Yes, but the geographic location of Taiwan is crucial to the naval containment of China. Then again, I thought the location of Afghanistan was key to monitoring the western frontiers of China.
Maybe while Biden is president, but most Americans I know of are very supportive of Taiwan as a free nation separate from China. The U.S. hasn't got a history of abandoning allies. But Afghans were not particularly benefitting the U.S., either. Taiwan has other supporters, too, including Japan, which is also a strong U.S. ally. The man who said that was a CCP influenced stooge. Maybe you are too?
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Ignoring your clear partisan bias - you seem to have glossed over what other things the "CCP influenced stooge" said. For example, he said that countries will prioritize their self-interests above all else. The US understands how significant Taiwan is towards containing China's power projection and maritime claims - the US wants to remain the dominant military power not only in the region, but the world. Japan was literally occupied and had its society reformed by the US after its surrender, so it's in their best interest to stay on the US's good side. Post WW2 relations between China and Japan aren't exactly good, even though the younger generation holds less animosity towards each other. Japan has the diplomatic backing of the US to deter Chinese aggression, which is Japan looking out for its self-interest. See a trend? Anyway, feel free to reply with whatever you want, but no - I'm not a CCP shill. If it matters, my family is from Hong Kong but your US-centric worldview (and politically motivated) expressed in your comment goes against the goal of Asian Boss. The point of this channel is to give you a glimpse of perspectives and viewpoints in Asian countries, and the comment you leave is about pushing a pro-Republican/nationalistic narrative while labeling perspectives you disagree with as "CCP influenced".
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 when border fight happens, uk might have passed there(casual stroll in the past) When there is conflict, US must have passed Congratulations to US... In the name of freedom, you have successfully ruined the lives of natives, headbutted with libya,syria,iraq,cuba, Afghanistan,vietnam,germany(old),japan(old),UK(old),france(old),spain(old),italy(old) Following with mexico,liberia,2korea, and Philippine(old) Your current enemies are china,russia,iran,africa(this is not a nation,angered by racism),india(ally of russia) indonesia(ambitious),mongolia(horse noises) Ukraine (backstabbed) belarus(russia friend),turkey(Quite observer),switzerland(peace lover), Saudi Arabia (sand noises), and Venezuela (remember me?) Currently you(US) have won "most aggressive nation of the century" award "Covid king" title "Oil hungry" title "Master of internal conflict" title "War veteran(lvl 10)" "Canada" left the group* "Australia" left the group*
As a Taiwanese living in Taiwan, I really appreciate the different perspectives this interview provides, not just for foreigners but also for local Taiwnese as well. The media here lacks this kind of transparency and inclusivity.
My parents immigrated from Taiwan and I was born in the US. I feel like the general consensus here is that most Americans will SAY they support Taiwan if they're asked about it- but it's not because they understand the Taiwan/China relationship, it's because they're against the Chinese Communist Party. If Taiwan and China started a war today, I don't believe the US government would commit and provide the support that many local Taiwanese people might expect from this side of the world. Personally I don't have a strong preference on green or blue, but most of my family lives in Taiwan so I do really hope for peace.
Based on this small sample, we can see that Taiwanese people in general: - Have a clear opinion about this topic and feel free to speak their minds. - Think Taiwanese media are biased toward independence. - Have different points of view about their nationality and relation with China. - There are generational gaps on this topic; most young people consider Taiwan is an independent country. - Even if they see Taiwan as a de facto independent country, still prefer to keep the status quo instead of risk a war. - Don't think a Chinese military invasion is imminent, especially because its huge cost. - Feel moral support from countries like the US, Japan, etc, but are not sure about actual help in case of war. - NOBODY wants war.
The status quo can't continue indefinitely though because of the fact the media is biased towards independence, which is also the reason young people are more pro-independence because they grow up in media telling them to be so. The status quo can only last until the older generations die off, and then war is inevitable because the young people will try to declare independence.
@@amihart9269 Or the young generation realizes that they've gone too far, their generation after them (those in school today) actually reel it back a bit.
Oh did they asked us if war was wanted when they fly those US made jets above us all the day just decades before? Nahh, we don’t really care about how they feels anymore, they can choice either unification with blood or without.
This video is very clear and straightforward to let us realize the influence of a person's education and experience on his thinking. The less knowledgeable a person is, the easier it is to have extremely one-sided thinking, and the easier it is to be used by others.
It’s NOT complicated!!! The island of Taiwan was ceded to Imperial Japan by the Qing dynasty after the 1st Sino-Japanese War. After WWII, Japan relinquished its control over the island of Taiwan, repatriated most of the Japanese people that inhabited the island, and returned the island to China: 1 country 2 systems is how it has existed until now. Reunification was always the goal of the both the Nationalist and the Communists before the Communists fully gained control mid century and established the PRC. Mao Zedong claimed the island as belonging to the PRC. Deng Xiaoping repatriated Hong Kong from British Control and tried to peacefully repatriate Taiwan. Preeminent Leader Xi and the politburo standing committee are now adamant that the island be brought under control of Beijing. My proposal is that the U.S. and Japan unilaterally grant citizenship to the 25 million, mostly Han Chinese, living on the island and have the UN openly declare the island as belonging to the PRC. It’s the only way to preserve liberty for the Taiwanese people AND ensuring that international justice be served.
@@Stephensouraski the 25 million living on the island are mostly Han Chinese. Yes, they prefer democracy, but they are not under the delusion that Taiwan is or were ever an independent state. Many people have family on the mainland.
So true. His description of how the US will only look out for Taiwan as long as Taiwan benefits the US is so spot-on. And he does not blame the US for that - he specifically calls out how it is natural for each country to act in its own interest. What he does not speak about (but I'm sure he knows all about) is how the Taiwanese government has pursued an intentional decades-long strategy of *ensuring* that Taiwan remains a benefit to the US, and to the world. This of course is its development of the semiconductor industry. In recent years this strategy has paid dividends, but it was not accidental: smart people planned it this way. Taiwan will not go the way of the Kurds or the Afghanis, and the reason, somewhat amazingly, is semiconductors.
@@henrykenyon311 Yes, finally someone point it out. There will be no way in this world the US will let China take the semiconductor tech from Taiwan by annexed it. Edit: At least they won't let China take it freely.
@@henrykenyon311 True but is fighting a war with China potentially going WW3, be worth it at the cost of some semiconductors. Something which isn't impossible to produce in other places. That is a variable that did not exist with the kurds or afghans.
@@IronKurone Your understanding is too narrow, semiconductors are not that important, China never unified Taiwan because of semiconductor technology. Taiwanese companies rely entirely on Equipment from Europe and the United States, and TSMC cannot make chips if the United States embargoes Taiwan. Smic would have mass-produced 5nm without the US blocking amSL. China is now testing 28nm domestic equipment, I know this year's domestic equipment has not passed the national acceptance, I expect that by 2025 at most, China will have a 28nm production line that has been mass produced. The timing of reunification depends on China's supply chain dependence on Europe and the United States. The most dependent is semiconductor, and there are too many Chinese engineers in the semiconductor industry
I feel like an understanding of the Chinese Civil War (post WWII) is a prerequisite, before fully understanding the varied divisions of perspectives shown in this vid. Great work.
@@LouisTsuiful The China that you speak of doesn't exist. The China everyone knows today is only 100 years old. The Communist party is the antithesis of what China was in ancient times. Communism and socialism are western ideologies. Read a book. If you are brave enough to use a VPN to view this youtube channel, then go search for something that defies your blelief system.
Young people in Taiwan should understand that conflict with China, means that Taiwan will become a battle ground, and the U.S. will use Taiwan as a pawn in the super power conflict. We should learn the lesson from Vietnam, in which millions of people died, and the U.S. bombed, and poison the land.
@@LouisTsuiful More like china belong to taiwan. The revolution war is often not mentioned. Only ww2. Lol. But i rather they just seperate. So many nonsense that the people doesnt need in their lives. China is bully.
Generally speaking, people in Taiwan are polite and friendly. All streets are pretty clean. One thing I observed during my visit few months ago shock me: big portion of Taiwanese does not know much about mainland China (most info. from western/local media) and they are quite proud of having relationships with Japan.
What surprises me is how unbelievably intelligent these Taiwanese people are with their answers, especially the two elderly gentleman and their wisdom. I truly wish that things can be settled peacefully.
I want Taiwan to be safe I don't like the idea china invade Taiwan. I love Taiwan and it's people it's their right to have their country it belongs to the taiwanese not China. 😞
The older gentleman at 19:25 truly understands what is at stake when he asks where such a war would actually take place. His view is quite sobering on the US as well. I'm always amazed at how much better informed people around the world are about our own US foreign policy decisions. His remark about our abandonment of the Kurds and Afghan nationals shows just how clearly the world has lost faith in our resolve to aid and defend our allies. And he's absolutely right. Why should he trust that the US will actually defend Taiwan against a Chinese act of aggression. Depending on who is running the country, it's anybody's guess whether the US would offer aid or seek to adopt an "America first" foreign policy that abandons our allies and trade partners.
The U.S has intervened before during the Taiwan Strait Crisis'. It's important to note that the situation in Afghanistan is completely different from Taiwan. If the Taiwanese people are willing to fight, the U.S, Australia, and Japan will be there to help in some form or another. That said, a war is unlikely. I feel that relationships between Taiwan and Japan/US will only improve more and more over the next few years.
@@FloofyMinari yes. But physical war is what America wants. China does not want that. Taiwan doesn't either. The U.S is being selfish with China vs U.S sentiment
@Jerry you realize that if China lands into Taiwan, they will be facing guerilla warfare right? It's like the Vietnam War but Taiwan would have better equipment instead. Yes people will die but it's going to be a pain in the ass for China.
As a Chinese I really like to watch this kind of videos because I can know Taiwanese people’s ideas. And I respect every different idea. The only thing if I pray for is humanity and peace.
What the guy at 19:25 said struck a cord with me. War between the 2 big countries will devastate every smaller country in between. While not as close as Taiwan, this sentiment is shared by many people in SEA like myself.
He is too naive to perceive the evil nature of Xi or you can say communist party of China. Whether Xi will launch a war against Taiwan or not is nothing to do with anything Taiwanese do nore any reasons from Xi but depends on the costs and probility of taking Taiwan successfully. Any reasons from Xi of attacking Taiwan is just execuses to cheat and confuse and avoid the other countries from helping Taiwan when Xi strike the attack.
@@EricAng295 so you mean that you want to fight for Taiwan as a foreign volunteer? Xi is still a cool minded person, he has been calculating risk factor long before, thats why Chinese navy has been mostly strengthened in naval invasion capabilities and costal defences.
@@EricAng295 Chinese civil war never ended. Jiang Jieshi wanted to invade and clear up the Chinese communist party in the past when he was strong and when he was in mainland China. He failed and led his party to escape to Taiwan island. Now, It's not their turn to say ok let's stop and be two different countries and we never hurt each other.
@@EricAng295 It's like you start a game with your partner and you lose, and you run to your mom and say "oh mommy come protect me, that bad guy wanna hurt me."
That answer the man gave at 20:40 is very well articulated. He understands that international politics isn't about right and wrong, but about power. I don't say this to demean the US, I'm American myself, but once you start to look at international politics in terms of power it makes much more sense, doing the right thing is sometimes just a side-effect. Each country is looking out for their own self-interests.
This is correct. Fortunately for Taiwan, China is such a threat to the United States and Japan that using Taiwan as a hedge against China will be a reality well into the future. The USA will have Taiwan's back for decades--not because of some neoliberal feeling nonsense, but because it's better (from the American perspective) to fight against Chinese expansionism using Taiwan as a battering ram/shield than to fight them in a real US v China kinetic war.
sadly young generations of Taiwanese are blinded by their beloved 'democratic' system, which in my view has been abducted by their political parties to gain votes only rather than to truly delivering positive results in the best interests of the constituents.
and it's rarely in the interest of the common people, but for the interests of the establishment. a lot of decision by america does not make sense untill you follow the money...
It's kinda like Hongkong, they scream "Free HongKong, we stand with Hongkong", but no actual help will come, the rebel has been captured, and HongKong suffers massive economic crash because majority of their visitors are from mainland, very very small amount even come from the US.
Taiwan already has its own military albeit much smaller than China. But its like top 10 in the world. USA doesn't want the two sides to unite as this would favor China.
POAST TRANSLATED - When you interview a lot of people and find that everyone has different opinions and views, and you don’t worry about the problem of speaking, this is freedom of speech
言论自由对于任何文明社会来说都很重要，但最可怕的是人民被欺骗，被蒙蔽双眼，以至于失去了独立思考的能力。 It's horrible for the people to be taken away the ability of knowing truth, seeing truth, and independent thinking.
As a Chinese people from mainland part, really appreciate this nice interview and know different local people’s opinions. It’s significant to let people share their views and thoughts. They are nice . People from mainland part also need to understand what and why Taiwan people think like this. Respect, communicate and understand are important for all of us.
People in Taiwan province are just a bunch of ungrateful brats, they took every chance to benefits from Mainland China and they will keep doing it until the day we reunited.
People’s thinking is heavily influenced by many factors. Brainwashing is not only achieved through explicit government propaganda. In Taiwan it’s done through many years of subtle manipulation of education system and media undertone, and in many ways it’s way more effective than explicit propaganda, because it brainwashed you without making you realize you are brainwashed. This is how a manufactured identity is achieved.
@@LinjieWang-f3jHarm the mainland? It's the opposite. It's Beijing regime ambition to force Taiwan people into a repressing communist regime. Taiwan is a sovereign nation. Their people are free to choose what to read, what to watch, without severely censored like in mainland. The only way Taiwan reunite with China is when CCP tyranny collapsed.
Everytime I watch an interview by Asian Boss I am amazed by how polite and receptive ordinary people are to these very difficult questions. Regardless of how popular/unpopular their stance is, they actually take time to unpack their thought process without automatically refuting other perspectives
@@robertabella1806 I was thinking that too, Robert. While for comedic purposes several US shows intentionally keep in only the stupid and ill-informed responses.
Being a foreigner in southern Taiwan definitely makes you wonder about this topic a lot... I talk about it quite often with my friends and people have different opinions. However, nobody wants war.
@@MEGASTRIX that's right even in this era china is thinking about land expanding for country even if they captured Taiwan and some other land in the end they end up like what happened to USSR and they will break down
Whoever translated this is an absolute legend! I worked in Taiwan 2010-2011 and it's been interesting to hear some more accurately translated opinions in the topic.
YERLERİN VE GÖKLERİN VE HERŞEYİN SAHİBİ YÜCE ALLAH CC ALLAHTAN BAŞKA İLAH YOKTUR ALLAH KATINDA HAK DİN İSLAMDIR MUHAMMED RESULULLAH ALLAHIN KULU VE RESULUDUR
Please note that not all people interviewed in this video are "random people from the street"! I think that Asian Boss did their work to make the sample more representative. Sampling bias is a headache for this kind of street interview format. The end result is a quite fair representations of different generations and viewpoints..
@@LouisTsuiful No one thinks they are not Chinese, unless they're blind. But it's a totally different culture in TW, just like that one lady said. China and TW has been separated for so long already. I live in Canada and I know both mainland Chinese and TW and both are quite different. Can feel the cultural and personal views are very different.
@@henryleung007 some slight difference doesn’t make you become a independent state, Taiwanese speak Mandarin and share some cultural root with Mainland China!
@UCkiy3GRAx9U6arw1Z81eAUA oh god! there you go again with your "ancient time" card. Listen my dear, no one said they're not Chinese. But that doesn't mean they must join the Chinese mainland and completly ditch their own government (which has worked so hard into maintaining Taiwan all these years of separation) for the CCP. What has the CCP gave them?! What has mainland China gave them?? Not much and certainly not enough to justify the annexation of their nation!
@UCHmHJH7MuP9ZBzQYhPc1QFQ The fact is China = CCP, you like it or not. CCP controls every part of China. Anti-China is anti-CCP until CCP is gone. Anti-China is not the same as anti-Chinese people
22:43 This man is very wise, those are good exemples, Afghanistan and the Kurds who did most of the dirty work on the ground fighting ISIS, suffering a lot of casualties, losing a lot of men and women in the process, just to be abandoned.
Which way do you want it? Independence or constant interference????? As far as I have seen, nobody wants the American military in their own countries anymore, for "protection" or otherwise, but from what you say afghans and kurds should have been taken care of by the same american military that their people actually hate forever... Huh?
@@xiahnti I agree we're on the same page here, i was simply stating that those were good valid points that man brought up , i'm not for any American military presence, or bases in any country
young Taiwanese are too native because they don't see how USA pushed Georgia and Ukraine against Russia, then USA just ignore when Russia really attacked them. it's like China pushed Mexico or Cuba against USA, I don't think Mexicans are so stupid.
@@xiahnti first of all the Americans created the mess in Afghanistan so they should clean that mess up again. The people in Afghanistan don't hate the US troops so it's not like no one wants them. The kurdish problem is a lot more complicated as their enemy is turkey and turkey is allied with the US, but at the same time the US killed saddam hussein who oppressed and killed thousands of kurds. The latest event was in west Kurdistan or north Syria where just the presence of us troops was enough to hold back turkey from doing a genocide in that region and it was guaranteed by the US to leave the troops there becuase the kurds were the biggest enemy of isis and worked together with the US troops to fight them. Trump pulled the troops out of there and send them to the oil fields which left the kurdish population exposed for turkey. This is seen as a big betrayel from the USA by the kurds and that's why many kurds dislike the USA. So you can't make guarantees and interfere in everything and than just pull out in the middle of things and expect to have done the right thing. Every situation is different and you should have a look at them before talking about them. Looks a lot like you got all your information from a few main stream media shows as they don't really don't go into detail often which is misleading for a lot of people
I guess a lot of western people don't know the relationship between China and Taiwan. I'm from China and now studying in the U.S., and please allow me explain it. In short, their relationship is kind of like that of North Korea and South Korea, or Eastern Germany and Western Germany. The people in China and Taiwan are generally of the same race and speak the same language, and the cultures are pretty much alike. Taiwan does have its native people, but they account for less than 3% of the population now. Chinese people started to immigrate to Taiwan since the 1620s when Netherland conquered Taiwan, and later China defeated the Netherland and Taiwan became part of China. More Chinese people immigrated to Taiwan after that. Unfortunately, in 1895, China lost a war against Japan, and Taiwan was ceded to Japan. The Japanese ruled Taiwan for 50 years until 1945 when it lost the WWII and China got Taiwan back. At that time the population of Taiwan was about 7 million and the majority were Chinese people but they received Japanese education. Sadly, only one year after that, the Chinese civil war broke out and in only 3 years, the then Chinese government (Republic of China, or ROC) lost the war to the Russia-supported Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and had to flee to Taiwan (CCP did not have navy then). ROC brought about 3 million people from the mainland to Taiwan. The CCP founded a new regime called People's Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland, and since then there were 2 Chinas. Either side considered itself the only legal Chinese government and the other side being illegal, which is still the case for both governments. But now the people in Taiwan, especially the young people prefer to think of Taiwan as an independent country because they know that they can never defeat the PRC and there's no benefit doing that. The people in China generally prefer to think of Taiwan as part of China which should be united with the mainland.
