This is the most polite white anchorman I've ever met.Generally speaking, the hosts of Western media such as BBC and CNN will show serious arrogance and prejudice when connecting with Chinese guests, and frequently interrupt the speeches of them. It's not easy to see such a high-quality dialogue between the East and the West today.Although the anchorman's views are quite different from Professor Zhang, they show full respect for each other.If the western world can show some respect to China, put down its arrogance, and learn from China's epidemic prevention experience modestly, today's epidemic situation will not be so serious.
This is the difference between Canada and the US. He is from Canada's mainstream research based media on global affairs at the University of Toronto. In fact, Canadian mainstream journalists, generally speaking, do not apply the very aggressive and at times abrasive style of interviews as Americans often do.
Agree. Like seriously, the fact that he let professor zhang finish his lines ALL the time surprised me, I was like, what?! so I would like to at least remember his face.
What impresses me most is a calm and patient host willing to listen to opinions that might differ from his. This is extremely valuable trait to allow peaceful and constructive dialogue.
Dr Zhang made some very good points. To understand Chinese mentality about governance and the relationship between government and its subjects, one must understand Chinese history, tradition and culture.
I appreciate Munk for choosing someone from China and hold different views from that of the west involved in China topic, so audience can hear the other side of story and make the debate a real communication and dialogues betweens the two worlds. Good job!
The best ever host for an Interview I have ever seen the west, No interpose, No interrupting, this host is very polite, people know that when the west talk about the China issue is always not objective enough and very rude.
This is the best interview i ever seen between western news media and China. No interruption from Anchorman, and his question is not biased. It lets the viewer to make up his own decision. I will go to your web site to see more. Thank you very much.
I, born in HK and live in HK at this moment, plan to go back to mainland when my kids go to university few years later. Mainland China is a place where my kids can better develop their career, plus it’s a good place for my husband and I to have pleasure retirement
It's not called going back to Mainland, it's moving within China, one China. Not a big thing, just take the train to Guangzhou, takes what? 1h? that's not moving, that's a commute between cities within China.
@@dehua-2730 She has not said that she will go back to "China" but "mainland China". In fact in this case, she was talking about mainland China and hongkong in term of geographical divisions. don't be 玻璃心
Because of the Anchor’s great manner and respectful interaction with Prof. Zhang, I’d like to follow Munk’s dialogue channel. It becomes a norm to see Chinese’s guests are interrupted during interviews in western channels. World needs more mainstream channel like this to make both East and West voices are heard, equally & fairly!
More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher, Plato, wrote a book, "The Republic", in which he expounded his concept of an ideal republic. The Chinese political system is the closest that a country can get to the ideal republic of Plato, where the members of the Communist Party of China are the guardians of the republic. The political leaders in China, like in the republic of Plato, are chosen in accordance with their merits and experience. This is unlike the case of the so-called democratic system in the US and other western countries where the political leaders are either clowns (actors), gangsters (business people and CIA agents), or liars (lawyers).
Interesting observation. However, I think that the genetic bell curve of human feeling dominates all things human. Everyone makes the same mistakes and learns from the same mistakes, over and over again until the mistakes are so well pronounced that people instinctively do the best part of what is being inscribed, not only in our history books, but upon our DNA. All of OUR mistakes are made in the environment human nursery that we call Earth. Every blast, every poisoning, every loud noisy hateful demonstration happens within the nursery. OUR only nursery!
@@dianabenobo Unless you are born in a country with a history more than 5000 years. You could learn from the long enough history and avoid many mistakes. Wisdom can make people better, and wisdom always comes from history.
There are plenty of examples but that information had been omitted from you by your own society. A major roadblock that deprives you of learning about others.
This guy is notorious to be known as promoting propaganda for CCP. He wrote a book series to praise the CCP policies. Don’t believe him. I read his book out of curiosity. It’s full of shit.
im amazed by how few views this wonderful video is getting. less than 10k views after 1 month the vid posted. Either the youtube algorithm did something to it, or the undereducated / ignorant West netizens can't digest such informative stuff.
It may also be the arrogance of the west, disdaining to see the content related to China. For example, Der Tagesspiegel wants to play up China's control over power, especially when Chinese characters indicate power, but it is written as a tree branch... The west is full of hostility to China, but it doesn't understand this opponent. It will eventually eat its own fruit
I fear it is the latter. Even intelligent, progressive Canadians seem unwilling to doubt their own superficial Prime Minister on matters pertaining to China. I ask myself, is it ignorance or racism - possibly both. For holiday viewing, I also recommend the 1966 AMERICAN movie THE SAND PEBBLE. That very long movie together with this very succinct interview would allow any thoughtful person to understand the folly of Western leaders respecting China.
The interviewer behaved like a perfect gentleman and should be commended. Sadly, he seems to be in the minority when it comes to Western interviewers on the subject of Sino-US relations.
Well, as a Chinese, I think the US election is much more interesting to watch than a reality TV show.. We like to sit back and enjoy this show, but don’t really want this kinda shows to happen in our own country. We prefer to have professional people handling professional things, not a popular personnel standing at a podium spewing BS... it’s true that we can’t change the ruling party in China, but we are constantly changing policies. From a few rounds of US election that I have seen so far, yes American people change their ruling parties, but they couldn’t change policies: public education still sucks, gun issues, no universal affordable healthcare, no federal backed maternity leaves, no easy retirement plans,, the list goes on. Americans can criticize their leaders; however, nothing has done/changed for a very long time..
When the US moved from Republicans to the Democrats, old policies were shredded and started all over again. Or vice-versa. So much money and time spent on disputes and criticism. In the meantime China had moved and delivered 2 rounds of their 5 year-plan results.
@@과자나무-x9p It's really not at all amusing when one takes the individual democratic responsibility toward creating and maintaining a more perfect union among equals. It is disturbing for me to observe the abuse of the constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech being abused by what seems to be a reckless sociopath and sociopath disciples! To observe is so compelling that I tire of being allways on guard.
I want to say something on the topic of racism, especially Western racism that has been troubling the US. I believe one major issue is the lack of respect, or putting personal freedom (freedom of speech) over respect. Emphasis of individualism over social responsibility. In China, most people look to the minority races as just "another Chinese". They are not labeled as "weak, deprived, crime prone". They are treated as part of the big family, and with respect.
Exactly! You never ever hear from media in China bad-mouthing other culture and people. And if an Han Chinese married with someone from minority group, they usually like to register their child as minority since they will receive more support from government, like minority were never subjected to one child policy and get extra points in uni-entrance exam (gaokao) .
I guess racism is just part of human nature sadly. You see, those misfit kids in schools around the world are usually bullied by the “normal” kids. In China minorities are considered “another Chinese” because they are minor enough in population and similar enough with the majority.
@@jfi_ agree, racism is part of human nature. But degree of racism matters. I don't mind if someone not liking me, it is perfectly OK, but it is very wrong if this person openly insult or even assault me simply because of my ethnicity, even if he doesn't know me at all personally and I havnt done anything to make him offensive. In China, You rarely to see Chinese attacking and openly insulting any minority people, if they don't like people from some place, they maybe badmouthing them among their own circle of friends and in the public, just keep away from them. There are kind people everywhere, but my problem with western people, especially American, is that their media often openly bad-mouthing and insult other cultural and people, and many westerners seem to be very easily stired up to be violent haters.
after 2000 years china still has 56 distinct cultures. after 200 years the red indians were wiped out in north america - u just had ONE job and u still screwed it up.
