The Taiwanese work hard, are honest, and great to deal with; you could Trust a Taiwanese Person in business, they are great people and intelligent. If you deal with the Taiwanese, they become your friend/family I love Taiwanese and Taiwan…..Love from Christchurch, New Zealand!
... and from Auckland, New Zealand - small world! I love learning about history & geopolitics so this was fascinating, even though I watched the video some months after you posted it. Unfortunately, I have no friends in Taiwan, but I have developed a love for Taiwan, and, if I have a choice, I always try to buy from Taiwan rather than *cough* some other major country in the region. I have sometimes contemplated visiting Taiwan to help their companies appeal better to the English-speaking market. Having imported excellent products from the ROC, always high-quality - but often the English translation is poor. I think there is room for improvement!
I have done business with Taiwanese, I should say almost all(99.9%) are very trustworthy business people, but year 2001 one of the factory I was working with stole my invitation idea that he supposed to make sample for me, I knew that factory owner for a decade by then, He made my invention item but he sold to my competitive, since I had trusted on him then I didn't sign NDA, that was my mistake. Otherwise, I never had any problem with any other Taiwanese factory been deal with since last 32years, their promises are good as gold. Yes, each apple tree has bad one.❤❤❤
Business is business. There are bad people in every country. Every time you do business, you have to sign a contract, it doesn't matter which country. But as a Taiwanese, I'm sorry to hear your story.
I’ve lived in Taiwan for 3 years and I was surprised how much food there was at low prices. Even more, they grow so much food, even in the city you’ll see small farms right next to the road, irrigated and everything
Taiwanese are just incredible intelligent. Imagine a person has the Craftsman spirit of the Japanese, the science and pragmatism of the Americans, and the diligence of the Chinese, and that is a Taiwanese.
@@lordssundee7047 1.) Besides that pseudojapanese mask donned by the newer generations of Taiwanese everything almost facet of their culture is derived from the mainland. Past all the ostentatious displays of separatism and westernized thought, Han Chinese practicing Han Chinese customs. Ugly truth, genetic stock is (mostly) everything. Just look at singapore and the similar success of Fujian people across south east Asia.
Yeah, this was a great historical overview, but comparing this picture with some of the modern challenges that the younger generation face makes me eager to dig into the details of the limitations and modern challenges the model is facing, as well as the potential impact of deglobalization. The flexibility of the model as described in the video gives me a lot of hope, but it’s not impossible to imagine that the model may have limitations.
@@kimiyounasarukunHopefully with the rise of ai and automation, governments will eventually move past the need for an economy ... its a pipe dream though ik
This video should've also sent a direct message to developed countries how to utilize poorer neighbours besides using them as food producers and "recyclers" (read: dumping sites), among other things that aren't very productive.
I work at the Taiwan branch of a German company. In fact, the German company acquired us through a merger 20 years ago. The Taiwanese branch now has superior technical capabilities compared to the Chinese, Korean, and even the German parent company. Often, Taiwanese staff are sent to support other regions. However, the salaries of Taiwanese employees are significantly lower than those in Singapore, Korea, and Japan. As a result, Taiwanese employees work very hard but are relatively underpaid.
Finally, someone who dares to offer a more balanced appraisal of Taiwan. May I add that, a lot of times, Taiwanese employees must work very hard because their work is both ineffective and inefficient (though it may not be entirely their own fault) and thus working overtime is a way to compensate for that.
@@KimYuPak I think that's a cultural norm problem more than anything else. Taiwanese culture as a whole prizes working harder way more than working smarter (I wonder if Confucius is to blame for this?). Case in point, it still amazes me (and not in a good way) that some Taiwanese companies still practice 全勤獎 and have it built into the monthly pay system. This reward system is fine for young, elementary school-aged children to instill a persevering attitude, but to use it on mature adults in the workplace who need to juggle other responsibilities and work smarter? I find it ludicrous.
Taiwan's Industrial and Overall Economic Strength. Many people are unaware of the industrial and overall economic strength of Taiwan today. Taiwan has a well-developed technology and manufacturing sector. It is ranked first in the world in semiconductor chip manufacturing, first in the world in ICT equipment manufacturing, third in the world in machinery and components manufacturing, third in the world in biotechnology companies, fourth in the world in machine tools, sixth in the world in chemical plants, and fifth in the world in shipbuilding tonnage. Taiwan's aerospace industry is also ranked sixth in the world in terms of output. Taiwan is also the world's largest and most technologically advanced carbon fiber composite material OEM, with applications ranging from tennis rackets and bicycles to aircraft components. Taiwan has many companies that are hidden champions in the global manufacturing sector. These companies are at the top of their respective industries, but they are not well-known to the general public. Taiwan has developed its own supercomputers, AI computers, quantum chips, satellites, and has successfully test-fired military space rockets on multiple occasions. In terms of overall technology and manufacturing strength, Taiwan is on par with the United States, Japan, and the EU industrial countries. Taiwan is currently the 20th largest economy in the world, with total foreign investment assets of over $2 trillion. It is the fifth largest foreign investor in the world and the fifth largest net creditor nation. Manufacturing accounts for over 36% of Taiwan's GDP and contributes over 50% to economic growth, the highest in Asia. Taiwan's listed companies invest and set up factories overseas, and their overseas offshore processing and manufacturing import and export trade exceeds $1 trillion each year (most of which is included in Hong Kong's import and export trade figures). The import and export trade of these Taiwanese companies is not included in Taiwan's import and export trade figures. If the import and export trade of Taiwanese companies' overseas factories is included in Taiwan's own import and export trade figures, the total global trade volume of Taiwanese companies will reach $1.9 trillion, surpassing Japan and the Netherlands to become the fourth largest trading power in the world after the United States, China, and Germany. Taiwanese companies' overseas factories have supported the families of hundreds of millions of employees in China, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia. It is estimated that Taiwan will enter the top 20 economies in the world in 2023 based on its own domestic production and manufacturing import and export trade, becoming a member of the G20. Among the G20 countries, Taiwan is the only one with no natural resources, relying solely on manufacturing, and with a population of 23.5 million and the smallest land area.
TSMC's revenue is expected to reach a record high of US$87.315 billion in 2024. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) previously estimated that the potential market for its data center AI accelerators will grow from US$45 billion in 2023 to US$400 billion in 2027, representing a CAGR of over 70%. Analysts are optimistic that TSMC, as an important foundry partner of AMD, is expected to grow along with the industry trend.
@@mariobecroft5770 As a taiwanese and studied in toronto for two years, it's a good place to stay with foreigners-friendly, multi-cultural...so on, but i have to say taiwan's traffic is terrible, just make sure you do enough prepartion
@@mariobecroft5770maybe you should visit first before making this decision😉 I moved back to Taiwan from the U.S. right before the pandemic, my ex boyfriend (was together at that time) applied for gold card and moved here afterwards. We didnt plan to stay in Taiwan for too long, but now he is planning to apply for Taiwanese citizenship…. If you are interested in staying in Taiwan for years, I’d suggest checking out the gold card qualification. Otherwise, staying 90 days here and visit nearby countries then come back again is always fun
both ADM and Nvidia's CEO just so happen to be Taiwanese too so it seem the speed-run isn't stopping anytime soon. (now on AI course~ and several breakthrough are being in other space and Deepsea thanks to new technological development)
As a Dutchman in Taiwan, I thoroughly enjoyed that video. I even learned some new things. I didn't realize Taiwan played a part in S.E.Asia's industrialization. Many thanks!
The Japanese colonization of Taiwan is fascinating, especially in contrast with it's other colonies. As mentioned, they truly wanted it to be the "next home island" and so it was the one colony that got off better than all the others. That's not to diminish the problems with colonization at all, they still tried to erase the culture of those living there, but they also invested heavily and Taiwan is actually the only place outside of Japan where you can find Shinto shrines! That was the era of State Shinto, and despite most people not really understanding Shinto very well in the west and having weird ideas about them spreading it, there was never really any push whatsoever to expand it outside of the home islands...except for Taiwan. You can still see the difference today where, for instance, Taiwan has a MUCH better relationship with Japan than Korea. Today Japan and Taiwan have probably the closest relations of East Asian nations and citizens of both have highly favorable opinions of the other. There are still some echoes from the past and wrongs left unrighted, along with minor territorial disputes, but altogether it's much better than pretty much any other two east asian nations.
@@雅君墨客-i9z There is at least 高士神社, though it was obviously rebuilt rather recently. My comment more got away with me and I was MEANING to imply they were built and some may be leftover, but yeah, as far as I can tell only Gaoshi is the only one and the rest were all taken down or repurposed, and Gaoshi was destroyed back in '46 and only recently reconstructed.
Taiwanese middle schools should play this video in class. It's basically what we learn but much more lively. Also, the English level is suitable for middle schoolers. Props to you for making such a good explainer.
I suggest students to rely on cited content more rather than this kind of super summarized video. There are always risks to believe information like this can replace true edited and published materials. I'm not saying that the whole video is biased or wrong, but to see it as a tool and to dig in a little deeper would be much safer than taking them all without questioning.
In fact, this video is overly summarized and even includes many folk legends that have already been refuted by academia, making it unsuitable for use in history classes. For example, the video mentions that in the 17th century, Chinese men married Taiwanese women (Formosans) in large numbers. This is incorrect. Single Chinese men who came to Taiwan were mainly agricultural workers and already had families in Fujian. They would return to Fujian once they had earned enough money. The increase in the Chinese population on the island of Taiwan occurred when the Qing government allowed Chinese people to bring their entire families to Taiwan. Early Chinese had strong discriminate against Formosans, and intermarriage between the two groups was usually for specific purposes (such as to achieve peace) and was not a common phenomenon. (Regarding this topic, you can refer to this paper: "No Grandmother from Mainland China? Intermarriage between Han and Indigene during the Settlement Era of Taiwan by Su-Jen HUANG") Moreover, the maps used in the video do not accurately reflect China's gradual control over various regions of Taiwan since the 17th century. It is not as if the entire island was controlled in the 17th century as shown by the video. The Qing dynasty's actual control over Taiwan's territory was demarcated by red, blue, purple, and green boundaries in different years. The first colonial regime to control the entire island of Taiwan was actually the Japanese Empire. It overlooks the suffering caused by cultural invasion to the Formosans and attempts to cover up the historical divide between Formosans and Chinese immigrants with the modern myth of ethnic integration.... As a modern civilized nation that respects indigenous peoples, we should show students the brutal history. However, we face the painful past not to perpetuate hatred, but to foster understanding among us and to warn the next generation that such events should never happen again. We should not attempt to numb ourselves with romantic fairy tales, believing that our ancestors were friends and blood relatives of the indigenous people. This is incorrect. So far, I have only talked about the first minute of this video. This video is excellent as a quick introduction for a global audience, but it is not good enough to be used as supplementary media for our middle school history classes...
