Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. Yeah it's really quite ridiculous. Xi Jinping saying "Asians should take care of the interests of Asia" was seen as a threat to the US.
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  2.  @Spanish_Patriot  Idk if you know the full story but the US supported the Bangladeshi genocide and encouraged the transfer of arms from the Middle East into Pakistan so they can genocide the Bangladeshis in 1971. The genocide preceded the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War which resulted in clear cut support from the Soviets for India and support from the US for Pakistan. President Nixon viewed the Bangladeshis with contempt and made racist remarks about them and relied on Americans not paying attention to events in Asia due to the genocide.
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  3.  @Nasrudith  No they're actually right. Half of Pakistan is Iranic in culture and ethnicity. Western Pakistan is inhabited by Pashtuns and Baluchis, who are Iranian-related ethnic groups. Their culture is Iranic, they celebrate Iranian festivals like Nowruz and their traditional clothing is related to the traditional clothes of Iran. Their cultural root is Iranic. Eastern Pakistan, which is the seat of the Pakistani government and home to the dominant ethnic group of the country, on the other hand is ethnically related to people in western and northern India and their cultural root is Indic. I don't think Greece and Ireland share a common cultural root in the closest of extents, unless you are talking about the broad Greco-Roman heritage that binds Western culture in general which then is comparable to the broad Indic and Sinic heritage that binds most of Asia.
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  4. They're neutral but India ought to ditch the US for their own good imo
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  5.  @AegonTargaryen300  That is unless they solve their border disputes. It seemed impossible until Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year. For the first time, mainstream Chinese and Indian media and people were espousing the same views and Chinese state media for the first time took a softer approach on India, supporting and defending the position of India in the war. If this war continues to polarise the Global North and Global South, then I wouldn't be surprised if a partnership of some sort emerged between the two. Many proponents in China and India acknowledge the historical co-existence and deep cultural exchange between the two nations until the colonisation of Asia and always highlight the fact that the division between the two is the result of borders drawn up by British rulers. What many don't realise is that China and India will always look after the interests of the Global South regardless of their political positions. This is why China and India were strong proponents of waiving vaccine IP in 2021 so they could both produce vaccines that could be sent to the developing world free of charge, whereas the Global North refused. If the war continues and China continues to find apertures in India's relationship with the West, then it shouldn't be a surprise to see the Chinese government bolster its pro-Asian rhetoric (which is heavy on the idea that the US is a threat to stability in Asia) when communicating with India which it has been doing in the rest of Asia since the 2010s.
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  6.  @WastedBananas  They do have similarities and those similarities are why Xi Jinping and Chinese state media keeps talking about "Asia for Asians" or how they declared India's Mars mission was the "pride of Asia". The CCP is using a tested method to rile up pan-Asian feelings across Asia, including in India. They're clever by doing this because most of Asia is developing. China is juxtaposing Asian geography, mentality and cultural similarities against Western mentality and culture in order to convince Asia that they should choose China and not the US.
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  7.  @WastedBananas  Omg, I can't believe this was even said. So naïve, my gosh. We are talking about geopolitics here not the arbitrary definition of "Asian American" or something.
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  8.  @gabor-zsoltbenedek9420  Switch? Where have you been? 😭 The US has always supported Pakistan and that is the reason why India, today, still has a close relationship with Russia. The US has traditionally always been anti-India, even going so far as to have Pres. Nixon make derogatory remarks about Indians because he was pro-Pakistan. The US trying to court India is a very new thing due to China's rise. The US wants to get as many Asian nations on its side to "contain" China as part of its US forward defence ring that encircles Asia, which is why they're even trying to build ties with Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the latter of which was courted in 2019 by the Americans to establish a military base on its territory. People think that for countries to cooperate, they must see eye to eye on all things but they don't. They just focus on their own interests. It honestly makes sense for India from a geographical, cultural and economic perspective to engage with China rather than the US. The US has never actually cared about India and they still don't. If China hadn't risen, India would mean nothing to the US.