@Tani J They are pretty wiped out. Virtually culturally extinct. The reservations are pretty poor with no significant economic development. Few speak tribal language. The Uygurs on the other hand have a surging population, retains their language and culture, have a booming economy, and have a great media presence. Many top China actresses are Uygur.
@Tani J thats right, most of their guys got wiped out, only the girls get "mixed in". also why #BLM victims are mostly black men. you sound like a girl, apologies if i got it wrong.
North America and China cannot be campared, because the North American continent has been relevant for less than 500 years where China has been a part of the world model since the first settlement in the area. China should be compared to Europe, the mediteranean area and India (Overall western Eurasia) where in all those examples there are hundreds of cultural groups.
As a member of a minority ethnical group in China, I never felt racism when I grew up. I spoke my own language and went to a proper ethnical language school. Both of my parents worked as government employees back then. I remember every holiday they will get bonus from the government, more than Han people. And they could have a second child, but my father who is a CPC member decided to support the policy by only having me, a girl. After a few years my mother decided to quit her job in the government and started doing business. I started going to regular public school after two years in the language school. I got extra care from the teacher because I was bad with chinese language. The teacher would take me to his home and cook me and his daughter lunch. Then he would read stories to us and explain the characters. He encouraged me to read and make small speech in front of the class. He encouraged me to communicate with the kids and asked the kids to be extra nice to be because I am a minority. He did all these without anybody asking him! He is just one of many Han chinese that I learned to love! I loved my neighbors who always, always share good food with me. Back in 80s we were all poor, but I always get invites to all sorts of parties! Han chinese people taught me what is "love"!
Prof Zhang went straight to the core issue of the theoretical foundation of liberal democracy, that voters are rational. I agree with him completely on his points. I'd like to add some thoughts. Most democracies actually have mechanisms to safeguard such inherent flaws of the voters. One of them is to devolve the power to local governments as much as possible, so that the main issues are local so the voters can understand and vote on (more or less) rationally. I think this did work to some extent, especially two hundreds years ago when the economies were mostly agrarian and people didn't travel too much. This mechanism is seriously challenged by globalisation and the advent of social media. I don't think the situation will get better; it will only get worse.
This is an essential hour of discussion for anyone who wishes to understand, report or comment on current tensions between China & the West - as largely generated by the words & actions of Donald Trump & Boris Johnson, with support from Canada & Australia.
Thanks to CCP, Chinese nationalism is capped and the country remains rational even under constant provocations from US. CCP collectively deserve a World Peace Award.
Hopefully more western people can see this so that they can learn more facts and philosophies about China from Professor Zhang who is really terrific and erudite!
What a civilized exchange of ideas. Let’s assume that Mr. Zhang is only 50% truthful or honest in his answers, for me, base on d questions, average Canadian is very ill informed about China. Seems like our main stream media’s is intensionally presenting China in a negative light. My thanks to Munk n d interviewer. Time well spent.👍👍👏👏👏
You shouldn't assume, you can be certain China is 100% honest when they are expressing their own views. It is China's views but your views of China are born out of ignorance. Only arrogance and close mindness closes the eyes and shut the ears.
I can assure you, Mr Zhang is 100% true in his answers, he is also sharing in China to young people. Maybe Chinese were not so good at expressing themselves but we are trying to speak out more, to be honest, it’s so hard to hear any true stories outside of China 🇨🇳
@@AntiwarObserver Being civilized mean constraining one's own honest personal view with a topic of negative connotation to a minimal, especially in the public, with an understanding nothing is perfect.
I’d like to follow this channel because it has published the great 👍 conversation with Dr Zhang.It’s very hard to find a western media which could have an equal reporting about China.Most of them have already wear the colored glasses to judge China,even China has did a great work for improving their country,they couldn’t accept that the new China was getting better and better under the CCP leadership.
The best host of this kind of interview I have ever seen. Thanks. Zhang Wei Wei seems to be a real clear headed thinker on US-China relation issues. I believe this kind of dialogue will improve mutual understanding and enhance trust between the two great nations. I was recommended to watch this and I shall recommend to others as well.
Thanks for providing such a high-quality interview. The host is the best I have seen ever in the west. He respects the guest and is courteous, instead rude and arrogant like others when talk about China issue. Will follow.
Thats brilliant! A Real conversation! Salute to the interviewer, he is listening from heart not like other interviewer disturb and try to humiliate the Chinese in the dialogue by all means. Again! We need real dialogue!
The two different systems produced two different results. Electors in the United States are called politicians, while those in China are called leaders. Under the American electoral system, the elected politician is almost entirely dependent on his funding and propaganda efforts. The voters rely solely on luck to choose a qualified ruler of the country. But in China, national leaders are elites who have emerged from among the many elites after years of experience at the grassroots level. They are well aware of the problems in the country and the needs of the people. In China, the funds raised for elections in the United States are called bribery. But in any case, it is most important to find shoes that fit your feet. China has never marketed its system to the outside world.
This is very good. Great host. He’s here to listen, but he still asks good and targeted questions, and the listeners submitted great questions too. I know good content isn’t going to magically change how Americans are, but I do wonder how much better our political conscious would be if our talking heads were questioned like this. Most of our politicians don’t even know what communism is, but they sure do hate it. They don’t know what capitalism is, but they sure do love it.
This is the only dialogue that a Western media genuinely try to understand China. Unfortunately it will only be watched by those who has an open view about China.
Success is through learning from the best practices, adapted and adjusted to your own believe and culture. As the saying goes CHANGE is only thing that is constant. Thus China is applying the above, while others felt they are the best and will stick to their 1950 mentality.
The fundamental thing that the world NEED to understand that is: 1. Today's China is not the old days of China. 2. No matter what you try to name it CPC or CCP, it is a Meritocratic System selected by the Chinese People in China, it is NOT just the type of political ideology of the west. This means to condemn the party, equal to condemn ALL the Chinese in China and on the broader world. China is an amalgamation of civilization, and it is constantly evolving and the west can’t pinpoint it, neither to use a narrow perspective to look at it. 3. There is NO argument and NO doubt that China is Rising and MOST of the Chinese in the world are Happy about it. Therefore, any party(people) try to stir disputes in the affairs of the Chinese territory, sovereignty, companies, the people in China, is equally creating a ripple effect of conflicts and disturbance of international peace because Chinese families are ALL inter-connected in an ultra-complex system in the greater community ALL around the world.
I love the interview where there is an intelligent and respectful exchange of ideas. Regrettably most Canadians would probably want the host to be more aggressive in his attack on China's system of governance.
As a mainlander of China, even though not agree many views in the comments, I appreciate your empathy and compassion for China’s issues instead of making judgment by stereotypes.
I'm only done with Prof Zhang's section but felt obliged to leave a comment. I am so impressed by the respect and professionalism of the host who asks meaningful questions and gives his guest ample time to respond. I've seen so many interviewers cutting in every other second that it became impossible for the interviewee to respond completely and was incredibly annoying for the listener. Conducive dialogues like these are more meaningful and useful. I feel like I've learnt something already. I've just subscribed!
For an average Chinese the last 40 years have been the best years in its last 2000 years history and they give credit of this to their political system and thus have no desire to change it.
