Would you like to see more of these *specific* videos where I go through a certain country / region's history since the start until now? And if so, *which ones* ?
I am from Taiwan, and this dude just basically explained the whole history of Taiwan we learned for 6 years back in middle school and high school in 13 minutes. Props to you!
Depends on when you learn history... back before year 2000... it was mostly sinocentric learning about Taiwan history. In fact, some history mentioned here is about that... such as Yizhou mentioned here.
Wow, it seems like a chunk of the history from the formation of the "Republic of China" and how the ROC considers China mainland is supposedly part of it is not explained in this video.
Pretty sure you could also mention the importance Taiwanese economy is to the global supply chain, especially semiconductors, with major tech companies like Apple and Microsoft relying on TSMC's 5nm chips, which are the latest technology in chip manufacturing
Not going to be important much longer since US is basically gutting the core competency and forcefully taking it back to the states and set up manufacturing there.
Loving so much this new animation and exposition of images, oh probably due to the support from Taiwan in Portugal mentioned while I was typing this comment. Please more of this quality!!!
After 1949, the defeated side of China's civil war fled to Taiwan. Due to the protection of the United States and China's lack of Navy, China did not recover Taiwan immediately. For the mainland, Taiwan is just a gathering place for losers. Sooner or later, China will recover the lost land.
Excellent video here, meu amigo português. More than an youtube video, this is a mini-documentary worthy of a TV news report segment. This is true jornalism. Grande trabalho, amigo. Abraços de um fan português.
Nice video! I live on the East coast of Taiwan. We actually have a huge Indigenous festival going on this weekend. One thing to note is that until the 1980s, languages such as Taiwanese, Hakka, and indigenous languages were persecuted. This is partly due to the politics of Waishengren vs Hoklo people. However, the divide between these two groups is nearly gone with the young generation.
The new Taiwan generation should preserve their freedom and democracy by convincing China to stop blocking Taiwan internationally and instead help Taiwan contributes to the world bodies including the membership of the UN. Taiwan can be a model country for China to change the communist dictatorship to democracy of the Chinese people in China.
Thank you for introducing the history of Taiwan to the world. Animations in the video are so delicate, making it easier for foreigners to understand the complicated relationship among east Asian countries.
As a mainland Chinese who has studied a lot in Taiwan history, I am fascinated with how accurate and neutral you presented the information. Even the history of Taiwan is a very disputed topic among mainland Chinese and Taiwanese sholars. One thing is that in the census, "waishengren” is “外省人," which just means people from other provinces instead of name of an ethnicity.
I’ve been watching your videos for around couple years just for recreational purposes, but this one is definitely playing quite a big role in nowadays’ geopolitics. It makes a lot of sense since you’re Portuguese 😊 And the first European name for Taiwan was also given to an island by Portuguese, so it makes even more sense now 😀
I'm surprised that a group of people came across half the world and occupied a piece of land. It's a very glorious thing. How many overseas colonies are there now? Your morality is all lip service
This a an excellent brief history of Taiwan. It covered so much in 13 min. I live in Taiwan and watch many of these, but this vid is exceptional. Well done!
"When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice" - Lin Yutang (林語堂)
why blame Xi? because you don't have courage to admit a fact, 99% Chinese are more angry than Xi's soft stance on Taiwan and USA, so don't blame Xi, if China is democratic then China will attack Taiwan and USA tomorrow.
@@Emilechen 1. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Taiwan does not seem losing right now. 2. We hate those force their wills onto others. There will be fights when we encounter such lunatics.
Kinda unfortunate that the authoritarian rule of KMT and the later civil movement to democratize had been overlooked, for a non-stop emphasis on its "strategic importance". Yes, driving that point is important, but Taiwan's real accomplishment is as an counter-example to the authoritarian China. Taiwanese people will remain dedicated to living their best life politically, economically, and socially, to stick it up to Chinese propaganda that their system is the best for the Chinese people. Taiwan will fight against authoritarianism, because it suffered greatly under it in the past. There is no way Taiwan will give up its freedom and way of living, and we only ask that the international community start seeing Taiwan as the independent, polar-opposite of communist China that it is, and support it from falling back into the claws of China.
I was happy to see your interest in Taiwan, where I was born and brought up, but little disappointed to find that, though main accurate, it is still coming from the Chinese point of view, stemming from the material given by the government exiled from China. From a country who had given the name Formosa, which Taiwan was known for to the western world for many centuries, I would love to see some digging of old documents about pre-Han history of Taiwan, which might be buried in the libraries in Portugal.
Actually, there are so many different perspective that whether Japan returned Taiwan to ROC because according to some declaration ( e.g. San Francisco Peace Treaty) that Japan only claimed to give up the ownership of Taiwan. However, mention the issue of whose jurisdiction Taiwan has been under since the end of the war, and most people will think of the contents of the statements of the Cairo or Potsdam Declarations. Although the 1943 Cairo Declaration does mention that all of the territories “such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China” by Japan; the 1945 Potsdam Declaration demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally, and once again emphasized that “The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out.” However, these “declarations” only state positions and wishes during the war, and although function of the declarations remains, they do not have any legal potency.
As a Taiwanese-American its always cool to see my favorite history and geography channels covering it's history, especially in such a detailed and well-researched manner. This is awesome!
1. About the people: a. The number of Aboriginal people or mixed by DNA should be higher than 5%. For example, the current president Tsai is a mix of early immigrant Hakka Chinese and Paiwan aboriginal, but she is classified as Hakka. b. In early 1600s, the early pirates and traders included Japanese, but it is often left out. Koxinga is always prostrated as Ming Royalist of China; however, Koxinga was born in Japan to a Japanese mother. c. The rulers of Qing were the Manchus rather than Chinese. Qing only ruled over half of the island until it gave up Taiwan to Japan. Japan actually was the first country to unify the whole island under one administration. d. Waisenren=Mainland Chinese. They are technically not Taiwanese, but they got stuck on the island and became part of Taiwan's population because of Chinese civil war. Most of the first generation of Waisenren think that they are Chinese citizens, while many of Taiwan's elder people of Hoklo, Hakka, and aboriginal people think that they were once Japanese citizens before 1945. 2. There is still no direct prove that "Yizhou" was Taiwan. Actually, it was first proposed by a Japanese scholar from reading ancient Chinese articles to make such assumption in 1919 (when Taiwan was part of Japan). However, later other scholars made other assumptions of proving Yizhou to be today's Okinawa or the islands just off the coasts of China. The CCP and KMT government of China just picked what flavored their propaganda as a prove to show that China "gained" Taiwan that early. This shows some history about Taiwan out there is still "sino-centric" ... and is with weak proves. For example, at least before 1593, Japan started to call Taiwan "Takasagun". As the main leader of Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the time sent an expedition to Taiwan. The writing was kept and is a museum now... rather than some weak assumptions. This important part of Taiwan's history is left out replacing by that weak Yizhou theory. 3. Taiwan was ruled by KMT from China for 50 years; however, after Taiwan became democracy, KMT gains less and less votes. The current government is DPP which was founded in Taiwan in 1986 with mostly Taiwanese. KMT prefers the name of ROC and wanted to retake China, while DPP just wants independent Taiwan. A lot of history mentioning Taiwan skip this little detail can mislead to other to think that "all Taiwanese are like KMT and its followers who escaped to Taiwan after 1949. 4. Taiwan was not returned to KMT China in 1945. KMT was ordered by USA to occupy the island and accept Japan's surrounder. KMT just used the chance to annex Taiwan. USA need an ally to fight agianst the Soviet allies, so USA just let it happen. KMT lost Chinese civil war and escaped to Taiwan in 1949, but Japan did not officially give up Taiwan until 1951's SF Peace Treaty.
Actually Japan did not officially give over Taiwan until the Treaty of San Francisco on April 28, 1952. And in reality, although the USA did not have control over Taiwan at the time, the leaders of the countries of the USA and the UK supported Chiang Kai-shek. As a result of that, after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW2 the island of Taiwan was placed under the governance of the (ROC), ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT), on 25 October 1945. That's also why ever since 1945 the ROC had been a part of the UN (United Nations) and not China, until 1971 and then took Taiwans place, that's 22 years.
@@dmraven yes that is absolutly correct as well as the date. Back as early as 1943 the US and UK had already maid deals with Chiang Kai-shek himself about Taiwan. And they did so about a month after the end of the war. The thing is at that point the US and UK already knew a Civil War in China would continue again. They placed their alliance on Chaing Kai-shek because they did not support Communism. But they did not count that the ROC could help fight against Russia since China had its own large war to continue to deal with. That's simply why they supported them as being anti-communist.
