Comments by "Canice Tang" (@canicetang8837) on "The Secret Chinese War for Your Opinion!" video.
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@Shenzhou. Not by copying and making faking products. Or always going for the short cuts by poisoning foods and harming others to make profits.
By the way, even with the decay of the Qing dynasty and the 'Century of Shame' as called by the CCP liars. Did you know that the Imperial China at the time still had the Fourth largest export in the World? It was only with the internal conflict, and the subsequent disastrous planning of Mao with mass starvation, plus closing of all trades, resulted in the dire consequences where Deng was left with no other choices, but to open up? Seeking for financial, technological and advanced education help from all over the world? Including Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, the US and so on? So before you are boasting with the 'My Country. It's truly Awesome!' slogan. Please take a gander of the assistance from others who are still helping you. Such as Huawei's 5G partners from Germany, Taiwan, US and Japan. Without them, how well will their phones work, or even ZTE? Also, how many Mainlanders really like to buy domestic cars compared with foreign ones? No matter how much they voiced their boycott of anything foreign?
Besides, other than beating the KMT because they took the Japanese Forces on their shoulders. Also many defected to the CPC (Communists Party of China) during the second part of the Chinese Civil War. What possibly have the great PLA fought? I know! They were trying to sneak attack on the Vietnamese Army and got hammered back pillar to post hahaha! Seriously, what had the PLA done lately? As far as I know, they couldn't even do simple rescue at Macau after the typhoon two years ago. Most of the elite troops were out of shape, vomiting for just cleaning up garbage. But you can't blame them because they don't even have the most basic equipment for sanitary reasons! What else? Right, the Lioliang Aircraft Carrier - the same one decommissioned by the Ukrainian Army back in the 1990s for being too old and outdated.
Yes, China is the second biggest economy in the world because of the population base. However, the GDP is still well below the global average and almost three times less than Taiwan. The gap between the rich party members and their affiliates, compared with those living in the rural areas (which incidentally, are even worse off today than the times of Mao and Deng).
So good luck in your half truths and twisted propaganda messages from the Global Times, CCTV and the likes. You might fool others who do not know a thing about Beijing and the evil CCP. But not me and a bunch of overseas Chinese well educated on the true events in the Mainland.
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@catswimming3881 I don't believe in any religions because they are nothing more than a cult. But then again, I do not force my believe to others. It is up to them to realized it for themselves.
The CCP and the former Soviet CCCP is in fact a 'State' religion enforced not only as politics, but also in each of their citizens' life as well. Just like any authoritarian or one party rule nations. The leader is God and you have to follow whatever he/she said, 'or else'.
Hence quite simply, their first rule is always, 'All citizens must love the 'Party' before the 'Country'. Otherwise, this obedience, self-censorship and fear placed by the Party would be useless. Aren't all religions created much in the same way to control and expand the 'flock'? Think about it, it is no different at all.
Quite frankly, I don't agreed with everything Falun Gong said. However, certain publications were within their merits. As compared to CCP's propaganda media, which is laughable and not even recognized as trash tabloid news.
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@pyxel8926 They tried to put 'soft sell' with Confucius Institutes all over the world at the University Campuses Overseas. Also they have a giant billboard above New York City's Times Square. They are known to 'change' the wording of those articles and reports to making them even more favourable.
Jack Ma last year bought Hong Kong's last English Newspaper in South China Morning Post from a pro-CCP Malaysian business tycoon. Articles being posted are even more one sided for Beijing than ever before. Also Hong Kong's popular Chinese Newspapers are setting up offices overseas in America (US and Canada) as well. Some of which has already switched side doing the same with their free weekly newspapers in Chinatown all over.
Already there are Mainlanders immigrants who were pushing the pro-CCP agendas overseas. Along with industrial espionage in large scale with Huawei, ZTE, and other companies who stole important trade secrets and copyrights from their competitors. Some of the graduate and post-graduate students were caught stealing top secret scientific experiments in the leading edge Universities all over the world. Others were money laundering and outright doing fraud in manipulating business scams and failed deals. Such as real estate scams, immigration loopholes and so on. Many of them have ties directly with the CCP. Of course, they bought the influential politicians so they can use them as puppets in the back pockets. Several high ranking Asian based ministers in Canada. Also with Gary Locke, former Governor of Washington State and a cabinet member under Obama, had funding tied with Beijing.