So many people from the interview present their own critical intelligent thinking from perspective I have never heard! This video is so cool! I like Taiwan and Taiwanese people! Love from Chinese!
Their are countries who do horrible things in peace time, but it doesn't compare to the amount of suffering that war causes. Maybe not a great comparison, but the numbers fit. Saddam Hussein government killed and tortured many people in the decades he was in power. But the most recent war in Iraq killed far more people in just a few years. This shows us why war is always a terrible option we should avoid as much as possible.
@@MrBrochetjb not even they seem to be pushing for a war with China as far as I can see. Their seem to be much stronger (econimic) voices in the US which are pushing for conflict with China.
Evil govt won’t give up and be respectful to you rights and freedom just because you wanted peace. Say NO to tyranny and fight for freedom. your grandchildren will thank you
@@sdla690 Yeah, I will trust you if you promise you will join the war voluntary first. Don't same as my British housemate, always yell "fight fight fight! TW fight to CN quickly!" But same as the old man mentioned in VD that where is the war will processing once it launched? In TW man, not in CN or US, not JP, not in UK. The war will process in TW. That's mean the western people just being audiences in this boxing game, because it's not your business. Someone said the UN will blame to CN if the war happen, I always feel so funny, BLAME?? Does it work? That's a really efficient way and helpful if you see a Poodle gonna fight with an Elephant.＝.＝
Every time Asian Boss uploads a video, I feel a bit more informed about the topics discussed. I've been taught to learn from other countries than just the one I was raised with. Overall, I'm glad that Asian Boss is doing this.
💯 agree!! It is important to listen and learn from multiple perspectives. It does a great job at fending off or offsetting our own biases and even brainwashing that could take place without learning/considering from multiple perspectives.
@@jiji7250 Hong Kongers are Chinese, Taiwanese are Chinese, Malaysians are Chinese, we're all Chinese, but we all hate China's CCP 🤣🤣🤣 haha soooooo sad boohoo nobody likes China, the world hates China..Billy no mates ~ 对不起伤害了你 伤了你的感情 我听见有个声音 是玻璃心碎一地💔💔💔 I'm So Sorry 又让你森七七..😂🤣🤣🤣
When you choose to pick Taipei (as opposed to other cities in Taiwan) to interview people, you already pre-select the political tendency based on the voter demographics in Taipei, versus many other cities in Taiwan, especially central Taiwan or southern Taiwan. Biased by location by default. Try doing this identical interview in Kaohsiung (the largest city in southern Taiwan) or Taichung (second most populous city in Taiwan, largest city in central Taiwan), I suspect you will get quite different ratios of different opinions.
@@ankokunokayoubi 天龍人 (Celestial Dragons) is basically a buzzword from One peace in Taiwan, it usually refers to people who self-considered superior and think the rest areas of Taiwan are uncultured. Cuz many political and business dignitaries from China mainland are living in Taipei the capital after 1949 the Chinese Nationalist Party retreated to Taiwan, some of them control a large number of resources but don’t even care about the gap of community resources in Taiwan, so this buzzword is often used to call them or the citizens in Taipei.
I am a Malaysian, I often go to China and Taiwan and I like both countries very much. I can easily see bilateral news. In fact, some people who think China has no culture and unsanitary environment i suggest give yourself a chance travel to China and see what’s going on nowadays actually.
@@fisher3317 in my opinion, you should first visit China and then give us your thoughts about this goverment that the media portrays as "cruel" and "authoritarian". Im Taiwanese myself and Ive been to mainland China, specifically to Shanghai, Harbin and Chongqing. I was as free as I would be in any other democratic country.
First of all，thank you for liking China and Taiwan.But i want to tell you，Taiwan is a province of China.This point is very essential.Long long ago，Taiwan is a part of China.They can't be separate！
Thank you for this impressive work. I am a Chinese citizen, me and many of my friends (around 30-year-old) and older families & relatives share one opinion: Chinese people has been suffered from too much pains from wars, so whether we share the same opinion towards the political relation between these two places or not, it is nothing more than the simple result of unchooseable education, hope we can keep the peaceful environment around Asia... Maybe some would say only a portion of people think in this way, but I want this voice to be heard. Thanks for the interview again.
Hi Asian Boss, thank you so much for covering this sensitive topic. As a Taiwanese person living in the United States, this is a very sensitive topic that I personally avoid when speaking with my Chinese friends. I have many Chinese friends in the United States and political issues of the government never become a problem for us to connect. I am proud to be Taiwanese. Really appreciate this video and thank you so much.
I’m in China but met taiwanese friends in online games, and we get along nicely. I mean it's not like how the West portraied us hating on each other and want the worst for each other. Fxxxk those who wants to stir up things and escalate the things, we both just want a nice life without the west interferences.
This topic has always came up every time I meet someone new or whenever I personally identify myself as a Taiwanese-American in recent times and an issue I usually try to steer away from. As for talking to or meeting someone who is Chinese, I usually find myself mentally censoring topics I end up actively trying to avoid talking about. I always pay attention whenever the issue of Taiwan comes up but sadly, living in the United States, there's practically no news report as far as I've seen about what the locals actually think, which mostly annoys me. This video is really well done and I like the variety of the interviewees.
YERLERİN VE GÖKLERİN VE HERŞEYİN SAHİBİ YÜCE ALLAH CC ALLAHTAN BAŞKA İLAH YOKTUR ALLAH KATINDA HAK DİN İSLAMDIR MUHAMMED RESULULLAH ALLAHIN KULU VE RESULUDUR
One thing that shocked me during the interview was how easily the people of Taiwan could forget Japan’s war actions against China and Taiwan during World War II. During World War II, mainland China and Taiwan also fought together against Japan, but now they actually seek support from Japan in order to resist mainland China, which is unacceptable to most people in China.
not what happened, the Republic of China (which today we call "Taiwan") was internationally recognized as the official government of China during WW2 and the main source of resistance against Japanese occupation. the actual physical Taiwan island was occupied by Japan for almost the entire duration of the war; only after the Communist victory in the chinese civil war did the Chinese Nationalists escape to the island, becoming the Taiwan that we know today
Definitely--his view is a fringe view that represents, based on polling, less than 2% of Taiwan's population. Asian Boss pretending that this is a random pedestrian is disingenuous.
I’m kind of neutral on this issue but just want to point out that there’s a difference between “people’s republic of China” and “republic of China(which is mentioned in one of the male interviewee’ speech)” in case anyone didn’t know
@@2024-l9n North and South Korea also claim same territory but they are also two countries. As far as UN membership, it's a political organization and not a requirement for being a country. Switzerland wasn't a UN member until 2002, but surely you agree they were a country prior?
As a Chinese citizen, so anxious am I about this issue that this video grasp me immediately. Hope the war will never happen and people can live in their own way.
US have to help Taiwan. 1. we bought alot of outdated military equipment at premium price 2. we allows US ractopamine fed pig to enter Taiwan which banned in EU,JP 3. we open travel to unreasonably overpriced holiday package to Palau for US sake. 4. we adopted and funded US Black Water covid vaccine as our homegrown vaccine.
@@楊蕙萍-p7h This just sounds sad, judging merely by what you are saying Taiwan and U.S just share a toxic and abusive relationship, if U.S. really care about Taiwan you think the things you mention will happen?
The guy in 3:22 isn't just a passerby. He's a youtuber. Seems like you seeked him out to "balance the viewpoint" Edit: a suggestion - don't make the interviewee wear the mic when you want to pass it as street interview. It's less conspicuous.
News came out today they literally begged for a month for somebody to be pro-Blue because they couldn't find anyone on the streets. They found this guy and asked the film guy to do this as if it's a street interview in a park and tried to imitate the other interviews, which were filmed months before. It's literally a hackjob.
@@jameshsu6364 Where is this "news"? Can you provide a source for that? The only news I got was him admitting they met by chance from his own fb account.
As a Chinese grew up in Mainland (or just Chinese, whatever you called it), I strongly concern about people in Taiwan at this time. I have been long curious about what Taiwanese people think and also notice there is a huge gap in political views between elder and younger generations in Taiwan. I hope there is no war now and ever.
Taiwanese here, and I agree! I hope everyone can get along beyond political boundaries in a way that doesn't hurt the younger generations, despite opinions or what we were taught when we were younger. Outside politics, many of my friends from both sides understand why people from both sides say what they say so they often try to get along instead, since the issue has been around for quite a while now.
@@PorkkyBoy thanks mate! As you said, younger generation usually gets so tired and sick of politics... It's ironic since we have to care one day or another.
An interesting fact: since the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan in 1949, there has been no armistice agreement between the two sides. You can think that this is still a civil war
Your correct. But its sort of stupid tbh. Ccp really needs to stop pushing reunification, it only ramps up the fear of invasion in taiwan and gets them to ask for us defence help(not occupation). That and containing nationalism(and related education) could lead to an actual armistice and mutual official recognition of the two countries. They are too different to reunify now, but they can still be friends if the ccp is more flexible(and taiwan can work out constitutional and security issues). Time to leave behind the dangerous 19th to mid 20th century nationalism that often led to rich elites, exploited workers,and foreign enemy distractions(ie ww2 ww1,etc), and move to cooperation.
@@abcdedfg8340 lmao are unified Korea and unified China is something the west Dont want... Look at history and you will understand the more than half of human history until the modern time it was ruled by China and Korea and japan benefited from a unified china. Pomepo said so himself that US is good a lying/cheating/and dividing.
@@kaisasong1332 Think of it this way. Before tv and mass media, countries were able to pretend conflicts were about nationalism or history. Now with mass media, they have to be honest about if it's about sea trade, oil, or other real factors. It's good though because it reduces tensions by cutting to the point so it's easier to address. So truth is taiwan isnt about history or even taiwan, it's about prc sea lanes and defence. But there are better ways to solve it besides threatening taiwan.
@@kaisasong1332 Do your country have any declassification documents? Your favourite """west""" have them to let people know what did the government do.
@@nmslesecnmbese917 My country? u talking about the US? lol many declassify information here is what the US want us to know... Heard of Snowden? yea he epoxed many of US wrong doing and is wanted for it... Heard of Julian Assange? also expose us war crimes... If they did the same with china... they would be praised and be awarded with a nobel peace prize but instead they expose the western human right violation... these are the classify document the US dont want the public to know...
The same way north and south Korea are both Korea? Haha his weak ass argument is flawed. I guess Sudan and south Sudan are the same too? Oh and the entire Indian ocean belongs to India because you the name hahaha
@@jhonviel7381 going down no? because the republic of china is taiwans official name, so he said mainland china and taiwan, is apart of china under the control of taiwan, no?
@@hitler69 Social credit going up. The CCP tries to impose the "92 consensus" in Taiwan, which means people in Taiwan have to pretend they believe it all belongs to the Republic of China, which makes the CCP happy because this way they are saying "We are part of your country, and we are a national threat, please invade us".
I'm from Taitung (a city that's more in the countryside of things) and have lived in Taipei for most of my life while all of my family lives in Taitung, so it's safe for me to say that people have VERY different opinions outside of Taipei when it comes to the Chinese government and our freedom. Asian Boss did a good job with all of the questions but I believe it would be best if they can interview those who are not in Taipei, if they make another video about this topic in the future that is ( which would be a delight!)
@@windywendi Ah I didn't realize I spell it wrong! I'm still not used to spelling Chinese in English so most of the time I just wing it lmao- Thank you for correcting me!
@@cbeary2000 Well, people from the south and West are usually in the Green party while people from the North and East are in the Blue party ( Green= own country) ( Blue= combine to China) However, in the past few years the Green party has been getting more and more votes so, in the end, it all depends on your own belives That being said, the people outside of Taipei are usually not thrilled about the Chinese government if you will, Taipei is a very diverse city along with Kaohsiung ( also a very developed city that's located on the south side of Taiwan, but they have their own politics problem to solve) these cities tend to have many Chinese people or people who have relatives that are Chinese, the tours industry is also very active in these areas, so they usually support the blue party ( and corrupted governors but that's another can of worms) while people who are outside of these areas have more relations to the law and culture of Taiwan more then anything, so they usually support the green party ( this is my personal take on the situation, please to correct me if I'm wrong I'm not an expert hehe) Most of the older generation doesn't really have a strong opinion of the Chinese government since, well, in the end, Taiwan is their home and they are satisfied as long as they continue to live in the country they love ( an old man told me that once and it always gives me so much hope just by thinking about it) Many younger generations like me takes pride for our country and our freedom, so we tend to have a stronger opinion on the Chinese government. ( unfortunately many people like me have experienced strong discrimination from Chinese people while some Taiwanese people also discriminate against Chinese people quite strongly, this is an issue that both sides should acknowledge and take action to it) ( these are usually the younger generations) ( there is a lot of stereotypes that both sides have for one another due to our differences, for example, I have met some Chinese people who think Taiwan is a very undeveloped place and have no manners whatsoever -to be fair a lot of Taiwanese people like me tend to have a dirty mouth, this is due to our culture and the nature of our own dialect language- while I have met some Taiwanese who thinks Chinese people are narcissists who only cares about themselves, we also make fun of each other accent a lot as well, but yea things are not exactly as positive as it should) ( disclaimer, I have no ill will towards Chinese people at all, I do understand where these people are coming from but I don't believe any of this a single bit) ( this is racism and it's horrendous) Again, this all depends on how you are taught and your thinking, the stuff I said here are all either statically correct or my own experience, obviously I am biased when it comes to experience and politics, please don't try to fight me against my own belives, thank you :DD But yea! Hopefully that answers some of the questions you may have mate!
Rural vs City is an excellent point. It provides a whole perspective. Population however, is not as representative. But althoe wealth may be created in a city many with wealth and leisure wish to move to the countryside for "peace and beauty". And those who live and work in the rural areas, in poverty, also have a say. It appears it would provide some sort of balanced, I agree.
Thank you Asian boss! With this interview people from all over the world can get a close inside of what the Taiwanese people feel and think. Although people in the comments fight about who’s right or wrong I value having this information to debate about in the first place. It’s companies like you who push the world forward towards understanding and unity.
Russia's missile attack on Kiev made it clear that Russia would send troops to attack. The whole world said that Russia would not send troops to attack, but only the powerful United States said that Russia would send troops. The Minsk Agreement in Ukraine was signed by Germany and France and Russia, and neither Germany nor France wanted to send troops beforehand. It is not stupid enough to wipe the butt of Germany and France, but only lend a helping hand in the surrounding countries at the right time, and the latter depends on the determination of Germany and France. Before the Sino-British Hong Kong Agreement and today's Russia Minsk Agreement, who in today's world would believe in these two evil country agreements, each country must develop its own armament and weapons, including small but intimidating projectiles.
As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"... But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world." Now ,what I can say is... "Ok" "We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"... Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅 Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊
As overseas Chinese who worked with Taiwanese in Mainland China before, I'd like to say the majority people I met are intelligent and hardworking. They are satisfied with the current situation and don't want to go further into war. Let's keep it calm and peaceful.
You are right, Taiwanese people never considered war an option, the CCP does. What I think you are trying to imply by 'don't want to go further into war' is 'they don't want to pursue independence'. Well, thing is, it is a thorny issue, as anybody can obviously see it is hard for somebody to make a free choice with a gun pointed at their heads. Interestingly enough, a Taiwanese survey from some years ago found that the answer to whether Taiwanese people would want independence was dramatically positive when, to the question, was added the clarification 'if independence would not lead to a war with China'. Obviously, nobody wants to be bombed, if they can help it. It is also sad that the current status quo, hypocritical as it may be, is no longer accepted by the CCP, which will probably launch an invasion in the next few years, according to many observers.
Thank you for providing a glimpse into the feeling of everyday people who are actually affected by these issues for those of us who are far removed from the region.
^ you can easily tell Vivian is playing devil advocate to generate hate to divide the readers. She's pro Taiwan. Those are the same vile creatures who spread misinformation on vaccine and mask. They really grind my gears. 🐻
Borrowing a saying by Deng Xiaoping, "Be it a white cat or a black cat, a cat that catches mice is a good cat." Yes, be it democracy or communism or socialism, the political system that brings peace and stability to a country is a good system. A system that brings prosperity and a contented life to the people is a good system. USA is so boastful of its democracy, but look at the life of the Americans, I doubt how many Americans are satisfied with their lives. The country is so much troubled by Covid, random gun shootings, shop robberies, poverty, homelessness, crimes, racism, inequality, extremism and terrorism. Democracy in USA has been misused by crooks, abuse by politicians. --Eugene C That was why President Xi said to his government in late 2017/early 2018 that "the world is set to undergo a sea change which has not been seen in a hundred years, & China has to be prepared to deal with it." It reflects his confidence & insight into the inevitable rise of China together with Asian countries, in the face of western developed countries weakening due to their mishandling of their internal social & economic problems, & the consequential conflicts that China has to face & resolve with the West. The legacy of the past colonization of the world by the West will be a hidden driving force for US to convince some cohort countries to do whatever it takes, be it hypocritical, deceitful, dirty, &/or unscrupulous to oppress & bully China. China knew it was coming, but is soberly prepared to respond to each & every aggression with matching effect & intensity under its control of pace & initiative of/on moves. However, China's ultimate intent is to make the aggressor understand that confrontations & oppressions do not benefit anybody, but harmonious co-existence, mutual respects, & constructive co-operations for win-win results will not just benefit both sides, but also the whole world. -Donat Wu 👀
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If you're going to claim this was a random street interview, but then ask to seek out a deep blue youtuber (and not disclose it), you're being incredibly dishonest and it's unethical journalism. It's already come to light that according to a dcard post and a Taiwanese independent producer, Asian Boss were asking to specifically find someone with these minority/decades-old views to skew the video. Sean, the deep-blue youtuber, himself admitted in a FB post he was sought out by Asian Boss... that's not very "unbiased" of you guys.
Thank you for the input. That said, if deep blue is minority, it's good to find them and let others know about their views. Asian Boss probably shouldn't avoid/ignore these people simply because they're deep blue or hold ancient views. That guy also weren't wrong about most Taiwanese are Han Chinese migrants and their descendents (since a few hundred years ago), and historically many aboriginal Taiwanese were killed by newly arrived Han Chinese. I would say a more problematic issue in the video is that they don't do some of the interviews in the central or eastern part of Taiwan, where there are more Native Taiwanese. They should really get some views from what Native Taiwanese think about the issues.
I feel this interview is somewhat biased, but it could still reflect the issue that lies on Taiwan-China relations. The thing is that the comments below this video are biased
Gregory A.T. 'Sean, the deep-blue youtuber, himself admitted in a FB post he was sought out by Asian Boss... that's not very "unbiased" of you guys' ??? If you read his FB post and comments properly, he admitted that they met by CHANCE! Also, EVEN IF, even IF, he was sough out, how is that not "unbias"? Getting a more balanced view is not "unbiased"? This topic is an extremely sensitive topic in Taiwan. People that support Mainland China and Taiwan being part of the same country, WILL NOT openly voice their opinion out in public as theyre afraid of being demonised and potentially having their family split because of their views.