@@tftfgubedgukm7911 very true, the Dutch had a colony in Taiwan for a short time from 1624-1661. But Taiwan was administered by China's Qing dynasty from 1683 to 1895 before the 1st Sino-Japanese War when Japan took it and held it until 1945.
The reason why some people know that Taiwan is a independent country is because is feels like a country they have their Government, Currency, Capital, & other stuff that was released as a country and idk if China PR was extremely underestimated to Taiwan as a "Province" because mostly all of the UN members don't recognize Taiwan as a country except some countries including Vatican City
China has already made some deals with Pope in recent years, maybe Vatican will quickly turn in the near future. Vatican only care about the appointment of bishop.
Well actually Taiwan itself isn’t a independent country but rather a province of the Republic of China whose government is in exile on the island of Taiwan. This demonstrated through the republic of Chinas constitution and the legal claims on all of mainland China and the 9 dash line including Inner Mongolia. Kinmen island and matsu island are incredibly close to the Chinese mainland and are administered by the ROC as Fujian province not kinmen or matsu since Taiwan is a province of the ROC. The area code of Taipei is actually 002 since 001 is still given to nanjing on the mainland as it is the capital still. Taipei being a temporary capital legally.
10:00 About Cairo Declaration (1943) Chiang Kai-shek did declare Formosa(Taiwan) "stolen from China" should return to China by his own will. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt did not express any opinion, which is proposed from Taiwanese Dr. Shern (沈建德)'s study because no signature in black and white was found in Cairo Declaration.
The Chinese version of Cairo Declaration was fake because it's just a draft without the knowledge of the Allied Forces. The Cairo Declaration 1943 was between the 3 major allies of the US, Britain and Soviet Union.
Chiang wasn't invited to Cairo -- he "crashed" the meeting. If you will notice, the other allies with interests in Asia (like France) were not at this meeting.
i've been watching taiwanese netflix series and i wonder why there are several non-chinese looking characters. Turns out, there are indigeneous populations over there. This video really helps my indepth understanding of taiwan!
If you watched Seqalu, then you'd know that there were Indigenous peoples and they were powerful. You wouldn't have learned it from this channel, which leaves so much out.
Great history of Taiwan, and this will help a lot of people to understand Taiwan is much more diverse than just another Chinese influenced island. It starts as a Austronesian culture. In fact the 570k Austronesian population exceeds a lot of Pacific island nations population today.
The 570k Austronesian population mostly comes from Indonesian/Filipino immigrants, though. And Pacific island nations are tiny, most of them don't even have 100,000 population, so not a fair comparison. Taiwanese culture is still mostly influenced by Han Chinese culture.
The aborigines of Taiwan and we Mizo look so much alike. 😂😂. There was a time when I visited Taiwan and many of the Taiwanese Missionaries mistook me as a Chinese and the aborigines also mistook me too. Our skin colour and dresses look so much alike.
@@SlimJim3082 Thank you. We also have a dance called Cheraw. 😂😂👍. We Mizo have break the Guinness World Record of largest Bamboo Dance in 2010. If you're interested to watch our Cultures and traditions Watch 'Chheih lam' perform by Bangalore Mizo Association. 👍👍
This is one of the fairly accurate video. I would like to point out that from start of the video to 10:20 are basically about the “island” of Taiwan. The actual political and government dispute of current Taiwan and China is simplified from 10:20 to 10:48 timeline . Yes, a mere 28 seconds is really all it takes to explain the China Vs. Taiwan government dispute :)
In fact, more than 80% of Taiwanese are of mixed race. The Han people are mixed with the Pingpu indigenous and a few Japanese. Some even have Dutch ancestry.
@@JoshayXdanton don't say to a French man 🇫🇷😁 what he must do. The Republic of Taiwan ❤️🇹🇼 is the civilized version of mainland China 🇨🇳😵. I have been in Taiwan, and what I have seen there makes me come back 😀. As soon as the Taiwanese borders are opened.
@@inlovewiththerepublicoftai4929 Il a raison en fait. La situation là-bas s'apparente à de la colonisation de la part de la Chine. Y'a un milliard de raisons de la part des Taiwanais de pas vouloir d'européens, et particulièrement des français, débarquer chez eux.
@@JoshayXdanton As a frenchie too, I approve the fact that you don't want us here. Your country is legitimate and we don't have any business to do here since our govt is supporting China's colonisation on your lands.
@@luxderudder9420 je suis très surpris par ta réponse/conviction 🤔. Elle ne correspond pas du tout à l'accueil que j'ai reçu des taiwanais (qui ne sont pas des chinois). J'ai constaté que la France et les français ont une excellente image auprès des Taïwanais❤️. Par ailleurs, la société taiwanaise est très agréable à vivre et le pays très beau 🇹🇼❤️. Le secteur touristique de Taïwan est durement touché par la fermeture des frontières, et je sais que les touristes étrangers sont impatiemment attendus. Rien ne m' empêchera de retourner à Taïwan.
Really interesting video. There are always lots of videos about the more modern day history and the current conflict with mainland China, but I don't often see people talk about Taiwan's older history.
@no work The original settlers are polynesian. Furthermore, most of China was peopled by other indigenous groups tpp. If you want to get further back, we're all African. Please stop embarassing yourself.
@@johnsony6191 Taiwan has never been controlled by the Chinese Communist Party nor has it ever been part of the People's Republic of China so talk of "reunification" is ridiculous. Taiwan is a successful and peaceful liberal democracy in contrast to unstable and authoritarian China.
Taiwan obviously is an independent and democratic country with highly educated and civilized society, high GDP per Capita and transparent governments elected by multi-party systems.
Yeeah we're actually really similar to Canada or USA in that we're basically an immigrant nation but like... it doesn't feel that way because instead of emigrating from multiple tiny European nations, people come from all over the provinces of one giant Europe-sized China. Basically we're Canada if Canada's founded by Japan and China. We even have our own natives that we somehow simultaneously appropriate and marginalize at the same time. It's actually sad because we sing their songs and celebrate their traditions, then make them languish in poverty and pressure them to assimilate. Also we're not just strategically important, we're meteorologically important! We absorb Typhoons for China and those Tsunamis too.
Yeah that is true Taiwan is like a immigrant state although lacking the diversity part compared to the US or Canada. Since the diversity at this point is some SEA immigrant workers and the minuscule amount of Taiwanese indigenous people.
@Safwaan unfortunately not since they don’t have that much political influence. The Taiwanese indigenous people have a huge grudge against the imperial Japanese although for some reason isn’t exhibited by the rest of other Taiwanese people. The Taiwanese indigenous people tend to vote KMT
If I was Taiwan I would call out the states and western countries for not supporting a democratic country over a dictatorship like China. They all preach freedom till money is involved
Taiwan is not democratic at all. During KMT's rule, Taiwan was under martial law in which hundreds of thousands of people died for their opposition to the government.
You might want to check the Japanese census of Indigenous people again -- that would be the last time they would be acknowledged in official records -- their population was in the MILLIONS. It wasn't until year 2000 that they would be recognized again -- that census recorded only 200,000. As someone who was there during that period, I can attest that it was INTENTIONAL!
Uhmm most taiwanese that are proud of their taiwan aren't the natives and when they fled from the People's army they took over the island from the natives
@@Lepend0K4287they fled to the island and had land wars with the natives 300 years ago because of famine. and that was long before the republic was founded. there was nothing to do with your CCP army at all.
The 1949 fled Chinese/Waisenren/Mainland Chinese/KMT followers only composed of less than 13% of Taiwan's population. Most people know about Taiwan through their point of view and misjudge Taiwan's situation. For example, the current ruling part was founded in Taiwan in 1986. The current president of Taiwan is a mix of early Hakka Chinese immigrant and Paiwan aboriginal.
Beside the strategic location impotence of Taiwan. Taiwan also has HUGE influence on not only traditional manufacture supply chain of shoes, bikes, daily basis products..etc. but also on electronic component supply chain. I think if China really invade Taiwan, it will have even bigger impact on global economic than Russia and Ukraine war. This is only my humble opinion.
11:32 As a Taiwanese, we call our dialectal group "Minnanese"（閩南，means people from southern Min Province）rather than "Hoklo"（福佬）. However, the ruling DPP government hates China, they work hard to "de-China-lization"（去中國化）, so they use "Hoklo" instead. 11:50 This map is absolutely wrong, the aboriginals（原著民） (or "indigenous" for political correctness) who use Austronesian languages are only 1% of Taiwan's population. The percentage of home language shouldn't be that high (I think it should be "seldom use", not "regular use"). You can consult any Taiwanese you know. The DPP likes to exaggerate their "mother language movement" because they blame KMT's "National Language Movement"（國語運動）. DPP hates KMT, claims KMT represents China, wants to destroy Taiwan's culture and languages. However, the Japanese colonial government did the same thing but DPP say they bring advanced technology to Taiwan, like railway and electricity power. The truth is, 99% of Taiwan people master "Mandarin Chinese", which is taught in our primary schools. Although most of us are bilinguals, dialects are gradually losing (This happens all over the world, which is inevitable when communication is fast and convenient. Strong culture will be stronger, weak culture will be weaker). Emphasizing mother languages (Minnanese, Hakkanese, or Austronesian) is just a "political correctness" for DPP supporters.
