Because China believes Taiwan belongs to it, China’s been preparing its military for the specific task of taking it over. It now has a strategy designed to overwhelm Taiwan before the US can intervene. Our new channel, Search Party, explains how Taiwan and the US are working to update their strategy before it's too late. WATCH NOW: th-cam.com/video/2QmIZcTzMgM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ycANU38a5BR_DhWJ
You can also Search Chinese Geopolitics of Calling 5 Fingers of China, which Their Leader claim to take back those region in Himalaya. Those are :1.Nepal, 2.Sikkim, 3.ladakh, 4.Bhutan, 5.NEFA /Arunachal Pradesh. + Parts of Nepal and India which need to be Part of China. Trust me, Their Leader have already makes Claim of 5 Fingers of Himalaya, Btw, They got Aksai Chin part of India in 1962..now they Want all Rest of It.
@Drexler7 The other side of the same statement is that the leaders of victim-countries of PRC, never ever look at the maps. To win over PRC, one needs to be heavily map-savvy.
I think there is a major point missing in this video: Namely, that almost all of these territorial disputes have not simply been created by China’s Communist Party, but have been inherited (and later exacerbated) from the Chinese Republic and to some degree from the Qing era. These border conflicts are the result of the absolute mess that we call the 20th century, and unfortunately the video doesn’t really reflect that. By watching, one instead gets the feeling that these disputes have mainly been orchestrated by the modern Chinese government. And while there are plenty of gross violations of international laws and norms that one can lay onto Beijing’s feet, these border disputes have a far more complicated story than that. I also think that this outlook on China’s border conflicts actually minimizes the gravity of the situation, because one gets the feeling that if China was to become a democracy overnight, these problems would go away. Unfortunately, they would not, which may be exemplified by the fact that Taiwan holds almost the same, if not larger territorial claims. Taiwan also argues that the 9 (or 11) dash line is valid - and it has shown little interest to compromise on this stance thus far. And while I understand the message of the video was to make a point about the political weight of creating maps, its still important to at least hint at the complexity and debatable story behind these disputes - even if there is no time to explain them in a short video, which is of course understandable.
@@huangec ^That is outdated information. Taiwan no longer claims this, and hasn't for some time. Also, Taiwan is not allowed to change its claims without China getting very, very angry. No one in Taiwan wants to claim with a straight face that Manchuria is part of Taiwan, but the moment they don't claim that, they are saying that they aren't China, and then China threatens to kill everyone on the island.
The Russian island claim is very easy to explain: it's a test to see how Russia will respond. Russia has a lot of territory in Manchuria that it took from China during the century of humiliation. China wants it back. So they are testing Russia to see how strongly they can respond here and will use that info to determine how to push their other claims
All the viewpoints you presented in the video take an opposing stance toward China and depict China as being guilty. It's common for such videos to propagate hostility towards China and attract attention with this preconceived pov. For instance, regarding the southern Tibet issue, you never mention that the agreement was signed between the local Tibetan government and the UK, which China views as illegal because a local government does not have the authority to cede land to a foreign country. Tibet was no doubt a region of China in 1914 and you were aware of it but tried to avoid the fact which was crucial to the judgement. Don't act like being subjective with tones but show the proof selectively.
Myanmar-China fence was built to mostly prevent drug trade in that region. During WW2, ROC sent troops to Myanmar to fight Japanese, but as KMT was defeated by the commies soon after WW2, some of KMT's land forces retreated into the forest in northern Myanmar. After KMT fled to Taiwan, it couldn't afford maintaining supply and logistics of this military presence in Myanmar, and (I might be wrong here) subsequently decommissioned these regiments. However, instead of letting them to surrender to PRC or bring them to Taiwan, they just left them in Myanmar. These militants became the local warlords and started to grow poppies to finance/support themselves. Note, these aren't from creditable sources because it's a dark history for both sides. The true stories are covered by both sides. Only rumors and tales told by people from that region.
But there are hundreds of thousands of drug dealers, illegal gambling, smuggle and even deal of organs are prevailing in this area, I knew some people who live near this border and is constantly harassed by warlords' troops and threatened, it's just a place of chaos, it's common to have small war there. As China is extremely strict on drugs due to its past history more than 100 years ago, the wall makes it harder for drugs to go into China as well as smuggle.
Because it's important to them, Huh selfish or do they know what havoc can be tested and proven as a break down in a countrys security safety and the people who are affected
Based on my understanding, those soldiers left/abandoned in Myanmar eventually moved to northern Thailand many decades ago (might have been kicked out by Myanmar). A lot of their descendants now live in Mae Salong and I visited it in 2012. I stumbled across a school which taught children textbooks donated by the ROC government.
@@AmazonBZDZKK Which part was nonsense? Seemed very coherent to me, and backed by facts, not just assertions. Also if you use your steps to lead your eyes, that's how you trip, you should use your eyes to watch where you step. Less tripping and falling on nuts that way.
@@randell9667the myanmar part, back to last century, the border of myanmar is one of the most chaotic part of China, 91% of drags came in from here. Lot of get kidnapped to myanmar through here. Also lot of Burman came to China illegally through this border. And also the COVID19 thing. So actually when my friend in Yunnan province, which is border on myanmar, was actually pretty happy with it, and most Yunnan people around her think so too.(ps: hope you can understand, apologize for my poor English😅)
10:00 If I remember correctly, when the Machanon line was drawn, Tibet said that it'd agree to the land transfer only if the beijing government was ok with it The Beijing government was not ok with it, but the british occupied anyway
This border line was never recognized by the Qing Government of China, the Republic of China and the present China, which is a shameful British conspiracy.
@@chasedavis9707 The Tibetan local government has never been recognized by the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China. China has never relinquished its claim to Tibet from the "Abdication Edict of the Qing Dynasty" in 1911. The Qing emperor clearly wrote that "the emperor will lead the The ruling power is publicized to the whole country, and it is designated as a republic and constitutional state...The complete territories of the five ethnic groups of Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan are still combined into one great Republic of China". Therefore, the treaty signed unilaterally by the unrecognized local separatist government certainly does not have any legal effect. In addition, for the Simla Convention on which the McMahon Line is based, the British and Tibetan plenipotentiaries signed a bilateral declaration that stated that the convention would be binding on themselves and that China would be denied any privileges under the convention until it signed it. Without Chinese acceptance and also for its conflict with the Anglo-Russian Convention, the Government of India regarded the signed bipartite treaty in 1915 as "for the present invalid". In other words, the line was not subject to restrictions including China, Tibet, UK and India
China has never had the word "state" like the US, they just call Tibet an autonomous province. Do you think an autonomous province has the right to allocate national land?
Interesting how the map of Israel changes all the time, yet nobody bats an eyelid. Also, the irony of JH being a US citizen and finding it eerie being so close to a country that's serious about exerting its power when no other country exerts its power more than any other nation as the US does.
I'm from the north-eastern region of India I think these assertion of dominance are concerning We people will never get along to those people We had disputes and what not This video should get viral here in India Rather than Indians focusing on the ongoing war on middle east This is my first time watching your videos And I'm hooked
Adding to this, one of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy China almost always downplays the death of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
@@ManuSaraswat PLA that is deployed to fight the Indian Army isn't an Army in the usual sense. It doesn't belong to the Chinese people. It is the military arm of the Communist party of China.
Well you can't blame china. Why should they hold themselves to certain rules and border rights if the same thing happening in israel is ok by the west but if anyone else does it, it is a shame. Arrogance..
Fails to mention China is not alone in building military islands in disputed waters. Vietnam has built more military islands in Philippine Waters. Fails to mention the 11 Dash line of Taiwan. Where Chinas 9-10 Dash line comes from.
Why don't you analyzing the map of empire Qing？It is more big than now.How it changes to the modern China map？What had the western done？ Opium Wars, Wars of Aggression against China, Unequal Treaties, Colonies！Is that fair or justice？What's wrong for taking back the losing part？Who give you the rights to make earth rules？
Finally.. someone is talking about India's geographical issues with China and not just political or military or economic issues... Edit 1: It is a healthy discussion down here in the reply-section. Don't worry. We are safe from any virtual wars :)
But be careful for the hidden power who is actually putting out all the hateful narrative and addicted to profit from conflicts and wars at the moment.
@@jaymarxnot exactly "new".. China has been doing this since decades and a lot of geo-political commentaries have been already made on that... it has already led to 1 full-fledge war between India and China in 1962 and a lot more skirmishes later in 1980s to 2020s... My point was that this is the first time someone has actually talked about it purely from a geographical perspective
I’d definitely love a video on that fence with Myanmar, I’d be super interested to see how it’s effecting peoples that have mingled and traded for years and now have to give that up for the sake of control.
@@johnnyharrisgreat vid Johnny! More Myanmar info would be interesting, and also the Israel conflict would make a good video as well! Cheers, take your time and never rush
This video characterizes China as a land grabber, which is not surprising. I think even people with scant knowledge of China know that premodern China has never been a land-grabbing belligerent. What they really mean is that Communist China is a land grabber. But is it? Communist China's territorial management has been studied by Taylor Fravel, a political scientist at MIT, who published a book called "Strong Borders, Secure Nation," concluding that Communist China is a land conceder and has not land-grabbed any of its neighbors. Taylor Fravel is a China hawk, so even he has admitted that China is not a land grabber. There is a land grabber by the way and that is India. Today, the territory of India is much bigger than it was in 1947, and all the land it acquired was through invasion and subjugation. You should find out how India's 'Seven Sister States' became part of India. Talking about maps in 1912, the first full year of the Republic of China (nowadays usually referred to as Taiwan) after the fall of the Qing dynasty, the United States National Geographic Society dedicated an issue on China and with the issue it included a very large and detailed foldout map of China. If you go to the area close to Bhutan, you can see the town of Tawang and the surrounding area, which is clearly within China. Today, Tawang is occupied by India, and the surrounding area is called Arunachal Pradesh by India. In fact, as late as the late 1940s after World War II, the flag of the Republic of China (nowadays usually referred to as Taiwan) was flying high in Tawang. Today, it is the Indian flag that is flying there. And India is still promoting the narrative that India is a hapless victim of an expansionist China.
I recommend u to buy a china map recognized by US decades ago, and u will surprisingly realize China map is never a controversial, only become controversy because of propogand
@@mikeniu5636 The real Chinese map is the map of the Republic of China which recognizes the mainland China and South Tibet (occupied by India since 1951) as its territory.
he is no rational/investigative journalist, he makes videos about china because it got high clicks. He is creating tensions to make money. That's all@@PomegranateChocolate
I want to tell you an interesting fact. At the end of World War II, the then government of China was the Republic of China (currently in Taiwan). When the Chinese government went to these islands to re-erect boundary markers in 1946, because the Chinese government did not have the ability to sail far, it was the United States government that sent The warships transported then-Republic of China government staff to re-erect boundary markers on these islands.
@user-dt7iw2dp1q obviously they would want to support the party that's not communist bro, and they're still to this day supporting the non-communist party
According to your interpretation that the tenth dash line was added recently in this update. However, when I searched for maps published in 2019 and 2016, both maps already showed the tenth dash line next to Taiwan. Therefore it’s not a sudden change but a constant effort for Beijing to acclaim Taiwan as part of China.
You Nepali thinks Indians are encroaching Nepali lands but the truth is we want Nepali people to knew that China wants to take their import land mass of Nepal. What we Indians do with Nepali land? Many Nepalis are like brothers and sisters for us. Your corrupt leaders are of communist party which is funded by China.
@@Flanker-LWe have no interest in ceasing Nepal! Nepali people are hard working and honest (not like their Communist Politicians). They are always welcome here ❤ And, Indian Govt don't need to encroach on the land for projecting their view in the Subcontinent.
As for the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, you should know that when China drew the nine-dash line here, there were no countries around, they were all colonies.😂
Just want to point out that "There's nothing wrong with this these maps" is a mistranslation. “一点都不能错” doesn't mean "it's not wrong [to use those maps]". It means "You shouldn't make any mistake [with using standard maps]".
Mis translation, interpretation is sometimes due to the viewers own agenda/existing stand point. However, in the end, the one with the bigger stick builds history
One of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy they almost always downplay the deaths of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
seems part of Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nepal, Tajekistan, Kygesikstan, Mongolia, parts of Russia and India, and Taiwan, Indonesia, Palau Islands, Singapore, the Phillipines, and papa new guinea is now part of China lol...
You missed one border dispute. The one with Tajikistan that the tajiks ceeded to China ten years ago, they now have bases inside Tajik territory overlooking the wakhan corridor of Afghanistan
@@johnnyharris He will not make it rather he will Delete your comment and Just stay there as if nothing happened..Dude is Legitimate Mouthpiece of CiA's And he doesn't fear that He Is getting exposed and Brought out for his cia and anti China Narrative of this China Bad Content 😂Yet...No one Notices it He Can Try to divert the Anything with his Team of extremely Proper editors and his so called Map..yet Can't rule out that he is a CIA Mouthpiece and Has been Directly working for them to make theze type of china Threat and China bad content for years now
In 2011, Tajikistan ratified a 1999 deal (and a 2002 supplementary agreement) to cede 200 and 1,122 km2 respectively of land in the Pamir Mountains to China, ending a 130-year dispute. In the treaty, China also relinquished claims to over 28,000 km2 of Tajikistani territory, so its not a dispute anymore.
@@johnnyharris First of all, the boundary agreement signed by the so-called representatives of Britain and Tibet was illegal because the central government at the time was the Qing government and the Qing government had never agreed to the boundary drawn by the British. The so-called Tibetan representatives were purely directed and acted by the British. Second, the territory of the East India Company that India illegally inherited has never belonged to India in history. Even India was the only regime to annex a sovereign country after World War II. India illegally annexed Sikkim. Third, the United States is the first country in the world to recognize China’s maritime territory in the South China Sea. In order to allow the Republic of China to fight against the Japanese Empire in the South China Sea, the United States proactively recognized the South China Sea. When China was managing the territory of the South China Sea, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam How could this sea area belong to these countries when they are not yet independent but are still colonies? The fourth channel is a common white baboon anti-China media that guides public opinion by fabricating false history, taking quotes out of context, and false implications.
@@johnnyharris Bro, when it comes to CHINA all COUNTRIES even if they are FRIENDS or ENEMIES have DISPUTE with CHINA. Just like CHINA has DISPUTE with RUSSIA, CHINA has DISPUTE with both SOUTH KOREA 🇰🇷 and NORTH KOREA. So you Must look all the COUNTRIES that share LAND, WATER, or even AIR with CHINA. Because CHINA will One day will even CLAIM MARS and MOON🌛 in the FUTURE. DON'T BE SURPRISED if they CLAIM THAT TOO!!!
china is just doing what every country would do if they have enough power, and USA already have done it, usa's miltary bases surround the entire east coast line of china, no one is critizing USA since no one could. China was a global superpower back in 1700s to early 1800s so its understandable if you are talking about history.
You definitely should cover about China-Myanmar border. The border is infamous among local Burmese. During Covid-19 China shut down border checkpoints and trade posts without informing anyone which led to the financial crisis of local farmers and traders. And China sometimes built border fences and barriers within Myanmar's territory. The area is also known for gambling, drug production, human trafficking and arms trafficking.
Yunnan province of China is viewed as the "Gateway to Southeast Asia and South Asia" and it is now officially promoted as such. There are many Burmese people living and working in Yunnan who speak Mandarin and those border areas are a blend of Burmese and Chinese culture, you see it with the usage of both Chinese and Burmese scripts. You can find many Burmese Muslim men selling jade to Chinese customers and Burmese are the largest foreign group in China as of 2020. In northern Myanmar, in the city of Mandalay, there are also many Yunnanese from China living and working in the city to the point that Mandalay has become increasingly "Chinese" in atmosphere.
The border between China and Myanmar has always been in a dangerous zone, and the danger from Myanmar has always been greater than that from China. The construction of border walls is to protect each other. Peace and security are what each other hopes for. The construction of border walls is also out of helplessness.
It's weird that China even makes such a big deal about these pockets as it's not like they even consider the people who may be in these regions to be Chinese or would treat them as such
Ancient expansionism mindset which seems to infect every old ass authoritarian. These people are too dangerous, how they holding fast to power in modern times is just too mind boggling.
