China's Geographic Challenge
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2014
- RANE examines China's geography as the historical driver of its expanding and contracting national boundaries emanating from the Han core.
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Okay I'm sold. I love your channel.
Hi! Love your channel
Love yours too
Geography Now and I also love yours! =)
yes
+Geography Now BARBY!!!
Wow it is almost like a 2 minute video was somehow lacking in depth necessary to understand a millennias old country. Let's all get angry about it in the comment section.
QuincyConscience ikr. It's as if these people are expecting a five hundred page dissertation worth of analysis condensed into two minutes, in video form, on UA-cam, available for free to the public.
For what it is, it does its job. That having been said, I saw this in my recommended videos, thought that it looked awesome, and was disappointed that it was only 2 minutes. I wish it was 2 hours!
Plus Taiwan is more Japanese then Chinese
It's done for propaganda purpose by westerners who are bent on destroying China
@@johnhooyer3101 No it doesnt it literally just says its borders its absolute dog shit
The reason that Taiwan is included was because both the PRC and ROC are seen as "China", and that this video is focused on more geographic analysis than any political at all. Hence the reason that there is not a single instance of the speaker stating either china and simply referring to the region as "China".
I hope this explanation was sufficient. I really enjoy Stratfor XD
2014....a time when the world was simple....
I know right
INCREDIBLY helpful for a test im studying for, i was imagining a video just like this that i wished i could watch to rly understand the geographical history of china, thanks for the time spent making this!
Great job, short but very informative.
ITS NOt WHAT THE FUKC DO YOU MEAN
The video itself is rather too short, but still manages to be interesting on account of China itself. China has a very long and dynamic history.
this video only shows classic ancient china geographic challenge,which contains three layers from east to west like a circle,each layer has different landscape ,altitude and multi natural barriers like moutains and rivers to seperate them.The difficulty to maintain as a sovereigty rise as region getting harder to reach.But with modern china development rapidly improved,some so called "buffer zones"are no longer regions once hard to regulate.Most of the land border has been settled.But sea border espeially the South China Sea,remain a big question mark.A relatively isolated rising china facing a chains of countrys supported by us besiging its east entry to the pacific ocean,thats the china geo challenge
That awkward moment when the birthplace of Chinese civilization is not included in the "Han Core" (aka Loess Plateau).
The last part of the video is a good assessment though. We can expect to see China expanding its maritime power rather than its land buffers in the future because of how secure its land buffers are but how insecure its maritime buffers are.
chinese birthplace was the caves, like everywhere else
You guys ought to do something on China's global high speed rail and rail freight ambitions, it is a game changer in terms of geography, trade and military strategy, I see it as primarily an opportunity, a tunnel through the Himalaya's, a tunnel through the Bearing Straight, high speed trans Siberian railway, Latin American high speed railway from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Other factors of note are the Nicaragua canal, Suez canal expansion, Channel tunnel, North South Japan island tunnel, Germany to Italy tunnel, high speed rail in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan beginning the national magnetic levitation tunnel project. The traditional days wait in China, during the holiday exodus back to the countryside, has almost disappeared, fast trains have freed up the freight shunting yards, provided straighter, better gradients for freight, airlines in China are losing lots of money to high speed rail, not to mention how successful high speed rail has been in Europe. With more than 2 billion people in India and China, rail trade would be huge, then there are the shifts in energy, from the gigantic oil and gas pipeline projects, 1.6 million people employed in solar panels production, in China, in the first industrial revolution, steam railways, ships, transcontinental railways, telegraph, changed our relationship with geography. The 2nd IR peak decade 1915-25, electricity, telephone, radio and automobiles changed how we dealt with geography, in the 3rd IR peak decade 2015-25, cheap desert solar power, high rise agriculture, virtual reality, 3D printing, will change our relationship, with geography again.
Great analysis
David Yu Would like to add the fact that there is almost no ethnic or cultural division in China today, the so called "buffer zone" mentality completely does not exist in the modern Chinese society.
YAAYY!!! FINALLY! another Geographic Challenge! What took you so long StratFor?
This has barely any information dumbass
Do more Video's like this
Great work!!!Catch the coral feather of China's history. Not many westerners could do it
Very interesting
China used to be a Naval Superpower at one point long ago, that's where the claim of the Nine-Dash line comes from.
can u do video on Serbian Geographic Challenge?