I spent few years in Taiwan - what a country! What a beauty! What a people! A M A Z I N G! Thank you for this video. Most of the people have no idea about Taiwan ;-)
This leaves out so much as to make it very unsatisfactory. For example, you mentioned that Taiwan "changed from a regime of uniformity to diversity." But you tiptoe around the fact that the Republic of China (which Taiwan never "returned" to, seeing as it was Japanese territory when the ROC was founded) was a brutal one-party dictatorship that massacred Taiwan's natives and forced them to adopt their idea of Chinese culture under a martial law period known as White Terror, and made them into a base for counterattacking the Communists. Taiwan became a democracy only after local activists put tremendous pressure on the dictatorship and forced them to democratize. Leaving out such fundamental facts in Taiwanese history is doing it tremendous disservice, no matter how much pre-modern history you include.
I don't like the word "returned" either as a person from Taiwan. But the whole content seems like my junior high school history textbook (~15 yrs ago), which I guess was provided by some Taiwanese government staff who sponsored this video mentioned in the beginning. The history we learned at that time was mainly from KMT's view. In their view, it's "returned". And of course, they don't like to talk about White Terror.
@@jmhsieh7103 and you don't have proof about your bullshit, unless you talking about only 1 tribe that commit massacre more/only 200 Japanese and some Taiwanese civilian and get beat by Japanese military force, that can't be called "genocide" unlike in China where Uyghur peoples where never trying killing Chinese people but get massarce and forced to "re-education" by CCP is truly genocide
You left out why exactly the Japanese sent an expedition to Mutan in the first place. It was in response to the massacre of Ryukyuan sailors by an indigenous tribe, in an echo of what happened in the Rover Incident a few years prior. In fact, the Rover Incident was said to have been the catalyst for both the Mutan massacre and the Japanese "expedition" that followed. They just did a TV drama series about the Rover Incident called Seqalu. You should really watch it to get an idea about the politics of the era.
i trying looking information that tv drama but what i found is that story where not Japanese and Ryukyuan sailors but the American where get massacre by indigenous tribe...... btw i like Kano (2014), that movie about real history of Multi nation-ethnic baseball and modernization of Taiwan in Japanese rule
Great video. Although you left out the Rover Incident, where US marines landed and failed to reach aboriginal villages. This resulted in the Treaty of South Cape, where US and the Seqalu tribal alliances signed to agree to protect shipwrecked crews in the area. This event and the failed petition by US consul Charles Le Gendre led directly to the Mudan incident, when Le Gendre left his post to act as the military advisor of the invading Japanese. The ROC's occupation of Taiwan was illegal. As the UN charter stated, all former Japanese colonial and Pacific territories should become trust territories. The ROC declared to annex the island immediately after the Japanese surrender. In reality, they never signed a treaty where the sovereignty of the island is given to any Chinese regime. As stated in the UN charter, the future of the trust territories should be decided by its residence through self-determination. Having failed to comply, the ROC and more specifically, the KMT's annexation of the island, 50 years of dictatorial and authoritarian rule, the persecution of local elites, as well as cultural/linguistic genocide were illegal. The freedom that Taiwan enjoys today is hard fought, and honestly the fight isn't over, as the KMT now tries to regain power by selling national interests to China and the CCP.
That is not true. The KMT’s party right now doesn’t have too much power and it’s views are not pro-China as in pro-PRC albeit most of Taiwans millitary is pro-PRC. The KMT favors a pan-Chinese identity alongside a Taiwanese identity like Shanghainese being pan-Chinese. The KMT still do not like the PRC although do like to trade with the mainland which has helped Taiwan a lot in trade. In fact Taiwans number one trade partner is actually the PRC second being HK. Although arguing Taiwan is Japanese is oddly imperialist. Also the Taiwanese independence movement is very racist against any identity that isn’t hoklo and is very conformist with the far green being presbyterian Christians who deny even being Han Chinese because they oppose the PRC. Some even say that imperial Japanese is better which doesn’t reflect the fact that imperial japan mass murdered 400,000 Taiwanese austronesian indigenous people over 50 years, or what about the comfort women in Taiwan. Which by increasing efforts of the DPP says that they were volunteers which is shared by the NIPPON Kagi.. The DPP wants to turn Taiwan not into a truly independent state but rather it wants to steal the identity of Taiwanese from the Taiwanese indigenous people All because of politics. This is a big reason why Taiwanese indigenous people supporting independence is so rare because the Han Chinese colonized the island and then now they are taking the identity of Taiwanese indigenous people. It’s alot like European Americans who came and now there descendants claim indigenous descent just to say how not European they are. The Taiwanese Han DPP supporters just do mental gymnastics to satisfy their self hatred of Chinese people all because of this Cold War between the US and China lately.
1946 TIME: This Is the Shame "....confiscated by the Chinese Army that took over the island, under U.S. tutelage" "Formosans complained that the Chinese occupation army was looting stocks, letting crops, refineries, railroads and power plants go to rack & ruin." "Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan." 1955 New York Times: Cairo Formosa Declaration Out of Date, Says Churchill "Sir Winston Churchill rejected today a Laborite suggestion that Formosa be handed over to Communist China under terms of the Cairo Declaration. The future of the island is now an international problem, and the question of its future sovereignty was left undetermined by the Japanese peace treaty, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons." Search the keywords the original articles...
@@bctvanw yeah although this was resolved in 1956 so you could make the case that the ROC was illegally controlling Taiwan although many ROC citizens actually wanted the KMT to come during the initial 1945 return of Taiwan to the ROC. Although things started to spiral since the KMT by this time was taken over by Generalissimo CKS after assasinating his political opposition.
Happy new year to my beloved Taiwanese friends 🇹🇼❤️. From France 🇫🇷 I wish 2022 will see the Taiwanese borders open for French tourists 😀, and see the end of the dictatorship in China 🇨🇳, and see Hong Kong 's liberation from China' s occupation.
If your definition of dictatorship is simply one party or one person ruling, then yes Mainland China is, but in terms of oppression nah, you are just being brainwashed by western media if you were thinking that way.
@@jimmyhaotran123 you have a problem with the reality. It can be explained by : 1) You are a slave / servant of the Chinese communist party. Or 2) You are not Chinese but you have a business in China, like Elon Musk has. So you are a traitor, like Elon Musk. Because your business comes before your country and your political conscience. China 😵 is a dictatorship and one of the worst. Only a slave or a traitor cannot admit it.
The short lived Republic of Formosa, prior to their annexation by Japan, requested to be a protectorate of the British Empire, as this was preferable to being under Japanese rule. Obviously, the British government declined the proposal.
I don't get the Chinese Taiwan issue. The nearest comparison I have is Ireland and Great Britain. I'm British but I do consider Ireland as part of the British Isles and they happen to speak English. However where I differ with Chinese Authoritarianism, is that Ireland is an independent country that is free to make it's own laws and create their own government.
The issue was already complex at the start and then further complicated in recent years. After the civil war, both mainland (prc) and taiwan (roc) claimed to be the ruling government of ALL china, and this is stated and mandated by the law from both sides even to this day. However, in the last 2 decades or so, the general opinion in taiwan is that taiwan should only be its own country and rule taiwan island and cut its ties to mainland. For political reasons, taiwan has not been successful to hold a referendum to declare independence or to give up its rule over mainland china while mainland china has also failed to control taiwan completely. It has become a deadlock for both sides. Imagine the situation that if one day scotland breaks from the UK but also fight against westminster for power to control the whole UK while no one in Scotland really cares about it...and on top of it, the first minister of scotland cannot give up the UK but forced by the UK to join this game of thrones....it would be a totally messed up situation.
