that is, bad money drives out good money). Democratic countries around the world must deeply understand and understand the fact that since the CCP came into power in 1949, hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers have worked hard to pay public food, agricultural taxes The construction of water conservancy projects for free provided the CCP with the original financial accumulation at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Under the family planning policy, Chinese farmers were forced to have abortions, ligation and ring fencing, and payment of fines for excess births. Farmers were restricted by the household registration system in rural areas and could not move freely, leading a serf like life. During the three-year period from 1959 to 1961, there were no natural disasters at all. It was entirely due to Mao Zedong's policies such as the "Great Leap Forward" and "Great Steel Refining" that local officials, in response to Mao Zedong's policies, falsely reported ultra-high grain yields and plundered the surplus food of farmers, which resulted in the tragic starvation of 40 million people in human history. The vast majority of these were farmers, At that time, not a single Communist official starved to death. After China's reform and opening up in 1980, the first generation of farmers went to cities to work as construction workers, sanitation workers, cleaners, and miners Waiting for the most tiring and dirty jobs, China joined the WTO in the early 21st century under the background of economic globalization. For example, the second generation of farmers entered red sweatshops as workers, manufacturing cheap goods for the world. Due to the lack of independent trade unions to fight for their legal rights, they could not enjoy social welfare benefits such as work-related injuries, unemployment, medical care, elderly care, housing, and children's education in urban areas, Their children were forced to return to rural areas for education due to their household registration as "farmers" and the "school district housing" system, resulting in the world's largest tragic situation of left behind children and elderly people living alone in rural areas in China. Nowadays, the first generation of farmers have become old and lose their ability to work. They are ruthlessly driven back to the countryside and struggle to make ends meet with a monthly pension of over 100 yuan. The minimum standard for urban household registration is over 2000 yuan per month, which is more than 20 times that of rural household registration. Communist Party officials enjoy privileges and benefits, and the annual medical and health expenses are as high as several million yuan. National level officials spend one billion yuan on tourism in a year. Due to the enormous sacrifices and contributions of these two generations of Chinese farmers, China has become the world's second-largest economy. However, the Chinese farmer group has received exploitation and negative welfare treatment time and time again in the process of national wealth distribution and redistribution, while civil servants and high-ranking officials within the Communist Party system enjoy privileges and high welfare treatment. The Communist Party government utilizes the advantage of low human rights and cheap labor to attract a large amount of international financial capital investment, making China the largest red sweatshop in the world. The reason why cheap goods made in China are popular worldwide is due to the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" of the Chinese "farmer identity" worker group. Even if they work overtime for extended periods of time every day, they barely survive with a meager income. To change the Communist Party government's use of the "low human rights" and "negative welfare" system of China's vast vulnerable group of farmers in unfair competition in the globalized trade market, democratic countries around the world have the responsibility to supervise and pressure the Chinese government to demand an increase in the human rights and social welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and disadvantaged groups, in order to solve the problem of trade fairness under economic globalization. The trade sanctions imposed by the United States and anti-dumping measures by the European Union cannot solve the problem of trade deficits. If democratic countries believe that the human rights and welfare protection of hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers and vulnerable groups are not related to you, it will gradually lead to a decrease in the standards of wages and welfare protection for labor in democratic countries (such as left-wing political parties in the United States proposing policies to reduce social welfare protection), because although labor in various countries cannot move freely, But capital is profit driven and can flow freely. Which capitalist doesn't like a labor market like China without strong trade unions. If the human rights and welfare standards of Chinese "farmer identity" workers cannot be gradually raised to align with those of democratic countries, then the human rights and welfare standards of democratic countries' workers can only be gradually lowered to align with those of Chinese "farmer identity" workers (this can be seen from the documentary "American Factory"). Democratic countries around the world cannot turn a blind eye to the history of labor tears behind China's "peasant identity" after enjoying nearly 40 years of cheap goods and economic benefits made in China. Please stop having illusions about the CCP and implementing appeasement policies. While paying attention to the human rights of Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and people in exile, it is more important to pay attention to the human rights situation of all Chinese people, Only by constantly putting pressure on the CCP to improve the human rights of all Chinese people and the welfare protection of vulnerable groups, cultivate the rights awareness of Chinese citizens and taxpayers, help China establish free and independent trade unions, learn from the welfare accountability of Polish Solidarity Trade Union, force financial openness and budget transparency, will China gradually embark on the path of constitutional democracy. A free and democratic China is indispensable for the stability and peace of the world, and it is also a responsibility that democratic countries around the world cannot evade, because we are all citizens of the Earth. I hope that people with conscience around the world can work together to make constitutional democracy overcome dictatorship, let good currency overcome bad currency, and make this world more civilized.