It is only bias when you see views that are opposite to yours... that is why there can never be balance, people want their own demented echo chambers, not knowing that they also try to stifle another point of view because you think you are in the right... Learn a thing or two about dialectics, it is not about choosing a side, but to synthesis opposing points and finding solutions, there will always be a constant flux - people wouldn't get worker rights without socialist ideology that promotes 'fairer' wages and work schedules in contrast to full on maximising on capital.
@@zeiitgeist Most of these people who can't accept that there are people who support or neutral about China are not even Asian. They claim to hate only the CCP but wants to destroy the economies of the countries in these region where people will suffer so they can "free" people, it's a very very twisted ideology.
Asian Boss I reckon you guys can do an episode on this topic but instead interview overseas ethnic chinese in South East Asia like say....malaysia, singapore, thailand and indonesia or even vietnam. What do ya reckon?:)
@@ck-bs2ms Depends, but the ones that care about international politics are far and few in between, and usually those that are, aren't as deeply invested, so many take things at face value, so really choose your sources if you want well informed locals.
14:46 Seriously bruh? As a half Chinese I strongly disapprove on what he just said. I have lived in China my whole life and I can tell you that it’s NOT a labor camp, and you will NOT be killed when you enter China. Seriously, I have a friend who’s from Taiwan, living a great life here. I have travelled to many countries, which proves that we are able to come and go freely. Please, use statistics and unbiased facts instead of the internet… Those twist your understanding of the world. (I’m sorry if this comment seems too strong or offensive. This is just what I think based on my experience. Also, apologies for the horrible grammar)
It's refreshing for me to listen to different opinions that the Taiwanese people have on the matter of it's international status, relations with the mainland, and etc. Here in the US, news reports on Taiwan are very few and are typically biased towards the American people; very rarely talks about what Taiwanese people ACTUALLY think. Thank you Asian Boss for this video!
@@divergentintegral3475 Its name is the Republic of China and its constitution still says " Taiwan is part of China", just as the Taiwanese man said. It's the fact. Sure, it has never been ruled by the CCP, but you can't deny the fact it's part of China.
@@divergentintegral3475 Saying "Taiwan is not part of China" is an extremely reductive and historically inaccurate take, since both governments (PRC and ROC) claim to be the "real China". Taiwan is definitely "part of China", it's just part of the "ROC" rather than the "PRC". Until the ROC constitution changes, that will continue to hold true. This is a very important distinction.
@@kakilham23 lol, PRC is supported by 1.4 billion chinese, meanwhile ROC is supported by only 25 million chinese. Who is the real China? Theres no doubt prc is the real one lol
Thank you Asian Boss..l watched both this video and what the Chinese mainland people think about Taiwan. Most people want peace not war. Opinions are shaped by what media you watch or listen to as well as how history was taught in school and how much you educate yourself. Appreciate very much these videos you do. Main stream media never covers what the people think or feel and they are no longer objective nowadays. All have their own narrative
Not sure about anything. I even see spanish comment who said it's usa propaganda and they want to be fully integrated, but they don't offer polls or anything
@@MikeScott-zl9ve I apologize to you.I don't know if the real data is what you say. But to achieve the complete reunification of China is the trend of The Times, the great justice, and the aspiration of the people
As an American, I'm so glad I found this channel! I truly appreciate this content and hearing from the people themselves and their opinions. Thank you.
@@magbus401 That's kind of unnecessarily mean. Most Americans are just regular, well mannered, curious, and hard working people just like every one else. We're just trying to make it to the next day.
@@magbus401 but telling people they should leave their homes because you don't like their government is pretty rude. I'm pretty sure op isn't our entire system of checks and balances. They're just a person trying to educate themselves.
I'm Mainland Chinese and while working in Europe, one guy from Taiwan called me and wanted to make a deal with my company. He introduced himself as "he speaks the same language". Lmao. I could totally understood that he didn't want to say he was Chinese and he didn't want to offend me by saying he was Taiwanese. But actually I didn't care about it at all, and I really hope we won't be manupilated by politics. Salute to bubble tea.
I can totally relate. As an immigrant trying to make a living in another country, the last thing you want to worry about is politics getting in the way of a work relationship. I basically avoid using Mandarin altogether and only use English and instead of saying Taiwanese, I say I am from Taiwan. While in your case you don't care, but there are folks who do care and it's meaningless to challenge that feeling. Another thing is that it's not just Mainlanders I don't want to offend, I also don't want to offend Taiwanese who either strongly identify as Chinese or Taiwanese.
I came to study in taiwan when you wrote this comment. I felt this so much. I didnt know if i should say chinese or taiwanese or china or taiwan. Han chinese? Things were so confusing because people had such different opinions. I got over that now, but its scary to walk on egg shells when you dont know.
As a Taiwanese person, I would say that there is a HUGE oversight on Asian Boss's part, that these interviews were all done in the city of Taipei. Using the terms of one gentleman being interviewed, Taipei is considered more blue than green, so even if the sample were completely random and thus representative, the portrayal would still be skewed towards the view of people living in Taipei. A much more statistically significant sampling can be found online at the Election Study Center at National Cheng-chi University (NCCU). Once you get outside of Taipei, views change significantly.
So glad to see Asian Boss is still around. Your stories are so educational and forward-thinking to what's currently being served in the US. Thank you for putting up these great stories!
US policy is easy. Support Taiwan because they're against China, but if Taiwan is pro-China, then bombs will be thrown on the Taiwan island. Remember that war would be fought on the Taiwan island, and Biden will say, "it's a shame Taiwan just disappeared" after throwing an H-bomb, but he'll be telling jokes at cocktail party in the White House.
@@asianamericancasestudies6434 are you taiwanese, the taiwanese youth I met doesn't see themselves as chinese anymore. And I also bet that they are indulge in Japanese, Korean or western culture more than Chinese one jn term of forign culture
As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"... But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world." Now ,what I can say is... "Ok" "We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"... Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅 Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊
It's a very complicated issue to be honest. You can have different answers in multiple perspectives, such as law, culture, military, Sino-US relationship, race, economics, politics..... the simple classification of either blue or green does not make it a whole picture.
But most outsiders don’t even know the Blue vs Green factions. I assume Blue is the Kuomintang which was the ruling party during military dictatorship… that should be mentioned too.
@@12823matthewkao chinese audiences need vpns to see youtube, but there is still a lot of them, I am one of them. But also, I hear youtube algorithm filters those audiences using vpns.
After seeing some more background information about this interview, must say that I'm really disappointed in Asian boss. For those interested, they purposely found a few people that are pro-China and place them as "random people".
Knowing the following will help you understand the relationship between Taiwan and China: 1. China and Taiwan are actually in a state of Civil War (no armistice agreement has been signed). For a long time, China regarded Taiwan's "Republic of China" as the former dynasty, while Taiwan's "Republic of China" regarded China's Communist army as an anti-government armed force. 2. Both sides regard each other as part of their sovereignty at the constitutional level. 3. In international diplomacy, both sides implement the single diplomatic principle, that is, the international community can only choose to establish diplomatic relations with China or the "Republic of China" of Taiwan, not with both sides at the same time. 4. Most countries in the world (including the US, Japan, Canada and Australia) actually have formal diplomatic relations with China, while there are only non-governmental exchanges with Taiwan.
I think thats outdated to be honest, Taiwan doesnt feel its at civil war, or 90% of the people dont feel that way. They just want to be left alone. What you are talking about 'both sides' is the ROC Constitution, but nobody really believes in the constitution. The ROC constitution is that of a dead country, the ROC. Many if not most want to change the constitution, but cant because would instigate a war. The things you listed are really from the PRC side, from the Taiwan side, its only a reality because Taipei is under duress not to change it
@@matt3706 Got to give the person credit for trying to be balanced though, it gives good context of some of the issues that need to be resolved to formally fix the issues. I only hope those issues can be resolved rationally, and Taiwan and China can form their own respective destinies free of intimidation, so they can at least be business partners with their own separate international recognition.
@@matt3706 yeah cry about it. Constitution can never be changed. NO ONE DARE to change them no matter which party KNT OR DPP. And also there are tons of both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese that are pro ROC and want them to take back the mainland bc many may inland Chinese are being oppressed by CCP. Outdated? Lmao don’t call us that.
@@matt3706 90%? Where did that statistics come from? Source? Proof? Do you know every single one of them? Yikes. Dude don’t make up stuff to prove your point. A dead country? ROC is the first democratic country in Asia founded in 1912. Nobody believes the constitution? Where’s that proof? Shut up geez.
@@matt3706 issues here Is CCP. Main”and Chinese also deserve freedom and democracy. Sun Yat-Sen is the founding father for both sides that will NEVER change either. 2020 National day on October 10th Taiwanese President Tsai clearly said “happy Birthday Republic of China.” She’ll never say HBD Taiwan. Like never.
I appreciated this set of interviews and a couple of others I've watched. As an American who has lived and worked in Europe and the Far East for over 25 years, I cannot imagine you going to any US city and getting this level of thoughtful discourse on this topic--or perhaps on any topic related to the rest of the world. If you have done so, please let me know.
Thanks for sharing those voices. I'm from mainland China and have been to Taiwan. It's a stupid tragedy started by the Chinese Civil War, from what I can't expect there would be a happy ending. I know people are different, but I know as well that whether you pursue reunification or independence, the initial motivation is a better future. It's just that we believe in differrent things, or were taught differently.
I agree with you. I'm from Taiwan. ROC is a country according to its own constitution. Even the constitution of ROC declares unification of China and doesn't recognize 'Taiwan' as a country. It's the DPP that brainwashes people and want them and the West to think Taiwan as the Republic of Taiwan, not Republic of China. ROC and PRC don't belong to each other. But the truth is -- just like South Korea (Republic of Korea) & North Korea (People's Republic of Korea), both recognized in the UN, are parts of Korea that is divided, Taiwan (not to mention that it's not even recognized as a sovereign state in the UN) & Mainland are also parts of China that is divided.
As a Taiwanese, this video very well captured the spectrum, political preferences, and generation gap of the Taiwanese culture - also reflect how democracy and free-to-speak culture on the island. I also like the same video you did in Shanghai which let the audience in a certain level understand how Chinese citizen reacts to the topic and weave the stereotype that censorship is forcing the Chinese to fear speech.
@fanfan fan 可惜法国人像我这样很少，99%法国人被法国反华媒体洗脑，其实全西方国家都这样。看到法国这么讨厌中国，反华宣传，我自己对中国人很不好意思。希望有多中国人来评论跟西方人说话正真的中国，这样不让我们再被我们的西方媒体洗脑。也不知道西方媒体会不会有一天停做假新闻。反正如果没有停，那就再不能相信西方媒体。台湾媒体我看到了，也跟着我们西方媒体反华宣传，台湾人也是被洗脑的，像我们西方人一样被反华洗脑的，难怪台湾人讨厌中国。办法只有说话，天天说话，中国人多来评论说正真的中国是怎么样子，只这样的方法我们大家会知道正真的中国 （从法语自动app翻译）
As an American with Taiwanese parents, I feel like this interview was very insightful with the locals opinion in Taipei. Like I stated, these interviews are generally in Taipei or the cities around it. Taipei shouldn't be used to represent the entire opinions for Taiwan. It's like asking people in California about a specific topic which represent the entire US population's opinion. Californians will say one thing, but people in Nebraska would have an entirely different opinion. For a more accurate interview of the streets in Taiwan, interviewing farmland areas such as Hualien and southern cities such as Kaohsiung would have given a better perspective. Edit: grammar and added/corrected sentences In my opinion, I just want relations to improve (tho at this rate, it's extremely unlikely unless a miracle agreement is made). I'm really hoping both sides can come to a mutual agreement and do not have to resort to war. I have both friends from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. None of them wish for a war between the two of us.
Why would you want that evil country to have a better relationship with Taiwan? If I were Taiwan the best thing for me would be to cut off china completely. It’s a dictatorship. It’s not just a different opinion or maybe a political difference. This is living under the nazis vs living in modern day Germany here. China is the nazis. They’re the closest thing there is to modern day nazis. Tell me. Can you think of a single thing closer to nazis other than Israeli occupiers? China is the worst one by a long shot. Muslims in concentration camps, banning Winnie the Pooh, I could go on. China is a pathetic plqce
"The views in this video don't align with my beliefs, so we should interview people that will prove me right." So much copium in this comments section.
I love that it's not a full consensus. Everyone have their own takes on it and we get answers from the different generations in Taiwan and the difference on their thoughts on it which is a good sign of a healthy democracy. It's also interesting that I have both a CN friend and a friend from TW and they don't hate each other. They talk about the things they like and get hyped over the most weird of things together. Most of the people don't want war. They just want to keep the status quo. What the Media tends to not show you that behind all the political tensions and borders, real people like me and you exist. Great Job Asian Boss! Keep up the good work
Asian Boss had to go out of their way to find the leather jacket pro-unification guy to make it appear as though opinions arent universal. Totally shady by Asian Boss. Fake journalism.
@@oshk6982 i have lived in taiwan. I know that. If you need to search high and low to find a specific opinion...then you are creating the illusion that there is not consensus. That is propaganda.
As foreigner living in Taiwan for over 5 years, i can confirm that most people (for my case is over 90%) don't want to reunite with mainland. But not necessarily means they want war. They just want to keep living just like now without intervention from mainland. I only know one grandma who likes mainland enough for reunion. Most young people don't.
Because of the education and propagada of "de -Chinese" accelerates this situation,thus,you will see the fault line between young and older generations , as i know, elderly people accepted "Chinese" education and consciousness, .Even if many of them may be anti -Chinese, they may not be anti -"one China" ,or don't care just want anything work , now young generation accept "Western" education,cousciousness,propaganda,and government delete or alter about many history content of China&Taiwan in history textbook , also, include time isolation and relationship isolation factors with mainland, therefore, there is a deviation in consciousness.Basically,both troops come with the same purpose of liberating China from feudalism and imperialism with different ways, that i think this is still a civil war between the two troops. It is just because Taiwan can no longer win Mainland, so they will just publicize a new government, a new country and new culture to let future generations forget what the previous thing is, like a "education" weapon i think.
@@lesleyjave8036 i don't think education teach them to be anti Chinese. But i think one of the reason is China repeatedly threatens Taiwan that they will come to invade anytime soon, send military aircraft to Taiwan region countless times which I see it as unnecessary. As a foreigner myself, I'm uncomfortable with the fact that they come to threaten the area where I'm currently living in. And also they banned Taiwan from WHO and any other organizations out there. Before coming to Taiwan i don't even know that Taiwan exists and what's their relation with China. But after seeing what is happening here I finally understand. My friend from Hong Kong also wants to move to Taiwan because the hong Kong now is not the homeland she used to know. I personally hate war and hope China stop to threaten any country with violence. If one day they priorize discussion over abuse of power, who knows? Maybe Taiwan and China can have good partnership to boost their economy. I really enjoy the freedom here in Taiwan so I personally hope they don't reunite. If so, i may need to immigrate to other country. Let's see what will happen in the future.
Taipei might limit your understanding of the issue..Go to even smaller cities or villages and get a different picture..But your interview is impressive
@@williamaseng country side is diverse.. Older pals will be pro china.. Younger ones might be pro status quo.. Remember the impact of media might be less. Ot would be interesting to hesr from them
@@williamaseng Pro independence will be majority. Taipei is the most pro unification part of Taiwan. Due to much Chinese migrant after WW2. But anyway, I don't think most them are willing to defend their land with their life.
@@beng1540 There’s a big difference, autonomy means they have their own government and make decisions for themselves. But Taiwan is not independent from China. Nowhere in their constitution states that Taiwan is a country. In both the map of People’s Republic of China and Republic of China, the map of China includes the mainland and the island Taiwan. But because of biases of the media, a lot of people thinks that Taiwan is a country.
@@user-dxvzkh I don't know why my reply got deleted, but that is not true... Taiwan is a sovereign independent country already, officially as the Republic of China. Taiwan is the colloquial name for the ROC, much like China is the colloquial term for the PRC.
Thank you Asian Boss for giving us this wonderful content. For the first time, I could really see the opinions and thoughts of the common Taiwanese people.
As a Taiwanese can’t tell how much grateful if people around world know our opinions. Some of us, like me, appreciate the progress of economic and technology that mainland companies have made. Also, There are lots of nice Chinese. Though we don’t know what kinds of society benefit people more, I think every Taiwanese thinks freedom come first in our society. In 2022, I wish all individuals in the world should come together to resolve big issues, like climate changes or net-zero emissions, rather than some old cliché of sovereignty. It’s not important at all if human beings gonna extinct or these lands in Asia might be under water soon or hard to live in 100 years.
I really appreciate how this interview carried different opinions and was very impartial. Big congrats for you all. I hope you continue your impartial journalism without caring about if you get approving judgment or not in the comment section. Already many outlets are doing partial journalism, please you don't. Also huge respects to Taiwanese people for being able interrogate the media outlets of their country! From Kurdistan, Middle East...
As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"... But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world." Now ,what I can say is... "Ok" "We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"... Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅 Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊...
@@diabloprimordial5735 yea people need to stop defending other countries they've never visited based on news reports . Unless we visit the country a d talk to the people or watch multiple interviews with the people.. we just need to sit back and shut up . I agree
@@analyticalmindset This channel has shared the views of "a few" Taiwanese people. What you see should be taken with a grain of salt, dont believe everything on the internet.
@@Nadeine I hear you . My sample size of data is as small as the number of people that were interviewed, which means I'm inconclusive on whether I feel like I have a correct pulse on the true sentiments of the majority in Taiwan.
You guys are heroes for making these videos. We wouldn’t know how people in Asian countries ACTUALLY think and feel otherwise! I love how real it is, straight up in person. Keep going
@@LouisTsuiful communist china is the biggest threat to humanity and world peace - their extreme radical gov is like a poisonous toxic weed that must be eradicated from the planet asap.
The one guy that said "I wouldnt judge based on people's age, but more so how they consume information and media" seems to understand both parts. The old and some of the new age. Thats how I feel living in the US.... a lot of these same issues are in our country. A lot of people who consume different types of media form their own way of thinking based on what they consume. Thats why a lot of ppl think black people are evil.....black fathers are not in their kids lives and white people are harmless......Media can be corrupt, but I think what Asian boss is doing is awesome, their getting it straight from the source....which are the people. Im so glad to be apart of this community. Its opened my eyes on a lot of different things because if I look at the media in the US....It would paint a picture that makes it seems like other Countries are our enemy and just have horrible conditions. Now that Im older.....it seems like our Country is more corrupt than others. We just paint a pretty picture over everything,.
Opinions are like surveys. They can project what you want when you only intervew one sided views. A real survey takes a cross section of the population. This is why you need to check what the people in mainland China think.
