Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Understanding Chinese Civilization." video.

  1. No religious wars in China?!? The TIaping Rebellion or the Taiping revolution, depending on what political side you are on. This was an aggressive form of mutant Christianity (which appealled with the lumpen proliteriat), lead initiallly by a failed civil service canididate, which spread mainly in Southern and Central China and clashed repeatedly with the imperial Qing government. Finally, at great human and financial cost, the Qing government was finally able to put down the Rebellion, but not after more deaths than World War 1 had occurred. The Yellow Turban Rebellion is another much earlier civil war in China.
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  2. It's actually catastrophic. The only thing uniting China is the size of the country. It's demographics are collapsing, and Western and other East Asian businesses are leaving China in droves, sucking away production, investment and employment. Tens of millions of Chinese are now dying from unchecked Covid infection. The soils of China are overpolluted with similar problems with the streams, lakes and ground water. China may now have the most polluted agricultural lands on Earth. This is a double punch if I ever saw one historically. Furthermore, the CCP have largely brought this state of affairs upon the Chinese and themselves. I doubt that the CCP can survive much longer under these horrendous circumstances,
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  3. Whichever emperor, king or whatever feudal lord is in power is irrelevant. Many leaders make bad decisions anyway, particularly under pressure, and these policies get handed down to the masses, whether they want them or not. What matters is the form of government, that it doesn't encroach too much on people's liberties and the local economy. Rule of law enforced by an independent professional judiciary which is semi-independent from the government of the day. This last is a difficult balancing act, but provided that judges only enforce the law and not make it, and moreover the executive is elected, then this form of rupublican representative government may work.
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  4.  @liliya_aseeva  It's genocide almost as destructive as the Nazis against the Jews. There is a nasty equation going on here which unites the actions of the CCP with Himmler and the SS; racial purity and historical revenge. The Jaws were always a minority in Europe, and uniited by their distinct, tribal and excusive religion, while keeping themselves apart from Christendom, coupled with their hard work ethic and family saving responsibilities, drove them into the despised merchant classes and bankers throughout Europe. Wealth breeds envy and the Jews have copped it during the last millennia, but by the Nazis the worst. The CCP exists in a similar hard ruthless mindset as the Nazis against outsiders. This time the scapegoats are central Asian peoples, for not quite the same reason as Jews (the Uyghurs are mainly ranchers and farmers). However, Turkic people and other central and northern nomadic Asian people have periodically invaded China by horseback under weak rulers, not necessarily to stay, but mainly to historically despoil and loot. This, and the Uygers adhere to a rival religion; Islam, drives the paranoid and envious CCP to acts of genocides against them, similar now to the Nazis. The CCP are the modern Nazi Party of the East.
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  5.  @liliya_aseeva  No you wouldn't
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