If that is the case, that's pretty sad for China for its long history, you don't think the Tang Dynasty had better times, relatively I mean. My view is that this is just the tip of the iceberg of a much better time to come for China. For centuries China has dominated on the world stage, now you are calling these 40 years of development as the glory of China?
@@dehua-2730 Yes, in term of survival, competitions, and speed of development (social, economical, technological, military, etc) against all countries on this planet, not just your peripheral border country of China for the last few thousand years.
Well, when you have a half-ass democracy that can't decide which half of the ass to sit upon, what do you expect? One really can't compare the apples and oranges of between a half-ass democracy where one can without fear express opinions freely and a single-party democracy that records every public expression with intent to control public opinion ... (not that every single political party in the world doesn't record every available political expression with intent to control public opinion):
@@dianabenobo news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/ Is Harvard University controlled by CCP? The data is from their research
This has been a very good conversation to explain China thinking and articulate its principles behind its actions and its various initiatives. If China has more academics and diplomats who can communicate in English as well as Prof Zhang, it would help the western world to understand China as a benevolent superpower, more importantly to counter the prejudice and biases from Western politicians and media.
Had to pause the video and answer the diversity questions at 29:30. I am Chinese, I took a DNA test found I share 83% DNA with Chinese, 13% DNA with Mongolian, 3% with Korean, 0.1 with Ashkenazi Jewish( yes I have distant Chinese Jewish family) and some others. I was raised by Chinese food, Muslim food, Korean food(bbq mmmmm) Mongolian food and many other types of food. So I can proudly say, majority of Chinese praise diversity. And if it weren’t for diversity, we wouldn’t be called Chinese. Chinese is not a race of people, it’s a culture.
Marx is a great thinker and philosopher, real scholars shouldn't demonize Marxism. America had too much propaganda against Communism and portray it as evil, it's totally wrong.
In animal kingdom, animals such as hyenas, chimpanzees, elephants, wolves and lions etc etc have rules, individuals in the group has to follow rules in order to co-exist. Humans are more sophisticated, therefore, we have more rules so that we can organise ourselves to form societies and nations. When westerners asked for freedom of individuals such as not wearing masks to protect themselves and the communities, they are actually regressing into the most basic form of human behaviours tens of thousands years ago.
I think Professor Zhang was quite generous in his critique of western liberal democracy. If only public opinion played such an important role! In the US most elections boil down to telling a bunch of lies and getting your base riled up over various social issues. Then no matter which party wins they all serve the interests of the wealthy no matter what public opinion might be.
I think his point that really strikes at the core of the issue and makes sense to me is, why are we electing people with no prior experience to the highest position to lead the country. You don't ask a chef to lead an engineering project, or a janitor to command a ship, sometimes you do, but rarely. But democracy just randomly elects a person like Trump, Modi, or Boris and of suspect experience and ask them to lead. It's no wonder more often than not it ends in a disaster. Democracy could work but it need be revised such that the candidates for the position of leadership are reserved for people who has clearly proven themselves to be able to handle the job.
In China, we never believed there is a perfect man or thing. There won't be a perfect system. Being modest, and don't be aggressive.(Soz, I can't find a better English words to translate it). Bruce Lee once said: be like water. Water can carry or destroy a boat, it doesn't have a shape but it can turn into any shapes. That's flexibilities, also one thing has its good side and bad side. We usually use the water and boat to describe the government and the public since at least hundred years ago. This is one of the best dialogues I've ever seen, suitable questions and wise answers. Great tempo and many respects to each other. I wanna say one thing about the freedom. It is not wise to hang out at 2am in the US, but u can sleep on the street in China at anytime anywhere. You have freedom to do anything as an individual, but if all of you did whatever you want. As a result, you are all affected, is it necessary to force you to stay at home. Eastern people under the effects of confucianism would put the profit of the public at first place sometimes. It is wise to remember that water can beat the bullets. As a non-believer, I know the Christians believe the God is perfect, none of us is. Then why not learn from different cultures why not accept different voices. Isn't that somehow unsacred?
Socrates was very critical of democracy. He believed that only people who thought about issues rationally and deeply should be allowed near a vote. We have forgotten the distinction between an intellectual democracy and a democracy by birthright. We have given the vote to all without connecting it to wisdom. The result that Socrates feared most was demogoguery. This is why we've had questionable leaders like Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison, Jair Bolsonaro, etc.
BLM is one of the issues Prof. Zhang points out as examples for the lack of real freedom of speech many western countries are giving away for the sake of political correctness. Diversity and feminism as well as gender equalities being other examples.
Giving people the right to vote neither solve people's problems nor meet their needs in daily life, it only gives you a illusion of being a decision maker, however de facto Oligarchies dominate.
@@watson7042 very true and insightful. And even if you have the freedom of saying anything, it will be meaningless if the government simply ignore it. In China, there are many channels to express your opinion (not include bashing) and some cities have hotlines to local governmentnd. government listen and modify certain policies based on these complaints. and that's how many improvements is achieved in China, like the pollution issue.
To be fair, China has gone through thousands of years to form the identity as a Chinese, with continuous mingle with different ethnics. Chinese is something above Han, Hui, Zhuang, Mongolia, Tibeten, Uyghur or the other 50+ minorities.Time has gradually shaped people's view and self-identity. It might be easier for single nationality state, but more difficult for an immigrant state like US, to form a unified identity. It took years. The political correctness would only perish when the identity as an American can overtake one's own racial identity.
@@caomilo1031 I agree with you. It is naturally not easy for different ethnicity to mingle together, but it doesn't mean different people can't live peacefully together and treat each other equally and with respectfully. You do need effort to achieve this. China and Singapore, both are doing a pretty good job. And I never feel Han above other minorities, you Never ever hear from media in China bad-mouthing minority people. And if a Han Chinese married with a minority ethnic, they usually like to register their child as minority since they will receive more support from government, like not being subjected to one child policy and get extra points in uni-entrance exam (gaokao) ...Etc. But the issue for American is that, unlike Han people, the dominent white never truly respect non white and treat them equally. And demonizing other culture and people seem like the features of their media. If anything wrong, the non-white will be easily targeted and bullied. This really loose my respect for them.
Creating conflicts between groups. That's exactly what elites want ! Because groups will never united together to go against social orders that were created by elites .
The election is an interesting show to me. Instead of wasting so much resources, I would prefer having a competent agency to handle things.. and representatives can inform and involve to continuously improve.
If the US cannot find out how to devide their economical pie better. Its society will eventually fall apart. And during this period, externalising its crisis might be a convenient choice for some people in power.
If you want to know China then come to China to see it by yourself ,do not learn China from the western media. If you come to China you'll see how peaceful and kind are Chinese people . China was No.1 super power for a very long time in the past thousand years , but we never invade other countries . Why we must do it right now . We suffered too much in the War about hundred years ago , so we know the feeling. All that we want is that China must be an united country as it always be in the most of time.
one thing that puzzles me is that why the west doesn't understand a simple fact: the time of colonial era has long gone. the perpetual wars against those small, weak nations would not bring you wealths and prosperities any more. instead, sincerely helping the development of those nations will help to develop western countries in the long run. think about this way: more those poor, weak nations get developed, the size of the global market would be getting bigger. the west would also be benefited with enlarged, enriched market, financially and economically. sure the percentage of shares of the new global market for the west would decrease because more countries are getting developed, but overall the west would get more business opportunities, spend less on wars of deaths, which in turn will directly benefit further development of western countries themselves.
if those countries want help from china, thoes one belt one road countries, can't pay back the loan, they have to pay with land and resources, thats colonialism
@@ExTremoK lying to the teeth is the only thing you types have. the allegation of sri lanka was originated by indian media. in terms of debts of sri lanka, #1 creditor is japan, then world bank/IMF, then india, china is a distant 4th, 10% of sri lanka's debts. plus china low interests loans concentrated on infrastructure, not commercial loans.
