Youtube comments of Wei Fan (@weifan9533).

  1. Guizhou is an amazing place, they also have their own village soccer association called the Cun Chao, which directly challenges the Chinese Super League or Zhong Chao.
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  2. Z-10 looks more like the Eurocopter Tiger rather than the Apache in my opinion.
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  3. It's more because of mindset rather than anything else. Most Chinese parents, particularly those from Northern China and from large 1st tier cities, want their children to have a high degree (master's or doctor's) so that they could get a high paying white-collar office job, but there're limited positions for such type of jobs hence the competition is quite fierce and a lot of new graduates cannot find their desired white-collar jobs. On the other hand, China has a lot vacancies in terms of other types of jobs, such as mechanics, electrician, plumber, factory workers, farmers, etc.
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  4. The numbers for AEW&C planes are also outdated, according to latest estimates China now has 36+ KJ-500, 13+ KJ-200, and 4 KJ-2000 in service. And in recent years they've also been adding up their ASW plane fleet, with around 50+ KQ-200 in service.
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  5. And I believe the Chinese military does use satellite-guided precision strike weapons, if they are offering those in the export market then there's no way they wouldn't use those domestically. They already have the Beidou system which is similar to GPS. The reason why we don't really see them using those in their trainings is likely because those're rather expensive and are mostly reserved for actual conflicts rather than training.
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  6. I'm Chinese and I really like your videos, thanks for your hard-work. I do believe that the origins of Japanese and Koreans can be traced back to Northeastern China, particularly to the Hongshan and to the Xiajiadian cultures located around the West Liao River. And it's quite possible that the ancestors of proto-Japanese/Koreans had interacted with proto-Turkic people, judging by the geographic proximity. Some Han nationalists are trying hard to deny this connection and instead fervently argue that proto-Japanese/Koreans came from South China and SE Asia. But as someone of Southern Chinese descent who is quite knowledgeable about the history, culture, anthropology/genetics, and archaeology of South China, I really don't think that proto-Japanese/Koreans came from the south, judging by available evidence.
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  7. Spanish is so similar to French. I speak some French and I can understand most of what Denis Moncada said without having subtitles. I translated what he said to French: "Le gouvernement de la république de Nicaragua déclare qu'il reconnaît que dans le monde il existe une seule Chine. La république populaire de la Chine est le seul gouvernement légitime qui représente la totalité de la Chine, et Taiwan est une partie inalienable du territoire chinois. Le gouvernement de la république de Nicaragua rompt à partir d'aujourd'hui la relation diplomatique avec Taiwan." Now don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily agree with what he said, but I'm amazed by the similarity between Spanish and French. I never learnt any Spanish I only learnt some French, but I understand almost 100%. I knew the two languages are similar, but I never knew they were this similar. You don't even get such similarities between Mandarin and Cantonese.
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  8. As a Chinese Canadian with origins from PRC I sincerely apologize to the Japanese custom inspection agents for witnessing such behaviors from my countrymen. I really think that the Japanese are too kind and too tolerant towards her, if I were one of the agents I would probably report her to the police immediately. That said I hope Japanese won’t dislike or hate Chinese because of this incident. Not all Chinese are like that. It’s usually the less educated older generations who lived through the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolutions that tend to behave in such manners, whereas the younger generations are much more polite.
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  9. I'm of mainland Chinese origin and I also care about Cantonese, and for valid reasons. 1. Although HK's Cantonese also suffers from oppression from the dominant Mandarin language, it at least has its own media and has some international influence as well. While mainland Cantonese varieties, particularly the ones spoken in Western Guangdong and Guangxi, are in real danger of extinction. And they are often considered to be of lower value than the varieties spoken in Guangzhou and in HK, which is definitely not the case but this does put them in a greater danger cause a lot of youngsters are not learning them from their parents anymore. 2. Cantonese preserves some important details on the history of Guangdong and Guangxi. People tend to focus on Cantonese's connection to Middle Chinese, which I don't deny. However, Cantonese also preserves a substratum Kra-Dai or Daic vocabulary which it shares with neighboring Tai-Kradai languages such as Zhuang or Ong-Be. For instance, the word for to itch or itching in Cantonese is Hang, and in Zhuang it's Hom. The word for to step across or to stride in Cantonese is Nam or Lam, and in Tai-Kradai it's Yam or Kham. There're many such examples. Some even say that the commonly used Cantonese word 佬 which means guy or folk may have a Tai-Kradai origin as well. This means that the natives of Guangdong were likely of Kra-Dai origin and they were forced to sinicize by the medieval Sinitic dynasties such as the Tang or the Song. Those are the reasons why I'm learning both Cantonese and Zhuang at the same time and believe me learning both together definitely helps.
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  10. As someone of South China descent I really love SE Asia, I feel that we were once connected. I can find numerous similarities between SE Asians and the various Tai-Kradai, Hmong-Mien, and Austroasiatic minorities of South China. I really hope that traditions in both South China and SE Asia can be preserved.
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  11. It really depends. I genuinely do feel that small towns and villages in China have more opportunities for young people to start their businesses than first tier cities like Beijing or Shanghai. Not only the competition is much fiercer and the cost much higher in large cities, and also large cities are more strictly controlled by the government, there's barely any room for small businesses. And not to mention that the air quality and environment are generally much better in small towns and villages. Hence I'm not so sure to say that returning to smaller towns or rural areas today definitely means living in misery.
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  12. As a native Chinese, here’s a rule with Chinese restaurants that I want people to remember. The more delicious the food is, the oilier the food is, the dirtier the restaurant is. For authentic and clean Chinese restaurants I would recommend the one Xi Jinping went to several years ago called Qingfeng Steamed Buns. It’s not the most delicious steamed bun I’ve ever eaten, but at least it’s clean. But that restaurant is only found in China, not in America.
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  13. Despite you claim it being Nazi-related, I feel that the people there are rather friendly. I live in North America and here is much more Nazi-like than Argentina.
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  14. Here're the operational numbers of various Chinese warplanes, according to latest estimates: J-7: mostly retired or on reserve, only around 50 to 60 J-7G variant still in active service J-8: mostly retired or on reserve, only around 50 J-8F variant in active service J-10: 500+ in service (all variants combined) J-11B: 300+ in service J-15: 50+ J-16: 200+ in service J-20: somewhere between 60 to 100 are in service Su-30MKK: 73 in service Su-30MK2: 24 in service Su-35: 24 in service JH-7/7A: around 240 are in service H-6K: around 100 in service H-6J: around 20+ H-6N: 4+ KJ-500: 36+ KJ-200: 13+ KJ-2000: 4 KQ-200: 50+
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  15.  @wookfoot8408  I'm Chinese and I don't care at all if you tell me that. In fact I think maintaining the status quo is probably the best for the interests of both the Chinese and the Taiwanese people.
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  16.  @qarmatianwarhorse6028  AFAIK, the detection range for fighter-sized objects for KJ-500 is around 470 km according to domestic assessment. Not sure about the data for KJ-200 and KJ-2000 though.
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  17. Don't generalize, I'm Chinese and I actually like his videos. The connection between Japanese/Koreans and Tungusic/Mongolic/Turkic is something that has rarely been explored on Youtube, and I'd like to hear more about this topic. In fact even ancient Sinitic people might have some connections to proto-Turkic peoples. I feel that these days it's politically correct to connect everything to Southeast Asia no matter there's evidence or not, whereas very little attention is given to Northeast and North Asia, despite the Eurasian steppe has served as an important highway for the movements of people and ideas for millennia if not even longer.
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  18. According to recent genetic studies, ancient Sinitic peoples were in fact more similar to Mongols and Koreans, whereas modern Chinese due to heavy admixtures with southern peoples are more similar to SE Asians.
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  19.  @kaneanthony7724  IMO it's not a clash of ideology, Saudi Arabia for instance is also ideologically quite different from the US yet US has quite good relations with Saudi Arabia. It's more a clash of culture, race, and economic interests.
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  20. The Chinese version is supposed to be eaten with vegetables too. Depending on the season, as many as eight or perhaps up to a dozen different types of vegetables can be added as Caima or side dishes. I guess the Chinese Zhajiangmian you’ve eaten in New York isn’t authentic enough.
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  21.  @wotltkfkdgo  Each person is different, you cannot assume that all Chinese youths want to work in tech/finance/IT. There're many Chinese youths who want to escape the busy and crowded lives of Chinese cities. Many of them go to Dali (a tourist town in Yunnan) to find refuge.
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  22.  @cudanmang_theog  Well, from your words I can tell that such description fits you perfectly.
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  23. I'm of South China minority Baiyue descent and I support Israel. Hamas is the one who started the war and they massacred innocent civilians and also abducted many Israeli and foreign hostages. They're a terrorist organization.
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  24. She's beautiful, as a Chinese man I'm genuinely attracted to Far South Chinese, South Chinese minority, and SE Asian women. They have a unique charm in their voice and their look. Their eyes are large and shiny like black pearls. She reminds me of some Far South Chinese women from Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan that I've seen, and recent researches have indicated that the homeland of Austronesians was most likely somewhere in coastal Southern China. I know some words in Tai-Kradai languages spoken in Far South China and they indeed resemble Austronesian words. For instance the word for "eyes" in Zhuang language is "ta" or "makta", which is similar to Austronesian "mata". And the word for water in Hlai is "nom", in Zhuang is "raem", and in Ilocano language is "danom". There're many other cognates as well.
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  25. The girl said China and not Taiwan, and you shouldn't bring politics into every discussion. Traveling to China or being interested in China doesn't mean the person has to be politically aligned to China.
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  26. Haplogroup Q, more specifically the Q1a1-M120 branch, is found in China and Vietnam at low frequencies, so maybe that’s where the similarity comes from. And also Chinese archaeologists have discovered macuahuitl like weapons in Northwestern China dating back to 11,000 years ago.
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  27. As a South Chinese, I whole-heartedly support the Sakha people's will of independence from the Russian federation (as well as other independence movements in the Russian Far East if there is any), cause you guys aren't Russians, you guys have been subjugated and oppressed by the Russians, similar to how we South Chinese aren't really Sinitic but we were subjugated and oppressed by the Sinitic people.
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  28.  @Kara_Pabuc  Thanks for your support. Yes I'm a fan of genetics and anthropology and often read new papers on those topics so I think my knowledge is up-to-date, unlike some others whose info on this subject might be 10 or even 20 years old. I agree with what you said. Yes agriculture in South China, Southwest China, and neighboring SE Asia arose rather late, around 4,000 years ago or later. Before that time the whole region was dominated by Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers, which were quite distantly related to modern East and SE Asians hence cannot be the place where Japonic and Koreanic peoples originated.
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  29.  @Lysol-2004  Not even the Okinawans. A lot of Non-Japanese weeaboos love to claim SE Asian heritage for Japanese. This Monday I had a huge debate with a stubborn person who claims that Japanese are closely related to Tai-Kradai and Vietnamese, yet he couldn't provide any supporting evidence. It turns out he's not even Japanese, but a Russian dude who claims to have married to a Japanese woman.
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  30.  @Lysol-2004  And a lot of Han nationalists and Han ethnocentrists from China also love to connect South Chinese minorities and SE Asians to Japanese and Koreans. So far I haven't seen any real Japanese person making such outlandish claims.
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  31. It's a real example of the enemy of my enemy isn't always my friend. Neither side is to be trusted.
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  32. The numbers for the Flankers are debatable and are likely underestimates. According to newest sources China already has over 200 J-16 and nearly 300 J-11B/BS
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  33. The biggest issues for the Chinese air force aren't precision-guided weapons or their planes, the biggest issues IMHO are transport and logistics, especially the lack of aerial-refueling tankers. According to published data they only have around 18 or so H-6U tankers, not only the number is insufficient, but the H-6U tanker is also rather outdated and its fuel capacity is significantly lower compared to US or Russian ones. Things would change however if they manage to create (which they probably already did) and mass-produce a tanker based on the Y-20.