China see things in long term. They have no trouble making deals that lasts 100 years if it means winning out in the end. Those oppressed minorities would be chinese after a century or two of reeducation.
Sadly the people in pockets have little choice than to adapt when sandwiched between two giant nations, no matter which nation is in charge. I can assure you at least one of the disputed regions(South Tibet/Arunachal Pradesh) belonged to none of them just a century or so ago, it wasn't even proper Tibet, but now is Indian thanks to the British. It could easily have been other way too, and the people living in the region would have equally adapted.
India's glorious history: India has territorial disputes and historical issues with several countries in South Asia, and here are some specific cases between India and its neighbors: Pakistan: In 1947, the British issued the Mountbatten Plan, implementing the partition of India and Pakistan, and Pakistan was divided into eastern and western parts. After the first Indo-Pakistani war in October 1947, India controlled about two-thirds of Kashmir's land and three-quarters of its population. East Pakistan also gained independence from Pakistan as Bangladesh with the support of India. Sikkim: After the independence of India in 1947, the British withdrew from Sikkim and Sikkim became officially independent. But India sent troops to invade Sikkim in 1949 and installed an Indian as prime minister to control Sikkim's internal affairs. Sikkim was annexed by India in 1975. Bhutan: Bhutan claims to be the happiest country in the world and has signed a Permanent Treaty of Peace and Friendship with India, which stipulates that Bhutan's external relations are "guided" by India and includes Bhutan in its sphere of influence. Nepal: Nepal covers an area of 147,000 square kilometers and has a population of 28.98 million. India and Nepal signed the India-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, and obtained the privilege of sending officers to train the Nepalese army. Later, India pressed Nepal, leading to a long-standing border dispute between Nepal and India. Bangladesh: Formerly "East Pakistan", after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, East Pakistan became independent from Pakistan with the support of India to form Bangladesh. Myanmar: India had plans to expand into Burma and in 1962 conducted military operations in the Assam region of Burma. Sri Lanka: India has intervened in Sri Lanka's civil war and internal affairs. Maldives: India has troops in the Maldives. In addition, India has infiltrated Sri Lanka and interfered in the internal affairs and border issues of countries such as Maldives. These actions show India's expansionist ambitions and aggressive foreign policy in South Asia.
I like the part that when china is in control of certain area you say "it's CONTROLLER by China", but when India is in control of certain area you say "It BELONGS to india"
It's too ironic, this is a video promoting China as evil, he doesn't care about historical territorial ownership. As long as China is evil, that's okay
The land he called as being "CONTROLLED" by China (in Kashmir region) was the one that didnt belong to China before, but is controlled by it now. But the land that he said "BELONGS" to India (Arunachal Pradesh) is a state which has been a rightful part of the Indian territory since its independence, ocuupied by Indian citizens and the claim by China is nonsense with no backing. They already have problems with their claim to tibet which is disputed, let alone this so called south tibet of theirs lol. As he commented, wishful thinking. China is doing this just to satisfy their vain ego, assert their power and pressurize India.
@@lamewater772 The concept of a nation's "legal" territory is inherently subject to change over history, wars, and various events. If you firmly believe that a specific area objectively belongs to a certain country, you should take a look at the extent of China's Yuan dynasty's territory. The territories we discuss as "disputed" indicate that the narrator should not have any bias regarding their ownership. When you presuppose that a place strictly "belongs" to a particular country, your understanding of the word "disputed" has already been skewed. What you are doing is merely reinforcing and justifying your pre-existing stance with that same stance.
6:28 im not sure your source of information but the real fact is China lost 42 soldiers in the June 2020 Galwan Valley clash, at least nine times more than the four it has acknowledged.
@giriraj408 What you are saying is not believable i.e., 200 chinese soldiers attacking 500 Indian soldiers, killing 100 of them. How would your brother know about how many died in the Chinese side? He should either be a general or should have been standing behind and counting for that. In India, news comes out if soldiers die. Chinese had an upper hand because they carried clubs with nails where as, Indian army was weaponless.
In fact, according to the reliable information I have received, the Chinese army did injure many soldiers in this confrontation. Of course, many Indian soldiers were also injured. However, when it comes to treating the wounded, China does not have better medicine, while India has a magical medicine. This thing can make injured Indian soldiers recover immediately. I checked a lot of information and found that this is a magical potion, but I can only know that the name of this potion is "hengheshui". The formula of the potion is very mysterious. This is what I know. All the news you know. May "hengheshui" bless Indian soldiers
First of all, it must be acknowledged that he has a strong storytelling ability. He always manages to appear very reasonable, and his animated editing is also very good. If you are not familiar with the topics he discusses, it's very easy to be deceived by him.
@@yurigagarin9765 it's really ubiquitous so no real need to explain why. The author always operates on the presupposition that what is beneficial to the PRC is somehow just plain bad. "China did this, but at what cost???!"
If you can seriously study Chinese history, you can know that the orthodoxy of Taiwan belonging to China is even greater than the orthodoxy of all the states in the United States belonging to the United States, and if Taiwan does not even belong to China, then the United States should not exist @@yurigagarin9765
I’m looking forward to that video on the Myanmar-China Border! It’s time to shine a light on the little-known geopolitical situation over in Myanmar. 11:06
Saying India's only claim to land is "some British representative drew a line" undermines the historical and cultural claim they have to that land. 9:57
@2plus2equals98 Yes, even in legends & mythology. The cultural bonds are too deep. We are a two weeks away from the coming Diwali (Deepavali, meaning an array of lights). The legend (mythology) is this. The region around River Brahmaputra was known as Prag`jyotisha pura (Eastern Zodiacal town) ruled by a demons king, Naraka. Lord Krishna to subdue him & release the people from his tyranny went there riding his mount, the eagle "Garuda" (now the mascot of Indonesian Airways). His favourite wife "Sathya" said she'd accompany him. So, the couple went & engaged in a battle with Naraka`asura, who was well-protected by the forces of nature. After a while Krishna was hit by an arrow that made him unconscious. Then a furious Sathya took the bow & shot a row of arrows that killed Naraka`asura. Then Krishna was revived. It could be that Naraka`asura gazing at Sathya, he has forgotten about the battle he was engaged in. The killing of Naraka`asura is observed a day before Diwali, with fire-crackers & such explosions to signify the war. He freed sixteen thousand & odd young "dames" the dead king imprisoned. Krishna told them to go to their respective families. But the crowd of young girls raised a cry & said "we're not going home". Krishna asked "why?". They said they wouldn't be accepted by their parents, being prisoners of someone & that they didn't accept. It is a matter of their honour or chastity. There was an argument. Finally, the girls pointed a way out that would restore their esteem (or respect). They wanted Krishna (who has 8 wives) to marry them all, as that would also enhance their status of Krishna's wives that the people would respect. Krishna did that & returned home to Dwaraka, some 2000 km to the west. Flippant & even lewd comments are made on this act of Krishna without realising the honour that was restored to the girls. Even now Krishna cult is predominant in Brahmaputra valley & in Manipur (Jewel city) predominantly . Another character, the main hero in Maha`Bharata war, Arjuna (comparable to Ulysses in Greek mythology) committed a small mistake & as penance had to leave home (& his four brothers). He came to Manipur & the princess there, Ulupi fell in love with him & married. A son was born to them, even. After the stipulated time Arjuna returned home. The war started soon after.
That line still was agreed between Tibet and India tho, meaning it's legit, who cares if Tibet is controlled by China now? If borders stopped existing just because it got taken over by another country then we should redraw a lot of borders
@@stevenwu2055it’s not a myth. It’s written in one of the most known poem within the eastern hemisphere which also happens to be the longest. It’s symbolic to the time and history when events occurred in the lands we know today. Some places have had their names changed but the book outdates any of the new ones.
It's very very generalised. North-East region is generalised as a single whole, when it is not that way historically. Far from it. Even Arunachal Pradesh itself has different regions with different historical narratives, some associated with India(mainly the plains of current Northern Assam), but many if not most are not. The northwestern corner has historical ties with Tibet, that is what the media likes to focus on mostly, but that's only a corner of Arunachal Pradesh. In fact, most of the population reside on the inner central+eastern regions, which were independent and self-governed prior to British entry(often forcibly). Similarly, association with the Kirat very vague; they could have been Nepal, they could have been Bhutan, they could have been any Himalayan mountain dwelling group. That didn't provide the India the authority over it. I mean that in the nicest of ways. The true fact remains none of Tibet, China, or British India had a full control over the region initially. It was mostly independent. Tibet had trade ties, but was never in political control of the current whole region. British India made the first move to politically capture the land, they agreed the boundary with Tibet in a treaty which China pulled out of; British India marched ahead regardless of China's withdrawal. And hence the current mess. Source: I'm from Arunachal Pradesh, and my great great grandfather was one of the leading representatives in first colonial contact with our tribe(far back as 19th century). Even pictorially documented by the British Raj and published by Stuart Blackburn.
6:25 The Chinese government doesn't show the real number of the soldiers deaths. Various media outlets of USA and Russian origins claims the chinese deaths to be around 50-70 in that fight.
china also built some in vietnam - china border. the difference is the place is desolated, they didnt trespass the border and paid for it so our gov have no complains, unlike on the sea...
Chinese are scared of these areas，because many China people have been cheated or abducted in the north of Myanmar, and engaged in electronic fraud activities in the parks there, it seems that the Myanmar government has been cracking down vigorously recently, but China people are still very afraid of the Myanmar border. By the way, the border between China and Myanmar has long been established, and there is no problem.
Some Chinese perspectives here. 1. The fence was build during the pandemic to stop the spread of virus from Myanmar, where there had been constantly people trying to cross the boarder to reach the more wealthy china. 2. There had been human trafficking happening around the boarder. Many Chinese men and women are kidnapped to Myanmar and subsequently into force labor or even killed. 3. Drug smuggling. The Chinese government AND people had been 0-tolerant about drugs and are determined to stop it.
Seeing Chinese and Indian militants have skirmishes on the battlefield with spiked clubs and shields like something out of a 10th century war was not something I was expecting to see today
Who's fault is that? The British is the worst, the Chinese and Indian people had no issues for the past 5000 years, when the British comes, they created tension between the two country and mess things up for many countries around the world.
As a matter of fact, old atlases such as Philips Maps & Atlases published in the UK clearly indicates that Spratly and Paracel Islands are Chinese territories with the word (China) in parenthesis.
The South China Sea 9-dash Line was drawn by the previous regime in China, which was called the Republic of China. It lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan Province. That's right, the South China Sea 9-dash Line was drawn by the government that currently controls Taiwan Island. That regime once claimed that they are the real China while mainland is not real China. Even now their legal map includes the whole Mongolia and Chinese Mainland.
Thanks Johnny from the Filipino people, for continuing to keep this issue on the forefront of the public eye. Maps in general are awesome but in this case, when part of a regime’s weaponization plan to bully and push around its neighbors… it’s just so devious.
One of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy they almost always downplay the deaths of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
I’d like to see Indian soldiers have the same pay and enjoy the same civil and societal benefits as Chinese soldiers. You prob got that crappy story through hearsay or your very unbiased news outlets lol@@ManuSaraswat
As for Taiwan, please first learn about its history. Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times. You can check the map of China during the Qing Dynasty (1690-1820), or check the map of China during the Ming Dynasty.During the Japanese invasion of China, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands were occupied by Japan for many years. After the victory of China's War of Resistance Against Japan, a civil war broke out in China. Later, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan. Mao Zedong did not liberate Taiwan as soon as possible in order to develop the livelihood economy domestically. 中国大陆与台湾的关系，还不像朝鲜与韩国的关系，因为，朝鲜与韩国是一个国家的两个政权，现在他们是签订了停战协议的，所以分裂成了现在的两个国家，但是朝鲜并不承认韩国的独立。中国大陆与台湾并没有停战，说白了就是中国还处于内战之中。 However, in 2005, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Chairman of the Kuomintang, Lien Chan, reached a consensus on five common visions for peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait, with the second one being "promoting the end of hostilities and reaching a peace agreement". 有人会，这是大陆与国民党签订的协议，跟民进党没有关系，请用大脑思考一下，民进党是在1986年才成立的，也就是说，台湾一直是由国民党控制，由于资本主义体制的发展，才允许后来民进党的成立，民进党可以算国民党的分支。 为什么那么多的西方人认为大陆在“侵略”台湾呢？ This idea is wrong.因为美国和西方国家想遏制中国的发展，将台湾当成工具，用它来影响中国的发展。其实还有一个问题就是，美国为了赚台湾人的钱，因为，只要用台湾影响大陆，台湾就会买他的武器，反正，大陆如果真的武力解放台湾，死的也是台湾人，对于美国人没有任何影响，还能多赚钱。所以美国和西方的政客，才会一直支持台湾，但是从来没有说过让台湾独立。 Why did much of Europe follow suit? Because they want to follow the United States after all, because they themselves have no political ability and sovereignty, and the United States is in charge, it is ridiculous ~~~ capitalist countries value capital, not people's livelihood.
When China was very weak(1840-1994), Macau was taken by Portuguese, Hong Kong was taken by British, Taiwan was taken by Japanese, several North part of China, 1.6M km², including the tiny piece of land which mentioned in the video was taken by Russia, and never returned. 1.6M km square! That is nearly 7 England! Maozedong once said "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun", and we all believe it.
It should be noted that this video is heavily biased and there is nothing wrong with Taiwan being recognized by the international community as part of Chinese territory. You can disagree with that, but at least give some objective background on what's going on, including many of the territorial issues. The blogger's lack of historical perspective on many border issues has been purely criticizing China rather than trying to explain the status quo to viewers.
The issue of southern Tibet’s historical status is actually very simple. How would the international community view this if local authorities in Catalonia, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Quebec or even California signed an agreement with another country to demonstrate their independence without the central government giving up their sovereignty? Is the so-called contract signed by the British and some Tibetan officials in 1914 meaningful? Do local governments have complete and independent diplomatic powers? All the territory of the Qing Dynasty was handed over to the Republic of China in the form of concession in 1912, and the power of the Republic of China representing China was handed over to the People's Republic of China by the international community in 1971. These are common diplomatic common sense without any objection.In 2003,even the 14th Dalai Lama, anti-communists and the most important Tibetan separatists, also said that "Arunachal Pradesh(The name given to southern Tibet of China under Indian rule) was actually part of Tibet".
Love the way you brought out some info in the video and hide other info. As you said, the Britans drew the line with India, and you gave it credit. However, the nine dash line also had a lot history behind it since 19 century till WW2, and you just covered it with "old hand-drew line". Again, about Senkaku island, you as a professional geopolitical youtuber, you should know the US interfered history behind it, which is not mentioned at all.
My degree is from the national wind institute at Texas Tech university. The Courses Required 4 course minimum in geography, Cartography and Atmospheric science. This video tickles my senses, the power of maps can shape our reality in ways we would never recognize. Just looking at a country’s map Is like a person’s name. It reveals a lot about the national identity, it’s goals and Allies.
@@PrograError not surprised at all, I’m sure this map could be attributed to a potential war. I believe Bhutan doesn’t recognize either Taiwan and China. So about 1.4 billion don’t have a country according to Bhutan 🇧🇹
@@PrograError He will not make it rather he will Delete your comment and Just stay there as if nothing happened..Dude is Legitimate Mouthpiece of CiA's And he doesn't fear that He Is getting exposed and Brought out for his cia and anti China Narrative of this China Bad Content 😂Yet...No one Notices it He Can Try to divert the Anything with his Team of extremely Proper editors and his so called Map..yet Can't rule out that he is a CIA Mouthpiece and Has been Directly working for them to make theze type of china Threat and China bad content for years now
@@TheSmoothToad This "business" of recognition has become more & more weirder in the case PRC & RoC (Taiwan). It is all the off-shoot of the Chinese "One China" policy. That China is either PRC or RoC irrespective of the geographical facts on ground.
You should do a deeper dive into the recent conflicts that happened around Doklam. A major military stand-off was avoided by diplomatic channels and India was able to regain the Plateau.
mate he wont. India has never been his topic for some reason . He never includes it in any equation . This is one of those many strategies here in Europe to feel important.
@@Dark81379uiu he made one about Nepal. why don't Indians make videos about Dokhlam instead of whining about content creators working on topics that interest them.
reality is china has encroached as much as 18km inside from loc in many places but our media and government is shut on these. they care about Israel not about Manipur. they care about Pakistan but not about china. China is our actual enemy, Pakistan is like a weak soldier of China who knows he can't fight us.
