Tiananmen Square The Beating Heart of China

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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  • @sjeason
    @sjeason 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +180

    Ah yes, the place where nothing ever happened in 1989.

    • @zeldaskyy95
      @zeldaskyy95 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Never a single thing.
      Not a one worth mentioning anyway.
      RIP.
      Karl, I missed your face here!
      I know sensitive subject matter can be hard to cover. But don't disappear on me. 😅

    • @AB0BA_69
      @AB0BA_69 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      This video already preemptively banned in China

    • @ballinlikestalin878
      @ballinlikestalin878 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@Tonysopranoyafinookbattle of Blair mountain right? That'd make for an interesting vid, perhaps on the Warographics channel

    • @Shadefinder1
      @Shadefinder1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@AB0BA_69 TH-cam has been banned in china for years. So every video is preemptively blocked.

    • @svenvaltik5657
      @svenvaltik5657 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Shadefinder1VPNs, broooooo.

  • @kimjohnson8471
    @kimjohnson8471 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I remembered this so well. While Tank Man stood strong, my baby celebrated his 1st birthday. Almost 35 years ago.

    • @Aura-Of-Syrinx
      @Aura-Of-Syrinx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The thing that makes his protest against the tanks stronger, he was going home and wasn't a part of the protest and was pissed at the tanks going down the street and starting yelling at them.
      That plastic bag was his groceries iirc?

  • @RHCole
    @RHCole 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    🎶Why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen Square
    Was fashion the reason why they were there?🎶

    • @BigChucka419
      @BigChucka419 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Read this while sitting in my car waiting on my girl

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    2:25 - Chapter 1 - Guarding that which is forbidden
    4:50 - Chapter 2 - A cultural & architectural revolution
    7:15 - Mid roll ads
    9:25 - Chapter 3 - A place of protest & conflict
    12:05 - Chapter 4 - A rehabilitated demonstration
    14:45 - Chapter 5 - The cataclysm
    16:40 - Chapter 6 - Massacre
    19:25 - Chapter 7 - Aftermath
    25:00 - Conclusion
    PS: Weird, giving the serious stuff that happened here...i though Eric might have talk about the protests

  • @FlyPiper14
    @FlyPiper14 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Fun fact: There is no such thing as “heroic” government censorship.

    • @_createusernamelater_6041
      @_createusernamelater_6041 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was clearly being sarcastic your pleb

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Are you deliberately taking the words out of context? That is clearly now what he said.

  • @bnthern
    @bnthern 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    in 1989 my wife and I had arranged for a trip to China which included the great wall and "THE GREAT SQUARE" - we were denied access to China from Hong Kong as she was in a wheelchair and this would affect the "morale" of those in China seeing her!

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wow. That’s messed up.

  • @montananerd8244
    @montananerd8244 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I was there in 1991 & there were still dark reddish stains on the Square. It was heartbreaking and scary, even as a US citizen. We would go to college parties while there, officially Chinese students were forbidden from socializing with foreigners, but many snuck in, us foreigners loved when they showed up. But the boys' biggest pick up line was that they claimed to have been at Tiennamen Square. Except in Beijing, they had to keep quiet about it there. I was surprised they were so bold, but lol at first I believed them. By the 4th one from hundreds & hundreds of miles away from Beijing, we figured out it was a line. So strange, tbh...

  • @evelyntodd9946
    @evelyntodd9946 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Don't give up hope Karl. I never thought that the wall between the two Germany's would ever fall but it did.

  • @teamtriss
    @teamtriss 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I actually visited it on 4th June 2014. I didn't even think of the significance of the date until I got there and ran into the security lines. You had to have your passport/ID scanned to get into the square, and there were literally bus loads of soldiers patrolling around.
    I'd never been so paranoid of trying to photograph anything all my life, lol.

  • @Bubbaist
    @Bubbaist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You should do an episode or segment on Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran. Built in the early 17th century, it’s the second largest city square in the world, and an architectural marvel.

  • @TheHornet44
    @TheHornet44 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Haven’t watched a Geographics vid in a while, a welcome surprise to see Karl! (Also the vid is a little quiet)

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Im playing under half volume. Maybe you have some funny settings or something? I checked once I read your comment, to see. I occasionally have that issue with videos as well.