@@xingyu1386 I see what you mean - very complex! Also there are distinct differences as an American intervened to broker a peace agreement. Nobody objected as Americans are seen as an ally and the majority of their population come from the British isles. Moreover I want my government to enforce the UN agreed law of seas and UK still has a powerful navy, second only to United States. What's more UK has a disagreement with China after XI came to see the Queen and hailed golden relations. I was hoping to work with the Chinese on a new design of nuclear reactor, as it's grossly expensive and not many people have that kind of expertise. All I see now is mercantilism, a torn up treaty on Hong Kong and I don't want to buy clothing made by a group of people being gaslight and held in concentration style camps. I know that China had a century of humiliation and unfair treaties by the hand of the west. The Hong Kong agreement, I thought that was fair and Margaret Thatcher and Deng shared a glass of champagne over it. Britain offended the Chinese government by offering asylum to Hong Kongers after the treaty was broken and sent the navy to the South China sea. Not for military purposes but for potential trade and to enforce the UN agreed treaty(law of the sea)
@@jamiearnott9669 I think the main difference is that a losing side from the Chinese civil war on Taiwan is devastating to PRC's legimate rule over mainland. Also there's a mix of old school nationaism, since Taiwan's population is predominately Han Chinese (mainland China has around 89% Han Chinese), which is similar to the case of Germany and Austria. In other word, people from mainland China expect the government to finish the cilvil war and unite the home region.
@@dgcu-t96 Well fair enough. It's not really my back yard. What do I know, I only trade with my independent neighbours. However I can understand, but politely disagree with some of the more colourful nationalistic statements/ Besides military complex does nobody any favours. Doesn't Taiwan manufacture a large percentage of the world's lowest nanometre semiconductors and there is a huge supply chain issue that is global? Don't you want to maintain your position as the workshop of the world/largest economy?
It was hard to leave Taiwan , everything just worked , there for 4 months , was in awe . I did some of the history , yet , was so vibrant and organised ! Transport , at all levels ! 1 Rubbish disposal and road repairs , outstanding ! I did refuse disposal in the UK 1968 -1972 , tipped bins ! In Taipei , folks brought out stuff and was sorted :-) Brilliant ! Sure , was a stranger in a strange land , thats travel . Yet made to feel welcome ! traffic lights work ! Got to see how the MRT is expanding in one part of Taipei , will be world class when complete . must see what has happened in 18 mths :-)
The title of the video is spot on. Taiwan is very important to China and most countries recognize one China, just like one America, one UK, one Germany and one Vietnam.
I'm afraid independence will only lead to war, and the result must be tragic. I don't think anyone will hope so. The mood of Taiwanese people is understandable, but independence must be the result that is most detrimental to the people.
Taiwan is already an independent Democratic Nation what are you talkin about you stinking communist. But all of you Communists are going to be standing before the righteous ruler and master of the universe in judgment one of these days very soon! That is, God almighty
The world needs a country like the Chinese. ❤ Chinese people have a lot more to show to the world. China made business countries all around the world with respect and helping small countries to grow equally together for the benefit of their people. The USA and others countries need to stop selling arms for business, and that only causes conflicts all around the world. All countries need to come together to make a better world. No more arms and war business All countries have so many good things to show to other countries. All new generations want to learn good things from others countries, like culture, history, products and other things, with respect and love for each other.
Please don’t hate Chinese(language) because of China, it’s a beautiful language with history dated back thousand of years. Learn Chinese from TAIWAN 🇹🇼. A true preserver of traditional Chinese with all its beauty!!!
Historically, the communist CCP used the remains of KMT. Before the civil war, Mao ZeDong and his communists group were members of KMT. So it's actual a KMT internal war between KMT-army of CKS and KMT-communist rebels of MaoZeDong. So when KMT used bopomofo traditional system of Chinese to Taiwanese, the CCP made their own simplified version using romanization characters for easy learning to billion of Chinese in China.
Would you like to see more of these *specific* videos where I go through a certain country / region's history since the start until now? And if so, *which ones* ?
Yes, maybe for a big country Brazil or China. But if you want small ones it could be like Iceland, Qatar, Cyprus, etc.
A daily reminder.
Taiwan is an independent, sovereign and a democratic country. #FreeTaiwan. #TaiwanIndependence🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
What percentage of the worlds wealth was caused from potato's 🥔
Absolutamente!
Proposta de assunto: a historia do condade portucalense desde a pre-historia até se tornar Portugal.
@@rafabastos4609 Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late
I am from Taiwan, and this dude just basically explained the whole history of Taiwan we learned for 6 years back in middle school and high school in 13 minutes. Props to you!
Goes to say how inefficient public education is.
And also 4 years of elementary school
Depends on when you learn history...
back before year 2000... it was mostly sinocentric learning about Taiwan history. In fact, some history mentioned here is about that... such as Yizhou mentioned here.
Indeed :D
Wow, it seems like a chunk of the history from the formation of the "Republic of China" and how the ROC considers China mainland is supposedly part of it is not explained in this video.
Pretty sure you could also mention the importance Taiwanese economy is to the global supply chain, especially semiconductors, with major tech companies like Apple and Microsoft relying on TSMC's 5nm chips, which are the latest technology in chip manufacturing
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Yep! Taiwan’s role in economy is more important today than what it was in the history.
@@matpkright, and the majority of the war post 2000 was instigated by whom? You really want to go there with your analogy?
Not going to be important much longer since US is basically gutting the core competency and forcefully taking it back to the states and set up manufacturing there.
@@matpk You trying to bankrupt his social credit or something....?
Loving so much this new animation and exposition of images, oh probably due to the support from Taiwan in Portugal mentioned while I was typing this comment. Please more of this quality!!!
After 1949, the defeated side of China's civil war fled to Taiwan. Due to the protection of the United States and China's lack of Navy, China did not recover Taiwan immediately. For the mainland, Taiwan is just a gathering place for losers. Sooner or later, China will recover the lost land.
You did not mention that they had the world’s tallest building from 2004 to 2009.
That's true! I grew up with it being the tallest building in the world
Is China going to go after Taiwan ?
Russia is going / went after Ukraine in the year 2022 AD.
@@General.Knowledge you grew up in 5 years?
-20 social credit.
don't worry comrade, general knowledge knows that nothing happened on Tiananmen Square June 1989 🙂🙂🙂
Eggman will help him with his social credit
He didn't even mention the Uyghurs though!
+ 200 in patriot act.
Those comments keep making me laugh 🤣🤣
Fans from TAIWAN! THANKS for making the video! TAIWAN NO.1
Excellent video here, meu amigo português. More than an youtube video, this is a mini-documentary worthy of a TV news report segment. This is true jornalism. Grande trabalho, amigo. Abraços de um fan português.
Obrigado!
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@@General.Knowledge cadê o nosso 𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗢!?
@@General.Knowledge to viciado no seus videos kkkkkkk
@@General.Knowledge Ganda tuga ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Would be cool if you would‘ve focused more on Taiwen today.
I can always do a part 2 more focused on current days! I always get caught up in the history since it's what I like the most
@@General.Knowledge Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late
@@matpk Why would it be too late?
@@matpk ????
@@matpk Compare USA and the nato to the axis!
Nice video! I live on the East coast of Taiwan. We actually have a huge Indigenous festival going on this weekend. One thing to note is that until the 1980s, languages such as Taiwanese, Hakka, and indigenous languages were persecuted. This is partly due to the politics of Waishengren vs Hoklo people. However, the divide between these two groups is nearly gone with the young generation.
Also because of your dictatorial government before transition to democracy.
今天就小刀拉屁股让你开开眼 你们有少数民族文字课本吗 你们少数民族人字路标吗 大陆西北随处可见 你们是被压迫不敢教吧 站起来反抗
@@周期 中國人就是因為你這樣的嘴臉，才會在全世界被視為毒瘤。
hey @heads is the Hakka dialect the same as spoken in Malaysia?
The new Taiwan generation should preserve their freedom and democracy by convincing China to stop blocking Taiwan internationally and instead help Taiwan contributes to the world bodies including the membership of the UN. Taiwan can be a model country for China to change the communist dictatorship to democracy of the Chinese people in China.
Nicely done. No politics, just facts. Thanks for posting this.
Hi, I'm Taiwanese
I'm proud of being a Taiwanese
my life when i first found the social credit memes
我也是
丢我们华人的脸，让外国人看笑话。🙄
Respect from America
@@taipeistp5660 遵守法律，不要翻牆
Thank you for introducing the history of Taiwan to the world. Animations in the video are so delicate, making it easier for foreigners to understand the complicated relationship among east Asian countries.
第一次看到外國人介紹台灣歷史 而且非常仔細It’s the first time I saw a foreigner introduce the history of Taiwan and I was very carefu
As a mainland Chinese who has studied a lot in Taiwan history, I am fascinated with how accurate and neutral you presented the information. Even the history of Taiwan is a very disputed topic among mainland Chinese and Taiwanese sholars. One thing is that in the census, "waishengren” is “外省人," which just means people from other provinces instead of name of an ethnicity.
Uhhh how do you have access here didnt china ban youtube ,google and stuff like that?
@@OoOoOgways 1. I am now no longer in Mainland China. 2. If you are in China, VPN can do the trick.