Speaking of National Security. The CCP has to spent money on that to control its own people. But to put high tech surveillance to such a degree that people are living in fear? Such as the questionable 'credit point system' to prevent people from travelling? Also having cashless system where everything you spend is being controlled and recorded. What if the system failed or your money gone missing mysteriously?
I am not saying that Mainland China is not recognized for the improvement for the last 40 years. But it was only to do so in the selected cities, which majority of the people are still living in poverty. They are embracing capitalism under the tight control within their old and failed planned economics. This will failed miserably as the Empty Cities crisis, infrastructure failures, and most importantly, their last saving grace. The 'One Belt. One Road' Initiative is nothing more than money laundering in the biggest scale to those developing countries who cannot repaid the loan of these inferior and massive projects, which Beijing would simply using them as unofficial colonies. Just like parts of Africa such as Zambia, Djibouti (military base) and others, Venezuela (with the Oil), Sri Lanka (99 years using their port) and so on.
I studied the evil of the CCP when I was young growing up in Hong Kong. Unlike others, I watched a fair amount of documentaries (banned films) and reading books about them. Let's be very honest. Ask any Hong Kong immigrants overseas why they chose to do so. All of them will tell you because of the Handover back to Beijing in 1997. There is nothing good with the current regime in the Mainland since 1949. The sooner it can implode, the better it is not only for the people living there, but the entire Chinese population around the world, and the world for that matter.
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@Shenzhou. I will refute you pretty much on every single point.
First off, I am not even sure if you have personally living in Hong Kong. In particularly during the Colonial Period like I did when I was born and grew up there. For people who do not know Hong Kong's history firsthand. Hong Kong's time during the Colonial time from 1841 to 1997 can be classified as 'Location, timing, rule of laws, and luck'.
The first Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Charles Elliot, had established simple but very effective 'Rule of Laws', which were the most creative and the freest in the world, even much more than most democracies you see today. The location of the Harbour and the port made it ideal to be the trading point between the East and the West. The free trading status made it ideal. Also many of the business were shifted from Opium dealing to commercial trading of commodities, which quickly given the rises and the industrial/commercial base of these major companies you have seen today. Besides, Hong Kong government owned the land. So they make money by 'leasing' them to residential and commercial use in order to generate revenues. They left the Chinese to do whatever they wanted as long as they are not breaking laws. An example of this was the work of Dr. Henry Fok, who shipped medical and military supplies from Hong Kong to support the PLA troops during the Korean War. It was very significant. Seriously, do you think under a UK government who backed the Americans, he was allowed to help the enemy like this? But that was perfectly legal under the Hong Kong laws. Also they gave free lands to the Church, in exchange for them to do charities work helping out the poor in return. To a cash strapped, human resources poor, and lack of natural resources in such a small land. This was how they did to creatively work and get around with problems.
Also Hong Kong was benefited from the stagnation in Mainland China during this period. At the height in the 1970s and the 1980s. Hong Kong had 0.5% of the population as the Mainland. Yet the GDP output was 22% of the PRC. That's why it was significant to Deng. Hong Kong was also a recipient to British input in organized planning in the infrastructures from education, health, transportation and so on. All to modernize this city into a metropolitan one. However, a lot of blood, sweat and tears were being put in by Hong Kongers themselves to built factories for light manufacturing after the WWII to put themselves equal footings as the 'Asia's 4 Tigers' with South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. In short, the British gave a solid foundation to Hong Kong in all areas to thrive under the Colonial times. It wasn't perfect, but far better than the Beijing after 1997 for sure. Don't forget, there were a lot of fund raising and help from Hong Kong to support Mainland's disaster time and again.