  • @viktorlenart1125
    @viktorlenart1125 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Tiananmen Square The Place Where Heart of China Was Beaten

  • @bethmarriott9292
    @bethmarriott9292 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for sharing your holiday photos Karl!

  • @JesseJoyce-cj2xg
    @JesseJoyce-cj2xg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Beans on toast, followed by vodka” -almost as good an idea as Snoot, the business anteater. We Americans aren’t so different from you Brits; replace the beans on toast with some ramen noodles or expired baked beans, and you have described my day.

  • @TM-yn4iu
    @TM-yn4iu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brilliant, late post from Austin TX. Your visiting, while not at the moment provides a tangible link...though not written by you. Excellent narrative presenting facts written by another. I've been watching for years, you're doing fantastic. I should add a qualifier, this is an evolving process...on your way - great!! Many forget the initial days of "Simon" or any artist, here or syndicated tv. Out, cheers.

    • @jbielic4067
      @jbielic4067 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, I've grown to really love his presentation style.

  • @llamasugar5478
    @llamasugar5478 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It seems a lot of people just can’t get past the change in hosts, which is a shame. The interim host may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but the writers are still putting out great content.

  • @rorytribbet6424
    @rorytribbet6424 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That title is outrageous and amazing

  • @ampeater777
    @ampeater777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The sacrificial son

  • @patrickmullen237
    @patrickmullen237 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Karl I love this video you are AWESOME!

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Love your content karl! And congrats on the amazing ad

  • @EmilyJelassi
    @EmilyJelassi 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very interesting video!! Of course, we learned about this in school, but they left out most, if not all, of the background information...

  • @cmorris9494
    @cmorris9494 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I thought denial was a river in Egypt nah it's in china.

  • @ibtsdad
    @ibtsdad 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    KARL YOU ARE BY FAR (IN MY HUMBLE OPINION) A KICK ASS HOST AND I HOPE YOU BECOME THE FULL TIME HOST ON ALL THE CHANNELS YOU READ FOR EOCK ON

  • @michaelgothenburg364
    @michaelgothenburg364 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The place where the beating happened. So many dead. And many Chinese don't even know

  • @bluegold1026
    @bluegold1026 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I want to write a comment about this vid, but TH-cam will automatically delete it as soon as its posted.

    • @noName-kn1lx
      @noName-kn1lx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep truth is in short supply with the 22 year old woke censors

  • @evandempster6460
    @evandempster6460 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do a video on Greenland, geological history, exploration, settlement, etc

  • @kirigherkins
    @kirigherkins 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Square"space...?

  • @DivineLight661
    @DivineLight661 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    why did you specify in the title this has a ad, was it required by contract or something?

    • @geographicstravel
      @geographicstravel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      To get you to make this comment. Nah, I was just multi-tasking and it slipped by.

    • @DivineLight661
      @DivineLight661 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@geographicstravel :p I see, have a nice day.

  • @iveBENgaming
    @iveBENgaming 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I know he’s no longer on this channel but I miss fact boy

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He has a lot of other channels. You could check out ‘Places’, but I find it difficult to each because it uses a lot of AI art.

  • @SpectacularDisaster
    @SpectacularDisaster 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Welcome back Karl!!!!!!

  • @kddicks5115
    @kddicks5115 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just to make you feel better, Karl…my name is Dicks. Yes, that’s how it is spelled…as in more than one! At least your a single “Smallwood”. I’m multiple Dicks…🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh, and I’m FEMALE!! Makes for some good humor, at least. I did name my youngest Seymore…😶😶😶

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ou that poor kid. You're diabolical 😂😂😂
      Not in a negative way, that is some good humor 😂

    • @ethyl-bromide
      @ethyl-bromide 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Have you seen dicks?"

    • @llamasugar5478
      @llamasugar5478 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you have a daughter, Ophelia?

  • @jessesmith-garcia5313
    @jessesmith-garcia5313 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Leave it to America to go on the cheap for something historically importantly!

  • @natelincoln
    @natelincoln 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do Bishops castle in Colorado and the creators odd ball ways. He made a beautiful castle but had some out there opinions.

  • @PeachM0de
    @PeachM0de 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good luck to everyone competing in the 2024 CrossFit Open. 24.3 is gonna be fun!