@Anuj Rblx well.. i think this question should be answered by the citizens themselves. it should not be answered by the people from another country. You have to at least live there for a few years to experience. --The real answer to this is to ask Chinese people: Do they feel happy and cared in their country? Do people feel proud of their governments? --My answer is yes, I'm very proud of what we've achieved in the past hudnreds, thousands of years that we've made our nation strong again. I love my culture. I understand and support how the system works here. I enjoy the life that those guns and drugs are banned here. And there're a lot to talk about but I won't be deeply talking here. China has always been a country caring about ourselves and allies. We don't start the economy cold war. We have our principles like the "One country, two systems. Those are our lines. If anyone is trying to go over that line, it's offending us. And we will fight back.
@@cuewarstaner1894 I think the line of "one country two systems" has been crossed but the mainland is not offended because it was the NPCSC that crossed the line on 30. June 2020. I also like how expressing your view on PROC you said there's is much to talk about but you don't want to get into where one would expect criticism. Do you not have any criticism? Do you have criticism but feel expressing it would be inappropriate? You're sentence just seems like avoiding taking a stance. To me people from PROC most of the time sound like someone is watching them.
@@christopherstein2024 idk what you talked about with the date you mentioned. you can be more specific. And as for criticism, I don't feel anything wrong or uncomfortable to criticize anything. We always criticize thigns are not reasonable in my country. and it comes to a result that not everything is perfect for all countries. At least I'm totally okay with most of the laws and rules in my country. I'm proud of them. Like the 天眼 system helps decrease crimes in a huge ratio. But in western people's eyes, they will feel offensed and not free and don't get it. In Chian we have some sayings. --One is "要想人不知，除非己不为" meaning "what you've done will finally be figured out by other people unless you don't do it." --Another one is "不怕亏心事，不怕鬼敲门" "Won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door if you don't do wrong things". There're the very Chinese style philosophy that we care about and behave ourselves in the 1st priotiry. And most western people won't get it.
The subtitle is not accurate enough, for example, 3:39 he said" So it is "a" China", and he meant it, it is not right to remove the "a" from the subtitle. The truth is Taiwan is just another or more accurately the original China. 5:15 he said "中共“ which should be translated to "The Communist Party of China", but in the subtile it's "Communist China" which means the country China not the party. I think its's important to make sure the subtitle is correct so the western people could really understand what Taiwanese people actually thinking.
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quite interesting
"When the benefit that Taiwan can provide doesn't reach the expectations of US we might be discarded like afghans"
This guy hit the nail on the head.
Yes, but the geographic location of Taiwan is crucial to the naval containment of China. Then again, I thought the location of Afghanistan was key to monitoring the western frontiers of China.
Maybe while Biden is president, but most Americans I know of are very supportive of Taiwan as a free nation separate from China. The U.S. hasn't got a history of abandoning allies. But Afghans were not particularly benefitting the U.S., either. Taiwan has other supporters, too, including Japan, which is also a strong U.S. ally. The man who said that was a CCP influenced stooge. Maybe you are too?
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Ignoring your clear partisan bias - you seem to have glossed over what other things the "CCP influenced stooge" said. For example, he said that countries will prioritize their self-interests above all else. The US understands how significant Taiwan is towards containing China's power projection and maritime claims - the US wants to remain the dominant military power not only in the region, but the world. Japan was literally occupied and had its society reformed by the US after its surrender, so it's in their best interest to stay on the US's good side. Post WW2 relations between China and Japan aren't exactly good, even though the younger generation holds less animosity towards each other. Japan has the diplomatic backing of the US to deter Chinese aggression, which is Japan looking out for its self-interest. See a trend? Anyway, feel free to reply with whatever you want, but no - I'm not a CCP shill. If it matters, my family is from Hong Kong but your US-centric worldview (and politically motivated) expressed in your comment goes against the goal of Asian Boss. The point of this channel is to give you a glimpse of perspectives and viewpoints in Asian countries, and the comment you leave is about pushing a pro-Republican/nationalistic narrative while labeling perspectives you disagree with as "CCP influenced".
Huge difference actually. Afghans didn't want the US there lmao
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 when border fight happens, uk might have passed there(casual stroll in the past)
When there is conflict, US must have passed
Congratulations to US...
In the name of freedom, you have successfully ruined the lives of natives, headbutted with libya,syria,iraq,cuba, Afghanistan,vietnam,germany(old),japan(old),UK(old),france(old),spain(old),italy(old)
Following with mexico,liberia,2korea, and Philippine(old)
Your current enemies are china,russia,iran,africa(this is not a nation,angered by racism),india(ally of russia) indonesia(ambitious),mongolia(horse noises) Ukraine (backstabbed) belarus(russia friend),turkey(Quite observer),switzerland(peace lover), Saudi Arabia (sand noises), and Venezuela (remember me?)
Currently you(US) have won "most aggressive nation of the century" award
"Covid king" title
"Oil hungry" title
"Master of internal conflict" title
"War veteran(lvl 10)"
"Canada" left the group*
"Australia" left the group*
As a Taiwanese living in Taiwan, I really appreciate the different perspectives this interview provides, not just for foreigners but also for local Taiwnese as well. The media here lacks this kind of transparency and inclusivity.
I want to ask did u people want to remain independent or wants reunification
Don’t be fooled that Asian Boss is more transparent… they are just good at making you feel that way.
My parents immigrated from Taiwan and I was born in the US. I feel like the general consensus here is that most Americans will SAY they support Taiwan if they're asked about it- but it's not because they understand the Taiwan/China relationship, it's because they're against the Chinese Communist Party. If Taiwan and China started a war today, I don't believe the US government would commit and provide the support that many local Taiwanese people might expect from this side of the world. Personally I don't have a strong preference on green or blue, but most of my family lives in Taiwan so I do really hope for peace.
@@GauravSharmaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR more independence, they have been taught that way for a long time
This interview made me realize there’s tons of CCP spies living in Taiwan
Based on this small sample, we can see that Taiwanese people in general:
- Have a clear opinion about this topic and feel free to speak their minds.
- Think Taiwanese media are biased toward independence.
- Have different points of view about their nationality and relation with China.
- There are generational gaps on this topic; most young people consider Taiwan is an independent country.
- Even if they see Taiwan as a de facto independent country, still prefer to keep the status quo instead of risk a war.
- Don't think a Chinese military invasion is imminent, especially because its huge cost.
- Feel moral support from countries like the US, Japan, etc, but are not sure about actual help in case of war.
- NOBODY wants war.
Right, as varied as they were, no one wants war
Accordingly to Chinese media outlets, they support war “ going to Taipei to enjoy the rain in the winter” remember?
The status quo can't continue indefinitely though because of the fact the media is biased towards independence, which is also the reason young people are more pro-independence because they grow up in media telling them to be so. The status quo can only last until the older generations die off, and then war is inevitable because the young people will try to declare independence.
@@amihart9269 Or the young generation realizes that they've gone too far, their generation after them (those in school today) actually reel it back a bit.
Oh did they asked us if war was wanted when they fly those US made jets above us all the day just decades before? Nahh, we don’t really care about how they feels anymore, they can choice either unification with blood or without.
This video is very clear and straightforward to let us realize the influence of a person's education and experience on his thinking. The less knowledgeable a person is, the easier it is to have extremely one-sided thinking, and the easier it is to be used by others.
like the young boy
一针见血的
So we just need to read more books and cherish an open mind towards difference.
When a person's own life is not satisfactory, he will always put all the fault on the bigger things.
absolutely
This is a complicated issue which most people in the West don't have a clear understanding of. Nice to hear some local opinions
It’s NOT complicated!!! The island of Taiwan was ceded to Imperial Japan by the Qing dynasty after the 1st Sino-Japanese War. After WWII, Japan relinquished its control over the island of Taiwan, repatriated most of the Japanese people that inhabited the island, and returned the island to China: 1 country 2 systems is how it has existed until now. Reunification was always the goal of the both the Nationalist and the Communists before the Communists fully gained control mid century and established the PRC. Mao Zedong claimed the island as belonging to the PRC. Deng Xiaoping repatriated Hong Kong from British Control and tried to peacefully repatriate Taiwan. Preeminent Leader Xi and the politburo standing committee are now adamant that the island be brought under control of Beijing.
My proposal is that the U.S. and Japan unilaterally grant citizenship to the 25 million, mostly Han Chinese, living on the island and have the UN openly declare the island as belonging to the PRC. It’s the only way to preserve liberty for the Taiwanese people AND ensuring that international justice be served.
Seems like the local understanding is, We are apart of China and the west should mind their own business.
they dont need clear understanding as they will only hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe. its pretty simply
@@Stephensouraski the 25 million living on the island are mostly Han Chinese. Yes, they prefer democracy, but they are not under the delusion that Taiwan is or were ever an independent state. Many people have family on the mainland.
@@tristalacour2492 communist china must be banned.
the old man with the bandage in the park is very wise. his thinking is so on point.
So true. His description of how the US will only look out for Taiwan as long as Taiwan benefits the US is so spot-on. And he does not blame the US for that - he specifically calls out how it is natural for each country to act in its own interest.
What he does not speak about (but I'm sure he knows all about) is how the Taiwanese government has pursued an intentional decades-long strategy of *ensuring* that Taiwan remains a benefit to the US, and to the world. This of course is its development of the semiconductor industry. In recent years this strategy has paid dividends, but it was not accidental: smart people planned it this way. Taiwan will not go the way of the Kurds or the Afghanis, and the reason, somewhat amazingly, is semiconductors.
@@henrykenyon311 Yes, finally someone point it out. There will be no way in this world the US will let China take the semiconductor tech from Taiwan by annexed it.
Edit: At least they won't let China take it freely.
@@henrykenyon311 True but is fighting a war with China potentially going WW3, be worth it at the cost of some semiconductors. Something which isn't impossible to produce in other places. That is a variable that did not exist with the kurds or afghans.
totally agree
@@IronKurone Your understanding is too narrow, semiconductors are not that important, China never unified Taiwan because of semiconductor technology. Taiwanese companies rely entirely on Equipment from Europe and the United States, and TSMC cannot make chips if the United States embargoes Taiwan. Smic would have mass-produced 5nm without the US blocking amSL. China is now testing 28nm domestic equipment, I know this year's domestic equipment has not passed the national acceptance, I expect that by 2025 at most, China will have a 28nm production line that has been mass produced. The timing of reunification depends on China's supply chain dependence on Europe and the United States. The most dependent is semiconductor, and there are too many Chinese engineers in the semiconductor industry
I feel like an understanding of the Chinese Civil War (post WWII) is a prerequisite, before fully understanding the varied divisions of perspectives shown in this vid. Great work.
@@LouisTsuiful Didn't know ROC belong to communist regime. Oh wait they shouldn't. 🤣
@@Kenneth-jt7ul Where did he mention "communist regime"?
@@LouisTsuiful The China that you speak of doesn't exist. The China everyone knows today is only 100 years old. The Communist party is the antithesis of what China was in ancient times. Communism and socialism are western ideologies. Read a book. If you are brave enough to use a VPN to view this youtube channel, then go search for something that defies your blelief system.
Young people in Taiwan should understand that conflict with China, means that Taiwan will become a battle ground, and the U.S. will use Taiwan as a pawn in the super power conflict. We should learn the lesson from Vietnam, in which millions of people died, and the U.S. bombed, and poison the land.
@@LouisTsuiful
More like china belong to taiwan. The revolution war is often not mentioned. Only ww2. Lol.
But i rather they just seperate. So many nonsense that the people doesnt need in their lives. China is bully.
Generally speaking, people in Taiwan are polite and friendly. All streets are pretty clean. One thing I observed during my visit few months ago shock me: big portion of Taiwanese does not know much about mainland China (most info. from western/local media) and they are quite proud of having relationships with Japan.
What surprises me is how unbelievably intelligent these Taiwanese people are with their answers, especially the two elderly gentleman and their wisdom. I truly wish that things can be settled peacefully.
WU WU WU
Agree with you totally
那几个年轻人就太夸张啦，，把大陆想成地狱啦。。。绿媒把他们洗的脑瓜子都不灵啦，，这就是自由嘛😄😂😂
You said it! I completely agree!!!✨
That's what true democracy does to people.
As someone from mainland, it's nice to hear the opinion of actual citizens rather than news and medias
I want Taiwan to be safe I don't like the idea china invade Taiwan. I love Taiwan and it's people it's their right to have their country it belongs to the taiwanese not China. 😞
@@UA-camExplore777 agree with you！I was born in China and I think you are right
说实话，在外网这种真真假假和选择性报道下，是个人都会想独
世上根本没有言论自由
@@FangGGi 然而世界大部分人看外网，出了中国和俄国
我只希望保持現狀
The older gentleman at 19:25 truly understands what is at stake when he asks where such a war would actually take place. His view is quite sobering on the US as well. I'm always amazed at how much better informed people around the world are about our own US foreign policy decisions. His remark about our abandonment of the Kurds and Afghan nationals shows just how clearly the world has lost faith in our resolve to aid and defend our allies. And he's absolutely right. Why should he trust that the US will actually defend Taiwan against a Chinese act of aggression. Depending on who is running the country, it's anybody's guess whether the US would offer aid or seek to adopt an "America first" foreign policy that abandons our allies and trade partners.
The U.S has intervened before during the Taiwan Strait Crisis'. It's important to note that the situation in Afghanistan is completely different from Taiwan. If the Taiwanese people are willing to fight, the U.S, Australia, and Japan will be there to help in some form or another.
That said, a war is unlikely. I feel that relationships between Taiwan and Japan/US will only improve more and more over the next few years.
@@FloofyMinari taiwan doesn't want to fight. Most people just want to get by in life.
@@hehehehehehe5801 Well the ROC has a decent Military, so at least there is that.
@@FloofyMinari yes. But physical war is what America wants. China does not want that. Taiwan doesn't either. The U.S is being selfish with China vs U.S sentiment
@Jerry you realize that if China lands into Taiwan, they will be facing guerilla warfare right? It's like the Vietnam War but Taiwan would have better equipment instead. Yes people will die but it's going to be a pain in the ass for China.
As a Chinese I really like to watch this kind of videos because I can know Taiwanese people’s ideas. And I respect every different idea. The only thing if I pray for is humanity and peace.
What the guy at 19:25 said struck a cord with me. War between the 2 big countries will devastate every smaller country in between. While not as close as Taiwan, this sentiment is shared by many people in SEA like myself.
What he said is so true and wise. Especially about how every country puts their self interest first.
He is too naive to perceive the evil nature of Xi or you can say communist party of China. Whether Xi will launch a war against Taiwan or not is nothing to do with anything Taiwanese do nore any reasons from Xi but depends on the costs and probility of taking Taiwan successfully. Any reasons from Xi of attacking Taiwan is just execuses to cheat and confuse and avoid the other countries from helping Taiwan when Xi strike the attack.
@@EricAng295 so you mean that you want to fight for Taiwan as a foreign volunteer? Xi is still a cool minded person, he has been calculating risk factor long before, thats why Chinese navy has been mostly strengthened in naval invasion capabilities and costal defences.
@@EricAng295 Chinese civil war never ended. Jiang Jieshi wanted to invade and clear up the Chinese communist party in the past when he was strong and when he was in mainland China. He failed and led his party to escape to Taiwan island. Now, It's not their turn to say ok let's stop and be two different countries and we never hurt each other.
@@EricAng295 It's like you start a game with your partner and you lose, and you run to your mom and say "oh mommy come protect me, that bad guy wanna hurt me."
That answer the man gave at 20:40 is very well articulated. He understands that international politics isn't about right and wrong, but about power. I don't say this to demean the US, I'm American myself, but once you start to look at international politics in terms of power it makes much more sense, doing the right thing is sometimes just a side-effect. Each country is looking out for their own self-interests.
This is correct. Fortunately for Taiwan, China is such a threat to the United States and Japan that using Taiwan as a hedge against China will be a reality well into the future. The USA will have Taiwan's back for decades--not because of some neoliberal feeling nonsense, but because it's better (from the American perspective) to fight against Chinese expansionism using Taiwan as a battering ram/shield than to fight them in a real US v China kinetic war.
Dude face masking an Oping isn't facts.. sheep just kowtowing !!!
sadly young generations of Taiwanese are blinded by their beloved 'democratic' system, which in my view has been abducted by their political parties to gain votes only rather than to truly delivering positive results in the best interests of the constituents.
9/11
and it's rarely in the interest of the common people, but for the interests of the establishment. a lot of decision by america does not make sense untill you follow the money...
20:39 can we appreciate the man for spitting straight facts. This is what we call a person who has profound knowledge of history. 🙌
It's kinda like Hongkong, they scream "Free HongKong, we stand with Hongkong", but no actual help will come, the rebel has been captured, and HongKong suffers massive economic crash because majority of their visitors are from mainland, very very small amount even come from the US.
Taiwan already has its own military albeit much smaller than China. But its like top 10 in the world.
USA doesn't want the two sides to unite as this would favor China.
@@jujuria13 taiwanese military is not even near to the top 10
@@febopennyficari8716 yeah you are right, its ranked number 13 in the world
@@VienPeaaace but Hongkong was clear that it end like this. They were bound by contract. They also had no sort of military force
"大不了我们就唱中国国歌"bro is chill af😂
當你採訪了很多人，發現大家都有不同的見解和看法，且不擔心說出口會有什麼問題，這才是言論自由
POAST TRANSLATED - When you interview a lot of people and find that everyone has different opinions and views, and you don’t worry about the problem of speaking, this is freedom of speech
言论自由对于任何文明社会来说都很重要，但最可怕的是人民被欺骗，被蒙蔽双眼，以至于失去了独立思考的能力。
It's horrible for the people to be taken away the ability of knowing truth, seeing truth, and independent thinking.
@@cameronbruce1862 thank you
@@dahou9473 確實會有這樣的狀況，畢竟民主社會就有不同聲音，人民可以選擇自己相信的，並尊重不同人的觀點。沒有絕對的對錯，但一個民主國家要以國民為出發點才經得起時間考驗
看了这个视频，我感觉到了台湾人民的可爱，如果没有必要，我也希望能和平下去。也希望台湾同胞多多来大陆走动走动，大陆远比你们想象的自由啦！随便说什么都没问题的，我身边有个同事喜欢美国，天天说共产党的坏话，也没有人把他怎么样啊，哈哈，我们依然是好朋友。而且我蛮多台湾的兄弟的，希望大家多沟通交流吧！
As a Chinese people from mainland part, really appreciate this nice interview and know different local people’s opinions. It’s significant to let people share their views and thoughts. They are nice . People from mainland part also need to understand what and why Taiwan people think like this. Respect, communicate and understand are important for all of us.
People in Taiwan province are just a bunch of ungrateful brats, they took every chance to benefits from Mainland China and they will keep doing it until the day we reunited.
People’s thinking is heavily influenced by many factors. Brainwashing is not only achieved through explicit government propaganda. In Taiwan it’s done through many years of subtle manipulation of education system and media undertone, and in many ways it’s way more effective than explicit propaganda, because it brainwashed you without making you realize you are brainwashed. This is how a manufactured identity is achieved.