@@nanman_chief I respect your knowledge and passion in history and I agree accuracy is important, but my emphasis was on how the video does a good job on representation. I didn't enjoy history when I was a middle-schooler, but my interest in history has been growing lately. I just hope our textbooks can do a better job to make history interesting. That's all. Thank you for your reply.
@annannz9047 you can find videos of every subjects made by the textbooks publisher, they have youtube channels too. But teachers don't play those videos in class, I think it's because of time. In my schools, teachers play movies after big exams.
on a side note, Japan in the first 20 years of their colonization loses the equivalent of 6.6 billion dollars in today's money every year just to build up Taiwan. The unlimited budget the Japanese gave to the colonial government just to prove a point (That they are a modern imperial power on equal footing to the west) provided Taiwan with a whole bunch of overengineered infrastructures and buildings of which some are still in use today.
This is the truth that a lot of Taiwanese ppl don’t know of🥹 Well I actually didn’t know either until I moved back to Taiwan and started to find more history truth and stories online.
One thing I found interesting was comparing Taiwan with my research on why Africa is poor. The Spanish colonies had a similar investment plan as Taiwan and today they are asking the most developed countries in Africa. It's interesting how Japan managed to do this decades earlier
@@dmst528 Taiwan is literally the justified Chinese government. They are supposed to be one of the largest countries in the world. Especially considering the land they officially claim (PRC+Mongolia (+Taiwan))
As a Taiwanese person, this video is better than 90% of what we teach in school, and amazingly untainted by any political-historical narrative. It’s rare to find a video on Taiwanese history so well researched and well made anywhere online. Jolly well done, Avery!
@@JSnow-st7hm It depends on one's viewpoint. However, the fact is that the Republic of China can only exist because of Taiwan as it got kicked out of its original territory excluding Mongolia back in 1949 and lost its official representation in the United Nations in 1971. One can only find remnants of the Republic of China government on China in museums, LOL!
Most countries could learn a thing or two from Taiwan’s dynamic mix of market and social policies :) their land to the tiller reforms, and support for small and medium businesses are examples for the rest of the world to follow
Many popular Taiwanese computer companies include: Acer Asus MSI BenQ Cooler Master Gskill And Gigabyte Addendum: Foxxconn,AOC,HTC,Thermaltake, my favorite case manufacturer Lian Li, and the most important one; tsmc ( Makes CPUs) which stands for: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company limited.
A Formosan Black Bear friend of mine is Beary Happy to learn, how a country like his 🇹🇼 with luck & good policies, can get wealthy in a relatively short time (decades, compared to my country’s development 🇬🇧).
@kingace6186 out of pure curiosity, what exact motive as a westerner do you have to support what is basically a political grouping trying to become independent from the rest of their country in one territory?
yea until it went fully democratic and produced the most corrupt president (Chen shuibian) and administration of all of history in Taiwan, and yet the Taiwanese people keep getting fear mongered into voting for the same corrupt party. While the economy and progress regresses.
@@royyu1082well I was born in Taiwan and I’m Taiwanese. Being Taiwanese doesn’t mean just being an aboriginal. As being Taiwanese is a nationality, not a race. That’s like saying that the native Indians are the only real American, everyone else isn’t. What’s your point? Stop grasping for straws.
@@royyu1082 Chinese culture. NOT COMMUNIST CULTURE. North Korea and South Korea are two different country too. You are a communist chinese and Taiwan is a democratic Chinese.
@@royyu1082 Although Taiwan has traditional Chinese culture, many parts are multicultural. As you said, the current People's Republic of China has completely wiped out traditional Chinese culture. Judging from the current situation, only Taiwan has traditional Chinese culture. The palaces and temples are a good example.
This is such an awesome in-depth look at Taiwan's history. I'm no history guy, but this video really captivated me by how you explain complex things so easily. Great video!
Actually, China did not have authority in Taiwan until Chin dynasty and it only lasted for about 10 years before Taiwan was given to Japan. After Chin toppled Ming Dynasty, some leftover Ming officials escaped to Taiwan. In most of the Taiwan-China history, Taiwan was an unclaimed island providing shelter and new opportunities to some Chinese seeking refugees across Taiwan Strait. Japan, Dutch, Spain, Portuguese all left their marks on this island.
Unclaimed? It was returned to China under the Cairo Declaration. Taiwan is stated as a part/province of China in the UN documents and recognised by almost all countries including the US under the one-China policy. Even Taiwan's constitution says so. It's not up to anyone to say you to bs. China has no problem Taiwan as it is. But if you start claiming you are independent, that will be a problem. That's what US wants you to, in order to get Chinese to fight Chinese on both sides of the Strait. It will be a proxy war like the Ukraine war. Only US wins.
@@liuscott5744 ROC represented the whole China. After PRC was officially recognised to represent the whole China, Taiwan becomes a part/province of it. And your point?
@Time4Peace Cairo consensus emphasize Taiwan return to ROC, so there is still nothing associated with PRC. Taiwan is a sovereign country, with its own currency, government, territory, citizen, undoubtedly fact, doesn't matter how fifty cents army crying over it.
@@howardyen-z9c Clearly you don't believe in the UN. Or you think the US decides for the whole world. And brainwashed by the US narrative to divide and rule.
I grew up in Taiwan and I feel liked I learned a lot from this video!! Some of the things I already knew, but this video explained a lot more details that I didn't notice! Thank you for making this video!
If the Qing Dynasty was China, then Taiwan indeed once belonged to China. If the Republic of China can be considered China, then Taiwan still belongs to China. If the People's Republic of China is China, then Taiwan does not belong to China now.
@@kusogod I'll number your points into 1,2,3. 1.Qing only took Taiwan as colony, and only along part of the shores, so , no didn't belong. 2.ROC which claimed by KMT, retreated to Taiwan, they are government in exile, it's a state of ROC and Taiwan co-existing, not belonging. 3.Taiwan doesn't belong to China now, nor ever before.
As a Taiwanese born and brought up in Taiwan, I learned so much from this video. Thank you so much for creating this. Wish this can reach to Taiwanese audience.
0:23 The part relating to Qing Dynasty was somewhat inaccurate. The Qing Dynasty claimed to conquer "Taiwan" after they defeated a rebel army that desires to restore the Ming Dynasty resides on the west plain areas. However rest parts of the island were under control of the indigenous peoples and wasn't considered as territory or even mapped by the Qing government (this also continued for many years after Japanese took over). More importantly, Qing government never actively ruled or even had much controls over the lands before 1874 and that's not long before ceding Taiwan to Japan. Most of the time Qing government forbids people from mainland moving to Taiwan, or only single men were allowed. So many of the people moved back then were stowaways with no family and small portions of them married with indigenous people then inherited some lands. This gradually grew the settlements of Qing people, yet not really by planned and supports were little from Qing government.
1. The last Dutch Formosa governor was Swedish. 2. The Ming royalist Koxinga was born in Japan to a Chinese pirate and a Japanese mother. 3. Qing was not founded by Chinese. The rulers of Qing were the Manchus. It is like Yuan. The rulers of Yuan were the Mongols. 4. The former president of Taiwan Tsai is a mix Hakka Chinese immigrant and Paiwan aboriginal from her grand parents.
Also the Chinese immigrants moved to Taiwan before Qing. Many of them were first brought in by the Dutch as foreign workers. Some others were the traders or the privates.
@KuanCGM To "conquer" needs not a country to step on every inch of its territory to claim full sovereignty over its land. Otherwise large countries like Russia, US, Canada, Australia, Brazil etc cant claim most of their territory that no man has every walked. Same as "control". Many countries dont have full control over their territory too, like India, Brazil, Russia etc, that doesnt mean the territory is not part of their sovereignty
@@supernt7852 I have critical levels of brainrot. Also if you know Chinese toponyms, you know that a song about Manzhou does not belong in a Taiwan video.
You do realize that Taiwan became rich during the kmt dictatorship years right... similar situation with South Korea... not to mention Singapore which is a dictatorship to this day
Taiwan became rich during Japanese era. The Chinese government KMT actually made Taiwan worse. Taiwan could have been better without them. Go check old news at the time to find out the truth rather than the propaganda given by KMT.
@@troy5094 You also realize that's when US donated a lot of resources as well, similar to SK. Singapore's history is very interesting, dictatorship is fine if the dictator is actually good at running a country and care for their people, which Singapore has. But when a country don't, people suffer, and there's barely anyway of turning the tables besides revolution.
One of the Taiwan owned schools is here in Cebu Eastern College in College. Before it is mostly composed of Chinese Taipei Students but they progress so that Cebuanos can also study there. Now Cebu Eastern College is now 109 Years old here
One of the Taiwan owned schools is here in Cebu. The name of the school is Cebu Eastern College . Before it is mostly composed of Chinese Taipei Students but they progress so that Cebuanos can also study there. Now Cebu Eastern College is now 109 Years old here
What, couldn't find much history but that was built by the Chinese sympathizer that initially, probably has nothing to with Taiwan but asking money, people for their arm-struggling revolution and the support of Japan empire back then... and why Taiwan has something to do with them later is because they illegally took over Formosa/Taiwan, at first under the command of Allied forces then they occupied the island illegally, in the end of the day Taiwan is still using roC - the outdated colonial-totalitarian Chinese government framework which force upon most of the Formosan/Taiwanese the non-Chinese citizens, and we're tearing it down bit by bit after the inevitable democracy we fought and sacrified for, and still fighting for sure, we're getting better.
Taiwan loves doing contract manufacturing on huge scale, many probably don't know most of the nike adidas sneakers are OEM by TWnese companies with factories in SEA. Most iphones and game consoles are made by Foxconn.
🇨🇳and🇹🇼are interesting to me because no one has to theorize on what China would have been like if the outcome of the civil war were different. I know North Korea and South Korea exist but there's been way too much outside interference. PRC is China if the communists won, ROC is China if the fascists won. The funniest part about it is that both countries pretty much gave up their ideologies and became more or less the same, with the communist side keeping their communist style of government but ultimately just being another capitalist society. The CCP says that only Marxism-Leninism could've gotten China to modernize as much as it has, yet not only have they totally abandoned Marxism-Leninism, but there's another China on a stone's throw away that never embraced Marxism and is doing just as fine if not better.
As an expat that lives in Taiwan, I really see no difference between the KMT and the CCP. There ideology is that Chinese people need to be told how to live and how to think. Just look at Ma Ying Jiu visiting China to see Xi Jin Ping.