Insightful with historical depth. You are spot on on the Taiwan topic. This is about historical Justice. And absolutely glad that Wang Yi’s comments about German unification. I was there and the Germans should be the person on earth to prevent the Chinese unification!!
Good to hear his perspective otherwise fir the last 30+ years Western experts had been predicting China's economy would collapse next year, which fortunately never materialise.
It is underway.
Few predicted that, actually the U.S. and allies active aided and abetted China to become a superpower by giving it most-favored trading status, a decision I'm sure they dearly regret now.
@@richardwills-woodwardHow much longer "underway" since it's been more than 30 years ? Surely, there must be a statue of limitation... even for predictions.
@@tweedy4sg It hasn't been 30 years at all. But now China is collapsing in on itself under the weight of communist dogma.
@@richardwills-woodward do you get anything when China collapses? one penny or a dime or a bowl of indian cow dung courtesy of modi?
Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content awareness/perspective/etc
Impressive point on point supported by history,economics,culture,humanity, religion with such granular details. Most well deserving foreign affairs minister.
This is deep! I hope European policy makers take note of what George Yeo is saying.
why would they since what he said about china are all lies.
they won't, I've been living in western countries for over a decade and know the general posture of western media and politicians very well, which makes western ppl in general has too much of big ego and their respective sense of "superiority". The EU will most likely continue to follow the U.S. engineered political talkings, postures and cultures and such, few good examples would be EU's stance in Ukraine war, the promotion of LGDBTQIAPK or whatever happening in EU, or just look at how laughable the Lithuania's stances towards China in nowadays global geopolitical conflict, it's fascinating and makes me feel sad about the EU ppl, most of them are innocent good ppl.
@@ultrabear1583 what you had just described is exactly what china is. stop hiding behind... u wumao.
Wang Yi told Annalena Baerbock "We supported German reunification, we hope Germany will support our reunification when the time comes". And no Western media dared to report this. "Germany was divided because it was the aggressor, while China was divided because it was the victim!. The moral cause for China's reunification is on any balance greater than the cause for German reunification." TOUCHE!
traitors of Singapore ? mouth piece for China ?
Glad to hear from Yeo regarding inflation in China. China inflation is well contained. Electricity prices continuously dropped for the last 20 years. I am sure that our friends outside China will be shocked to hear. Medical, education expense are decreasing. Housing cost is heading for a huge reduction. Cars as well as transportation cost with a high percentage of EV are reducing. This are the reason why such large percentage of Chinese support their government. This is the performance of a country which the west endlessly demonised. Have we ever heard the American's politicians compared China's performance with theirs in front of their people? So all they could do is to demonise China from other angles.
China inflation is not dropping. Go to big cities food and transport every expensive.
China is providing huge subsidies to control inflation.
How can China inflation can be reduced if China printed trillions of Yuan for the past decade.
China have printed more than 150 trillion Yuan from 2007-2021.
Beside housing and food, everything else dropped. But the food price increase is understandable. I lived in China during the 90s and 2000s.
@@zenlei8258 because for the printed money, these was inflow of foreign currency, and those money can be used to import a shit ton or raw materials?
@@commie5211
PBOC printed more than the inflow of China trade surplus of $300 - 400 billion.
Surely this is inflationary.
The only way to reduce inflation is to subside essentials food and energy supply chain.
An average apartment in Shanghai cost US$1 million. You think this is not inflationary.
@@zenlei8258 Can you even compare with the amount of money USA printed?
Superb session. Thank you so much for sharing this recording
You mentioned that the USA helped China in their quest to rise from their impoverished state. I tend to agree with you but only to a certain extent because as I see it, the US administration did that not for China but for some hidden agenda. For one, it’s for their economic well-being. China has a big population. She has an abundance of natural resources that the US wants. Cheap labour too. To put it in a nutshell, they actually had plans to exploit all of the above. And they in the midst of it will convince the CCP to adopt a democratic system of governance so that they can eventually groom and install a puppet at the top to do their biddings. Should that materialise, Russia will be cornered. No need to bring India into the picture because they know that India will just tag along. That will seal their hegemonic status till eternity. It was never a noble initiative as I see it.
Great talk, and very insightful. Thank you!
After listening to a few speeches by George Yeo, I slowly realised how smart and insightful he is. No wonder he was an Air Marshall and later a diplomat. Excellent speech!
Wonderful talk. Brilliant.
Thank you, George, for telling these imperialists about China's stance on Taiwan.
On Taiwan, if wars what Europe want, wars what Europe will get.
A rematch it is, with a completely different result.
The Dragon has been very patient.
In this comment are what’s wrong in China, accept our perspective or you go fill the consequences of not agree with us.
I will die for Taiwan. Free people cannot be bullied by dictatorships that wish to invade others.