Thank you for this. An example of Micro-geography that needs to be known. Places that, to us, seem like tiny middle of nowhere places play a huge part in the world politics.
I once read somewhere that Aksai Chin has (or maybe had, because of Climate Change) the only mountain pass road between Tibet and Xinjiang that is passable all year around. I can somehow understand how Beijing would be a tad paranoid about loosing control over a strategic connection between two provinces where its reputation in the general population might have, to put this tactfully, some room for improvement.
@@venanziadorromatagni1641 What is missed, is the terrain in this flat plain is above 15,000 feet (4.5 km) high, unlike any other place on continents elsewhere. It creates huge physiological (& psychological) problems. In all wars, from times immemorial till modern times, it is the troops on land, that hold the land for that country. 1962 war proved it. Air force's role is secondary & as pressure point sea-warfare is tertiary. It is the will of men on ground to hold that ground that is crucial. Galwan incident amply proved it. At these altitudes (& in winter particularly) aircraft may not take off & tanks may not move. The will hold the land was not there in the Indian Army in 1962 (though a heroic bunch of 105 defying orders of superior officers)held the ground at Rezang la. In the heap of bodies taken as dead, 5 soldiers were found alive. This time too PLA made repeated forays to take it but couldn't (his time Tibetans with Indian Army did it). India still possesses tactical advantages. Helicopters that are taken for granted, to land or pick soldiers & supplies, as made in the West are useless (Chinook & Apache of American make have service ceiling of 6km - there is no need to for them - while terrain demands higher performance). India saw that need & has to design own helicopters. In 1962, C-113 packet couldn't land or take off. Indian aircraft factory put a "jet pack" on top, to compensate for lower performance at these high altitudes. I heard that 18 ton "light" tanks with parachutes tied to each corner were dropped from air, as it is insane to ask for roads here. Many of them got reduced to heaps of metals & were cannibalised for those who were still mobile. It is a multi-dimensional warfare here, that if I start writing it'll become a book. Let someone write (not me). In these skirmishes (by the dozen) both sides can't use fire-arms as per pacts made as PRC claims that India is a friendly country after 4 decades of bloody incidents (only in 1990s the then Indian Defence minister, George Fernandes declared that PRC is India's No.1 enemy relegating Pakistan to a minor place). So one sees a comic show of troops from both sides doing Sumo-wrestling at altitudes higher than M. Denali - at times with a contrived smile on faces. It is painful that reminds Albert Einstein prophecy of WW III. It seems that one of the goals in their 5 year plans is (how much)territory acquired that year from the neighbour ! Chinese are inscrutable & have no doubts about it.
I remember reading that the Kashmir dispute was apparently exacerbated by British map makers who set an arbitrary area in the Himalayas to define the borders of each country
@@jacobbaumgardner3406 When the British left the Indian subcontinent, they drew a line on the map know as the McMahon Line, which planted the seeds for a series of subsequence disputes. In fact the Palestinian issue is also the result of British involvement, and of course the United States has played a role in exacerbating it.
As someone who watched the entire Vox Borders playlist after finding your independent channel, I absolutely want to see that video on the China-Myanmar border.
Don’t believe the guy in the video lol. Go search up Myanmar Human Trafficking you will know why. I remember VOA and CNA covered those. Almost Half of this guy’s content in this video are lies
I’m kinda of sick and tired of governments fighting over “disputed” territories. If we were to carry on with this sort of thing. We all have territory that we can historically “claim”
The world didn’t have borders when it was created. Us humans created the borders, to mark their territory but it was never their territory to begin with! Nothing has changed and we continue to fight over it This shows just how civilised and advanced we are as a whole
I, as a descendant of of the first form of life, the cyptobacteria, lay claim to all of earth. My ancestors existed everywhere and dominated literally everything. The whole earth is mine fr.
I think you massively simplify the Spratly Islands situation. Taiwan has an identical claim to China, everyone else has disputes, almost everyone is militarizing islands or reefs.
He also wrong about the Permanent Court of Arbitration which did not rule on anything, it just published some papers the Philippines wrote giving the impression that there was a ruling against China.
indeed. someday when I make a video all about the south china sea I'll go into more detail. for now, this is an overview of China's many border disputes. each one could be a full length documentary. Alas, they all must fit into a 16 minute video
Taiwan claims everything that PR China claims (that includes all the territorial disputes with India, Bhutan etc.), it even claims Mongolia and various parts of Russia, Myanmar and Tajikistan. The difference is that the current party in power now views Taiwan as a merely being an island and Taiwan recognises the Mongolian passport. Officially speaking, Taiwan claims all of PRC and surrounding land and waters belonging to other Asian countries and it is known as the Republic of China (ROC) because it claims to be the legitimate "China" while the PRC recognises itself as the legitimate "China". However, this is only still practiced because if Taiwan (ROC) were to ever officially recede claims to all of those areas it would give the message to the PRC that Taiwan is relinquishing its claims to the title of the "legitimate China" and so it would officially be seen as a sign that Taiwan (the island) is a "breakaway state" within the PRC (because the PRC claims the island of Taiwan and that because Taiwan has its own government). That would give the PRC the right to invade Taiwan in order to maintain territorial integrity and no other country in the world will be able to say anything because Taiwan is a part of China as the ROC would no longer exist.
@@user-jt3dw6vv4x Taiwan has bases in the South China Sea, if they had no choice but to accept these borders why build a base there? China didn't force them to do that, they did it themselves
@@johnnyharris I want to tell you an interesting fact. At the end of World War II, the then government of China was the Republic of China (currently in Taiwan). When the Chinese government went to these islands to re-erect boundary markers in 1946, because the Chinese government did not have the ability to sail far, it was the United States government that sent The warships transported then-Republic of China government staff to re-erect boundary markers on these islands.
I see nothing but lies and prejudices against china in this video. All of these borders of china was set by a series of treaties after the the second world war. At that time, those countries who claimed south china islands and reefs have not gained their independence. Moreover, Taiwan is part of china and it is acknowledged by 181 out of 191coutries in the world.
Great video, as always Johnny. I do notice one small flaw, though. In the South China Sea sections, you are accurate that China also has disputes with other countries bordering the South China Sea: Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. However, there is one other country that also has disputes with the Nine-dash Line: Indonesia (my home country). The disputes with the other countries are mostly regarding the Spratly Islands, but not with Indonesia. So, Indonesia’s EEZ in the South China Sea overlaps with the Nine-dash Line, which is the source of the tension; I watched a video when Indonesia was planting an oil rig, presumably close to the Nine-dash Line (whereas it is within Indonesia's own waters), and that Chinese vessels were sent to patrol the site.
@@johnnyharris He will not make it rather he will Delete your comment and Just stay there as if nothing happened..Dude is Legitimate Mouthpiece of CiA's And he doesn't fear that He Is getting exposed and Brought out for his cia and anti China Narrative of this China Bad Content 😂Yet...No one Notices it He Can Try to divert the Anything with his Team of extremely Proper editors and his so called Map..yet Can't rule out that he is a CIA Mouthpiece and Has been Directly working for them to make theze type of china Threat and China bad content for years now
@@johnnyharris 5:31 hello Jhonny I really want to clarify that the part china is claiming is not kashmir but aksai chin which is part of ladak. Ladak and kashmir are not same. Before abolition of article 370 ladak kashmir and jammu were collectively called jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir in actuality is much smaller Also 4chinese soldiers things is wrong their were higher causilty than that but for some reason china never clarified it. Like they didn't release the official until the 30 days. That all have a great day
@@sunilkumaryadav2183 You're right. But there is another angle when Harris said "Kashmir" - he was referring to the princely state of Kashmir, whose king was maharaja HariSingh. In his state, Ladakh, including Aksai Chin were parts. Thus India as inheritor had jurisdiction over these regions. Yet, in 1950s, PRC built a road across Aksai Chin (that the Indian authorities hadn't got even a smell of it), nomenclature-d as G219 in their maps - to connect Tibet with Xinjiang. Aksai Chin is attached to their Xinjiang.
06:27 China has lost 42 soldiers in Galwan Valley clash not 4 While India had accepted that 20 of its soldiers sacrificed their lives.The Russian news agency TASS said that 45 Chinese soldiers died in a fight in the Galwan Valley.
Please Correct in start of video, yes 20 Indian side casualties but Chinese even didn't back thier soldiers who died. From all major sources it is said Chinese side casualties were 40+ 5:42
I can never get over how absurd China is regarding the claim on South China Sea. I laugh a little everytime I read about the 9/10 dash lines. Oh, and btw, China also lay claim to part of Indonesia maritime border by that dash lines. Don't forget about that.
The reason why is because ASEAN doesn't do anything about it. If Filipino boats fought back instead of taking it up the ass, I can guarantee you PLA boats would leave the areas. People are always talking about how ASEAN and other Asian allies would back the US in a fight, but they need to learn to man up and stand on their own, without Uncle Sam's reassurance.
@@stegrin5551 Has nothing to with race. rather has to do with "moral values" . China is like a dictatorship where u cant do barely anything, like for real, even vinnie the poh is eligle there. I bet that people rather see some "freeier" country grabbing shit, than to see some communist dictator ship take over shit and then opress the ppl living there.
Lol countries with US bases WANT the US to be there, as opposed to China building unwanted bases on our territory. Really not comparable to US carrier strike forces as well as they are on international waters
Remember, Taiwan has never been independent. This is just a not-yet-end civil war after WW II. Btw , Taiwan’s government was kicked out from united nations by the United States
One of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy they almost always downplay the deaths of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
11:11 - Yes! Please do a video about this specific border. It will be another great video! Thanks for posting awesome encyclopaedic educational videos! One of the best channels on TH-cam!
6:25 Correction. China, as it always does, did not tell the actual numbers. According to American reports (I repeat US, not India) the numbers could be around 40.
I am from India 🇮🇳, From our perspective you don't want neighbours like China and Pakistan both of them always make us Indians angry time to time, and so for our defence we have to spend a lot in millitary instead of focusing on poverty and manufacturing which is getting worse day by day in my country. You all westerners N. America and Europe should be happy that you all got good Neighbors who do not send terrorists like Pak or make border problems like China.
@@AugustRx Canada is our ally, and the government of Mexico is not hostile to us. In India, both Pakistan and China are both hostile towards India. Your comparison is incorrect.
@@fierceheresy Well,I think it's also stupid to exclude one province of a nation from a map about which he is about to talk. When he has included Taiwan in that map which is not currently under China's control.
I think all these countries should bring their own maps with Taiwan as an independent country and Tibet as an independent country too let's see them fume with anger
Eh, bad comparison. Apart from the fact that the US only has two neighbours, it also spent decades of its history incorporating territory that weren't actually its own by force. It's a superpower thing because in reality, What the heck are you gonna do. Even if the US decided to claim parts of Mexico rn, no one would be able to do anything except send strongly worded letters. It's how the world works. International law is for weaklings
Perfect video for my dinner. What I always look forward to from Johnny Harris' content is about borders and maps. Thank you! I hope there is new content like this once a month
UN SecretaryGeneral Ban referenced the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, and refused the motion. On 19 July 2007, Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian wrote to request admission into the UN by the name Taiwan. Ban rejected the request, stating that Resolution 2758 defined Taiwan as part of China.
I’m really impressed at your ability to produce such high quality content, while also completing at such a high level in the NLCS! Best of luck next season.
I may not be a specialist in this realm, but there is a glaring fact we should all keep in mind: The USA is just one of the many countries acknowledging Taiwan as an integral part of China. To put it in perspective, a mere 13 nations in this vast world recognize Taiwan as a sovereign entity: Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tuvalu. As a non-U.S. citizen, when Johnny Harris discusses China's actions in annexing territories or constructing walls to fortify its borders, it is so interesting how that sounds familiar to me, echoing the historical actions of another major imperialistic power over the past century.... It's almost comical how history has a penchant for repeating itself, doesn't it?
America is a lot more equivocating than you suggest. They don't say that Taiwan is part of China; they say they acknowledge that China says Taiwan is part of China. In other words, they acknowledge that the government is making a claim, but they aren't taking an official position on the substance of the claim. That America applies very different policies in dealing with Taiwan and China, makes clear what the unofficial position is.
This essay is an example of Chinese mindset. That only an official statement by the government is correct and has to be obeyed by everyone. And there is no way to overwrite or challenge that statement. But this is not how modern countries work, even in Japan and Singapore. Government as an entity have its own position on certain matters which doesn’t make it right and they have limited authority over such matters. The power of the government is limited and people have the power to change it if necessary.
Is there any credible evidence other than the so-called "informed sources"? China released a video of the release of prisoners .th-cam.com/video/dZDhiUMIQo4/w-d-xo.html
Can we first give a round of applause to the intro for this video! The hook combined with the rising tensions of the music is absolutely superb! Now to watch the rest of what I assume is already going to be a great video!
Taiwan is independence? Please read the full constitution of Taiwan, which clearly say Taiwan is part of China and Taiwan is the legitimate China that represent the entire China that included Taiwan and the main land China. If you don’t know that now you know. If you know that already and still call Taiwan is an independence country than I question your motivation.
Taiwan is the republic of china, and it’s different from the People’s republic of china. They are different like the division of north Korea and South Korea. They both would claim that they’re "Korea", but you can’t say the south is part of the north korea
I'm looking for the same comments, I thought the same thing. I think many people have vague concept that Taiwan is an independent country as they don't understand what does "independent county" really mean legally. I think at least we should say this part is controversial. Nobody can assert that Taiwan is independent as there's no such historical moment yet!
6:26 Correction:- 4 soldiers died on Chinese side is claimed by China but according to various international sources Chinese casualties are more than 80.
the Indian government has published the names of 108 Chinese soldiers who were killed, but the names of those 108 soldiers are exactly the same as those of the characters in a famous Chinese book (Water Margin).