The roc built it's economy up on the back of others. They only got all what they needed BECAUSE they were in conflict with the communist. Really, if we were being honest here, the mere existence of mainland china is the reason the roc is as developed as it was because we saw what china under roc rule was like before the prc and it sure wasn't helping.
The ROC got the superior ideology and much better social development than the PRC can ever dream of. Btw, the PRC economy's house of cards is unravelling with its real estate market essentially being a ponzi scheme that is much worse than that of the 2008 financial crisis!
@@EarthForces and yet PRC has the second largest GDP whereas ROC has less GDP than Mexico. Really says something when a communist country has higher GDP than most capitalist countries.
The PRC has never abandoned Marxism. In China, Marxism is more like a belief rather than a specific policy. Everything that China is currently doing is aimed at bringing China closer to socialism. History has proven that only by combining the advantages of a planned economy, market economy, democratic centralism, and other systems, can a country achieve better development.
I was shocked and thought there was wrong information about the video 24:48 saying that Taiwanese are not allowed to go abroad until I googled and found that's true. I born in 1987 and from Taiwan, I know we didn't have speech freedom before the martial period is ended, but just never imagined that we couldn't go abroad freely. It's such an interesting video. Thanks for putting effort to make it.
Taiwanese here to share, for the past few decades our education focus more on "Chinese history" instead of Taiwanese history, so this video educated me more than the whole pile of my history textbooks. things are changing now, students nowadays start to learn more about Taiwanese history.
My grandpa was born in Taiwan during Japanese Era, he considered himself as a Japanese, many Taiwanese also did the same, including the person who invented instant noodle, he was born in Taiwan, but identify as Japanese, he's also considered as Japanese by Japanese. Japan really did a big favor to Taiwan on modernization, which China failed to do anything, they don't even really care about their people, which can still be seen nowadays, the average quality of Chinese is just so much lower than Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, this is why people don't like China.
China has a lot of land and a lot of people (many of whom descended from farmers) to manage, also it was poor at the time when Japan raided Taiwan so it can't really help much. After Chiang went to Taiwan with most of the riches at the time China wasn't in a good state, seeing China has bad relations with surrounding countries like the USSR later, they have been growing at a surprising exponential rate with little help from the outer world, while Japan Korea and Taiwan manages their small islands with little population with generous donations from the US as well. We should learn from each other and prosper together instead of blindly hating on others.
@@harryyu8469 I personally had a lot of bad personal experience with Chinese, all because I say my family comes from Taiwan, I didn't even say I'm a Taiwanese, which apparently is a huge deal to many Chinese, they can't stand Taiwanese calling themselves Taiwanese, they always want to make you say you're Chinese. Last time I went back to Taiwan visiting family was 2022, guess what, China surrounded us with warships and military drills because Nancy Pelosi came to Taiwan to visit. I barely go visit Taiwan and I can still run into the scene where China tries to get Taiwan troubles, it's very hard for me to like China and Chinese, maybe you and your country should start change, so we don't hate each other, many of my Japanese and Korean friends in US didn't like China and Chinese as much, I think there's reasons to it.
The Japanese did do much for Taiwan. They built the railroads. Set up National Taiwan University (NTU). Enrolment was limited to Japanese students though. But it was through the KMT that the Taiwan economic miracle (40 years from 1950s to 1980s) happened. Not the Japanese. They didn’t want Taiwan to become as advanced as they were. So during Japanese era, Taiwanese people aspired to be doctors
@@yaya5tim that is pretty true, I can say I have met a lot of great Taiwanese people that are very friendly and kind, but the rudeness of Chinese people can’t be blamed on them. Many Chinese came from rural communities where education and mannerisms are basically nonexistent, traveling back and forth between boston and beijing, I can feel that difference. There are people in beijing that runs around the road, doesn’t care about red lights, and reckless drivers despite the harsh speed limits implemented. What i’m trying to say is, if a Chinese person does not like when you say you’re from Taiwan, it is highly likely that it’s the way they’re taught and the environments they have grown up with. Please be kind to them and show them good manners of a well educated 华 person whilst educating them on what they missed in their education, and don’t be blunt by saying Taiwan is a country bc they wouldn’t understand. Also Pelosi came to show support for Taiwan which the CCP doesn’t want, though I might respect Taiwan as a country, the mainland won’t want that bc of Taiwan’s close relations to the US and their strategic position on the sea, and the advance tech that they have which is highly dependent on both China and US markets. i’m glad Taiwan thrived, i’m also glad the mainland is catching up on everything, but it’s not going to be that easy for a gigantic country especially with thousands of years of traditions burned into everybody’s mind to change easily. In the shoes of Taiwan, either i befriend mainland, or i befriend the US. In the first case, I might piss off the US who’s highly dependent on my products so they won’t actually do anything, or in the second case I piss off mainland and get a frowny face every time i try to trade with them and get surrounded by big ships all the time, and get great pressure from the closest nation that’s world no.2 at the moment. Even a new country like the US has a lot of racists and rednecks, and it’s not really comparable to Taiwan Japan and south Korea that have cities with higher concentrated populations and had external aids during the years they’re doing best. Just like when the soviets were still in charge, even North Korea had a living standard so much better than its neighboring South Korea, with a lot of South Koreans fleeing to North Korea where their industries were far more advanced, healthcare and education was basically free. Small island countries can all thrive with generous external aid and hardworking citizens with a same goal, no matter who’s in charge. As long as people feel safe, they should thrive. The CCP’s rule has many flaws, mainly being no hardcoded law enforcement that looks over the government, but so does the US’s democracy, where two old idiots are the only candidates selected for presidency. I think it’s ok to say that it’s not really fair for the Chinese when Chiang took the best of people (doctors, engineers etc) and gained help from multiple countries like Japan and the US where the Chinese mainlanders are basically left alone with a huge pile of rubble that they have to build a home from themselves. They do fuck up a good amount of times especially when lmao was in charge, but I always hope for a better tomorrow.
In our Taiwanese history class nowadays, we use "govern" rather than "colonize" to state the era under Japanese rule. Japanese set up a great base for Taiwan to develop, and we are still very thankful to it.
@@玉佳瓏 Not everyone thinks the same as you bro, I don't like the DPP but I'm also very grateful to the Japanese for building infrastructure for Taiwan at that time. btw I voted for KMT or TPP in the last 3 presidential elections and local elections.
Colonization is the correct term. A lot of the so called "bases" was done so that Japan can move resources more efficiently back to Japan. Changing the term to "govern" is very much the same subliminal messaging to rewrite history to a version more beneficial to the DPP stance, considering their own family histories during Japanese colonization. I am not saying whether or not I agree, but I won't pretend that is not also political manipulation.
When Japanese troops set to occupy Taiwan in 1895, 154 died in combat with Taiwanese civilian resistance. 4,000 died from tropical diseases like plague, cholera, malaria, etc. and 27,000 were sent back to Japan for treatment of these diseases. Therefore, the Japanese spent a lot of effort eradicating those disease so their people could colonize the island. Lots of sugar and rice were exported to Japan during their rule. Most of the businesses were owned by Japanese. Sale of tobacco, alcohol, and even opium were monopolized by Japanese.
The video illustrates how mindboggling many steps have to go right for a country to develop. External factors and internal decisions all have to play well together. This makes it a lot more understandable why many other countries inside and outside of Asia have failed to reach similar results after the rise of the 4 Asian Tigers.
Taiwanese in the early days are the most hardworking people in the world. They worked 24 hrs ,7 days a week in the early 60s to the 80s just to rush out goods. for export. I bet no other countries can compare to Taiwanese workers.
Regards to part two of the video, Taiwan wasn't failing due to Japanese returning to Japan after the war, Taiwan was failing because the KMT that took over aside from lining their own pockets was shipping things back to China to support the Civil war. There was Taiwanese politicians who championed for Taiwanese parliament under Japanese rule, those people continued to do their part but would be exterminated by KMT in 1947.
If you're a foreigner trying to learn about Taiwanese history, I'd suggest checking out Wikipedia instead of these comments. A lot of what you'll find here is just plain wrong.
When the Japanese left, Taiwanese people "do" know about how to organize themselves and know about the rule of law more than the war torn China (Nationalist party). Although the education given to Taiwanese people mainly focus on science , medical training (as doctors), these very intelligent people become an important part of the society and the cultural trait passed on until now. I feel the source material in this video skews heavily toward China and the Kuo-Min Tang (KMT/Nationalist Party), and downplay the infulence of the Japanese colonization.
have to give credit where credit is due, would taiwan be the microchip giant without the KMT? i'm 100% sure it wouldn't be the chip giant. because most of the intellectuals that built the chip industry would not have come to taiwan if it were not the retreat of the KMT to Taiwan. and them laying down the foundations for these intellectual too thrive. one example is Morris Chang founder of TSMC who was born in Zhejiang Province had the KMT not retreated to Taiwan. if taiwan is still japanese today one thing for sure your women will be selling themselves in a kabukicho style to white people and you'll be facing the same lost decade.
in fact, china has never fully conquer taiwan as whole until ROC show up the earliest one is ching but ching has only got few areas at the west side of taiwan and as for ROC tho… they also only got taiwan for very short period of time and then japan step in japan win the war first and claim taiwan&penghu as the result of the war and then japan lost ww2 they've gave up the sovereignty of taiwan&penghu but not straight return it to ROC and then ROC has failed the fight between ROC&PRC and fall back to taiwan and then, here we are🤷
@tonyyoung1991 A country needs to step on every inch of its territory to claim full sovereignty over its land. Otherwise large countries like Russia, US, Canada, Australia, Brazil etc cant claim most of their territory that no man has every walked.
I'm Taiwanese. In Taiwan, the gap between the rich and the poor is immense, and the housing price-to-income ratio is unbelievably high. Asking us to pay protection fees will not make the wealthy contribute a single cent; it will only make the people suffer more.
true, the news about GDP growth is a government propaganda, they don't want to mention the housing price, cost of living, and the salary of an average citizen.
Please note that the history of Taiwan didn’t only involve China, Japan, and the U.S. Before China’s Qing Dynasty, some part of Taiwan was under Spain and Dutch’s control as well.
Taiwan is truly a success story in the world. We've evolved from an agricultural economy to one of the highest tech country. Not just economy or technological evolution, we also at the same time transformed from a dictatorship country to a vibrant and functional democracy. And, a big and, because we are small, we don't have the ambition to conquer the world, like some neighbor of ours does, we never pose a threat to the world. We just want to included as part of the world community, we never wanted to challenge or even replace others. We come in peace, which is not what you can say about the neighbor of ours.
@@canto_v12 you know how you put that qualifier in? It's because outside of the tier 1 cities, things get bad quickly. You're comparing Taiwan as a whole to the best the PRC has to offer.