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  34. It's already confirmed that the Red Deer Cave people were of Homo Sapien lineage (though doesn't rule out the possibility of hybridization with a more archaic species in the region), despite the somewhat weird appearance of the skull. The Longlin sample was tested and confirmed to belong to the mitochondrial haplogroup M71, which is a rare mitochondrial lineage sporadically found today in Southern China, SE Asia, and South Asia. And in terms of their autosomal relations, it was also confirmed that Longlin was an early branch of East Eurasian along with Hoabinhian and Jomon, diverged from the ancestors of modern East Asians some 40,000 years BP.
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  35. I'm Chinese and I can confirm that "ha ha" means "out out" in Fujianese dialect. Most of Chinese restaurant owners in the US and Canada are of Fujianese origins.
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  36. It’s ironic that they mostly interviewed white people whereas there’re many Asian and African foreigners in Korea as well.
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  37.  @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368  Yet US failed in Vietnam. US can only bully countries that are much weaker than themselves. China isn't Syria or Iraq or Kosovo, China is much larger than those countries, and the technological gap between PLAAF and USAF is much smaller.
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  38.  @yo2trader539  The O1b found among Japanese and Korean speakers is O1b2, whereas the one found among South Chinese and SE Asians is O1b1a1-PK4. O1b2 and O1b1 had already diverged around 30,000 years ago, and aren't closely related at all. Nothing suggests that O1b2 originated from the Yangtse region. And Japanese phonetics isn't particularly close to Austronesian. It only resembles Hawaiian and Polynesian to some extent, but the Austronesian languages in Taiwan and SE Asia (where Austronesian is supposed to have originated) have a much more complicated phonetic system than Japanese, allowing consonant clusters and closed syllables. And nothing suggests that the Yayoi came from Yunnan. Genetically and culturally, they resemble the populations on the Korean peninsula and Manchuria the most. And the Hani (Akha) people speak a Sino-Tibetan language whereas Japanese speak Japonic, hence making their link even more untenable. Most of what you said are nothing more than rumors and far-fetched claims. Stop spreading such pseudo-science.
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  39. As someone of South China descent I really love SE Asia, I feel that we were once connected. Hope that we could reunite one day.
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  40.  @CKWong-jk5st  Yeah but you tend to only stress on how Cantonese is related to Middle Chinese and don't really want to mention its relation with the various native languages where the most important one being Kra-Dai. And I'm not offended at all I'm simply stating the truth. The Sinitic civilization is way overrated and its mathematic, philosophical, and scientific accomplishments were leagues behind the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the medieval Arabs, and the Renaissance Europeans. Not to mention that the Sinitic people were quite authoritarian and actively suppressed the natives of South China. The PRC isn't an anomaly in fact it's merely a continuation of the authoritarian Sinitic dynasties of the past. And genetically speaking Cantonese cluster with neighboring Kra-Dai and Kinh people rather than with North Chinese. Hence if you're Cantonese then there's really no reason for you to worship the Sinitic people who might very well have enslaved and tortured your Kra-Dai ancestors and forced them to sinicize.
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  41.  @davenobody407  The west needs more objective people like you. I definitely feel that the current anti-China trend in the west shows a deep lack of understanding about China not only about its regime but also about its peoples and cultures.
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  42. Well, if China ever sends spy planes or spy ships close to American or Canadian territory, then I’m certain that American or Canadian pilots would act in a similar way, if not more aggressive.
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  43.  @BeMyArt  It's true that China still needs to improve the working conditions of its workers, particularly the blue-collared ones. However, there're still opportunities in those domains. True story, one of my mom's colleague's child was a high-school drop-out in Beijing, he then studied mechanics in a vocational school, and when graduated he became an auto mechanic first and then began selling cars. And now he's making way more money than university graduates, and has already found the love of his life.
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  44. As an oversea Chinese, I thank you for your kind gesture. Now it's actually a good time to travel to China since the strict covid measures have been eased. Chinese people are generally very hospitable to foreign visitors, and there're a variety of foods and cultures that you could try and experience.
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  45. Another excellent production, I've learnt a lot from your videos.
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  46. The Coastal Migration hypothesis is now largely discarded because we have found East Eurasian relatives or potentially Early East Eurasian members in Siberia and Eastern Europe, such as Ust-Ishim, Oase, and Bacho Kiro. In particular, it has been determined that Bacho Kiro people directly contributed to the genome of modern East Asians. A likely migration route of East Eurasians is from Egypt through Anatolia to Southeastern Europe, and then eastward to Siberia and Central Asia, and eventually reaching East Asia. The place where the ancestors of Negritos diverged from the ancestors of modern East Asians is still controversial, they could have diverged from the East Asian lineage somewhere in Central Asia and then moved southward. Alternatively, the two could have diverged somewhere in East Asia, with the ancestors of Negritos moving south to SE Asia and the ancestors of East Asians largely staying in Northern East Asia. All these events should have happened around or before 40 kya.
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  47.  @robto  Can't say for certain just yet, but these newly discoveries are making the Southern Coastal origin hypothesis of East Eurasians increasingly untenable. According to the newest studies, East Eurasians seem to be strongly associated with the IUP (Initial Upper Paleolithic) tradition that was once widespread in Northern Eurasia, but later got largely replaced by UP (Upper Paleolithic), which is generally associated with the spread of West Eurasians.
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  48. The cost of rearing a child is just way too high, especially in large Chinese metropolis like Beijing or Shanghai. I totally understand why couples in Beijing don’t want to have more children.
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  49.  @adamnesico  Alone maybe, but old and poor definitely not. If I don't have any child then I can save hundreds of thousands of dollars all on myself.
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  50. Communists may be bad, but trust me the Chinese far right is even worse. US is destroying itself by importing these Chinese far right groups into the country.
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  51.  @changchadchanamdong2668  According to recent genetic researches, the ancient Central Plains people (Yangshao and Longshan) were quite northern-shifted and were quite close to Koreans and Japanese on the autosomal graph, and weren't close to ancient or modern SE Asians at all. And stories of dragons in one form or another can be found all over Eurasia, it definitely isn't particular to SE Asia.
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  52.  @yo2trader539  Nope stop lying what you said are fringe hypotheses not mainstream view. The mainstream view is that Japonic is an isolated family with no close connection to any other living family, except perhaps the newly proposed Trans-Eurasian. Newest genetic research, particularly a paper published last year, has already determined that the Yayoi were a northern people related to the inhabitants of the West Liao and Amur regions. Just because they had rice farming doesn't mean they necessarily came from the south; technology can spread far and wide through trade and exchanges to places way beyond the reach of its original creators. To give a similar example, the ancient Sinitic Shang and Zhou dynasties used chariots, and according to your logic they must be Egyptians or Hittites, yet we all know that wasn't the case.
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  53.  @yo2trader539  Again, please stop spreading fringe hypotheses and unfounded claims. Japanese is Japonic and shares no close relation to any living family, except maybe Koreanic and the newly proposed Transeurasian by Martine Robbeets, that's the current mainstream view. I trust modern genetics and linguistics much more than some obscure historical records. Things like culture and customs and even religion are subject to change and to outside influences, and hence aren't the most reliable evidence when determining population origin and relatedness. Yi/Hani people speak Sino-Tibetan languages, aren't known to be great rice cultivators, and their haplogroup composition also doesn't resemble the Japanese. Rice cultivation, just like any other technology, has spread far and wide through exchanges and trade way beyond the reach of its inventors. Having rice cultivation doesn't necessarily indicate a southern origin. And no, rice cultivation in Northern China isn't a 20th century phenomenon, it had existed in Henan, Shandong, and Korea for thousands of years, and it's much more likely that rice cultivation in Japan had come from Korea and nearby regions of southern Manchuria rather than from faraway places like Southwest China or SE Asia.
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  54.  @CKWong-jk5st  Nothing proves that Kra-Dai originated from the Yue kingdom in Zhejiang. AFAIK, the most recent hypothesis proposed by Blench (2018) is that Tai-Kradai originated as a branch of Austronesian which back-migrated to South China from Taiwan and its place of origin was somewhere in Guangdong around the Pearl River Delta. This kind of makes sense to me, as Cantonese is the only Sinitic language to contain a substantial amount of Kra-Dai substratum vocabulary. Anyways, Cantonese definitely has a relation with Kra-Dai, and I feel quite sad that people tend to only focus on its relation to Middle Chinese and completely ignore its connection to the native languages of South China. And I stand firm against any eradication of the indigenous languages of the region, be it Cantonese, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien, or others.
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  55.  @gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810  The history of Northern China (where ancient Sinitic people and culture originated from) is indeed closely intertwined with that of the Eurasian steppe, there's no doubt about that. But I'm of Southern Chinese descent and the natives of Southern China are closely related to those of SE Asia, there's no doubt about that as well. China is a large country that covers different geographical and cultural zones, and you shouldn't lump everything together. Mandarin is the official language of China but it isn't the mother tongue for most Southern Chinese. Instead in Southern China we speak various dialects and languages that are drastically different from Mandarin, and there're also many ethnic groups that speak Tai-Kradai, Hmong-Mien, and Austroasiatic languages. I appreciate your support for China and your love of Chinese history and the Mandarin language, but I hope that you understand that China is a very diverse country.
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  56.  @happymelon7129  The consumption of coffee in general has seen a sharp increase in China particularly among the youth, it's not just Starbucks.
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  57. There're only some Tibeto-Burman tribes that are similar to those of NE India, others like the Tai-Kradai, Hmong-Mien, and Austroasiatic tribes are similar to those found in Southern China and SE Asia.
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  58.  @meirung  我是个海外华人，13岁就跟家人移民加拿大了。刚出国的时候我也曾经非常想融入当地社会，同时憎恨关于中国的一切想抹去自己身上跟中国相关的一切印记。海外华人跟我有同样想法的并不少，甚至有些中国人在出国之后就靠着诋毁中国和中国人赚钱。可后来随着年龄的增长我逐渐发现，融合是徒劳的因为当地人并不是很欢迎外来移民，而且自卑自恨的人在哪里都得不到尊重，所以我对中国的看法也就逐渐转变了。中国虽然有这样那样的问题但毕竟是我的祖国，我身上的中国烙印可能这辈子都很难抹去。还有我逐渐开始对中国南方少数民族的文化感兴趣，并自学了一些壮语和傣语，能唱几首壮族歌和傣族歌。以上就是我的心路历程。不知道你有没有Facebook或者微信，如果有的话咱们可以加个好友，有空可以聊聊。
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  59. Even some pure blooded South Chinese and SE Asians can look mixed, that's likely because of their Austronesian, Tai-Kradai, and Austroasiatic admixtures. And these peoples in turn got that mixed look from the Hoabinhians or related groups, who were the indgenous hunter-gatherers of South China and SE Asia, and who belonged to an early East Eurasian lineage.
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  60.  @robto  Are you talking about the MZR study (the 14 kya sample from Yunnan)? That's a Chinese study and I doubt some of their interpretations. The results from that study showed that the MZR sample shares the closest relation to modern populations of Southern China (which is to be expected), and then to the prehistoric and modern populations of Northern China, and is furthest away from prehistoric Hoabinhian and modern SE Asians. Yet the authors of that paper still made the conclusion that MZR and all East Eurasians originated from SE Asia. And I think their conclusion is problematic and is contradictory to the results they've found.
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  61.  @robto  I remember the 2015 or 2016 paper said that the ancestors of East Asians had a 2nd admixture event with the Neanderthals in addition to the common one shared by East and West Eurasians, hence their higher Neanderthal genome. And to me this indicates that they likely took a northern route.
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  62.  @sklu309  Nope the Dai language and culture are more similar to Thai and Laotian, whereas your culture and language are more similar to Tibetan and Burmese. The Dai language is part of the Tai-Kradai family, whereas the Meiteis language is part of the Sino-Tibetan family.
