now this feels like a classic Vox video

@robert-rv8lo

8 ай бұрын

And now, these types of videos will lead to a third world war as it justifies the continued US decoupling from China and heightened tensions. Anything that challenges the unipolar superpower that is the US is unacceptable to the US, and requires immediate regime change.

@ChannelTENthousandBC

8 ай бұрын

100% true

@user-zt1qx3db1y

8 ай бұрын

yep butchering xi's name lol, not offended. just dissapointed they didnt make an effort.

@organizedchaos4559

8 ай бұрын

@@user-zt1qx3db1yhow u pronounce it?

@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404

8 ай бұрын

@@user-zt1qx3db1yChinese names is difficult to pronounce so I’d cut them some slack 😂

Deng Xiaoping once said “Hide your strength, bide your time.” Xi certainly heeded those words.

@Flakester

8 ай бұрын

And he's still doing this today, building his military and economy. His intentions are clear as they expand their claim on territories that don't belong to them.

@skp8748

8 ай бұрын

@@Flakester gtfoh what are you talking about? They're not the US, France, UK or Russia.

@carsso35

8 ай бұрын

@@FlakesterNo, not at all. He gained his power following that well-known motto for us Chinese, but his philosophy of governance has gone the opposite way. Otherwise you may never know our expanding desire.

@Varangian82

8 ай бұрын

“In fact, Xi Jinping, unlike Bo Xilai, who is a more honest person, is basically a faithful implementer of this basic plan that was laid down by the party hierarchy decades ago. What he is implementing is the next step in the "three-step reform and opening-up" strategy. Originally, when Deng Xiaoping formulated the reform and opening-up policy, the first step was to solve the economic problems and realize a moderately prosperous society; after the realization of a moderately prosperous society, the next step was to end the biding of light and to build a strong socialist country. Xi Jinping is carrying out this next stage, and he is just concretizing Deng Xiaoping's plan, which was still a vision at that time. In the process of materialization, he did not betray the basic plan of the party and the state (in Trump's terms: the deep state) for the party and the state, but rather won greater support than Bo Xilai and Wen Jiabao because of the considerable prudence and loyalty he demonstrated in carrying it out, and because he was much more reliable than either of them.”--Liu Zhongjing

@shutinalley

8 ай бұрын

@@Flakester Thats an issue that goes back to forever everywhere. The problem is old world mentalities that is a global problem.

He did the classic moves. "If you want to change the game, join the game and eventually be the game."

@gongping908

2 ай бұрын

he wanted to be the game on the first day, even if he was once a victim of the same game

@user-mj8zr7zx8b

2 ай бұрын

民進黨被美國滲透

@user-mw4ki4fb7y

2 ай бұрын

China will fall to the west

@Bellicose

2 ай бұрын

@@gongping908 he blames his own father for his suffering, it's straight up stockholm syndrome and he refuses to believe the system is wrong

@haishantang4035

Ай бұрын

@@gongping908 Because he has been deeply involved, he knows the reason. A system can have advantages and disadvantages, but it does not mean it is wrong. He firmly believes in the belief of the system, so he worked hard to lift the Chinese out of poverty after taking office. Although you don't believe it, I think he can get to where he is now because of his firm belief.

Thank you for proving that journalism and education today doesn't need to have unnecessary humour to be entertaining. This is amazing stuff.

@derroz3157

6 ай бұрын

4:55 Dum doom music

@IsaiahRichards692

6 ай бұрын

Yes it does! Because humor is entirely necessary!

@JuanTonSoupXP

6 ай бұрын

But you don’t know that tho

@MaxRadioStation

5 ай бұрын

Tired of Wendoverr productuons?

@spider6660

4 ай бұрын

This is not some worthy documentary.

going out of Beijing to other province and even rural area is not simply Xi's strategy, it's actually a political tradition for people who want to go to the high level in the central government in China even at ancient time. It's a kind of training system for central government. Both in ancient China and nowadays PRC, most of the high level central government leaders have some experience of governing local governments.

@havingdinneramaster

8 ай бұрын

中国虽然是中央集权制国家，但在某些领域地方的权限并不比联邦制地方的权限小，更不要提香港澳门还有将来的台湾。 这就意味着，中央领导人必须得有主政一方的历练。 央地矛盾是从古至今都存在的，毛泽东主席的论十大关系中也曾论述过。

@abrahamgomez8832

8 ай бұрын

Same pattern for now mexico president. He did this same approaxh with rural providences.

@kingjoe3rd

8 ай бұрын

Xi thinks he is Mao, you know since Mao's grandson is a ... genius ;) and couldn't be bothered with politics, Xi believes that he is the one to be Mao's true successor.

@891delta

8 ай бұрын

In big companies, candidates to be CEO have to have experience across multiple verticals of the business so they can understand the whole org.

@oswarz

8 ай бұрын

@@abrahamgomez8832 Mingling, living, working with ordinary people gives you a different perspective on how to govern. This is something Western leaders lack.

This was very informative. You should turn this into a series on world leaders including Netanyahu, Erdogan, Putin and MBS

@dwaynekeenum1916

8 ай бұрын

There already is a pretty good MBS video out there from a couple years ago

@anotheryoutubeuser

8 ай бұрын

@@dwaynekeenum1916 I think, except Netanyahu, they have already covered all the leaders the OP mentioned.

@redox4088

8 ай бұрын

​@@anotheryoutubeuserThe media is not allowed to cover Netanyahu in a negative light." Netanyahu is the father of democracy and defender of freedom" is the only acceptable narrative.

@theperson3693

8 ай бұрын

@@redox4088lol.

@zvck808

8 ай бұрын

also modi

I wonder if Xi can also hear this intense background music in his daily life.