@@ExTremoK what land? the swap deal was that CMport of china get the lease (80%) for 10 years but invest money to bring the port to operational level. plus sri lanka has one of its naval bases in the same port! what a lying slammy cockroach.
the western world should have more similar dialogue such as this.....so that they are not bogged down by the ideology of rigid liberal democracy...other alternatives...models or political system should be allowable for a multi lateral world...the American way is outdated...they need to reform for a better tomorrow....
Why then did the _Republic of China_ 🇹🇼 lose the mainland to _People's Republic of China_ 🇨🇳 and had to flee to Formosa (Taiwan)? The Kuomintang administration of ROC had massive wealth (they taxed peasants heavily) they had superior weapons and superior numbers over the communists. Yet they still *lost the mainland* to dirt-poor, heavily outnumbered, ill-equipped, starving Communist peasants and had to flee to Taiwan? This demonstrates KMT's *gross incompetence* in their right to rule the mainland, as well as supports the communists right to rule the mainland.
@@Shenzhou. uh huh, wasn't talking about kmt, they have a right to rule Taiwan. The PRC has no relationship to imperial China. As far as quality of rule, Taiwan was having a peaceful day on June 4th, 1989, what was happening in tienanmen Square that day? Maybe both parties deserved to lose China, that was a long time ago though.
@@trivialgravitas9581 Why does KMT have the right to rule, but not the CPC? During the Chinese Civil War, the KMT, with all their wealth (taxed from peasants) their superior weapons and superior numbers, still *lost the mainland* to dirt-poor, heavily outnumbered, ill-equipped, starving Communist peasants and had to flee to Formosa (Taiwan) then why does KMT still deserve to rule the mainland?
@@Shenzhou. never said they did, you're the one who seems to care overmuch. This is childish whataboutism that relies on PRC slant of history. Why do you care? I'm an historian so I watched this propaganda mouthpiece to get a sense of what china thinks. Why are you so adamant at such an unsubtle and simplistic point?
@@trivialgravitas9581 China has 5000 years of history and is among the world's oldest "continuous" civilization still alive today, whereas other ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia, Rome and Egypt have since succumbed to history. China has witnessed the birth and death of various other nations, the rise and fall of numerous other empires, yet China has survived the violent passage of time to modern times relatively intact, whereas even Rome eventually crumbled. China has always been under the authoritarian rule (and we still are today) of emperors and the imperial court, because that's how China has been successfully governed for millennia. Not all countries have to adopt Western democracy to be successful and China is living proof of this.
Very seldom have I seen a western moderator so professional and respectful to the guest. Most western hosts or interviewers are antagonistic and not interested to listen to the opinions of their guests especially non- western ones. This Canadian host is so different.
Very reasonable and intelligent, people can learn from your about your history, viewpoints of history, politics and world relations. By the way translators seems to be very successful in their careers.
But that's not the case with me obviously:)! America have given me a lots Material or thoughts wise. I love her for that and I'm proud of my heritage! I hope both countries will progress to a point in 20, 30 and long after I'm gone and see
This is the most polite white anchorman I've ever met.Generally speaking, the hosts of Western media such as BBC and CNN will show serious arrogance and prejudice when connecting with Chinese guests, and frequently interrupt the speeches of them.
It's not easy to see such a high-quality dialogue between the East and the West today.Although the anchorman's views are quite different from Professor Zhang, they show full respect for each other.If the western world can show some respect to China, put down its arrogance, and learn from China's epidemic prevention experience modestly, today's epidemic situation will not be so serious.
This is the difference between Canada and the US. He is from Canada's mainstream research based media on global affairs at the University of Toronto. In fact, Canadian mainstream journalists, generally speaking, do not apply the very aggressive and at times abrasive style of interviews as Americans often do.
@@ngvkhtnw22 I have a friend who is studying in UofT😃
Totally agreed 👍 at least this can be called a dialog without prejudice and bias.
Yes, they have the best selection system as noticed Biden versus Trump. Guess who won?
Agree. Like seriously, the fact that he let professor zhang finish his lines ALL the time surprised me, I was like, what?! so I would like to at least remember his face.
What impresses me most is a calm and patient host willing to listen to opinions that might differ from his. This is extremely valuable trait to allow peaceful and constructive dialogue.
Dr Zhang made some very good points. To understand Chinese mentality about governance and the relationship between government and its subjects, one must understand Chinese history, tradition and culture.
And there is it. China see its people as "subjects." That is not the case in the West.
@@glennwatson3313 👍
I appreciate Munk for choosing someone from China and hold different views from that of the west involved in China topic, so audience can hear the other side of story and make the debate a real communication and dialogues betweens the two worlds. Good job!
The best ever host for an Interview I have ever seen the west, No interpose, No interrupting, this host is very polite, people know that when the west talk about the China issue is always not objective enough and very rude.
Great host who clearly shows respect and patience to his guests
This is the best interview i ever seen between western news media and China. No interruption from Anchorman, and his question is not biased. It lets the viewer to make up his own decision. I will go to your web site to see more. Thank you very much.
Very good interview, applause to the host and professor
I, born in HK and live in HK at this moment, plan to go back to mainland when my kids go to university few years later. Mainland China is a place where my kids can better develop their career, plus it’s a good place for my husband and I to have pleasure retirement
that is true! HK is too small for big ❤️
It's not called going back to Mainland, it's moving within China, one China. Not a big thing, just take the train to Guangzhou, takes what? 1h? that's not moving, that's a commute between cities within China.
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Hainan seems good for retirement... It could develop in a few years and the climate is warm
@@dehua-2730 She has not said that she will go back to "China" but "mainland China". In fact in this case, she was talking about mainland China and hongkong in term of geographical divisions.
don't be 玻璃心
Because of the Anchor’s great manner and respectful interaction with Prof. Zhang, I’d like to follow Munk’s dialogue channel. It becomes a norm to see Chinese’s guests are interrupted during interviews in western channels. World needs more mainstream channel like this to make both East and West voices are heard, equally & fairly!
More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher, Plato, wrote a book, "The Republic", in which he expounded his concept of an ideal republic. The Chinese political system is the closest that a country can get to the ideal republic of Plato, where the members of the Communist Party of China are the guardians of the republic. The political leaders in China, like in the republic of Plato, are chosen in accordance with their merits and experience. This is unlike the case of the so-called democratic system in the US and other western countries where the political leaders are either clowns (actors), gangsters (business people and CIA agents), or liars (lawyers).
Great comment. Thank you
Can’t agree more. Great insight.
Interesting observation. However, I think that the genetic bell curve of human feeling dominates all things human. Everyone makes the same mistakes and learns from the same mistakes, over and over again until the mistakes are so well pronounced that people instinctively do the best part of what is being inscribed, not only in our history books, but upon our DNA. All of OUR mistakes are made in the environment human nursery that we call Earth. Every blast, every poisoning, every loud noisy hateful demonstration happens within the nursery. OUR only nursery!