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  63.  @yo2trader539  Nothing supports your claim that O1b2 originated from the Yangtse region. Like I said it had already diverged from O1b1 around 30,000 years ago, way earlier than the appearance of rice farming. In fact the closest lineage to South Chinese and SE Asian O1b1a1-PK4 isn't even O1b2, but a clade named O1b1a2-Page 59 that can be sporadically found in Northern and Central China. PK4 and Page 59 diverged around 10,000 years ago. And to be even more precise, the specific Japanese clade O1b2-CTS713 is entirely absent in regions south of the Yangtse, yet its upstream clades can be found in places like Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Inner Mongolia.
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  64.  @yo2trader539  And last but not least, there're cold-adapted rice strains that are being cultivated in Korea and Manchuria. This might come off as a surprise to you, but Northeast China is actually one of the most important rice-producing regions of China.
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  65.  @yo2trader539  Geneticists are able to determine that the Yayoi were a northern people composed of a West Liao River or Amur River genome and a native Jomon genome (please refer to the Japanese genetic paper published in early 2021). TBH it doesn't matter that much what language they spoke. Even if they spoke English, their genetic profile still indicates that they were of Northeast Asian origin. I don't deny the Japanese might have negligeable trace amounts of SE Asian, but the bulk of their population originated from nearby Korea or Manchuria and has nothing to do with SE Asia. And this is proven by genetics and archaeology.
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  66. Your words are 100% true. I'm a person from mainland China who dislikes Chinese Han nationalists with a passion, cause they really really look down on other ethnic groups in the country, using very racist and abusive language to label the minorities of South China and also the Cantonese who they consider to be too SE Asian looking, such as "Malay monkeys" or "Malay negritos". And the sad part is a lot of them don't even realize that they are racist and instead they say they are bringing "culture and civilization" to the Cantonese and South China minorities.
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  67. The preference for pale skin in East Asia aesthetics isn’t something related to western colonialism it has existed for thousands of years, but the preference for large eyes in East Asia is indeed a more recent phenomenon dating back to the last century.
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  68.  @kaneanthony7724  Believe me, we Chinese don't want to dominate and colonize the world at all unlike what you westerners have done, we just try to make ourselves live better and trade with more people, yet somehow our developments make the US jealous and they're trying everything they could to stop our growth. It's definitely not about ideology or not solely about ideology, but more about economic/trade interests, resources, regional influence, culture, race, etc.
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  69.  @radiofreealbemuth8540  But you cannot deny that race is still quite important and US has a lot of race-related issues, like Black Lives Matter and more recently Asian Lives Matter. I'm not as politically correct as you and I would say that race definitely plays a role in the current US-China conflict.
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  70. Hello Khan's Den, I've been your subscriber for nearly a year now, and I really like the content that you're making. I'm moved by the fact that you as a modern Turkish person is trying hard to trace back the lost history of the Turkic peoples. I'm also an amateur historian and I'd like to create my own videos too but I'm a total noob at making videos, so I think maybe we could collaborate someday. I'm of Southwestern Chinese descent and my main interest is the history of Southern and Southwestern China. It may sound like that we have nothing in common, but actually we are both peoples with lost histories, and in my case perhaps even more so than yours cause we have this "Sinocentric historiography" that has been superimposed upon us for ages, trying hard to erase the natives of Southern China from the picture. So there're definitely some similarities between us and I could see us making a collab someday. And although my main interest in Southern China/SE Asia, that doesn't mean I have 0 historical knowledge of other regions of Asia, in fact I consider myself to be quite well-versed in the history of Northern China, Korea, Japan, and the Eastern Steppe, and I can definitely contribute to your videos. Please continue to make this excellent series, I couldn't wait to see your next videos, and if you really want some collab please leave a comment here, thank you.
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  71.  @SergioSalasP  They would eventually need those if they try to extend their reach beyond the 1st island chain, which is what they're trying to do.
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  72.  @seancatacombs  To progress towards a more free and humane society I feel that East Asians in particular Chinese need to give up some of their old traditions.
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  73.  @JoeyLevenson  Yep, I feel that Asian parents are too possessive most of the times and don't give their children as much liberty.
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  74.  @chakkrapongrattanavong1678  Kra-Dai and Austronesians are closely related, they once belonged to the same family called Austro-Tai. The Hlai used to tattoo their faces and their traditional bamboo dance is very similar to Filipino Tinikling. Such dance forms can also be found among the Zhuang people in Guangxi, indicating a common origin.
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  75.  @chakkrapongrattanavong1678  And also the Hlai people preserved the original Kradai numbers unlike Thai/Lao who borrowed Sinitic numbers.
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  76.  @wakhansharma8225  You guys are Tibeto-Burmans originating from Tibet and Sichuan so stop claiming the heritage of other southern peoples like Austroasiatic, Tai-Kradai, and Hmong-Mien.
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  77.  @meirung  哇，你的中文水平相当地道可能比我的都好。现在会说中文的外国人不少但能到达你这种水平的凤毛麟角。感谢你对中国的喜爱，大连是一座很美的海滨城市我小时候去过那里。祝你今后在中国的学习生活一切顺利！
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  78.  @robto  Most of those studies that associate the lineage of current day East Asians and Native Americans starting off in Southern China and SE Asia are a decade old or maybe even older (like the one mentioned in the video which was from 2010), and don't really worth looking at anymore. The newest studies are the ones that count. Again, I'm not saying that we should definitely discard the Southern Coastal hypothesis, feel free to believe what you want to believe. But the newest studies indeed raised some doubts against the Southern Coastal hypothesis.
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  79.  @robto  And I also remember there was a 2015 or 2016 study which mentioned that East Asians on average have a higher Neanderthal genome input than Europeans. If the ancestors of East Asians really traveled by the Southern Coastal route, then that shouldn't be the case, since Neanderthals were a cold adapted species that lived in Northern Eurasia.
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  80.  @robto  I think the issue of the migration of East Eurasians is far from settled and more samples from the past (particularly the Upper Paleolithic era) are definitely needed to resolve the issue. Hope that we can both agree on this at least. In the meantime you can keep your opinion and I'll keep mine. There's no need to drag on the debate since even the scientists don't have a definite answer yet.
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  81. They set the international standard for Paocai, not for Kimchi. The ISO deems the two as different.
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  82. @@luhg287 How would you feel if I said all your people are bad? Really stop categorizing or generalizing the entirety of the Chinese population. Many Chinese youngsters are quite polite and decent, much better than the older generations.
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  83. As a Chinese, I express pity and condolences towards my SE Asian brothers and sisters. But then again, millions of Chinese people need electricity too. I don’t think it’s fair or just to blame China on this matter. It’s sad to see that some people are trying to stir up troubles between Chinese and SE Asians to make us hate each other, but genetically, linguistically, and culturally speaking, Southern and Southwestern Chinese are very close to SE Asians. We are brothers and sisters by blood.
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  84.  @yo2trader539  And linking Yi and Hani to Japanese is untenable and far-fetched, to say the least. Both Yi and Hani speak a Sino-Tibetan language, hence they aren't even in the same language family as Japanese, which is Japonic. And secondly Yi and Hani are mostly known for their buckwheat, they aren't really known for rice farming.
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  85.  @yo2trader539  And regarding the alcohol flushing gene, first of all it has nothing to do with Y-chromosome haplogroup but is more of an environmental adaptation. And secondly it reaches its peak in Eastern China, and the ethnic minorities in Southwest China actually have a higher tolerance to alcohol than Eastern Chinese and wouldn't flush that easily. Really stop spreading pseudo-science and far-fetched unfounded claims.
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  86.  @YorgosL1  Thanks for recognizing your native roots. I can only speak from a genetic POV. Cantonese and Vietnamese are closely related genetically speaking both are predominantly Southern East Asian.
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  87.  @hylimm  Stop finding excuses for China. If you truly want the situation to get better there then you should start to sympathize with the minorities yourself. I've debated with many Han Chinese over the years who hold extremely racist and prejudiced views against the minorities (particularly against the ones from South China), and I'd say that the issue is definitely not just at the government level.
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  88. Laos should be +20 or +30 when viewing China, they have a quite good relation with China in recent years.
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  89.  @tsoii  Martine Robbeets' new Transeurasian hypothesis does carry some weight. And also, although it may be a bit far-fetched to connect Japanese/Korean to Turks or Mongols, it's even more far-fetched to connect them to South Chinese or SE Asians as some opponents of the Altaic hypothesis did. Personally, I believe that Japanese/Koreans linguistically are their own thing not closely related to anyone else, though genetically they're close to some Tungusic groups.
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  90.  @snuscaboose1942  Most of what you hear from western media are fabricated info without any concrete evidence whatsoever. The conflict is most about culture, race, and economic/trade interests, not about ideology. US coexists very well with countries like Saudi Arabia for instance, who has a completely different ideology. And historically US had fought with many countries who weren't communists, such as Japan, Germany, Italy, UK, Canada, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
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  91.  @kaneanthony7724  Well, we don't have military bases all around the world unlike the US. The US has invaded many countries in the past two hundred years of its existence and China barely invaded any. In the past 2 centuries the US only had no wars for 16 years! Yes, you heard it right, merely 16 years without war in the span of two centuries! And you guys also killed countless Native Americans, and send their children to boarding schools, forced them to assimilate. The statistics speak for itself, the US is much more of a threat to global peace than China. Your claims are pointless in front of statistics. It's impossible for us to trust US. Very unfortunate.
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  92.  @kaneanthony7724  Yet you have no proofs whatsoever about China doing them today. The truth is minorities actually have a higher social status than Han Chinese in China. They were never subjected to the infamous one-child policy (which I hate even though I'm Chinese), and they receive numerous benefits and advantages over the Han majority for instance they would get bonus points in university entrance exams due to their minority status. And the west are still doing it today. For instance the Australian soldiers are torturing Afghan prisoners and killing Afghan civilians for fun.
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  93.  @kaneanthony7724  Well, Chinese Nationalists are still Chinese. And the Communists did fight the Japanese they organized anti-Japanese guerilla warbands in Manchukuo and in North China, which forced the Japanese to divert some of their attention and resources back to the already subjugated regions and thus hindering their expansions. And the reasons why the West helped China during WW2 were basically that 1. Japan was foolish enough to attack US and UK garrisons in SE Asia and the Pearl Harbor and 2. They didn't want to see China colonized by Japan because that would provide millions of fresh manpower and resources for the already quite strong IJA. In brief, the West helped China not because of friendship but because of their own interests. And now that China has become stronger the West has revealed their true jealous faces.
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  94.  @kaneanthony7724  1. Taiwan isn't as good as what you think, Taiwan's prime minister Tsai Ing-wen lied about her academic credentials. The infighting between different factions in Taiwan is huge. I'm not jealous about Taiwan at all. 2. I'm against taking Taiwan by force, and there're many Chinese who share my opinion. Taking Taiwan by force would certainly cause a lot of death and destruction, and the costs of rebuilding Taiwan after the war would certainly be allocated to Chinese taxpayers. 3. You're probably not even a westerner but a taiwanese pretending to be a westerner with a fake western name. Did your beloved Mrs Tsai pay you 1450 today?
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  95.  @kaneanthony7724  Yeah, keep on trying to fake your identity. And if you're really Australian then you should care more about the Morrison government instead of focusing on CCP. No matter CCP is bad or not it has nothing to do with you. And ultimately it's the people of China that decide whether CCP is bad or not, not you. Mind your own business, stop interfering others. The world needs more people that respect other cultures and races, not someone who constantly tries to interfere with other people's business, topple other regimes and causing massive amounts of refugees. I understand that CCP has many problems, but they're changing gradually and for now they're still the most suitable party to govern this large country. You're not Chinese and you don't understand anything about China, so please refrain from making sweeping generalizations.