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  9.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  Yeah but that's the thing. The US is not a local player and that's what makes everybody in the Asian and Pacific region wary of the US. The Trump presidency really sped up China's expansion in the region during the late 2010s. While Trump refused to attend any of the major Asia-Pacific summits, China was able to convince countries in the region that the US is no longer reliable and that they can be relied upon. Additionally, China has promoted the idea that "Asia must be controlled by Asians" and recent evidence has shown that this mentality has begun to creep into the minds of average citizens in other Asian countries like Singapore. Then in 2021, the US left Afghanistan under Biden and it further convinced people here that the US can't be relied upon. Vietnam and Afghanistan are consistently brought up about how the US is a failure when it comes to Asian affairs. Then this year, Russia invaded Ukraine and while the US has its own reasons to not get directly involved, it further convinced people that the US can't be relied on. Taiwan is quite fearful because they fear that the US and its allies won't be there if China invades the island. In the end, Asia has everything to lose. Asia-Pacific will be the first to suffer. The US will not lose anything because they aren't part of the region. This is why a lot of countries in the region want to balance China and the US, they despise having to pick sides and would prefer if Asia-Pacific can become multipolar instead of unipolar. Nobody wants to become a pawn between China and the US.
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  10.  @WastedBananas  FYI, the phrase "Asian for Asians" originates in Imperial Japan and was a rallying cry to colonised nations in South and Southeast Asia, including India, to accept Japan's rise and stand with them in getting their freedom from Europeans. That led to WW2 and the creation of multiple Japanese puppet states that accepted this ideology, including one in India called Azad Hind. "Asia for Asians" has always been about pan-Asianism juxtaposed against Western hegemony. Bffr
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  11.  @WastedBananas  Nobody in a single Asian country uses "Asian" as a marker for physical appearance or race. It is simply about geography, don't bring these American colloquialisms into a thing like geopolitics. Can't believe I even have to say this under a video like this. So cringe.
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  12.  @WastedBananas  No they absolutely do not mean that LMAOOOO. Nobody in Asia is race/physical appearance obsessed, let alone even cares for such words. If that were the case, China wouldn't be trying to drive a wedge between India and the West or use its cultural influence to sway opinions in South and Southeast Asia using "Buddhist diplomacy". Their rhetoric has also been accepted by Russia, who sees itself as "Eurasian".
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  13.  @Abhinav-m4o  Nobody has ever truly taken Turkey seriously. They joined NATO and are considered the black sheep of the group, they have for years tried to join the EU but for a plethora of reasons, nobody supports them (especially Greece) and they have tried to host the Summer Olympics but nobody votes for them at the IOC
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  14.  @L425-g1f  All Asia-Pacific countries have close economic ties with China, even if they don't like the CCP. Japan's largest trade partner is China, India's largest trade partner is China, the largest trade partner for Southeast Asian countries is China. China being Australia's largest trading partner is no surprise either. Despite geopolitical differences, the region is deeply connected economically.
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  15.  @goeast12  Singapore is diverse, the only reason why you think it's not diverse is because you think Chinese and Malays are the same and that Indians being Asians too means that "Singapore is not diverse". I've heard this argument made by many Westerners who try undermine Singapore's success, they say "everybody is Asian". Chinese, Malays and Indians are all different to one another, just because they're all from the same continent doesn't mean they're all the same. The Chinese and Malays suffered from extreme racial riots which led to Singapore becoming a country. Singapore managed to unite the Chinese, Malays and Indians and used common ground (which came to be known as "Asian values" in the 1990s) to create the most stable and successful multi-ethnic nation in Asia. Look at Singapore's neighbours (near and far), Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka they all suffer from racial division. Singapore is diverse and it knows how to manage its diversity without alienating anybody at a national level.
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  16.  @johnnysack3673  It really hasn't. The US has always supported Pakistan over India. When India faced its deadliest terror attack in Mumbai in 2008 and the terrorists were revealed to be from Pakistan, the US continued to maintain its close relationship with Pakistan. Then in 2011, when it was revealed that Pakistan had been hiding Bin Laden, the US continued to maintain its close relationship with Pakistan. The US seems to always be on the wrong side in South Asia. The most shocking of their actions is that they encouraged and supported Pakistan's genocide of Bangladeshis in 1971 and President Nixon infamously made some pretty racist remarks about Bangladeshis and wanted Americans to refrain from paying attention to events in Asia, due to the ongoing genocide.
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  17.  @Izeliii  Trump supporters till don't see what the issue is
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  18.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  You publishing that comment only shows me you don't know how to respond to me because I spilled the truth. I live in the Asia-Pacific region, I am fully aware of what goes on here and what the average people in countries like Indonesia, Australia and Singapore feel. Nothing "dumb" about anything I said. Nobody here wants to be pushed around by the US or China.