So from the geographic point of iew, China needs to control the buffle zones below: Korean Peninsula as an shield against the outside powers stretching directly into the capital Beijing. Taiwan, an island just off the shore of its Han Core southeast coast. South China Sea, the lifeline for its exports and imports through seas. Unsurprisingly, the regions mentioned before are all now hot-spots of international contestations, and act as essential parts of American policies of containment during the Cold War.
The Northeastern provinces, or Manchuria, is now a part of the Han core.
+MingDynasty700 No it's not but you wish.
+Kochigachi Sadly,it wasn't and is
+Yinuo Wang +Kochigachi Yinuo is correct. Historically and geographically, it was not part of the Han core. But, the extinguish-ment of Manchurian culture and the huge influx of Han migration has turned it into a Han dominated region.
+ohemeffgeee more like integration. Manchus became Han Chinese willingly, many Qing dynasty emperors were the embodiment of Confucian values. Han Chinese is not an ethnicity, it is a pan Asian race. the Han ethnicity is a melting pot of many different ethnicity, from the ancient Dong yi and Bashu people, to the more modern additions like the Manchus.
The whole of China, with the exception of Tibet, is mostly ethnically Han Chinese - including the whole of Manchuria, Inner Mongolia & Xinjiang.
What the hell. My province is not included in the 'core'. Bloody hell, I and all my friend are 150% percent Han, dude
If you are living in China, it's good to see that alot users from china are willing to bypass the firewall. It's really not that difficult, but It's just good to see.
***** What do you know? There are currently 56 ethnic groups in China. Are you an expert to determine what ethnic people want to identify themselves as?
nowadays only these provinces are not mostly Han Chinese: Tibet, Xinjiang Uyghur , Qinghai, Yunnan. Inner Mongolia has 80% of Han Chinese.
John Smith Qinghai has very high percentage of Han Chinese, because of the capital Xining is an old Chinese city, the rest are extremely sparsely populated. Yunnan even though high percentage of them not Han, but they all speak Han, in a similar accent to my home province of Sichuan, because all the different ethnic people spoke different languages, the common language of their inter communication has long been the Han language, and because the capital Kunming is also another old Chinese city dominated by Han people historically for a long time. North Xinjiang also has slightly more than half Han Chinese, that's been the case ever since the downfall of Dzungars, foreigners often make the mistake of thinking Urumqi is not a Han city, but actually it is, it was created by Manchus for running the whole Xinjiang, so in reality Urumqi had high percentage of Han for always.
Jiwei Li You should watch the US video. My region, Massachusetts, is not included in the core of the country. Almost all of the American revolution took place outside of the core. A geopolitical core is not all of country's population, so I think you are just mixing definitions.
This video neglects the expansion of the Han Cores to the former Manchu area since the late 19th century~ Anyway, great video!
Please sir show Right map's India same missing your maps...
may i use this for my video project of tourism in China?
and i hope Chinese people can support me for that..
thank's
I am a Chinese. I support you.
thank's a lot +trisoil
Interesting...
China wasn't weak during the Mongol Invasions, the Khans just had a brilliant revolutionary war tactic: Crossbows+Cavalry = Total Pawnage. Everyone got rekt except Japan and Indochina.
+J. Midnite nah it was weak. Song couldn't even utilize the great wall at the time
The Chinese Emperor effectively used the Great wall of China that for the Mongols to get through they had to ride around it.
No they had horses
Japan because a wicked ass storm ruined the mongol's shit
Not only that, but the Mongols stated that the Song Dynasty was the most hardass opponent they ever dealt with, having beaten the Jin Dynasy, Calpihates, and Europeans beforehand, and they basically needed to halt their global conquests and consolidate their forces just to deal with the Song, who eventually just gave up out of attrition.
make a video on CPEC
this video sound like some video game tips and mission before we jump into real games
the core region should also conclude ShangXi province since it is/was populated
A Professor in college always showes the class these.
lets not forget to mention, china is EXTREMELY HARD to invade considering its geography.
tibet, the himilayas, and the gobi desert make invasion from the western side extremely hard, and the pacific ocean made it hard to invade from the east.
that being said, japan had a navy to deal with the ocean between china but even then, the only part of china they managed to truly annex was manchuria due to it being attached to japanese-controlled korea.
the southern and eastern parts of china were loosely controlled by the japanese because they were too far away from japan
let's also not forget the mongols invading from the northwest, they had a hard time invading china too because of the desert but since they were nomads, they were used to such hard conditions.
which is why china remains relatively geographically isolated from the rest of the world, with tiny amounts of influence from the koreans and the japanese.
interesting
can someone summarize
Liaoning in Northeastern China was always apart of the Han core.