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  96. Really why can't we just acknowledge, tolerate, and respect the differences? Paocai is paocai and kimchi is kimchi, both sides need to stop claiming to be the origin of the other.
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  97.  @tianlechen  Yep, I think that's also one of the hindering reasons apart from mindset, preventing Chinese people from going to blue-collar jobs. China still has a long way to go in this aspect. Most labor jobs in China don't have labor unions at all and even for the ones who have they are largely ineffective. Though I don't think this issue will be solved anytime soon, unless China becomes truly democratic and westernized. I think most of China's problems come from this 2,000-year-old autocratic regime that doesn't treat humans like what they should be treated, and such autocratic thinking has been deeply imprinted on Chinese culture, from parenting to government.
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  98.  @demonvictim  I'm not the one telling them to go back to where they came from. A lot of them made the decisions themselves. Urban China isn't really a decent place to live either, it's highly polluted, highly crowded, highly competitive with hundreds or even thousands of people competing for the same job, working very long hours and won't get paid for overtime, and it may still get flooded even in urban areas (please go check the Beijing July 21st flood happened in 2012 if you don't believe me).
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  99.  @Hanshu2270  The greatest diversity of Austroasiatic languages is found on the SE Asian peninsula and not in NE India. And the greatest diversity of Tai-Kradai languages is found in Southern China. You need to stop claiming that NE India is the origin of everything. You guys are pred Tibeto-Burman genetically speaking, mixed with some South Asian.
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  100. Je suis chinois mais j'habite à Montréal depuis plus de 15 ans, et je trouve que la plupart des Occidentaux ne comprennent pas mon pays d'origine. Certainement il y a des mesures de confinement qui sont plutôt strictes, mais d'après ce que je sais (j'ai plein d'amis et de connaisances là-bas et ils habitent dans plusiers provinces) la plupart des chinois soutiennent le gouvernement pour adopter une mesure plus stricte contre la propagation du Covid. Il faut d'abord comprendre que la Chine n'est jamais une société individualiste mais plutôt collectiviste, donc les valeurs fondamentales pour les Occidentaux (comme la liberté la démocratie etc.) ne sont pas nécessairement partagées par les chinois. Donc avant de dire n'importe quoi sur la Chine et les chinois il faut penser à ces aspects, car la culture chinoise est tellement différente de celle des vôtres. En plus la Chine est beaucoup plus peuplée que le Québec et la densité du peuplement est beaucoup plus grande aussi, donc s'il n'y avait pas les mesures de confinement en place, le Covid va se propager rapidement et des milliers de chinois deviendront malades et mouriront. Est-ce que ça sera le résultat que vous voulez voir? Peut-être vous vous en fichez mais je veux pas voir mes compatriotes mourir par milliers. Je veux pas glorifier le gouvernement chinois, il y a beaucoup d'aspects que je trouve qu'il pourra faire mieux, mais il ne faut pas dire n'importe quoi contre la Chine et le peuple chinois non plus. J'entends souvent que les Québécois disent que si les immigrants ne veulent pas apprendre le français et s'adapter au mode de vie québécois bah dans ce cas il vaut mieux de quitter cette province. Et je vais vous donner le même conseil: si vous trouvez que la mentalité collectiviste et les mesures de confinement en Chine sont vraiment inacceptables, bah dans ce cas la Chine n'est peut-être pas le pays idéal pour vous d'y rester.
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  101.  @marcuspetrucci8145  Vous avez raison en fait. Mon plan sera de retourner en Chine et de recommencer ma vie là-bas ou bien aller vers un autre pays asiatique comme le Singapoure. Malgré que j'ai resté ici pendant très longtemps, j'ai jamais pensé que je suis québécois et les gens ne me traitent pas comme ça non plus. Je me sens comme un étranger indésirable ici. En fait je trouve que les québécois n'aiment pas vraiment les immigrants, particulièrement ceux qui viennent de pays non-francophones et qui appartiennent à une race différente, comme les asiatiques. Avec les sentiments racistes et anti-asiatiques qui montent au Canada et aux États-Unis, je ne me sens plus en sécurité en vivant ici.
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  102.  @StrataVision  Dude you're overreacting calm down. She said China plus Hong Kong and Taiwan, she did not imply that the two are part of China. Though Hong Kong is technically a part of China no matter you like it or not, more specifically it's one of the two special administrative regions within China (the other being Macau). The British handed Hong Kong over to China on July 1st 1997, and it's no longer a British colony after that date. As for Taiwan, I agree that it isn't a part of China, since it has its own government that acts independently of China. And what does social credit have to do with Belarusian? You don't even know what you're talking about. And free lifetime Chinese visa only exists in your dream; a foreign visitor to China can only apply for a travel or visiting family visa from what I know, which lasts for ten years but each stay cannot be over 180 days. And there're millions of Chinese living and studying abroad, it's not the case that Chinese can never leave China. Really you have no clues at all about China.
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  103.  @StrataVision  Thanks for deleting the comment. I know you're joking but still such comments make me somewhat uncomfortable as a person of Chinese descent. China definitely has some issues but so does any other country no one is perfect. The world needs more tolerance and not hate. It's up to the Chinese to decide what is the best for their country and I'm afraid that others who haven't lived in China don't really have a say on this. And I agree that Taiwan is not a part of China, though so far China hasn't really made any real moves on Taiwan, unlike what Russians are doing in Ukraine.
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  104. ​ @peterfireflylund  What treaty did China break may I ask? Hong Kong is still classified as SAR and is not grouped under another Chinese province. What you're saying does not make any sense. And HK is legally a part of China, which it has been since July 1st 1997 when the UK handed over HK to China. Unless HK could manage to gain independence, it'll always be a part of China according to recognized international law. There's no "brutal occupation" to speak of since it is Chinese territory. You're the one that is breaking the Sino-British Joint Declaration by not recognizing HK as a part of China after the handover.
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  105. Very objective analysis about China that is hard to find on Youtube these days. I appreciate your awesome work, you obviously took the time to look into the issue, unlike many other clickbait youtubers.
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  106.  @fantastichuge7006  Such dances are quite common among the ethnic minorities of Southern China, indicating that Austronesians and the Kradai minorities of Southern China likely had a common origin.
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  107.  @yo2trader539  Stop spreading false information, nothing proves that the Yayoi were of Yangtse origin. Having rice doesn't mean they necessarily came from the south as technology can spread among different peoples who share little to no relation to one another. Gosh, I see your trolling comment under nearly every comment for this video.
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  108.  @tingtingnoy3133  You Northeast Indians need to stop claiming Tai Lue and other Tai-Kradai cultures. Tai-Kradai peoples originated from Southern China, and the greatest diversity of this language family is still found in Southern China.
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  109. I think the Chinese mindset is gradually changing regarding leftover women and men. Before it was considered strange not to get married before the age of 25, but nowadays in China it's extremely common for young people to not get married over 25 or even over 30.
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  110.  @AllenYangZzz  Depends on which generation you're talking about, I'd say among the young generations such behavior is less than 20%.
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  111. As a Chinese I agree with most of what you said, China does have a lot of internal problems, but the thing is Chinese navy isn’t weak at all, in fact it’s second only to the US navy I would say both in terms of quality and quantity, with at least dozens of new warships entering service annually. So don't underestimate China's military power. US is definitely playing with fire by aggressing and threatening China. And I'm not sure why a lot of racist bastards here are hoping to see China's collapse. If China collapsed, then it won't just be a humanitarian crisis on a scale never seen before, the world economy and the supply chain would also be severely affected or even completely overturned. You won't have any cheap stuff to buy from Walmart. So use your brains and think twice before you comment! It's not just black lives and white lives, Chinese lives matter too! With that being said however, I do hope that the Chinese government or future Chinese leaders (I don't have too much hope on the current one) could ease or replace certain policies that are detrimental to China and Chinese people.
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  112.  @purple.requiem  South China and North China are completely different, we have more in common with SE Asians than with North Chinese. Our differences are even bigger than the differences between Russia and Ukraine or between North and South Korea. A breakup is necessary and it won't end us all. On the contrary it will help with regional developments and also it will help China becoming more democratic.
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  113. I would say it’s mostly because of 2 reasons: 1. No one would ever attempt a direct land invasion of China at this age. 2. The tanks that are used by China’s potential adversaries are a lot more outdated. Hence they saved money to develop their air force and navy. For ground forces they rely on numbers.
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  114. As a Chinese person, I trust neither the West nor Russia. Why do we have to take sides? Why can’t we just be ourselves? Both the West and Russia have harmed China in the past, and are still trying to harm us, I trust neither. I don’t fully trust the CCP and Xi either, but then again we don’t have a better choice at the moment. I wish that our race (the Asia-Pacific race) could stop fighting one another and all East and Southeast Asian countries could unite our forces, if that happens we’ll be stronger than both, and the world will finally hear our voice. Long live Austronesian, Tai-Kradai, Hmong-Mien, Austroasiatic, and Sino-Tibetan, we are one race and if we stand together we can be strong.
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  115.  @JackTheShadowMuncher  I understand our government isn't perfect, in fact no government is perfect in this world. But at least it managed to lift millions of Chinese out of poverty, something that no or few other governments have ever managed to achieve. If our government doesn't care about our lives, then please enlighten me on which government actually cares about Chinese lives in this world. The American government or the Russian government? If that's the case, then please explain to me why anti-Asian hate crimes have been on the rise in the west, and nobody has done anything to stop it.
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  116. @@PAAP0CHKA Nope, Korean natives did not flee to China but most of them probably fled to Japan in case of wars or turmoil. Japanese Yayoi culture was very similar to the Mumun/Songkukri culture that had flourished in the southern portion of the Korean peninsula around 900 BC. Korean and Japanese specific Y-chromosome haplogroup O1b2-M176 is extremely rare in China, and Korean/Japanese specific D1a2a is even rarer there. Goguryeo wasn't Turkic or Mongolic, but it was nonetheless a Northeast Asian empire and its people likely shared similar physical and genetic traits with surrounding populations. The Goguryeo tumuli was basically a continuation of the burial traditions of the steppe and of Northern China (kurgans and earthen mounds), whereas being drastically different from the burial traditions of South China (cliff burials, cave burials, etc.). Japanese Kofun tumuli also likely had an origin in Northeast Asia or Northern China. Really if you look carefully enough then you can find many northern elements among Koreans and Japanese.
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  117. @@PAAP0CHKA Looks can be deceiving, genetics are much more reliable. Genetics have shown that Korean and Japanese are in fact closely related, forming a tight cluster on the PCA chart, whereas Chinese are more spread out, with North Chinese being somewhat close to the Korean-Japanese cluster whereas South Chinese are on the other end of the spectrum clustering closely to SE Asian populations like Tai-Kradai and Viets. And even in terms of looks Koreans aren't that similar to Chinese. I'd say that only some North Chinese or East Chinese may look similar to Koreans, whereas West and South Chinese look noticeably different.
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  118. @@PAAP0CHKA It's true that the Eurasian steppes and the North China plains are both vast areas, but cultures, ideas, peoples, and religions indeed got spread fairly quickly and easily in those areas thanks to the mostly flat terrains, contrary to the hilly and watery South. Hence we see similarities amongst the Scythian kurgans, North Chinese earthen mounds, and Goguryeo/Shilla/Kofun tumuli.
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  119. Actually I don't really mind that Koreans claim ancient Sinitic monuments, palaces, or even dynasties as your own, cause recent genetic studies indicate that the ancient Sinitic people were more northern-shifted than today's Chinese and were closely related to Koreans. As someone of Southwestern Chinese descent, I don't really feel too much connection to ancient Sinitic dynasties such as Han, Tang, or Ming, but rather I identify more with historical kingdoms and peoples that had existed in Southwest China, such as Baiyue, Baipu, Ba, Shu, Yelang, Dian, Luoyue, Xi'ou, Li, Raeu, Bo, Nanzhao, Dali, etc.