  • @Corsuwey
    @Corsuwey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As long as the CCP controls China, I will not visit there... Despite the fact that there are many lovely people living there and that I live only about 900 miles from Shanghai.

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, I feel the same way. I really want to visit and wish I’d taken the chance fifteen years ago. Now I wouldn’t feel safe going. It would almost certainly be okay, but I wouldn’t want to take the risk. Same with Russia.

  • @raylivengood8040
    @raylivengood8040 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’d like to go there too , so I should probably not approve of this content 😉

  • @007kingifrit
    @007kingifrit 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    surprised china hasn't shut this video down lol

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What do you call a Chinese spy? A Peking Tom

  • @xsiunnu
    @xsiunnu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very good video packed with information about a historic location! Bravo.
    How can we get it seen by EVERY PERSON in China?

  • @KingThrillgore
    @KingThrillgore 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wheres Simon at?

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He left about 8 or 9 months ago. Last 25+ videos have not featured him.
      He wasn't on the video you commented on 2 weeks ago either.

    • @bunyipdragon9499
      @bunyipdragon9499 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What makes it more of a futile effort is that Simon has said he's done and not coming back so you really are wasting your time.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Karl! Why did the ad was on the title?

    • @geographicstravel
      @geographicstravel  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      So you'd make this comment. :) Just kidding, I was multi-tasking and missed it before hitting publish.

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder what happened Tank man.

  • @TheMagicLemur
    @TheMagicLemur 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Feel sorry for Karl not being able to go back to China. 😔
    Yet lots of "Where's Simon?" in the comments. Well Simon's got a trip booked to Beijing... 😅

  • @xoxPrincessMorganxox
    @xoxPrincessMorganxox 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Please where is simon

    • @clintonpangburn3698
      @clintonpangburn3698 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Right. This guy is nice and wholesome but SW is the peak casual narration/commentary personality and knows when to go on an entertaining tangent for the sake of making a long dull subject relatable enough to actually listen

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Simon left about 8 - 9 months ago

    • @bunyipdragon9499
      @bunyipdragon9499 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Simon left months ago by his choice and is not coming back.

  • @muhajir8469
    @muhajir8469 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You guys should do one on jerusalem

  • @yur_boi_shawn..
    @yur_boi_shawn.. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I miss Simon 😢

  • @michaelt6413
    @michaelt6413 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl

  • @leonhagenbaumer6809
    @leonhagenbaumer6809 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

  • @m33p0
    @m33p0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    alternative title:
    tiananmen square - beating the heart of china

  • @anthonybarrett8411
    @anthonybarrett8411 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the beating heart? is that a reference to the civilians that got beat to death by tanks in 1989?

  • @freedomis4all
    @freedomis4all 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Emphasis on "beating".

  • @jaimeogas
    @jaimeogas 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What do you say when you accuse your partner of adultery? "Hu Yaobang!"

  • @ashproof
    @ashproof 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The rind of mayo dedon"
    "Bre t K ea ne-

  • @MadJustin7
    @MadJustin7 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    👀👀👀

  • @bobcat9501
    @bobcat9501 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where’s Simon?

    • @BackYardScience2000
      @BackYardScience2000 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He left months ago. Have you not noticed at all? He's not been a host on this channel for a long time now.

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      In Prague, same place he's been for a while.
      He hasn't presented a video on this channel in months. It's addressed in literally EVERY comment section lol

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mao-celebrated by Democrats everywhere

  • @DavidInMonroe318
    @DavidInMonroe318 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bruh pleeease drop the small wood joke. I like your videos otherwise but it’s been beaten to death

  • @arkive11
    @arkive11 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🙅🙋🙅🚚💨👮👮

  • @Googledeservestodie
    @Googledeservestodie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's a PBS documentary interviewing protesters from 89 who escaped and showed home video from within the Square. Before things turned deadly it was a surprisingly jovial mood within the protest. People were cooking outside together and singing songs, it looked almost like any other Chinese market (minus the slogan signs). Makes it worse when things exploded. The police and military were told a rumor that the protestors had smuggled in guns, a rumor that was pretty unlikely considering how strict gun ownership at all in China is but it's unfortunately an excuse you hear a lot when cops start firing on unarmed civilians just having a barbecue and holding a sign.