Why do you think that the Indian military can have a better combat damage ratio when their physical fitness, training methods, and equipment are not as good as those of the Chinese military
Thank you for your video, which made me realize that my country also has an aspect that is not so mild and moderate. This comment is a bit long. I have lived on the border and have heard some things about border demarcation, but I am not a professional, and I cannot investigate these matters as deeply as you do. I can only understand the formation of a country's map based on my personal knowledge. The boundaries of every country have been pieced together over the course of a long history, rather than being divided or granted by some ancient god or prophet. Our history textbooks tell us that in our country's history spanning thousands of years, territorial expansion has mainly resulted from tribal wars, conquests, and dynastic wars. Wherever the army advanced, they left garrisons, and the imperial court sent officials to manage those areas. In the changing of dynasties, territories were inherited or annexed from defeated opponents. You must be familiar with China's Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), a part of the Mongol Empire, as well as the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912). The rulers of these dynasties were not the "strong ethnic Han" you often think of as being in China. They ruled over a territory much much larger than present-day China. You must have also studied the history of Tibet or the Tibetan (Tubo) Empire. Interestingly, the Tibetan Empire once ruled over what is now Tibet, part of Xinjiang, Mongolia, Yunnan, Qinghai, and Sichuan. They also ruled over Nepal, Bhutan, and northern India. The Tibetan Empire was defeated by the Mongols during their rule over China and became a part of China's territory. Before the Yuan Dynasty, for example, during the Tang Dynasty, China had diplomatic relations with Tibetan Empire. But during the Yuan Dynasty, the Tibetan Empire disintegrated, and Tibet became part of China. The Chinese imperial court established government offices in Tibet for regional administration, while also maintaining control or autonomy over the Tibetan region by conferring and recognizing the status of religious leaders. China's central dynasties have also ruled and governed various regions at different times, including northern Vietnam, Goryeo (Korea), and even as far as the Luzon Islands. Compared to other countries in the world, China's history of central dynasties is a fascinating and powerful presence. I am also curious about this. Over the millennia-long history starting from the recorded Shang Dynasty, China's rulers changed continuously, but substantial division, such as the famous Three Kingdoms period or the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, always ended with unifying under a grand empire. Every ruler, including various northern and western ethnic groups of the time, sought to control the Central Plains fervently. The ultimate victors would claim to inherit the "orthodoxy" or "Entrusted by the heavens, and everlasting prosperity" and always maintain the entirety of the territory. Territorial disputes must have been caused by certain historical circumstances. However, regardless of how complex history may be, and regardless of how the land was divided, the integration of the people within those designated territories of two nations, no country will disregard or abandon its own territory. While I'm not well-versed in facts, I believe the British Empire wouldn't agree to the independence of Northern Ireland or its union with Ireland, nor would they give up Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, or Saint Helena. Similarly, the United States wouldn't allow Guam and Alaska to become independent just because of their geographical distance, and they wouldn't entertain questions about the sovereignty of these territories from other countries. Border demarcation is undoubtedly an immensely complex matter, but it is a result of historical military conquests and actual governance, not based on religion, cultural traditions, or the will of the local population. It certainly doesn't change due to the influence of third parties. The history of Tibet is indeed complex and has evolved over the centuries. After Tibet came under the influence of the Yuan Dynasty, it became part of China's territory. The Chinese imperial court established administrative offices in Tibet and also recognized the status of religious leaders to maintain control over the region. However, the issue of Tibet's status and sovereignty became more contentious in the late Qing Dynasty and during British colonial rule in India. The situation in Tibet became further complicated in the early 20th century with political changes in China and the 13th Dalai Lama's attempts to assert Tibetan autonomy. The Dalai Lama's flight to India in 1959 marked a significant turning point, as he sought asylum in India, and the issue of Tibetan independence became more prominent on the international stage. Regarding your curiosity about why only China is often viewed as the "bad guy" in this context, it's important to note that the Tibet issue is a highly sensitive and complex geopolitical matter with multiple perspectives. Different parties, including the Chinese government, Tibetan activists, and other countries, hold various viewpoints on this issue. Each has its own reasons and arguments, which is why there isn't a single universally accepted narrative. As for Sikkim, it was a small kingdom that became an Indian protectorate in 1950 and later merged with India as a state in 1975, following a referendum. So why doesn't India let them regain their independence? We all know ,The circumstances surrounding Sikkim's integration with India were different from Tibet in China. The Sikkim issue doesn't have the same international attention or disputes as the Tibet issue. You also made a video about "whether China will invade Taiwan. " and I can anwser it for you, I can tell you, most educated people in mainland China believe that there will not be a war in the Taiwan Strait. Official documents also state the intention to seek a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan issue while not renouncing the use of force. We know that Taiwan has been in a state of de facto autonomy and possesses elements of independence such as its own currency, passports, and political system. However, I'm not sure if you're aware that Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China (ROC), has a constitution that includes the mainland Chinese territory, and its official maps, similar to those published by PRC, also encompass what you referred to as the "nine-dash line" in the South China Sea. The nine-dash line was indeed drawn in 1947, and it's a matter that has received international attention and disputes. Taiwan, also maintains a military presence in the South China Sea, and its government has not renounced claims to territories such as the Diaoyu Islands (also known as the Senkaku Islands). Isn't it interesting? There's an interesting knowledge. The Chinese Civil War that began in 1948 did not result in a formal ceasefire agreement, and technically, the two sides, the PRC and the ROC, have not officially ended the conflict. The Taiwan Issue is an internal matter by CHINA. I have been watching your videos for quite a long time and learnt different perspectives on various political, religious, and cultural issues. While your stance is "neutral," I believe it's more of a selective neutrality. You can't treat assumptions like" Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang is an independent country" as facts to support your viewpoint. Education is indeed a good thing, When you come to China, you'll find that many young people are not as ignorant and easily manipulated as you might think. We won't blindly believe CCP is flawless, nor will we view them as dictatorial or evil. We have a clear understanding of everything that has happened with CCP from its inception to the present, including its Internal conflicts, Cultural Revolution, War with Vietman, Falungong, and more. These are not secrets, and there is nothing concealed. I used to worry about so-called insider secrets and conspiracies, and I used to feel angry about injustices. But as I've seen more and more information from different perspectives, I have come to respect the government even more. Even though we have various regulations, it doesn't mean there is no freedom of speech. We can choose to believe or not to believe. China is a unique country, and the Chinese people are unique citizens. When you read Chinese history and culture, you'll find that for thousands of years, the majority of Chinese people have not been very enthusiastic about politics. There is a group of people responsible for the operation of the government and the country, and some of them represent the interests of the people. So, attempting to guide the people through conspiracies and political movements to oppose the government and attain what is called freedom is nearly futile unless the government becomes so corrupt that the people can't survive.
You don’t mention the most crucial point? All the maps, territories, and territorial claims of mainland China, including the 11-dash line and other map rules, are legally inherited from the Autumn Leaf Begonia map of the Republic of China government. Moreover, compared to the territorial claims of the Autumn Leaf Begonia map (Outer Mongolia, Outer Northeast, Outer Northwest), the disputed territorial claims of mainland China are less than 1% of the Autumn Leaf Begonia map’s territorial claims. According to the principles of international law, the People’s Republic of China government is the legal successor of the Republic of China, and has the right to claim all the inheritance of the Republic of China, including territory, population, state machinery, and state assets. The biggest problem now is that the Republic of China in Taiwan has not been completely wiped out. When they completely give up their sovereignty claims over the Republic of China, the CCP, as the legal successor of the Republic of China, will also be normal to carry out the final recovery of the Republic of China’s territory and population. 你不说最关键的？中国大陆所有的地图、领土、领土诉求包括11断线之类的地图及地图规则，都是合法继承自中华民国政府的秋叶海棠地图，而且比起秋叶海棠地图的领土主张（外蒙古、外东北、外西北），中国大陆现在的争议领土诉求不足秋叶海棠地图领土诉求的1%，按照国际法原则，中华人民共和国政府是中华民国的合法继承者，有资格主张继承中华民国的一切遗产，包括领土、人口，国家机器，国家资产。现在最大的问题反而是，中华民国在台湾并未彻底覆灭，当他们彻底放弃对中华民国的主权主张后，中共作为中华民国合法继承者，进行最后的中华民国领土及人口回收也是正常的。
as an Indian this is true. We do have Tibetans living in India as a refuge from aggressive China but they are the most peaceful people on Earth. Dalai Lama is another example who is living in Dharamshala.
It is fair to describe China's claims as disputed, controversial, unreasonable, or outrageous, but those claimed borders are not shifting and not new. China has been claiming those territories consistently for decades.
@@galvinbutler I am a Taiwanese. I searched and found that you are technically correct. However, this new dash barely made any news in Taiwan and the Taiwanese government only repeated some typical statement after a Japanese newspaper inquire without referring specifically to this dash line. The 10th dash is new on the map, but the claimed area is not new.
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You can also Search Chinese Geopolitics of Calling 5 Fingers of China, which Their Leader claim to take back those region in Himalaya. Those are :1.Nepal, 2.Sikkim, 3.ladakh, 4.Bhutan, 5.NEFA /Arunachal Pradesh.
+ Parts of Nepal and India which need to be Part of China.
Trust me, Their Leader have already makes Claim of 5 Fingers of Himalaya,
Btw, They got Aksai Chin part of India in 1962..now they Want all Rest of It.
That ain't Kashmir, It is LADAKH, Directly Administered by the Central Govt of India
When is your mormón video coming out?
That ain't Kashmir, It is LADAKH, Directly Administered by the Central Govt of India
i hope US can help my country one day in Malaysia because i don't want china take over of my country
At least Johnny and China have one similar obsession : Maps 😂
😂😂 nice one
And dimsum I'm sure
What about Israel's map😂
nice 😂
@Drexler7
The other side of the same statement is that the leaders of victim-countries of PRC, never ever look at the maps. To win over PRC, one needs to be heavily map-savvy.
I think there is a major point missing in this video: Namely, that almost all of these territorial disputes have not simply been created by China’s Communist Party, but have been inherited (and later exacerbated) from the Chinese Republic and to some degree from the Qing era.
These border conflicts are the result of the absolute mess that we call the 20th century, and unfortunately the video doesn’t really reflect that. By watching, one instead gets the feeling that these disputes have mainly been orchestrated by the modern Chinese government. And while there are plenty of gross violations of international laws and norms that one can lay onto Beijing’s feet, these border disputes have a far more complicated story than that.
I also think that this outlook on China’s border conflicts actually minimizes the gravity of the situation, because one gets the feeling that if China was to become a democracy overnight, these problems would go away. Unfortunately, they would not, which may be exemplified by the fact that Taiwan holds almost the same, if not larger territorial claims. Taiwan also argues that the 9 (or 11) dash line is valid - and it has shown little interest to compromise on this stance thus far.
And while I understand the message of the video was to make a point about the political weight of creating maps, its still important to at least hint at the complexity and debatable story behind these disputes - even if there is no time to explain them in a short video, which is of course understandable.
Exactly, it's well known that Johnny SIMPLIFIES much of his storytelling.
You make great videos too , and way more in depth,keep up the good work
Taiwan actually claims Mongolia as part of China.
@@huangec ^That is outdated information. Taiwan no longer claims this, and hasn't for some time.
Also, Taiwan is not allowed to change its claims without China getting very, very angry. No one in Taiwan wants to claim with a straight face that Manchuria is part of Taiwan, but the moment they don't claim that, they are saying that they aren't China, and then China threatens to kill everyone on the island.
That is why the ROC still claims all of the mainland, Mongolia (not as much anymore tho), Tibet, Xinjang, and some Japanese-administered islands.
The Russian island claim is very easy to explain: it's a test to see how Russia will respond. Russia has a lot of territory in Manchuria that it took from China during the century of humiliation. China wants it back. So they are testing Russia to see how strongly they can respond here and will use that info to determine how to push their other claims
I think the Russians will simply ignore china's claims
well they are partners right? /s
Well China does have some leverage over Rusia
pocking the bear too much wouldnt end well...
Funny thing is, Russia ain't even going full force on Ukraine. I bet they thought about foreign invasions and have deterences besides the nuke threat.
All the viewpoints you presented in the video take an opposing stance toward China and depict China as being guilty. It's common for such videos to propagate hostility towards China and attract attention with this preconceived pov. For instance, regarding the southern Tibet issue, you never mention that the agreement was signed between the local Tibetan government and the UK, which China views as illegal because a local government does not have the authority to cede land to a foreign country. Tibet was no doubt a region of China in 1914 and you were aware of it but tried to avoid the fact which was crucial to the judgement. Don't act like being subjective with tones but show the proof selectively.
Local government means local people......people want to choose their own government unlike china,where there is only one government
@@लिली-ङ4ह So how about Catalonian and Scotland?
@@लिली-ङ4ह这是西藏的独裁宗教地方政府😅他们只是为了自身的利益出卖领土
@@लिली-ङ4ह 如果你说当地政府能代表当地人民，那世界上就不会存在政府被推翻的事件，然而，政府被推翻的现象在中东地区却时常发生。西藏人民到底过的好不好，最好的方式是你们亲自去问西藏人民，而不是听这些甚至连西藏都没有去过的人的主观性的报道。
@@लिली-ङ4ह地方政府屈辱性被動割讓罷了，中央政府還不能為他出口氣嗎？軟弱如你才好？😅😂
Myanmar-China fence was built to mostly prevent drug trade in that region. During WW2, ROC sent troops to Myanmar to fight Japanese, but as KMT was defeated by the commies soon after WW2, some of KMT's land forces retreated into the forest in northern Myanmar. After KMT fled to Taiwan, it couldn't afford maintaining supply and logistics of this military presence in Myanmar, and (I might be wrong here) subsequently decommissioned these regiments. However, instead of letting them to surrender to PRC or bring them to Taiwan, they just left them in Myanmar. These militants became the local warlords and started to grow poppies to finance/support themselves. Note, these aren't from creditable sources because it's a dark history for both sides. The true stories are covered by both sides. Only rumors and tales told by people from that region.
But there are hundreds of thousands of drug dealers, illegal gambling, smuggle and even deal of organs are prevailing in this area, I knew some people who live near this border and is constantly harassed by warlords' troops and threatened, it's just a place of chaos, it's common to have small war there. As China is extremely strict on drugs due to its past history more than 100 years ago, the wall makes it harder for drugs to go into China as well as smuggle.
诈骗，毒品，赌博，中国境内的亡命徒与缅甸北部的军阀勾结，诱骗了很多无辜的人去那里，中国政府不得不建起围墙。
Because it's important to them, Huh selfish or do they know what havoc can be tested and proven as a break down in a countrys security safety and the people who are affected
Based on my understanding, those soldiers left/abandoned in Myanmar eventually moved to northern Thailand many decades ago (might have been kicked out by Myanmar). A lot of their descendants now live in Mae Salong and I visited it in 2012. I stumbled across a school which taught children textbooks donated by the ROC government.
你说的很对
I’d love to hear more about the border fence between Myanmar and China.
@@AmazonBZDZKK another chenqing bwaylaodaopao winnie the pooh supporter defending their greedy state
@@AmazonBZDZKK Which part was nonsense? Seemed very coherent to me, and backed by facts, not just assertions. Also if you use your steps to lead your eyes, that's how you trip, you should use your eyes to watch where you step. Less tripping and falling on nuts that way.
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@@AmazonBZDZKK gonna have to do more than just deny and refute, mr bot
@@randell9667the myanmar part, back to last century, the border of myanmar is one of the most chaotic part of China, 91% of drags came in from here. Lot of get kidnapped to myanmar through here. Also lot of Burman came to China illegally through this border. And also the COVID19 thing. So actually when my friend in Yunnan province, which is border on myanmar, was actually pretty happy with it, and most Yunnan people around her think so too.(ps: hope you can understand, apologize for my poor English😅)
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If I remember correctly, when the Machanon line was drawn, Tibet said that it'd agree to the land transfer only if the beijing government was ok with it
The Beijing government was not ok with it, but the british occupied anyway
This border line was never recognized by the Qing Government of China, the Republic of China and the present China, which is a shameful British conspiracy.
The local government agreed, but the central government disagreed; nevertheless, the UK still occupied this area.
what local government ,tibet was pretty much independent and only acted as a state.
@@chasedavis9707 The Tibetan local government has never been recognized by the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China. China has never relinquished its claim to Tibet from the "Abdication Edict of the Qing Dynasty" in 1911. The Qing emperor clearly wrote that "the emperor will lead the The ruling power is publicized to the whole country, and it is designated as a republic and constitutional state...The complete territories of the five ethnic groups of Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan are still combined into one great Republic of China". Therefore, the treaty signed unilaterally by the unrecognized local separatist government certainly does not have any legal effect. In addition, for the Simla Convention on which the McMahon Line is based, the British and Tibetan plenipotentiaries signed a bilateral declaration that stated that the convention would be binding on themselves and that China would be denied any privileges under the convention until it signed it. Without Chinese acceptance and also for its conflict with the Anglo-Russian Convention, the Government of India regarded the signed bipartite treaty in 1915 as "for the present invalid". In other words, the line was not subject to restrictions including China, Tibet, UK and India
China has never had the word "state" like the US, they just call Tibet an autonomous province. Do you think an autonomous province has the right to allocate national land?
Interesting how the map of Israel changes all the time, yet nobody bats an eyelid. Also, the irony of JH being a US citizen and finding it eerie being so close to a country that's serious about exerting its power when no other country exerts its power more than any other nation as the US does.
Yep
Are you telling the truth here? Haha
HAHAHA
I mean you ain't wrong tho, but i enjoy his explanations nevertheless
Ahh yes, an expert on foreign policy.
I'm from the north-eastern region of India
I think these assertion of dominance are concerning
We people will never get along to those people
We had disputes and what not
This video should get viral here in India
Rather than Indians focusing on the ongoing war on middle east
This is my first time watching your videos
And I'm hooked
Indian Keyboard warriors worrying about israel more than they should be worried about manipur. 😂😂
Adding to this, one of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy China almost always downplays the death of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
@@GoodVibes9988
Your anti-India slip is visible. Don't worry about Manipur, we'll take care of it.
@@ManuSaraswat
PLA that is deployed to fight the Indian Army isn't an Army in the usual sense. It doesn't belong to the Chinese people. It is the military arm of the Communist party of China.
Where in the NE are you from?
Johnny's favorite topic (maps) combined with current geopolitical events... I would call this a win for the audience :)
Yes please do a video on the border fence!
Ignoring his own country doing a genocide but talking about others potential aggression… don’t you need to finish one war before starting another!?