@user-pv1jq7xl2r

18 күн бұрын

sbS'B

A very well made video. The narration, animation, timelines and many other aspects have fit in so well with each other. Please make more of these : )

Most of the content is very good, but Xi Jinping did not leave Beijing to go to the bottom to escape anything. For most officials in China to be promoted, going to the bottom is a must. After the Cultural Revolution, after Deng Xiaoping resumed his work, most officials and their families were rehabilitated. There is no danger. Going to the bottom is just to accumulate political capital.

@leezhieng

8 ай бұрын

Plus, the places he went were not exactly rural.

@prayunceasingly2029

8 ай бұрын

​@@leezhieng like Shanghai!

@sherylyin5219

8 ай бұрын

​@@prayunceasingly2029shanghai was the very end. the provinces he went before Shanghai were indeed rural back then.

@demal1010

8 ай бұрын

They expressed that sentiment; they said the party wanted humble leaders

@TheSimianDeity

8 ай бұрын

@@demal1010 The party wanted control of the outlying provinces. Sending leaders from Beijing to rule over them was only nominally about humility. Allowing provinces to grow their own leadership was a recipe for a new, competing political movement. Mao and his successors were determined that they would not make the same mistake Lin Sen did.

4:55 Those Chinese character they are carrying on their backs are meant to teach the troops how to identify and write Chinese while marching, which is why the red army had a much high literacy rate than the nationalist later in the civil war.

@jerry85g7

8 ай бұрын

Amazing thanks for sharing that piece of knowledge.

@yizoho5178

8 ай бұрын

The red army during the civil war ate better generally

@milanvondelft268

8 ай бұрын

This is a really cool fact, and i want to use it in a quiz I'm writing, but I just can't find a source. It sounds plausible, but can you please point me to one?

@CiviTian-br3fs

8 ай бұрын

​@@milanvondelft268 Everyone in Chinese know it😂. but where the pictures from is a difficult. Maybe you can get more information by reading a book……《红星照耀中国》. Its English name is "red star over china". written by Edgar Parks Snow. it tells the story about red army. 写英文好费劲😢。

@CiviTian-br3fs

8 ай бұрын

（“图片的来源在哪”是个困难的问题）写到一半不知道“问题”该用哪个词，结果给忘了😅。

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Awesome content. Thank you for making this 👍👍👍

Xi studied chemical engineering at university, not philosophy. The program at the time required 15% of student's time be committed to studying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and 5% of the time doing work in the country side.

@mandalorian3246

5 ай бұрын

overall this video has massive mistakes Zhejiang and Fujian provinces are not rular China they are industrial hubs.

@lajibox

5 ай бұрын

What you said is not entirely correct, because he majored in chemical engineering as an undergraduate in Tsinghua University, but his postgraduate is Marxism.

@ostrakos4785

4 ай бұрын

@@mandalorian3246 i dont think Zhejiang has much rural areas left, all their villages are quite suburban. Fujian on the other hand varies greatly, and thats why so many of them go to Myanmar to commit scams, or illegally immigrate to america

@cjandre7789

3 ай бұрын

Xi never studied anything in any uni. He only went through elementary school.

@monk786

3 ай бұрын

Xi received a Chemical Engineering Degree and a PHD of law from Tsinghua University.

Vox should continue doing this type of videos

@iansteelmatheson

8 ай бұрын

they've been doing them for like 10 years...

@NicodemusT

8 ай бұрын

@@iansteelmatheson * Johnny Harris has been doing them.

@Racko.

8 ай бұрын

@@iansteelmathesonNope, they had Harris doing it

@KtenEditing

8 ай бұрын

@@NicodemusT plenty of examples of similar work they've done since Harris left

@lurhashmazin5589

8 ай бұрын

@@KtenEditing i wonder why Johnny Harris left Vox?

Great piece Vox!! Ty for educating us further

Thank you all for the amazing work

He really played the long game to gain power.

@skp8748

8 ай бұрын

Not really he played the game of not stepping on people, not becoming beholden because of corruption and being technically proficient. He learned from his father that wings could be clipped so unlike Icarus decided not to fly too close to the sun. That's why he has the role he has now he's considered fairly impartial not a lackey of the military, the political princes or the business elite since he wasn't brought to power by one of them and more importantly he's more of an administrator than a political/philosophical revolutionary... His entire creed is just efficiency if it works study it, if it doesn't get rid of it, if it's corrupt dismantle it, if it threatens stability destroy it and this is all done relatively without prejudice. His only enemy is inefficiency

@danpetrescu4915

8 ай бұрын

play long time to gain power ? but he work hard , very hard for his people . i think is ok to get power in this way

@askosefamerve

8 ай бұрын

​@@danpetrescu4915I don't think unlimited power is great but he won it right and square.

@ThwipThwipBoom

8 ай бұрын

I gotta commend the guy, he played the political game perfectly. I respect it even though I disagree with his ideals.

@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404

8 ай бұрын

@@askosefamervehe won it fair-ish sure, but when one holds power for too long it corrupts them. You can have the best person in the world be president of a large country, but the longer they hold power the less good they become, the power gets into their heads and they become corrupt. It’s really sad, many dream of what they could do if they’re in charge but when you actually become in charge those ‘dreams’ become a reality, but those dreams isn’t always 100% pure so… you know, corruption.

This is the craziest revenge story I’ve heard of

@AN31DO01RR96

5 ай бұрын

@@Huajierenmeiluziye I thought western social media etc. is blocked in China? Is the great firewall not working?

@hhhhzr-rq1lg

5 ай бұрын

​@@AN31DO01RR96那个墙是​可以翻的，我今天刚整上，就是得花不少钱😢

@sawkevinnoel7954

5 ай бұрын

​@@AN31DO01RR96 Usage of Facebook and messenger is banned in Myanmar as well, but everyone still uses it.