我是大陆人，我热爱大陆，同时也尊重台湾人的选择。两岸作为华人的代表，真心希望能够共同发展和繁荣，人民幸福。仅仅希望台湾，不要被西方政府用作伤害大陆的棋子就好。
@@LinjieWang-f3jHarm the mainland? It's the opposite. It's Beijing regime ambition to force Taiwan people into a repressing communist regime.
Taiwan is a sovereign nation. Their people are free to choose what to read, what to watch, without severely censored like in mainland.
The only way Taiwan reunite with China is when CCP tyranny collapsed.
Chinese people should choose democracy. You are living in a cage.
Everytime I watch an interview by Asian Boss I am amazed by how polite and receptive ordinary people are to these very difficult questions. Regardless of how popular/unpopular their stance is, they actually take time to unpack their thought process without automatically refuting other perspectives
I would imagine that's because they filtered out the crazies or inarticulate ones
They interviewed 100 people and screened out 10 people who were more suitable to appear in front of the camera
This. I don't know if it's edited but Taiwanese seems to be pretty educated
@@robertabella1806 I was thinking that too, Robert. While for comedic purposes several US shows intentionally keep in only the stupid and ill-informed responses.
@@AaTahya Of course it's edited. It's a "show." I like it, and think it's great, but it's edited like any other video show.
The girl who said mainland relies on Taiwan on many things and Taiwan does not rely on mainland much just straight up does not know much...
19:22 "If they dont help us, we might as well start singing the Chinese national anthem" 😂😭😭😭
Being a foreigner in southern Taiwan definitely makes you wonder about this topic a lot... I talk about it quite often with my friends and people have different opinions. However, nobody wants war.
The only people who want a war are Biden and his cronies.
@@scotswarrior9535 and china also
Behind all these, the military industrial complex are those who want war threats to keep looming.
@@ManishG1410 Doubt. But I think China gotta prepare if they dont wanna end up like the middle eastern countries.
@@MEGASTRIX that's right even in this era china is thinking about land expanding for country even if they captured Taiwan and some other land in the end they end up like what happened to USSR and they will break down
Whoever translated this is an absolute legend! I worked in Taiwan 2010-2011 and it's been interesting to hear some more accurately translated opinions in the topic.
Tf you saying
Taiwan is a country?
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@@husemeerbolat3861 ?
@@husemeerbolat3861how does it relate to the current topic ??
Love this content it provides perspectives of ordinary people voices that are usually unheard
Please note that not all people interviewed in this video are "random people from the street"! I think that Asian Boss did their work to make the sample more representative. Sampling bias is a headache for this kind of street interview format. The end result is a quite fair representations of different generations and viewpoints..
Of course, they are scared of the extreme nationalistic backlash on their channel.
@@LouisTsuiful No one thinks they are not Chinese, unless they're blind. But it's a totally different culture in TW, just like that one lady said. China and TW has been separated for so long already. I live in Canada and I know both mainland Chinese and TW and both are quite different. Can feel the cultural and personal views are very different.
@@henryleung007 some slight difference doesn’t make you become a independent state, Taiwanese speak Mandarin and share some cultural root with Mainland China!
@UCkiy3GRAx9U6arw1Z81eAUA oh god! there you go again with your "ancient time" card. Listen my dear, no one said they're not Chinese. But that doesn't mean they must join the Chinese mainland and completly ditch their own government (which has worked so hard into maintaining Taiwan all these years of separation) for the CCP. What has the CCP gave them?! What has mainland China gave them?? Not much and certainly not enough to justify the annexation of their nation!
@UCHmHJH7MuP9ZBzQYhPc1QFQ The fact is China = CCP, you like it or not. CCP controls every part of China. Anti-China is anti-CCP until CCP is gone. Anti-China is not the same as anti-Chinese people
22:43 This man is very wise, those are good exemples, Afghanistan and the Kurds who did most of the dirty work on the ground fighting ISIS, suffering a lot of casualties, losing a lot of men and women in the process, just to be abandoned.
Which way do you want it? Independence or constant interference????? As far as I have seen, nobody wants the American military in their own countries anymore, for "protection" or otherwise, but from what you say afghans and kurds should have been taken care of by the same american military that their people actually hate forever... Huh?
@@xiahnti I agree we're on the same page here, i was simply stating that those were good valid points that man brought up , i'm not for any American military presence, or bases in any country
young Taiwanese are too native because they don't see how USA pushed Georgia and Ukraine against Russia, then USA just ignore when Russia really attacked them.
it's like China pushed Mexico or Cuba against USA, I don't think Mexicans are so stupid.
@@xiahnti first of all the Americans created the mess in Afghanistan so they should clean that mess up again. The people in Afghanistan don't hate the US troops so it's not like no one wants them. The kurdish problem is a lot more complicated as their enemy is turkey and turkey is allied with the US, but at the same time the US killed saddam hussein who oppressed and killed thousands of kurds. The latest event was in west Kurdistan or north Syria where just the presence of us troops was enough to hold back turkey from doing a genocide in that region and it was guaranteed by the US to leave the troops there becuase the kurds were the biggest enemy of isis and worked together with the US troops to fight them. Trump pulled the troops out of there and send them to the oil fields which left the kurdish population exposed for turkey. This is seen as a big betrayel from the USA by the kurds and that's why many kurds dislike the USA. So you can't make guarantees and interfere in everything and than just pull out in the middle of things and expect to have done the right thing. Every situation is different and you should have a look at them before talking about them. Looks a lot like you got all your information from a few main stream media shows as they don't really don't go into detail often which is misleading for a lot of people
@@lvjinbin28 Don't bring the Mexicans into this, they love USA
I guess a lot of western people don't know the relationship between China and Taiwan. I'm from China and now studying in the U.S., and please allow me explain it. In short, their relationship is kind of like that of North Korea and South Korea, or Eastern Germany and Western Germany.
The people in China and Taiwan are generally of the same race and speak the same language, and the cultures are pretty much alike. Taiwan does have its native people, but they account for less than 3% of the population now. Chinese people started to immigrate to Taiwan since the 1620s when Netherland conquered Taiwan, and later China defeated the Netherland and Taiwan became part of China. More Chinese people immigrated to Taiwan after that. Unfortunately, in 1895, China lost a war against Japan, and Taiwan was ceded to Japan. The Japanese ruled Taiwan for 50 years until 1945 when it lost the WWII and China got Taiwan back. At that time the population of Taiwan was about 7 million and the majority were Chinese people but they received Japanese education.
Sadly, only one year after that, the Chinese civil war broke out and in only 3 years, the then Chinese government (Republic of China, or ROC) lost the war to the Russia-supported Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and had to flee to Taiwan (CCP did not have navy then). ROC brought about 3 million people from the mainland to Taiwan. The CCP founded a new regime called People's Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland, and since then there were 2 Chinas.
Either side considered itself the only legal Chinese government and the other side being illegal, which is still the case for both governments. But now the people in Taiwan, especially the young people prefer to think of Taiwan as an independent country because they know that they can never defeat the PRC and there's no benefit doing that. The people in China generally prefer to think of Taiwan as part of China which should be united with the mainland.
还美国留学呢，不知道中国共产党的英文是CPC？早在荷兰殖民前就已经有汉人迁台了，不过规模较小。
@@whoareyou9218 CCP (Chinese communist party) 以及 CPC (Communist party of China) 都是可以的，自己去查Wikipedia。人家把历史解释的非常清楚，你却在这儿吹毛求疵。
Well said.
@@qiuyiisgorgeous 国名叫PRC不叫CPR，党也一样，那有主家都确定了名字还要被叫错的道理？你不觉得CCP跟苏联的很像么？真不是吹毛求疵
@@qiuyiisgorgeous 世界上主流媒体99%以上都是用ccp的简称。cpc只有少量中国国内媒体用过
So many people from the interview present their own critical intelligent thinking from perspective I have never heard! This video is so cool! I like Taiwan and Taiwanese people! Love from Chinese!
“ There’s no winner in the war, no looser in the peace.”
Their are countries who do horrible things in peace time, but it doesn't compare to the amount of suffering that war causes.
Maybe not a great comparison, but the numbers fit. Saddam Hussein government killed and tortured many people in the decades he was in power. But the most recent war in Iraq killed far more people in just a few years. This shows us why war is always a terrible option we should avoid as much as possible.
The mass weapon industry ?
@@MrBrochetjb not even they seem to be pushing for a war with China as far as I can see. Their seem to be much stronger (econimic) voices in the US which are pushing for conflict with China.
Evil govt won’t give up and be respectful to you rights and freedom just because you wanted peace. Say NO to tyranny and fight for freedom. your grandchildren will thank you
@@sdla690 Yeah, I will trust you if you promise you will join the war voluntary first.
Don't same as my British housemate, always yell "fight fight fight! TW fight to CN quickly!"
But same as the old man mentioned in VD that where is the war will processing once it launched? In TW man, not in CN or US, not JP, not in UK. The war will process in TW. That's mean the western people just being audiences in this boxing game, because it's not your business.
Someone said the UN will blame to CN if the war happen, I always feel so funny, BLAME?? Does it work? That's a really efficient way and helpful if you see a Poodle gonna fight with an Elephant.＝.＝
Every time Asian Boss uploads a video, I feel a bit more informed about the topics discussed.
I've been taught to learn from other countries than just the one I was raised with.
Overall, I'm glad that Asian Boss is doing this.
💯 agree!! It is important to listen and learn from multiple perspectives. It does a great job at fending off or offsetting our own biases and even brainwashing that could take place without learning/considering from multiple perspectives.
Their videos are made just for Internet trolls and bots to argue in the comments
@@jiji7250 Hong Kongers are Chinese, Taiwanese are Chinese, Malaysians are Chinese, we're all Chinese, but we all hate China's CCP 🤣🤣🤣 haha soooooo sad boohoo nobody likes China, the world hates China..Billy no mates ~ 对不起伤害了你
伤了你的感情 我听见有个声音 是玻璃心碎一地💔💔💔 I'm So Sorry
又让你森七七..😂🤣🤣🤣
@@jiji7250 you're kidding this video has one of the nicest comment section on UA-cam. Besides the ones commenting social credits.
@@kaneshirosan1642 no. Only the uninformed hates china.
When you choose to pick Taipei (as opposed to other cities in Taiwan) to interview people, you already pre-select the political tendency based on the voter demographics in Taipei, versus many other cities in Taiwan, especially central Taiwan or southern Taiwan. Biased by location by default. Try doing this identical interview in Kaohsiung (the largest city in southern Taiwan) or Taichung (second most populous city in Taiwan, largest city in central Taiwan), I suspect you will get quite different ratios of different opinions.
Oh that'd be so cool to get more perspectives.
Amen, I thought the same thing. Taipei has a lot of 天龍人
Exactly. That’s what I thought as well when I saw this video. Try different cities and u will be surprised how different the outcomes are.
@@Paladin341 what kind of 'sky dragon people'?
@@ankokunokayoubi 天龍人 (Celestial Dragons) is basically a buzzword from One peace in Taiwan, it usually refers to people who self-considered superior and think the rest areas of Taiwan are uncultured.
Cuz many political and business dignitaries from China mainland are living in Taipei the capital after 1949 the Chinese Nationalist Party retreated to Taiwan, some of them control a large number of resources but don’t even care about the gap of community resources in Taiwan, so this buzzword is often used to call them or the citizens in Taipei.
I am a Malaysian, I often go to China and Taiwan and I like both countries very much. I can easily see bilateral news. In fact, some people who think China has no culture and unsanitary environment i suggest give yourself a chance travel to China and see what’s going on nowadays actually.
台北也就大陆三流城市水平
Even then, Taiwan is pretty much China without a cruel authoritarian government, so I think I'd rather visit there.
@@fisher3317 in my opinion, you should first visit China and then give us your thoughts about this goverment that the media portrays as "cruel" and "authoritarian". Im Taiwanese myself and Ive been to mainland China, specifically to Shanghai, Harbin and Chongqing. I was as free as I would be in any other democratic country.
@@hongkangzhu1398谢谢你 台湾友人❤
First of all，thank you for liking China and Taiwan.But i want to tell you，Taiwan is a province of China.This point is very essential.Long long ago，Taiwan is a part of China.They can't be separate！
身為住在台灣的人，我覺得這部影片有很深入且中立的去訪問，是很值得鼓勵的，不管片中受訪者的立場如何也都該受到尊重， by the way 我認為台灣的媒體的確有點偏剖，不管偏藍偏綠，都受到資本影響
是的，这个视频真的很用心很客观了。还有作为中国大陆的一个普通人，中国媒体对舆论的控制我觉得也是挺夸张的。我不喜欢战争，只希望有一天能够能去台湾旅行，感受你们生活的方式😊
@@文邦-g9o 讚讚!
人们现在进入了信息茧房，不论大陆还是台湾亦或是其他地方。在有争议的地方，大陆许多年轻人对台湾有些许不屑，而台湾年轻人也对大陆有偏见，双方都在报道对方的负面新闻且做歪曲解读甚至无中生有，我认为都来源于某些自媒体的不负责。有时会在大陆社交平台见到“呆蛙”的称呼，我觉得这是把矛盾的特殊性当成了普遍性，个别台湾人调侃的言论在大陆被无限放大。而外界对于新疆的报道也感觉在无中生有，我在新疆我也感觉和新闻中的报道是两个世界。
還缺了一個 偏紅的
😅作为一个大陆人，最羡慕的就是台湾的言论自由，在大陆实在是太压抑了，每时每刻都活在被审查和自我审查之中，和朋友打电话说到一些敏感词大家都会很害怕，一个不允许任何反对声音的政权，就是邪恶政权。
Thank you for this impressive work. I am a Chinese citizen, me and many of my friends (around 30-year-old) and older families & relatives share one opinion: Chinese people has been suffered from too much pains from wars, so whether we share the same opinion towards the political relation between these two places or not, it is nothing more than the simple result of unchooseable education, hope we can keep the peaceful environment around Asia... Maybe some would say only a portion of people think in this way, but I want this voice to be heard. Thanks for the interview again.
作为一个大陆人只想说 我们没有自己的选择 只能愿台湾安好
身為一個台灣人只能說
我們這種小老百姓該做的就是把生活過好
台灣式民主好，還是中國式民主好？可能只有結論史實的後代知道
但願你我都平安的生活，不要變成兩種社會下的犧牲者
@@ab359180 同意 让历史来评判V(^_^)V
作为一个大陆人我只想说,台湾是中国的一个分离的省份,中国任何政权,都不应该容许台湾长久的分离
@@samzhang4847 包括中华民国政权么？
Hi Asian Boss, thank you so much for covering this sensitive topic. As a Taiwanese person living in the United States, this is a very sensitive topic that I personally avoid when speaking with my Chinese friends. I have many Chinese friends in the United States and political issues of the government never become a problem for us to connect. I am proud to be Taiwanese. Really appreciate this video and thank you so much.
I’m in China but met taiwanese friends in online games, and we get along nicely. I mean it's not like how the West portraied us hating on each other and want the worst for each other. Fxxxk those who wants to stir up things and escalate the things, we both just want a nice life without the west interferences.
This topic has always came up every time I meet someone new or whenever I personally identify myself as a Taiwanese-American in recent times and an issue I usually try to steer away from. As for talking to or meeting someone who is Chinese, I usually find myself mentally censoring topics I end up actively trying to avoid talking about. I always pay attention whenever the issue of Taiwan comes up but sadly, living in the United States, there's practically no news report as far as I've seen about what the locals actually think, which mostly annoys me. This video is really well done and I like the variety of the interviewees.
Thank your for understanding that's you're a human not a government toy
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@@solkels_z4794 Let's keep the status quo and the peace. Happy 2022 !
One thing that shocked me during the interview was how easily the people of Taiwan could forget Japan’s war actions against China and Taiwan during World War II. During World War II, mainland China and Taiwan also fought together against Japan, but now they actually seek support from Japan in order to resist mainland China, which is unacceptable to most people in China.
You should learn history once again
not what happened, the Republic of China (which today we call "Taiwan") was internationally recognized as the official government of China during WW2 and the main source of resistance against Japanese occupation.
the actual physical Taiwan island was occupied by Japan for almost the entire duration of the war;
only after the Communist victory in the chinese civil war did the Chinese Nationalists escape to the island, becoming the Taiwan that we know today
The history education received is different between people in mainland and in Taiwan so don’t show a confuse.
I think they know their own history just fine, much better than you.
中華民國國民黨殖民台灣比日本殘暴，誰跟你一樣
Why did you present a youtuber at 3:05 as a random pedestrian? His view is not one you'd normally find in Taipei
He is a CCP
So, do you doubt my ROC citizenship and my residency of Taipei city? Huh?
Definitely--his view is a fringe view that represents, based on polling, less than 2% of Taiwan's population. Asian Boss pretending that this is a random pedestrian is disingenuous.
I’m kind of neutral on this issue but just want to point out that there’s a difference between “people’s republic of China” and “republic of China(which is mentioned in one of the male interviewee’ speech)” in case anyone didn’t know
Different government, same country
Common for civil war
@@2024-l9n different country... One is the Republic of China, the other is the People's Republic of China.
@@beng1540 same country. Both claim china territory. If two country, how could you are kicked out of UN
@@2024-l9n North and South Korea also claim same territory but they are also two countries. As far as UN membership, it's a political organization and not a requirement for being a country. Switzerland wasn't a UN member until 2002, but surely you agree they were a country prior?
@@beng1540 just finish the war god damn it stop making excuses
You want independence, fight for it
As a Chinese citizen, so anxious am I about this issue that this video grasp me immediately. Hope the war will never happen and people can live in their own way.
come to Taiwan bro and enjoy some legit boba and medical weed.
Yes people on both side can live in their own ways, the pre-condition is Taiwan and China are united to become one country.
@粉红精神科赵医师 不是可不可能 是已经一直都这样了 本来不就是各玩各的么 能和家里人正常生活就行了呗 网络上想说过对方才是impossible
@@Fuchernaut weed is legal there? whhhhaat
@@slugzkea its not legal to sell but legal to have taken, i think. This info comes from international students tho so please verify if its wrong!
這個戴眼鏡的黃毛生動的向我們展示了充分接受教育是一件多麼重要的事🤣
小黃毛沒受過良好教育，確實是一個大問題
他講的話真的是台灣典型覺青-恨中國、愛民進黨、Gay
@@YoYo-qr6fm 男同是认真的吗😅
他大概率把大陆当成北朝鲜一样的国家了，还关进劳改营🤣
之前有一个台湾人在大陆策动武装暴动都只是关了几天遣送回台湾了，要按照他的逻辑，这难道不得让他物理消失？？🤣
所谓维吾尔族的劳改营其实更像一个寄宿制学校，他们根本不用做任何劳动，每天只是念书和白吃白喝😅
与此同时，那位棕黄色皮夹克外套先生与之形成了鲜明对比。😂
19:20 "if US doesnt help us, we'll just sing Chinese national anthem" LMAO XD
They help Afghanistan but in the end they still sing Afghani song 🤣
US have to help Taiwan.
1. we bought alot of outdated military equipment at premium price
2. we allows US ractopamine fed pig to enter Taiwan which banned in EU,JP
3. we open travel to unreasonably overpriced holiday package to Palau for US sake.