I’ve been watching your videos for around couple years just for recreational purposes, but this one is definitely playing quite a big role in nowadays’ geopolitics.
It makes a lot of sense since you’re Portuguese 😊 And the first European name for Taiwan was also given to an island by Portuguese, so it makes even more sense now 😀
I'm surprised that a group of people came across half the world and occupied a piece of land. It's a very glorious thing. How many overseas colonies are there now? Your morality is all lip service
@@周期 葡萄牙並未殖民過台灣，你是搞錯什麼了
Yes, Westerners invaded Asia and gave a meaningful name XD Why don’t you mention Macau, China? Places occupied by Portugal
@@周期 I'm Portuguese and I say we never invaded Taiwan. Portugal and China have been business partners and friendly countries for over 500 years
This a an excellent brief history of Taiwan. It covered so much in 13 min. I live in Taiwan and watch many of these, but this vid is exceptional. Well done!
"When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice"
- Lin Yutang (林語堂)
-20000 social points. Congrats for being in jail
Lin was a smart dude.
that should be USA
@@dimthegreek what is social points?
@@lvjinbin28 are you kidding me? HOW DON'T YOU KNOW ABOUT SOCIAL POINTS
Taiwanese here, already following your video for a long time and thanks for this video.
厲害......第一次看到有國外的UA-camr可以這麼詳細的講出台灣的歷史。
感覺好像在複習高中歷史課本喔，超強的。
台北驻葡萄牙经济处提供的稿子，他只是念一下而已。
很厲害 但這個內容最多就是國小國中的歷史程度而已 算是非常簡明地帶過而已 跟高中歷史的強度差蠻多的 但是還是很棒的內容
感覺他是台灣人，腔調有點重
@@hopdog2619 呃.. 你的意思是他台灣人但不會念中文也看不懂中文拼音?
厲害個頭，教科書上的台灣有什麼厲害？我就想看看外國人是怎麼說台灣的，結果還是照本宣科。
*angry Winnie the Pooh noises*
-8964 social credit, your execution date is tomorrow morning and the only last meal you can have is bing chilling with lao ganma
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mainland China doesn't need to be angry against the loser who flee to Taiwan,
why blame Xi? because you don't have courage to admit a fact, 99% Chinese are more angry than Xi's soft stance on Taiwan and USA,
so don't blame Xi, if China is democratic then China will attack Taiwan and USA tomorrow.
@@Emilechen 1. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Taiwan does not seem losing right now.
2. We hate those force their wills onto others. There will be fights when we encounter such lunatics.
@@lvjinbin28 does the 99% Chinese means exclusively China Chinese or including other Chinese in other countries?
Kinda unfortunate that the authoritarian rule of KMT and the later civil movement to democratize had been overlooked, for a non-stop emphasis on its "strategic importance". Yes, driving that point is important, but Taiwan's real accomplishment is as an counter-example to the authoritarian China. Taiwanese people will remain dedicated to living their best life politically, economically, and socially, to stick it up to Chinese propaganda that their system is the best for the Chinese people.
Taiwan will fight against authoritarianism, because it suffered greatly under it in the past. There is no way Taiwan will give up its freedom and way of living, and we only ask that the international community start seeing Taiwan as the independent, polar-opposite of communist China that it is, and support it from falling back into the claws of China.
Totally agree.
Overseas Chinese stand with Taiwan. Fuck Xinnie the Pooh
Cry more, your doom is near.
I hope you are correct. The genocidal CCP is evil….and wants Taiwan.
@@quasar7055 Supporting an evil totalitarian dictatorship that wants to squash an independent democracy. Nice!
I was happy to see your interest in Taiwan, where I was born and brought up, but little disappointed to find that, though main accurate, it is still coming from the Chinese point of view, stemming from the material given by the government exiled from China. From a country who had given the name Formosa, which Taiwan was known for to the western world for many centuries, I would love to see some digging of old documents about pre-Han history of Taiwan, which might be buried in the libraries in Portugal.
Hey li tak how are you doing?
然而，台湾本来就是汉人的台湾，土著只占2%
Actually, there are so many different perspective that whether Japan returned Taiwan to ROC because according to some declaration ( e.g. San Francisco Peace Treaty) that Japan only claimed to give up the ownership of Taiwan. However, mention the issue of whose jurisdiction Taiwan has been under since the end of the war, and most people will think of the contents of the statements of the Cairo or Potsdam Declarations. Although the 1943 Cairo Declaration does mention that all of the territories “such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China” by Japan; the 1945 Potsdam Declaration demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally, and once again emphasized that “The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out.” However, these “declarations” only state positions and wishes during the war, and although function of the declarations remains, they do not have any legal potency.
As a Taiwanese-American its always cool to see my favorite history and geography channels covering it's history, especially in such a detailed and well-researched manner. This is awesome!
1. About the people:
a. The number of Aboriginal people or mixed by DNA should be higher than 5%. For example, the current president Tsai is a mix of early immigrant Hakka Chinese and Paiwan aboriginal, but she is classified as Hakka.
b. In early 1600s, the early pirates and traders included Japanese, but it is often left out. Koxinga is always prostrated as Ming Royalist of China; however, Koxinga was born in Japan to a Japanese mother.
c. The rulers of Qing were the Manchus rather than Chinese. Qing only ruled over half of the island until it gave up Taiwan to Japan. Japan actually was the first country to unify the whole island under one administration.
d. Waisenren=Mainland Chinese. They are technically not Taiwanese, but they got stuck on the island and became part of Taiwan's population because of Chinese civil war. Most of the first generation of Waisenren think that they are Chinese citizens, while many of Taiwan's elder people of Hoklo, Hakka, and aboriginal people think that they were once Japanese citizens before 1945.
2. There is still no direct prove that "Yizhou" was Taiwan. Actually, it was first proposed by a Japanese scholar from reading ancient Chinese articles to make such assumption in 1919 (when Taiwan was part of Japan). However, later other scholars made other assumptions of proving Yizhou to be today's Okinawa or the islands just off the coasts of China.
The CCP and KMT government of China just picked what flavored their propaganda as a prove to show that China "gained" Taiwan that early. This shows some history about Taiwan out there is still "sino-centric" ... and is with weak proves.
For example, at least before 1593, Japan started to call Taiwan "Takasagun". As the main leader of Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the time sent an expedition to Taiwan. The writing was kept and is a museum now... rather than some weak assumptions. This important part of Taiwan's history is left out replacing by that weak Yizhou theory.
3. Taiwan was ruled by KMT from China for 50 years; however, after Taiwan became democracy, KMT gains less and less votes. The current government is DPP which was founded in Taiwan in 1986 with mostly Taiwanese. KMT prefers the name of ROC and wanted to retake China, while DPP just wants independent Taiwan. A lot of history mentioning Taiwan skip this little detail can mislead to other to think that "all Taiwanese are like KMT and its followers who escaped to Taiwan after 1949.
4. Taiwan was not returned to KMT China in 1945. KMT was ordered by USA to occupy the island and accept Japan's surrounder. KMT just used the chance to annex Taiwan. USA need an ally to fight agianst the Soviet allies, so USA just let it happen. KMT lost Chinese civil war and escaped to Taiwan in 1949, but Japan did not officially give up Taiwan until 1951's SF Peace Treaty.
Actually Japan did not officially give over Taiwan until the Treaty of San Francisco on April 28, 1952.
And in reality, although the USA did not have control over Taiwan at the time, the leaders of the countries of the USA and the UK supported Chiang Kai-shek. As a result of that, after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW2 the island of Taiwan was placed under the governance of the (ROC), ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT), on 25 October 1945. That's also why ever since 1945 the ROC had been a part of the UN (United Nations) and not China, until 1971 and then took Taiwans place, that's 22 years.
@@dmraven yes that is absolutly correct as well as the date. Back as early as 1943 the US and UK had already maid deals with Chiang Kai-shek himself about Taiwan. And they did so about a month after the end of the war. The thing is at that point the US and UK already knew a Civil War in China would continue again. They placed their alliance on Chaing Kai-shek because they did not support Communism. But they did not count that the ROC could help fight against Russia since China had its own large war to continue to deal with. That's simply why they supported them as being anti-communist.
Taiwan already had a lot of Chinese influence before the Japanese and European
@@tftfgubedgukm7911 very true, the Dutch had a colony in Taiwan for a short time from 1624-1661. But Taiwan was administered by China's Qing dynasty from 1683 to 1895 before the 1st Sino-Japanese War when Japan took it and held it until 1945.
I really didn't know you were from Portugal
He literally says it in every video
@@bosanski_Cevap lol I watch him for almost an year and I haven't realised it yet😂😂😂
@@bosanski_Cevap what illness do I have and I haven't realised it?