Also Shanxi and Shaanxi in northwestern China was always apart of the Han core.
The maps in this video are made by either someone who doesn't know Chinese history or is intentionally distorting history for propaganda purposes.
liaoning was occupied far back in the han dynasty， and shanxi was the old capital Chang‘an located。Shaanxi was occupied during the JIN dynasty （266-420）I don‘t know where you get that information from
@@sixtails- i think u mixed those up, shaanxi is the province where chang an was located and shanxi is another different province
Please do India, Bangladesh Pakistan and Afganistan
Do a Taiwan's Geographic Problems
xi'an not in han core?crap.
lol Biggest Fail of the video....the author must think that xi'an is mongol's capital or some kind waste land since its so damn west...
Europeans always want to see a powerless and small China and not a more powerful country than theirs.
Liaoning in Northeastern China was always apart of the Han core.
Also Shanxi and Shaanxi in northwestern China was always apart of the Han core.
The maps in this video are made by either someone who doesn't know Chinese history or is intentionally distorting history for propaganda purposes.
Just like the Rome is not in Europen core.
Don't worry, when they say core, they mean the cultural/economic/political center. The core of the US would be the East coast, even though there are obviously millions of Americans living beyond that.
Very basic but probably useful for some.
why bangladesh is written on north east India ????
ALWAYS INCLUDE KHAM AND AMDO WHEN YOU DRAW TIBET!
At least he didnt include Qinghai 😂😂🤲
The range of Han Core at 0:33 is misleading, it should be much bigger. Han Core roughly includes the red part at 1:36, Taiwan and the northeast.
Comment conflict around TW (1/1)
But what I DO NOT understand is, why Xi'an, capital of several oldest dynasties, not considered a "core"? Shanxi province too.
1:35
Sabah, China 🇨🇳, Taiwan 🇹🇼, Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Macao 🇲🇴 And Mongolia 🇲🇳.
Han is said as in "Hahn"
Jared Diamond is pleased, but Niall Ferguson is not.
Why is Taiwan shown in a video on China?
***** By China he means what's being held by the Com China and Nationalist China
*****
Ya. but Taiwanese earn 4 times as much as a chinese. It took Mao 25 years to realise that Chiang Kai-shek was right ;)
***** Ya sorry if I confused you. I am back to your first comment, you said that Taiwan is a part of china but they are not. Taiwan is a country by it self.
That was my point with the big difference in income!
zamestol Just answer this simple question: what's the abbreviation for Republic of China?
RC but before this they were dictatorship I think
did you see the map change when genghis khan took over? he took half the world! still amazes me
The way he says *Han* tho...
Xinjjang’s real name is East Turkestan
China is huge
Kaiser Wilhelm !! The Chinese empire is huge. We can say China is huge once the Han complete their colonization of Inner Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet. But not yet.
ITS YUGGGE!
Ignoramus knows not the difference between an empire and a nation.
I would say for the whole world geographic challenge is mentality challenge. Cannot really see China by Western eyes as the Western eyes always try to look at unique point of region that's why there are so many countries in Europe even some countries practically use the same language.
ON CHINA
Now try the Democratic Challenge
I m only grade 6 pls b more light on wording
Tibet is A part of India.. Do you understand..and you also showing wrong map of Kashmir....pok is not a part of Pakistan.. Rather it is an integral part of kashmir and india....
South Korea, China
Han core area didn't include Xi'an , biggest joke ever...😂
西安斯坦。。。
@@user-rh2pv2kc5g 你们除了重复那些地摊文学的梗还会什么，你怎么不说伦敦斯坦？斯坦在波斯语的意思是国家，西安是国家吗？无聊，
Where is Taiwan's geographic challenge video
+ronhwa liang CHINESE TAEPAI!!!
+Hunter Sterling Taiwan
You are worse than Serbs and Kosovo
Pokemon Fanboy okayy it's really just part of china. Kosovo is southern Serbia. America was also Britain until 1781
Richie WS Dude, i know.
ronhwa liang Taiwan belong to China
Gy
South china was a continent in tge older eras
Correct the maps with time periods. The picture the video showed around 13th century is Great Mongolian empire. You must be careful when you make that type of informative video.