Can't agree more. Impressive.
@@dianabenobo Unless you are born in a country with a history more than 5000 years. You could learn from the long enough history and avoid many mistakes. Wisdom can make people better, and wisdom always comes from history.
Perhaps by example, we could learn some thing from China as a shared interest and improving the lives throughout the world.
For Western countries, especially US, self reflection is not in its gene.
There are plenty of examples but that information had been omitted from you by your own society. A major roadblock that deprives you of learning about others.
@@HH-gf6rk true, Chinese people should reflect what they did wrong even they did nothing wrong
sadly, learning anything from China is politically incorrect in western countries
This guy is notorious to be known as promoting propaganda for CCP. He wrote a book series to praise the CCP policies. Don’t believe him. I read his book out of curiosity. It’s full of shit.
im amazed by how few views this wonderful video is getting. less than 10k views after 1 month the vid posted. Either the youtube algorithm did something to it, or the undereducated / ignorant West netizens can't digest such informative stuff.
It may also be the arrogance of the west, disdaining to see the content related to China.
For example, Der Tagesspiegel wants to play up China's control over power, especially when Chinese characters indicate power, but it is written as a tree branch...
The west is full of hostility to China, but it doesn't understand this opponent. It will eventually eat its own fruit
I fear it is the latter. Even intelligent, progressive Canadians seem unwilling to doubt their own superficial Prime Minister on matters pertaining to China. I ask myself, is it ignorance or racism - possibly both. For holiday viewing, I also recommend the 1966 AMERICAN movie THE SAND PEBBLE. That very long movie together with this very succinct interview would allow any thoughtful person to understand the folly of Western leaders respecting China.
介绍中国客观情况的视频，都被TH-cam限制流量。
@@briancousins3101 Thank you for the recommendation. It is a very complex film.
why not both?
Wei Wei is a real scholar, he is a real person.
Unlike another Wei Wei who has some other agenda😄
which one? I only know Anson Chen and some Chinese traitors in NY.
@@jparsit Ai Wei Wei
@@ruipengli3969 a ha, a con artist for dollar. Thanks.
The anchor said multiple times that this is not a debate, and he live up to what he claimed. Well done!
Of course its not a debate. If it were the Chinese gentlemen would not attend.
Many many thanks to the host. Your professionalism and mature demeanor itself sets an example of what seeking truth from understanding means.
The interviewer behaved like a perfect gentleman and should be commended. Sadly, he seems to be in the minority when it comes to Western interviewers on the subject of Sino-US relations.
The host asked intelligent questions with an open mind.
excellent interview.
Well, as a Chinese, I think the US election is much more interesting to watch than a reality TV show.. We like to sit back and enjoy this show, but don’t really want this kinda shows to happen in our own country.
We prefer to have professional people handling professional things, not a popular personnel standing at a podium spewing BS...
it’s true that we can’t change the ruling party in China, but we are constantly changing policies.
From a few rounds of US election that I have seen so far, yes American people change their ruling parties, but they couldn’t change policies: public education still sucks, gun issues, no universal affordable healthcare, no federal backed maternity leaves, no easy retirement plans,, the list goes on.
Americans can criticize their leaders; however, nothing has done/changed for a very long time..
it's fun to watch, as long it stays there across the pacific ocean.
When the US moved from Republicans to the Democrats, old policies were shredded and started all over again. Or vice-versa.
So much money and time spent on disputes and criticism. In the meantime China had moved and delivered 2 rounds of their 5 year-plan results.
说的太好了
改变执政党和改变政策的论述有新意。
@@과자나무-x9p It's really not at all amusing when one takes the individual democratic responsibility toward creating and maintaining a more perfect union among equals. It is disturbing for me to observe the abuse of the constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech being abused by what seems to be a reckless sociopath and sociopath disciples! To observe is so compelling that I tire of being allways on guard.
I want to say something on the topic of racism, especially Western racism that has been troubling the US. I believe one major issue is the lack of respect, or putting personal freedom (freedom of speech) over respect. Emphasis of individualism over social responsibility. In China, most people look to the minority races as just "another Chinese". They are not labeled as "weak, deprived, crime prone". They are treated as part of the big family, and with respect.
Exactly! You never ever hear from media in China bad-mouthing other culture and people. And if an Han Chinese married with someone from minority group, they usually like to register their child as minority since they will receive more support from government, like minority were never subjected to one child policy and get extra points in uni-entrance exam (gaokao) .
Great point! Ppl have no idea about respect. They can only learn it in a hard way. The lack of education, single parent family are the factors
I guess racism is just part of human nature sadly. You see, those misfit kids in schools around the world are usually bullied by the “normal” kids. In China minorities are considered “another Chinese” because they are minor enough in population and similar enough with the majority.
@@jfi_ agree, racism is part of human nature. But degree of racism matters. I don't mind if someone not liking me, it is perfectly OK, but it is very wrong if this person openly insult or even assault me simply because of my ethnicity, even if he doesn't know me at all personally and I havnt done anything to make him offensive. In China, You rarely to see Chinese attacking and openly insulting any minority people, if they don't like people from some place, they maybe badmouthing them among their own circle of friends and in the public, just keep away from them.
There are kind people everywhere, but my problem with western people, especially American, is that their media often openly bad-mouthing and insult other cultural and people, and many westerners seem to be very easily stired up to be violent haters.
Exactly, I’m in China mainland, we are free people. We like to see the justice discussion about China.
after 2000 years china still has 56 distinct cultures. after 200 years the red indians were wiped out in north america - u just had ONE job and u still screwed it up.
@Tani J They are pretty wiped out. Virtually culturally extinct. The reservations are pretty poor with no significant economic development. Few speak tribal language. The Uygurs on the other hand have a surging population, retains their language and culture, have a booming economy, and have a great media presence. Many top China actresses are Uygur.
@Tani J thats right, most of their guys got wiped out, only the girls get "mixed in". also why #BLM victims are mostly black men. you sound like a girl, apologies if i got it wrong.
North America and China cannot be campared, because the North American continent has been relevant for less than 500 years where China has been a part of the world model since the first settlement in the area.
China should be compared to Europe, the mediteranean area and India (Overall western Eurasia) where in all those examples there are hundreds of cultural groups.
This is such a valuable channel with a listening host. Will come back to watch every clip.
Great dialogue. Salute to Host and Guest 👍👍👍
Will follow this channel more. Very professional & respectable
This is a top quality dialogue. Well done Munk! Kudos to both the host and speaker.
Intelligent dialogue indeed. Every system has its strengths and weaknesses . Capture the strengths and work to overcome weaknesses. As Pros
Very well said Mr Weiwei, love this dialogues, and the host
As a member of a minority ethnical group in China, I never felt racism when I grew up. I spoke my own language and went to a proper ethnical language school. Both of my parents worked as government employees back then. I remember every holiday they will get bonus from the government, more than Han people. And they could have a second child, but my father who is a CPC member decided to support the policy by only having me, a girl. After a few years my mother decided to quit her job in the government and started doing business.
I started going to regular public school after two years in the language school. I got extra care from the teacher because I was bad with chinese language. The teacher would take me to his home and cook me and his daughter lunch. Then he would read stories to us and explain the characters. He encouraged me to read and make small speech in front of the class. He encouraged me to communicate with the kids and asked the kids to be extra nice to be because I am a minority. He did all these without anybody asking him! He is just one of many Han chinese that I learned to love!