Excellent video. Shows how a small nation can develop and upgrade its people and economy over many generations. Gave me many ideas and visions for development.
There is an error on the Japanese occupation, Japanese did not allow Taiwanese to learn engineering. Taiwanese were allowed to get advanced degrees in medicine and agriculture. That’s why there were a lot of doctors in Taiwan. When Japanese was leaving, they destroyed the power plants. KMT had to restore/ rebuild the power plants. Most of the help were from US.
Well done, but I think you missed to mention that after the end of last Chinese civil war ( 1945-1949 ), nearly more than 2 million rich and educated Chinese whom were targeted by the newly founded Communist government in China moved into Taiwan, which contributed a lot into development of the country.
And in the decades after, anyone who was vaguely competent wasn't considered a class enemy and attacked. It's amazing what small details make a difference.
When my father went to teach in China, he was shown the window a previous English teacher was thrown out of. Not a sight he could have been shown in Taiwan.
Not 2 million rich and educated ppl. The 2 million included rich ruling class, but most are poor soldiers without much education, came to Taiwan with nothing. Some boys were kidnapped by kmt while working on the farm. Only met family again when they were able to visit China 4 decades later. These are the kind of sad stories happened in time of wars. These soldiers have great contributions to Taiwan development, many unwanted and dangerous jobs were done by them, such as building highways.
maybe, but they brought nothing besides of greedy people, Taiwanese supplied them food, drinking, ground, house...everything, what a pity, they massacred many Taiwanese...
Thank GOD Winnie Xitler could NOT have Taiwan and NEVER will. Companies like TSMC, Asus, Acer, MSI, Gigabyte, Foxconn, MediaTek etc., not only would've NEVER existed, much less thriving. ALL companies in china MUST share profits with the CCP or face closure. Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Lisa Su (AMD), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Steven Chen (TH-cam), to name a few (All Taiwan born). I'm talking this "small island" produced some of the BIGGEST names in the tech industries. BAR NONE.
As a Taiwanese, I must point out a fact that you completely ignore or don't know, that is, the Chinese government-in-exile that ruled Taiwan after World War II was an incompetent and corrupt regime. These economic achievements were the result of White Engineering consultants in the U.S. foreign aid program at the time. The company's achievements are that they planned and implemented these economic upgrades for Taiwan, and most importantly, they prevented US aid funds from flowing into the pockets of senior KMT officials. This is the main or even the only factor in Taiwan's economic achievements.
@sirius1701a1 You give too much credit to White people. Chinese people thrive everywhere they go. Whether its in the US, Singapore, Malaysia, HK etc, TW is no exception. The White engineering consultants you speak of and foreign aid programs are literally everywhere in this world. Why did other parts of the developing world that received their help not as successful? Give the Chinese on TW island more credit.
Hello Hello From Victoria Canada!!! I am brand new to your channel and after seeing this excellent episode I am looking forward to checking out more of your channel. You researched details and historical facts I had now idea about so keep up the awesome content you and your team create. I hope you all, stay safe, have good luck, good health and find as much happiness as you can possibly enjoy. 🤘😁👍
Hello from a medium-sized-traditonal-industry-manufacturing business owner! Its super hard to hire engineers as they always go to tech :(, while we have migrants workers from Vietnam and Philippines. Awesome video!
As a middle age Taiwanese, I never learned Taiwanese history in school before I went to the US in 1995. I’m glad Taiwan is getting more international attentions now! I remember people think I was from Thailand when I told when I was from Taiwan the first year in the US. However I would like to point out that Taiwanese are skinny not because we export all the food but being skinny is the common beauty standard there. 😅 And because of the constant treat from communist PPC, there are many Taiwanese live aboard. In my opinion, Taiwanese are one of the most skilled, hard working but at the same time modest people in the world. Taiwan is also the freest country in Asia and most inclusive of anyone being different. It is the first country in Asia legalize same-sex marriage. Thank you for making this video and I hope one day we could call our country Taiwan ❤ and lose the “China” in our official country name. After all, we are two different countries. ✌️
Taiwan today suffers from a Taiwanese version of the oil curse, where electronics is the oil. Only the electronic industry is rich, while other industry are stagnating and offer very low salary
I remember when I was at Taiwan school, our teacher talk about there is actually quite amount of factory that has billion income in our local area. It just that their product are so specific for export, we won't even find a single product from their factory in our market, they don't do domestic trade at all.
@@BunToomoabsolutely not, also we are not talking about a country becoming independent? We are talking about a government that existed since the 1920s moving too a small part of their own country.
In fact, even after Japan's withdrawal, there were many highly skilled personnel in Taiwan. Fearing Taiwan's independence as "Taiwan", the ROC government of the time suppressed and persecuted those who had received higher education in the Japanese era.
No matter where you are from, the basic principle is to work hard to become wealthy. Wealth should be accumulated through diligent and honest efforts, in order to be sustained and preserved. The accumulation of wealth should not be achieved through violent or fraudulent means, by depriving others of their wealth. In a country with widening wealth disparity, society will be unstable. Only in nations with a more equitable distribution of wealth can there be a more stable society and a safer living environment.
The Taiwanese work hard, are honest, and great to deal with; you could Trust a Taiwanese Person in business, they are great people and intelligent. If you deal with the Taiwanese, they become your friend/family I love Taiwanese and Taiwan…..Love from Christchurch, New Zealand!
Aww love you too
... and from Auckland, New Zealand - small world! I love learning about history & geopolitics so this was fascinating, even though I watched the video some months after you posted it. Unfortunately, I have no friends in Taiwan, but I have developed a love for Taiwan, and, if I have a choice, I always try to buy from Taiwan rather than *cough* some other major country in the region. I have sometimes contemplated visiting Taiwan to help their companies appeal better to the English-speaking market. Having imported excellent products from the ROC, always high-quality - but often the English translation is poor. I think there is room for improvement!
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🇹🇼 *Taiwan* ，Yes ！
I have done business with Taiwanese, I should say almost all(99.9%) are very trustworthy business people, but year 2001 one of the factory I was working with stole my invitation idea that he supposed to make sample for me, I knew that factory owner for a decade by then,
He made my invention item but he sold to my competitive, since I had trusted on him then I didn't sign NDA, that was my mistake.
Otherwise, I never had any problem with any other Taiwanese factory been deal with since last 32years, their promises are good as gold.
Yes, each apple tree has bad one.❤❤❤
As a Taiwanese, I'm sorry to hear your story. Do not trust people until they earn it in business.
Did you sue him later? How is the result?
Taiwan Province has the largest number of fraudsters in the world, I hope you can understand.
Business is business. There are bad people in every country. Every time you do business, you have to sign a contract, it doesn't matter which country. But as a Taiwanese, I'm sorry to hear your story.
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I’ve lived in Taiwan for 3 years and I was surprised how much food there was at low prices. Even more, they grow so much food, even in the city you’ll see small farms right next to the road, irrigated and everything
It’s because incomes in that area, especially outside of Taipei, are proportionately lower than the society you are comparing to.
Taiwan’s electricity and water prices are among the lowest in the world
@@canto_v12 Nah,elderly Chinese folks just love to grow veggies and stuff by their homes, it's in their blood. 😂
@@advancedmonkey7702 Taiwanese is not Chinese!
That's not more than living in China. In China food is cheap abundant abd easily accessed
Taiwanese are just incredible intelligent.
Imagine a person has the Craftsman spirit of the Japanese, the science and pragmatism of the Americans, and the diligence of the Chinese, and that is a Taiwanese.
@@loandpea_bevrndthey are like 97% Han chinese
@@Squared_Table how does your ethic group determine how good you are?
有嗎？我們活在同一個台灣嗎？
Btw Japanese and Taiwanese, it’s far away different about people’s quality and craftsman spirit. How did you learn yr theory? 🤣🤣🤣
@@lordssundee7047 1.) Besides that pseudojapanese mask donned by the newer generations of Taiwanese everything almost facet of their culture is derived from the mainland. Past all the ostentatious displays of separatism and westernized thought, Han Chinese practicing Han Chinese customs. Ugly truth, genetic stock is (mostly) everything. Just look at singapore and the similar success of Fujian people across south east Asia.
best part of Taiwan is her people. Down to earth, honest, hard-working, and fun seeking.
I just hope we can have higher salary in Taiwan.
Yeah, this was a great historical overview, but comparing this picture with some of the modern challenges that the younger generation face makes me eager to dig into the details of the limitations and modern challenges the model is facing, as well as the potential impact of deglobalization. The flexibility of the model as described in the video gives me a lot of hope, but it’s not impossible to imagine that the model may have limitations.
Exactly!
@@kimiyounasarukunHopefully with the rise of ai and automation, governments will eventually move past the need for an economy ... its a pipe dream though ik
@user-zn1kq6so6h 😅😅😅
Are you also willing to pay more for food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, etc.?
**This video is Banned in China**
(Edit, I know TH-cam is banned in West Taiwan. I just thought it was funny)
Fr😂
nooo the name is obv changed to how *Chinas colony called taiwan becamne rich*
So you admit that it's the real China then.
@@nowhereman6019 Yeah basically lol
You mean West Taiwan?
This video should've also sent a direct message to developed countries how to utilize poorer neighbours besides using them as food producers and "recyclers" (read: dumping sites), among other things that aren't very productive.
I work at the Taiwan branch of a German company. In fact, the German company acquired us through a merger 20 years ago. The Taiwanese branch now has superior technical capabilities compared to the Chinese, Korean, and even the German parent company. Often, Taiwanese staff are sent to support other regions. However, the salaries of Taiwanese employees are significantly lower than those in Singapore, Korea, and Japan. As a result, Taiwanese employees work very hard but are relatively underpaid.
Finally, someone who dares to offer a more balanced appraisal of Taiwan. May I add that, a lot of times, Taiwanese employees must work very hard because their work is both ineffective and inefficient (though it may not be entirely their own fault) and thus working overtime is a way to compensate for that.
It's actually the TWD is depreciated by intention. It is a double-edged sword. The service sector suffers from it.
@@KimYuPak I think that's a cultural norm problem more than anything else. Taiwanese culture as a whole prizes working harder way more than working smarter (I wonder if Confucius is to blame
for this?). Case in point, it still amazes me (and not in a good way) that some Taiwanese companies still practice 全勤獎 and have it built into the monthly pay system. This reward system is fine for young, elementary school-aged children to instill a persevering attitude, but to use it on mature adults in the workplace who need to juggle other responsibilities and work smarter? I find it ludicrous.
台湾旅行最高だった
また行きたい
Taiwan's Industrial and Overall Economic Strength.
Many people are unaware of the industrial and overall economic strength of Taiwan today.