Tell me that map is not like a chicken
anyone else here for world history? lmao
1:33 Nope! 1279 A.D.-1368 A.D nope! This is Mongol empire. Not Chinese. Yuan dynasty of Mongolian.
Most people in Mongolia are in China, so the Mongolian Empire is owned by Chinese Mongolians.
Support Free Han core pls !!!
now do the demographic challenge.
django jango Not necessary. We don't have demographic challenges: unlike the United States, we do not have Jesusland and Donaldland. And the extensive diversity of China can keep refreshing the country forever, while in the United States, there's much less diversity, everyone believes in Uncle Sam and there's barely no non-Protestant president.
Well, Donald Trump is protestant in name only. If you actually get into his theological views, his views don't even count as Christian. I'd count him as a strange hybrid between Christian and Jew, actually, without really being either. When it comes to the Supreme Court, until this year we had a pretty longstanding court consisting completely of Catholics and Jews.
As for everything believing in Uncle Sam, the government's approval rating is incredibly low. Americans generally don't trust their government to be competent.
Being an immigrant country, America gets more diverse all of the time. Which has benefits and drawbacks. Some countries have historically been strengthened by homogeneity, such as Denmark. Others, like the U.S. and Canada, benefit more from an influx of new ideas and new talent. Both have trade-offs, of course. As much of a blessing as it has been, being a melting pot has provided huge challenges for America, as it's harder to represent everyone in a country with such an extreme range of values.
What I can say is that the U.S. definitely has demographic challenges that are truly unique to her, and few people in America deny that. I find it odd that you would deny that China has demographic challenges, though. The easiest one to spot out is the linguistic diversity, which prevents many people from communicating. In America, only 13%-18% of people are native Spanish speakers (I'm using the largest figure that I could find; most provide lower but I'm assuming that this one takes into account undocumented immigrants). , and most of those are bilingual. Only about 66% of Chinese speak Mandarin. China also has a huge problem facing it as a result of the One Child Policy. There were short-term benefits to it, back in the 80's, but when it was phased out two years ago, it left a troubling impact. It is now more difficult for the younger generation to take care of the older generation. Millions of baby girls were aborted, which led to a disproportionate male population, which historically causes _huge_ problems in society. The One Child Policy also changed the culture of a generation of Chinese, who now mostly plan on having only one child (or no children at all), even though the policy is no longer in place, all because it influenced their ideas on family values. There's also the demographic challenge having to do with Taiwan, which doesn't acknowledge the current government, and Tibet, which feels that the Han Chinese are trying to colonize their region. The list goes on. China definitely has its demographic problems. Just like America, they're completely unique and unlike anything else in the entire world.
虞海 what kind of bullshit is this lmao. 90% of china is ethnically han chinese, immigration laws are pathetic there, and china’s treats its minorities more like subhumans than actual people. I hope I don’t need to remind everyone of the uyghur “reeducation camps” in xinjiang.
Meanwhile, the largest ethnic group in america is german-americans who comprise of only 33% of the population, 50 million americans are foreign born bringing far more ingenuity than china’s oppressed minorites, and our current leader is a member of a relatively small denomination of christianity while the leader before him was an actual minority. How many non-han leaders has china had again? What’s that? There were none? What a shocker. The chinese population has always been far more homogeneous than america’s. And the disunity is worse too. While china has less ethnic diversity than america, they somehow have far more conflict between the few ethnic groups they do have.
I know you’re triggered that your millenia old civilization is beat by america, but no need to be so delusional over it.
It's pronounced Han, like Hans of the Southern Isle
Not Han like Hands.
Sorry, that just annoyed me.
Plus, the map from 16th to 20th century is Qing empire, which is not Chinese empire. Qing empire collapsed, and Qing people were mixed with the Chinese. But, I don't want to see it as a Chinese empire. Chinese were serving for the Qing.
Akin Khoo
there's no point discussing with ignorant ppl...how do u try to make a carpenter understand accounting/ finance...?
clearly, the level is different...
Akin Khoo Origin of Qing(Manj) people are nomadic. They conquered Hans' territory and created their own empire in 17th century. At that time they had their own language, culture, and history. No one can ignore that. That is a fact. I know the history most Chinese learn is sometimes misleading because I know most of my Chinese friends in college are taught this way in school. As time goes by, the Qing people mixed with the (Hans) as you defined. It is like five Qing people had been living with hundred Han people for 300 years. Of course, they became Hans. I won't argue about that. "Qing people conquered Hans' territory and created their state. Eventually, they were mixed with Hans. It was not Han people's empire 300 hundred years ago. That is what I wanted to say."