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  120.  @StyleswithCourtney  The rule of thumb is large restaurant chains in China are cleaner but the food would often times taste blander, whereas smaller restaurants may taste better but they are also dirtier.
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  121.  @hylimm  I think in China's case there's prejudice against the minorities at both government levels and people's levels. This is the sad truth.
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  122.  @kurousagi8155  Yes I'm talking about operational numbers. As of Feb 2021 there're around 200+ J-16 in service.
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  123. I was busy with work and life and haven’t got a chance to watch your videos for a long time. The quality of this video has amazed me, you’ve done a great job, bravo! Do you still remember the slides that I’ve sent you last year and the possible collaboration that we could do together? If so please reply, thanks.
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  124.  @radiofreealbemuth8540  LOL China threatens to nuke Japan and Australia? Where did you hear about these lies? It's true that China has an uneasy relation with Japan and Australia at the moment, but China never threatened to nuke them. Stop fabricating misleading info about China!
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  125.  @kaneanthony7724  I'm curious too why you don't get a real job instead of being a troll of Tsai Ing-wen's green party to spread hateful comments on Youtube? You seem like an intelligent guy.
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  126.  @kaneanthony7724  Well, CCP never sent anything close to Australia and New Zealand AFAIK, however US, UK, and Australia have all sent their subs and warships close to China's waters. The five-eyes are the ones that are causing troubles in the region, not China. If you don't want to interfere about matters related to China then you shouldn't be arguing with me in the first place. And if you have nothing else to say other than repeatedly and shamelessly accusing me as "wumao" without any evidence, then you'd better shut your mouth and mind your own business. I'm done arguing with you.
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  127. Pls do not generalize all Chinese guys cause we all have different personal preferences. Personally I'm not that attracted to Russian or Ukrainian women, instead I'm much more attracted to Far South Chinese and SE Asian women.
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  128. There's indeed an obesity problem in China, however it's mostly Northern Chinese that have this problem, Southern Chinese are more fit. And although doing some physical training and exercises is good for those obese kids, I don't like the extremely strict, almost military like atmosphere of those training camps. What does losing weight have anything to do with respect of one's superiors? They're imbuing those kids with outdated Confucianist values, which will limit their imagination and creativity.
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  129.  @CheLanguages  Well whether you like it or not, TW and CH are now separate nations, and you shouldn't use one to represent the other. Most TW people don't want to be associated with China, and they definitely wouldn't want to see their flag be used to represent China.
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  130.  @aislt8786  Unfortunately most Chinese parents still think that way. They treat their kids as their subjects.
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  131. Great news! Happy to see such a liar gets arrested! Justice might be late, but it's never absent.
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  132.  @虎瀬野  Not just Yunnan, neighboring Guangxi and Guizhou have many ethnic minorities as well
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  133.  @aung4842  Right, and plus it's not supported by genetics and physical anthropology (skull features). The ancient Sinitic people were a Northern East Asian people closely related to Koreans, Japanese, and Inner Mongolians.
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  134. I don't think the US naval hegemony will end anytime soon, though China is definitely catching up quickly and is closing the gap.
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  135.  @Hanshu2270  Do you understand English? When did I suggest that Austroasiatic or Tai-Kradai ought to correspond to any modern nation state? However the fact remains that Austroasiatic and Tai-Kradai did not originate from NE India and that NE India is predominantly Tibeto-Burman.
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  136.  @Hanshu2270  Munda is only one branch of Austroasiatic, whereas SE Asia has several branches. It goes without saying that SE Asia was much more likely to be the place where the Austroasiatic speakers originated and diversified. Vietnamese and Khmer aren't the only Austroasiatic languages spoken in SE Asia, there're other less known ones such as Bahnaric, Katuic, Monic, Pearic etc. And there's even one branch in Southern China called Pakanic.
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  137. USA hates Muslims, USA hates Chinese, but they like Chinese Muslims.
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  138.  @anseyao1279  Je suis né à la capitale mais mes racines étaient du sud-ouest, donc c'est pour ça que j'ai des amis et des connaissances qui vivent aux provinces du sud-ouest. Oui je suis d'accord que la Chine est un pays très sécuritaire. Le crime le plus grave que vous puissiez y rencontrer est le vol par pickpockets, et même cela a considérablement diminué au cours de la dernière décennie. Vous pouvez vous promener dans une petite ville en Chine à 2 heures du matin sans aucun risque et danger. Et je suis d'accord avec vous aussi que oui malheureusement il existe quelques racistes dans mon pays d'origine, mais comparé à l'Amérique du Nord et à l'Europe, c'est beaucoup moins grave. Les occidentaux disent n'importe quoi contre la Chine, mais je vous jure que 99% d'entre eux n'ont jamais vécu ou n'ont jamais été en Chine. Et même parmi ceux qui y sont déjà allés, très peu ont eu des amis chinois et très peu d'entre eux ont communiqué ou interagi quotidiennement avec des chinois. Ils pensent qu'ils sont au-dessus des chinois à cause de leur race, c'est pour ça qu'ils ne veulent pas obéir aux règles.
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  139.  @skazka3789  It's complicated if you go by their constitution, since Taiwan also claims China and Mongolia as well as the entirety of the South China Sea (larger than what China has claimed) to be their territory.
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  140. Yes HK and China are quite different and HK deserves to be its own country I don't deny that, but what this video doesn't tell you is that China isn't a homogenous entity either. There're significant differences between North and South China in terms of language, culture, and the general mindset. South and Southwest China are far more similar to mainland SE Asian countries than to North China imho.
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  141.  @cesz0695  0.08 isn't even that far, I believe Japanese/Koreans/Northern Chinese are even further away from Hlai than Malaysians. I have the data that Japanese/Koreans are about 0.12 from Cantonese, considering that Hlai is more southern-shifted than Cantonese, the genetic distance between Hlai and Japanese/Koreans should be further away, likely around 0.15 or 0.16.
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  142. Yep, america was the real birth place of Kung Fu, we already had Kung Fu birds during the last Ice Age.
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  143. Actually I don't really mind that Koreans claim ancient Sinitic monuments, palaces, or even dynasties as your own, cause recent genetic studies indicate that the ancient Sinitic people were more northern-shifted than today's Chinese and were closely related to Koreans. As someone of Southwestern Chinese descent, I don't really feel too much connection to ancient Sinitic dynasties such as Han, Tang, or Ming, but rather I identify more with historical kingdoms and peoples that had existed in Southwest China, such as Baiyue, Baipu, Ba, Shu, Yelang, Dian, Luoyue, Xi'ou, Li, Raeu, Bo, Nanzhao, Dali, etc.
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  144. It’s a sad and unfortunate incident. Sincere condolences to the people of Ohio.
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  145.  @Deira854  Technically the Japanese and Chinese do share ancestry with these people since both groups are East Eurasians. However the issue here is East Eurasian is a very broad category and the branches within East Eurasian diverged from one another a long time ago. The Andamanese branch is thought to have diverged from the Chinese/Korean/Japanese branch more than 40,000 years ago deep in the Paleolithic era, and their place of divergence might not even be in the East or SE Asia region but could be somewhere in Eastern Europe, Siberia, or maybe Central Asia.
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  146.  @Deira854  And modern-day Indians are a mixed population, with native AASI ancestry mixed with more recent West Eurasian ancestry. The IUP (Initial Upper Paleolithic) East Eurasian lineages got out-competed in most other places by UP (Upper Paleolithic) West Eurasians save for East and SE Asia. Modern-day Indians are predominantly West Eurasians (60% upwards sometimes even 80%) with at most only 40% or lower East Eurasian AASI, more pronounced in South India than in the North.
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  147.  @Deira854  The human history is very cruel. The OOA migrants or ancestors of modern Eurasians got driven out of Africa by the ancestors of modern Africans, and East Eurasians got driven out of West Asia and East Europe by the ancestors of modern West Eurasians. The prehistoric East Eurasians who lingered on in Europe (Ust-Ishim, Oase, and Bacho Kiro) got completely wiped off by later waves of West Eurasians.
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  148.  @Deira854  Modern Indians are predominantly West Eurasian (60% to 80%) with only around 20% to 40% native East Eurasian AASI ancestry. Indians do share ancestry with the Andamanese, it's just that it's not their primary ancestry. It's not for no reason that Indians speak a West Eurasian Indo-European language, cause the native East Eurasian AASI people got subjugated by Indo-Aryans. The Indo-Aryans came from the Yamnaya and Sintashta cultures of Russia, and they were a warrior-like people with horses and chariots.
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  149.  @Deira854  Only a few isolated South Indian tribes could achieve 70% AASI ancestry, the majority of Indians have far lower AASI ancestry.
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  150.  @Deira854  This also explains why India has a caste system cause the Yamnaya and Sintashta Indo-Aryan conquerors looked down on the native AASI peoples.
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  151.  @Deira854  Well, Indians have 60 to 80% West Eurasian from what I'm aware. You're skipping the predominant West Eurasian genomes of Indians.
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  152. @AlTaJr61 It's an outdated hypothesis. More and more evidence suggests that the ancestors of East Eurasians migrated from west to east by the Mammoth Steppe.
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  153. Indonesian is similar to Tai-Kradai (or rather all Austronesian languages share some commonalities with Tai-Kradai). I'm a Mandarin speaker who also knows some Zhuang (a Tai-Kradai language spoken in South China) and I can relate to the simplicity of grammar with Tai-Kradai as well. And not to mention that the two share some cognates as well, Aku is Ku or Kou in Zhuang, Makan becomes Gwn, Mata becomes Ta, Dia is De, Lengan is Gen, etc. Basically Tai-Kradai words are just the 2nd syllable of corresponding Austronesian words most of the times. Although pronunciation wise I'd say Zhuang and other Tai-Kradai languages are slightly more difficult than Indonesian, since they're very tonal with 6 or even more tones.
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  154.  @yo2trader539  Southern Chinese history isn't that complicated a lot has already been deciphered or debunked by genetic evidence. It's true that some Southern Chinese can trace their origins to the north, but the native influences are also quite strong in certain regions, and you shouldn't ignore their contributions to the formation of modern Southern Chinese. Take the example of the 3 main ethnolinguistic groups of Guangdong, the Teochew, the Hakka, and the Yue/Cantonese. It has been demonstrated by genetic studies that on average the Teochew are the most northern shifted among the three and have more Yellow River related genomes, whereas the Yue or Cantonese are the most southern shifted and have significant Tai-Kradai ancestries, and the Hakka are intermediate between the two.
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  155.  @tingtingnoy3133  Yes but Dai or Tai Lue language is definitely different from Meiteis. They're speaking Chinese for the ease of understanding, if they speak Tai Lue then only them and those from Laos and northern Thailand can understand. Stop calling everything related to China as propaganda, that's not nice. China did a lot to preserve the ethnic minority cultures.
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  156.  @tingtingnoy3133  I have some Tai Lue friends and acquaintances from Sipsong Panna in China and they have no problem at all speaking their native language.
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  157.  @tingtingnoy3133  I'm not sure why you're so concerned with names. Like I said no matter what names they were being called in the past or in the present, the fact remains that they are the native inhabitants of Southern China and had lived there for thousands of years. And Lao people also speak a Tai-Kradai language that is closely related to Dai or Tai Lue.
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  158. It's already confirmed that the Red Deer Cave people were of Homo Sapien lineage, despite the somewhat weird appearance of the skull. One sample "Longlin" was tested and confirmed to belong to the mitochondrial haplogroup M71, which is a rare mitochondrial lineage sporadically found today in Southern China, SE Asia, and South Asia. And in terms of their autosomal relations, it was also confirmed that Longlin was an early branch of East Eurasian.