Taiwan has a well-developed technology and manufacturing sector. It is ranked first in the world in semiconductor chip manufacturing, first in the world in ICT equipment manufacturing, third in the world in machinery and components manufacturing, third in the world in biotechnology companies, fourth in the world in machine tools, sixth in the world in chemical plants, and fifth in the world in shipbuilding tonnage. Taiwan's aerospace industry is also ranked sixth in the world in terms of output. Taiwan is also the world's largest and most technologically advanced carbon fiber composite material OEM, with applications ranging from tennis rackets and bicycles to aircraft components.
Taiwan has many companies that are hidden champions in the global manufacturing sector. These companies are at the top of their respective industries, but they are not well-known to the general public. Taiwan has developed its own supercomputers, AI computers, quantum chips, satellites, and has successfully test-fired military space rockets on multiple occasions.
In terms of overall technology and manufacturing strength, Taiwan is on par with the United States, Japan, and the EU industrial countries. Taiwan is currently the 20th largest economy in the world, with total foreign investment assets of over $2 trillion. It is the fifth largest foreign investor in the world and the fifth largest net creditor nation.
Manufacturing accounts for over 36% of Taiwan's GDP and contributes over 50% to economic growth, the highest in Asia. Taiwan's listed companies invest and set up factories overseas, and their overseas offshore processing and manufacturing import and export trade exceeds $1 trillion each year (most of which is included in Hong Kong's import and export trade figures). The import and export trade of these Taiwanese companies is not included in Taiwan's import and export trade figures.
If the import and export trade of Taiwanese companies' overseas factories is included in Taiwan's own import and export trade figures, the total global trade volume of Taiwanese companies will reach $1.9 trillion, surpassing Japan and the Netherlands to become the fourth largest trading power in the world after the United States, China, and Germany.
Taiwanese companies' overseas factories have supported the families of hundreds of millions of employees in China, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia.
It is estimated that Taiwan will enter the top 20 economies in the world in 2023 based on its own domestic production and manufacturing import and export trade, becoming a member of the G20. Among the G20 countries, Taiwan is the only one with no natural resources, relying solely on manufacturing, and with a population of 23.5 million and the smallest land area.
Nice~~
你統整得很好! 謝謝你!
You mentioned 2023. Time for an update it’s 2024.
TSMC's revenue is expected to reach a record high of US$87.315 billion in 2024.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) previously estimated that the potential market for its data center AI accelerators will grow from US$45 billion in 2023 to US$400 billion in 2027, representing a CAGR of over 70%. Analysts are optimistic that TSMC, as an important foundry partner of AMD, is expected to grow along with the industry trend.
原來在外國人眼裡我們這麽強呀...
Amazing. I’m a Canadian living in Taiwan. Bravo
How does it feel.. please Tell me.. it's amazing to hear such great achievement.. I love to celebrate achievements
Should I move there?
@@mariobecroft5770 As a taiwanese and studied in toronto for two years, it's a good place to stay with foreigners-friendly, multi-cultural...so on, but i have to say taiwan's traffic is terrible, just make sure you do enough prepartion
@@mariobecroft5770maybe you should visit first before making this decision😉
I moved back to Taiwan from the U.S. right before the pandemic, my ex boyfriend (was together at that time) applied for gold card and moved here afterwards. We didnt plan to stay in Taiwan for too long, but now he is planning to apply for Taiwanese citizenship….
If you are interested in staying in Taiwan for years, I’d suggest checking out the gold card qualification. Otherwise, staying 90 days here and visit nearby countries then come back again is always fun
They literally did a full automation all industries 100% speedrun
Basically the story of East Asia.
imagine if they pulled a dream speedrun and hacked reality
Except in a way that doesn't completely screw over the workers, like is all too often.
both ADM and Nvidia's CEO just so happen to be Taiwanese too so it seem the speed-run isn't stopping anytime soon.
(now on AI course~ and several breakthrough are being in other space and Deepsea thanks to new technological development)
@@michaelwang6125 ＯＫ
As a Dutchman in Taiwan, I thoroughly enjoyed that video. I even learned some new things. I didn't realize Taiwan played a part in S.E.Asia's industrialization. Many thanks!
You should know that we (Taiwanese people) take you Dutch people with high regard, after all you helped to establish TSMC
@@AllenHChangagreed
The Japanese colonization of Taiwan is fascinating, especially in contrast with it's other colonies. As mentioned, they truly wanted it to be the "next home island" and so it was the one colony that got off better than all the others. That's not to diminish the problems with colonization at all, they still tried to erase the culture of those living there, but they also invested heavily and Taiwan is actually the only place outside of Japan where you can find Shinto shrines! That was the era of State Shinto, and despite most people not really understanding Shinto very well in the west and having weird ideas about them spreading it, there was never really any push whatsoever to expand it outside of the home islands...except for Taiwan.
You can still see the difference today where, for instance, Taiwan has a MUCH better relationship with Japan than Korea. Today Japan and Taiwan have probably the closest relations of East Asian nations and citizens of both have highly favorable opinions of the other. There are still some echoes from the past and wrongs left unrighted, along with minor territorial disputes, but altogether it's much better than pretty much any other two east asian nations.
That's very interesting
@MonggyuOUT I don't think you understand what the term "Fascinating" means.
@@雅君墨客-i9z There is at least 高士神社, though it was obviously rebuilt rather recently. My comment more got away with me and I was MEANING to imply they were built and some may be leftover, but yeah, as far as I can tell only Gaoshi is the only one and the rest were all taken down or repurposed, and Gaoshi was destroyed back in '46 and only recently reconstructed.
Not just in Taiwan though, Japan also built Shinto Shrines in Korea and Mainland China (like in Shanghai and in Manchuria)
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China number 1 !
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Was gonna say the same :D
west taiwan
Taiwanese middle schools should play this video in class. It's basically what we learn but much more lively. Also, the English level is suitable for middle schoolers. Props to you for making such a good explainer.
I suggest students to rely on cited content more rather than this kind of super summarized video. There are always risks to believe information like this can replace true edited and published materials. I'm not saying that the whole video is biased or wrong, but to see it as a tool and to dig in a little deeper would be much safer than taking them all without questioning.
@@LingyaTsuhiang Good suggestion. That's the part where teachers should guide students not to easily trust a random source or even authority.
In fact, this video is overly summarized and even includes many folk legends that have already been refuted by academia, making it unsuitable for use in history classes. For example, the video mentions that in the 17th century, Chinese men married Taiwanese women (Formosans) in large numbers. This is incorrect. Single Chinese men who came to Taiwan were mainly agricultural workers and already had families in Fujian. They would return to Fujian once they had earned enough money. The increase in the Chinese population on the island of Taiwan occurred when the Qing government allowed Chinese people to bring their entire families to Taiwan. Early Chinese had strong discriminate against Formosans, and intermarriage between the two groups was usually for specific purposes (such as to achieve peace) and was not a common phenomenon. (Regarding this topic, you can refer to this paper: "No Grandmother from Mainland China? Intermarriage between Han and Indigene during the Settlement Era of Taiwan by Su-Jen HUANG")
Moreover, the maps used in the video do not accurately reflect China's gradual control over various regions of Taiwan since the 17th century. It is not as if the entire island was controlled in the 17th century as shown by the video. The Qing dynasty's actual control over Taiwan's territory was demarcated by red, blue, purple, and green boundaries in different years. The first colonial regime to control the entire island of Taiwan was actually the Japanese Empire. It overlooks the suffering caused by cultural invasion to the Formosans and attempts to cover up the historical divide between Formosans and Chinese immigrants with the modern myth of ethnic integration.... As a modern civilized nation that respects indigenous peoples, we should show students the brutal history. However, we face the painful past not to perpetuate hatred, but to foster understanding among us and to warn the next generation that such events should never happen again. We should not attempt to numb ourselves with romantic fairy tales, believing that our ancestors were friends and blood relatives of the indigenous people. This is incorrect. So far, I have only talked about the first minute of this video. This video is excellent as a quick introduction for a global audience, but it is not good enough to be used as supplementary media for our middle school history classes...
@@nanman_chief I respect your knowledge and passion in history and I agree accuracy is important, but my emphasis was on how the video does a good job on representation. I didn't enjoy history when I was a middle-schooler, but my interest in history has been growing lately. I just hope our textbooks can do a better job to make history interesting. That's all. Thank you for your reply.
@annannz9047 you can find videos of every subjects made by the textbooks publisher, they have youtube channels too. But teachers don't play those videos in class, I think it's because of time. In my schools, teachers play movies after big exams.
on a side note, Japan in the first 20 years of their colonization loses the equivalent of 6.6 billion dollars in today's money every year just to build up Taiwan. The unlimited budget the Japanese gave to the colonial government just to prove a point (That they are a modern imperial power on equal footing to the west) provided Taiwan with a whole bunch of overengineered infrastructures and buildings of which some are still in use today.
前幾天地震之後我們還有用日治時期造的橋當臨時便道呢！
We even use bridge left from Japanese as temporary emergency path due to the earthquake few day ago!
@@binghamkuang HI
Interesting
This is the truth that a lot of Taiwanese ppl don’t know of🥹
Well I actually didn’t know either until I moved back to Taiwan and started to find more history truth and stories online.
One thing I found interesting was comparing Taiwan with my research on why Africa is poor.
The Spanish colonies had a similar investment plan as Taiwan and today they are asking the most developed countries in Africa.
It's interesting how Japan managed to do this decades earlier
So proud of Taiwan! Sad that not many people see how amazing the country is under constant Chinese pressure.
Although Taiwan is small, it cannot be ignored
Ayo I’m from Taiwan, I agree with you 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes, but the ones in power are elected by ignorants. Bad,bad. 😢.
@@dmst528 Of course, Taiwan is important. It's important to China because of history. It's important to USA because it wants to hurt China.
@@amy9424 Taiwanese passport is pretty badass now
@@dmst528 Taiwan is literally the justified Chinese government. They are supposed to be one of the largest countries in the world. Especially considering the land they officially claim (PRC+Mongolia (+Taiwan))
As a Taiwanese person, this video is better than 90% of what we teach in school, and amazingly untainted by any political-historical narrative.
It’s rare to find a video on Taiwanese history so well researched and well made anywhere online. Jolly well done, Avery!
Simple, clear, no bias, all truth, and no judgement. Excellent work!
This video is given a thumbs-up by a Taiwanese citizen, which is me. Great job History Scope! 👍👍👍
I really hope all the best for our beautiful northern neighbor Taiwan 🇹🇼🇹🇼 coming from the Philippines. ❤😊
A zillion thanks for your support, my fellow Southeast Asian brother/sister! 🥰
@@jau-yonchen6492 the REAL Republic of China.