I loved my neighbors who always, always share good food with me. Back in 80s we were all poor, but I always get invites to all sorts of parties!
Han chinese people taught me what is "love"!
We have 56 ethnic groups and we are all one family.
Great video. Thank you. The world is a small village, so countries must cooperate and work together in order to ensure a greater future.
Rational dialogue, respect! very professional host!
Prof Zhang went straight to the core issue of the theoretical foundation of liberal democracy, that voters are rational. I agree with him completely on his points. I'd like to add some thoughts. Most democracies actually have mechanisms to safeguard such inherent flaws of the voters. One of them is to devolve the power to local governments as much as possible, so that the main issues are local so the voters can understand and vote on (more or less) rationally. I think this did work to some extent, especially two hundreds years ago when the economies were mostly agrarian and people didn't travel too much. This mechanism is seriously challenged by globalisation and the advent of social media. I don't think the situation will get better; it will only get worse.
This is an essential hour of discussion for anyone who wishes to understand, report or comment on current tensions between China & the West - as largely generated by the words & actions of Donald Trump & Boris Johnson, with support from Canada & Australia.
Thanks to CCP, Chinese nationalism is capped and the country remains rational even under constant provocations from US. CCP collectively deserve a World Peace Award.
It's CPC not CCP.
YH
I would regain my respect for the Nobel peace prize if it is awarded to the CCP for keeping their cool despite USA beastly provocations.
@@milaong9618 Nobel Peace Prize has become political. It's for the West to push its ideology. The CCP won't want a Nobel Peace Prize.
Fully agree with you
Thank you for your speaking out - Professor Zhang
Hopefully more western people can see this so that they can learn more facts and philosophies about China from Professor Zhang who is really terrific and erudite!
Well said, Professor Zhang!
a good government is to let the people live a good live. peace, stability and wealth are all Chinese hope.
Very very true! I believe what you have said is the soly and only legitimacy of any goverment.
What a civilized exchange of ideas. Let’s assume that Mr. Zhang is only 50% truthful or honest in his answers, for me, base on d questions, average Canadian is very ill informed about China. Seems like our main stream media’s is intensionally presenting China in a negative light. My thanks to Munk n d interviewer. Time well spent.👍👍👏👏👏
You shouldn't assume, you can be certain China is 100% honest when they are expressing their own views. It is China's views but your views of China are born out of ignorance.
Only arrogance and close mindness closes the eyes and shut the ears.
I can assure you, Mr Zhang is 100% true in his answers, he is also sharing in China to young people. Maybe Chinese were not so good at expressing themselves but we are trying to speak out more, to be honest, it’s so hard to hear any true stories outside of China 🇨🇳
@@HH-gf6rk 至少你可以看来参考
@@AntiwarObserver
Being civilized mean constraining one's own honest personal view with a topic of negative connotation to a minimal, especially in the public, with an understanding nothing is perfect.
I’d like to follow this channel because it has published the great 👍 conversation with Dr Zhang.It’s very hard to find a western media which could have an equal reporting about China.Most of them have already wear the colored glasses to judge China,even China has did a great work for improving their country,they couldn’t accept that the new China was getting better and better under the CCP leadership.
The best host of this kind of interview I have ever seen. Thanks. Zhang Wei Wei seems to be a real clear headed thinker on US-China relation issues. I believe this kind of dialogue will improve mutual understanding and enhance trust between the two great nations. I was recommended to watch this and I shall recommend to others as well.
This host is really polite compare to any other western media.
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Europe is divided by diversity. China is united by diversity.
Excellent interview & QA 👍👏🙏🌹🎈
Terrific interviewer, really facilitated Prof Zhang's elucidation of his perspective.
Far too often the interviewer just wants to prove a point...
Thanks for providing such a high-quality interview. The host is the best I have seen ever in the west. He respects the guest and is courteous, instead rude and arrogant like others when talk about China issue. Will follow.
This is really a great channel.....I like the interviewer...Roger Griffis? Really great guy. Very tactful and respectful...
Thats brilliant! A Real conversation! Salute to the interviewer, he is listening from heart not like other interviewer disturb and try to humiliate the Chinese in the dialogue by all means. Again! We need real dialogue!
Dialogue between 2 gentlemen is worth watching.
討論話題
02:26 1）民主
07:37 2）選舉
11:29 3）自由
14:12 4）種族
17:28 5）其他道路的可能
22:22 6）2020，中國社會主義和西方資本主義的區別
25:57 7）新疆
28:19 8）文化多元化
31:04 9）中國模式輸出
33:47 10）“一帶一路”的政治意圖
37:00 11）戰狼外交
38:36 12）中國如何看待美對華態度的轉變
40:40 13）遏制中國崛起
43:03 14）軍事衝突的可能性
46:58 15）中國對美態度
51:00 16）中加關係
54:35 17）書籍推薦
辛苦了，谢谢！
The two different systems produced two different results. Electors in the United States are called politicians, while those in China are called leaders. Under the American electoral system, the elected politician is almost entirely dependent on his funding and propaganda efforts. The voters rely solely on luck to choose a qualified ruler of the country. But in China, national leaders are elites who have emerged from among the many elites after years of experience at the grassroots level. They are well aware of the problems in the country and the needs of the people. In China, the funds raised for elections in the United States are called bribery. But in any case, it is most important to find shoes that fit your feet. China has never marketed its system to the outside world.
China tried and failed to spread communism around the world during the Cold War. We beat them back and now they imperfectly copy our system.
This is very good. Great host. He’s here to listen, but he still asks good and targeted questions, and the listeners submitted great questions too. I know good content isn’t going to magically change how Americans are, but I do wonder how much better our political conscious would be if our talking heads were questioned like this.
Most of our politicians don’t even know what communism is, but they sure do hate it. They don’t know what capitalism is, but they sure do love it.
先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐。有的时候我觉得社会主义很适合中国~希望我下辈子还是中国人。毕竟我是个河南人，5000多年历史河南都有呢(小骄傲一下)
洛阳冒泡
河南啥好吃啊？
以前年轻时也不喜欢上政治，毛概等课，但是现在越是思想成熟，确实是很好的课程，实事求是，实践出真理等理论，在现在创业过程中受益良多！
A great video. A very civilized host. Well answered by Zhang Weiwei. Thanks for sharing.
This is the only dialogue that a Western media genuinely try to understand China. Unfortunately it will only be watched by those who has an open view about China.
Very good interview!!!
Success is through learning from the best practices, adapted and adjusted to your own believe and culture. As the saying goes CHANGE is only thing that is constant. Thus China is applying the above, while others felt they are the best and will stick to their 1950 mentality.
I may not agree all arguments with prof Zhang, but when these people targeting china with their shallow mind, I stand with Zhang Weiwei, as a Chinese
说的对
The fundamental thing that the world NEED to understand that is:
1. Today's China is not the old days of China.
2. No matter what you try to name it CPC or CCP, it is a Meritocratic System selected by the Chinese People in China, it is NOT just the type of political ideology of the west. This means to condemn the party, equal to condemn ALL the Chinese in China and on the broader world. China is an amalgamation of civilization, and it is constantly evolving and the west can’t pinpoint it, neither to use a narrow perspective to look at it.