4. we adopted and funded US Black Water covid vaccine as our homegrown vaccine.
Seeing their answers, I am sure if the US does not come to intervene in case of war, more than 80 percent of them would directly surrender.
@@楊蕙萍-p7h This just sounds sad, judging merely by what you are saying Taiwan and U.S just share a toxic and abusive relationship, if U.S. really care about Taiwan you think the things you mention will happen?
@@gleerevs It's real. Just ask any Taiwanese if any of those points I mention are not the fact.
i love how Stephen termed it "how ill-informed". this term applies to 99% of people here in youtube
Which is why I watch these videos :D
@Excelsior! UA-cam is a American owned corporation. Not calling it a pro-western propaganda site is like not calling the KKK racist
You're right.
@@burentori9620 it is also a platform where mainland China uses to promote China's positive image with propoganda videos.
@@kaneshirosan1642 If you don't like the video, it must be Chinese propaganda right?
The guy in 3:22 isn't just a passerby. He's a youtuber. Seems like you seeked him out to "balance the viewpoint"
Edit: a suggestion - don't make the interviewee wear the mic when you want to pass it as street interview. It's less conspicuous.
News came out today they literally begged for a month for somebody to be pro-Blue because they couldn't find anyone on the streets. They found this guy and asked the film guy to do this as if it's a street interview in a park and tried to imitate the other interviews, which were filmed months before. It's literally a hackjob.
@@jameshsu6364 right? I was like, he looks familiar.
@@jameshsu6364 Where is this "news"? Can you provide a source for that? The only news I got was him admitting they met by chance from his own fb account.
sciencecw Passersby cant have social media accounts??
@@yerri5567 look up "lao ren cha blogspot"
当我听到那个戴眼镜小哥说到新疆有多可怕的时候，我就觉得这孩子一定是被洗脑的很严重。为什么？因为我一个土生土长的新疆回族人，从小到大从没见过外国媒体报道的那些事情。我老家是喀什的，那边除了维吾尔族，还有很多其他的少数民族，回族，哈萨克族等等，但是我们从来都没有觉得彼此之间有障碍。而且很多中国大陆以外的人不知道的是，在中国，高考是决定人命运的时刻，高考的分数决定了你今后上的大学质量和你今后的工作和职业。在中国，少数民族全都可以在高考的时候加分，而唯一不能享受加分的就是汉族。在新疆，高考分数在比很多其他的身份也要低很多。我举个例子，在新疆的维族学生（或者其他少数民族），高考只要考到550分基本上就能除了清北以外随便选学校。而在很多其他的汉族人为主的省份，哪怕高考考650分都不一定能达到这样的择校权。 如果你没来过新疆，你天天看西方媒体新疆将如何报道，那你看到的就只能是他们想让你看到的。这个小哥说台湾是民主的地方，可以听到很多看到很多不同的观点。那我倒是想问问，你们看到的有关新疆的观点有好的吗？你们有真的来过新疆看过吗？ 乌鲁木齐现在什么发展水平你有做过调查吗？维族人现在人均消费水平你有研究过吗？如果没有的话，你凭什么可以大言不惭地说新疆很可怕？？？
还有，关于很多台湾受访群众提到的中国脏乱差，中国人没礼貌没素质，关于这一点，我只能告诉你，这个世界上没有任何一个地方没有坏人，没有素质差的人。台湾的居民难道所有人都是素质极佳吗？大陆受过教育的人有多少是你们所谓的“没素质”的？我承认，从比例上来讲，中国大陆在二三十年前确实有很多没素质的人，这一点我很认同，但是随着经济的发展，教育的普及，现在“没素质”的人的比例正逐年大幅减少。我在成都读了大学之后就留在了四川，现在交通也很方便，我每逢节假日也都会回喀什老家和家人团聚。我的邻居有维族的，哈萨克族的，也有汉族和满族的，除了民族和饮食禁忌，大家的生活基本上没有什么不同。
如果你来过中国大陆，来过新疆之后，还能有这样的言论和想法，那我就承认你说的都是对的。
同感
+1
他们只想认可自己不想认可你啊兄弟
再教育營事件的真實性6分真實 傳到西方主流媒體變成10分危言聳聽 但你們的政府可以包裝成0分 好似沒發生過 我自己也不相信新疆淪陷這種鬼話 但也不相信新疆這片土地沒發生過什麼不安的事
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As a Chinese grew up in Mainland (or just Chinese, whatever you called it), I strongly concern about people in Taiwan at this time. I have been long curious about what Taiwanese people think and also notice there is a huge gap in political views between elder and younger generations in Taiwan. I hope there is no war now and ever.
Get off UA-cam RED!!
Taiwanese here, and I agree! I hope everyone can get along beyond political boundaries in a way that doesn't hurt the younger generations, despite opinions or what we were taught when we were younger. Outside politics, many of my friends from both sides understand why people from both sides say what they say so they often try to get along instead, since the issue has been around for quite a while now.
@@PorkkyBoy thanks mate! As you said, younger generation usually gets so tired and sick of politics... It's ironic since we have to care one day or another.
better mind your own country which is doomed for wars
❤️ Love to Taiwanese from Tibetan ❤️
我是大陆人，在评论看到简体繁体字又在吵架真的不意外但又心酸。我真心希望两岸可以和平共处，我是反对战争的不管什么理由，因为战争受害的永远是老百姓。我很反感这些政客和媒体在上面操纵舆论，让普通人给他们当枪手，实际上既得利益者永远是上层这些人。普通人明明过好自己的生活已经很艰难了，还要给人利用自己的情绪。实际上抛开政治立场，大家明明可以聊得很愉快不是吗？希望新的一年大家可以成功抵抗我们共同的敌人：新冠病毒，各自过上平安幸福的日子！
是啊，其实说到底大陆政府从来没说过要执行武力入侵台湾，只是说不放弃武力这条手段而已，但其实这就是两个意思，却被很多媒体包括台湾当地的媒体扭曲了，搞得人心惶惶
谁也不是傻子，中国人没事打自己同胞干啥，就像这视频里报道的那样其实只要没什么过激的行为是不可能有战争的
說的這麼好，但是其實牆內根本就不能出現任何台灣是一個國家的內容，真正要友好就尊重台灣人的意願，而不是在那里以你們自己的想法來判定台灣人要照著你們走。
你們又不住台灣，凭什麼管我們台灣人怎樣看你們？
事實上我們大部分的人都不想再跟你們糾纏，是你們自己天天派飛機騷擾台灣人，做賊的還想先喊抓良家婦女了😄
少自以為是了好嘛，管好你們自己的病毒來源，不要來台灣散步骯髒的中共病毒就萬事如意了！
還一起合作？呸！
@@Mrdk-mc1pr 沒有說用武力 那麼共機來擾台沒有威脅台灣的意思?
An interesting fact: since the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan in 1949, there has been no armistice agreement between the two sides. You can think that this is still a civil war
Your correct. But its sort of stupid tbh. Ccp really needs to stop pushing reunification, it only ramps up the fear of invasion in taiwan and gets them to ask for us defence help(not occupation). That and containing nationalism(and related education) could lead to an actual armistice and mutual official recognition of the two countries. They are too different to reunify now, but they can still be friends if the ccp is more flexible(and taiwan can work out constitutional and security issues). Time to leave behind the dangerous 19th to mid 20th century nationalism that often led to rich elites, exploited workers,and foreign enemy distractions(ie ww2 ww1,etc), and move to cooperation.
@@abcdedfg8340 lmao are unified Korea and unified China is something the west Dont want... Look at history and you will understand the more than half of human history until the modern time it was ruled by China and Korea and japan benefited from a unified china.
Pomepo said so himself that US is good a lying/cheating/and dividing.
@@kaisasong1332 Think of it this way. Before tv and mass media, countries were able to pretend conflicts were about nationalism or history. Now with mass media, they have to be honest about if it's about sea trade, oil, or other real factors. It's good though because it reduces tensions by cutting to the point so it's easier to address. So truth is taiwan isnt about history or even taiwan, it's about prc sea lanes and defence. But there are better ways to solve it besides threatening taiwan.
@@kaisasong1332 Do your country have any declassification documents? Your favourite """west""" have them to let people know what did the government do.
@@nmslesecnmbese917 My country? u talking about the US? lol many declassify information here is what the US want us to know... Heard of Snowden? yea he epoxed many of US wrong doing and is wanted for it... Heard of Julian Assange? also expose us war crimes... If they did the same with china... they would be praised and be awarded with a nobel peace prize but instead they expose the western human right violation... these are the classify document the US dont want the public to know...
哈哈哈哈哈 作为一名大陆新疆少数民族 人看到有人说新疆已经沦陷了 就觉得戳中笑点....啥时候沦陷的 怎么没有通知我 哈哈哈哈 。 其实我们在新疆生活的很好，上班浑水摸鱼，下班就开steam，睡前逛逛油管，跟你们的生活没有什么太大的不同。来自大陆新疆克拉玛依市的问候
我也震惊了，新疆沦陷是什么意思？我一脸懵逼，笑死了😂😂😂
最后一句话味儿对了😂
新疆包自由的，不知道他们看的都是些啥掉媒体
新疆棉花呀，他們有一些被洗腦了🤣
台媒好魔幻，他们把很多台湾人洗脑洗到失智了，然后还在可怜我们这边的人，也是挺厉害的。
19:26 This gentleman's brief remark would be that priceless historical record that children from 100 years later would watch.
Embodiment of a wise old man. Taiwan politicians should take notes
反正真打起来第一个跑的肯定是蔡英文，会死的都是跑不掉的台湾老百姓。
说到阿富汗伊拉克，别忘了发动战争的就是美国，台湾人真的指望发动战争屠杀中东人的美国人会救台湾？
@@furryboar29 別忘了現在一天要打台灣的是你們中國！
中國人不打中國人 所以我們是台灣人 這樣懂嗎 你們的邏輯就是TM台獨 這樣懂嗎？
"Chap. 5: The Second Chinese Civil War"
@@寂滅-q1c 和平统一不要，只能武力统一啊！没得选啊！你们的蔡总统就是台独啊! 我们能怎么办？连执政者都是台独了，中国大陆老百姓恨不得共产党马上梧桐台湾！岛上有几个人承认是中国人？从李登辉开始民进党已经把年轻人洗成台独了，台湾年轻人有几个承认自己中国人？现在你们跟我说中国人不打中国人？？?台湾岛上一群自私自利造谣对岸的人 辱骂中国人！让利了你们这么多年, 良心已经给狗吃了！
“I’d say Taiwan and Mainland China are both a part of the Republic of China.” what a guy
social credit score going up!
The same way north and south Korea are both Korea? Haha his weak ass argument is flawed. I guess Sudan and south Sudan are the same too? Oh and the entire Indian ocean belongs to India because you the name hahaha
@@jhonviel7381 going down no? because the republic of china is taiwans official name, so he said mainland china and taiwan, is apart of china under the control of taiwan, no?
@@jhonviel7381 it's going down since he essentially is claiming that both china and taiwan belongs to taiwan
@@hitler69 Social credit going up. The CCP tries to impose the "92 consensus" in Taiwan, which means people in Taiwan have to pretend they believe it all belongs to the Republic of China, which makes the CCP happy because this way they are saying "We are part of your country, and we are a national threat, please invade us".
I'm from Taitung (a city that's more in the countryside of things) and have lived in Taipei for most of my life while all of my family lives in Taitung, so it's safe for me to say that people have VERY different opinions outside of Taipei when it comes to the Chinese government and our freedom. Asian Boss did a good job with all of the questions but I believe it would be best if they can interview those who are not in Taipei, if they make another video about this topic in the future that is ( which would be a delight!)
Do the people outside of Taipei tend to lean more towards China or against it?
Why are you spelling the city's name in Pinyin? The city's official romanization is Taitung.
@@windywendi Ah I didn't realize I spell it wrong! I'm still not used to spelling Chinese in English so most of the time I just wing it lmao- Thank you for correcting me!
@@cbeary2000 Well, people from the south and West are usually in the Green party while people from the North and East are in the Blue party ( Green= own country) ( Blue= combine to China)
However, in the past few years the Green party has been getting more and more votes so, in the end, it all depends on your own belives
That being said, the people outside of Taipei are usually not thrilled about the Chinese government if you will, Taipei is a very diverse city along with Kaohsiung ( also a very developed city that's located on the south side of Taiwan, but they have their own politics problem to solve) these cities tend to have many Chinese people or people who have relatives that are Chinese, the tours industry is also very active in these areas, so they usually support the blue party ( and corrupted governors but that's another can of worms) while people who are outside of these areas have more relations to the law and culture of Taiwan more then anything, so they usually support the green party ( this is my personal take on the situation, please to correct me if I'm wrong I'm not an expert hehe)
Most of the older generation doesn't really have a strong opinion of the Chinese government since, well, in the end, Taiwan is their home and they are satisfied as long as they continue to live in the country they love ( an old man told me that once and it always gives me so much hope just by thinking about it) Many younger generations like me takes pride for our country and our freedom, so we tend to have a stronger opinion on the Chinese government. ( unfortunately many people like me have experienced strong discrimination from Chinese people while some Taiwanese people also discriminate against Chinese people quite strongly, this is an issue that both sides should acknowledge and take action to it) ( these are usually the younger generations)
( there is a lot of stereotypes that both sides have for one another due to our differences, for example, I have met some Chinese people who think Taiwan is a very undeveloped place and have no manners whatsoever -to be fair a lot of Taiwanese people like me tend to have a dirty mouth, this is due to our culture and the nature of our own dialect language- while I have met some Taiwanese who thinks Chinese people are narcissists who only cares about themselves, we also make fun of each other accent a lot as well, but yea things are not exactly as positive as it should) ( disclaimer, I have no ill will towards Chinese people at all, I do understand where these people are coming from but I don't believe any of this a single bit) ( this is racism and it's horrendous)
Again, this all depends on how you are taught and your thinking, the stuff I said here are all either statically correct or my own experience, obviously I am biased when it comes to experience and politics, please don't try to fight me against my own belives, thank you :DD
But yea! Hopefully that answers some of the questions you may have mate!
Rural vs City is an excellent point. It provides a whole perspective. Population however, is not as representative. But althoe wealth may be created in a city many with wealth and leisure wish to move to the countryside for "peace and beauty". And those who live and work in the rural areas, in poverty, also have a say. It appears it would provide some sort of balanced, I agree.
身为一个在新疆长大的人，第一次在UA-cam上从一个湾湾boy口中听到我的家沦陷了，WTF。。。。。？
他们甚至不愿意亲自去新疆看看
他们一厢情愿相信媒体报道罢了
沒去過新疆的人台灣人我來說明一下 淪陷這說詞確實過於誇張 但有些歷史事實你們政府確實會隱藏得好好的不讓人民知道 有興趣能去維基百科查閱‘’新疆再教育營‘’ 你會看到你平常看不到的東西 如果你不信任西方主流媒體或網站 你可以去大陸國內的深網或暗網查閱相關資料 到時候你就能明白為什麼這麼多危言聳聽的說法 真實情況可能是6分真實 10分外界謠傳危言聳聽 但你們政府能把事件包裝成0分沒發生過
@@scarxel9890 xinjiang was under brutal government installed by US. I say you should read proper history
@@scarxel9890你被洗脑太厉害😅
Thank you Asian boss! With this interview people from all over the world can get a close inside of what the Taiwanese people feel and think. Although people in the comments fight about who’s right or wrong I value having this information to debate about in the first place. It’s companies like you who push the world forward towards understanding and unity.
Russia's missile attack on Kiev made it clear that Russia would send troops to attack. The whole world said that Russia would not send troops to attack, but only the powerful United States said that Russia would send troops. The Minsk Agreement in Ukraine was signed by Germany and France and Russia, and neither Germany nor France wanted to send troops beforehand. It is not stupid enough to wipe the butt of Germany and France, but only lend a helping hand in the surrounding countries at the right time, and the latter depends on the determination of Germany and France.
Before the Sino-British Hong Kong Agreement and today's Russia Minsk Agreement, who in today's world would believe in these two evil country agreements, each country must develop its own armament and weapons, including small but intimidating projectiles.
As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"...
But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world."
Now ,what I can say is... "Ok"
"We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"...
Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅
Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊
@@diabloprimordial5735 These who were interviewed just a small part of Taipei citizens. They should interview other places of Taiwan people.
@@2b_or_not_2b_4gotten info? Hard to trust u mate
@@2b_or_not_2b_4gotten hmmm ok….
As overseas Chinese who worked with Taiwanese in Mainland China before, I'd like to say the majority people I met are intelligent and hardworking. They are satisfied with the current situation and don't want to go further into war. Let's keep it calm and peaceful.
You are right, Taiwanese people never considered war an option, the CCP does. What I think you are trying to imply by 'don't want to go further into war' is 'they don't want to pursue independence'. Well, thing is, it is a thorny issue, as anybody can obviously see it is hard for somebody to make a free choice with a gun pointed at their heads. Interestingly enough, a Taiwanese survey from some years ago found that the answer to whether Taiwanese people would want independence was dramatically positive when, to the question, was added the clarification 'if independence would not lead to a war with China'. Obviously, nobody wants to be bombed, if they can help it. It is also sad that the current status quo, hypocritical as it may be, is no longer accepted by the CCP, which will probably launch an invasion in the next few years, according to many observers.
@@eylam9690 蔡英文这么跳，不许大陆吓唬一下她？ “据许多观察家称，中共可能会在未来几年内发动入侵”，离谱，大陆想武统早就和俄罗斯一起了，最好的就是保持现状，做生意，不要跳，不要挑战底线，受伤只有台湾人民。
Thank you for providing a glimpse into the feeling of everyday people who are actually affected by these issues for those of us who are far removed from the region.
Taiwan belongs to China 🇨🇳 since the ancient time! The separatist DPP is brainwashing Taiwanese people and make them believe they are not Chinese 😠！
@@LouisTsuiful PRESIDENT XI LOOKS LIKE POOH BEAR!!! TAIWAN IS FREE & INDEPENDENT!
^ you can easily tell Vivian is playing devil advocate to generate hate to divide the readers.
She's pro Taiwan.
Those are the same vile creatures who spread misinformation on vaccine and mask.
They really grind my gears.
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Borrowing a saying by Deng Xiaoping, "Be it a white cat or a black cat, a cat that catches mice is a good cat." Yes, be it democracy or communism or socialism, the political system that brings peace and stability to a country is a good system. A system that brings prosperity and a contented life to the people is a good system. USA is so boastful of its democracy, but look at the life of the Americans, I doubt how many Americans are satisfied with their lives. The country is so much troubled by Covid, random gun shootings, shop robberies, poverty, homelessness, crimes, racism, inequality, extremism and terrorism. Democracy in USA has been misused by crooks, abuse by politicians.