Well you can't blame china. Why should they hold themselves to certain rules and border rights if the same thing happening in israel is ok by the west but if anyone else does it, it is a shame. Arrogance..
Fails to mention China is not alone in building military islands in disputed waters.
Vietnam has built more military islands in Philippine Waters.
Fails to mention the 11 Dash line of Taiwan. Where Chinas 9-10 Dash line comes from.
@@leihtory7423 Many many credit scores to you comrade! A fine exampele of whataboutism and deflection.
Why don't you analyzing the map of empire Qing？It is more big than now.How it changes to the modern China map？What had the western done？
Opium Wars, Wars of Aggression against China, Unequal Treaties, Colonies！Is that fair or justice？What's wrong for taking back the losing part？Who give you the rights to make earth rules？
蜘蛛
you are right， some just can't get out form thier country's mind control.and don't believe the ture😢
@@李藿峰 发一条又可以减刑了？
@@李藿峰 你这发一条想必又可以减刑1分钟了吧🤣
@@apet-xl7bu 你这回一条想必又可以免除1dollar的债务了吧
“South Tibet is full of Indians.” Therefore, it belongs to India.😂 In this case, Canada and Britain also belong to India❤
Actually it's an Indian state, Arunachal Pradesh , which china is claiming to be South tibet.
They pooped there😂
Love from India❤
@@atal_verma 英国人画的线是不合法的
@@弟讲究it is not because they made agreement with Tibet and china had nothing to do with it, but china wanted to illegally occupied the whole Tibet
Finally.. someone is talking about India's geographical issues with China and not just political or military or economic issues...
Edit 1: It is a healthy discussion down here in the reply-section. Don't worry. We are safe from any virtual wars :)
Yet they are both part of brics right?
This is political, it’s stirring new conflict
But be careful for the hidden power who is actually putting out all the hateful narrative and addicted to profit from conflicts and wars at the moment.
@@jaymarxnot exactly "new".. China has been doing this since decades and a lot of geo-political commentaries have been already made on that... it has already led to 1 full-fledge war between India and China in 1962 and a lot more skirmishes later in 1980s to 2020s... My point was that this is the first time someone has actually talked about it purely from a geographical perspective
They are all mad at china, but when israel does the same they clap their hands greatfully
I’d definitely love a video on that fence with Myanmar, I’d be super interested to see how it’s effecting peoples that have mingled and traded for years and now have to give that up for the sake of control.
Maybe checking out southeast asian scam mills' human trafficking would help you to add up some other perspectives.
there is no conflict. China is just protecting smuggling. Johnny Harris misinterpreted the situation.
need to go there in person
Isn’t there a border fence between Mexico and USA? It has already disrupted life there
@@hb.raafay Did you use some kind of VPN to connect to this video?
⬇ people who wants the Myanmar/China border video!
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@@johnnyharrisgreat vid Johnny! More Myanmar info would be interesting, and also the Israel conflict would make a good video as well! Cheers, take your time and never rush
Ditto that!
go ahead and make it we know you're dying to do it anyway
I want it
This video characterizes China as a land grabber, which is not surprising. I think even people with scant knowledge of China know that premodern China has never been a land-grabbing belligerent. What they really mean is that Communist China is a land grabber. But is it? Communist China's territorial management has been studied by Taylor Fravel, a political scientist at MIT, who published a book called "Strong Borders, Secure Nation," concluding that Communist China is a land conceder and has not land-grabbed any of its neighbors. Taylor Fravel is a China hawk, so even he has admitted that China is not a land grabber. There is a land grabber by the way and that is India. Today, the territory of India is much bigger than it was in 1947, and all the land it acquired was through invasion and subjugation. You should find out how India's 'Seven Sister States' became part of India.
Talking about maps in 1912, the first full year of the Republic of China (nowadays usually referred to as Taiwan) after the fall of the Qing dynasty, the United States National Geographic Society dedicated an issue on China and with the issue it included a very large and detailed foldout map of China. If you go to the area close to Bhutan, you can see the town of Tawang and the surrounding area, which is clearly within China. Today, Tawang is occupied by India, and the surrounding area is called Arunachal Pradesh by India. In fact, as late as the late 1940s after World War II, the flag of the Republic of China (nowadays usually referred to as Taiwan) was flying high in Tawang. Today, it is the Indian flag that is flying there. And India is still promoting the narrative that India is a hapless victim of an expansionist China.
Hi Johnny, since you are an investigative journalist, this map is available in the internet and you can download it and see what I am talking about.
I recommend u to buy a china map recognized by US decades ago, and u will surprisingly realize China map is never a controversial, only become controversy because of propogand
@@mikeniu5636 The real Chinese map is the map of the Republic of China which recognizes the mainland China and South Tibet (occupied by India since 1951) as its territory.
he is no rational/investigative journalist, he makes videos about china because it got high clicks. He is creating tensions to make money. That's all@@PomegranateChocolate
So true
I want to tell you an interesting fact. At the end of World War II, the then government of China was the Republic of China (currently in Taiwan). When the Chinese government went to these islands to re-erect boundary markers in 1946, because the Chinese government did not have the ability to sail far, it was the United States government that sent The warships transported then-Republic of China government staff to re-erect boundary markers on these islands.
If you are aware the then, ROC government was a puppet of the US, your fact isn't as interesting as it should.
It's still interesting, thanks :)
Yeah right, the Chinese empires expanded beyond mountains for thousands of years were never there? Wet dream! Wake up dude!
@user-dt7iw2dp1q obviously they would want to support the party that's not communist bro, and they're still to this day supporting the non-communist party
你说对了
According to your interpretation that the tenth dash line was added recently in this update. However, when I searched for maps published in 2019 and 2016, both maps already showed the tenth dash line next to Taiwan. Therefore it’s not a sudden change but a constant effort for Beijing to acclaim Taiwan as part of China.
是这样的
If you look it up 70 years ago, 150 years ago, the maps still included Taiwan
Did you even watch this video carefully? He said that 'it's not a first time tenth dash appeared on a chinese government map'
If u look It up China is Mongolia. There is no china
@@Unlocked-c8c Take a map from WW2 and behold how big Germany was. Or the British Empire ... or ...
As a Nepali it is incredibly disheartening to see our corrupt politicians hiding this from this issue from us.
You people love to steal land from northeast
You Nepali thinks Indians are encroaching Nepali lands but the truth is we want Nepali people to knew that China wants to take their import land mass of Nepal. What we Indians do with Nepali land? Many Nepalis are like brothers and sisters for us. Your corrupt leaders are of communist party which is funded by China.
Worried about China? Sooner or later Nepal will become a state of India. Sikkim has disappeared.
@@Flanker-L a Chinese bot has come here ...... Taking other country land and then accusing others
@@Flanker-LWe have no interest in ceasing Nepal!
Nepali people are hard working and honest (not like their Communist Politicians). They are always welcome here ❤
And, Indian Govt don't need to encroach on the land for projecting their view in the Subcontinent.
As for the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, you should know that when China drew the nine-dash line here, there were no countries around, they were all colonies.😂
China was a Manchu colony during that time. You have as much of a claim on SCS as the other countries.
@@Tran5513 colony? Will the UK establish its capital in Delhi or Hong Kong?
Yeah so those colonies inherited those border and was given by them by their colonial rulers
@@charlesfoucault7270u can’t India’s military is stronger than uk military 😂
The Philippines was a country by 1946.
Just want to point out that "There's nothing wrong with this these maps" is a mistranslation. “一点都不能错” doesn't mean "it's not wrong [to use those maps]". It means "You shouldn't make any mistake [with using standard maps]".
thank you that’s quite important
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Mis translation, interpretation is sometimes due to the viewers own agenda/existing stand point.
However, in the end, the one with the bigger stick builds history
I think it's better translated as " (this) must never be wrong."
As in, we cannot be wrong about this map, what we say *is the truth* .
I like that translation even more! Especially since they are maps that have random offsets to both the latitude and longitude.
"Maps aren't just maps" is Johnny's life motto
One of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy they almost always downplay the deaths of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
seems part of Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nepal, Tajekistan, Kygesikstan, Mongolia, parts of Russia and India, and Taiwan, Indonesia, Palau Islands, Singapore, the Phillipines, and papa new guinea is now part of China lol...
@@Patrik6920 Yes, those territories originally belonged to China because Anglo-colonial invasions in the 18th century muddied the map of East Asia.
@@michaelhuang7842soon you people gonna say the world belongs to china 😂😂😂
"They're tools of national power"
You missed one border dispute. The one with Tajikistan that the tajiks ceeded to China ten years ago, they now have bases inside Tajik territory overlooking the wakhan corridor of Afghanistan
whoa I missed this in our reporting. thanks for calling it out. Im going to look into now
@@johnnyharris He will not make it rather he will Delete your comment and Just stay there as if nothing happened..Dude is Legitimate Mouthpiece of CiA's And he doesn't fear that He Is getting exposed and Brought out for his cia and anti China Narrative of this China Bad Content 😂Yet...No one Notices it He Can Try to divert the Anything with his Team of extremely Proper editors and his so called Map..yet Can't rule out that he is a CIA Mouthpiece and Has been Directly working for them to make theze type of china Threat and China bad content for years now
In 2011, Tajikistan ratified a 1999 deal (and a 2002 supplementary agreement) to cede 200 and 1,122 km2 respectively of land in the Pamir Mountains to China, ending a 130-year dispute. In the treaty, China also relinquished claims to over 28,000 km2 of Tajikistani territory, so its not a dispute anymore.
@@johnnyharris First of all, the boundary agreement signed by the so-called representatives of Britain and Tibet was illegal because the central government at the time was the Qing government and the Qing government had never agreed to the boundary drawn by the British. The so-called Tibetan representatives were purely directed and acted by the British. Second, the territory of the East India Company that India illegally inherited has never belonged to India in history. Even India was the only regime to annex a sovereign country after World War II. India illegally annexed Sikkim. Third, the United States is the first country in the world to recognize China’s maritime territory in the South China Sea. In order to allow the Republic of China to fight against the Japanese Empire in the South China Sea, the United States proactively recognized the South China Sea. When China was managing the territory of the South China Sea, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam How could this sea area belong to these countries when they are not yet independent but are still colonies? The fourth channel is a common white baboon anti-China media that guides public opinion by fabricating false history, taking quotes out of context, and false implications.
@@johnnyharris Bro, when it comes to CHINA all COUNTRIES even if they are FRIENDS or ENEMIES have DISPUTE with CHINA. Just like CHINA has DISPUTE with RUSSIA, CHINA has DISPUTE with both SOUTH KOREA 🇰🇷 and NORTH KOREA. So you Must look all the COUNTRIES that share LAND, WATER, or even AIR with CHINA. Because CHINA will One day will even CLAIM MARS and MOON🌛 in the FUTURE. DON'T BE SURPRISED if they CLAIM THAT TOO!!!
china is just doing what every country would do if they have enough power, and USA already have done it, usa's miltary bases surround the entire east coast line of china, no one is critizing USA since no one could. China was a global superpower back in 1700s to early 1800s so its understandable if you are talking about history.
美国是民主国家，中国是独裁专制的国家，这完全不能相提并论
@@AureleIjaz 美国的民主就是到处用枪炮让别的国家瓦解，到处发动战争，人民被屠杀？到处建立军事基地？美国才是世界的独裁者
You definitely should cover about China-Myanmar border. The border is infamous among local Burmese. During Covid-19 China shut down border checkpoints and trade posts without informing anyone which led to the financial crisis of local farmers and traders. And China sometimes built border fences and barriers within Myanmar's territory. The area is also known for gambling, drug production, human trafficking and arms trafficking.
Wa State is pretty interesting
Yunnan province of China is viewed as the "Gateway to Southeast Asia and South Asia" and it is now officially promoted as such. There are many Burmese people living and working in Yunnan who speak Mandarin and those border areas are a blend of Burmese and Chinese culture, you see it with the usage of both Chinese and Burmese scripts. You can find many Burmese Muslim men selling jade to Chinese customers and Burmese are the largest foreign group in China as of 2020. In northern Myanmar, in the city of Mandalay, there are also many Yunnanese from China living and working in the city to the point that Mandalay has become increasingly "Chinese" in atmosphere.
应该是缅甸因为纵容毒贩，诈骗和人口贩卖才在中国臭名昭著
Does Myanmar central government even has control over northen Myanmar？😂😂😂
Led*
The border between China and Myanmar has always been in a dangerous zone, and the danger from Myanmar has always been greater than that from China. The construction of border walls is to protect each other. Peace and security are what each other hopes for. The construction of border walls is also out of helplessness.
中国从未侵略过缅甸，何来危险？印度和周边国家都发生过战争，你怎么不说印度危险？你是不是觉得自己脑子没有用！如果是的话请捐了给科学研究作贡献。
It's weird that China even makes such a big deal about these pockets as it's not like they even consider the people who may be in these regions to be Chinese or would treat them as such
Ancient expansionism mindset which seems to infect every old ass authoritarian. These people are too dangerous, how they holding fast to power in modern times is just too mind boggling.
China see things in long term. They have no trouble making deals that lasts 100 years if it means winning out in the end. Those oppressed minorities would be chinese after a century or two of reeducation.
@@belldrop7365 I'm sure you meant 'forced re-education'.
Scary shit.
@@Boomerrage32Indeed
Sadly the people in pockets have little choice than to adapt when sandwiched between two giant nations, no matter which nation is in charge. I can assure you at least one of the disputed regions(South Tibet/Arunachal Pradesh) belonged to none of them just a century or so ago, it wasn't even proper Tibet, but now is Indian thanks to the British. It could easily have been other way too, and the people living in the region would have equally adapted.
India's glorious history:
India has territorial disputes and historical issues with several countries in South Asia, and here are some specific cases between India and its neighbors:
Pakistan: In 1947, the British issued the Mountbatten Plan, implementing the partition of India and Pakistan, and Pakistan was divided into eastern and western parts. After the first Indo-Pakistani war in October 1947, India controlled about two-thirds of Kashmir's land and three-quarters of its population. East Pakistan also gained independence from Pakistan as Bangladesh with the support of India.
Sikkim: After the independence of India in 1947, the British withdrew from Sikkim and Sikkim became officially independent. But India sent troops to invade Sikkim in 1949 and installed an Indian as prime minister to control Sikkim's internal affairs. Sikkim was annexed by India in 1975.
Bhutan: Bhutan claims to be the happiest country in the world and has signed a Permanent Treaty of Peace and Friendship with India, which stipulates that Bhutan's external relations are "guided" by India and includes Bhutan in its sphere of influence.
Nepal: Nepal covers an area of 147,000 square kilometers and has a population of 28.98 million. India and Nepal signed the India-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, and obtained the privilege of sending officers to train the Nepalese army. Later, India pressed Nepal, leading to a long-standing border dispute between Nepal and India.
Bangladesh: Formerly "East Pakistan", after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, East Pakistan became independent from Pakistan with the support of India to form Bangladesh.
Myanmar: India had plans to expand into Burma and in 1962 conducted military operations in the Assam region of Burma.
Sri Lanka: India has intervened in Sri Lanka's civil war and internal affairs.
Maldives: India has troops in the Maldives.
In addition, India has infiltrated Sri Lanka and interfered in the internal affairs and border issues of countries such as Maldives. These actions show India's expansionist ambitions and aggressive foreign policy in South Asia.
I like the part that when china is in control of certain area you say "it's CONTROLLER by China", but when India is in control of certain area you say "It BELONGS to india"
It's too ironic, this is a video promoting China as evil, he doesn't care about historical territorial ownership. As long as China is evil, that's okay
@@方月晨 but u can't deny that china has so many border disputers than is neighbouring countries
@@laveniaghosh8303 From a historical perspective, how much territory has China lost.
The land he called as being "CONTROLLED" by China (in Kashmir region) was the one that didnt belong to China before, but is controlled by it now. But the land that he said "BELONGS" to India (Arunachal Pradesh) is a state which has been a rightful part of the Indian territory since its independence, ocuupied by Indian citizens and the claim by China is nonsense with no backing. They already have problems with their claim to tibet which is disputed, let alone this so called south tibet of theirs lol. As he commented, wishful thinking. China is doing this just to satisfy their vain ego, assert their power and pressurize India.