@user-if4sf6es1y

5 ай бұрын

But what exactly did he avenge? Is becoming the leader of a country considered revenge? What decisions did he make that were more harmful than beneficial? Did he intensify the oppression of the people? Did he amass wealth for his own pleasure? I searched but couldn't find reliable information on this. Are some of his decisions controversial, yet on the whole, they are more beneficial than detrimental?

@surprise-xg8pk

5 ай бұрын

习近平任上反腐干得不错,遏制了邓小平的利益集团

I learn so much! Thank you!

Vox did an amazing job on this video. If only the video were 3 hours long. 😊🤔😊

Deng was rehabilitated and reinstated by Mao himself. This video makes it sound like it happened after Mao's death, but actually it happened BEFORE his death.

@user-xt4qr1wh9r

8 ай бұрын

是你记错了，邓重反中央是毛死后，叶帅支持的

@alexlo7708

8 ай бұрын

Some say Deng was rehabilitated by Zhou not long before he was dead.

@wacxr123

8 ай бұрын

Yes, but with Mao's consent since the government can hardly run without a strong man like Deng (Zhou was sick at that time@@alexlo7708

@TrueDreeamss

8 ай бұрын

​@@alexlo7708No. It was by Mao. Mao always liked Deng but sometimes Deng was too stubborn for Mao to tolerate

@user-qx4bi8pv7x

8 ай бұрын

Mao Covid lol.

My dad, who lived through the Cultural Revolution, often said this about Mao: “Chiang only taught you how to fire a gun. Mao taught you how to fight with your spirit. This is why he (proverbially) won the civil war in the end.” Mao was an incredible wartime leader, but he was a garbage peacetime leader.

@nunosilva187

8 ай бұрын

Im sure it wasnt because he convinced the peasants by providong them promises of food and wealth

@haomingxia2109

8 ай бұрын

@@nunosilva187 yes, land reform was a very effective policy that he did follow up upon besides, during the civil war, there were many genuine reasons why many peasants had grievances against Chiang's government. having a coherent ideology instead of being a coalition of feudal warlords only helped.

@mathewlett9104

8 ай бұрын

No he only won cause Japan helped weaken his rivals.

@haomingxia2109

8 ай бұрын

@@mathewlett9104 doesn't explain all the mass defections to the PLA once Japan surrendered

@christopherx2216

8 ай бұрын

@@mathewlett9104 When the Japanese surrendered, Chiang had 4.3 million troops, and Mao had 1.2 million. Chiang started the war again with the support of the USSR and the USA. In fact, Chiang had some advantages at the beginning. However, after the success of land reform, Mao took back the initiative on the battlefield. Then, the USSR started supporting weapons and supplies. 1.6 million of Chiang's army died, 4 million surrendered, and the last 4 million run to Taiwan is the end of the story.

Subscribed.. I like the production quality as much as the content. Good job.

@sanzhang-tx1zm

Ай бұрын

不要相信他说的，非常夸张，虚假，偏见

@flahyon

Ай бұрын

@@sanzhang-tx1zm I would really like to hear your arguments, not as a joke or anything, but out of pure curiosity, what in the video has been exagerated for exemple, i would like to inform myself

@sanzhang-tx1zm

Ай бұрын

@@flahyon 毛主席对我们中国人来说，功劳大于缺点，他带领中国人走出压迫，把封建的陋习，地主阶级彻底消灭了，是我们伟大的民族英雄 你可以来中国看看 我们这里才是真正的最自由，最民主，最安全，最幸福的国家 真正的自由是你可以通过自己的努力完成自己的梦想，没有人限制你 真正的独裁是美国，美国已经被犹太人裹挟，他们倡导快乐教育，用奇葩的几百种畸形变态性别，大麻来麻醉底层人民，让他们变得好洗脑，好控制 因为美国大多数人都没有接受过良好的教育，他们没有思考能力，他们沉醉在楚门世界

Brilliant video! I learnt a lot👏

His policies aside, what Xi did to consolidate power is political play at one of its finest. From exiled to the top, he knew how to use the system to his advantage. Learned a lot from this video. Now THIS is the kind of videos I subscribed to Vox for.

@sleepyearth

8 ай бұрын

Vox made a mistake of his rural humble training. At that time every single youth of a certain age are sent to rural areas to contribute to the society. It's not of Xi's own desires.

@jackietreehorn069

8 ай бұрын

I learned a lot too. Going to copy his skills to consolidate power at my kid's gradeschool.

@antigonemerlin

8 ай бұрын

CSIS has a more in depth series of interviews with experts on this topic. The book reviews are all really good.

@dionjohn1744

8 ай бұрын

Hes actually very smart. I give him that

@manishsahu6186

8 ай бұрын

This sounds like a manhwa story

I know it's probably out of the scope of this video, but a little more time spent on Bo Xilai would have been fun. He was seen as Xi's main competition for Chairman back around 2012, and the corruption scandal he got put away for was pretty wild. He'd also gained a reputation as a kind of fixer of problematic cities (first Dalian and then Chongqing). The people of Chongqing loved Bo, and in those parts, people didn't really like the way he was prosecuted and saw it as purely political.

@caseymccollum173

8 ай бұрын

Great point - also wish they had discussed Zhao Ziyang, Deng's Premier & General Secretary. Feel like glossing over China's economic growth and classifying it as the "Deng era" broadly is a bit historically lazy and glosses over some key insights that could help viewers interpret the course of Chinese history better and understand the Xi era more deeply. Kind of as with Bo Xilai, without introducing people to these figures I think they run into the mistake of presenting Chinese history as a straight path when it really isn't. Oh well. I recognize it's tough with 20min KZread primers.

