Fall and Rise of China - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

We all knew what drug can do to a nation folks...

people also forget that china aren't only country to have the century of humiliation. in thailand we are all taught of territorail lost to the foreign power as well. but when the elite tell the people we will take it back they never did do anything. instead they blame the youth for lack of patriotism and want thailand to be colonized.

百年屈辱的根源不在于清政府的腐败，而是在于欧美日海盗国家的残暴，侵略、屠杀、抢劫、强奸，是因为野蛮的八国联军的海盗行径。如果八国联军是文明的，中国根本就不会有屈辱

很多都没讲出来，特别是八国联军侵华的罪行都被小编给简化了或者干脆省略了

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The CCP has caused far more harm to the Chinese, than all outsiders put together.

Do you have any intention of talking about Ottoman Europe and how it lead to the political situation present during the Cold War?

great depth & breadth with such a big topic， you guys have done a wonderful job！

Britain and the US together took 1 million fatalities in WW2 (0.5 mi). The USSR and China together took 40 million (24 mi + 16 mi). Yeah, we pretty much tend to ignore it.

Whoever's wondering, "extraterritoriality" means being able to enforce laws outside their jurisdiction of origin. It's what makes the ICC case against Israel legal, for example.

I love how history records the (what we, elsewhere, call druglords) British monarchy as doing business with (what we, elsewhere, call drug traffickers) "covert merchants".

Century of awesome 😉

I am interested in the choice to use Communist Party of China rather than the more commonly used Chinese Communist Party?

Although many aspects are oversimplified (such as attributing the main issues of the Qing government to corruption, and delaying the time of warlord conflicts until after World War I, as well as including the United States among the Western countries that stopped exporting goods to Japan), as a video aimed at understanding the Chinese perspective on the "Century of Humiliation," it perfectly achieves its goal.

Thank you for this longer-form video! I've just recently been listening to some content about the century of humiliation. I'm sorry to hear how many Western people took advantage of China in such detrimental ways, but I'm equally sorry to hear how corrupt the Chinese government at the time had gotten.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

Hah! China is fighting against imperialism whilst being imperialist😂

Please more videos. Thank you and have a great day

Actually Chinese rebels defeated Dutch on Taiwan, Chinese Troops defeated Russian troops in Outter Manchuria today's Far Eastern Russia in the 1600's. The Japanese was not the first time.

What is not said, US/West as a whole had colonies inside China, with its own laws etc... Another words Westerners were above the law. Chinese could be deleted, no criminal punishment of the Westerner. Until PRC took over.
Love how American's leave their own colonization roles of China.

There is hilarious typo in the description

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The problem with the CCP is that it thinks it is owed respect by the international community, but respect is earned not given. Xi Jinping and those that preceded him have done little to earn respect due to their aggressive policies, both internal and external. Until Chinese leaders accept that they are the cause of suspicion of China, little will change.

I think this video could have benefited from some views from non-CCP mouthpieces about how China has been its own worst enemy in that respect.

Please more videos about China

It's not just mainland China, it's all Chinese. Majority of ethnic Chinese overseas, an estimated 60 millions, are overseas because theirancestors were forced to seek opportunity elsewhere during the Century of Humiliation. The only exception might be Taiwan and Hong Kong who believe they've been bred by the Japanese and British into a better breed of Chinese superior to other Asians

And if Sun Yat Sen is alive today, he will see a prosperous China that rose to second most powerful in the world or even first depends on what matric used.

The eight nation alliance did nothing wrong.

为什么老外不懂中国的历史 老是用西方人的偏见去解释中国的近代历史？

But Mao's great femine cost the lives of over 40 million Chinese. CCP propanganda and their 'best'.

The Chinese continuously making opium irrespective of the ban but the opium from British East India Company is far better in quality and above all the price is highly competitive.

So much history and understanding packed into one show … well done sir

Great video! This shows the strong link of history & current events in the Indo-Pacific.

Don’t forget the Boxer Rebellion was the subject a movie called 55 Days at Peking that had a catchy theme song…

The PRC has certainly used it as a narrative to legitimize their rule. But that doesn't make the "Century of Humiliation" any less traumatic for the Chinese people. Or to seek to avoid a repeat of it.

Love your videos. Would you do a summery of the most important events each decade during the Cold War?