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  19.  @captainalex157  If one truly believes that India can rise with the US at the top, then they really don't have any understanding of the concept of American exceptionalism. The US preferably wants a weak India that allies completely with the US and becomes an all-weather partner on the global stage. Basically a 2023 Japan but without the advanced part. If India can remain a lower middle income developing nation then that's ideal. The Americans let China develop rapidly during the 1990s and 2000s, under a belief China was going to join the world after the 2008 Beijing Olympics only for that to change with the rise of Xi Jinping. There is no way the US is going to make the same mistake with India. India will remain an undeveloped nation crippled with poverty for the foreseeable future if things work out right for the Americans.
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  20.  @WastedBananas  You seem to be coming from some Western or rather American perspective about the cultural or physical differences between Chinese and Indian people outside the realm of geopolitics because you don't want to be associated with them. This is not what anybody here is talking about and that's certainly not what actual people in Asia think in this context. China and India have more in common with each other than they do with Western countries, that is the point being made. Of course they do, a look at their history of cultural exchange it is clear to see. Your personal identity of being Muslim or "Bharati" or whatever has nothing to do with this. We're talking about geopolitics and China and India are culturally connected whether you like it or not.
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  21.  @captainalex157  The difference between Europe and India is that India is not Western and never will be Western. There is nothing culturally, mentally or physically similar that White Americans share with Indians. White Americans are descendants of Europeans, they are family. There has only ever been one non-White nation in the world that has become accepted by the West and that is Japan but it wasn't an easy road. The Meiji era, fear of Western colonisation, desire to become Western and WW2 created a path for Japan to become accepted by the West. Then the 1980s saw Japan become America's first economic rival. Thankfully for the Americans, Japan's economy tanked in the 1990s and it has been downhill since. The idea that India will be accepted and treated as an equal is far fetched and preposterous in my opinion. Biden mulled sanctioning India in 2022 because of is neutral stance in the Ukraine War and a recent book published by an American diplomat suggests India could become a future competitor of the US. India and the US have never been allies, in fact it was not until 9/11 that India and the US started building closer ties to combat terrorism but still not allies. Before that, the US government hated India, particularly under Nixon. India sees itself as a part of the Global South and clearly said it is going to use its platform as the G20 presidency this year to further Global South agendas, the US doesn't like that and never will. India's development path is one that is muddy and uncertain.
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  22.  @anomalianomali5080  No. Sinosphere cultures and in general all Asian cultures do understand the concept of solidarity. A very big part of Eastern values is community. People look out for the community over the individual. In Asian cultures, community is stressed whereas in the West, individualism is stressed. This is why saving face is such a big part of Asian cultures. This stark cultural difference was evident during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. An August 2020 survey from the World Economic Forum revealed most people in China, Japan, Vietnam and India said they would still wear a face mask, whereas people in the UK, US and Germany who said they'd wear a face mask was significantly less. Demands for personal freedom in the forms of protests emerged across Europe and North America while such attitudes, on such a large scale, did not emerge in Asia in 2020. People across Asia (including in areas where face masks are not regularly used) started wearing face masks very early on in 2020, due to this idea that you have to protect yourself and the wider community.
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  23. It is correct
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  24.  @gdi1093  1. "Asian" in this context is referring to Asia-Pacific or Indo-Pacific which generally means East, South, Southeast Asia and Oceania. 2. Do you not understand that the Indian subcontinent is part of Asia? It makes it sound like you don't. 3. Do you understand Asian geopolitics? Iran's geopolitical landscape is connected to the Middle East and to some extent Central Asia. It is not part of the same geopolitical landscape that covers East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Oceania. So why on earth would Iran join an Asia-Pacific organisation that is focused on issues in the waters surrounding India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia and the South Pacific and the land the region covers? 4. You sound so bitter, it's laughable.
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  25.  @gdi1093  Where on earth do you live? If you live in the Asia-Pacific and follow Asian geopolitics, you'll know that sometimes experts use "Asian" to describe the Asia-Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand) for easier communication. It's not something to get worked up about. Asia is so huge, just because Iran, Pakistan, China etc. are all on the same continent doesn't mean they're affected by the same issues, they're not. Same thing applies to Australia, it's geographically close to Southeast Asia and northeast Indian Ocean and a lot of its trade comes down the South China Sea. Iran has literally nothing to do with this. Stop crying.