@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407

8 ай бұрын

There was also an international murder case on Bo's lawyer wife. They were wealthy and had properties overseas, their son studied at Oxford. Then their English butler was poisoned to death. The whole thing was super shady. Set-up?

@csrupbxpan2711

8 ай бұрын

Do you know Bo Xilai hit his father on the public in the Cuturle Revolution? It is a devaster for the people if Bo was elected as Chinese presiden .

@pjacobsen1000

8 ай бұрын

It's a good point, but this is a relatively short video. They had to cut a lot of detail out, or they could have gone on for hours, not that that would be a bad thing.

@sleepyearth

8 ай бұрын

Bo's son is the catalyst of his downfall.

As a person who's exiled as well this video is very good and informative. Well done

It still amazes me how Winnie Pooh managed to be in charge of a billion people

Chinese history is so fascinating. You've put a lot of information in there, surprised that you haven't included information about Russia and China and Mao's relation with Nikita Khrushchev. How all that affected Cultural Revolution and aftermath of the revolution, after all it was a huge contributing factor.

@alexworldfan

8 ай бұрын

Can you elaborate how

@hellfireboy

7 ай бұрын

Well, these are Americans, they are not very good at history, I’ve come to terms with it

@wongyoonchark5050

7 ай бұрын

​@@hellfireboyThe success of MAO ERA under the socialism with Chinese characteristics had droved out all evil foreign powers encroached inside China & laid the foundation for future generations who brought China rising, strong & prosperity. China is good learner , industrious & self-reliance in all field of innovations & technologies.

@cupertinoish

7 ай бұрын

@@wongyoonchark5050 yeah like starving and punishing 70 MILLION of your own people to death. In that regard he accomplished more than Hitler

@greentea8852

7 ай бұрын

Is there a good book covering this relationship?

Fascinating focus on the consolidation of powers. I would be interested to follow up on this video with a deep dive in what is meant by "Xi Jinping Thought" as defined in the Third Resolution and the contrast between its theory of change, rhetorical tone, and consequences.

@rgcv

8 ай бұрын

Certainly worth a video!

@nathangibbs246

8 ай бұрын

Just read his books. The four volumes of the Governance of China. And read Roland Boer's "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, a Guide for Foreigners." Great reads, very informative!

@aejlim6912

8 ай бұрын

​@@nathangibbs246no, its internet everyone wants summarization, so spill it here

@frankartanis1290

8 ай бұрын

The content of the third resolution is unimportant here. The fact that Xi put a thought named after him into the party constitution symbolizes the amount of power Xi has.

@nathangibbs246

8 ай бұрын

@@frankartanis1290 maybe, but it's based on his spoken and written words

I put this as background sound and ended up stopping what I was doing to pay attention to the video. very good educational video!

Is it just me or the intro sounded like a nice action movie plot filled with spy 🕵 action 🎭

just to be clear in 00:43 , ‘president’ is not the most powerful man in china’s political field, there are ‘general secretary of the party’ and ‘chairman of the military’ above the president. As a result Mr. yang and Mr. li were not the number one person at that time for they didn’t control the military

This episode was very informative. Thank you to all the people behind it.

@AJ-jx5gm

8 ай бұрын

Such videos are needed for people that dont pay attention to world news. Xi has been called dictator / emperor for a while now but there's still ignorant people saying he's not. Xi is the Putin of china right now, where people disappear instead of falling out of tall buildings.

@rongyaowang1075

8 ай бұрын

Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?

@Mr.Mister420

8 ай бұрын

Xi xuan je shu kemo na che Xi phuc yu ma dar phuc kar xuan ji chi

@_noen_3806

8 ай бұрын

Não foi informativo, teve inúmeras distorções de narrativa, é um desastre pra quem estuda história

@GL-iv4rw

8 ай бұрын

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you very much for such interesting material, I will follow new posts.

I aspire to make research and historical videos like you guys. Great video!

I'm thankful that the guy single handedly resolved San Fran's homeless crisis. Albeit for just a week or so. But at least people saw what was possible.

@robertborunda9845

8 ай бұрын

Oh the satire😅

@xprettylightsx

8 ай бұрын

There was nothing resolved. He displaced them temporarily.

@chosenone5536

8 ай бұрын

@@xprettylightsx😂😂😂😂 then you should thank him for showing Cali can get rid of the homeless in the street but they won't do it.

@earthwormjim6962

8 ай бұрын

@@xprettylightsx Which is one of the resolutions for the problem. Not the best, of course, but given the city is going to be run by democrats forever, I don't see any other resolution. Just move them permanently.

@xprettylightsx

8 ай бұрын

@@earthwormjim6962 fun fact, your tax dollars are spent by the millions on this problem in an ever incompetent fashion

Good video, but one major interpretation flaw: Xi’s time away from Beijing wasn’t a ‘strategy’; it’s just how the CCP works. To be part of the Politburo you need to have governed at least 4 different cities - it’s the way to attest to your political and administrative skills. Tbh, it’s a much better system to select leadership than, for comparison, corrupt two-party systems. But in no way this was a “strategy”. It’s a requirement. What Mao did in the second half of his leadership, and Xi is doing now, it’s limiting the ability of the party to distribute and valour competencies and engage with the wider body of the party (which has MILLIONS of members).

@Q-se5oh

8 ай бұрын

It’s also kind of odd that this video didn’t talk about internal party politics and ideology.. pretty significant factor to understand who xi is. Disappointed the video just used common western sensationalist tropes.

@aitharel3009

8 ай бұрын

Indeed, China is a meritocracy, it invented imperial examinations a long time ago for similar reasons after all

@aitharel3009

8 ай бұрын

@@Q-se5oh Can't really expect much else from Western media though haha. Turned on the cc to find the opening music was [sinister electronic music] lol, such a classic.