@@hmmp7lol. Lol. Lol
China doesn't have Taiwan sovereignty.
China lost Taiwan to Japan in 1895 in the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
After WWII, according to the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1952, Taiwan is not a part of China.
We have to admit honestly that Taiwanese doesn't want Taiwan to be a part of China.
We must respect the wishes of Taiwan people.
Superb presentation. Thank you one and all who made this conversation possible and available. A privilege to experience. Best wishes.
This has been quite illuminating to understand how China thinks and where they come from and to see where the west gets it wrong about China. Quite an amazing lecture.
traitors of Singapore ? mouth piece for China ?
Excellent lecture! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent presentation
Thank you very much for this program!
Excellent presentation and discussion. ,
As a young Chinese individual, I can assure you that many of us grew up in a more open cultural context. We embraced Hollywood movies and Western culture - I'm a fan of Iron Man and freedom, just like you. However, it appears there's significant momentum maintaining the current system. Here's hoping all conflicts can find peaceful resolution.
Outstanding lecturer
Insightful and informative speech by George Yeo
USA: I hate China and Muslim but i love Chinese Muslim.. 😂😂😂😂
What a wonderful insight.
Thank goodness for a few europeans who were open-minded to attend this eye-opening lecture to know more about China. It's a shame that China's offers of the Confucious Institutes for learning and understanding of China were shut down by the U.S. fear mongering calls. Now, the West mainly learns a glimpse about today's China through Western TH-camrs traveling in China.
You can't deny that Singapore had some of the best brains in the world, much better than those in the West nowadays! There is no more statesmen in the West, but dirty politicians whose only interest is self-serving interest!
Thank you for very uploading this very insightful video, may I make a small suggestion, that auditorium needs a little more soundproofing improvement to prevent echos from bouncing off the walls.
So insightful lecture
Brilliant presentation, and Q&A. As to be expected from a senior government minister from Singapore.
traitors of Singapore ? mouth piece for China ?
What is a wonderful series in 12 episodes that Mr. Yeo mentioned about the great thing of each country? Please kindly suggest for future learning. Thanks In advance.
大国崛起。The Rise of Great Nations.
@@Diderot68 Thank you very much.
He tried to tell the audience that you got to learn and understand your counterparts if you are to interact with them. That was how China learnt of the other countries from the series of "The Rise of Great Nations".
George Yeo has very in depth knowledge 👍👍👍👍👍
Very important facts from Mr. Morton regarding genocide in Xinjiang, "leading scholars of the law of genocide says there is no evidence there is no proof of genocide and the US state department should stop using this classification unless there is more proof"
@@ACho168 it's no surprise that US would cook such a story based on some ingredients. There are some ingredients but what I'm delighted is the leading scholars of the law of genocide have uphold their profession to debunk US state departments. So, not all west are out for confrontation, just that we couldn't hear them. Rallying the crowd via MSM to construct images of good vs bad, kind vs evil, democracy vs autocratic etc could be dangerous and difficult to end. I thought US had enough lessons over past 70 years in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc you got your short term goal but the long term goal is sticky and tough to wrap up.
The US State Dept is even going against the advise of it's own lawyers who stated that there's simply insufficient evidence to qualify China's action as a genocide..
Actually China is just a victim of US domestic policy - Fatso Pompeo declared it a genocide on the last day of Tramps' presidency to trap the Biden & Democrats with little option to work with China and as payback for the Democrats for pass a legislation making sanctioning Russia for election interference mandatory by law a few days before Tramp took power. If you recall , just weeks before Tramp's inauguration, his national security adviser-designate Mike Flint was already negotiating with the Russians to lift older sanctions. This was leaked and Tramp was forced to fire him. Tramp strategy is to cooperate with Russia to confront CHina.
george bush said Iraq had WMD, where was it? It was saddham who angered bush on the floor mat photo of older bush and george bush wanted to punish saddham for that matter.
Brilliant presentation with amazing analysis.
Yeo is fantastic🍎
China has an idiom called 学贯中西 'well-versed in the learning of both Chinese and Western cultures,' and Yeo is such a scholar and visionary politician who understands the politics and logic of the Western world, while also having a profound understanding of Chinese Confucian thought and culture.
One of the GReat letture i have ever listened to
I watched twice to understand better. Interesing with historical facts
He is not reading any scripts! Incredible!
very balanced and reasonable.
every questions he answered were so great ...
Wise person george yeo
Who read a lot
É impressionante com este senhor ve todas as ações dos mundo externo à China como erros provocados pela ignorância e nunca assume uma única falha à China, está sempre sendo sendo sempre correcta nas suas avaliações porque é de uma sabedoria sem fim. É também impressionante que o projecto europeu só será viável se a Europa se abrir e integrar todas as culturas e a China sendo o país mais fechados das grandes economias tem o seu futuro grandioso escrito na história tal como a URSS.