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  26. It surprises me that Pakistan, which has existed for longer and larger in size, has been surpassed by Bangladesh (which was once part of Pakistan and described as a "basket case" in the 1970s). Bangladesh is now described as an "Asian Tiger" and has a plan to become fully developed by 2041. There are multiple factors involved but I think the constant looking outward frame of mind instead of focusing on yourself as well as the heavy reliance on religion and continued rise in religious conservatism is why Pakistan is so far behind. The 21st Century is described as the Asian Century as so many Asian nations lift themselves up and remain relatively stable but then there's Pakistan which is described as being on the "brink of collapse".
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  27.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  Yeah but the thing is Indonesia and most other parts of Asia prefer to not pick sides. They want to be free but China and the US keep competing for influence in the region without just co-existing and it's making people very frustrated. Most countries in Asia do no want to pick a side so they keep hedging between China and the US hoping that a are between the two will not occur.
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  28. What the hell are you talking about? The islands are part of India so they're part of Asia. Did you just infer that India is not part of Asia? Talk about ignorance.
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  29.  @captainalex157  India doesn't need the US or Europe to develop quickly, they've had plenty of time to develop quickly with American and European FDI and look what they have to show for it in 2023. They're a country that plays all sides and considering the fact that the US doesn't want India to develop into a competitive nation and it has become clearer by the day ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Indians have already lost. The thing is India doesn't want to become a world power, many think rising nations want to become world powers but that's not what many emerging nations actually want. India simply wants to maintain their sphere of influence in Asia without being bothered. India has pursued neutrality ever since the culmination of WW2, that won't change anytime soon and the Ukraine War has only reinforced the fact that they will remain neutral and conduct business in the way that it suits them.
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  30.  @riderchallenge4250  and US military presence everywhere is why there is growing backlash. Don't be surprised if those three countries and a selection of other Global South nations find ways to detach from the US-oriented world order. The Ukraine War changed a lot of non-Western people's perceptions for the worse (from an American perspective that is).
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  31. ​ @possiblyzero3582  China and India's border dispute is the result of European colonisation and this is constantly brought up by Asianists. The Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau were never a source of contention in the ancient times and there are areas in the Himalayan region of India and the Tibetan region in China that are sacred to followers of Dharmic faiths. One of the most important sites in Hinduism is located in modern China. So the border dispute isn't something of their doing, the Indians simply inherited it from the British Raj.
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  32. Then the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks happened and close relations between Pakistan and the US endured, even though the terrorists came from Pakistan. This happened during the era of Bush. In 2011, Bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan but the US continued to maintain close relations with Pakistan. The first president in 21st century US history to really take things to another level was Donald Trump. Regardless of what people feel for him, his attitude towards India and Indian people was different to other presidents. I don't know which type of Indians were receptive to things he said but I do remember the articles about how he focused on India, which was different to previous presidents that had maintained focus on Pakistan. I'm not a fan of Trump but in regards to US relations with India, he was willing to bend the rules and deviate from traditional US foreign policy.
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  33. It's correct
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  34. It's correct
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  35.  @goeast12  Malays are NOT East Asians. So you can't say "more than 90% East Asian". To say it's "more than 90% East Asian" is only indicative of one's lack of knowledge on Singaporean multiracialism. Malays are native Southeast Asians and have always been viewed as such. Chinese (and Japanese, Koreans) are known as East Asians while Indians (and Ceylonese, Bengalis etc.) are South Asians. This distinction has always been noted until the 21st century, including by Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, as Singapore is described as a "mini Asia" composed of people of East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian origin.
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  36.  @goeast12  Chinese, Malays and Indians are all from different cultures. The idea that Singapore is not diverse because most people are from different Asian groups is wrong because you're implying that they are all basically the same. Asia is a diverse place. You are only saying this because in the US, many European-descended people (excluding those of Italian and other Mediterranean and eastern European people) have lost touch with their ancestral heritage and so now they're just a mish-mash of different European groups with no unified cultural heritage. It may be news to you but local Chinese, Malays and Indians find more in common culturally with Malaysians (who are composed of the same racial makeup, with the same ethnic subgroups and share pretty much the same culture) than they do with people that come from mainland China or India. There is extreme xenophobia and racism directed towards people from mainland China and India in Singapore. So saying "it's not diverse" doesn't make sense. Singapore actually has a lot of temporary immigrants from other parts of Asia as well as PR from other parts of Asia. It is very much diverse, just not in the way you're used to. Local Singaporeans of diverse origins alongside foreign workers and expats from Malaysia, India, China, Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Myanmar among other places. It's diverse even beyond its own local population. If it wasn't diverse, anti-immigrant sentiment and the whole "Singapore for Singaporean" mentality wouldn't exist and be a contentious issue.