Boloroo Z Just make clear of some simple facts. There is no such thing as "Qing people conquered Hans territory and created their state", because there were many Hans soldiers in the Qing's army and also Manchurian soldiers in the Ming's army. Before rising to power, Qing is a local authority that pledge its loyalty to Qing. That is why the Ming-Qing war is called a CIVIL WAR in the majority of history books.
"It was not Han people's empire", the Qing is a Chinese empire of cause, so it serves the interests of the Chinese people, whose majority is Hans. Hence, as simple it is, it IS Han people's empire. For example, Qing successfully strengthen the control of China over Mongolia and Tibet, which indeed serves the Hans.
Boloroo Z Different people make different theories about history to make themselves feel better. That is a natural thing. But I want to remind you a simple fact, that the majority and the orthodox of historians and historical theories in this world recognize Qing and Yuan as CHINESE DYNASTIES in CHINESE HISTORY. You may think your Chinese friends are told the wrong history. But just remember there are more people, not only Chinese, think it is Mongolians that being brainwashed. Furthermore, Chinese historical records are more reliable than Mongolian ones since the whole history of east Asia is indeed WRITTEN in CHINESE, and China is a much more influential country than Mongolia. You seems to like talk about facts, and here are some stone solid FACTS
Manchus are culturally Chinese, as they became assimilated into the much larger Han demographic when they conquered China. Compare this to the Romans assimilating into Greek culture when they conquered Greece.
Manchus are also ethnically Chinese in modern times, as they intermarried with the much larger Han population over the past few centuries.
And in terms of geographical territoriality, I think it's undeniable that Manchuria is today a part of the PRC.
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1:44 Nope! 1644 A.D- 1912 A.D. This is Qing dynasty. Not chinese. Qing is tungus nomads of Manchu. Qing dynasty of Tungus Nomadic
But you guys claim south china sea based on Qing history 🤔🖕
This video misses China's greatest geographic challenge, fending off a belligerent US war machine stationed in the first island chains (i.e.. Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Philippines)
Belligerent? Hardly. The USA is China's biggest trading partner. Explain that!
joebonsaipoland How many wars have the US initiated in recent history? I'd say the US is the most belligerent country in history. The US has guns pointed at China from Japan, S.Korea and with defence treaties with Taiwan and Philippines for the sole purpose of 'containing' China. Frequent 'war games' in the south china sea are considered sabre rattling by most FP analysts.
At any rate, Stratfor's Kaplan will tell you China's greatest geographic challenge is dealing with the US war machine who control the first island chain ...as do declassified CIA docs.
1OssoBuco
USA initiated wars in Recent history? I count only one; IRAQ, as the only recent war which was not "provoked" by another country or terrorist group.
What does China care about the 1st island chain? If they want to lose 100 million troops and risk a nuclear exchange China can retake them. But what is the point, they are growing rich selling the USA useless plastic crap and tainted dog food. If I was Chinese, I'd keep a good thing going.
joebonsaipoland To rephrase ....how many acts of military aggression, terrorism & sabre rattling have the US engaged in in recent decades? How about her proxies? Even Iraq 1 only happened because Wash. gave Saddam the green light to invade...Afghan, I recall Clinton bombing civilian structures there right around the time of the Lewinsky scandal.
Regardless, the primary reason, and this is fact confirmed by Kissinger and declassified CIA docs ..that the US has militarized the first island chain is to contain "red China". US desire to contain China is the only reason why Taiwan is separate from China.
US navel leaders know all too well that China has been attacked over 400 times from the sea. This is why China is focused on access denial (carrier killer), why Diaoyu/Senkaku was not returned to China despite the potsdam declaration and why Philippines has all of a sudden decided to challenge for the shoal.
Exports to US account for, if i recall correctly about 6-7% of gdp ....and in exchange for hard work they get inherently worthless paper backed by nothing....from a country that is insolvent. Quant easing only makes the current scenario worse. If I were from China I would be looking to change the status quo......which is apparently what their doing in Africa, building up the middle class to have new consumers to trade with.
China could take Diaoyus and Taiwan overnight ......and a US led NATO would be left impotent ....not even able to threaten sanctions without destroying their own economies.
I'm just reading up on Crimea and welcome your thoughts on the US/Nato response.