--Eugene C
That was why President Xi said to his government in late 2017/early 2018 that "the world is set to undergo a sea change which has not been seen in a hundred years, & China has to be prepared to deal with it." It reflects his confidence & insight into the inevitable rise of China together with Asian countries, in the face of western developed countries weakening due to their mishandling of their internal social & economic problems, & the consequential conflicts that China has to face & resolve with the West. The legacy of the past colonization of the world by the West will be a hidden driving force for US to convince some cohort countries to do whatever it takes, be it hypocritical, deceitful, dirty, &/or unscrupulous to oppress & bully China. China knew it was coming, but is soberly prepared to respond to each & every aggression with matching effect & intensity under its control of pace & initiative of/on moves. However, China's ultimate intent is to make the aggressor understand that confrontations & oppressions do not benefit anybody, but harmonious co-existence, mutual respects, & constructive co-operations for win-win results will not just benefit both sides, but also the whole world.
-Donat Wu
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YERLERİN VE GÖKLERİN VE HERŞEYİN SAHİBİ YÜCE ALLAH CC
ALLAHTAN BAŞKA İLAH YOKTUR ALLAH KATINDA HAK DİN İSLAMDIR
MUHAMMED RESULULLAH ALLAHIN KULU VE RESULUDUR
It is very obvious that older people read history but some young people only read social media:)
+1
@@qiswei3140teenager that do believe-in-every-dumb-thing-he- reads-on-social-media detected
If you're going to claim this was a random street interview, but then ask to seek out a deep blue youtuber (and not disclose it), you're being incredibly dishonest and it's unethical journalism.
It's already come to light that according to a dcard post and a Taiwanese independent producer, Asian Boss were asking to specifically find someone with these minority/decades-old views to skew the video. Sean, the deep-blue youtuber, himself admitted in a FB post he was sought out by Asian Boss... that's not very "unbiased" of you guys.
Thank you for the input. That said, if deep blue is minority, it's good to find them and let others know about their views. Asian Boss probably shouldn't avoid/ignore these people simply because they're deep blue or hold ancient views. That guy also weren't wrong about most Taiwanese are Han Chinese migrants and their descendents (since a few hundred years ago), and historically many aboriginal Taiwanese were killed by newly arrived Han Chinese.
I would say a more problematic issue in the video is that they don't do some of the interviews in the central or eastern part of Taiwan, where there are more Native Taiwanese. They should really get some views from what Native Taiwanese think about the issues.
I feel this interview is somewhat biased, but it could still reflect the issue that lies on Taiwan-China relations. The thing is that the comments below this video are biased
Gregory A.T. 'Sean, the deep-blue youtuber, himself admitted in a FB post he was sought out by Asian Boss... that's not very "unbiased" of you guys'
??? If you read his FB post and comments properly, he admitted that they met by CHANCE!
Also, EVEN IF, even IF, he was sough out, how is that not "unbias"? Getting a more balanced view is not "unbiased"? This topic is an extremely sensitive topic in Taiwan. People that support Mainland China and Taiwan being part of the same country, WILL NOT openly voice their opinion out in public as theyre afraid of being demonised and potentially having their family split because of their views.
It is only bias when you see views that are opposite to yours... that is why there can never be balance, people want their own demented echo chambers, not knowing that they also try to stifle another point of view because you think you are in the right...
Learn a thing or two about dialectics, it is not about choosing a side, but to synthesis opposing points and finding solutions, there will always be a constant flux - people wouldn't get worker rights without socialist ideology that promotes 'fairer' wages and work schedules in contrast to full on maximising on capital.
@@zeiitgeist Most of these people who can't accept that there are people who support or neutral about China are not even Asian. They claim to hate only the CCP but wants to destroy the economies of the countries in these region where people will suffer so they can "free" people, it's a very very twisted ideology.
Asian Boss I reckon you guys can do an episode on this topic but instead interview overseas ethnic chinese in South East Asia like say....malaysia, singapore, thailand and indonesia or even vietnam. What do ya reckon?:)
Yes pls!!
Start with Vietnam or Philippines since they're one of the closest in terms of geography
Of course they will just base on media...
@@ck-bs2ms Depends, but the ones that care about international politics are far and few in between, and usually those that are, aren't as deeply invested, so many take things at face value, so really choose your sources if you want well informed locals.
这个视频反映的观点的平衡性，超过了几乎所有中文媒体的水平……
你是留學生嗎？在國外？
Super idol the show
I LOVE TAIWAN AND SUPPORT TAIWAN.
FROM INDIA ❤️
@@ryana5435 我在国外 不过毕业了 不过他说的没错很多中文媒体无法做到这种报道因为无法中立
@@ytg6663 yo hows kashmir going? Getting whipped by Pakistan?
14:46 Seriously bruh? As a half Chinese I strongly disapprove on what he just said. I have lived in China my whole life and I can tell you that it’s NOT a labor camp, and you will NOT be killed when you enter China. Seriously, I have a friend who’s from Taiwan, living a great life here. I have travelled to many countries, which proves that we are able to come and go freely. Please, use statistics and unbiased facts instead of the internet… Those twist your understanding of the world.
(I’m sorry if this comment seems too strong or offensive. This is just what I think based on my experience. Also, apologies for the horrible grammar)
It's refreshing for me to listen to different opinions that the Taiwanese people have on the matter of it's international status, relations with the mainland, and etc. Here in the US, news reports on Taiwan are very few and are typically biased towards the American people; very rarely talks about what Taiwanese people ACTUALLY think. Thank you Asian Boss for this video!
Taiwan is an independent country. It is not part of china. It has never been ruled by the CCP.
@@divergentintegral3475 Its name is the Republic of China and its constitution still says " Taiwan is part of China", just as the Taiwanese man said. It's the fact. Sure, it has never been ruled by the CCP, but you can't deny the fact it's part of China.
@@divergentintegral3475 Saying "Taiwan is not part of China" is an extremely reductive and historically inaccurate take, since both governments (PRC and ROC) claim to be the "real China". Taiwan is definitely "part of China", it's just part of the "ROC" rather than the "PRC". Until the ROC constitution changes, that will continue to hold true. This is a very important distinction.
@@ketracel Thats why, unification is important, mainland china belongs to taiwan.
@@kakilham23 lol, PRC is supported by 1.4 billion chinese, meanwhile ROC is supported by only 25 million chinese. Who is the real China? Theres no doubt prc is the real one lol
Thank you Asian Boss..l watched both this video and what the Chinese mainland people think about Taiwan. Most people want peace not war. Opinions are shaped by what media you watch or listen to as well as how history was taught in school and how much you educate yourself. Appreciate very much these videos you do. Main stream media never covers what the people think or feel and they are no longer objective nowadays. All have their own narrative
At least 85% Taiwanese really dislik dictorship China Communist Party (CCP) without human rights .
Not sure about anything. I even see spanish comment who said it's usa propaganda and they want to be fully integrated, but they don't offer polls or anything
@@MikeScott-zl9ve are you realy? please don't balderdash.
@@KaliSwift NOT BALDERDASH
@@MikeScott-zl9ve I apologize to you.I don't know if the real data is what you say. But to achieve the complete reunification of China is the trend of The Times, the great justice, and the aspiration of the people
As an American, I'm so glad I found this channel! I truly appreciate this content and hearing from the people themselves and their opinions. Thank you.
you should leave that country, everyone hates it
@@magbus401 That's kind of unnecessarily mean. Most Americans are just regular, well mannered, curious, and hard working people just like every one else. We're just trying to make it to the next day.
@@sleepyfriendstm I don't have a grudge against Americans tho. I'm talking about their government.
@@magbus401 but telling people they should leave their homes because you don't like their government is pretty rude. I'm pretty sure op isn't our entire system of checks and balances. They're just a person trying to educate themselves.
@@sleepyfriendstm alright alright. No point arguing here
That leather jacket guy's answer proofed a thing : better you educated , you know better that TW never can independent.
Taiwan is already independent
No one recognize, not UN, not even USA @@Sp3ll633
I'm Mainland Chinese and while working in Europe, one guy from Taiwan called me and wanted to make a deal with my company. He introduced himself as "he speaks the same language". Lmao. I could totally understood that he didn't want to say he was Chinese and he didn't want to offend me by saying he was Taiwanese. But actually I didn't care about it at all, and I really hope we won't be manupilated by politics. Salute to bubble tea.
I can totally relate. As an immigrant trying to make a living in another country, the last thing you want to worry about is politics getting in the way of a work relationship. I basically avoid using Mandarin altogether and only use English and instead of saying Taiwanese, I say I am from Taiwan. While in your case you don't care, but there are folks who do care and it's meaningless to challenge that feeling. Another thing is that it's not just Mainlanders I don't want to offend, I also don't want to offend Taiwanese who either strongly identify as Chinese or Taiwanese.
The kind of person who kept mentioning me he or she is from Taiwan is very self hating
I came to study in taiwan when you wrote this comment. I felt this so much. I didnt know if i should say chinese or taiwanese or china or taiwan. Han chinese? Things were so confusing because people had such different opinions. I got over that now, but its scary to walk on egg shells when you dont know.
At least 85% Taiwanese really dislik dictorship China Communist Party (CCP) without human rights .
@@MikeScott-zl9ve 喜不喜欢那就是媒体的宣传，中共很好懂吗
As a Taiwanese person, I would say that there is a HUGE oversight on Asian Boss's part, that these interviews were all done in the city of Taipei. Using the terms of one gentleman being interviewed, Taipei is considered more blue than green, so even if the sample were completely random and thus representative, the portrayal would still be skewed towards the view of people living in Taipei. A much more statistically significant sampling can be found online at the Election Study Center at National Cheng-chi University (NCCU). Once you get outside of Taipei, views change significantly.
Nobody knows what blue and green stand for
Agreed, it shouldn't have been dying Taipei. Add from other cities as well
@@iamsearchingforthefiletmignon Did you even watch the video? It is literally mentioned at 2:33.
Agreed! Great point!
Very thanks for the clarification. I wish to visit Taiwan.
So glad to see Asian Boss is still around. Your stories are so educational and forward-thinking to what's currently being served in the US. Thank you for putting up these great stories!
yeah. totally agree with you
US policy is easy. Support Taiwan because they're against China, but if Taiwan is pro-China, then bombs will be thrown on the Taiwan island. Remember that war would be fought on the Taiwan island, and Biden will say, "it's a shame Taiwan just disappeared" after throwing an H-bomb, but he'll be telling jokes at cocktail party in the White House.
@@asianamericancasestudies6434 are you taiwanese, the taiwanese youth I met doesn't see themselves as chinese anymore. And I also bet that they are indulge in Japanese, Korean or western culture more than Chinese one jn term of forign culture
@@asianamericancasestudies6434 The CCP will than purge everybody in Taiwan for colaborating eith the USA
As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"...
But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world."
Now ,what I can say is... "Ok"
"We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"...
Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅
Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊
我是大陆的，从小被教育台湾是个好地方，台湾人非常善良，直到我上了油管。我觉得我被我党骗了几十年
一样你哪里人😅
台湾很多老一辈和上几代的人都还好，挺善良，至少都叫台湾为中国。但是主要是现在的台湾年轻人这一代智障很多很多，最严重的莫过于地域歧视，不知道是不是他们教育出了什么问题。
我也。。。。
哈哈，可是照这里的人的说法，他们觉得大陆在水深火热，然后他们要救我门于水火，这还不善良吗😂😂😂😂😂。只是有人不知道大陆的 人 党 国 政府 是高度一致的，整体而言大陆人民是相信政府是为人民着想的。
😂😂😂大陆人在澳洲同感
这绝对是非常有意义的采访，尤其是对从未站在台湾立场去考虑问题的大陆人来说。在众多的受访者中我和黄色夹克男子思维完全一致，他讲出了这个世界的运行规则：大多数人思考来源于社会上的信息面，而这一切都是由大数据操控的，所有的政治、战争、种族问题，归根结底都是获取利益的借口罢了。
对，所以ccp总爱拿同文同种的借口吞并台湾
我也是，黄衣想的和我完全一致
我也認為黃色衣服的男子講的很正確！
我的想法也和他一样 接收到的不同会影响对事物的认知和看法
It's a very complicated issue to be honest. You can have different answers in multiple perspectives, such as law, culture, military, Sino-US relationship, race, economics, politics..... the simple classification of either blue or green does not make it a whole picture.
YERLERİN VE GÖKLERİN VE HERŞEYİN SAHİBİ YÜCE ALLAH CC
ALLAHTAN BAŞKA İLAH YOKTUR ALLAH KATINDA HAK DİN İSLAMDIR
MUHAMMED RESULULLAH
Free Tibet, Free Hong Kong, Free Uigher
Defend Taiwan, Taiwan is alrdy a independent country
But most outsiders don’t even know the Blue vs Green factions. I assume Blue is the Kuomintang which was the ruling party during military dictatorship… that should be mentioned too.
classification of either blue or green does not make it a whole picture
agree and agree
@@indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Endia Virus No. 1
Glad you guys start doing some Taiwan content again, hope to see more
I know right? the last time was abt 3 years ago
they are scared of losing their chinese audiences.
@@12823matthewkao chinese audiences need vpns to see youtube, but there is still a lot of them, I am one of them. But also, I hear youtube algorithm filters those audiences using vpns.
this type of interview cannot be conducted in China xD people would be afraid to answer
After seeing some more background information about this interview, must say that I'm really disappointed in Asian boss.
For those interested, they purposely found a few people that are pro-China and place them as "random people".
新疆有什么问题？我一个新疆人都不知道我怎么沦陷了，道听途说不如自己来看看
你被西方媒体沦陷了哈哈哈哈，看到你这评论我真蚌埠住，只能说各地不同的信息差确实太可怕啦，很容易导致各地的人对同一件事产生不同的认知
确实，新疆沦陷太离谱了
哈哈哈沦陷这个词感觉还在打国共内战😂
This is why I love Asian Boss. We learn so much about other cultures, even key elements that mainstream media never bothers to show.
This is such an important video to have been uploaded - great insight into Taiwan showing the people's voices which are so often ignored
Yep, because of the Chinese civil wars.
Knowing the following will help you understand the relationship between Taiwan and China:
1. China and Taiwan are actually in a state of Civil War (no armistice agreement has been signed). For a long time, China regarded Taiwan's "Republic of China" as the former dynasty, while Taiwan's "Republic of China" regarded China's Communist army as an anti-government armed force.
2. Both sides regard each other as part of their sovereignty at the constitutional level.
3. In international diplomacy, both sides implement the single diplomatic principle, that is, the international community can only choose to establish diplomatic relations with China or the "Republic of China" of Taiwan, not with both sides at the same time.
4. Most countries in the world (including the US, Japan, Canada and Australia) actually have formal diplomatic relations with China, while there are only non-governmental exchanges with Taiwan.
I think thats outdated to be honest, Taiwan doesnt feel its at civil war, or 90% of the people dont feel that way. They just want to be left alone. What you are talking about 'both sides' is the ROC Constitution, but nobody really believes in the constitution. The ROC constitution is that of a dead country, the ROC. Many if not most want to change the constitution, but cant because would instigate a war.
The things you listed are really from the PRC side, from the Taiwan side, its only a reality because Taipei is under duress not to change it
@@matt3706 Got to give the person credit for trying to be balanced though, it gives good context of some of the issues that need to be resolved to formally fix the issues. I only hope those issues can be resolved rationally, and Taiwan and China can form their own respective destinies free of intimidation, so they can at least be business partners with their own separate international recognition.
@@matt3706 yeah cry about it. Constitution can never be changed. NO ONE DARE to change them no matter which party KNT OR DPP. And also there are tons of both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese that are pro ROC and want them to take back the mainland bc many may inland Chinese are being oppressed by CCP. Outdated? Lmao don’t call us that.
@@matt3706 90%? Where did that statistics come from? Source? Proof? Do you know every single one of them? Yikes. Dude don’t make up stuff to prove your point. A dead country? ROC is the first democratic country in Asia founded in 1912. Nobody believes the constitution? Where’s that proof? Shut up geez.
@@matt3706 issues here Is CCP. Main”and Chinese also deserve freedom and democracy. Sun Yat-Sen is the founding father for both sides that will NEVER change either. 2020 National day on October 10th Taiwanese President Tsai clearly said “happy Birthday Republic of China.” She’ll never say HBD Taiwan. Like never.
I appreciated this set of interviews and a couple of others I've watched. As an American who has lived and worked in Europe and the Far East for over 25 years, I cannot imagine you going to any US city and getting this level of thoughtful discourse on this topic--or perhaps on any topic related to the rest of the world. If you have done so, please let me know.
Thanks for sharing those voices. I'm from mainland China and have been to Taiwan. It's a stupid tragedy started by the Chinese Civil War, from what I can't expect there would be a happy ending. I know people are different, but I know as well that whether you pursue reunification or independence, the initial motivation is a better future. It's just that we believe in differrent things, or were taught differently.
Actually, We were taught differently by our own social media(serve for the government's statement.
@@hang0822 其实也是一样的，对有些人来说，别人更惨就是自己更好。不患寡而患不均。
@@hang0822 您好！我覺得你的想法有些偏激了，根本沒什麼人這樣想，在台灣得人們大多都希望兩岸各過各的和平相處就行了，如果能友善合作造福雙方當然好;
而且一般民眾不討厭中國人，而是對共產黨反感，一如我目前在英國唸書也認識了很多來自中國的朋友，大家也都一起過的很開心，時常一起出去玩，也一起過年，部分剛來的新朋友不知道如何打疫苗，辦理證件我也常當翻譯或地陪帶他們去，好好相處不是很好嗎？為何要有那麼多惡意的想法？
I agree with you. I'm from Taiwan. ROC is a country according to its own constitution. Even the constitution of ROC declares unification of China and doesn't recognize 'Taiwan' as a country. It's the DPP that brainwashes people and want them and the West to think Taiwan as the Republic of Taiwan, not Republic of China. ROC and PRC don't belong to each other. But the truth is -- just like South Korea (Republic of Korea) & North Korea (People's Republic of Korea), both recognized in the UN, are parts of Korea that is divided, Taiwan (not to mention that it's not even recognized as a sovereign state in the UN) & Mainland are also parts of China that is divided.
@@j118312jack 中国现在有快一亿党员，剩下的大部分也是拥护党的。
可以告诉我为什么你们不喜欢它吗
As a Taiwanese, this video very well captured the spectrum, political preferences, and generation gap of the Taiwanese culture - also reflect how democracy and free-to-speak culture on the island. I also like the same video you did in Shanghai which let the audience in a certain level understand how Chinese citizen reacts to the topic and weave the stereotype that censorship is forcing the Chinese to fear speech.
台湾人不会说汉语吗，蒋校长带给你的是英语吗？
LOL
That's what I observe.