@billedifier8584

8 ай бұрын

Great, so instead of a corrupt two-party system, China has a corrupt one-party system.

@davidzoo2246

8 ай бұрын

“异地为官”is an ancient political practice as an, part of china’s own Confucianist political history, it means “serving as a statesman somewhere that’s not ur hometown” this is why federalism will likely never work in chija

Great Video! Thank you! 🙏

now i know how the French people feel when they watch Ridley Scott's Napoléon film😅

@yituodabianusa-hz2uh

4 ай бұрын

i was wrong,this is much more disgusting🤢

Thank you so much for this well presented piece! I loved the infographics 🌟

@GL-iv4rw

8 ай бұрын

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This episode was very informative

@mdshahabulislam1810

8 ай бұрын

Good

@priscaamy1987

8 ай бұрын

Good one

@nazrulstore-qg2kf

7 ай бұрын

Best

NEVER STOP UR VIDEOS R AMAZING

Deng xiaoping seems like a magnificent leader

After everything you've produced so far, I wonder if you've got plans to create multi-hour documentaries? Thank you for your work! You people produces some of the best content on the internet.

@user-kd8kf3lx5w

8 ай бұрын

I wish. I bet the economics of it are prohibitive though.

@rongyaowang1075

8 ай бұрын

Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?

@GL-iv4rw

8 ай бұрын

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@splashygaming6932

4 ай бұрын

What?​@@rongyaowang1075

Just pointing out what a lot of Westerners miss, China's presidency is a very symbolic position not a position with a lot of political power. Xi is party chairman which is the highest position of power in China and that has no term limits. So Xi already had 'power for life' if he wants it just like every Chinese leader before him.

@ChinaTheLlama

8 ай бұрын

CCP=dictatorship.

@willyang4487

8 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@lirenxin5472

8 ай бұрын

No you're wrong. After Deng Xiaoping it was changed to a limit of two terms, but successors of Deng followed the Constitution. Xi, however, changed the Constitution a few years before his third term. So he was aiming to be like Mao for sure.

@TacticalMayo

8 ай бұрын

Westerners wouldn't care because we see China as the enemy.

@Luvanweed

8 ай бұрын

lol Xi absolutely has more power in China than the president of the USA has inside the USA. China is literally one or two steps away from being an autocracy.

Very timely piece. Kudos Vox 🎉

Most senior officials in China have grassroots experience

A very well made short video about a brief chinese history. I loved the economist podcast as well called The Prince. It is much more in depth but this video is pretty much covered all the key points.

@user-js7qh6dp8y

3 ай бұрын

事实上他只是把西方的刻板印象做成了视频而已，当中拥有大量错误。自然灾害的发生与政策毫无干系，同时文革的发动原因也不仅仅只是为了巩固自己的权利。

@eddiezhang2186

3 ай бұрын

@@user-js7qh6dp8y说的对

@user-kh2so7nz7j

Ай бұрын

@@user-js7qh6dp8y 我觉得你这才是胡扯，三年大饥荒当然是政策的直接后果，文革也主要是为了自己的权利

A MASTERPIECE! Thank you, Vox!

@wengbx

8 ай бұрын

吓死我了，这些老外太可怕了，好好的国家被扭曲的不成样子了，满满恶意，这么恐怖这国家还能变成世界第二经济体？

@electronspark6740

8 ай бұрын

​@@wengbx在和平年代，有着如此大量的如此吃苦耐劳且有强烈意愿改善自己生活的国民，在东亚文化的加持下，用了半个多世纪才成为世界第二大经济体，才是天理不容的。

@fitfirst4468

8 ай бұрын

thank dee's nuts

@williamt.sherman2573

8 ай бұрын

i wouldnt call it a "masterpiece". its our perspective on china and xi, doesnt mean this has to be the absolute right one

@rongyaowang1075

8 ай бұрын

Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?

Very informative video, thank you

You guys missed the moments where Hu Jintao gets ousted from that national conference

Here's the problem. If a westerner who watched this video tried to have a conversation with a Chinese person about Mao or Xi, they would have nothing in common after the Long Match. You completely omitted The Gang of Four or the country's forgiveness of Mao. Tiananmen (and other protests): I've never seen this explained well in the west. But, you made it seem like Xi was the first leader to consolidate the top three roles in the government but that was considered the _correct_ thing to do by the time I studied Chinese law in Beijing in 2007. This video is better than most of the tripe made by other media companies, but that shouldn't be how we measure quality. If an educated Chinese national who was opposed to Xi were to talk to one of your viewers, your viewer wouldn't understand anything the person was talking about. The video wasn't bad, but it didn't make any progress.

@kareem7094

8 ай бұрын

Do you have recommendations for a better video?

@Hans.Dewitt

8 ай бұрын

its 20 minutes mate, I think it goes over the major events well, save for a few inaccuracies

@HunterHogan

8 ай бұрын

@nothere2994 No, I'm not suggesting more; I'm saying that they should have described things differently.

@HunterHogan

8 ай бұрын

@nothere2994 Well, if I had written a movie-length comment, it would have been more clear, right? ;)

@GL-iv4rw

8 ай бұрын

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a Chinese, I think the information of documentary is still too simplified; it doesn't means about good or bad, but underrating of the complexity of the society of China

@Mezzo396

8 ай бұрын

what would you add

@twinkjakdoomer

8 ай бұрын

What is oversimplified?

@serdavosseaworth6115

8 ай бұрын

There’s only so much you can squeeze into a 20 minute film though.