In terms of Japanese copying. Sure, everyone copies to some extent. However, often the Japanese and others improve and refine on the existing models to make it even better. That's how they are staying the competitive edge where they were being admired. You needed to put in the quality of the products before customers will spent the money to buy yours in quantity. It goes hand in hand. But do you see Mainland products doing that? There is no creativity whatsoever. To put this in a simple context. Why is there 'still' a need to have smugglers hoarding baby formulas all over the world from the melamine crisis years ago? Along with other basic products? Also why is the African Swine Flu crisis still happening in the Mainland for more than 6 months, and no signs are getting better? Only worse when shameless scammers putting them up as beef to be sold instead? If you want to project yourself as improving and as a world leader, then you have to demonstrate that you can actually do it 'on your own'. When Huawei is touting the 5G, with their Overseas Partners like Sony, Ericsson, Intel, and their competitors doing all the work for them. Is that progress? Tofu Engineering to buildings because fake builders don't care for safety of their residents. Would any respectable country allowed that to happen on a large scale?
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@Shenzhou. KMT was no saint either. I seriously wished that Dr. Sun should stayed longer in charge rather than General Chiang. But compared with Mao and Chiang's time both in the Mainland and Taiwan. Seriously, which one would you choose?
Also please ask the Cambodians of what they think of the Khmer Rouge. I am not even sure if you watched the 'Killing Fields' and the horror of Pol Pot. He was backed by the CCP, was he not?
Speaking of the 'Communist Brothers', why weren't and still aren't so friendly you think? I can give you a clear answer. It has to do with the problem with religions, when it branches into the state religion as politics. In any faith based organization, there is a necessary control of power and will from the authorities to the followers so that they can be lemmings. Thus being obedient to the flock itself. That's why centuries of conflicts between major religious groups throughout the human civilizations never stopped today with each saying that 'Our God is better than Yours'.
It is no different when the original 'Communist Manifesto' from Marx and Engels were morphed into Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and each of their different interpretations on the original script. All, of course, to suit their needs of keeping control and dominance. That's why none of these Communists Brothers were seldom in friendly terms, rather than finding ways to exploiting each other. In January 1979, Deng said to President Carter during his US visit saying, 'The little child is getting naughty. It is time to be spanked.' Of course he was referring to Vietnam.
Your version of the war itself was probably according to the PLA's record and mine with the Western sources. So it will be stupid to refute. All I can say is this. Although the Vietnamese Army was inferior in numbers and weapons deployment. But they were brave and using a lot of creative guerrilla tactics, both in striking fear with the French Colonials and US Army during their decades long conflicts. They did the same with the PLA as well with various booby traps, surprise attacks and ambush to struck fears into the PLA. Most Westerner military experts and historians, including those high ranking US Army Generals, concluded that the Vietnamese Army outperformed the PLA during this battle. Besides, this war costed the CCP $3.45 Billion Yuan, which crippled their 1979-1980 economic budget. This was why Deng was desperate to get industrialized countries to help modernizing China. The first country he visited was Japan and speaking to the CEO of National (Panasonic) to invest a $220 Billion Yen plant in the Mainland and kick start the program.
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@Shenzhou. Wrong. Legislative Council (LegCo) members in the 1980s were granted by democratic elections, where anyone residing in the 18 districts were allowed to run.
Furthermore, the Chinese cities you had mentioned did have a great growth in the past several decades. However, that was expected since the modernization of the Mainland. Many of which did surpassed Hong Kong. But don't forget, it was Mao's policies that stymied the economics of the PRC. Shanghai used to the be the biggest trading port in Asia until WWII. It has regained the status once again it used to have. However, had the CCP been smart, they could had done it more than decades before.
By the way, 80% of the Huawei's components were made by the competitors and even more with ZTE. When Trump ordered the US to stop making the important components for ZTE, how quickly did ZTE went down to nothing? Please don't lie, I have friends who works in the higher up with Huawei and there are a lot more you don't want to know. Especially Huawei is pretty much the technological partner to the PLA. That's why all those glass hearts were shattered when Meng got detained by the Canadian authority for serious fraud charges in the US.