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  159. I don't know the background of this fight, but from what I can see in the video the influencer needs to punch harder and be more determined to win, throwing a hundred soft punches is worse than throwing one hard punch
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  160. LOL, as a Chinese myself I actually hope that the story of Mulan could be more diverse, and indeed it should be. In fact Mulan wasn't even Sinitic, but she was most likely a Xianbei woman since the original poem dates back to around the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was a dynasty founded by the Xianbei people, who were a group of proto-Mongols that conquered Northern China at around the same time as the Huns were harassing the Romans. And at least one version of the story of Mulan had her not fighting with a group of northern nomads, but with a southern tribesman named Tiger King or Leopard King. At that time much of Southern China hasn't been sinicized yet, and according to physical anthropology some of the skulls unearthed in Yunnan province from that age bear certain resemblances to Andamanese Islanders, so Mulan could have African actors as well. P.S. this was an intended reply to @raudrauga, but somehow Youtube doesn't allow me to reply to him, so I have to post it here.
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  161. J-20 is basically an interceptor that is designed to shoot down high valued air assets like AWACs, tankers, transports, and bombers, and then retreat back to safety. I don't think it will ever enter into a dog-fight with enemy fighters, that's the job of J-16 and J-10C, both are 4th++ gen fighters. And also I don't think J-20 would be facing F-22 on its own, it will likely be accompanied by a squadron of 4th++ gen fighters as well as some unmanned drones, the development of the two-seat J-20S is a testament to what I said. For reconnaissance missions to detect approaching enemy 5th gen fighters, PLAAF will likely deploy WZ-8 and WZ-7 drones.
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  162. My question is does the Gaijin in Gaijin Hunters include men from South China or SE Asia, or does it only include white men from Europe and America? From what I know (I might be wrong) SE Asian looking men with olive skin and large eyes are quite popular among Japanese women, some Japanese even go so far as to claim that their ancestors are from SE Asia, despite the fact that according to the latest genetic evidence (Cooke et al. 2021) none of the three major ancient populations of Japan (Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun) had anything to do with SE Asia. So I'm wondering how do Japanese women or Japanese in general perceive SE Asians?
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  163.  @themyththelegendphilswift3201  Quite the contrary I feel that South Chinese minorities and SE Asians are often more attractive than North Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese. If they consider us as jungle people then just be it I don't care, it only shows their narrow-mindedness.
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  164.  PhucDat8964  Got it, but TBH I think internationally SE Asian men are viewed more favorably than East Asian men. SE Asian men like Buakaw, Superbon, and Pacquiao have made their marks in kick boxing and MMA.
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  165.  @themyththelegendphilswift3201  I'd rather be a jungle freeman than an oppressed pheasant.
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  166.  @themyththelegendphilswift3201  Jungle pride all the way!
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  167. Well Singapore's president Mr. Wong warned its citizens about the consequences of the tariffs and said he will strengthen trade ties with neighboring countries, and to me that's already quite brave for a small country to do. You can't expect Singapore to act like China or Canada since it's a much smaller country heavily reliant on international trade.
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  168. Maybe the only solution is for Southern China to join ASEAN and Northern China to join Korea, Japan, and Mongolia? I don’t see other ways around this.
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  169.  @JackTheShadowMuncher  You're the one that is brainwashed by your country's media. The west's hostility towards China has nothing to do with China being a communist country (not to mention that China isn't a communist country). Even if China is democratic, as long as it's powerful enough to challenge the American hegemony, America would still be hostile towards China. American wants complete dominance over the globe, they want no potential challengers, especially not Asian/Chinese challengers, whom they heavily despise. Whether China follows communism or capitalism or whatever-ism is the least of their concern. You need to grow up and think for yourself, don't blindly follow the messages you see on media. I trust neither the Chinese media nor the western media these days, cause both are full of fakes.
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  170. @@PAAP0CHKA Never said that they are the same people, but they are distantly related through the prehistoric cultures of the West Liao River (Transeurasian hypothesis).
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  171. @@PAAP0CHKA Liao river once had flourishing Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures so it did have historical significance. And the Liao river is located in mainland China, more specifically Northeastern China. The fact that Turks and Mongols were rivals does not negate the fact that the two shared genetic, linguistic, and cultural ties. Recent genetic tests done on the skeleton of a Gokturk princess or empress has revealed that she was mostly of Northeast Asian descent with very little West Eurasian admixtures, so the original Turks were quite Asian and quite similar to Mongols. Today there're still Turkic speakers with Northeast Asian appearance, such as the Yakuts, the Yugur, and the Tuvans.
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  172. @@PAAP0CHKA I've only read that after the fall of Goguryeo the Tang forcedly migrated the remaining Goguryeo royalties to the Central Plains. That was probably the single largest Korean or Koreanic migration event to China in history, and I highly doubt that Goguryeo royalties numbered 125,000. Even if they indeed numbered that many it's still insignificant compared to the total population of China at that time, which was around 60 million people.
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  173. @@PAAP0CHKA Nope, nothing proves that East Asians or East Eurasians originated from South China or SE Asia. There are plenty of counter evidences both from genetics and archaeology. Genetically speaking, we've already found early East Eurasian relatives or members in Siberia and Eastern Europe, such as Ust-Ishim, Bacho Kiro, and Oase. In particular, it has been determined by scientists from the Max Planck institute that the Bacho Kiro people directly contributed to the gene pool of East Asians. Archeologically speaking, East Eurasians were strongly associated with the IUP (Initial Upper Paleolithic) tradition, and such tradition was once widespread in Northern Eurasia. Moreover, the Upper Paleolithic era stone tools found in North China, Korea, and Japan mostly belong to the microlith tradition, which was drastically different from the Hoabinhian-style large choppers found in South China and SE Asia.
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  174. @@PAAP0CHKA Yet nothing suggests that there were 125,000 ancient Koreans who all migrated to China at the same time. The Goguryeo event was probably the single largest Koreanic migration event to China in history, but I highly doubt that Goguryeo royalties numbered that many. Even if they were indeed that numerous, it's still insignificant compared to the population of China, like a small droplet of water in a vast ocean.
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  175. @@PAAP0CHKA Nothing suggests that migration happened from South to North or was only from South to North after the last Ice Age. On the contrary, there are numerous evidences both from genetics and archaeology which suggest that North to South migrations were much more common. Even today China's population flow is mostly from North to South, so it's an ongoing process. For instance, it has already been determined and largely agreed upon by archaeologists that millet cultivation arose in North China and rice cultivation arose in Central China, whereas South China was mostly inhabited by Hoabinhian-related hunter-gatherers who collected river snails and taros as their diet. Since around 4,000 years BP, there was a strong southward movement of farmers that brought both millet and rice to South China and SE Asia, and largely replaced the hunter-gathering populations in those areas.
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  176. @@PAAP0CHKA The Silk road passed through the "barren Central Asia" that you talked about. In fact Central Asia wasn't always that barren it once had splendid cultures and peoples such as Tocharians, Scythians, Sogdians, etc. And these peoples played a crucial role in the spread of technology, ideas, and civilization across Eurasia.
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  177. @@PAAP0CHKA Humans are capable of surviving in high latitudes very early on, it's not like they only preferred warmer temperate climates. For instance the 45,000 year old Ust-Ishim specimen (a potential early East Eurasian member) was found deep in Western Siberia. In the Paleolithic era Siberia was part of the mammoth steppe, hence there were plenty of large games to hunt, and the living conditions weren't as bad as you imagined them to be.
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  178. I'm a Chinese and I can say with certainty that Pao Cai is different from Kimchi. There're many differences. First is that we never use any chili sauce to make Pao Cai, we use minced garlic or minced chili, or sometimes even whole chili peppers can be added. Secondly the ingredient is also somewhat different, we don't or rarely add spring onions or fermented seafood into Pao Cai, instead Pao Cai is fermented in a jar (usually a glass jar) filled with a type of liquid made out of water, brine, vinegar, and sometimes soy sauce can be added as well. Thirdly, while Kimchi is usually made with cabbage, Pao Cai in contrast is much more diverse and can be made with many different types of vegetables, including cabbage, radish, daikon, cucumbers, kelp, garlic, chili peppers, bamboo shoots, and mustard roots, just to name a few. And most importantly the taste is different, I've eaten both and I'd say that Kimchi is spicier but also sweeter, in contrast Pao Cai is less spicy and less sweet but more sour and more salty. And last but not least, while Kimchi can be a main dish in Korea (like I know you Koreans have the Kimchi jjigae or the Kimchi stew), Pao Cai is universally considered to be a side dish in China and you won't find it as an ingredient in any Chinese main dish. Of course there're bound to be some similarities since China and Korea had been in constant cultural exchange in history, however that doesn't mean you could say that one is the origin of the other. I apologize for the brusque behavior of some of my compatriots.
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  179. I’m an Asian supremacist and I’m proud to be so. There’s nothing wrong with loving one’s own race.
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  180.  @surenmoodley7744  Those without pride will fall quicker.
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  181.  @theodore23sanchez  By that I mean South China could be independent and join the ASEAN family.
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  182.  @EnzoTheBaker  At least the steambed bun chain wouldn't dare to poison the leader of the party, so its quality is guaranteed. I think Xi did that on purpose, maybe he knew that a lot of Chinese restaurants are dirty, so he ate in a not-so-dirty restaurant to show Chinese people which restaurant is ok to eat.
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  183. One interesting thing that I found a few years ago is that the Chinese are gradually retiring their old 82mm mortars, however they still have a huge stockpile of 82mm mortar shells, so what did they do with them? Well, they developed drones that can carry and drop those shells from several hundred meters in the air. So the Kirov airships from RA2 aren't a fantasy anymore they are real, except that they should be renamed as Kirov drones.
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  184.  @kurousagi8155  I'm pretty sure the numbers for J-16 are operational numbers and not inventory numbers, considering how much they've been using their J-16s to circumnavigate Taiwan's ADIZ recently. On Oct 4th they've sent 38 J-16s to the Taiwan Strait. And J-16s have also been seen deployed near the China-India border far to the west. 100-140 is definitely an outdated estimate, the real number in service should be over 200.
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  185.  @kurousagi8155  They definitely have more than 100-140 J-16s being operational as of 2021, that's my point. Your number for J-16 is from a few years ago. Usually the available data from English sources are several years behind Chinese sources, according to Chinese wikipedia as of Feb 2021 their number is around 200. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%BC-16#cite_note-1
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  186.  @kurousagi8155  Trust me it's not inventory number but operational number. Enough said.
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  187. AG600 is using domestic Chinese WJ-6C engines. It doesn’t use any Canadian engines.
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  188.  @yours_sincerely48  AL-20 is an old engine from the Soviet era, whereas WJ-6C is an upgraded or modernized version developed in China based on the AL-20. It is currently used on AG600 as well as Y-8/Y-9 and their numerous derivatives, such as KJ-200, KQ-200, and KJ-500. Chinese helicopters are also using domestic WZ-9 and WZ-10 engines. China nowadays is largely self-reliant in terms of engines, and doesn't rely on imports from Canada.
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  189.  @yours_sincerely48  How do you know that those engines aren't good enough? If it isn't good enough then why it is used on several Chinese military aircrafts? The original AL-20 or WJ-6 only has around 4,250 hp, but the upgraded WJ-6C has 5,100 hp, and that's already a huge improvement. Of course it isn't perfect and China is developing a new WJ-10 engine from what I know, but credit where credit is due. There're only a few countries in the world that can produce aircraft engines, and China is one of them.
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  190.  @yours_sincerely48  Civilian and military engines are different matters and shouldn't be examined in the same manner. I'm talking about military engines while you're talking about civilian ones. I don't deny that China still has a long way to go in terms of civilian aviation industry, but they indeed made a lot of progress on military engines over the past few decades. Credit where credit is due.