@123fps3

7 ай бұрын

20 min

@JYYP-jz7qq

7 ай бұрын

typical Chinese netizen - quick to criticize and never to offer any actual values. it's 20 minutes for christ's sake

Thx for doing this video

Zhejiang province is not a "rural" area, it is one of the most economically vibrant area of China

@yty1941

3 ай бұрын

to be fair, it is known for the "cancer villages" and lots of rural areas facing water and soil pollution tho

@JikunCai-ln9yz

3 ай бұрын

@@yty1941 Whole China is evil in BBC.

@Riza20462

2 ай бұрын

One comment lurk

@Riza20462

2 ай бұрын

U got quiet

Top notch video, Vox crew. One of your best in a while. Thank you

This is prolly one of the most informative Channel I’ve ever came across

@williamxu2402

8 ай бұрын

Until it talks about the topic that you’re familiar with.

@shushunk00

8 ай бұрын

Manufacturing consent Learn about it

@isakpetterssonmusic

8 ай бұрын

until t comes to the palestine-israel conflict and trump videos where they spew missinformation

@thanhavictus

8 ай бұрын

​@@williamxu2402I'm familiar with most of their topics. Some points they miss and they do issue corrections but most are pretty spot on honestly.

@thanhavictus

8 ай бұрын

​@@isakpetterssonmusicjust because they disagree with you doesn't mean that it's wrong.

this video absorbed me into its world, what a mind-blowing experience. amazing work from vox.

I remember just last week, there's photo of Xi seemed to feel disgusted with the tea he drank during the meeting. All US media was in panic mode as if armageddon is just few seconds away.

Wow, this was a great history lesson. Thank you! More of these please.

@shushunk00

8 ай бұрын

This is history for u 😂 Brainless western exceptionalist chewing up the manufacturing consent made by the "independent media" literally always aligning with state department talking points when it comes to foreign issues😂

@GL-iv4rw

8 ай бұрын

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's not only the most powerful leader in china but also doing it during the most powerful era of the history of china

@sleepyearth

8 ай бұрын

Vox also glossed over the fact that Xi's family are as corrupted. They are billionaires and have properties all over the world.

@willyang4487

8 ай бұрын

Interesting point.

@dwaynekeenum1916

8 ай бұрын

Tbf ancient China was pretty nice too

@husseinhamze8828

8 ай бұрын

He pushed china towards its most powerful era

@TacticalMayo

8 ай бұрын

But now they have to clash with the US and you know what that means.

@7:30 i thought it was laurence fishburne for a sec.

Thanks VOX 👌🏽 well documented 💯 I learnt a lot today 💪🏽🔥

LOVE this video style. I hope you guys do more like this!!

I love documentaries about China's history during the 20th century, that was one of my favorite subjects in high school. Does anyone have any documentaries to recommend that I could watch?

@atomabg5498

8 ай бұрын

Watch Joris Ivens's How Yukong Moved the Mountains if you haven't yet

@torresromain

8 ай бұрын

@@atomabg5498 I have never heard of it, no. Thank you, I'll give it a look!

@andrespulido8

8 ай бұрын

Watch the movie the last emperor

@skp8748

8 ай бұрын

Coogan has good one as does jabzy

@skp8748

8 ай бұрын

Ryan Chapman as well

Great video lads

GENIUS!!

This reminds me of the similar situation in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 and Italy 🇮🇹 too and geopolitically in the government.

This is such a fantastic video. Well done and thank you.

juicy part is how he won the political rivalry among all those power groups

14:29 I'm a little mad that the young Xi is actually a bit of a looker 😅

@bilibilikakakbaba

Ай бұрын

hahaha unfortunatly I agree

Great informative piece. Could have done with a bit more on the recent developments at the end, like Hu Jintao's soft purging (and his supporters). China's politics is really an underreported affair in the west, glad you covered some of it.

@roym4457

8 ай бұрын

It's underreported EVERYWHERE especially in CHINA LOL...

@BensonMTG

8 ай бұрын

A lot of China watching and China current events news is heavily paywalled. Too many of those sources have the market cornered and it’s sad they take advantage of it.

@yank-blood-no-eat-get

8 ай бұрын

"Hu Jintao's soft purge"? Can you elaborate? Do you have some insider's information that I don't know?

@Guangatron

8 ай бұрын

take everything with a grain of salt especially when hearing opinons that are not from the people in china.

@MasterBayden-allday

8 ай бұрын

They are talking about the most recent video (a year ago) of hu jintao sitting next to Xi, then getting escorted out in front of everyone, I'm assuming for show.

As long as his country is moving forward, he can stay in power for 100 more years

@TimeMakerDotPH

8 ай бұрын

The country moved forward because of collective leadership and no overstaying leaders for the past 30 years that preceded Xi LOL. Take a look at the USSR for instance, Brezhnev had it all, overstaying politburo members, overstaying generals, etc. They let the Soviet economy stagnate and by the time Gorbachev came, the USSR was terminally ill, Gorbachev was not there to cure the USSR but rather, to euthanize or salvage it. And for that, China learned a lot from both Mao and the Soviet tragedy. The problem with overstaying leaders is that they are becoming outdated and they started calling bad decisions and by the time the country is really fvcqed up, it became hard for them to be removed from power. Putin is now on that stage, Xi will follow the same. Give a chance to younger innovative leaders to rule the country LOL.

@abdilio9384

8 ай бұрын

@@TimeMakerDotPH it's okay. Muammar Gaddafi stayed in power for 42 years before "the perfect West" sold us propagandas and killed him like a dog. He left a track record in his leadership but his people are now suffering. It's the same with the Chinese. Their country is on the right track and they don't have to listen to documentaries and videos done by the West to learn anything. If it were possible, they would have invaded China too to "free the Chinese people"

@billyu2936

5 ай бұрын

​@@TimeMakerDotPHso a 4 year term presidency could make a long-term beneficial decision for his own country instead of worrying about his election and trying to fullfill his promise made to the people who voted for him？this kind of democracy doesnt make any sense!