@@jau-yonchen6492 The Real Republic of China 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
@@JSnow-st7hm It depends on one's viewpoint. However, the fact is that the Republic of China can only exist because of Taiwan as it got kicked out of its original territory excluding Mongolia back in 1949 and lost its official representation in the United Nations in 1971. One can only find remnants of the Republic of China government on China in museums, LOL!
@@JSnow-st7hmthe GOOD republic of China
Most countries could learn a thing or two from Taiwan’s dynamic mix of market and social policies :) their land to the tiller reforms, and support for small and medium businesses are examples for the rest of the world to follow
I have learned more from you than 4 years in a economic faculty. well done mate.
Many popular Taiwanese computer companies include:
Acer
Asus
MSI
BenQ
Cooler Master
Gskill
And Gigabyte
Addendum: Foxxconn,AOC,HTC,Thermaltake, my favorite case manufacturer Lian Li, and the most important one; tsmc ( Makes CPUs) which stands for:
Taiwan
Semiconductor
Manufacturing
Company limited.
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Most of dell and hp computers were made by the above Taiwanese companies.
You know
In tell founder is also Taiwanese
Hilarious seeing their naming of the companies
A Formosan Black Bear friend of mine is Beary Happy to learn, how a country like his 🇹🇼 with luck & good policies, can get wealthy in a relatively short time (decades, compared to my country’s development 🇬🇧).
That country is republic of China
I support Taiwan's independence.
@@greentraveler4114 Did the CCP troll farm dispatch you?
@@greentraveler4114based.
@kingace6186 out of pure curiosity, what exact motive as a westerner do you have to support what is basically a political grouping trying to become independent from the rest of their country in one territory?
@@kingace6186I agreed with the CCP troll too
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Taiwan is so " Rich " because it is Not " Corrupt " Country 👍👍👍
Kai shek was def. Corrupt.
yea until it went fully democratic and produced the most corrupt president (Chen shuibian) and administration of all of history in Taiwan, and yet the Taiwanese people keep getting fear mongered into voting for the same corrupt party. While the economy and progress regresses.
a people live in his dream is lucky
is this a joke? taiwan is not a corrupted country?
their govt just spent 800 billion TWD for nothing in pandemic
台灣清廉指數的確在世界靠前段，前段國家的確大部分富有
as a taiwanese American i think this a pretty well made video
@@royyu1082 no, bad concept
@@royyu1082well I was born in Taiwan and I’m Taiwanese. Being Taiwanese doesn’t mean just being an aboriginal. As being Taiwanese is a nationality, not a race. That’s like saying that the native Indians are the only real American, everyone else isn’t. What’s your point? Stop grasping for straws.
@@royyu1082 Chinese culture. NOT COMMUNIST CULTURE. North Korea and South Korea are two different country too. You are a communist chinese and Taiwan is a democratic Chinese.
@@royyu1082 Ridiculously!
@@royyu1082 Although Taiwan has traditional Chinese culture, many parts are multicultural. As you said, the current People's Republic of China has completely wiped out traditional Chinese culture. Judging from the current situation, only Taiwan has traditional Chinese culture. The palaces and temples are a good example.
This is such an awesome in-depth look at Taiwan's history. I'm no history guy, but this video really captivated me by how you explain complex things so easily. Great video!
Actually, China did not have authority in Taiwan until Chin dynasty and it only lasted for about 10 years before Taiwan was given to Japan. After Chin toppled Ming Dynasty, some leftover Ming officials escaped to Taiwan. In most of the Taiwan-China history, Taiwan was an unclaimed island providing shelter and new opportunities to some Chinese seeking refugees across Taiwan Strait. Japan, Dutch, Spain, Portuguese all left their marks on this island.
Unclaimed? It was returned to China under the Cairo Declaration. Taiwan is stated as a part/province of China in the UN documents and recognised by almost all countries including the US under the one-China policy. Even Taiwan's constitution says so.
It's not up to anyone to say you to bs. China has no problem Taiwan as it is. But if you start claiming you are independent, that will be a problem. That's what US wants you to, in order to get Chinese to fight Chinese on both sides of the Strait. It will be a proxy war like the Ukraine war. Only US wins.
你知道台湾的正视名称吗？ROC ，republic ofChina
@@liuscott5744 ROC represented the whole China. After PRC was officially recognised to represent the whole China, Taiwan becomes a part/province of it. And your point?
@Time4Peace Cairo consensus emphasize Taiwan return to ROC, so there is still nothing associated with PRC. Taiwan is a sovereign country, with its own currency, government, territory, citizen, undoubtedly fact, doesn't matter how fifty cents army crying over it.
@@howardyen-z9c Clearly you don't believe in the UN. Or you think the US decides for the whole world. And brainwashed by the US narrative to divide and rule.
Taiwan's growth is really impressive
But nearly half of Taiwan's trade volume is with mainland China. . . I really can't understand what this video is talking about
A lot of countries do the majority of its trade with China and are still extremely poor and underdeveloped.
@@zhu_zi4533 Because Taiwan has what China need and their undemocracy, censoring everything government is not working for the world peace.
@@zhu_zi4533
台灣經濟高速成長的時候，並不與中國大量貿易
台灣人口不及全世界的0.3%，然而，世界前10大遠洋貨櫃運輸公司，台灣佔3家。
這三家航運公司開設，是為了載運台灣生產的貨物到全世界，而開設的時間超過50年。
中國當時根本未改革開放，經濟才剛結束顢頇的人民公社。
@@zhu_zi4533 no, only 30-40%, chinese top exporters are 6 out of 10 are Taiwanese maker.
10 seconds in and this video is already censored in china
Sorry we don*t give a sh*t abt a fkin poor island with lame-ass infrastructures and no bullet trains😂
I grew up in Taiwan and I feel liked I learned a lot from this video!! Some of the things I already knew, but this video explained a lot more details that I didn't notice! Thank you for making this video!
Taiwan has never ever been a part of China.
But China has been a part of Taiwan 🇹🇼
Yoi are wrong.
If the Qing Dynasty was China, then Taiwan indeed once belonged to China.
If the Republic of China can be considered China, then Taiwan still belongs to China.
If the People's Republic of China is China, then Taiwan does not belong to China now.
@@cliffordlee2261 this doesn't fit the US value, and that would mean independence.
@@kusogod I'll number your points into 1,2,3.
1.Qing only took Taiwan as colony, and only along part of the shores, so , no didn't belong.
2.ROC which claimed by KMT, retreated to Taiwan, they are government in exile, it's a state of ROC and Taiwan co-existing, not belonging.
3.Taiwan doesn't belong to China now, nor ever before.
As a Taiwanese born and brought up in Taiwan, I learned so much from this video. Thank you so much for creating this. Wish this can reach to Taiwanese audience.
Your from tawain right😊😊😊
0:23 The part relating to Qing Dynasty was somewhat inaccurate. The Qing Dynasty claimed to conquer "Taiwan" after they defeated a rebel army that desires to restore the Ming Dynasty resides on the west plain areas. However rest parts of the island were under control of the indigenous peoples and wasn't considered as territory or even mapped by the Qing government (this also continued for many years after Japanese took over). More importantly, Qing government never actively ruled or even had much controls over the lands before 1874 and that's not long before ceding Taiwan to Japan. Most of the time Qing government forbids people from mainland moving to Taiwan, or only single men were allowed. So many of the people moved back then were stowaways with no family and small portions of them married with indigenous people then inherited some lands. This gradually grew the settlements of Qing people, yet not really by planned and supports were little from Qing government.
Right
1. The last Dutch Formosa governor was Swedish.
2. The Ming royalist Koxinga was born in Japan to a Chinese pirate and a Japanese mother.
3. Qing was not founded by Chinese. The rulers of Qing were the Manchus. It is like Yuan. The rulers of Yuan were the Mongols.
4. The former president of Taiwan Tsai is a mix Hakka Chinese immigrant and Paiwan aboriginal from her grand parents.
Also the Chinese immigrants moved to Taiwan before Qing. Many of them were first brought in by the Dutch as foreign workers. Some others were the traders or the privates.
@KuanCGM To "conquer" needs not a country to step on every inch of its territory to claim full sovereignty over its land. Otherwise large countries like Russia, US, Canada, Australia, Brazil etc cant claim most of their territory that no man has every walked. Same as "control". Many countries dont have full control over their territory too, like India, Brazil, Russia etc, that doesnt mean the territory is not part of their sovereignty
You are very good at explaining things❤
This man takes his time with his videos. That's why they are soo good 👍 👏
15:00 Is that the Manchukuo anthem in the background?
weird flex, but ok.
Yes it is ☠️☠️☠️
how did y'all recognise it💀
@@supernt7852 I have critical levels of brainrot.
Also if you know Chinese toponyms, you know that a song about Manzhou does not belong in a Taiwan video.
I thought it is the counterattack mainland song? 反攻大陸去
@@lesinge8868i can’t even hear the lyrics of the track in the background
Taiwan is rich because of its government system...and the maverick entrepreneurs that spearheaded the tech industry...
Very true
You do realize that Taiwan became rich during the kmt dictatorship years right... similar situation with South Korea... not to mention Singapore which is a dictatorship to this day
Taiwan became rich during Japanese era. The Chinese government KMT actually made Taiwan worse. Taiwan could have been better without them.
Go check old news at the time to find out the truth rather than the propaganda given by KMT.
I am Taiwanese, and I must say: stocks and housing prices are the basis for people's wealth, but poverty and wealth have become extreme.🥲
@@troy5094 You also realize that's when US donated a lot of resources as well, similar to SK. Singapore's history is very interesting, dictatorship is fine if the dictator is actually good at running a country and care for their people, which Singapore has. But when a country don't, people suffer, and there's barely anyway of turning the tables besides revolution.
One of the Taiwan owned schools is here in Cebu Eastern College in College. Before it is mostly composed of Chinese Taipei Students but they progress so that Cebuanos can also study there. Now Cebu Eastern College is now 109 Years old here
One of the Taiwan owned schools is here in Cebu. The name of the school is Cebu Eastern College . Before it is mostly composed of Chinese Taipei Students but they progress so that Cebuanos can also study there. Now Cebu Eastern College is now 109 Years old here
What, couldn't find much history but that was built by the Chinese sympathizer that initially, probably has nothing to with Taiwan but asking money, people for their arm-struggling revolution and the support of Japan empire back then... and why Taiwan has something to do with them later is because they illegally took over Formosa/Taiwan, at first under the command of Allied forces then they occupied the island illegally, in the end of the day Taiwan is still using roC - the outdated colonial-totalitarian Chinese government framework which force upon most of the Formosan/Taiwanese the non-Chinese citizens, and we're tearing it down bit by bit after the inevitable democracy we fought and sacrified for, and still fighting for sure, we're getting better.