3. There is NO argument and NO doubt that China is Rising and MOST of the Chinese in the world are Happy about it.
Therefore, any party(people) try to stir disputes in the affairs of the Chinese territory, sovereignty, companies, the people in China, is equally creating a ripple effect of conflicts and disturbance of international peace because Chinese families are ALL inter-connected in an ultra-complex system in the greater community ALL around the world.
So well said again!!!
I love the interview where there is an intelligent and respectful exchange of ideas. Regrettably most Canadians would probably want the host to be more aggressive in his attack on China's system of governance.
Each other eyes to eyes and respect each other!
As a mainlander of China, even though not agree many views in the comments, I appreciate your empathy and compassion for China’s issues instead of making judgment by stereotypes.
You rarely have such conversation on other social media. Pretty insightful.
I'm only done with Prof Zhang's section but felt obliged to leave a comment. I am so impressed by the respect and professionalism of the host who asks meaningful questions and gives his guest ample time to respond. I've seen so many interviewers cutting in every other second that it became impossible for the interviewee to respond completely and was incredibly annoying for the listener. Conducive dialogues like these are more meaningful and useful. I feel like I've learnt something already. I've just subscribed!
Democracy and human right is universal value. But there should not have only one way to pursue that.
Prof.Zhang is a respected scholar and he made some very good points.
Hope this channel can bring more good thought.
This host is extremely polite. 💯👍
Very professional.
For an average Chinese the last 40 years have been the best years in its last 2000 years history and they give credit of this to their political system and thus have no desire to change it.
If that is the case, that's pretty sad for China for its long history, you don't think the Tang Dynasty had better times, relatively I mean. My view is that this is just the tip of the iceberg of a much better time to come for China. For centuries China has dominated on the world stage, now you are calling these 40 years of development as the glory of China?
@@dehua-2730
Yes, in term of survival, competitions, and speed of development (social, economical, technological, military, etc) against all countries on this planet, not just your peripheral border country of China for the last few thousand years.
The government satisfaction in China is 97%, while only 37% in the US
Well, when you have a half-ass democracy that can't decide which half of the ass to sit upon, what do you expect? One really can't compare the apples and oranges of between a half-ass democracy where one can without fear express opinions freely and a single-party democracy that records every public expression with intent to control public opinion ... (not that every single political party in the world doesn't record every available political expression with intent to control public opinion):
@@dianabenobo You can easily go to TH-cam to see “different opinions “ as long as you have high school education.
shame! such a lie that no one believes
@@dianabenobo news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/
Is Harvard University controlled by CCP? The data is from their research
to understand China, you need to learn Chinese first... i hate to see non-sense like "I am a China expert, but i don't speak Mandarin"
absolutely right！
And had never been to China :(
You also forgot the "but I have a Chinese wife/husband!"
@@CrystalWong nah, many of them would just say "i have a Chinese friend..."
This has been a very good conversation to explain China thinking and articulate its principles behind its actions and its various initiatives. If China has more academics and diplomats who can communicate in English as well as Prof Zhang, it would help the western world to understand China as a benevolent superpower, more importantly to counter the prejudice and biases from Western politicians and media.
上善若水，水利万物而不争
虽然就是随便拿了一句老祖宗的话，估计当西方毁灭的时候也学不能理解其深意
@@yjiu446 还好这么睿智的老祖宗是咱们的🤣
就这一句智慧 你怎么解读是你的事 西方的他们自己讲的都是自己觉得和过于解读自以为是的包含了什么什么的
Had to pause the video and answer the diversity questions at 29:30. I am Chinese, I took a DNA test found I share 83% DNA with Chinese, 13% DNA with Mongolian, 3% with Korean, 0.1 with Ashkenazi Jewish( yes I have distant Chinese Jewish family) and some others. I was raised by Chinese food, Muslim food, Korean food(bbq mmmmm) Mongolian food and many other types of food. So I can proudly say, majority of Chinese praise diversity. And if it weren’t for diversity, we wouldn’t be called Chinese. Chinese is not a race of people, it’s a culture.
Added, it's also reference to a civilization race of China.
Marx is a great thinker and philosopher, real scholars shouldn't demonize Marxism. America had too much propaganda against Communism and portray it as evil, it's totally wrong.
In animal kingdom, animals such as hyenas, chimpanzees, elephants, wolves and lions etc etc have rules, individuals in the group has to follow rules in order to co-exist. Humans are more sophisticated, therefore, we have more rules so that we can organise ourselves to form societies and nations. When westerners asked for freedom of individuals such as not wearing masks to protect themselves and the communities, they are actually regressing into the most basic form of human behaviours tens of thousands years ago.
A Great dialogue.
Fantastic dialogue and Q&A, keep up your great work
Good Dailogue.
I think Professor Zhang was quite generous in his critique of western liberal democracy. If only public opinion played such an important role! In the US most elections boil down to telling a bunch of lies and getting your base riled up over various social issues. Then no matter which party wins they all serve the interests of the wealthy no matter what public opinion might be.
I think his point that really strikes at the core of the issue and makes sense to me is, why are we electing people with no prior experience to the highest position to lead the country.
You don't ask a chef to lead an engineering project, or a janitor to command a ship, sometimes you do, but rarely. But democracy just randomly elects a person like Trump, Modi, or Boris and of suspect experience and ask them to lead. It's no wonder more often than not it ends in a disaster.
Democracy could work but it need be revised such that the candidates for the position of leadership are reserved for people who has clearly proven themselves to be able to handle the job.
This has to be one of the best debunker for US smearing campaign if one can first put away preconceptions and bias.
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In China, we never believed there is a perfect man or thing. There won't be a perfect system.
Being modest, and don't be aggressive.(Soz, I can't find a better English words to translate it).
Bruce Lee once said: be like water.
Water can carry or destroy a boat, it doesn't have a shape but it can turn into any shapes.
That's flexibilities, also one thing has its good side and bad side. We usually use the water and boat to describe the government and the public since at least hundred years ago.
This is one of the best dialogues I've ever seen, suitable questions and wise answers. Great tempo and many respects to each other.
I wanna say one thing about the freedom.
It is not wise to hang out at 2am in the US, but u can sleep on the street in China at anytime anywhere. You have freedom to do anything as an individual, but if all of you did whatever you want. As a result, you are all affected, is it necessary to force you to stay at home. Eastern people under the effects of confucianism would put the profit of the public at first place sometimes.
It is wise to remember that water can beat the bullets.
As a non-believer, I know the Christians believe the God is perfect, none of us is. Then why not learn from different cultures why not accept different voices. Isn't that somehow unsacred?
Socrates was very critical of democracy. He believed that only people who thought about issues rationally and deeply should be allowed near a vote. We have forgotten the distinction between an intellectual democracy and a democracy by birthright. We have given the vote to all without connecting it to wisdom. The result that Socrates feared most was demogoguery. This is why we've had questionable leaders like Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison, Jair Bolsonaro, etc.
This video came up to my thread accidentally, and I am happy I watched. Barely see this kind of objective narrative from western media.
BLM is one of the issues Prof. Zhang points out as examples for the lack of real freedom of speech many western countries are giving away for the sake of political correctness. Diversity and feminism as well as gender equalities being other examples.
Giving people the right to vote neither solve people's problems nor meet their needs in daily life, it only gives you a illusion of being a decision maker, however de facto Oligarchies dominate.