我写法语的评论，我用app自动翻译，让你们懂我的评论：
民主不是“投票”。 如果投票给它的总统意味着进入民主国家，那么没有选举权的外国人在法国处于独裁统治之下，这种矛盾同时是是与否，这是没有意义的。 你知道中国人在中国感受到民主吗？ 如果你问中国人，他们会回答你“我们在中国是民主的，因为政府听我们的”，但在法国会是“我们在民主，因为我们有投票权”。 在我看来，观察事物，中国的民主愿景（经常倾听人民的诉求）比法国的民主愿景（1票，你沉默5年）更接近民主制度。 也许这就是为什么在中国他们不需要投票权并且不要求投票权的原因，因为人们被倾听了 5 年、10 年，所有时间。 中国的民主愿景很有趣。 越往前走，我越有一种印象，就是中国接触到了真正的民主。 另一方面，在法国，我们对真正完美的独裁统治的接触如此之多，以至于人们没有注意到它，以至于人们甚至没有意识到这一点。 和中国人谈论这个话题很有趣，如果有人有机会见到他们，即使他们经常害羞，你也应该借此机会开始谈论这个话题。
@fanfan fan 可惜法国人像我这样很少，99%法国人被法国反华媒体洗脑，其实全西方国家都这样。看到法国这么讨厌中国，反华宣传，我自己对中国人很不好意思。希望有多中国人来评论跟西方人说话正真的中国，这样不让我们再被我们的西方媒体洗脑。也不知道西方媒体会不会有一天停做假新闻。反正如果没有停，那就再不能相信西方媒体。台湾媒体我看到了，也跟着我们西方媒体反华宣传，台湾人也是被洗脑的，像我们西方人一样被反华洗脑的，难怪台湾人讨厌中国。办法只有说话，天天说话，中国人多来评论说正真的中国是怎么样子，只这样的方法我们大家会知道正真的中国
（从法语自动app翻译）
As an American with Taiwanese parents, I feel like this interview was very insightful with the locals opinion in Taipei. Like I stated, these interviews are generally in Taipei or the cities around it. Taipei shouldn't be used to represent the entire opinions for Taiwan. It's like asking people in California about a specific topic which represent the entire US population's opinion. Californians will say one thing, but people in Nebraska would have an entirely different opinion. For a more accurate interview of the streets in Taiwan, interviewing farmland areas such as Hualien and southern cities such as Kaohsiung would have given a better perspective.
Edit: grammar and added/corrected sentences
In my opinion, I just want relations to improve (tho at this rate, it's extremely unlikely unless a miracle agreement is made). I'm really hoping both sides can come to a mutual agreement and do not have to resort to war. I have both friends from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. None of them wish for a war between the two of us.
If you think your parents are Taiwanese, how about your ancestors from Mainland China ? What’s your logic?
You are too young! Republic of China is China
@@raymondcyq hello wu mao
Why would you want that evil country to have a better relationship with Taiwan? If I were Taiwan the best thing for me would be to cut off china completely. It’s a dictatorship. It’s not just a different opinion or maybe a political difference. This is living under the nazis vs living in modern day Germany here. China is the nazis. They’re the closest thing there is to modern day nazis. Tell me. Can you think of a single thing closer to nazis other than Israeli occupiers? China is the worst one by a long shot. Muslims in concentration camps, banning Winnie the Pooh, I could go on. China is a pathetic plqce
"The views in this video don't align with my beliefs, so we should interview people that will prove me right."
So much copium in this comments section.
作为大陆的00后，看完感觉这个采访真的深有感触。以下的观点只是我个人的很浅薄的想法。采访很真实的反映了台湾人民的思想，虽然政治话题很敏感，但是民众也都表达出了自己最真实的想法，我也更了解到了两岸目前陷入的困境。我个人感觉台湾的文化是有民族独立性的，人民主张保护自己的独立性和特殊性是很有必要的，同时大陆人也都非常能理解台湾人年轻人的想法。但是在中国看来，统一台湾并不是以侵略和占为己有为目的而统一，是为了让曾经丢失的土地和人民重新回来而统一，并且台湾岛是很重要的战略要地，如果一致对外的话，攘外必先安内，所以政府才要采取各种管控和武力措施，近些年来加强巡逻和防卫。并且我认为统一台湾后的台湾经济会比现在好很多，政府会继续加强建设，台湾本土文化也会很好的保留（参考中国政府对中国本土民族文化近些年的保护措施等等），况且中国55个少数民族，现在不是综艺啊广告啊都在宣传文化保护嘛。担心统一弊端是本土自由度会受到冲击的，例如不可同性结婚，外网不可登陆之类的，其实国内人大家也都恋爱性别自由，该用vpn翻墙还是翻，只不过社会制度不允许，这点确实很可恶。但我坦诚的说，现在的中国人民越来越追求民主自由，像00整顿职场等等，人的思想也并不是说封建啊什么的，大家都在追求自己想要的。除了一些小地方思想还没完完全全改善，但现在村子里的大妈也都很开放了，大街上穿的奇装异服也随处可见，真的不会不自由😂任何人不自由我都会伤心的🥲不过这都是后话了，个人还是希望在不伤害人民群众的情况下达成两岸统一。（多说一句，某些西方国家为台湾发声支持独立并不是他们单纯想为台湾打抱不平，大家可以思考一下为什么）
开放vpn，会有一堆政治势力，接触普通人，打乱中国社会制度，64.香港暴乱，都有外国的影子。民主容易让西方掌控。不利于民族团结，所谓的民主是假的，打压中国是真的，台湾棋，第一岛链，贸易战，都是民主借口。参考日本80年代，超过美国，美国就动手。没有真正的民主。台湾政党也很乱，3党，3立场，岛内就乱了。跟别说团结一致了，修改教科书，不承认自己宪法，这什么民主，各自利益罢了。
西方媒体确实不单纯，同样中共也是。中共总爱拿同文同种同祖先的借口太吞并台湾，但其实是为了消除威胁。中共这个政体决定了它无法接受（台湾的）反对党的存在，无法接受言论自由存在
客观的
I love that it's not a full consensus. Everyone have their own takes on it and we get answers from the different generations in Taiwan and the difference on their thoughts on it which is a good sign of a healthy democracy. It's also interesting that I have both a CN friend and a friend from TW and they don't hate each other. They talk about the things they like and get hyped over the most weird of things together. Most of the people don't want war. They just want to keep the status quo. What the Media tends to not show you that behind all the political tensions and borders, real people like me and you exist. Great Job Asian Boss! Keep up the good work
Asian Boss had to go out of their way to find the leather jacket pro-unification guy to make it appear as though opinions arent universal.
Totally shady by Asian Boss. Fake journalism.
@@Kevin-xz4jq because it’s very hard to find a pro Unification person in Taiwan. If you lived here you would know that.
@@oshk6982 i have lived in taiwan. I know that.
If you need to search high and low to find a specific opinion...then you are creating the illusion that there is not consensus. That is propaganda.
@@Kevin-xz4jq china should leave taiwan alone. You two have similar cultural traits but very different social values
@@Kevin-xz4jq so the leather jacket is not a voice worth to be heard? Is this another kind of propaganda?
We need these people back for a 2nd go around after the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This is gold!
Forget Ukraine. They don’t care about Asian lives.
Ukraine is ruled by the Zionist.
Ya lesson to teach don't poke the dragon eye or you shed blood.
@@serenachen9385 Who does the dragon refer to lol
As foreigner living in Taiwan for over 5 years, i can confirm that most people (for my case is over 90%) don't want to reunite with mainland. But not necessarily means they want war. They just want to keep living just like now without intervention from mainland.
I only know one grandma who likes mainland enough for reunion. Most young people don't.
Because of the education and propagada of "de -Chinese" accelerates this situation,thus,you will see the fault line between young and older generations , as i know, elderly people accepted "Chinese" education and consciousness, .Even if many of them may be anti -Chinese, they may not be anti -"one China" ,or don't care just want anything work , now young generation accept "Western" education,cousciousness,propaganda,and government delete or alter about many history content of China&Taiwan in history textbook , also, include time isolation and relationship isolation factors with mainland, therefore, there is a deviation in consciousness.Basically,both troops come with the same purpose of liberating China from feudalism and imperialism with different ways, that i think this is still a civil war between the two troops. It is just because Taiwan can no longer win Mainland, so they will just publicize a new government, a new country and new culture to let future generations forget what the previous thing is, like a "education" weapon i think.
@@lesleyjave8036 i don't think education teach them to be anti Chinese. But i think one of the reason is China repeatedly threatens Taiwan that they will come to invade anytime soon, send military aircraft to Taiwan region countless times which I see it as unnecessary. As a foreigner myself, I'm uncomfortable with the fact that they come to threaten the area where I'm currently living in. And also they banned Taiwan from WHO and any other organizations out there.
Before coming to Taiwan i don't even know that Taiwan exists and what's their relation with China. But after seeing what is happening here I finally understand. My friend from Hong Kong also wants to move to Taiwan because the hong Kong now is not the homeland she used to know.
I personally hate war and hope China stop to threaten any country with violence. If one day they priorize discussion over abuse of power, who knows? Maybe Taiwan and China can have good partnership to boost their economy.
I really enjoy the freedom here in Taiwan so I personally hope they don't reunite. If so, i may need to immigrate to other country. Let's see what will happen in the future.
其实大家都有自己的立场和想法，不是仅仅对错能说清楚的，大陆想要领土和主权的统一，台湾恐惧大陆的制度怕失去言论自由的民主社会，站在双方的角度上都是可以理解的，我只希望世界和平，人民友好相处❤
the man in a brown leather jacket is very clear-headed and has strong thinking and independent judgment.
Feel the same. Absolutely agree with u. This guy is the only one who has objective knowledge about Taiwan.
I love this series, I’m from Europe and this helps me understand Asia. It’s so helpful
了解亚洲最好的办法是和亚洲人聊天
Asian boss is biased and trash
@@ericturner9436 u too !
Eric Turner sure.
I love this series, too. I'm from China, I want to kown other people how to think of our conutry.
Taipei might limit your understanding of the issue..Go to even smaller cities or villages and get a different picture..But your interview is impressive
What are the views on the country side? Pro unification or pro independence?
@@williamaseng country side is diverse.. Older pals will be pro china.. Younger ones might be pro status quo.. Remember the impact of media might be less. Ot would be interesting to hesr from them
@@denisrichu5697 kinda similar with the ones on the video.
@@williamaseng Pro independence will be majority.
Taipei is the most pro unification part of Taiwan. Due to much Chinese migrant after WW2.
But anyway, I don't think most them are willing to defend their land with their life.
The man in yellow jacket is so attractive
I'm no international law expert, but I think many of the interviewees are describing Taiwan's autonomy rather than independence.
If it walks talks and acts like an independent country…
What's the difference? Taiwan is independent with full autonomy.
@@beng1540 There’s a big difference, autonomy means they have their own government and make decisions for themselves. But Taiwan is not independent from China. Nowhere in their constitution states that Taiwan is a country. In both the map of People’s Republic of China and Republic of China, the map of China includes the mainland and the island Taiwan. But because of biases of the media, a lot of people thinks that Taiwan is a country.
You are absolutely right.
@@user-dxvzkh I don't know why my reply got deleted, but that is not true... Taiwan is a sovereign independent country already, officially as the Republic of China. Taiwan is the colloquial name for the ROC, much like China is the colloquial term for the PRC.
19:14 bahahaha i'm literally choking, this man really made my day 😂😂
might as well singing chinese anthem lol XD
This may be even more relevant now with Ukraine in context. Interesting times.
@@bangonkali wow now that you say it, that could be the supposed future of taiwan when it leaves china
@@yuhyi0122 I pray not though. Peace 🙏
Thank you Asian Boss for giving us this wonderful content. For the first time, I could really see the opinions and thoughts of the common Taiwanese people.
Taiwan belongs to China 🇨🇳 since the ancient time! The separatist DPP is brainwashing Taiwanese people and make them believe they are not Chinese 😠！
@@LouisTsuiful PRESIDENT XI LOOKS LIKE POOH BEAR!!! TAIWAN IS FREE & INDEPENDENT!
@@LouisTsuiful
Pawn of Xi, please try to invade Taiwan, because you will be shot doing so
Great video ❤
无论怎样，都希望不要发生战争
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As a Taiwanese can’t tell how much grateful if people around world know our opinions. Some of us, like me, appreciate the progress of economic and technology that mainland companies have made. Also, There are lots of nice Chinese. Though we don’t know what kinds of society benefit people more, I think every Taiwanese thinks freedom come first in our society. In 2022, I wish all individuals in the world should come together to resolve big issues, like climate changes or net-zero emissions, rather than some old cliché of sovereignty. It’s not important at all if human beings gonna extinct or these lands in Asia might be under water soon or hard to live in 100 years.
@Marre de la propagande française anti-chinoise that’s totally not Taiwan’s problem at all.
Peace is the only option. Sending love form Okinawa
I want my country be sovereign and free for ever!
I'm not Chinese or Taiwanese.
That's the first step for anything else!
i think peace is the most important thing 网上的争吵只会散播仇恨
幼稚，你先让美军解散吧，再说这些痴话。
I really appreciate how this interview carried different opinions and was very impartial. Big congrats for you all. I hope you continue your impartial journalism without caring about if you get approving judgment or not in the comment section. Already many outlets are doing partial journalism, please you don't. Also huge respects to Taiwanese people for being able interrogate the media outlets of their country! From Kurdistan, Middle East...
As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"...
But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world."
Now ,what I can say is... "Ok"
"We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"...
Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅
Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊...
@@diabloprimordial5735 yeah don’t care about their country. Like or not they all are chinese..
Forget politeness, dirty, cov19 …
@@diabloprimordial5735 yea people need to stop defending other countries they've never visited based on news reports . Unless we visit the country a d talk to the people or watch multiple interviews with the people.. we just need to sit back and shut up . I agree
@@analyticalmindset This channel has shared the views of "a few" Taiwanese people. What you see should be taken with a grain of salt, dont believe everything on the internet.
@@Nadeine I hear you . My sample size of data is as small as the number of people that were interviewed, which means I'm inconclusive on whether I feel like I have a correct pulse on the true sentiments of the majority in Taiwan.
You guys are heroes for making these videos. We wouldn’t know how people in Asian countries ACTUALLY think and feel otherwise! I love how real it is, straight up in person. Keep going
Taiwan belongs to China 🇨🇳 since the ancient time! The separatist DPP is brainwashing Taiwanese people and make them believe they are not Chinese 😠！
@@LouisTsuiful PRESIDENT XI LOOKS LIKE POOH BEAR!!! TAIWAN IS FREE & INDEPENDENT!
@@gminer03 lollll
@@LouisTsuiful communist china is the biggest threat to humanity and world peace - their extreme radical gov is like a poisonous toxic weed that must be eradicated from the planet asap.
We are from SEA and would love to see Taiwan unite with her motherland.
很喜欢棕色外套大哥的一句话：大陆和台湾都是中华民国（中国）的一部分。政党可以影响国家的经济发展，但不能影响国民的意志，不然就是洗脑，人民才是国家之本，而非政党。让我欣慰的是台湾人可以自由的表达自己关于“台湾是独立国家还是中国一部分”的看法，毕竟在大陆的媒体平台政治话题只允许存在一种声音，我也希望台湾可以始终保持自由，健康的发展环境。独立的代价是战火滔天，委曲求全的代价是失去自由，这两种都不是正常的民众所希望看到的，维持现状或许是当下最好的解决方式。
台湾是改朝换代留下的尾巴，之前历史上也有这种问题
维持现状肯定不是最好的解决方式 和平统一才是 大陆台湾分开70年 台独就从小众走向主流 再过20年 台岛内民意就没法控了 私以为台湾走向独立一定是歧路 哪怕真如台独所想台湾成一个独立国家 就凭台的位置也一定会成为中美博弈的缓冲过度 而这种强国间用来博弈的位置 经济民生一定都不会太好
武统是下下策 但也比台湾自己走向独立好 就现在这种局面 岛内政治都会乱成这样 一旦走向独立成国 恐怕当中美完全把博弈中心放在台湾上 台湾政局上的乱象一定会在政治上决堤蔓延到经济与民生
The one guy that said "I wouldnt judge based on people's age, but more so how they consume information and media" seems to understand both parts. The old and some of the new age. Thats how I feel living in the US.... a lot of these same issues are in our country. A lot of people who consume different types of media form their own way of thinking based on what they consume. Thats why a lot of ppl think black people are evil.....black fathers are not in their kids lives and white people are harmless......Media can be corrupt, but I think what Asian boss is doing is awesome, their getting it straight from the source....which are the people. Im so glad to be apart of this community. Its opened my eyes on a lot of different things because if I look at the media in the US....It would paint a picture that makes it seems like other Countries are our enemy and just have horrible conditions. Now that Im older.....it seems like our Country is more corrupt than others. We just paint a pretty picture over everything,.
Opinions are like surveys. They can project what you want when you only intervew one sided views. A real survey takes a cross section of the population. This is why you need to check what the people in mainland China think.
You have a very clear mind as you getting aged.
@Anuj Rblx well.. i think this question should be answered by the citizens themselves. it should not be answered by the people from another country. You have to at least live there for a few years to experience.
--The real answer to this is to ask Chinese people: Do they feel happy and cared in their country? Do people feel proud of their governments?
--My answer is yes, I'm very proud of what we've achieved in the past hudnreds, thousands of years that we've made our nation strong again. I love my culture. I understand and support how the system works here. I enjoy the life that those guns and drugs are banned here. And there're a lot to talk about but I won't be deeply talking here.
China has always been a country caring about ourselves and allies. We don't start the economy cold war. We have our principles like the "One country, two systems. Those are our lines. If anyone is trying to go over that line, it's offending us. And we will fight back.
@@cuewarstaner1894 I think the line of "one country two systems" has been crossed but the mainland is not offended because it was the NPCSC that crossed the line on 30. June 2020.
I also like how expressing your view on PROC you said there's is much to talk about but you don't want to get into where one would expect criticism.
Do you not have any criticism?
Do you have criticism but feel expressing it would be inappropriate?
You're sentence just seems like avoiding taking a stance.
To me people from PROC most of the time sound like someone is watching them.
@@christopherstein2024 idk what you talked about with the date you mentioned. you can be more specific.
And as for criticism, I don't feel anything wrong or uncomfortable to criticize anything. We always criticize thigns are not reasonable in my country. and it comes to a result that not everything is perfect for all countries. At least I'm totally okay with most of the laws and rules in my country. I'm proud of them. Like the 天眼 system helps decrease crimes in a huge ratio. But in western people's eyes, they will feel offensed and not free and don't get it.
In Chian we have some sayings.
--One is "要想人不知，除非己不为" meaning "what you've done will finally be figured out by other people unless you don't do it."
--Another one is "不怕亏心事，不怕鬼敲门" "Won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door if you don't do wrong things".
There're the very Chinese style philosophy that we care about and behave ourselves in the 1st priotiry. And most western people won't get it.
So refreshing to see such thoughtful and sophisticated answers from every side no matter age
The subtitle is not accurate enough, for example, 3:39 he said" So it is "a" China", and he meant it, it is not right to remove the "a" from the subtitle. The truth is Taiwan is just another or more accurately the original China. 5:15 he said "中共“ which should be translated to "The Communist Party of China", but in the subtile it's "Communist China" which means the country China not the party. I think its's important to make sure the subtitle is correct so the western people could really understand what Taiwanese people actually thinking.
他也是一个博主啊