  • @dustaone8521
    @dustaone8521 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I appreciate you trying to bring some humour in with your sponsors, but do you not think it's completely tone deaf considering the implications of the subject matter?
    Edit: It seems no one had provided segments to block your sponsorship nonsense, I was happy to oblige. Now anyone with sponsorblock won't have to suffer your self indulgent adverts, cheers mate!

    • @dustaone8521
      @dustaone8521 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh yea, -unsubbed

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@dustaone8521no one cares

    • @dustaone8521
      @dustaone8521 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@archstanton6102 The algorithm does.

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @dustaone8521 The algorithm also loves comments, so by posting more, you help the channel. So well done.

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well I greatly enjoyed them, so 🤷‍♀️
      Also you know that every comment you make feeds the algorithm, right?

  • @maryrowe3981
    @maryrowe3981 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello, Karl. Eric is not my favorite.

  • @Jackferrett6781
    @Jackferrett6781 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Karl I love your videos but Biographics and Geographics belong to Simon

    • @_Hodgepodge
      @_Hodgepodge 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I love Simon as much as the next person, but Simon left these channels, so no, they don't. Not anymore. I think Karl is doing a great job.

    • @RHCole
      @RHCole 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@_Hodgepodge They actually never belonged to Simon, tho? That's why he isn't hosting.

    • @Jackferrett6781
      @Jackferrett6781 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@_Hodgepodge Simon made Biographics and Geographics into what they are today. Many videos from those channels have become classics. Because he knew how to tell the story. Karl’s great but Simon was to Biographics and Geographics what Jack Kirby was to comic book history

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They never belonged to him.
      If you wanna choke on it so hard, head over to "Places"
      I love Simon but Jesus fk folks, give it up, he's gone, he has his own "replacement". Go watch that and stfu 😂

    • @RHCole
      @RHCole 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​@@goosenotmaverick1156He even has a biographics replacement, and he made an astrographics channel to boot.

  • @rossh2386
    @rossh2386 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Strong dislike for anything without Simon

  • @leonhagenbaumer6809
    @leonhagenbaumer6809 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1

  • @tristanhallmark2724
    @tristanhallmark2724 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And why the fuck did yall use the word 'heroic' to describe china's censorship? The fuck?

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Timestamp? I either haven't gotten there or missed it?

    • @tristanhallmark2724
      @tristanhallmark2724 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@goosenotmaverick1156 2:02

    • @nmgg6928
      @nmgg6928 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Poor choice of words trying to explain the insane lengths the ccp has gone to to censure tienamen square massacre

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@tristanhallmark2724 "almost heroic" as in a heroic amount of effort. It wasn't meant to glorify but rather meant to convey the vast amounts of effort undergone to censor it out of existence. It wasn't a positive connotation that's for sure.

    • @arkive11
      @arkive11 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gotta get those good boys points.
      But if they don't like it, that's why he named the writer first lol

  • @UncleBadT
    @UncleBadT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hopefully the owners of this channel, and the other 2, realize that the host is why the views have dropped off on all the videos. Just checked socialblade to see if I was right about my predictions on the new host, and I was right. sad to see a channel i once liked, die out like this.

  • @KaiserDragun
    @KaiserDragun 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who are you

    • @Mr.Mathias-Berg
      @Mr.Mathias-Berg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm Batman.🦇

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you watch the opening of the video he gives his name there

    • @KaiserDragun
      @KaiserDragun 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@archstanton6102 Where's simon

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KaiserDragun He left the channel about 8-9 montjs ago

  • @jessesmith-garcia5313
    @jessesmith-garcia5313 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your bloody lame Smallwood, even with the Anteater, good lord!

  • @HoundMonkey
    @HoundMonkey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ugh this guy again... pass

  • @scottyo64
    @scottyo64 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Down vote

  • @Lykapodium
    @Lykapodium 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No more Simon, no longer subscribed. Bye

    • @bradlevantis913
      @bradlevantis913 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Didn’t you leave a similar comment on the last video?? 👋👋👋

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He hasn't been here for 8-9 months. So guess you are just trolling now?

  • @uenvymerry
    @uenvymerry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where has Simon gone from these videos??

    • @resileaf9501
      @resileaf9501 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He left the channel of his own will months ago.

  • @bobbarker8732
    @bobbarker8732 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hello