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  37. India is very slow, by the time they decide to make a move on anything, things have changed considerably. We're talking about a country that was a centre of global civilisation in the ancient days and now look at them. I don't get it.
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  38. Agreed. The ultranationalists are always out and about saying all sorts of things.
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  39.  @太陽マン-u1l  The only Asian country that has significant global influence is China, not India, not Indonesia, not South Korea and not Japan.
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  40.  @marcusaetius9309  Yeah they did
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  41. India is called a "subcontinent" in reference to its ethnic diversity because every state in the country has its own language, culture and ethnic group. It's basically like a continent. It's still a part of the Asian continent.
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  42.  @ozairmehmood2016  Both India and Pakistan have issues but lynching and burning a man, then taking selfies with the corpse is very sickening. I'm not from India or Pakistan but that incident with the Sri Lankan worker was reported on national TV in my country and people were really shocked. It's not something to be proud about. Religious conservatism does nothing to progress a country. India is at a crossroads between choosing religious extremism or secularism but Pakistan is so far down the lane of religious extremism that I honestly think it's beyond saving at this point (unless people collectively wake up and realise the damage it is causing).
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  43.  @uzochiokeke4328  With this attitude you're basically asking them to do as you say or be punished. Y'all sound just like the Americans at this point. Would expect you to understand this after how the Americans have treated India's decision to remain neutral in the Ukraine War but clearly not. Big countries will always push smaller countries around either bullying them or downright subjugation.
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  44.  @leonal522  Yes I fully agree with you. The foreign policies of China, India and many other Asian and African nations are rooted in non-alignment and so they have a seat on the fence where they can see both sides equally. They're able to play both sides because of their neutrality.
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  45.  @captainalex157  You have a positive attitude, you simply want the best of both worlds and I can't argue with you on that. Thanks for the discussion, it was good. :)
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  46.  @ridhwanasri5913  Hmm but that doesn't mean anything though. Thai Chinese are "Thai", practice Thai culture, speak Thai language, use Thai names and practice the Thai form of Buddhism. Everything about their identity is Thai and this is due to government policy which demanded all Chinese people in Thailand to adopt Thai culture and identity. 40% of Thai people have at least some Chinese ancestry, it's just a part of the ethnic framework of Thailand, it's not political. Just because one has a Chinese grandfather or Chinese father, does not mean they will immediately side with China. Many Thai celebrities are full or half Chinese. When a Thai actor whose half Chinese made a statement showing support for Hong Kong, he was cancelled by Chinese people in China and the popular TV show he was starring in was boycotted by Chinese people. There is a difference between "Chinese" as an ethnic identity and "Chinese" as a political identity. The same thing can apply to Singapore but in the case of Singapore, those Singaporean Chinese who empathise with China are part of a broader effort by the Chinese government to woo overseas ethnic Chinese and generate this idea that Asia is facing a threat from the US. The Chinese government is increasingly creating this idea of the need for ethnic Chinese to support China because an attack against China will be an attack against all ethnic Chinese. The Chinese government is also broadly encouraging pan-Asian sentiment in Asia in general, pushing this rhetoric that "Asian people should be in charge of Asia".
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  47.  @Toon_With_Tune  It's controlled by Pakistan so it's part of Pakistan. Just because you believe it is an "integral" part of India, does not mean the world sees it that way. China believes Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of China so should all maps depict that Arunachal Pradesh is part of China instead of India (despite the fact that India controls Arunachal Pradesh)?
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  48.  @Toon_With_Tune  That part of Kashmir is part of Pakistan, whether you like it or not. They control so it's part of Pakistan. Idc about Akhand Bharat, yes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were all part of the same country at one point in time but they're now all separate nations. Just accept it.
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  49.  @Toon_With_Tune  Don't start getting upset at China's expansionism when you believe in taking over other areas as well.
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  50.  @Toon_With_Tune  China believes that Arunachal Pradesh is proudly part of China. Will you accept their territorial "integrity" too or does it only apply to India? Why would you speak Hindi if I can't even understand it?
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