Great video, I wrote a paper about the humiliation narrative before, this is quite well-organized

Excellent video. Should be shown in history class.

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More hour long videos please

These people are originally part of China. Western imperialism should not invade and interfere in China's internal affairs.

In a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country like China, only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard and the establishment of the people's democratic dictatorship can independence, self-reliance, industrialization and national rejuvenation be achieved. We will find that many countries that have held so-called "democratic elections" have essentially become controlled by the landlord class. The landlords then rely on selling resources to seek profits for themselves and become economic colonies of imperialist powers. There is a lack of industrial construction, economic construction, social construction and industrialization in the local area. In Latin America, the country is controlled by caudillos. Therefore, in third world countries, the elected parliament is a tool for landlords and comprador bourgeoisie to control the country. This is actually undemocratic because it represents the interests of a minority or the interests of foreign powers in the local area, rather than the interests of the local people or the interests of the majority of the local people. Under such conditions, if you want to truly develop, you must establish people's democracy. If you want to establish people's democracy, you must first overthrow the old parliament. Only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard can you overthrow the old parliament controlled by landlords, warlords and comprador bourgeoisie, because it is impossible for the parliament controlled by the landlord class to pass any progressive reforms, promote social revolution and carry out industrialization, because industrialization will touch the interests of landlords and compradors. This is determined by the class nature of the landlords. If a country wants to industrialize, especially a late-developing country, it needs a strong leadership core to overthrow the landlord class, establish a dictatorship, and use the power of the state to complete land reform and invest in industrialization.

The history of China is a history of national splendor. What is different about the current strong nationalism of the Chinese people is that it permeates the whole society, because it attracts unprecedented numbers of people. It is no longer a phenomenon that is essentially limited to students. At the beginning of this century, it was students who became the pioneers of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese nationalism has now become a mass phenomenon that is determining the way of thinking in the world's most populous country.
This way of thinking has deep historical roots. History has conditioned the Chinese elite to think that China is the natural center of the world. In fact, the Chinese word "China" means "Central Kingdom", which expresses the idea that China is at the center of world affairs and emphasizes the importance of national unity. This idea also means that its influence radiates from the center to the periphery in different levels. Therefore, China, as the center, wants others to respect it.
Moreover, since ancient times, populous China has always had a unique and proud civilization. This civilization is extremely advanced in all aspects: philosophy, culture, art, social management skills, technological inventions and political power. The Chinese cannot forget that until about 1600 AD, China was the world leader in agricultural productivity, industrial inventions and living standards. Unlike European and Islamic civilizations, which have nurtured about seventy-five nations, China has been a single nation for most of its history. At the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had a population of more than 200 million and was the world's leading manufacturing power.

From this point of view, then, China's fall from glory and the humiliations it has suffered over the past 150 years are an aberration, a blasphemy against Chinese characteristics, and a humiliation to every Chinese individual. This humiliation must be purged and the perpetrators should be punished. The main perpetrators are Britain, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Their crimes vary in degree: Britain launched the Opium Wars and shamelessly belittled China afterwards; Japan has launched predatory wars for a long century, causing great suffering to the Chinese people, but Japan has not repented of this; Russia has continued to encroach on China's northern territories, and Stalin has been domineering and completely ignored the self-esteem of the Chinese people; and finally, the United States has become an obstacle to China's foreign ambitions through its presence in Asia and its support for Japan.
China believes that two of the four powers have already been punished by history. Britain is no longer an empire, and the American flag has been permanently lowered in Hong Kong, closing a particularly painful chapter. Russia remains a neighbor, but its status and reputation have been greatly reduced, and its territory has been greatly reduced. Therefore, only the United States and Japan pose the most serious problems for China. China will define its regional and global role to the greatest extent in terms of its interaction with these two countries.

However, this definition depends first on how China itself evolves and how powerful an economic and military power it actually becomes. In this regard, the forecast for China is generally promising, although not without some major uncertainties and constraints. The rate of China's economic growth and the scale of foreign investment in China are among the highest in the world. The conventional forecast based on these two statistics is that in about twenty years, China will become a global power, with a power roughly equal to that of the United States and Europe (assuming that Europe has both deepened and expanded). China's GDP has now far exceeded that of Russia and is likely to far exceed that of Japan by then. This economic development will enable China to acquire a strong military power of a scale that will frighten all its neighbors, even those geographically distant but opposed to China's development.
The return of Hong Kong and Macau to China, and perhaps the eventual reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, will further strengthen China, and the Greater China that will emerge will not only become the dominant country in the Far East, but also a first-class world power.

——Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard

The history of China is a history of national splendor. What is different about the current strong nationalism of the Chinese people is that it permeates the whole society, because it attracts unprecedented numbers of people. It is no longer a phenomenon that is essentially limited to students. At the beginning of this century, it was students who became the pioneers of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese nationalism has now become a mass phenomenon that is determining the way of thinking in the world's most populous country.
This way of thinking has deep historical roots. History has conditioned the Chinese elite to think that China is the natural center of the world. In fact, the Chinese word "China" means "Central Kingdom", which expresses the idea that China is at the center of world affairs and emphasizes the importance of national unity. This idea also means that its influence radiates from the center to the periphery in different levels. Therefore, China, as the center, wants others to respect it.
Moreover, since ancient times, populous China has always had a unique and proud civilization. This civilization is extremely advanced in all aspects: philosophy, culture, art, social management skills, technological inventions and political power. The Chinese cannot forget that until about 1600 AD, China was the world leader in agricultural productivity, industrial inventions and living standards. Unlike European and Islamic civilizations, which have nurtured about seventy-five nations, China has been a single nation for most of its history. At the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had a population of more than 200 million and was the world's leading manufacturing power.

From this point of view, then, China's fall from glory and the humiliations it has suffered over the past 150 years are an aberration, a blasphemy against Chinese characteristics, and a humiliation to every Chinese individual. This humiliation must be purged and the perpetrators should be punished. The main perpetrators are Britain, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Their crimes vary in degree: Britain launched the Opium Wars and shamelessly belittled China afterwards; Japan has launched predatory wars for a long century, causing great suffering to the Chinese people, but Japan has not repented of this; Russia has continued to encroach on China's northern territories, and Stalin has been domineering and completely ignored the self-esteem of the Chinese people; and finally, the United States has become an obstacle to China's foreign ambitions through its presence in Asia and its support for Japan.
China believes that two of the four powers have already been punished by history. Britain is no longer an empire, and the American flag has been permanently lowered in Hong Kong, closing a particularly painful chapter. Russia remains a neighbor, but its status and reputation have been greatly reduced, and its territory has been greatly reduced. Therefore, only the United States and Japan pose the most serious problems for China. China will define its regional and global role to the greatest extent in terms of its interaction with these two countries.

However, this definition depends first on how China itself evolves and how powerful an economic and military power it actually becomes. In this regard, the forecast for China is generally promising, although not without some major uncertainties and constraints. The rate of China's economic growth and the scale of foreign investment in China are among the highest in the world. The conventional forecast based on these two statistics is that in about twenty years, China will become a global power, with a power roughly equal to that of the United States and Europe (assuming that Europe has both deepened and expanded). China's GDP has now far exceeded that of Russia and is likely to far exceed that of Japan by then. This economic development will enable China to acquire a strong military power of a scale that will frighten all its neighbors, even those geographically distant but opposed to China's development.
The return of Hong Kong and Macau to China, and perhaps the eventual reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, will further strengthen China, and the Greater China that will emerge will not only become the dominant country in the Far East, but also a first-class world power.

——Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard

The history of China is a history of national splendor. What is different about the current strong nationalism of the Chinese people is that it permeates the whole society, because it attracts unprecedented numbers of people. It is no longer a phenomenon that is essentially limited to students. At the beginning of this century, it was students who became the pioneers of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese nationalism has now become a mass phenomenon that is determining the way of thinking in the world's most populous country.
This way of thinking has deep historical roots. History has conditioned the Chinese elite to think that China is the natural center of the world. In fact, the Chinese word "China" means "Central Kingdom", which expresses the idea that China is at the center of world affairs and emphasizes the importance of national unity. This idea also means that its influence radiates from the center to the periphery in different levels. Therefore, China, as the center, wants others to respect it.
Moreover, since ancient times, populous China has always had a unique and proud civilization. This civilization is extremely advanced in all aspects: philosophy, culture, art, social management skills, technological inventions and political power. The Chinese cannot forget that until about 1600 AD, China was the world leader in agricultural productivity, industrial inventions and living standards. Unlike European and Islamic civilizations, which have nurtured about seventy-five nations, China has been a single nation for most of its history. At the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had a population of more than 200 million and was the world's leading manufacturing power.