1OssoBuco
I would just comment that if the Taiwanese really wanted to merge with China they would do it on there own. Currently, there is very little public support for such a move.
KOREAN MANCHURIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bullshit daydreamer
These was wrong map of China because askai chin was part of India
It is the 4th largest country
You pronounced Han wrong. It's not Han like you would say hand, it's Han like you would say Han solo
that A in han is an AH
Make one on Pakistan
+Hashir Ahmed and especially one of Liechtenstein nad Luxemburg !!!
Hashir Ahmed I think they did
slim shady please send me the link if you can
Thanks Alot
Hashir Ahmed no, sorry, my bad, I did look it up, but it turns out I was wrong.
Ahh.. so this is why there is so much commotion going on around the Chinese seas and the desperate need to take control over Taiwan via the TSSA (soft power which would mean that PRC has RoC (Taiwan) by the nuts (or credit cards))
i thought the chinese live in downtowns in western countries
Why have you shown mongol empire as chinese???
Jedi Master 16xx AD Qing dynasty ....en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty
小乙燕 Mongol empire was not chinese,qing also was manchu not chinese
Jedi Master lol, they are not han, but still chinese, dont be stupid
Ling Kong mongols are not chinese you idiot
Jedi Master u just lie to yourself
Out of date from Stratford video because the narrator researched his paper works were bases from all the Westerners wrote those documents. The narrator didn't travel to China and see China for himself. In short, he didn't/doesn't know China.
+TheMiddleKingdom They didn't claim anything about China's people; they only attempted to explain China's actions in the context of its geography. They also didn't cite their sources >:(.
So, stratfor accepts CCP claims on Taiwan?
Or Kuomintang’s claims on the mainland.
tibet is not china....
At least they use AD and BC instead of that other crap.
Great video but gotta pronounce things like "Han" right please.
Macedonias Geographic Challange - countries borders with:
1. BULGARIA:
Macedonian who apply for Bulgarian passports: Bulgaria which is indirectly the EU grants Citizenship as long as Macedonians pledge allegiance and declair entire families as Bulgarians. Bulgarians in WWII entered Macedonia and removed countless of Macedonian Jews from the country. Prior to this in the Balkan Wars Bulgarians annexed Macedonian territory par of the Bucharest Treaty to gain territory (Balkan Wars). Similar to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Poverty strikes a man so deep that he looses all sence of crime in such an unfair world (in his eyes) that he decieds to take matter into his own hands. The LAW Here is broken. CURRENT objective of Bulgaria is Bulgarization of Macedonia
3. ALBANIA AND KOSOVO:
In 2001 Macedonia was attacked by the Kosovo Liberation Armed Forces. Kosovo annexed territory of Serbia is a territory that 500 years ago was infact Christian lands but with immigration demographics changed and hence a new country was created.
The aftermath of the 2001 war resulted in a peaceful agreement to end violence and Albanian minorities in Macedonia were allowed represtation in the goverment. Although they make up less than 25% of the population - Corrupt Macedonia officials allowed Kosovo refugees full Maceonian citizenship rights making the 25% required. Most of Kosovo families also applied for refugee status abroad and live in Switzerland and regularly travel back to vote to keep up the 25% qouta (most of these people hold 3 or 4 citizenships). Talat Xhaferi (Albanian) is a Macedonian politician, former Minister of Defense and currently Speaker of the Parliament. His previous role was working in the Kosovo Liberation army is and was in charge of the Macedonian Army who was in 2001 fighting against ordered this and hence why there is a Satire of him in Kosovo. He proudly waves an Albanian Flang in his office. Cutting this short: Primary objective of the Albanian and Kosovo nationals is great a larger Albania and further Annexation of Macedonia.