@@dimthegreek well he mostly says it fast like "portugal is next which is my homecountry"
Taiwan é realmente formosa. Recomendo visitar. Ótimo país.
Me: Taiwan is a country.
My phone: Xi Jing Ping has accessed you location.
Which is funny cuz chances are many people phones are Chinese brand lol.
Mano, qual app vc usa pra editar seus videos ?
The reason why some people know that Taiwan is a independent country is because is feels like a country they have their Government, Currency, Capital, & other stuff that was released as a country and idk if China PR was extremely underestimated to Taiwan as a "Province" because mostly all of the UN members don't recognize Taiwan as a country except some countries including Vatican City
China has already made some deals with Pope in recent years, maybe Vatican will quickly turn in the near future. Vatican only care about the appointment of bishop.
Well actually Taiwan itself isn’t a independent country but rather a province of the Republic of China whose government is in exile on the island of Taiwan. This demonstrated through the republic of Chinas constitution and the legal claims on all of mainland China and the 9 dash line including Inner Mongolia. Kinmen island and matsu island are incredibly close to the Chinese mainland and are administered by the ROC as Fujian province not kinmen or matsu since Taiwan is a province of the ROC. The area code of Taipei is actually 002 since 001 is still given to nanjing on the mainland as it is the capital still. Taipei being a temporary capital legally.
@@jmhsieh7103
Old KMT propaganda here
@@bctvanw indeed although legally Taiwan is a province of the republic of China.
@@bctvanw old KMT propaganda which is still used as the constitution on that island
10:00 About Cairo Declaration (1943) Chiang Kai-shek did declare Formosa(Taiwan) "stolen from China" should return to China by his own will. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt did not express any opinion, which is proposed from Taiwanese Dr. Shern (沈建德)'s study because no signature in black and white was found in Cairo Declaration.
The Chinese version of Cairo Declaration was fake because it's just a draft without the knowledge of the Allied Forces. The Cairo Declaration 1943 was between the 3 major allies of the US, Britain and Soviet Union.
Chiang wasn't invited to Cairo -- he "crashed" the meeting. If you will notice, the other allies with interests in Asia (like France) were not at this meeting.
i've been watching taiwanese netflix series and i wonder why there are several non-chinese looking characters. Turns out, there are indigeneous populations over there. This video really helps my indepth understanding of taiwan!
If you watched Seqalu, then you'd know that there were Indigenous peoples and they were powerful. You wouldn't have learned it from this channel, which leaves so much out.
What series?
Oh yes their are Taiwanese indigenous people although sadly they make up 2-5% of the population compare to 95-98% Han Chinese.
As an Indonesian, yes, the language and several major ethnicities in Indonesia come from the Austronesian family which originates from Taiwan.
Thanks you from Taiwan!❤️🇹🇼
Great history of Taiwan, and this will help a lot of people to understand Taiwan is much more diverse than just another Chinese influenced island. It starts as a Austronesian culture. In fact the 570k Austronesian population exceeds a lot of Pacific island nations population today.
The 570k Austronesian population mostly comes from Indonesian/Filipino immigrants, though. And Pacific island nations are tiny, most of them don't even have 100,000 population, so not a fair comparison. Taiwanese culture is still mostly influenced by Han Chinese culture.
I gotta say that editing is muito bom.
Your videos are getting better and better. Good job!
The aborigines of Taiwan and we Mizo look so much alike. 😂😂. There was a time when I visited Taiwan and many of the Taiwanese Missionaries mistook me as a Chinese and the aborigines also mistook me too. Our skin colour and dresses look so much alike.
Check out the igorots
@@SlimJim3082 Thank you. We also have a dance called Cheraw. 😂😂👍. We Mizo have break the Guinness World Record of largest Bamboo Dance in 2010.
If you're interested to watch our Cultures and traditions Watch 'Chheih lam' perform by Bangalore Mizo Association. 👍👍
This is one of the fairly accurate video. I would like to point out that from start of the video to 10:20 are basically about the “island” of Taiwan. The actual political and government dispute of current Taiwan and China is simplified from 10:20 to 10:48 timeline . Yes, a mere 28 seconds is really all it takes to explain the China Vs. Taiwan government dispute :)
You forgot to mention that 67 percent of the global chip and semi conductor production are in Taiwan.
This was really helpful to me as a person that knows very little about the country. Really informative!
Great video, but incomplete without any mention of the movement towards independence.
Great Video General Knowledge!
Taiwan is an fascinating, culture rich and technical advanced country =D
-300000000000000000000000 social credit.
Was there is 2019 loved it
I agree!
@@General.Knowledge Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late
@@matpk Stop spamming the comments
In fact, more than 80% of Taiwanese are of mixed race. The Han people are mixed with the Pingpu indigenous and a few Japanese. Some even have Dutch ancestry.
I would like to visit Taiwan 🇹🇼❤️ peacefully, as a French tourist 🇫🇷🗼😀.
No. Stay away please european
@@JoshayXdanton don't say to a French man 🇫🇷😁 what he must do. The Republic of Taiwan ❤️🇹🇼 is the civilized version of mainland China 🇨🇳😵. I have been in Taiwan, and what I have seen there makes me come back 😀. As soon as the Taiwanese borders are opened.
@@inlovewiththerepublicoftai4929 Il a raison en fait. La situation là-bas s'apparente à de la colonisation de la part de la Chine. Y'a un milliard de raisons de la part des Taiwanais de pas vouloir d'européens, et particulièrement des français, débarquer chez eux.
@@JoshayXdanton As a frenchie too, I approve the fact that you don't want us here. Your country is legitimate and we don't have any business to do here since our govt is supporting China's colonisation on your lands.
@@luxderudder9420 je suis très surpris par ta réponse/conviction 🤔. Elle ne correspond pas du tout à l'accueil que j'ai reçu des taiwanais (qui ne sont pas des chinois). J'ai constaté que la France et les français ont une excellente image auprès des Taïwanais❤️. Par ailleurs, la société taiwanaise est très agréable à vivre et le pays très beau 🇹🇼❤️. Le secteur touristique de Taïwan est durement touché par la fermeture des frontières, et je sais que les touristes étrangers sont impatiemment attendus. Rien ne m' empêchera de retourner à Taïwan.
Been following this channel for a while and this is one of your best videos. Well done.
Really interesting video. There are always lots of videos about the more modern day history and the current conflict with mainland China, but I don't often see people talk about Taiwan's older history.
@no work The original settlers are polynesian. Furthermore, most of China was peopled by other indigenous groups tpp. If you want to get further back, we're all African. Please stop embarassing yourself.
A daily reminder.
Taiwan is an independent, sovereign and a democratic country. #FreeTaiwan. #TaiwanIndependence🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
no
@@kxtyusha 50 cents has been added to your bank account.
-CCP
#FreeTawian #TaiwanIndependence
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Anyway, it will be reunified by mainland China soon. It is the rule of history, and can'not be reversed.
@@johnsony6191 Taiwan has never been controlled by the Chinese Communist Party nor has it ever been part of the People's Republic of China so talk of "reunification" is ridiculous.
Taiwan is a successful and peaceful liberal democracy in contrast to unstable and authoritarian China.
@@freeman10000 well said!
Taiwan obviously is an independent and democratic country with highly educated and civilized society, high GDP per Capita and transparent governments elected by multi-party systems.
Crazy how relevant this video is about to become
Yeeah we're actually really similar to Canada or USA in that we're basically an immigrant nation but like... it doesn't feel that way because instead of emigrating from multiple tiny European nations, people come from all over the provinces of one giant Europe-sized China. Basically we're Canada if Canada's founded by Japan and China. We even have our own natives that we somehow simultaneously appropriate and marginalize at the same time. It's actually sad because we sing their songs and celebrate their traditions, then make them languish in poverty and pressure them to assimilate.
Also we're not just strategically important, we're meteorologically important! We absorb Typhoons for China and those Tsunamis too.
Chill dude, in the end we're all just descend from apes that left Africa.
@@dennisengelen2517 truth truth
Yeah that is true Taiwan is like a immigrant state although lacking the diversity part compared to the US or Canada. Since the diversity at this point is some SEA immigrant workers and the minuscule amount of Taiwanese indigenous people.
@Safwaan 540,000 out of 23 million people is big?
@Safwaan unfortunately not since they don’t have that much political influence. The Taiwanese indigenous people have a huge grudge against the imperial Japanese although for some reason isn’t exhibited by the rest of other Taiwanese people. The Taiwanese indigenous people tend to vote KMT
Congrats! Great video!
The Sui Dynasty 隋 is pronounced as SWAY.