From this point of view, then, China's fall from glory and the humiliations it has suffered over the past 150 years are an aberration, a blasphemy against Chinese characteristics, and a humiliation to every Chinese individual. This humiliation must be purged and the perpetrators should be punished. The main perpetrators are Britain, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Their crimes vary in degree: Britain launched the Opium Wars and shamelessly belittled China afterwards; Japan has launched predatory wars for a long century, causing great suffering to the Chinese people, but Japan has not repented of this; Russia has continued to encroach on China's northern territories, and Stalin has been domineering and completely ignored the self-esteem of the Chinese people; and finally, the United States has become an obstacle to China's foreign ambitions through its presence in Asia and its support for Japan.
China believes that two of the four powers have already been punished by history. Britain is no longer an empire, and the American flag has been permanently lowered in Hong Kong, closing a particularly painful chapter. Russia remains a neighbor, but its status and reputation have been greatly reduced, and its territory has been greatly reduced. Therefore, only the United States and Japan pose the most serious problems for China. China will define its regional and global role to the greatest extent in terms of its interaction with these two countries.

However, this definition depends first on how China itself evolves and how powerful an economic and military power it actually becomes. In this regard, the forecast for China is generally promising, although not without some major uncertainties and constraints. The rate of China's economic growth and the scale of foreign investment in China are among the highest in the world. The conventional forecast based on these two statistics is that in about twenty years, China will become a global power, with a power roughly equal to that of the United States and Europe (assuming that Europe has both deepened and expanded). China's GDP has now far exceeded that of Russia and is likely to far exceed that of Japan by then. This economic development will enable China to acquire a strong military power of a scale that will frighten all its neighbors, even those geographically distant but opposed to China's development.
The return of Hong Kong and Macau to China, and perhaps the eventual reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, will further strengthen China, and the Greater China that will emerge will not only become the dominant country in the Far East, but also a first-class world power.

——Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard

In a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country like China, only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard and the establishment of the people's democratic dictatorship can independence, self-reliance, industrialization and national rejuvenation be achieved. We will find that many countries that have held so-called "democratic elections" have essentially become controlled by the landlord class. The landlords then rely on selling resources to seek profits for themselves and become economic colonies of imperialist powers. There is a lack of industrial construction, economic construction, social construction and industrialization in the local area. In Latin America, the country is controlled by caudillos. Therefore, in third world countries, the elected parliament is a tool for landlords and comprador bourgeoisie to control the country. This is actually undemocratic because it represents the interests of a minority or the interests of foreign powers in the local area, rather than the interests of the local people or the interests of the majority of the local people. Under such conditions, if you want to truly develop, you must establish people's democracy. If you want to establish people's democracy, you must first overthrow the old parliament. Only through the people's democratic revolution led by the vanguard can you overthrow the old parliament controlled by landlords, warlords and comprador bourgeoisie, because it is impossible for the parliament controlled by the landlord class to pass any progressive reforms, promote social revolution and carry out industrialization, because industrialization will touch the interests of landlords and compradors. This is determined by the class nature of the landlords. If a country wants to industrialize, especially a late-developing country, it needs a strong leadership core to overthrow the landlord class, establish a dictatorship, and use the power of the state to complete land reform and invest in industrialization.