4. GREECE:
Macedonia name change: Discussion are currently underway to deal with the long complex name dispute between Greece and Macedonia. Will Macedonia protect the rights of the generations of Macedonia exiled and slaughtered in Northern Greece to ethnically purify the region? Short Answer NO (corrupt government). Will the World care about this most likely NOT. Why? In the world views Macedonia is Greek - right? And the entire world originates from Greece and plus we have to get over shit and move foward?! Right! Well not for Macedonians who's families still suffer from the Greeks genocides until this day that's NOT RIGHT!. Northern Part of Greece also known as Macedonia was a territory Anenexed from the Ottoman province of Macedonia. This territory was like the other Balkan States occupied by Turkish forces. Christian states such as Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece fought against the Turks and once the ottoman empire DISSOLVED their knives were turned to Macedonia which partitioned (Bucarest Treaty). North greece cleverly annexed current Greek Macedonia which then systematically ethnically cleansed this region over 100 years - Greek civil wars - population exchange between Greece and Tukrey in 1926 - exile of Slavic Macedonians in 1946 more wars and you have modern day Northern Greece. If Hellenic people build one temple near Oympus surely theu can't claim achers of land up to Finland 1000 years in the future? Just because you were the 'dominant' decentand of a historical race? What about 50 years ago where extreme genocide occurred and the destruction of Macedonian villages... If anyone has travelled in the Northern Part of Greece all you find is new villages, repopulate areas from the 1920 population exchange between Greece and Turkey... Greece and EU main objective is fule destruction and dismiss the fundamental human right principal of self-determination. Macedonia on a map shouldn't exist. It doesn't take a Historian to see the countless of efforts to eliminate the ethnic Macedonian group and country.
Bangladash doesnt border china, learn your geography
omg it's not hæn it's han i hate how my fellow english speakers butcher the pronunciation of foreign words
香港，澳門，及臺灣是中國的
You're pronouncing the A's wrong!!!
The map is not accurate. The Han Chinese originate from central China first， which is Shanxi province， Ganshu province and Ningxia provinces(still more than 70% population there). Then spread to east 中原， which is Henan and Hebei Province
Aka watch out island nations, you're gonna get f_cked
China certainly has been expanding its maritime interests. Example? The South China Sea Islands.
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东北什么时候成缓冲带了？
Arid regions are occupied by Chinese, Free them
Free Balochistan!
Free Jammu Kashmir!
sorry China, we Vietnam had fought the US for you now we fight you for the US, ok
Linh H Le nope, you're not going to fight shit except watching us to become the superpower that no country on this planet could have ever dream of and take back all the 29 islands that you have stolen while we're at it.
Alex Mercer I :destroyed by Chinese ? We still here idiot. We proud of standing tall for thousands years in terms of blocking you China. Otherwise Thais, Malaysians, Singaporeans, Indonesians and even Austrians today would speak Chinese as their first language. Come to take my country and we glad to give you China one more lesson
Come to Vietnam and say that to our people.
which shows how hypocrisy are americans. they said they hate communism and dictatorship, but they still help viet-nam and saudi-arabia today.
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There should have been a mention of socio cultural and rreligious influence from the Indian Subcontinent on China despite the great Himalayan Geographic barrier
RedDragonAwakens Though the contribution of Indian culture to PRC may have been less in a direct sense, a country having 244 million adherents of a religion originating in India speaks for itself.Your admitted bias of thinking that its culture is barbaric hence does not make it the country's problem however the situation of its people may now be, nor representative of how more than 1.3 billion think of something. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_in_China
RedDragonAwakens The influence of Greek culture in promoting Heliocentric system of astronomy and contribution to Indian geometry is well known to us and even Meru mountain /the great flood concept is said to originate in various religions through the same population that spread from Persia. The distinction between culture and religion is not as clear as you would like to believe; the influence of ancient Buddhist schools of thought in Confucianism and modern Chinese beliefs is not negligible.
RedDragonAwakens The artificial Indian nation or its subcontinent anyway had the independent Indus valley civilization while these influences are of around 7th- 9th century, also Mughals are neither middle eastern nor British.Your definition of Indian culture negates the point of Buddha being born in Nepal whatsoever. Where did you find the influence of any external civilization on the thousands of dialects and languages that exist in the country today?
RedDragonAwakens Tracing Indian culture prior to 1947 is not possible by not considering the history of the land you call the subcontinent and defining the country by ethnicities renders the whole point useless since that India indeed never was and so was China or Greeks being cultures thousands of years old
RedDragonAwakens damn, do they even teach u history in China? unlikely with the prc in power. I know that u r a Chinese so this will be hard for u to grasp(becuz of the prc) : Kung fu was made by an Indian, influenced by Indian martial arts. India was formed in 300 bc by Chandragupta maurya. but the idea of India has been there earlier than that. how did Greece influence India? Mesopotamia did, Persia did, Egypt did, but not Greece
least biased shit i've seen from stratfor
Free Tibet
Free Uyguristan
Free Manchuria
fuck turkey
shut up
@shoaib ahamadmir haha, we can simply block your rivers upstream from the tibetian pleateu, and make all of you thirst to death without using any soldiers.
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