@@lamewater772 The concept of a nation's "legal" territory is inherently subject to change over history, wars, and various events. If you firmly believe that a specific area objectively belongs to a certain country, you should take a look at the extent of China's Yuan dynasty's territory. The territories we discuss as "disputed" indicate that the narrator should not have any bias regarding their ownership. When you presuppose that a place strictly "belongs" to a particular country, your understanding of the word "disputed" has already been skewed. What you are doing is merely reinforcing and justifying your pre-existing stance with that same stance.
6:28 im not sure your source of information but the real fact is China lost 42 soldiers in the June 2020 Galwan Valley clash, at least nine times more than the four it has acknowledged.
@giriraj408damn
@giriraj408 What you are saying is not believable i.e., 200 chinese soldiers attacking 500 Indian soldiers, killing 100 of them. How would your brother know about how many died in the Chinese side? He should either be a general or should have been standing behind and counting for that. In India, news comes out if soldiers die. Chinese had an upper hand because they carried clubs with nails where as, Indian army was weaponless.
In fact, according to the reliable information I have received, the Chinese army did injure many soldiers in this confrontation. Of course, many Indian soldiers were also injured. However, when it comes to treating the wounded, China does not have better medicine, while India has a magical medicine. This thing can make injured Indian soldiers recover immediately. I checked a lot of information and found that this is a magical potion, but I can only know that the name of this potion is "hengheshui". The formula of the potion is very mysterious. This is what I know. All the news you know. May "hengheshui" bless Indian soldiers
@giriraj408 here comes 1 yuan unemployed wumao
@@onearrow3147 Fake news
A Myanmar - China border video would be super interesting
First of all, it must be acknowledged that he has a strong storytelling ability. He always manages to appear very reasonable, and his animated editing is also very good. If you are not familiar with the topics he discusses, it's very easy to be deceived by him.
indeed, it's just anti-china scare
What about the video would you say is wrong? Calling it deceitful but not arguing why is anything but constructive.
@@yurigagarin9765 it's really ubiquitous so no real need to explain why. The author always operates on the presupposition that what is beneficial to the PRC is somehow just plain bad. "China did this, but at what cost???!"
If you can seriously study Chinese history, you can know that the orthodoxy of Taiwan belonging to China is even greater than the orthodoxy of all the states in the United States belonging to the United States, and if Taiwan does not even belong to China, then the United States should not exist @@yurigagarin9765
@jackdrippr2891 US dog
I’m looking forward to that video on the Myanmar-China Border! It’s time to shine a light on the little-known geopolitical situation over in Myanmar. 11:06
Yes definitely agree!
agree
Also Vietnam-China border please!
I am interested in the fence on the border.
@@thesunsunkwok Another try-to-be comedian! LOL
Saying India's only claim to land is "some British representative drew a line" undermines the historical and cultural claim they have to that land. 9:57
@2plus2equals98
Yes, even in legends & mythology. The cultural bonds are too deep.
We are a two weeks away from the coming Diwali (Deepavali, meaning an array of lights). The legend (mythology) is this.
The region around River Brahmaputra was known as Prag`jyotisha pura (Eastern Zodiacal town) ruled by a demons king, Naraka. Lord Krishna to subdue him & release the people from his tyranny went there riding his mount, the eagle "Garuda" (now the mascot of Indonesian Airways). His favourite wife "Sathya" said she'd accompany him. So, the couple went & engaged in a battle with Naraka`asura, who was well-protected by the forces of nature. After a while Krishna was hit by an arrow that made him unconscious. Then a furious Sathya took the bow & shot a row of arrows that killed Naraka`asura. Then Krishna was revived. It could be that Naraka`asura gazing at Sathya, he has forgotten about the battle he was engaged in. The killing of Naraka`asura is observed a day before Diwali, with fire-crackers & such explosions to signify the war. He freed sixteen thousand & odd young "dames" the dead king imprisoned. Krishna told them to go to their respective families. But the crowd of young girls raised a cry & said "we're not going home". Krishna asked "why?". They said they wouldn't be accepted by their parents, being prisoners of someone & that they didn't accept. It is a matter of their honour or chastity. There was an argument. Finally, the girls pointed a way out that would restore their esteem (or respect). They wanted Krishna (who has 8 wives) to marry them all, as that would also enhance their status of Krishna's wives that the people would respect. Krishna did that & returned home to Dwaraka, some 2000 km to the west. Flippant & even lewd comments are made on this act of Krishna without realising the honour that was restored to the girls. Even now Krishna cult is predominant in Brahmaputra valley & in Manipur (Jewel city) predominantly .
Another character, the main hero in Maha`Bharata war, Arjuna (comparable to Ulysses in Greek mythology) committed a small mistake & as penance had to leave home (& his four brothers). He came to Manipur & the princess there, Ulupi fell in love with him & married. A son was born to them, even. After the stipulated time Arjuna returned home. The war started soon after.
so the Indian claim is a myth?
That line still was agreed between Tibet and India tho, meaning it's legit, who cares if Tibet is controlled by China now? If borders stopped existing just because it got taken over by another country then we should redraw a lot of borders
@@stevenwu2055it’s not a myth. It’s written in one of the most known poem within the eastern hemisphere which also happens to be the longest. It’s symbolic to the time and history when events occurred in the lands we know today. Some places have had their names changed but the book outdates any of the new ones.
It's very very generalised. North-East region is generalised as a single whole, when it is not that way historically. Far from it. Even Arunachal Pradesh itself has different regions with different historical narratives, some associated with India(mainly the plains of current Northern Assam), but many if not most are not. The northwestern corner has historical ties with Tibet, that is what the media likes to focus on mostly, but that's only a corner of Arunachal Pradesh. In fact, most of the population reside on the inner central+eastern regions, which were independent and self-governed prior to British entry(often forcibly). Similarly, association with the Kirat very vague; they could have been Nepal, they could have been Bhutan, they could have been any Himalayan mountain dwelling group. That didn't provide the India the authority over it. I mean that in the nicest of ways.
The true fact remains none of Tibet, China, or British India had a full control over the region initially. It was mostly independent. Tibet had trade ties, but was never in political control of the current whole region. British India made the first move to politically capture the land, they agreed the boundary with Tibet in a treaty which China pulled out of; British India marched ahead regardless of China's withdrawal. And hence the current mess.
Source: I'm from Arunachal Pradesh, and my great great grandfather was one of the leading representatives in first colonial contact with our tribe(far back as 19th century). Even pictorially documented by the British Raj and published by Stuart Blackburn.
China may have new map,
But India and Japan have NEW military
New military refers to-----------A military without stealth fighter jets and 80000 ton aircraft carriers
@ingstimated1873 vs whom MADE IN CHINA CRAPS?😂😂😂
😂😂😂
guys, you can see the previous official maps. there aren't many changes between this map and the previous one.
a follow-up, the 10th dash line belongs to the east china sea.
6:25 The Chinese government doesn't show the real number of the soldiers deaths. Various media outlets of USA and Russian origins claims the chinese deaths to be around 50-70 in that fight.
@@lamewater772 So you believe him easily
@@hellosurvivor97 cant say about usa but you dont want to believe the russians? the russians claimed 45 chinese dead so ....
As someone who was born in Myanmar, I’d love to hear more about the border fence between Myanmar and China.
You would better to hope your government to unify the local independent warlords in your country first
china also built some in vietnam - china border. the difference is the place is desolated, they didnt trespass the border and paid for it so our gov have no complains, unlike on the sea...
Chinese are scared of these areas，because many China people have been cheated or abducted in the north of Myanmar, and engaged in electronic fraud activities in the parks there, it seems that the Myanmar government has been cracking down vigorously recently, but China people are still very afraid of the Myanmar border. By the way, the border between China and Myanmar has long been established, and there is no problem.
Myanmar have bigger problem on their own than the border between them and China. maybe stop the civil war first, and stop terrorize ur own people
Some Chinese perspectives here. 1. The fence was build during the pandemic to stop the spread of virus from Myanmar, where there had been constantly people trying to cross the boarder to reach the more wealthy china. 2. There had been human trafficking happening around the boarder. Many Chinese men and women are kidnapped to Myanmar and subsequently into force labor or even killed. 3. Drug smuggling. The Chinese government AND people had been 0-tolerant about drugs and are determined to stop it.
Seeing Chinese and Indian militants have skirmishes on the battlefield with spiked clubs and shields like something out of a 10th century war was not something I was expecting to see today
Militants ? Go kid get some education!
Assuming you are an adult, I wouldn't expect you'd post such comment. It's a simple strategy to contain the situation without escalation.
Did you just misspell militaries?
Who's fault is that? The British is the worst, the Chinese and Indian people had no issues for the past 5000 years, when the British comes, they created tension between the two country and mess things up for many countries around the world.
@@MMLL369 Most childish comment I've seen today
As a matter of fact, old atlases such as Philips Maps & Atlases published in the UK clearly indicates that Spratly and Paracel Islands are Chinese territories with the word (China) in parenthesis.
Too bad international law doesn't rely on old maps
@@ryanb7385 Too bad u need to translate your so called international law to Hebrews before u ever metion it
@@ryanb7385so on what? u are talking about internation law, or power?
@@ryanb7385所有只能依靠导弹来测量。
@@ddpp9954 is it difficult to fathom the concept of concurrence where both China and Israel have blatantly violated international laws?
The South China Sea 9-dash Line was drawn by the previous regime in China, which was called the Republic of China. It lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan Province. That's right, the South China Sea 9-dash Line was drawn by the government that currently controls Taiwan Island. That regime once claimed that they are the real China while mainland is not real China. Even now their legal map includes the whole Mongolia and Chinese Mainland.
the (corrupt part) of the kuomintang died out a while ago
This guy do not want people to know history about borders because he only wants to threat the audience.
Even if It's created by the previous regime, It isn't the problem💀 the point is, who using that now and that's China
I doubt people even care if Taiwan have such map with such Power🤣
@@zir456 what? taiwan still uses the 9-dash line, and even claims mongolia and portions of kyrgyzstan, historically parts of the Qing Dynasty
Interesting. Hope Johnny can talk more about the conflicts between India and China
Thanks Johnny from the Filipino people, for continuing to keep this issue on the forefront of the public eye.
Maps in general are awesome but in this case, when part of a regime’s weaponization plan to bully and push around its neighbors… it’s just so devious.
One of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy they almost always downplay the deaths of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
@@ManuSaraswat又在这里胡扯，2020年中国向印度移交了至少30多个俘虏，在一个中国社交平台上可以看到，这里都没有那个视频里面很多俘虏受伤🤕，有给他们包扎。中国是团长冲在最前面阻挡印度士兵向前，这个视频里可以看到，他是幸运的活了下来，是我们的英雄。而印度由于种姓制度影响，士兵冲在前面。2020年那次印度死的士兵很多都是被打进加勒万河里冻死的。
Source: trust me bro@@ManuSaraswat
I’d like to see Indian soldiers have the same pay and enjoy the same civil and societal benefits as Chinese soldiers. You prob got that crappy story through hearsay or your very unbiased news outlets lol@@ManuSaraswat
What bs, Taiwan claimed 11 dash line, china is just following it up
As for Taiwan, please first learn about its history. Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times. You can check the map of China during the Qing Dynasty (1690-1820), or check the map of China during the Ming Dynasty.During the Japanese invasion of China, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands were occupied by Japan for many years. After the victory of China's War of Resistance Against Japan, a civil war broke out in China. Later, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan. Mao Zedong did not liberate Taiwan as soon as possible in order to develop the livelihood economy domestically.
中国大陆与台湾的关系，还不像朝鲜与韩国的关系，因为，朝鲜与韩国是一个国家的两个政权，现在他们是签订了停战协议的，所以分裂成了现在的两个国家，但是朝鲜并不承认韩国的独立。中国大陆与台湾并没有停战，说白了就是中国还处于内战之中。
However, in 2005, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Chairman of the Kuomintang, Lien Chan, reached a consensus on five common visions for peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait, with the second one being "promoting the end of hostilities and reaching a peace agreement".
有人会，这是大陆与国民党签订的协议，跟民进党没有关系，请用大脑思考一下，民进党是在1986年才成立的，也就是说，台湾一直是由国民党控制，由于资本主义体制的发展，才允许后来民进党的成立，民进党可以算国民党的分支。
为什么那么多的西方人认为大陆在“侵略”台湾呢？
This idea is wrong.因为美国和西方国家想遏制中国的发展，将台湾当成工具，用它来影响中国的发展。其实还有一个问题就是，美国为了赚台湾人的钱，因为，只要用台湾影响大陆，台湾就会买他的武器，反正，大陆如果真的武力解放台湾，死的也是台湾人，对于美国人没有任何影响，还能多赚钱。所以美国和西方的政客，才会一直支持台湾，但是从来没有说过让台湾独立。 Why did much of Europe follow suit? Because they want to follow the United States after all, because they themselves have no political ability and sovereignty, and the United States is in charge, it is ridiculous ~~~ capitalist countries value capital, not people's livelihood.
feels sad because this map is too young
When China was very weak(1840-1994), Macau was taken by Portuguese, Hong Kong was taken by British, Taiwan was taken by Japanese, several North part of China, 1.6M km², including the tiny piece of land which mentioned in the video was taken by Russia, and never returned. 1.6M km square! That is nearly 7 England!
Maozedong once said "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun", and we all believe it.
It should be noted that this video is heavily biased and there is nothing wrong with Taiwan being recognized by the international community as part of Chinese territory. You can disagree with that, but at least give some objective background on what's going on, including many of the territorial issues. The blogger's lack of historical perspective on many border issues has been purely criticizing China rather than trying to explain the status quo to viewers.
The issue of southern Tibet’s historical status is actually very simple. How would the international community view this if local authorities in Catalonia, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Quebec or even California signed an agreement with another country to demonstrate their independence without the central government giving up their sovereignty? Is the so-called contract signed by the British and some Tibetan officials in 1914 meaningful? Do local governments have complete and independent diplomatic powers? All the territory of the Qing Dynasty was handed over to the Republic of China in the form of concession in 1912, and the power of the Republic of China representing China was handed over to the People's Republic of China by the international community in 1971. These are common diplomatic common sense without any objection.In 2003,even the 14th Dalai Lama, anti-communists and the most important Tibetan separatists, also said that "Arunachal Pradesh(The name given to southern Tibet of China under Indian rule) was actually part of Tibet".
Tibet is independent in similar way as mexico is independent....
Love the way you brought out some info in the video and hide other info.
As you said, the Britans drew the line with India, and you gave it credit. However, the nine dash line also had a lot history behind it since 19 century till WW2, and you just covered it with "old hand-drew line".
Again, about Senkaku island, you as a professional geopolitical youtuber, you should know the US interfered history behind it, which is not mentioned at all.
是的，客观的做法是把争议双方的主张都罗列出来，避免表达自己主观的意见。但他并不打算这么做，很多说法都是故意选取了他愿意选取的素材。所以他是专业的地缘政治 TH-camr吗？不是的，他是舆论引导者。
每个国家把争议领土画入出版地图，是常规做法而已。
南海填岛也不只是中国在填，只是中国的填岛能力比较强而已。
还有很多倾向性的言论，我认为是这个TH-camr故意这么表达的，而不是不清楚其中的争议。
Nagaland is Chinese
My degree is from the national wind institute at Texas Tech university. The Courses Required 4 course minimum in geography, Cartography and Atmospheric science. This video tickles my senses, the power of maps can shape our reality in ways we would never recognize. Just looking at a country’s map Is like a person’s name. It reveals a lot about the national identity, it’s goals and Allies.
I mean there was a short war waged just cos the google map was wrong...
@@PrograError not surprised at all, I’m sure this map could be attributed to a potential war. I believe Bhutan doesn’t recognize either Taiwan and China. So about 1.4 billion don’t have a country according to Bhutan 🇧🇹
@@PrograError He will not make it rather he will Delete your comment and Just stay there as if nothing happened..Dude is Legitimate Mouthpiece of CiA's And he doesn't fear that He Is getting exposed and Brought out for his cia and anti China Narrative of this China Bad Content 😂Yet...No one Notices it He Can Try to divert the Anything with his Team of extremely Proper editors and his so called Map..yet Can't rule out that he is a CIA Mouthpiece and Has been Directly working for them to make theze type of china Threat and China bad content for years now
@@TheSmoothToad
This "business" of recognition has become more & more weirder in the case PRC & RoC (Taiwan).