一个地道且比较了解现代中国史的中国人告诉你，该片仅80%符合史实，20%不符就是政治攻击。

this is amazing stuff.

These are the only types of videos that Vox should be making. Real, good journalism that isn't afraid to talk about topics that other news sites are too afraid of to do so themselves.

@Gromkiii

8 ай бұрын

Haha there's real historical channels with fact on KZread do you know or you listen only Vox.

@Chickenduudio

7 ай бұрын

​@@GromkiiiThat grammar is atrocious.

@coldarcticoasis

7 ай бұрын

​@@GromkiiiName them. Too many humans think and believe their sources are good but they are not. You could be one.

@serriajohn

7 ай бұрын

@@coldarcticoasis From 1952 to the end of the Maoist era, steel production increased from 1.4 million tons to 31.8 million tons, coal production increased from 66 million tons to 617 million tons, cement production increased from 3 million tons to 65 million tons, and lumber production increased from 11 million tons. tons increased to 51 million tons, electricity increased from 7 billion kilowatts/hour to 256 billion kilowatts/hour, crude oil production increased from a fundamental blank to 104 million tons, and fertilizer production increased from 39,000 tons to 8.693 million tons. . By the mid-1970s, China was still producing large quantities of jet aircraft, heavy-duty tractors, railway locomotives, and modern sea-going ships. The People's Republic of China also became a major nuclear power, completing the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles. China successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1964, produced its first hydrogen bomb in 1967, and launched a satellite into orbit in 1970. On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were only 205 general colleges and universities in the country, with only 117,000 students enrolled. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the national literacy rate increased from 20% to 80%. The four literacy campaigns of New China enabled more than 100 million people to get rid of illiteracy. The number of students increased by 8.4 times. The number of students enrolled in primary schools reached a record high of 150 million, and the enrollment rate reached 97.3%. The number of students enrolled in ordinary middle schools reached a record high of 67.8 million in 1977; After 1949, it experienced the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and India, the Sino-Soviet border military pressure, the Sino-Vietnamese Xisha naval battle, the anti-American Chiang Kai-shek invasion on the southeast coast, the international comprehensive economic blockade and embargo, the policy of diplomatic isolation, and the domestic rich and evil rebels. 26 years of destruction by right rebels. However, Mao Zedong relied on self-reliance and developed at an average annual GDP growth rate of 9.8%, which is extremely rare in world history and unmatched by capitalist developed countries. Compared with the United States, the gap between my country's economy and the United States increased from 28 times in 1949 to 1978. The difference between years is 5.52 times. In fact, from 1949 to 1976, China's GDP rose to sixth place in the world, while in 2005 it was seventh. At that time, China was the sixth largest industrial country in the world, the third largest military power, and the eighteenth scientific and technological power. It gradually established an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system. Morris Meissner, a professor at Yale University in the United States, concluded after extensive research: The Mao Zedong era was one of the greatest modernization eras in world history, and was closely related to the industrialization processes of several major rising stars in the modern industrial arena, such as Germany, Japan, and Russia. Not inferior to the most intense period. The United States believed in the book "The Modernization of Japan and Russia" published in the 1970s that New China has achieved achievements that no other country has achieved. As former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger said: "China has emerged as one of the six largest industrial countries in the world." Deng Xiaoping also said in his speech at the Party's Theoretical Work Retreat on March 30, 1979: "We In thirty years, we have made progress that old China had not made in hundreds and thousands of years."

@jjf9807

7 ай бұрын

just because it satisfies your expectation doesn't mean it's real😅

This video is a great exercise in recognizing how writing and phrasing affects the viewer’s understanding of content, and how that can be used for manipulation and disinformation. Media literacy is important.

@underdog3864

8 ай бұрын

ominous music in the background

@abbytrandel4284

8 ай бұрын

I agree with you. It's very important that Vox continue to do media literacy now and in the futre for the of our future generations.

@graysonjd5624

8 ай бұрын

@@abbytrandel4284 Perhaps English is not your first language (I mean that genuinely), but that is not how “media literacy” would be used.

@lelouchlamperouge-pi5kd

8 ай бұрын

Do you mean the historical documents showed in this video does not conform to its explanation or anything? Bro, why not just lay out any clear and substantive arguments and evidence without being sarcastic like this, as if there were some strict comment censorship here.

@terri6854

8 ай бұрын

@graysonjd5624 Your comment is a great exercise in recognizing how passive aggressive people try to create an air of superiority by using intentionally vague or incomplete implications. Comprehensive communication is important.

I see many comments saying they learned a lot from the video and spoke highly of it. Yes, the quality of the video is undoubted and I found most of the contents reliable, but it tries to convey a negative view towards China with many techniques, which is very funny.

Very simple but HIGHLY EFFECTIVE strategy!

Bro was literally hiding his *POWER LEVEL* the entire time 🤣

@kanestalin7246

8 ай бұрын

It's over 9000

A small error at 9:58 : Zhu De was not purged at all; he remained his post as the Chairman of People's Congress until his death but he had been sidelined even before the foundation of PRC

@jeremybiggs8413

8 ай бұрын

Also Deng Xiaoping came after Mao’s short serving successor Hua Guofeng left office in 1981.

@Varangian82

8 ай бұрын

Maybe he mean Pang Dehuai, the commander-in-chief of the Korean War.