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  191.  @yours_sincerely48  China is slowly making improvements in the engine department and it takes time. You cannot expect them to make top-notch engines for both military and civilian aircrafts overnight. Gradually the improvements made in the military domain will be transferred to civilian domains. Again, credit where credit is due. Enough said, now stop with your nonsense China-bashing please.
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  192.  @KhansDen  No problem. Could you give me your email address once again cause I already forgot it, thanks.
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  193.  @KhansDen  Thanks, I'll send you an email when I have time.
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  194. 我很能理解她，宋代以来华人社会的性保守和文化保守是导致近代闭关锁国落后挨打的原因之一。我不觉得当AV女优有什么不能理解或离经叛道，在日本这是个很正常的职业。我深深祝福她，同时我希望有更多中国女人特别是南方女人和东南亚女人能投身这项事业，因为她们的身材要比日本女人好看不展示出来很可惜。同时也希望有更多的华人男性能投身AV。
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  195.  @ccxi2737  闭关锁国固步自封不能接受任何新事物才是真正的灭亡之路
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  196.  @ccxi2737  要说良心发现和自省，那么手上沾满鲜血的汉人最该自省。历史上汉人杀的人是最多的，不论是对其他汉人还是对少数民族。
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  197.  @roj22fetals6  No, AFAIK VN-22 is solely for export, though it's quite possible that a domestic variant has been produced.
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  198. In fact I've seen a report from CCTV where it shows JH-7A fighter-bombers carrying precision-guided bombs. If JH-7A are using them then there's no way more advanced planes like J-10C, J-11B, J-16, and J-20 aren't using them.
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  199.  @radiofreealbemuth8540  If people aren't as racist in the US then tell me why there're movements like Black Lives Matter and Asian Lives Matter? The truth is each race has its own comfort zones and it's very hard to mix them altogether. The US isn't really a melting pot it's still dominated by WASP.
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  200.  @radiofreealbemuth8540  I believe the right thing is to leave people alone in their native lands and immigration should be stopped or at least curtailed. Immigration is basically a new, more subtle form of colonization.
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  201.  @kaneanthony7724  You know nothing about China, stop pretending. You're the biggest 1450 liar on Youtube that I've seen, even your name is fake.
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  202.  @kaneanthony7724  LOL I'm not defending CCP there're many things that I don't like about them and about Chinese culture in general, but for now they're still the most suitable party to govern China. The green and blue parties in Taiwan are only good at lying, infighting, and blaming others. CCP isn't perfect, but compared to the green and blue parties they're still much better.
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  203.  @kaneanthony7724  LOL, accusing others of lying without looking at yourself, even your name is fake. I don't wanna waste my time on you anymore, bye liar!
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  204.  @kaneanthony7724  Well listen paid 1450, no matter how you try, you cannot hide your true identity forever, but keep on trying I respect your effort for that 👍
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  205.  @kaneanthony7724  Well you're doing it yourself too, accusing me as wumao despite you have no evidence whatsoever, you used the "Chinese tactic" quite well, and yet you claim to be a westerner, isn't it ironic?
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  206.  @kaneanthony7724  Again you're using the so-called "Chinese tactic" to attack me, and yet you claim yourself to be a westerner. How ironic is that! You seem much more like a wumao than I am.
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  207. You need to update your knowledge then, Japanese have both C2 and C1a1
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  208. This would only create more bookworms, otakus, and glasses, it isn’t beneficial to the sustainability of South Korea. I hope that my home country China doesn’t follow the same path, but sadly I think we’re following in their footsteps.
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  209. A lot of Sinologists are French, for instance Joseph de Guignes. As a Chinese person I respect their works, and I definitely don’t think that one has to be Chinese to study the history of China or East Asia.
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  210.  @KhansDen  Thank you, I've just sent you a message via gmail
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  211. Kudos to the girl who said China. As an oversea Chinese I feel that China is the most demonized country by media in the world. It's true that China has some problems but so does any other country, no one is perfect. There're some good things and good travel spots in China too. And the youth in China isn't that different from the youth in other countries. I hope that people could see the bright side of other people or other countries instead of only focusing on their negative side.
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  212.  @CheLanguages  Or better still, no politics involved in a video about languages. Especially considering that neither the Tai-Kradai, Hmong-Mien, and Austroasiatic natives of South China nor the Formosan Austronesian natives of Taiwan are Sinitic to begin with, instead they have been oppressed by the Sinitic people for hundreds of years. It's probably better if you could use their tribal symbols or their traditional costumes to represent them rather than the CH or the TW national flags.
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  213.  @12time12  Well, you never know. When fueled by patriotic sentiments certain pilots tend to overreact.
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  214.  @jeffchun  Then why it causes China to intercept? The only possible scenario I can think of is that instead of going towards North Korea it flew too close to Chinese air space, which causes Chinese fighter jets to intercept.
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  215. @mark Mierzejewski In recent years China has strengthened their ASW capabilities particularly with the introduction of KQ-200 ASW plane. Around 50+ KQ-200 are now in service. And also China has other ways to obtain oil and natural gas, there're pipelines that transport oil and natural gas from Russia to China.
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  216. @mark Mierzejewski And it's only their nuclear subs that are somewhat behind (though this will change eventually with the introduction of 096), their conventional subs are quite up-to-date and are a force to be reckoned with.
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  217. According to recent genetic analysis, the so-called Han ethnic group can be divided into 7 distinct subgroups from north to south, hence Han isn't really a true ethnic group, but a mixture of several different peoples.
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  218.  @stephenlee3911  I come from such a background and I probably know it better than you. Chinese parents really need to change their mindset and expectations, they really need to give their children more freedom of choice and stop forcing them to become a white-collar office worker, teacher, or doctor.
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  219.  @PG-3462  According to the newest genetic evidence the Yayoi people that colonized ancient Japan mostly came from Korea and Manchuria, nothing to do with China Proper.
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  220.  @kreativeforce532  That's why both the parents and the children need to adapt in face of the economic uncertainties of China. If getting a white-collar job slot is no longer a guaranteed trajectory then we could study sth else. I'm not blaming anyone I'm just trying to give out some honest ideas.
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  221. Hippos have very thick skin so shark attacks aren't effective at all
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  222. Not sure if this has already been mentioned. A lot of people believe that fortune cookies are Chinese but in fact they aren't. They were invented by Japanese Americans if I remember correctly.
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  223.  @jamalwilburn228  Please stop spreading false information, the shooter is Taiwanese not Chinese. He was born in Taiwan in 1953. He has nothing to do with mainland China. His family name is Chou which is a typical Taiwanese name but not Chinese (in China the name would be spelled as Zhou). Please stop the absurd hatred against Chinese.
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  224. Most of these types of restaurants are owned and operated by Fujianese migrants, who might have entered the US illegally. Yet they use Cantonese names for their restaurants, causing Cantonese people to be unfairly blamed and discriminated on certain online discussion boards in China.
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  225. Canada is really way too cautious about such words. Meanwhile in China you'd often see North Chinese use the Mandarin translation "Aihei Ren" of the Spanish colonial term "Negrito" to refer to people of South Chinese and SE Asian descent.
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  226. If there's ever going to be a WW3, China won't be the one to fire the first shot, you can trust me on this, and I'm saying this not because I'm Chinese. Really when was China's last war, something like more than 40 years ago? But when was America's last war? Their war in Afghanistan has only ended last year after a duration of 20 years. I don't deny that China has a lot of problems but they're mostly internal and not external. In terms of threatening global peace and stability, America is definitely a far better candidate than China. I'm unsubscribing because this channel doesn't offer any new views other than purposefully spreading the "China Threat Theory" that has already been a cliché several decades old at least.
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  227.  @chongqingcapybara1306  是的，老美做什么都对，中国做什么都错，我已经取关了
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  228.  @Hanshu2270  I have a different opinion. 南蠻 most likely referred to the ancestors of Hmong-Mien peoples since 蠻 (Man) and Hmong have a similar pronunciation. Tibeto-Burmans were likely the descendants of 西南夷 or Southwest Yi.
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  229.  @Hanshu2270  Tai-Kradai people came from Southern China. The greatest diversity of this language family is found in Southern China. They were the descendants of 百越.
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  230.  @Hanshu2270  Austroasiatic peoples most likely originated from SE Asia in the Mekong river valley and Tai-Kradai peoples originated from Southern China. Neither of them came from Northeast India.
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  231.  @Hanshu2270  The most accepted hypothesis is that Austroasiatic peoples originated from SE Asia (either the Mekong River Valley or the Red River Valley) whereas Tai-Kradai people originated from Southern China. Neither of them came from NE India.
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  232.  @Hanshu2270  If you don't think that Tai-Kradai and Austroasiatic are from NE India then there's no point of arguing with me.
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  233.  @Hanshu2270  And Tai-Kradai peoples aren't just found in Yunnan, they're also found in Guangxi, Guizhou, and Hainan.
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  234.  @Hanshu2270  You guys are mostly Tibeto-Burmans. Face the truth. Tai-Kradai and Austroasiatic are migrants from Southern China and SE Asia, respectively.
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  235.  @Hanshu2270  Austroasiatic people came from Northern Vietnam and according to genetics they're closely associated with the Neolithic peoples of Vietnam.
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  236.  @Hanshu2270  If you don't believe that Austroasiatic and Tai-Kradai originated from NE India, then we don't really have disagreements, so what's the point of arguing with me? Again, having a similar culture does not make NE India the origin of such cultures, since culture and language can spread far and wide.
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  237.  @Hanshu2270  LOL at first you accused me of bringing modern concepts of nationhood into our discussion, but now you're doing it yourself.
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  238.  @o0...957  Instead of accusing me, why don't you look into the mirror? NE India isn't the center of the universe.
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  239.  @o0...957  Tai-Kradai peoples exist in South China and SE Asia too, and Austroasiatic peoples exist in those regions as well, so what's ur point?
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  240.  @o0...957  Sorry I don't understand your gibberish.
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  241.  @o0...957  You'd better learn English yourself
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  242.  @o0...957  Blah blah blah, your ugly language sounds like total gibberish to me
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  243.  @o0...957  Dude you need to learn English!
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  244. Depends on how well America could contain Japan, I don't think Japan's rise in military power is beneficial to America. The video seems to portray China as the only adversary of Japan, but TBH Japan's militarism isn't beneficial to all neighboring countries, including China, Russia, the 2 Koreas, and of course the US.
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  245.  @howdidmynamechange945  Well, now it cant do shit against america, but if its military power gets stronger to the point where it can break off the american leash, then america will be in trouble. To this day right-wing japanese still hold grudges against the 2 atomic bombs dropped by the americans.
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  246. I personally feel, as a Chinese person, that the One Child Policy is the CCP's biggest mistake, worse than the Cultural Revolution in every aspect imaginable. They've only abandoned the policy in 2015, way too late, it should have been abandoned in the 90's if not the early 00's, cause at that time the price for housing and education weren't as expensive as they're now and the willingness of Chinese people to have children was also much higher than today. It's too late for them to react now, unless they set up policies or laws limiting working hours per week, increasing subsidiaries for families with more children and for those who're willing to have children, and cracking down on housing price, but I don't think they would do that.
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  247. @Yannick Landry C'est pas tous les chinois qui mangent du chien c'est seulement quelques régions. En plus c'est leur culture c'est leur droit de manger ce qu'ils veulent et ça n'a rien avoir avec vous et avec le Québec. Et est-il vraiment différent de manger un chien que de manger un cochon, une vache, un cheval, ou bien un mouton? Ce sont tous des mammifères et si vous mangez ces mammifères je pense pas que vous ayez une raison valable de critiquer les gens qui mangent du chien. Soyez plus respectueux envers les autres cultures et races.