It is all the off-shoot of the Chinese "One China" policy. That China is either PRC or RoC irrespective of the geographical facts on ground.
Use your steps to lead the eyes and don't be fooled! ! ! This so-called reporter is talking nonsense
You should do a deeper dive into the recent conflicts that happened around Doklam. A major military stand-off was avoided by diplomatic channels and India was able to regain the Plateau.
mate he wont. India has never been his topic for some reason . He never includes it in any equation . This is one of those many strategies here in Europe to feel important.
@@Dark81379uiu he made one about Nepal. why don't Indians make videos about Dokhlam instead of whining about content creators working on topics that interest them.
reality is china has encroached as much as 18km inside from loc in many places but our media and government is shut on these. they care about Israel not about Manipur. they care about Pakistan but not about china. China is our actual enemy, Pakistan is like a weak soldier of China who knows he can't fight us.
@@Dark81379uiuHe made a video about India bullying Sri Lanka, does that count?
@@theawesomeman9821 i don't remember when India bullied srilanka 🤔
Instead it helped securing their sovereignty
Thank you for this. An example of Micro-geography that needs to be known. Places that, to us, seem like tiny middle of nowhere places play a huge part in the world politics.
I once read somewhere that Aksai Chin has (or maybe had, because of Climate Change) the only mountain pass road between Tibet and Xinjiang that is passable all year around. I can somehow understand how Beijing would be a tad paranoid about loosing control over a strategic connection between two provinces where its reputation in the general population might have, to put this tactfully, some room for improvement.
@@venanziadorromatagni1641
What is missed, is the terrain in this flat plain is above 15,000 feet (4.5 km) high, unlike any other place on continents elsewhere. It creates huge physiological (& psychological) problems. In all wars, from times immemorial till modern times, it is the troops on land, that hold the land for that country. 1962 war proved it. Air force's role is secondary & as pressure point sea-warfare is tertiary. It is the will of men on ground to hold that ground that is crucial. Galwan incident amply proved it. At these altitudes (& in winter particularly) aircraft may not take off & tanks may not move. The will hold the land was not there in the Indian Army in 1962 (though a heroic bunch of 105 defying orders of superior officers)held the ground at Rezang la. In the heap of bodies taken as dead, 5 soldiers were found alive. This time too PLA made repeated forays to take it but couldn't (his time Tibetans with Indian Army did it). India still possesses tactical advantages.
Helicopters that are taken for granted, to land or pick soldiers & supplies, as made in the West are useless (Chinook & Apache of American make have service ceiling of 6km - there is no need to for them - while terrain demands higher performance). India saw that need & has to design own helicopters. In 1962, C-113 packet couldn't land or take off. Indian aircraft factory put a "jet pack" on top, to compensate for lower performance at these high altitudes. I heard that 18 ton "light" tanks with parachutes tied to each corner were dropped from air, as it is insane to ask for roads here. Many of them got reduced to heaps of metals & were cannibalised for those who were still mobile. It is a multi-dimensional warfare here, that if I start writing it'll become a book. Let someone write (not me).
In these skirmishes (by the dozen) both sides can't use fire-arms as per pacts made as PRC claims that India is a friendly country after 4 decades of bloody incidents (only in 1990s the then Indian Defence minister, George Fernandes declared that PRC is India's No.1 enemy relegating Pakistan to a minor place). So one sees a comic show of troops from both sides doing Sumo-wrestling at altitudes higher than M. Denali - at times with a contrived smile on faces. It is painful that reminds Albert Einstein prophecy of WW III. It seems that one of the goals in their 5 year plans is
(how much)territory acquired that year from the neighbour ! Chinese are inscrutable & have no doubts about it.
The guy was misleading us... The China map was made in 1989, so it means the map has never changed since 1989.
@@I_Like_Kyubey
You're right.
@@I_Like_Kyubey He needs those nickels from the TH-cam viewers.
the real problem is when Israel talk about greater Israel they immediately send 500 Billion USD to Israel to prevent starvation
I just want to ask one question, who has the most overseas military bases and whose aircraft carriers are roaming the doorsteps of various countries？
true😂
@@wzzgmgn你管人家的说话方式干什么？你来回复什么？给你脸了？
Useless comment. The USA is not adding any territory.
だから中国人にはコメントする権利はないんですね?さすが民主主義ですわ@@wzzgmgn
@@wzzgmgn 你的日本话也是
I remember reading that the Kashmir dispute was apparently exacerbated by British map makers who set an arbitrary area in the Himalayas to define the borders of each country
Not America, but British.
@@keshen297 Thanks for the correction
@@keshen297yeah, if there’s a map dispute, the British are usually responsible.
Actually the opposite is true.
@@jacobbaumgardner3406 When the British left the Indian subcontinent, they drew a line on the map know as the McMahon Line, which planted the seeds for a series of subsequence disputes. In fact the Palestinian issue is also the result of British involvement, and of course the United States has played a role in exacerbating it.
As someone who watched the entire Vox Borders playlist after finding your independent channel, I absolutely want to see that video on the China-Myanmar border.
Don’t believe the guy in the video lol. Go search up Myanmar Human Trafficking you will know why. I remember VOA and CNA covered those. Almost Half of this guy’s content in this video are lies
what, about the telecrom fraud lurings?
Ok you don't like this new map,no problem,then let's back to Yuan Dynasty
I’m kinda of sick and tired of governments fighting over “disputed” territories. If we were to carry on with this sort of thing. We all have territory that we can historically “claim”
China illegally occupied those territories. Its called expansionism. China has a fever dream of Imperialism while being an incompetent power.
The world didn’t have borders when it was created. Us humans created the borders, to mark their territory but it was never their territory to begin with! Nothing has changed and we continue to fight over it
This shows just how civilised and advanced we are as a whole
@@Ryan-fq9dj so you want there to be no borders? That'll surely not cause chaos and a lot of death
I, as a descendant of of the first form of life, the cyptobacteria, lay claim to all of earth. My ancestors existed everywhere and dominated literally everything. The whole earth is mine fr.
your values tell you to stop fighting. other people’s values tell them to seize the moment. it’s the tortoise and the hare.
Can’t believe I didn’t hear about this until this video. Thanks for the work you do! Your videos are a big inspiration for my own.
I think you massively simplify the Spratly Islands situation. Taiwan has an identical claim to China, everyone else has disputes, almost everyone is militarizing islands or reefs.
He also wrong about the Permanent Court of Arbitration which did not rule on anything, it just published some papers the Philippines wrote giving the impression that there was a ruling against China.
indeed. someday when I make a video all about the south china sea I'll go into more detail. for now, this is an overview of China's many border disputes. each one could be a full length documentary. Alas, they all must fit into a 16 minute video
Taiwan claims everything that PR China claims (that includes all the territorial disputes with India, Bhutan etc.), it even claims Mongolia and various parts of Russia, Myanmar and Tajikistan. The difference is that the current party in power now views Taiwan as a merely being an island and Taiwan recognises the Mongolian passport. Officially speaking, Taiwan claims all of PRC and surrounding land and waters belonging to other Asian countries and it is known as the Republic of China (ROC) because it claims to be the legitimate "China" while the PRC recognises itself as the legitimate "China".
However, this is only still practiced because if Taiwan (ROC) were to ever officially recede claims to all of those areas it would give the message to the PRC that Taiwan is relinquishing its claims to the title of the "legitimate China" and so it would officially be seen as a sign that Taiwan (the island) is a "breakaway state" within the PRC (because the PRC claims the island of Taiwan and that because Taiwan has its own government). That would give the PRC the right to invade Taiwan in order to maintain territorial integrity and no other country in the world will be able to say anything because Taiwan is a part of China as the ROC would no longer exist.
@@user-jt3dw6vv4x Taiwan has bases in the South China Sea, if they had no choice but to accept these borders why build a base there? China didn't force them to do that, they did it themselves
@@johnnyharris I want to tell you an interesting fact. At the end of World War II, the then government of China was the Republic of China (currently in Taiwan). When the Chinese government went to these islands to re-erect boundary markers in 1946, because the Chinese government did not have the ability to sail far, it was the United States government that sent The warships transported then-Republic of China government staff to re-erect boundary markers on these islands.
I see nothing but lies and prejudices against china in this video. All of these borders of china was set by a series of treaties after the the second world war. At that time, those countries who claimed south china islands and reefs have not gained their independence. Moreover, Taiwan is part of china and it is acknowledged by 181 out of 191coutries in the world.
taiwan is part of china!!!
But Taiwanese don't want to be Chinese, so why forcing them and you as a Chinese eating CCP's propoganda
Actually there are 195 countries in world, you don't even have common knowledge, is this what your government feed you?
Great video, as always Johnny. I do notice one small flaw, though. In the South China Sea sections, you are accurate that China also has disputes with other countries bordering the South China Sea: Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. However, there is one other country that also has disputes with the Nine-dash Line: Indonesia (my home country). The disputes with the other countries are mostly regarding the Spratly Islands, but not with Indonesia. So, Indonesia’s EEZ in the South China Sea overlaps with the Nine-dash Line, which is the source of the tension; I watched a video when Indonesia was planting an oil rig, presumably close to the Nine-dash Line (whereas it is within Indonesia's own waters), and that Chinese vessels were sent to patrol the site.
thank you for the correction and perspective on this!
@@johnnyharris He will not make it rather he will Delete your comment and Just stay there as if nothing happened..Dude is Legitimate Mouthpiece of CiA's And he doesn't fear that He Is getting exposed and Brought out for his cia and anti China Narrative of this China Bad Content 😂Yet...No one Notices it He Can Try to divert the Anything with his Team of extremely Proper editors and his so called Map..yet Can't rule out that he is a CIA Mouthpiece and Has been Directly working for them to make theze type of china Threat and China bad content for years now
@@johnnyharris 5:31 hello Jhonny I really want to clarify that the part china is claiming is not kashmir but aksai chin which is part of ladak. Ladak and kashmir are not same. Before abolition of article 370 ladak kashmir and jammu were collectively called jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir in actuality is much smaller
Also 4chinese soldiers things is wrong their were higher causilty than that but for some reason china never clarified it. Like they didn't release the official until the 30 days.
That all have a great day
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You're right. But there is another angle when Harris said "Kashmir" - he was referring to the princely state of Kashmir, whose king was maharaja HariSingh. In his state, Ladakh, including Aksai Chin were parts. Thus India as inheritor had jurisdiction over these regions. Yet, in 1950s, PRC built a road across Aksai Chin (that the Indian authorities hadn't got even a smell of it), nomenclature-d as G219 in their maps - to connect Tibet with Xinjiang. Aksai Chin is attached to their Xinjiang.
another anti-Chinese propaganda video and fake news story
06:27 China has lost 42 soldiers in Galwan Valley clash not 4 While India had accepted that 20 of its soldiers sacrificed their lives.The Russian news agency TASS said that 45 Chinese soldiers died in a fight in the Galwan Valley.
yes
Funny false narrative.
"sacrificed" ?... more like got killed while ambushing the Chinese.
yes, India wins again lol😂
Yes india won bcz the chinese govt were hiding the numbers when india released theory numbers chinese army is very weak in combat.
中国纸@user-qb6pi8ts3f卖弄女人的军队我们最出名的是掩盖事实😂😂😂
Please Correct in start of video, yes 20 Indian side casualties but Chinese even didn't back thier soldiers who died. From all major sources it is said Chinese side casualties were 40+ 5:42
No one cares
@@magma9000paxtani spotted 😂
@@magma9000 then why are you replying. Lol
All major sources? BJP news, Big india news or what 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
1962
胡说八道！事实上这一版地图没有任何变化！这一版地图根本就没有新增任何领土，唯一的变化就是更改了南海九段线的叫法。这些都是中国的合法领土，没有任何争议！
这些话你和我们说没有用，建议去和中国人民解放军说🤣🤣@marijunerafael9002
没关系的，我很喜欢他们把我们假惺惺站在正义的立场上抨击我们的样子，因为一百年前他们直接动手了，我们只能抗议，现在我们在家门口做事，他们也只能看着抗议
@marijunerafael9002 跟你们这些玩意讲常识？在谁手上就是谁的，不服就打，能叫的不行
@marijunerafael9002 Yes! Jerusalem and Golan Heights DOESN'T belong to the robber ISREL. The territory belongs to Palestine and Syria!
So you guys are using this map from long time ? (Sorry for poor English btw)
I can never get over how absurd China is regarding the claim on South China Sea. I laugh a little everytime I read about the 9/10 dash lines. Oh, and btw, China also lay claim to part of Indonesia maritime border by that dash lines. Don't forget about that.
You should see tiny Vietnam's claim
Yeh it like they claim south east asia sea
The reason why is because ASEAN doesn't do anything about it.
If Filipino boats fought back instead of taking it up the ass, I can guarantee you PLA boats would leave the areas.
People are always talking about how ASEAN and other Asian allies would back the US in a fight, but they need to learn to man up and stand on their own, without Uncle Sam's reassurance.
@@TCWG87 so what your counter argument is whataboutism?
Indonesia should leave West Papua immediately
2043 - Chinna map claims all Asia belongs to them..
nah that's us
That would be south korea
I might sound crazy but China and America don’t seem to far off from each other in the way they use their power
it's only wrong if china does it. us its okay cos ya know....race and stuff
@@stegrin5551 Has nothing to with race. rather has to do with "moral values" . China is like a dictatorship where u cant do barely anything, like for real, even vinnie the poh is eligle there. I bet that people rather see some "freeier" country grabbing shit, than to see some communist dictator ship take over shit and then opress the ppl living there.
Lol countries with US bases WANT the US to be there, as opposed to China building unwanted bases on our territory. Really not comparable to US carrier strike forces as well as they are on international waters
no, America gov is just like a global police, the whole earth.
China is a chill country, they only claim their own territory, different from the USA that cause chaos around the World.
Remember, Taiwan has never been independent. This is just a not-yet-end civil war after WW II. Btw , Taiwan’s government was kicked out from united nations by the United States
Always impressed by the amount of effort that goes into your videos Johnny!
another anti-Chinese propaganda video and fake news story
Borders and Maps. Love hearing about global disputes. Puts our issues into perspective
One of the most disgusting part about this ongoing conflict is, in an attempt to show China's supremacy they almost always downplay the deaths of it's soldiers, so many cases where Chinese soldiers just leave their own comrade's dead bodies and run away. Indian army carries all these bodies and tries to contact China every time to come and get their fallen soldiers, but they refuse claiming they aren't their soldiers but "terrorists", Indian army proceeds to give them a proper burial too.
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@@ManuSaraswat 👁️👄👁️
11:11 - Yes! Please do a video about this specific border. It will be another great video! Thanks for posting awesome encyclopaedic educational videos! One of the best channels on TH-cam!
Bro actually left Hainan out of the thumbnail 💀
6:25 Correction. China, as it always does, did not tell the actual numbers. According to American reports (I repeat US, not India) the numbers could be around 40.
Source?😊
@@wrytwAtta chahiye bhaijaan?
Yeah, China definitely lied on numbers. But this video is about the threat China can cause, he’s a propagandist so he won’t mention that part
and russians also claim 45 chinese dead thats what TASS agency said
I am from India 🇮🇳,
From our perspective you don't want neighbours like China and Pakistan both of them always make us Indians angry time to time, and so for our defence we have to spend a lot in millitary instead of focusing on poverty and manufacturing which is getting worse day by day in my country. You all westerners N. America and Europe should be happy that you all got good Neighbors who do not send terrorists like Pak or make border problems like China.
Heard about these two little countries called Canada and Mexico
@@AugustRx Canada is our ally, and the government of Mexico is not hostile to us. In India, both Pakistan and China are both hostile towards India. Your comparison is incorrect.
Europe has a major imperialist power extremely near them, Russia.
Hindu nationalist bot
Yeah russia doesn't exist
From your description of the Burmese-Chinese border, I almost know what you are
I mean they could have published a map including historical territory like Korea, Mongolia, central Asia and Vietnam lol
I wish they actually taught interesting geopolitics like this in school
Not only 4 Chinese soilders died in galwan the number was above 40
NO,4000000000000000000
Make it 4 billion if you like
Above 40 us the right number
yes，印度太强了，哈哈
russian agency TASS claimed 45 chinese dead.