@charon2987

8 ай бұрын

Zhu De was freezed to death, like a Russian guy falls out of window

@songyang2750

8 ай бұрын

However his grandson became a criminal and be executed in 1980s😂

@zzq-gg

8 ай бұрын

@@jeremybiggs8413他是政变上的！

I want vox to make the rise of a specific person in the Philippines next time. But this is very interesting to watch

thanks for sharing

Excellent piece, really well done to everyone involved in this!

@TAIWANPARTOFCHINA

8 ай бұрын

150 countries in BRI and there is 195 countries in the world. This says a lot about Xi's leadership 🐉🇨🇳

@ssmot113

7 ай бұрын

This video on Chinese govt is a lot better than the older one ..

Great video

Thank you awesome story

This was great although I’d love to learn more about his possible motivations and long-term plans.

@breezyashell

8 ай бұрын

Right, this video makes it seem like Mao and Xi are just power accumulators, with little to say about what it is they want to do with that power

@pickettfury

8 ай бұрын

One of the big reasons is uncertainty regarding the state of the USA leadership. Changing leaders now without any idea of which direction the USA will go in is very difficult.

@levelazn

8 ай бұрын

long term plan is to build chinatowns everywhere so chinese people can eat well anywhere

@zzzstl6371

8 ай бұрын

What is the long-term plan? It is very straightforward, as he always says, "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", yeah... "make China great again". If he could achieve it, he would get his reward: being recognized as a great leader in Chinese history, which is the dream of most rulers in China. There are two specific goals for him to claim success: the first is to grow the GDP to the No.1 in the world. The second is "bring Taiwan back". These two are the cores, but they are somewhat contradictory, it is impossible for him to get support in Taiwan and peacefully take Taiwan, but a war will make China's economy fall down significantly. China's growth is slowing down, and the economic crisis is rising, pushing Xi further away from his long-term plan. The bad news is Xi knows little about the economy, while he is hardworking to put his fingers here and there. The good news is that the recent diplomatic move shows he hasn't given up Deng's “take economic construction as the central task” and wants to resume a good relationship with the US and the developed world; this means taking Taiwan by force will unlikely happen recently. But we never know what will happen in the next 5 years. It is obvious to the Chinese that he wants to seize power for at least another 10 years. What will he do if he finds he cannot achieve his dream? At least taking Taiwan by force is much easier than economic growth.

@rupigo

8 ай бұрын

Long term plans are generally published and followed to the letter. So you just have to research it.

This is a very informative video that unvailed China's political structure and power conflicts over the years.

@luohuapiaomiao

7 ай бұрын

But this is only from a Western perspective. As a Chinese, I am convinced that 99.9% of Chinese people would not call Xi Jinping a dictator. The West always looks at things with their prejudices and ignores many realities in China, especially the fact that China is a huge country with 56 ethnic groups and 14 billion people.

@gnfdgkkbvffjj6640

5 ай бұрын

​@@luohuapiaomiao correction -- 1.4 billion

As we say in Silicon Valley, once you got a billion users, you need new frameworks.

@josemiguelcastiblancogomez7723

28 күн бұрын

Sillicon valley is a joke

very precise

Please keep informing us on foreign powers, this video was so fascinating. Much more interesting than the typical WWII stuff im used to studying. Very refreshing, keep up the good work!

@anthonynjenga8329

8 ай бұрын

very detailed.very impressive.🇰🇪

This video was amazing. It was worth every second I spent on watching it. Thank you for your work!

@kennpaqizaraki5707

8 ай бұрын

But as a Chinese, I'd like to tell you that this video interprets the politics and history of modern China in a completely wrong way, which will only make Western readers more misled.🤣🤣🤣

@kwokholuk8723

8 ай бұрын

​@@kennpaqizaraki5707 well said

@DanBolton-my9bx

8 ай бұрын

@@kennpaqizaraki5707 exactly, no chinese historians in the video, no actual chinese people gave their opinions on this, just a white american producer and opinions of asian americans that have no knowledge/experience of history of china

A lie can be more convincing if it contains elements of truth. This is what this video felt like.

@Luxzue

6 ай бұрын

True,dude😆

@Riza20462

2 ай бұрын

Xis boyfriend

@Riza20462

2 ай бұрын

​@@Luxzue xis boyfriend

It’s always difficult for foreign media to understand Chinese affairs. But this is definitely one of the best Chinese affairs report from a foreign media .

Lin Biao death by plane crash was no mystery, it was mostly likely shot down by the PLA due to the fact that he or his son depending how you look at it, attempted a coup against Mao. When it failed they first flew south towards Guangdong were assuming he had support, but change direction to the Soviet Union to flee. His final years was quite sad as he was a schizophrenic and have clinical PTSD from the war. He wanted to retire but Mao kept him within party leadership and appointed him as his second and successor over Zhou Enlai and cried over it. One of the most noticeable military strategist of 20th century who took Beijing during the civil war to have his have his end to be so tragic.

@ishredder4006

8 ай бұрын

ok

@Ahahahhaaah

8 ай бұрын

@@ishredder4006you must be slow or a ccp bot.

@jeremybiggs8413

8 ай бұрын

He was also the guy responsible for the cult of Mao and the cultural revolution.

@williamxu2402

8 ай бұрын

Technically impossible at that time.

@jakzeng3342

8 ай бұрын

what the exact flip are you talking about...historians don't even know fully why his plane crashed and here you are blabbering

Mostly correct, though you did make a rather large error in saying Mao never gave up power in his lifetime - between the end of the Great Famine and the start of the Cultural Revolution, he was actually effectively politically exiled

@braytechexoscience2790

8 ай бұрын

Sure, he maintained influence - but the point the video was trying to make was that he never lost the top job, which isn't true

@zzq-gg

8 ай бұрын

不把中国说的那么坏，怎么让你们去仇恨呢😅

Superficial, but also understandable😊

This is excellent.

Vox should interview more experts rather depending on just one