中国历史是一部民族辉煌的历史。目前中国人民强烈的民族主义与以往不同的，是它渗透于全社会之中，因为它吸引的人数之多是前所未有的。这不再是一种基本上仅限于学生的现象。在本世纪初，成为国民党和中国共产党的先驱者的都是学生。中国的民族主义现在已成为一种群众性现象，正在决定着世界上人口最多的国家的思想方式。
这种思想方式有着深刻的历史根源。历史使中国的精英倾向于认为中国是世界的理所当然的中心。事实上，中文的“中国”两字就是“中央王国”的意思，表达了中国在世界事务中处于中心地位的观念，并强调了民族团结的重要性。这种观念也意味着其影响力分成不同的等级从中心向周边辐射。因此，作为中心的中国希望他人对它敬服。
而且，自远古以来，人口众多的中国一直有一个与众不同的和自豪的文明。这一文明在所有方面都是极为先进的：哲学、文化、艺术、社会管理技巧、技术发明和政治权力。中国人不能忘怀的是，到约公元1600年以前，中国一直在农业生产率、工业发明和生活水平方面居于世界领先的地位。同抚育了约七十五个国家的欧洲文明和伊斯兰文明不同的是，中国在历史上绝大部分时间里一直是一个单一国家。在美国发表独立宣言之时，它已经拥有两亿多人口，而且还是世界上主要的制造业大国。

从这一观点出发，那么，中国从辉煌的地位上跌落下来，在过去的150年中蒙受了种种屈辱，是一种畸变，是对中国特性的亵渎，也是对每一个中国人个人的羞辱。这种屈辱必须洗雪，作恶者应该受到应有的惩罚。主要的作恶者是英国、日本、俄罗斯和美国。它们的作恶程度不一：英国发动了鸦片战争以及事后还厚颜无耻地贬低中国；日本在过去漫长的一个世纪里发动了掠夺性的战争，使中国人民蒙受了巨大苦难，但日本对此仍无悔悟；俄罗斯不断地侵吞中国北方领土，斯大林又颐指气使，完全无视中国人的自尊心；最后还有美国通过其在亚洲的存在和对日本的支持，成为中国实现对外抱负的障碍。
中国认为，上述四大国中已有两个受到了历史的惩罚。英国已不再是个帝国，米宇旗在香港永久地降落，结束了那令人特别痛苦的一章。俄罗斯虽仍是邻国，但其地位和声誉已经锐降，领土也大为缩小。因此，对中国构成最严重问题的只有美国和日本。中国将根据与这两个国家的相互作用，来最大限度地界定自己的地区作用和全球作用。

然而，这种界定首先取决于中国本身如何演变，以及中国实际上会变成一个多么强大的经济和军事大国。在这方面，对中国的预测，总的来说是有希望的，虽然并不是不存在某些重大的不确定性和制约因素。中国经济增长的速度以及外国在华投资的规模，都属全世界最高之列。根据这两方面的统计数字作出的通常预测是，在二十年左右的时间里，中国将成为一个全球性的大国，其实力大约与美国和欧洲（假定欧洲既深化又扩大了）持平。中国的国民生产总值现在已经大幅度超过俄罗斯，到那时很可能大大超过日本。这种经济发展势头将使中国有能力获得强大的军事实力，其规模将使其所有的邻国担惊受伯，就连那些地理上相距甚远、但却反对中国发展的国家也会感到害怕。
香港和澳门回归中国，以及台湾或许最终与大陆重新统一，这一切将进一步使中国得以加强，随之出现的大中华，将不仅成为远东的主导国家，而且成为第一流的世界大国。

——【美】布热津斯基，《大棋局》

The anti-imperialist attitude of China and refusal to be bullied by western powers sounds quite a bit like the US's attitude toward european powers pre 20th century. We also built a big navy to earn international respect. "Speak softly and carry a big stick"

amazed how China can be such a economic superpower when almost everything made there are of subpar-standard and not to mention their cardboard apartments🤔

"accidently bombed the chinese embassy"??? yeah right! lol

Also this idea that the west has become less imperialist is blatently false, they're arming and defending their genocidal zionist colony right now FFS

There certainly was a century of humiliation, but that pales in comparison the millenium of humiliation that China put unto its neighbours... many of whom still suffer from it.
Let's be real here, China was an empire that simply stumbled onto other stronger empires. And had the balance of power different, they would have acted equally "unequal"... if not worse.
And failing to understand that, will be the downfall of the PRC, because the corruption that weakened the Qing, is once again deeply intrenched within Red China... with the very same disastrous consequences on the horizon.

Oh and just to be clear... the suffering of one people never justifies or excuses the suffering of others. What the Chinese people suffered under their emperors, warlords, foreign powers, Japanese invaders is horrible, but it doesn't justify or excuse the suffering that Chinese governments brought (and still brings) unto Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongols, Vietnamese, Native Taiwanese, etc., etc.

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