Shi is pronounced as SHIR.
If I was Taiwan I would call out the states and western countries for not supporting a democratic country over a dictatorship like China. They all preach freedom till money is involved
Let's hope that will change now.
All democracies should stand with Taiwan.
Taiwan is not democratic at all. During KMT's rule, Taiwan was under martial law in which hundreds of thousands of people died for their opposition to the government.
@@rcbrascan it WAS not democratic. it is now
Ok mr warmonget
Thank you to the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Center, which is definitely not an embassy.
You might want to check the Japanese census of Indigenous people again -- that would be the last time they would be acknowledged in official records -- their population was in the MILLIONS. It wasn't until year 2000 that they would be recognized again -- that census recorded only 200,000. As someone who was there during that period, I can attest that it was INTENTIONAL!
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Great video!
Now i understand why the Taiwanese people have pride in their country. Most of the history, Taiwan was not a part of China.
Uhmm most taiwanese that are proud of their taiwan aren't the natives and when they fled from the People's army they took over the island from the natives
@@Lepend0K4287they fled to the island and had land wars with the natives 300 years ago because of famine. and that was long before the republic was founded. there was nothing to do with your CCP army at all.
The thing is they are not Taiwanese they are actually fled Chinese.
Taiwan used to owned China tho
The 1949 fled Chinese/Waisenren/Mainland Chinese/KMT followers only composed of less than 13% of Taiwan's population. Most people know about Taiwan through their point of view and misjudge Taiwan's situation.
For example, the current ruling part was founded in Taiwan in 1986.
The current president of Taiwan is a mix of early Hakka Chinese immigrant and Paiwan aboriginal.
*EXCELLENT RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION. KEEP UP THE THE GOOD WORK*
As a Taiwanese, thank you for talking about my lovely Country!
@ᜑᜃᜒᜇᜓ ᜆᜃᜒᜐᜒ ✓ My lovely Western Taiwan you mean?
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@@BBarNavi China richest country in the world now 💪🇨🇳
Which app did you use to editing a video
Beside the strategic location impotence of Taiwan. Taiwan also has HUGE influence on not only traditional manufacture supply chain of shoes, bikes, daily basis products..etc. but also on electronic component supply chain. I think if China really invade Taiwan, it will have even bigger impact on global economic than Russia and Ukraine war. This is only my humble opinion.
This video is crazy. I feel like reading my history textbook of middle school. Awesome .
11:32 As a Taiwanese, we call our dialectal group "Minnanese"（閩南，means people from southern Min Province）rather than "Hoklo"（福佬）. However, the ruling DPP government hates China, they work hard to "de-China-lization"（去中國化）, so they use "Hoklo" instead.
11:50 This map is absolutely wrong, the aboriginals（原著民） (or "indigenous" for political correctness) who use Austronesian languages are only 1% of Taiwan's population. The percentage of home language shouldn't be that high (I think it should be "seldom use", not "regular use"). You can consult any Taiwanese you know.
The DPP likes to exaggerate their "mother language movement" because they blame KMT's "National Language Movement"（國語運動）. DPP hates KMT, claims KMT represents China, wants to destroy Taiwan's culture and languages. However, the Japanese colonial government did the same thing but DPP say they bring advanced technology to Taiwan, like railway and electricity power.
The truth is, 99% of Taiwan people master "Mandarin Chinese", which is taught in our primary schools. Although most of us are bilinguals, dialects are gradually losing (This happens all over the world, which is inevitable when communication is fast and convenient. Strong culture will be stronger, weak culture will be weaker). Emphasizing mother languages (Minnanese, Hakkanese, or Austronesian) is just a "political correctness" for DPP supporters.
A lot of English teachers go to Taiwan from the USA, UK, Australia, etc... It's a friendly place to visit and return home with positive cash flow.
Long Live Free and Independent Taiwan🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
Great job!!!
I spent few years in Taiwan - what a country! What a beauty! What a people! A M A Z I N G! Thank you for this video. Most of the people have no idea about Taiwan ;-)
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Wow, I really like that video. Especially the way how you made that video. You should do it more often!
This leaves out so much as to make it very unsatisfactory. For example, you mentioned that Taiwan "changed from a regime of uniformity to diversity." But you tiptoe around the fact that the Republic of China (which Taiwan never "returned" to, seeing as it was Japanese territory when the ROC was founded) was a brutal one-party dictatorship that massacred Taiwan's natives and forced them to adopt their idea of Chinese culture under a martial law period known as White Terror, and made them into a base for counterattacking the Communists. Taiwan became a democracy only after local activists put tremendous pressure on the dictatorship and forced them to democratize.
Leaving out such fundamental facts in Taiwanese history is doing it tremendous disservice, no matter how much pre-modern history you include.
Theyre US shills and cant acknowledge that the communist chinese were popular for a reason
I don't like the word "returned" either as a person from Taiwan. But the whole content seems like my junior high school history textbook (~15 yrs ago), which I guess was provided by some Taiwanese government staff who sponsored this video mentioned in the beginning. The history we learned at that time was mainly from KMT's view. In their view, it's "returned". And of course, they don't like to talk about White Terror.
They also don’t talk about the imperial Japanese committing genocide on 400,000 Taiwanese austronesian people.
@@jmhsieh7103 and you don't have proof about your bullshit, unless you talking about only 1 tribe that commit massacre more/only 200 Japanese and some Taiwanese civilian and get beat by Japanese military force, that can't be called "genocide"
unlike in China where Uyghur peoples where never trying killing Chinese people but get massarce and forced to "re-education" by CCP is truly genocide
Very informative!👍
You left out why exactly the Japanese sent an expedition to Mutan in the first place. It was in response to the massacre of Ryukyuan sailors by an indigenous tribe, in an echo of what happened in the Rover Incident a few years prior. In fact, the Rover Incident was said to have been the catalyst for both the Mutan massacre and the Japanese "expedition" that followed.
They just did a TV drama series about the Rover Incident called Seqalu. You should really watch it to get an idea about the politics of the era.
i trying looking information that tv drama but what i found is that story where not Japanese and Ryukyuan sailors but the American where get massacre by indigenous tribe......
btw i like Kano (2014), that movie about real history of Multi nation-ethnic baseball and modernization of Taiwan in Japanese rule
I found this to be an informative video! Thanks!
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Social credit isn’t real
I think in China it is.
@@kxtyusha it is. there are chinese media reports and govt documents about it.
@@kxtyusha yeah
It really exists. China government is proud of it and regards as part of smart city.
Great video. I have trying to research Taiwan and this has increased my knowledge in on giant leap. Thank you!
Great video. Although you left out the Rover Incident, where US marines landed and failed to reach aboriginal villages. This resulted in the Treaty of South Cape, where US and the Seqalu tribal alliances signed to agree to protect shipwrecked crews in the area. This event and the failed petition by US consul Charles Le Gendre led directly to the Mudan incident, when Le Gendre left his post to act as the military advisor of the invading Japanese.
The ROC's occupation of Taiwan was illegal. As the UN charter stated, all former Japanese colonial and Pacific territories should become trust territories. The ROC declared to annex the island immediately after the Japanese surrender. In reality, they never signed a treaty where the sovereignty of the island is given to any Chinese regime. As stated in the UN charter, the future of the trust territories should be decided by its residence through self-determination. Having failed to comply, the ROC and more specifically, the KMT's annexation of the island, 50 years of dictatorial and authoritarian rule, the persecution of local elites, as well as cultural/linguistic genocide were illegal.
The freedom that Taiwan enjoys today is hard fought, and honestly the fight isn't over, as the KMT now tries to regain power by selling national interests to China and the CCP.
Well said 👏🏻👏🏻
So true
That is not true. The KMT’s party right now doesn’t have too much power and it’s views are not pro-China as in pro-PRC albeit most of Taiwans millitary is pro-PRC. The KMT favors a pan-Chinese identity alongside a Taiwanese identity like Shanghainese being pan-Chinese. The KMT still do not like the PRC although do like to trade with the mainland which has helped Taiwan a lot in trade. In fact Taiwans number one trade partner is actually the PRC second being HK. Although arguing Taiwan is Japanese is oddly imperialist. Also the Taiwanese independence movement is very racist against any identity that isn’t hoklo and is very conformist with the far green being presbyterian Christians who deny even being Han Chinese because they oppose the PRC. Some even say that imperial Japanese is better which doesn’t reflect the fact that imperial japan mass murdered 400,000 Taiwanese austronesian indigenous people over 50 years, or what about the comfort women in Taiwan. Which by increasing efforts of the DPP says that they were volunteers which is shared by the NIPPON Kagi.. The DPP wants to turn Taiwan not into a truly independent state but rather it wants to steal the identity of Taiwanese from the Taiwanese indigenous people All because of politics. This is a big reason why Taiwanese indigenous people supporting independence is so rare because the Han Chinese colonized the island and then now they are taking the identity of Taiwanese indigenous people. It’s alot like European Americans who came and now there descendants claim indigenous descent just to say how not European they are. The Taiwanese Han DPP supporters just do mental gymnastics to satisfy their self hatred of Chinese people all because of this Cold War between the US and China lately.