é impressionante que nao Intendentes nada que ele disse e se há pais que fala em Excepcionalismo toda hora é os políticos dos EUA e se nao vivesses numa bolha saberias que o resto do mundo inclusive a china sabe mais sobre europa do que a europa sobre o resto do mundo e já tinhas reparado que a europa nunca esteve tanto isolada como está hoje duvido as guerras de procuração que europa faz sempre com a américa sanções a maior parte do mundo que a desdolarizaçao do mundo foi tao rápida como está acontecer este ano nao admira que o numero de países que pedirem a entrada aos Brics explodiram vai desde a Indonésia até ao México . E nem os lideres do sul global já nem tem medo de dizer o que pensam ao Blican e Macron mesmo na frente deles já estão fartos de sanções e de lições de paternalismo e nos chama de hipócritas até no youtube tem vídeos disso kk . Em que planeta vives? vai ver qual é o pais que mais turistas do mundo emite e qual dos países que mais turistas recebe vai ver os números antes de abrires a boca saberias que a china o nº4 sem incluir Macau e Hong Kong e o primeiro emitir .Sabes que 10 melhores universidades da Asia 6 estão na china ? nao preciso dele para saber que a economia do mundo está a deslocar-se para a asia e que africa é o continente onde a população mais cresce. O mundo esta a mudar tu é que nao queres reconhecer isso . E vai ver onde foram todas a comitivas empresariais europeias foram correr depois dos necons americanos ter explodido Nord Stream 2 po que sabiam que esses idiotas levaram á recessão e desindustrialização da Alemanha e verás que foram basicamente onde os europeus queriam chegar desde pelo menos a época de marco polo eles sabem onde está o mercado e quem é o principal parceiro económico da União Europeia hoje . esses lideres medíocres da europa em que a Liz Truss é um bom exemplo disso só escutam a si mesmos e vem com essas tretas de jardins e o resto é selva nao entendem nada sobre a cultura dos outros povos p resultado desastroso de todas as guerras que a europa meteu-se é prova disso tornamos vassalos da América e vens falar de fechado? Quem está fechado somos nós que só escutamos a nós próprios . E nao preciso de um ex ministro da Singapura ele nao disse nada que eu nao saiba e nao tenha escutados de vários asiáticos inclusive africanos que eu já nao saiba além de que estudo eu chines e cultura chinesa.
@Filipe Areias, então explique-me por favor.
Great comment, i agree with Yeo's analysis on some points but the same also stroke me: he wants to project objectivity, but he is just providing the chinese version, which on some points seems as lecturing the west just like he accuses the west to do
@@federicocampatelli1056 the issue here is the lecture is always one sided from the west and when even a Singaporean with Chinese ethnicity gives a lecture to the west, comments like this goes viral.
@@OnMusicSoon1 that s true, but on another note tell me, do you see possibilities for de-escalation and cooperation?
George is amazing but honestly as he depicted clearly Europe and western mentality will never understand the rest of the world .. why? Their culture represent throughout history an exploitive civilisation …as George Elaborated here westerners and the rest of the world are divided simply through historical difference values …that Chinese and Muslims are NOT exploitive cultures and see it as a threat against their future … Western culture grew through exploitation and see the world under their order … salute to George 🙏
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"someone told me what and Italian professor in Chengdu said it's quite interesting take it in the rest period you know this is the Chinese the Americans are not known to love Chinese they're not known to love Muslims but somehow they love Chinese Muslims a lot so that's my answer to your question yes please"
超精彩，客观公正的描述中国，回答温润如玉，谦谦君子之风，华人典范。
习大大应多多学习🙂
The European audience seem to be so incalcitrant to the gist of his lecture that makes me wonder why they even invited him for a speech in the first place.
European had to understand that China signed Treaty of Nanjing at gunpoint. China did not want the British to be the tenant of Hong Kong. The lease was for 99 years. At the end of the lease, the tenant should just leave without any fuss. Chinese being more than courteous to the British in 1997. Being a unwanted tenant, the British should just pack up and leave. I think that is the normal relationship between a tenant and the landlord, is not?! The Chinese do not want colonial influence of the Britain! Whatever bad or good, it is upon the Chinese to determine what they want for Hong Kong!
Brilliant presentation!
Really love the answer that Africa doesn’t have a good memory of Europe. Africa will more likely work with China than it works with Europe.
inspiring take on many issues close to asean and the attempt to bridge understanding between west and east is commendable and should be shadowed by other leaders towards a just world. for my small part, i will post shorts of this video in my non profit yt channel
What a class
Wow... Impressive.
Wow, there's the transcript too. Thks.
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