@@TaigiTWeseFormosanDiplomat you can actually visit the school here in Cebu, Philippines for more history about this school
@@jadeorbigoso5212 Taiwan isn't even exisit back then
@@mushroomsauce4640 other name of Taiwan is Republic of China and they already existed since 1912.
Taiwan loves doing contract manufacturing on huge scale, many probably don't know most of the nike adidas sneakers are OEM by TWnese companies with factories in SEA. Most iphones and game consoles are made by Foxconn.
The Foxconn boss got himself into trouble for wearing the ROC hat and enter the presidential. Kudos for him to stand up against China.
Always a good day when history scope uploads!
🇨🇳and🇹🇼are interesting to me because no one has to theorize on what China would have been like if the outcome of the civil war were different. I know North Korea and South Korea exist but there's been way too much outside interference.
PRC is China if the communists won, ROC is China if the fascists won.
The funniest part about it is that both countries pretty much gave up their ideologies and became more or less the same, with the communist side keeping their communist style of government but ultimately just being another capitalist society. The CCP says that only Marxism-Leninism could've gotten China to modernize as much as it has, yet not only have they totally abandoned Marxism-Leninism, but there's another China on a stone's throw away that never embraced Marxism and is doing just as fine if not better.
As an expat that lives in Taiwan, I really see no difference between the KMT and the CCP. There ideology is that Chinese people need to be told how to live and how to think. Just look at Ma Ying Jiu visiting China to see Xi Jin Ping.
The roc built it's economy up on the back of others. They only got all what they needed BECAUSE they were in conflict with the communist. Really, if we were being honest here, the mere existence of mainland china is the reason the roc is as developed as it was because we saw what china under roc rule was like before the prc and it sure wasn't helping.
The ROC got the superior ideology and much better social development than the PRC can ever dream of. Btw, the PRC economy's house of cards is unravelling with its real estate market essentially being a ponzi scheme that is much worse than that of the 2008 financial crisis!
@@EarthForces and yet PRC has the second largest GDP whereas ROC has less GDP than Mexico. Really says something when a communist country has higher GDP than most capitalist countries.
The PRC has never abandoned Marxism. In China, Marxism is more like a belief rather than a specific policy. Everything that China is currently doing is aimed at bringing China closer to socialism. History has proven that only by combining the advantages of a planned economy, market economy, democratic centralism, and other systems, can a country achieve better development.
Complex scenario broken down into simp explanations.
Stumbled upon your channel, and have subscribed. 😊
Now I'm Imagining a simp explaining economics.
Thanks !!! History SCOPE for informative information. Watching from London England
I was shocked and thought there was wrong information about the video 24:48 saying that Taiwanese are not allowed to go abroad until I googled and found that's true. I born in 1987 and from Taiwan, I know we didn't have speech freedom before the martial period is ended, but just never imagined that we couldn't go abroad freely. It's such an interesting video. Thanks for putting effort to make it.
28:43
27:55 Gotta love the Trek reference.
Taiwanese here to share, for the past few decades our education focus more on "Chinese history" instead of Taiwanese history, so this video educated me more than the whole pile of my history textbooks. things are changing now, students nowadays start to learn more about Taiwanese history.
My grandpa was born in Taiwan during Japanese Era, he considered himself as a Japanese, many Taiwanese also did the same, including the person who invented instant noodle, he was born in Taiwan, but identify as Japanese, he's also considered as Japanese by Japanese. Japan really did a big favor to Taiwan on modernization, which China failed to do anything, they don't even really care about their people, which can still be seen nowadays, the average quality of Chinese is just so much lower than Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, this is why people don't like China.
China has a lot of land and a lot of people (many of whom descended from farmers) to manage, also it was poor at the time when Japan raided Taiwan so it can't really help much. After Chiang went to Taiwan with most of the riches at the time China wasn't in a good state, seeing China has bad relations with surrounding countries like the USSR later, they have been growing at a surprising exponential rate with little help from the outer world, while Japan Korea and Taiwan manages their small islands with little population with generous donations from the US as well. We should learn from each other and prosper together instead of blindly hating on others.
@@harryyu8469 I personally had a lot of bad personal experience with Chinese, all because I say my family comes from Taiwan, I didn't even say I'm a Taiwanese, which apparently is a huge deal to many Chinese, they can't stand Taiwanese calling themselves Taiwanese, they always want to make you say you're Chinese.
Last time I went back to Taiwan visiting family was 2022, guess what, China surrounded us with warships and military drills because Nancy Pelosi came to Taiwan to visit.
I barely go visit Taiwan and I can still run into the scene where China tries to get Taiwan troubles, it's very hard for me to like China and Chinese, maybe you and your country should start change, so we don't hate each other, many of my Japanese and Korean friends in US didn't like China and Chinese as much, I think there's reasons to it.
The Japanese did do much for Taiwan. They built the railroads. Set up National Taiwan University (NTU). Enrolment was limited to Japanese students though. But it was through the KMT that the Taiwan economic miracle (40 years from 1950s to 1980s) happened. Not the Japanese.
They didn’t want Taiwan to become as advanced as they were. So during Japanese era, Taiwanese people aspired to be doctors
@@yaya5tim that is pretty true, I can say I have met a lot of great Taiwanese people that are very friendly and kind, but the rudeness of Chinese people can’t be blamed on them. Many Chinese came from rural communities where education and mannerisms are basically nonexistent, traveling back and forth between boston and beijing, I can feel that difference. There are people in beijing that runs around the road, doesn’t care about red lights, and reckless drivers despite the harsh speed limits implemented.
What i’m trying to say is, if a Chinese person does not like when you say you’re from Taiwan, it is highly likely that it’s the way they’re taught and the environments they have grown up with. Please be kind to them and show them good manners of a well educated 华 person whilst educating them on what they missed in their education, and don’t be blunt by saying Taiwan is a country bc they wouldn’t understand.
Also Pelosi came to show support for Taiwan which the CCP doesn’t want, though I might respect Taiwan as a country, the mainland won’t want that bc of Taiwan’s close relations to the US and their strategic position on the sea, and the advance tech that they have which is highly dependent on both China and US markets. i’m glad Taiwan thrived, i’m also glad the mainland is catching up on everything, but it’s not going to be that easy for a gigantic country especially with thousands of years of traditions burned into everybody’s mind to change easily.
In the shoes of Taiwan, either i befriend mainland, or i befriend the US. In the first case, I might piss off the US who’s highly dependent on my products so they won’t actually do anything, or in the second case I piss off mainland and get a frowny face every time i try to trade with them and get surrounded by big ships all the time, and get great pressure from the closest nation that’s world no.2 at the moment.
Even a new country like the US has a lot of racists and rednecks, and it’s not really comparable to Taiwan Japan and south Korea that have cities with higher concentrated populations and had external aids during the years they’re doing best. Just like when the soviets were still in charge, even North Korea had a living standard so much better than its neighboring South Korea, with a lot of South Koreans fleeing to North Korea where their industries were far more advanced, healthcare and education was basically free. Small island countries can all thrive with generous external aid and hardworking citizens with a same goal, no matter who’s in charge. As long as people feel safe, they should thrive. The CCP’s rule has many flaws, mainly being no hardcoded law enforcement that looks over the government, but so does the US’s democracy, where two old idiots are the only candidates selected for presidency.
I think it’s ok to say that it’s not really fair for the Chinese when Chiang took the best of people (doctors, engineers etc) and gained help from multiple countries like Japan and the US where the Chinese mainlanders are basically left alone with a huge pile of rubble that they have to build a home from themselves. They do fuck up a good amount of times especially when lmao was in charge, but I always hope for a better tomorrow.
Japan killed a lot of Taiwanese while colonizing Taiwan. That's the truth.
11:10 “so Taiwan created a new company with a super unique name” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
12:56 “The first advantage is that they lost the Chinese Civil War” 🤣🤣🤣
In our Taiwanese history class nowadays, we use "govern" rather than "colonize" to state the era under Japanese rule. Japanese set up a great base for Taiwan to develop, and we are still very thankful to it.
小時候被中華民國教科書荼毒，長大才知道誰用心建設
心中認為應該改成日本統治時期跟國民黨殖民時期
我覺得不一定吧 也有許多原住民和漢人被日本人殺（看看玉井事件、賽德克巴萊）、賴和的一桿秤子等等書籍也寫出日本警察對台灣人的壓迫，而且當時日本的確就是殖民台灣，將台灣的農產品低價買回去餵日本人、勞役原住民、讓日本人住進原住民的土地、壓榨種甘蔗的農民、掠取木材等等資源、戰爭也動員台灣人打仗，我覺得還是算一種殖民。當然，日本的確奠基台灣現代化的許多基礎。
@@玉佳瓏 Not everyone thinks the same as you bro, I don't like the DPP but I'm also very grateful to the Japanese for building infrastructure for Taiwan at that time. btw I voted for KMT or TPP in the last 3 presidential elections and local elections.
Colonization is the correct term. A lot of the so called "bases" was done so that Japan can move resources more efficiently back to Japan. Changing the term to "govern" is very much the same subliminal messaging to rewrite history to a version more beneficial to the DPP stance, considering their own family histories during Japanese colonization. I am not saying whether or not I agree, but I won't pretend that is not also political manipulation.
When Japanese troops set to occupy Taiwan in 1895, 154 died in combat with Taiwanese civilian resistance. 4,000 died from tropical diseases like plague, cholera, malaria, etc. and 27,000 were sent back to Japan for treatment of these diseases. Therefore, the Japanese spent a lot of effort eradicating those disease so their people could colonize the island. Lots of sugar and rice were exported to Japan during their rule. Most of the businesses were owned by Japanese. Sale of tobacco, alcohol, and even opium were monopolized by Japanese.
I watched this video from start to finish. It is eye opening and hope countries wanting to develop will have the same opportunity that I have.
The video illustrates how mindboggling many steps have to go right for a country to develop. External factors and internal decisions all have to play well together. This makes it a lot more understandable why many other countries inside and outside of Asia have failed to reach similar results after the rise of the 4 Asian Tigers.
perfect example of a tall empire in 4x
It feels like forever when you don’t uploaded 😁👌
I uploaded 3 videos in 3 months! :o
I thought that you would upload 1 video a month, i was so sad when you said only 10 videos instead of 12 this year. @@HistoryScope
Taiwanese in the early days are the most hardworking people in the world. They worked 24 hrs ,7 days a week in the early 60s to the 80s just to rush out goods.
for export.
I bet no other countries can compare to Taiwanese workers.
South Korea. Japan. Mainland China.
I'm Taiwanese,I approved this is super short version of our history textbook and more interesting!