1946 TIME:
This Is the Shame
"....confiscated by the Chinese Army that took over the island, under U.S. tutelage"
"Formosans complained that the Chinese occupation army was looting stocks, letting crops, refineries, railroads and power plants go to rack & ruin."
"Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan."
1955 New York Times:
Cairo Formosa Declaration Out of Date, Says Churchill
"Sir Winston Churchill rejected today a Laborite suggestion that Formosa be handed over to Communist China under terms of the Cairo Declaration. The future of the island is now an international problem, and the question of its future sovereignty was left undetermined by the Japanese peace treaty, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons."
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@@bctvanw yeah although this was resolved in 1956 so you could make the case that the ROC was illegally controlling Taiwan although many ROC citizens actually wanted the KMT to come during the initial 1945 return of Taiwan to the ROC. Although things started to spiral since the KMT by this time was taken over by Generalissimo CKS after assasinating his political opposition.
why is this video blank?
It's great to learn more about this independent country ^^
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@@latiendadepaikawaii no u
@@latiendadepaikawaii we see you CCP ;)
Its not independent and it doesnt even want to be
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Hi! What's the name of the editing software you use in your videos?
Happy new year to my beloved Taiwanese friends 🇹🇼❤️. From France 🇫🇷 I wish 2022 will see the Taiwanese borders open for French tourists 😀, and see the end of the dictatorship in China 🇨🇳, and see Hong Kong 's liberation from China' s occupation.
If your definition of dictatorship is simply one party or one person ruling, then yes Mainland China is, but in terms of oppression nah, you are just being brainwashed by western media if you were thinking that way.
@@jimmyhaotran123 you have a problem with the reality. It can be explained by :
1) You are a slave / servant of the Chinese communist party.
Or
2) You are not Chinese but you have a business in China, like Elon Musk has. So you are a traitor, like Elon Musk. Because your business comes before your country and your political conscience.
China 😵 is a dictatorship and one of the worst. Only a slave or a traitor cannot admit it.
06:03 This map shows Qing territory before 1860.
Since 1860, Haishenwai(Vladivostok) was annexed by Tsarist Russia from Qing dynasty.
The short lived Republic of Formosa, prior to their annexation by Japan, requested to be a protectorate of the British Empire, as this was preferable to being under Japanese rule. Obviously, the British government declined the proposal.
soon, both imperialist countries are in decline definitely,
Very good. Re religion: Taiwanese are 80% a Buddhist/Taoist blended religion. Another unique characteristic of the independent people on the island.
Qing dynasty on Taiwan: Meh. Take it or leave it.
The CCP on Taiwan: TAIWAN IS OURS SINCE ANCIENT TIMES!
I just realized you are portuguese by the way you Said formosa and pescadores.Muito bem.Excelente vídeo.
Didn't know you were Portuguese.
And so am I.
Interesting! Liked the population stats throughout history.
Make a video about what if Taiwan won the Chinese civil wars please?
I don't get the Chinese Taiwan issue. The nearest comparison I have is Ireland and Great Britain. I'm British but I do consider Ireland as part of the British Isles and they happen to speak English. However where I differ with Chinese Authoritarianism, is that Ireland is an independent country that is free to make it's own laws and create their own government.
The issue was already complex at the start and then further complicated in recent years. After the civil war, both mainland (prc) and taiwan (roc) claimed to be the ruling government of ALL china, and this is stated and mandated by the law from both sides even to this day. However, in the last 2 decades or so, the general opinion in taiwan is that taiwan should only be its own country and rule taiwan island and cut its ties to mainland. For political reasons, taiwan has not been successful to hold a referendum to declare independence or to give up its rule over mainland china while mainland china has also failed to control taiwan completely. It has become a deadlock for both sides. Imagine the situation that if one day scotland breaks from the UK but also fight against westminster for power to control the whole UK while no one in Scotland really cares about it...and on top of it, the first minister of scotland cannot give up the UK but forced by the UK to join this game of thrones....it would be a totally messed up situation.
@@xingyu1386 I see what you mean - very complex! Also there are distinct differences as an American intervened to broker a peace agreement. Nobody objected as Americans are seen as an ally and the majority of their population come from the British isles. Moreover I want my government to enforce the UN agreed law of seas and UK still has a powerful navy, second only to United States. What's more UK has a disagreement with China after XI came to see the Queen and hailed golden relations. I was hoping to work with the Chinese on a new design of nuclear reactor, as it's grossly expensive and not many people have that kind of expertise. All I see now is mercantilism, a torn up treaty on Hong Kong and I don't want to buy clothing made by a group of people being gaslight and held in concentration style camps. I know that China had a century of humiliation and unfair treaties by the hand of the west. The Hong Kong agreement, I thought that was fair and Margaret Thatcher and Deng shared a glass of champagne over it. Britain offended the Chinese government by offering asylum to Hong Kongers after the treaty was broken and sent the navy to the South China sea. Not for military purposes but for potential trade and to enforce the UN agreed treaty(law of the sea)
@@jamiearnott9669 I think the main difference is that a losing side from the Chinese civil war on Taiwan is devastating to PRC's legimate rule over mainland. Also there's a mix of old school nationaism, since Taiwan's population is predominately Han Chinese (mainland China has around 89% Han Chinese), which is similar to the case of Germany and Austria.
In other word, people from mainland China expect the government to finish the cilvil war and unite the home region.
@@dgcu-t96 Well fair enough. It's not really my back yard. What do I know, I only trade with my independent neighbours. However I can understand, but politely disagree with some of the more colourful nationalistic statements/ Besides military complex does nobody any favours. Doesn't Taiwan manufacture a large percentage of the world's lowest nanometre semiconductors and there is a huge supply chain issue that is global? Don't you want to maintain your position as the workshop of the world/largest economy?
It was hard to leave Taiwan , everything just worked , there for 4 months , was in awe .
I did some of the history , yet , was so vibrant and organised ! Transport , at all levels ! 1 Rubbish disposal and road repairs , outstanding ! I did refuse disposal in the UK 1968 -1972 , tipped bins !
In Taipei , folks brought out stuff and was sorted :-)
Brilliant !
Sure , was a stranger in a strange land , thats travel . Yet made to feel welcome ! traffic lights work !
Got to see how the MRT is expanding in one part of Taipei , will be world class when complete .
must see what has happened in 18 mths :-)
The title of the video is spot on. Taiwan is very important to China and most countries recognize one China, just like one America, one UK, one Germany and one Vietnam.
I'm afraid independence will only lead to war, and the result must be tragic. I don't think anyone will hope so. The mood of Taiwanese people is understandable, but independence must be the result that is most detrimental to the people.
Taiwan is already an independent Democratic Nation what are you talkin about you stinking communist. But all of you Communists are going to be standing before the righteous ruler and master of the universe in judgment one of these days very soon! That is, God almighty
The world needs a country like the Chinese. ❤
Chinese people have a lot more to show to the world.
China made business countries all around the world with respect and helping small countries to grow equally together for the benefit of their people.
The USA and others countries need to stop selling arms for business, and that only causes conflicts all around the world.
All countries need to come together to make a better world. No more arms and war business
All countries have so many good things to show to other countries.
All new generations want to learn good things from others countries, like culture, history, products and other things, with respect and love for each other.
Gonna show this to some friends who still get Taiwan and Thailand mixed up 😅
Please don’t hate Chinese(language) because of China, it’s a beautiful language with history dated back thousand of years. Learn Chinese from TAIWAN 🇹🇼. A true preserver of traditional Chinese with all its beauty!!!
Historically, the communist CCP used the remains of KMT. Before the civil war, Mao ZeDong and his communists group were members of KMT. So it's actual a KMT internal war between KMT-army of CKS and KMT-communist rebels of MaoZeDong. So when KMT used bopomofo traditional system of Chinese to Taiwanese, the CCP made their own simplified version using romanization characters for easy learning to billion of Chinese in China.
I am from mainland China and this is basically all the history of Taiwan we learned in high school,except for the"ROC"and"freedom"part😂
why r u making fool of yourself? where did you from really?
@@jkc3738 Not every Chinese is communist
@@walterblack7233 Don't answer a question with a question...you know what communism is? so what are you anyway? capitalism? 🤣
Thank you for making this video!!