@@watson7042 very true and insightful. And even if you have the freedom of saying anything, it will be meaningless if the government simply ignore it. In China, there are many channels to express your opinion (not include bashing) and some cities have hotlines to local governmentnd. government listen and modify certain policies based on these complaints. and that's how many improvements is achieved in China, like the pollution issue.
To be fair, China has gone through thousands of years to form the identity as a Chinese, with continuous mingle with different ethnics. Chinese is something above Han, Hui, Zhuang, Mongolia, Tibeten, Uyghur or the other 50+ minorities.Time has gradually shaped people's view and self-identity. It might be easier for single nationality state, but more difficult for an immigrant state like US, to form a unified identity. It took years. The political correctness would only perish when the identity as an American can overtake one's own racial identity.
@@caomilo1031 I agree with you. It is naturally not easy for different ethnicity to mingle together, but it doesn't mean different people can't live peacefully together and treat each other equally and with respectfully. You do need effort to achieve this. China and Singapore, both are doing a pretty good job. And I never feel Han above other minorities, you Never ever hear from media in China bad-mouthing minority people. And if a Han Chinese married with a minority ethnic, they usually like to register their child as minority since they will receive more support from government, like not being subjected to one child policy and get extra points in uni-entrance exam (gaokao) ...Etc.
But the issue for American is that, unlike Han people, the dominent white never truly respect non white and treat them equally. And demonizing other culture and people seem like the features of their media. If anything wrong, the non-white will be easily targeted and bullied. This really loose my respect for them.
Creating conflicts between groups. That's exactly what elites want ! Because groups will never united together to go against social orders that were created by elites .
greatest western host that i ever see.good video.
The election is an interesting show to me. Instead of wasting so much resources, I would prefer having a competent agency to handle things.. and representatives can inform and involve to continuously improve.
those representatives are just flattering and hands clapping puppets, they only vote for autocratic dictators who wants to reign for life
Very good interview and hopefully will enlighten some who have traditionally been very ignorant of china's history, philosophy, and political system.
If the US cannot find out how to devide their economical pie better. Its society will eventually fall apart. And during this period, externalising its crisis might be a convenient choice for some people in power.
So USA will see China and Russia as a threat
If you want to know China then come to China to see it by yourself ,do not learn China from the western media. If you come to China you'll see how peaceful and kind are Chinese people . China was No.1 super power for a very long time in the past thousand years , but we never invade other countries . Why we must do it right now . We suffered too much in the War about hundred years ago , so we know the feeling. All that we want is that China must be an united country as it always be in the most of time.
one thing that puzzles me is that why the west doesn't understand a simple fact: the time of colonial era has long gone. the perpetual wars against those small, weak nations would not bring you wealths and prosperities any more. instead, sincerely helping the development of those nations will help to develop western countries in the long run. think about this way: more those poor, weak nations get developed, the size of the global market would be getting bigger. the west would also be benefited with enlarged, enriched market, financially and economically. sure the percentage of shares of the new global market for the west would decrease because more countries are getting developed, but overall the west would get more business opportunities, spend less on wars of deaths, which in turn will directly benefit further development of western countries themselves.
if those countries want help from china, thoes one belt one road countries, can't pay back the loan, they have to pay with land and resources, thats colonialism
@@ExTremoK lying to the teeth is the only thing you types have. the allegation of sri lanka was originated by indian media. in terms of debts of sri lanka, #1 creditor is japan, then world bank/IMF, then india, china is a distant 4th, 10% of sri lanka's debts. plus china low interests loans concentrated on infrastructure, not commercial loans.
@@ipfreak so they didn't pay with land and resources? thats loan trap. why shy away from the truth? you lying mouthpiece
@@ExTremoK what land? the swap deal was that CMport of china get the lease (80%) for 10 years but invest money to bring the port to operational level. plus sri lanka has one of its naval bases in the same port! what a lying slammy cockroach.
@@ipfreak your vile words are full of false information fabricated by chinese government, none of it is true
The host is carefully listening… what is going on here I'm crying this is too rare
the western world should have more similar dialogue such as this.....so that they are not bogged down by the ideology of rigid liberal democracy...other alternatives...models or political system should be allowable for a multi lateral world...the American way is outdated...they need to reform for a better tomorrow....
meaningful and constructive dialogues...👍
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Mr interviewer might start to have massive fans in China.
western ppl fooled by rich ppl
chinese ppl fooled by their leaders
@@ExTremoK many stupid ppl fooled by western
@@o0hh471 chinese ppl fooled by their leaders, they know nothing about the west
@@ExTremoK u know nothing about west
@@ExTremoK I konw you because I can understand your language,do you understand chinese?自以为是
I have subscribed to this channel.
He has a powerful pair of rose coloured glasses to look at Chinese history and the PRCs "inheritance" of that history.
Why then did the _Republic of China_ 🇹🇼 lose the mainland to _People's Republic of China_ 🇨🇳 and had to flee to Formosa (Taiwan)? The Kuomintang administration of ROC had massive wealth (they taxed peasants heavily) they had superior weapons and superior numbers over the communists. Yet they still *lost the mainland* to dirt-poor, heavily outnumbered, ill-equipped, starving Communist peasants and had to flee to Taiwan?
This demonstrates KMT's *gross incompetence* in their right to rule the mainland, as well as supports the communists right to rule the mainland.
@@Shenzhou. uh huh, wasn't talking about kmt, they have a right to rule Taiwan. The PRC has no relationship to imperial China. As far as quality of rule, Taiwan was having a peaceful day on June 4th, 1989, what was happening in tienanmen Square that day? Maybe both parties deserved to lose China, that was a long time ago though.
@@trivialgravitas9581 Why does KMT have the right to rule, but not the CPC? During the Chinese Civil War, the KMT, with all their wealth (taxed from peasants) their superior weapons and superior numbers, still *lost the mainland* to dirt-poor, heavily outnumbered, ill-equipped, starving Communist peasants and had to flee to Formosa (Taiwan) then why does KMT still deserve to rule the mainland?
@@Shenzhou. never said they did, you're the one who seems to care overmuch. This is childish whataboutism that relies on PRC slant of history.
Why do you care? I'm an historian so I
watched this propaganda mouthpiece to get a sense of what china thinks. Why are you so adamant at such an unsubtle and simplistic point?
@@trivialgravitas9581 China has 5000 years of history and is among the world's oldest "continuous" civilization still alive today, whereas other ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia, Rome and Egypt have since succumbed to history. China has witnessed the birth and death of various other nations, the rise and fall of numerous other empires, yet China has survived the violent passage of time to modern times relatively intact, whereas even Rome eventually crumbled.
China has always been under the authoritarian rule (and we still are today) of emperors and the imperial court, because that's how China has been successfully governed for millennia. Not all countries have to adopt Western democracy to be successful and China is living proof of this.
Very seldom have I seen a western moderator so professional and respectful to the guest. Most western hosts or interviewers are antagonistic and not interested to listen to the opinions of their guests especially non- western ones. This Canadian host is so different.
Very reasonable and intelligent, people can learn from your about your history, viewpoints of history, politics and world relations. By the way translators seems to be very successful in their careers.
But that's not the case with me obviously:)! America have given me a lots Material or thoughts wise. I love her for that and I'm proud of my heritage! I hope both countries will progress to a point in 20, 30 and long after I'm gone and see