27:55 I had a feeling that you were a Star Trek guy
Regards to part two of the video, Taiwan wasn't failing due to Japanese returning to Japan after the war, Taiwan was failing because the KMT that took over aside from lining their own pockets was shipping things back to China to support the Civil war. There was Taiwanese politicians who championed for Taiwanese parliament under Japanese rule, those people continued to do their part but would be exterminated by KMT in 1947.
Right history… even most Taiwanese growing up under KMT’s rule don’t know about that.
War is ugly. But we move on.
That’s why Taiwanese dislike the KMT.
If you're a foreigner trying to learn about Taiwanese history, I'd suggest checking out Wikipedia instead of these comments. A lot of what you'll find here is just plain wrong.
@@dajen0265 Tell me why KMT has half the votes in Taiwan?
"Basically, investing money into poor people so they stop being poor is one of the best investments a government can make" wowzers
When the Japanese left, Taiwanese people "do" know about how to organize themselves and know about the rule of law more than the war torn China (Nationalist party). Although the education given to Taiwanese people mainly focus on science , medical training (as doctors), these very intelligent people become an important part of the society and the cultural trait passed on until now.
I feel the source material in this video skews heavily toward China and the Kuo-Min Tang (KMT/Nationalist Party), and downplay the infulence of the Japanese colonization.
have to give credit where credit is due, would taiwan be the microchip giant without the KMT? i'm 100% sure it wouldn't be the chip giant. because most of the intellectuals that built the chip industry would not have come to taiwan if it were not the retreat of the KMT to Taiwan. and them laying down the foundations for these intellectual too thrive. one example is Morris Chang founder of TSMC who was born in Zhejiang Province had the KMT not retreated to Taiwan. if taiwan is still japanese today one thing for sure your women will be selling themselves in a kabukicho style to white people and you'll be facing the same lost decade.
Thank you for making this video. It is very nice to hear someone introducing the country I'm from.
in fact, china has never
fully conquer taiwan as whole
until ROC show up
the earliest one is ching
but ching has only
got few areas at the
west side of taiwan
and as for ROC tho…
they also only got taiwan
for very short period of time
and then japan step in
japan win the war first
and claim taiwan&penghu
as the result of the war
and then japan lost ww2
they've gave up the
sovereignty of taiwan&penghu
but not straight return it to ROC
and then ROC has failed
the fight between ROC&PRC
and fall back to taiwan
and then, here we are🤷
@tonyyoung1991 A country needs to step on every inch of its territory to claim full sovereignty over its land. Otherwise large countries like Russia, US, Canada, Australia, Brazil etc cant claim most of their territory that no man has every walked.
I’m from Taiwan, and it is amazing to see how the country developed to the way it is now.
I'm Taiwanese. In Taiwan, the gap between the rich and the poor is immense, and the housing price-to-income ratio is unbelievably high. Asking us to pay protection fees will not make the wealthy contribute a single cent; it will only make the people suffer more.
true, the news about GDP growth is a government propaganda, they don't want to mention the housing price, cost of living, and the salary of an average citizen.
Please note that the history of Taiwan didn’t only involve China, Japan, and the U.S. Before China’s Qing Dynasty, some part of Taiwan was under Spain and Dutch’s control as well.
Taiwan is truly a success story in the world. We've evolved from an agricultural economy to one of the highest tech country. Not just economy or technological evolution, we also at the same time transformed from a dictatorship country to a vibrant and functional democracy. And, a big and, because we are small, we don't have the ambition to conquer the world, like some neighbor of ours does, we never pose a threat to the world. We just want to included as part of the world community, we never wanted to challenge or even replace others. We come in peace, which is not what you can say about the neighbor of ours.
Taiwan local here. Immediate reaction at title: NO we are NOT
Rich enough.
Compared with the disaster you avoided across the Strait, yes you are.
I’m from a first world nation. Everyone complains. Not appreciating what you have is not exclusive to the west, case in point.
@@bobs_toysthey’re not as far behind as you think. Key coastal regions are already as affluent as Taiwan.
@@canto_v12 you know how you put that qualifier in?
It's because outside of the tier 1 cities, things get bad quickly.
You're comparing Taiwan as a whole to the best the PRC has to offer.
Thanks for producing a highest caliber video that is also informative and with a mind-opening horizon of knowledge to many people around the world.
Yaay, April's Fools episode!
12 year Taiwan Veteran, this video is 100% on point. I am one of the examples. :)
Very good content! Very informative!
Excellent video. Shows how a small nation can develop and upgrade its people and economy over many generations. Gave me many ideas and visions for development.
There is an error on the Japanese occupation, Japanese did not allow Taiwanese to learn engineering. Taiwanese were allowed to get advanced degrees in medicine and agriculture. That’s why there were a lot of doctors in Taiwan. When Japanese was leaving, they destroyed the power plants. KMT had to restore/ rebuild the power plants. Most of the help were from US.
Well done, but I think you missed to mention that after the end of last Chinese civil war ( 1945-1949 ), nearly more than 2 million rich and educated Chinese whom were targeted by the newly founded Communist government in China moved into Taiwan, which contributed a lot into development of the country.
And in the decades after, anyone who was vaguely competent wasn't considered a class enemy and attacked.
It's amazing what small details make a difference.
When my father went to teach in China, he was shown the window a previous English teacher was thrown out of.
Not a sight he could have been shown in Taiwan.
That was stated in the video already.
Not 2 million rich and educated ppl. The 2 million included rich ruling class, but most are poor soldiers without much education, came to Taiwan with nothing. Some boys were kidnapped by kmt while working on the farm. Only met family again when they were able to visit China 4 decades later. These are the kind of sad stories happened in time of wars. These soldiers have great contributions to Taiwan development, many unwanted and dangerous jobs were done by them, such as building highways.
maybe, but they brought nothing besides of greedy people, Taiwanese supplied them food, drinking, ground, house...everything, what a pity, they massacred many Taiwanese...
Thank GOD Winnie Xitler could NOT have Taiwan and NEVER will. Companies like TSMC, Asus, Acer, MSI, Gigabyte, Foxconn, MediaTek etc., not only would've NEVER existed, much less thriving. ALL companies in china MUST share profits with the CCP or face closure. Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Lisa Su (AMD), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Steven Chen (TH-cam), to name a few (All Taiwan born). I'm talking this "small island" produced some of the BIGGEST names in the tech industries. BAR NONE.
@lil----lil I mean...theyre all Chinese. And Chinese thrive everywhere they go. Regardless of place of birth.
As a Taiwanese watching this video, I feel great! Even though I haven't caught any of those riches.....
Taiwanese people are smart.
Love the background music and songs! Good picks!
As a Taiwanese, I must point out a fact that you completely ignore or don't know, that is, the Chinese government-in-exile that ruled Taiwan after World War II was an incompetent and corrupt regime. These economic achievements were the result of White Engineering consultants in the U.S. foreign aid program at the time. The company's achievements are that they planned and implemented these economic upgrades for Taiwan, and most importantly, they prevented US aid funds from flowing into the pockets of senior KMT officials. This is the main or even the only factor in Taiwan's economic achievements.
@sirius1701a1 You give too much credit to White people. Chinese people thrive everywhere they go. Whether its in the US, Singapore, Malaysia, HK etc, TW is no exception.
The White engineering consultants you speak of and foreign aid programs are literally everywhere in this world.
Why did other parts of the developing world that received their help not as successful?
Give the Chinese on TW island more credit.
I study English by watching this video. Plus, I learn so many things about Taiwanese history, even though I am Taiwanese.
Lol me too
Thank you. well appreciated. excellent summary.
This was a great video guys. Excellent topic as well
Because they're not Commies
Hello Hello From Victoria Canada!!! I am brand new to your channel and after seeing this excellent episode I am looking forward to checking out more of your channel. You researched details and historical facts I had now idea about so keep up the awesome content you and your team create. I hope you all, stay safe, have good luck, good health and find as much happiness as you can possibly enjoy.
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NEW HISTORY SCOPE VIDEO!!
Hello from a medium-sized-traditonal-industry-manufacturing business owner! Its super hard to hire engineers as they always go to tech :(, while we have migrants workers from Vietnam and Philippines. Awesome video!
As a middle age Taiwanese, I never learned Taiwanese history in school before I went to the US in 1995. I’m glad Taiwan is getting more international attentions now! I remember people think I was from Thailand when I told when I was from Taiwan the first year in the US. However I would like to point out that Taiwanese are skinny not because we export all the food but being skinny is the common beauty standard there. 😅
And because of the constant treat from communist PPC, there are many Taiwanese live aboard. In my opinion, Taiwanese are one of the most skilled, hard working but at the same time modest people in the world. Taiwan is also the freest country in Asia and most inclusive of anyone being different. It is the first country in Asia legalize same-sex marriage. Thank you for making this video and I hope one day we could call our country Taiwan ❤ and lose the “China” in our official country name. After all, we are two different countries. ✌️
I really wish you had mentioned TSMC
What a wishful thinking! 😉
Taiwan today suffers from a Taiwanese version of the oil curse, where electronics is the oil. Only the electronic industry is rich, while other industry are stagnating and offer very low salary
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what a pity!!!
Low salary but they got a whole bunch of social benefits and welfare, paid for by those tech industries.
I remember when I was at Taiwan school, our teacher talk about there is actually quite amount of factory that has billion income in our local area. It just that their product are so specific for export, we won't even find a single product from their factory in our market, they don't do domestic trade at all.
I like how it's only mentioned off hand once that Taiwan spent the majority of its time as a military dictatorship.
most countries going independent in the 90s are. it simply very difficult to have a stable country that starts as a pure democracy then.
This video focusses on the economics, not the political side.
Based on historical data, a country can become rich under various types of governments.
@@BunToomoabsolutely not, also we are not talking about a country becoming independent? We are talking about a government that existed since the 1920s moving too a small part of their own country.
@@SunnyIlhathat's the worst excuse for dictatorial rule i ever heard.
@@HistoryScopeeconomics are inherently political? How is talking about japan colonizing Taiwan not political.
Well said . Thanks for sharing.
In fact, even after Japan's withdrawal, there were many highly skilled personnel in Taiwan.
Fearing Taiwan's independence as "Taiwan", the ROC government of the time suppressed and persecuted those who had received higher education in the Japanese era.
They do not demonize creativity and making money in Taiwan. The richest industrialist in Taiwan did not even complete primary school.
No matter where you are from, the basic principle is to work hard to become wealthy. Wealth should be accumulated through diligent and honest efforts, in order to be sustained and preserved.
The accumulation of wealth should not be achieved through violent or fraudulent means, by depriving others of their wealth.
In a country with widening wealth disparity, society will be unstable.
Only in nations with a more equitable distribution of wealth can there be a more stable society and a safer living environment.