If the PLA is so great, then why refurbished an Ukrainian Aircraft Carrier slated to be scrapped in the 1990s? Especially with antiquated technologies and using older style generators and fuels? Then modelling the new ones similar to the dated designs? Speaking of which, why were the PLA elite members never even have adequate safety equipment while doing simple thing like clearing up garbage from the aftermath of Typhoon Hato in Macau, with many of them couldn't even do simple tasks and some of them fainting in the summer heat? Like I said, keep bragging your 'My Country. It's really awesome!' slogan. Except you will never convince me even if you point a gun at my head.
All those places along with Japan had great economical growth. Regardless of their one party dominating the politics for decades. Nonetheless, all have 'democratic' elections in the first place where people can freely vote. So it is really not authoritarian like you said because they are simply not like the PRC where there is only 'one' party and nothing else. Besides, it is not just the government. But the efforts rest on the citizens themselves. All of those countries with the 4 Tigers of Asia has the best education systems, steady 'Rule of Laws' (not rule by laws), lack of taxation in trades and commerce, great deal of democracy and people are striving for progress and working hard. It was completely different than the antiquated PRC planned economy system.
Although they changed somewhat to the Capitalist style. The problem with the projects such as 'Empty Cities' (2 out of 40 plus cities being occupied), non-existent zone planning between industrial and residential areas (noted that explosion of the industrial plant at Tianjin several years ago right beside a 4 stars hotel), lack of visibility in the commercial laws (so fake companies can steal intellectual properties of others operated outside of the PRC), extreme abuse and corruptions among party members taking advantage of the weak and most vulnerable.
True, there were probably a lot of dirty laundry behind every country. But none took the title of the 'Mass Murderer of the 20th Century' from Chairman Mao. No matter how much I disagreed with you, no human beings should hurt and killing others just because of opposing views. Not even a single human being, let alone 50 million plus of our own brothers and sisters. Including my own family members and many others, through no fault of their own, perished under this brutal regime.
World Bank Report in 2009 described that 500 Million in the PRC was lifted from 'extreme' to 'abject' poverty. While the CCP lapped it all up and claimed that those people are no longer poor. No, if you read the definition. The difference was in the extreme side. People were earning about $0.25 USD per day. While the abject ones were earning from $0.26 to about $1.74 USD per day. Yes, it was an improvement. But hardly to brag about.
What the CCP and its propaganda media doesn't want to show was the extreme in wealth between the city and the rural. Plus the huge gap from a poor farmer, to factory workers and those controlling the power and money. Nowhere in the world where the average salaries of the politicians are the highest except in the PRC. In the CCP, it pretty much exemplified why authoritarian rule is the necessary evil since 1949.
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@catswimming3881 In places where the Western Powers (mainly the US) were trying to promise introducing democracy to places such as Panama, Libya, Iraq and so on. They were not. In fact, they were trying to overthrow the existing dictators with rebel groups of their backing who were just as brutal. Essentially, they became the puppet regime backed by a different master.
So in a way as you can see, those countries replaced one dictator with another dictator. This has been repeated over and over again. Many of these Western backers simply believed that the conflict would be over once the original dictator is overthrown. But that's the easy part when you have the military means. The much difficult part is to get down, rolling up your sleeves to slowly educating the public about human rights and freedom, having a workable set to 'rule of law', rebuilding the networks and the infrastructures being destroyed, and everything else needed to having those people discouraged to rise once again for to improve themselves. This takes, time, money, people and a lot of effort to regain their trusts again.
Otherwise, you will have Afghanistan and other powder keg simply because the chosen war lords now becomes the new dictator. It will only get worse.
By the way, I am not saying Taiwan is perfect in comparison with the PRC under the CCP. But seriously, which one would you choose if you have an option? Exploiting the mass poor to make only the party members with their affiliates wealthy in the PRC. Is that justified? And how to the Mainlanders know what democracy really is if they don't even have a clue in the first place?
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