Stellar video, would totally be keen on the Myanmar/China border story.
No border dispute .
It's an immigration issue of Myanmarese illegally entering Chinese territory .
Hainan province,my hometown,where everybody speaks Chinese and uses CNY,was wiped from your
fake fricking map
where? When? I saw it
@@fierceheresy Take a look at this video's thumbnail.
@@rishisaini5269 that's stupid to get pissed over
@@fierceheresy Well,I think it's also stupid to exclude one province of a nation from a map about which he is about to talk. When he has included Taiwan in that map which is not currently under China's control.
I think all these countries should bring their own maps with Taiwan as an independent country and Tibet as an independent country too let's see them fume with anger
Taiwan doesn't consider themselves an independent country, so that wouldn't make any sense.
Before you support him so much on the narration, he probably will make the next video about India and Kashmir.
@@Kimmimaro86kashmir region which control by indian pakistan and China
Imagine if the United States just randomly decided to draw maps with Baja California and New Brunswick as part of its territory
Eh, bad comparison. Apart from the fact that the US only has two neighbours, it also spent decades of its history incorporating territory that weren't actually its own by force. It's a superpower thing because in reality, What the heck are you gonna do. Even if the US decided to claim parts of Mexico rn, no one would be able to do anything except send strongly worded letters. It's how the world works. International law is for weaklings
Mexican-US war:
Like when they stole land from México?
Perfect video for my dinner. What I always look forward to from Johnny Harris' content is about borders and maps. Thank you! I hope there is new content like this once a month
UN SecretaryGeneral Ban referenced the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, and refused the motion. On 19 July 2007, Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian wrote to request admission into the UN by the name Taiwan. Ban rejected the request, stating that Resolution 2758 defined Taiwan as part of China.
Well Israel has shown international law is optional so why wouldn’t China do what they want
I’m really impressed at your ability to produce such high quality content, while also completing at such a high level in the NLCS! Best of luck next season.
It’s just a compilation of different materials, nothing new.
I may not be a specialist in this realm, but there is a glaring fact we should all keep in mind: The USA is just one of the many countries acknowledging Taiwan as an integral part of China. To put it in perspective, a mere 13 nations in this vast world recognize Taiwan as a sovereign entity: Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tuvalu.
As a non-U.S. citizen, when Johnny Harris discusses China's actions in annexing territories or constructing walls to fortify its borders, it is so interesting how that sounds familiar to me, echoing the historical actions of another major imperialistic power over the past century....
It's almost comical how history has a penchant for repeating itself, doesn't it?
America is a lot more equivocating than you suggest. They don't say that Taiwan is part of China; they say they acknowledge that China says Taiwan is part of China.
In other words, they acknowledge that the government is making a claim, but they aren't taking an official position on the substance of the claim.
That America applies very different policies in dealing with Taiwan and China, makes clear what the unofficial position is.
不，世界上没有一个国家承认台湾是一个独立的国家，他们跟台湾建交是承认台湾政府是中国的唯一合法政府
This essay is an example of Chinese mindset. That only an official statement by the government is correct and has to be obeyed by everyone. And there is no way to overwrite or challenge that statement. But this is not how modern countries work, even in Japan and Singapore. Government as an entity have its own position on certain matters which doesn’t make it right and they have limited authority over such matters. The power of the government is limited and people have the power to change it if necessary.
@@sean9321哈哈哈，你是台湾人吧
不接受政府声明难道接受你的臆想吗，台湾精神病院难道不走医保，对你来说负担太重了？
Correction - More than 40 chinese soldiers were killed and 100+ soldiers were severely injured but chinese army and media refused to accept this .
yes，india太强了，哈哈
Is there any credible evidence other than the so-called "informed sources"? China released a video of the release of prisoners .th-cam.com/video/dZDhiUMIQo4/w-d-xo.html
Can we first give a round of applause to the intro for this video! The hook combined with the rising tensions of the music is absolutely superb! Now to watch the rest of what I assume is already going to be a great video!
This is so interesting.
China landgrabbing illigally = bad
Israel land grabbing illegally = good
Seems there is some double standard going on 😅
在西方人眼里面，只要是他觉得对的，那就应该是对的，哈哈，中国在这100年中已经让步了太多了，我周围很多小国以为中国还是大清了。
Taiwan is independence? Please read the full constitution of Taiwan, which clearly say Taiwan is part of China and Taiwan is the legitimate China that represent the entire China that included Taiwan and the main land China. If you don’t know that now you know. If you know that already and still call Taiwan is an independence country than I question your motivation.
Taiwan is the republic of china, and it’s different from the People’s republic of china. They are different like the division of north Korea and South Korea. They both would claim that they’re "Korea", but you can’t say the south is part of the north korea
China is the people's republic, Taiwan is just the republic, they're different countries
@@timchen1723 so what？The UN does not recognize Taiwan's independence
@@Pancakes_os 聯合國：台灣是中國一個省
中國：台灣是中國一個省
美國白宮：不支持台獨
俄羅斯：台灣是中國一個省
烏克蘭：支持一個中國原則
歐盟：不會承認台灣的國家地位
澳洲總理：台灣只是一個經濟體
塞爾維亞：台灣是中國一個省
宏都拉斯：支持一個中國原則
泰國：台灣是中國的一部分
巴西：台灣問題是中國內政
菲律賓：台海軍演是中國內政
奧運會：Chinese Taipei
WTO：中國台澎金馬關稅區
ICAO：中國台灣省
I'm looking for the same comments, I thought the same thing. I think many people have vague concept that Taiwan is an independent country as they don't understand what does "independent county" really mean legally. I think at least we should say this part is controversial. Nobody can assert that Taiwan is independent as there's no such historical moment yet!
It is critical for western MSM and including Johnny Harris to highlight these facts and not shroud the truth to mislead your readers!
There is no such thing as law only force.
The nine dash = China law
"International law"= US law
The strongest law shall be respected
This was great, I’d love to know more about the different border disputes, good work.
6:26 Correction:- 4 soldiers died on Chinese side is claimed by China but according to various international sources Chinese casualties are more than 80.
Indian love western media
@@baikeiast5255Even Russian media claimed it was more than 40 Dead
印度新闻 笑死
the Indian government has published the names of 108 Chinese soldiers who were killed, but the names of those 108 soldiers are exactly the same as those of the characters in a famous Chinese book (Water Margin).
Why do you think that the Indian military can have a better combat damage ratio when their physical fitness, training methods, and equipment are not as good as those of the Chinese military
我们国家的政府或许隐瞒了我们国家人民不少事情。但是有一点是可以肯定的，台湾早在千年之前就是中国的一部分，正如不列颠早在千年之前就是英国的一样。所以不仅是我们国家政府希望它被收回，我们国家的普通人民也都希望他被收回。对于先人留下来的领土，我们决不轻易言弃，更不会放任它被外国支配，或是独立。
true
Thank you for your video, which made me realize that my country also has an aspect that is not so mild and moderate.
This comment is a bit long.
I have lived on the border and have heard some things about border demarcation, but I am not a professional, and I cannot investigate these matters as deeply as you do. I can only understand the formation of a country's map based on my personal knowledge. The boundaries of every country have been pieced together over the course of a long history, rather than being divided or granted by some ancient god or prophet. Our history textbooks tell us that in our country's history spanning thousands of years, territorial expansion has mainly resulted from tribal wars, conquests, and dynastic wars. Wherever the army advanced, they left garrisons, and the imperial court sent officials to manage those areas. In the changing of dynasties, territories were inherited or annexed from defeated opponents.
You must be familiar with China's Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), a part of the Mongol Empire, as well as the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912). The rulers of these dynasties were not the "strong ethnic Han" you often think of as being in China. They ruled over a territory much much larger than present-day China. You must have also studied the history of Tibet or the Tibetan (Tubo) Empire. Interestingly, the Tibetan Empire once ruled over what is now Tibet, part of Xinjiang, Mongolia, Yunnan, Qinghai, and Sichuan. They also ruled over Nepal, Bhutan, and northern India. The Tibetan Empire was defeated by the Mongols during their rule over China and became a part of China's territory. Before the Yuan Dynasty, for example, during the Tang Dynasty, China had diplomatic relations with Tibetan Empire. But during the Yuan Dynasty, the Tibetan Empire disintegrated, and Tibet became part of China. The Chinese imperial court established government offices in Tibet for regional administration, while also maintaining control or autonomy over the Tibetan region by conferring and recognizing the status of religious leaders. China's central dynasties have also ruled and governed various regions at different times, including northern Vietnam, Goryeo (Korea), and even as far as the Luzon Islands.
Compared to other countries in the world, China's history of central dynasties is a fascinating and powerful presence. I am also curious about this. Over the millennia-long history starting from the recorded Shang Dynasty, China's rulers changed continuously, but substantial division, such as the famous Three Kingdoms period or the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, always ended with unifying under a grand empire. Every ruler, including various northern and western ethnic groups of the time, sought to control the Central Plains fervently. The ultimate victors would claim to inherit the "orthodoxy" or "Entrusted by the heavens, and everlasting prosperity" and always maintain the entirety of the territory.
Territorial disputes must have been caused by certain historical circumstances. However, regardless of how complex history may be, and regardless of how the land was divided, the integration of the people within those designated territories of two nations, no country will disregard or abandon its own territory. While I'm not well-versed in facts, I believe the British Empire wouldn't agree to the independence of Northern Ireland or its union with Ireland, nor would they give up Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, or Saint Helena. Similarly, the United States wouldn't allow Guam and Alaska to become independent just because of their geographical distance, and they wouldn't entertain questions about the sovereignty of these territories from other countries.
Border demarcation is undoubtedly an immensely complex matter, but it is a result of historical military conquests and actual governance, not based on religion, cultural traditions, or the will of the local population. It certainly doesn't change due to the influence of third parties.
The history of Tibet is indeed complex and has evolved over the centuries. After Tibet came under the influence of the Yuan Dynasty, it became part of China's territory. The Chinese imperial court established administrative offices in Tibet and also recognized the status of religious leaders to maintain control over the region. However, the issue of Tibet's status and sovereignty became more contentious in the late Qing Dynasty and during British colonial rule in India.
The situation in Tibet became further complicated in the early 20th century with political changes in China and the 13th Dalai Lama's attempts to assert Tibetan autonomy. The Dalai Lama's flight to India in 1959 marked a significant turning point, as he sought asylum in India, and the issue of Tibetan independence became more prominent on the international stage.
Regarding your curiosity about why only China is often viewed as the "bad guy" in this context, it's important to note that the Tibet issue is a highly sensitive and complex geopolitical matter with multiple perspectives. Different parties, including the Chinese government, Tibetan activists, and other countries, hold various viewpoints on this issue. Each has its own reasons and arguments, which is why there isn't a single universally accepted narrative.
As for Sikkim, it was a small kingdom that became an Indian protectorate in 1950 and later merged with India as a state in 1975, following a referendum. So why doesn't India let them regain their independence? We all know ,The circumstances surrounding Sikkim's integration with India were different from Tibet in China. The Sikkim issue doesn't have the same international attention or disputes as the Tibet issue.
You also made a video about "whether China will invade Taiwan. " and I can anwser it for you, I can tell you, most educated people in mainland China believe that there will not be a war in the Taiwan Strait. Official documents also state the intention to seek a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan issue while not renouncing the use of force. We know that Taiwan has been in a state of de facto autonomy and possesses elements of independence such as its own currency, passports, and political system. However, I'm not sure if you're aware that Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China (ROC), has a constitution that includes the mainland Chinese territory, and its official maps, similar to those published by PRC, also encompass what you referred to as the "nine-dash line" in the South China Sea. The nine-dash line was indeed drawn in 1947, and it's a matter that has received international attention and disputes. Taiwan, also maintains a military presence in the South China Sea, and its government has not renounced claims to territories such as the Diaoyu Islands (also known as the Senkaku Islands). Isn't it interesting? There's an interesting knowledge. The Chinese Civil War that began in 1948 did not result in a formal ceasefire agreement, and technically, the two sides, the PRC and the ROC, have not officially ended the conflict. The Taiwan Issue is an internal matter by CHINA.
I have been watching your videos for quite a long time and learnt different perspectives on various political, religious, and cultural issues. While your stance is "neutral," I believe it's more of a selective neutrality. You can't treat assumptions like" Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang is an independent country" as facts to support your viewpoint.
Education is indeed a good thing, When you come to China, you'll find that many young people are not as ignorant and easily manipulated as you might think. We won't blindly believe CCP is flawless, nor will we view them as dictatorial or evil. We have a clear understanding of everything that has happened with CCP from its inception to the present, including its Internal conflicts, Cultural Revolution, War with Vietman, Falungong, and more. These are not secrets, and there is nothing concealed. I used to worry about so-called insider secrets and conspiracies, and I used to feel angry about injustices. But as I've seen more and more information from different perspectives, I have come to respect the government even more. Even though we have various regulations, it doesn't mean there is no freedom of speech. We can choose to believe or not to believe.
China is a unique country, and the Chinese people are unique citizens. When you read Chinese history and culture, you'll find that for thousands of years, the majority of Chinese people have not been very enthusiastic about politics. There is a group of people responsible for the operation of the government and the country, and some of them represent the interests of the people. So, attempting to guide the people through conspiracies and political movements to oppose the government and attain what is called freedom is nearly futile unless the government becomes so corrupt that the people can't survive.
I wish those trolls can read the real English like this.
英国人画了一条线：噢这都是我们的领土，这就是他们的逻辑，而且很显然在油管偏见永远不会消除
You don’t mention the most crucial point? All the maps, territories, and territorial claims of mainland China, including the 11-dash line and other map rules, are legally inherited from the Autumn Leaf Begonia map of the Republic of China government. Moreover, compared to the territorial claims of the Autumn Leaf Begonia map (Outer Mongolia, Outer Northeast, Outer Northwest), the disputed territorial claims of mainland China are less than 1% of the Autumn Leaf Begonia map’s territorial claims. According to the principles of international law, the People’s Republic of China government is the legal successor of the Republic of China, and has the right to claim all the inheritance of the Republic of China, including territory, population, state machinery, and state assets. The biggest problem now is that the Republic of China in Taiwan has not been completely wiped out. When they completely give up their sovereignty claims over the Republic of China, the CCP, as the legal successor of the Republic of China, will also be normal to carry out the final recovery of the Republic of China’s territory and population.
你不说最关键的？中国大陆所有的地图、领土、领土诉求包括11断线之类的地图及地图规则，都是合法继承自中华民国政府的秋叶海棠地图，而且比起秋叶海棠地图的领土主张（外蒙古、外东北、外西北），中国大陆现在的争议领土诉求不足秋叶海棠地图领土诉求的1%，按照国际法原则，中华人民共和国政府是中华民国的合法继承者，有资格主张继承中华民国的一切遗产，包括领土、人口，国家机器，国家资产。现在最大的问题反而是，中华民国在台湾并未彻底覆灭，当他们彻底放弃对中华民国的主权主张后，中共作为中华民国合法继承者，进行最后的中华民国领土及人口回收也是正常的。
Well organized and I am so educated by your comments! Thanks for your time and efforts and everything!
As we all know, most people are only willing to believe what they think they are. Preconceive and then extrapolate the process from the results
If there are conflicts. You need to think and confirm from two sides not just guessing and bullshits this long
so true bro his type is american assuming
I lmao when Harris pops up at the very beginning of the video.
as an Indian this is true. We do have Tibetans living in India as a refuge from aggressive China but they are the most peaceful people on Earth. Dalai Lama is another example who is living in Dharamshala.
It is fair to describe China's claims as disputed, controversial, unreasonable, or outrageous, but those claimed borders are not shifting and not new. China has been claiming those territories consistently for decades.
The 10th dash is new.
@@galvinbutler The 10th dash is next to Taiwan, and Taiwan does not complain about this dash at all.
Yes, the country of Taiwan does complain about the dash because they are not part of China. The dash incorrectly asserts that they are.
@@galvinbutler I am a Taiwanese. I searched and found that you are technically correct. However, this new dash barely made any news in Taiwan and the Taiwanese government only repeated some typical statement after a Japanese newspaper inquire without referring specifically to this dash line. The 10th dash is new on the map, but the claimed area is not new.
Taiwan is a province of China, you got mess you got loss