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  248. @Yannick Landry Je sens pas que vous avez du respect pour leur culture. Les animaux de votre élevage sont des mammifères élevées pour votre consommation. Et les chiens qui sont consumés dans certaines régions de la Chine sont également des mammifères élevées dans ce but. Donc je trouve pas de différences entre les deux. Si vous n'êtes pas végétarien, vous n'avez aucune raison valable de critiquer ou de discriminer les gens qui mangent du chien. Et si vous n'avez pas compris ce que j'ai expliqué bah passe au suivant......
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  249.  @huaiwei  Where does your information come from? Show me a proof that the Sino-British Joint Declaration has already lost its legal effect in 2014. And if the declaration has indeed lost its legal effect or validity in 2014, then what treaty did China break in 2019? Really what you're saying does not make any sense.
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  250.  @huaiwei  Funny that some of you biased anti-China trolls always accuse China of breaking this law or that treaty, but in the end you guys are the ones that are actually breaking it.
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  251.  @huaiwei  Who are you then? Are you a member of the Chinese or the HK government? Why should I trust what you said?
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  252.  @huaiwei  What are CCP lens? Do you have those lens, if you have then please show me I'm very interested to see them.
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  253.  @huaiwei  Calling others CCP whenever someone disagrees with you LOL, if that's the case then the world must be full of CCP.
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  254.  @huaiwei  HK is still a SAR and not part of another Chinese province, so tell me Mr. Clever how did China break the treaty? The declaration confirmed that HK is legally a part of China after the handover, by denying it you have already broken the treaty.
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  255. The Sinitic culture and society had already been in stagnation long before the Manchus came to power.
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  256. It's already confirmed that the Red Deer Cave people were of Homo Sapien lineage (though doesn't rule out the possibility of hybridization with a more archaic species in the region), despite the somewhat weird appearance of the skull. The Longlin sample was tested and confirmed to belong to the mitochondrial haplogroup M71, which is a rare mitochondrial lineage sporadically found today in Southern China, SE Asia, and South Asia. And in terms of their autosomal relations, it was also confirmed that Longlin was an early branch of East Eurasian along with Hoabinhian and Jomon, diverged from the ancestors of modern East Asians some 40,000 years BP.
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  257. And also I don't think China is a communist country. A more suitable characterization of China would be a "Confucian monarchy" or "Confucian autocracy", similar to neighboring North Korea and the Sinitic dynasties of the past.
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  258. Most of such CN restaurants are operated and ran by Hokkien/Fujian people. It's their major business in America.
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  259. You can pass as Mongolian or a native Beijinger. The appearance of Siberians, Koreans, Mongolians, North Chinese, and some Japanese are very similar. On the other hand, South Chinese and SE Asians tend to be a bit more different. As a Chinese person I can easily spot someone who is South Chinese among a group of Beijingers or Dongbeiers, either by appearance or by accent. But you can fit in Beijing perfectly as a local.
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  260.  @yo2trader539  Japanese do have haplogroup C, in fact they have both C2 and C1a1
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  261. C’est hongkong, c’est pas la Chine.
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  262. I was originally from China, but I've been living in Canada for more than 16 years, and TBH I'm not really afraid of such low temperatures, Canadian winters are similar.
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  263.  @Purrpurrbun  Apart from Vancouver and surrounding areas, much of Canada experiences winter similar to the one shown in the video.
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  264. The so-called "Han" is nothing more than a political grouping that was created merely 100 yrs ago and was forced onto the Chinese populace. Linguistically, genetically, and culturally, "Han" is actually rather diverse and can be divided into several subgroups.
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  265.  @Interestingfunfacz  Actually I don't really mind that Koreans claim ancient Sinitic monuments, palaces, or even dynasties as your own, cause recent genetic studies indicate that the ancient Sinitic people were more northern-shifted than today's Chinese and were closely related to Koreans. As someone of Southwestern Chinese descent, I don't really feel too much connection to ancient Sinitic dynasties such as Han, Tang, or Ming, but rather I identify more with historical kingdoms and peoples that had existed in Southwest China, such as Baiyue, Baipu, Ba, Shu, Yelang, Dian, Luoyue, Xi'ou, Li, Raeu, Bo, Nanzhao, Dali, etc.
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  266. It will change in the future, cause China’s population is shrinking rapidly. By the middle of the century, China would only have about half the population that it currently has.
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  267. China's economy is crumbling, and the real estate industry is hit particularly hard. People don't have money to invest in property anymore, and as the population dwindles and as the younger generations are adopting a more western lifestyle (renting apartments instead of buying), this trend will only exacerbate. I know that ghost towns exist all over China, but from what I heard they're especially common in 2nd and 3rd tier cities of North China. The north of China has no future, and I don't encourage anyone to invest in North China apart from maybe the capital Beijing.
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  268.  @SeowonYoon  LOL u probably don't understand English then, re-read what I said.
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  269. I hope the local Hlai, Miao, Tanka, Utsat, Cantonese, Ong-Be, Hainanese, and Gelong languages can be preserved.
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  270.  @Deira854  Skin color isn't a very good indication of population relatedness since Europeans and East Asians only acquired light skin mutations around 10,000 years ago and the cause was likely due to the advent of agriculture. Before the Neolithic everyone had dark skin. From what I know, the prehistoric samples genetically closest to the Andamanese are the Hoabinhians of Neolithic SE Asia, followed by the Tianyuan and Amur 33K samples of Paleolithic Northern East Asia, and then Ust-Ishim from Paleolithic Siberia and Bacho Kiro from Paleolithic Bulgaria. This indicates that Andamanese-like East Eurasians once had a much greater range of distribution and likely originated from Northern Eurasia.
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  271. There used to be Russian-made cars in China back in the 60's and 70's, and I think some of them lasted until the early to mid 90's. I forgot the name of the car brand, maybe something like Ladakh? The design was rather simple basically a square with wheels, and the interior was also very rudimentary. But once China opened up to the rest of the world, such cars had quickly been replaced by Japanese and German ones.
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  272. Thanks for clearing up the info. We need to stop the absurd hatred against Mainland Chinese.
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  273.  @abc2390986  Because "Han Chinese" isn't a real ethnic group it's actually made up of various peoples. And just as an English-speaking person can be from the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc. a Chinese-speaking person can also be from various countries or places not necessarily China. In this case the shooter is from Taiwan and there's no evidence whatsoever that he is working for China or has any connection to China. Sure he might self-identify as Chinese but that won't change the fact that he was born and raised in Taiwan. I could self-identify as an alien from another planet but it won't change the fact that I'm an earthling.
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  274.  @forestforce2951  Meaningless. It doesn't matter what his self-identification is, it won't change the fact that he was born and raised in Taiwan and has a typical Taiwanese name with Taiwanese spelling.
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  275. Again, stop spreading false information, nothing proves that the Yayoi came from the Yangtse region. And Yayoi’s O1b2 had already diverged from O1b1 around 30,000 years ago.
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  276.  @YummYakitori  60% Yellow River is actually a quite high estimate of the Yellow River component for Cantonese individuals from Western Guangdong and Guangxi. I've seen some G25 for Guangdong people which only scored around 46% Ancient Yellow River farmer and the rest is largely Fujian Neolithic and Taiwan_Hanben/Taiwan_Gongguan, though with some Vietnam Neolithic mixed in as well. And this is just for Guangdong people, Guangxi people are likely even more southern. I wouldn't be surprised if the Yellow River farmer component for GX people drops below 40%. And Japanese seem to be around 70% Ancient Yellow River farmer according to a G25 Vahaduo analysis I've seen, with 45% being Late Neolithic Yellow River and 27.8% Neolithic Shandong Xiaojingshan.
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  277.  @YummYakitori  Depending on whom you compare the Hakka with, compare to Cantonese they are a bit more northern-shifted, but compared to other Southern Chinese they aren't.
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  278.  @YummYakitori  Southern Chinese aren't equidistant to Northern Chinese as Korean and Japanese, at least not Far South Chinese. Far South Chinese from GD and GX are further away from Northern Chinese than Koreans and Japanese are. According to the G25 analysis by Ygor Coelho (a famous Quora user who specializes in genetics-related topics), the genetic distance between Shanxi_Han and Guangdong people is around 0.087 whereas the genetic distance between Korean and Northern Chinese is only around 0.03 and between Japanese and Northern Chinese around 0.05. And 0.087 is likely not the furthest genetic distance between Northern and Far South Chinese. Those from certain regions of GX are likely further away and could probably reach 0.09.
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  279.  @YummYakitori  Then you need to mention which group of Southern Chinese you're talking about cause not all Southern Chinese have the same genetic distance to Northern Chinese. Southern Chinese are quite diverse and you shouldn't assume that they're a unified group. Agreed with the rest of what you said. People from Fujian and Eastern GD are indeed noticeably more northern-shifted than those from Western GD and GX, both in terms of genotype and phenotype. I have some GX friends and they have overt double eyelids combined with SE Asian body proportions, which are not commonly seen even in other places of Southern China like Fujian or Zhejiang.
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  280.  @tingtingnoy3133  These terms may have been coined in the 20th century, but the people and language that these terms refer to have existed in Southern China for much longer. According to Blench (2018), proto-Daic people likely originated from the Pearl River Delta region in Southern China some 4,000 years ago.
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  281.  @tingtingnoy3133  Whatever name they are being referred to, the fact remains that Tai-Kradai peoples had originated from Southern China and had lived there for thousands of years. And many of them continue to live there.
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  282.  @tingtingnoy3133  If you also agree that Tai-Kradai speaking peoples are the native inhabitants of Southern China then there's nothing we need to argue about.
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  283.  @tingtingnoy3133  And does it really matter what the ancient Sinitic people called them? The ancient Sinitic people originated from Northern China and they invaded and occupied Southern China around 2,000 years ago, which was the main reason why some Tai-Kradai people had fled from their native Southern China homeland and migrated to SE Asia. Please do not spread sino-centrism here.
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  284.  @tingtingnoy3133  Those names were what the Sinitic people called them and not necessarily what they called themselves. Do you even understand what's the difference between exonym and endonym?
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  285.  @tingtingnoy3133  Well they indeed originated and lived in Southern China according to historical records as well as linguistic and genetic studies. And many of them continue to live there. To say otherwise is tantamount to lying.
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  286.  @tingtingnoy3133  Who are you to judge whether they have history or not? You're not even one of them, you're just a random Northeast Indian.
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  287.  @tingtingnoy3133  LOL I see, you're not NE Indian but a Lao nationalist. The names recorded in ancient Sinitic manuscripts were exonyms since we're not sure if the people they referred to used the same names to call themselves. AFAIK, the name Ailao derived from a place name, the Ailao mountains, and whether or not the people living there also called themselves Ailao we have no way to know for sure. There was also a certain Liao (僚) tribe living in Southern and Southwestern China mentioned in Sinitic records, and scholars have made several proposals of where this name came from however there's no consensus at the moment. One proposal mentions that the word Liao likely derived from the word for person or people (Klau or Gelao) in certain Kra languages such as Gelao. Another proposal mentions that it could be derived from the first person plural pronoun Rao or Raeuz in Tai languages. Really at the moment we're not sure which one is correct, so don't be so quick to jump into the conclusion that these people necessarily called themselves Lao.
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  288.  @tingtingnoy3133  And even if those people did call themselves by the name Lao or something similar, that doesn't mean they were Laotians since the country of Laos was founded much later.
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  289.  @tingtingnoy3133  I think it's up to them to decide what name they want to call themselves, whether or not they called themselves Lao or Liao in the past is up to debate, but one thing is certain, they now call themselves as Tai Lue, and are referred to by the Chinese as Dai.
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  290.  @tingtingnoy3133  The country of Laos was founded much later, hence the people who were mentioned in ancient Sinitic manuscripts cannot be called Laotian.
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  291.  @tingtingnoy3133  They have their own right to decide what names to call themselves and you Laotians have no right to decide for them. If they want to call themselves Tai or Tai Lue then just let them be, you're not the one to judge.
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  292. The number is somewhere around 60 to 100 most likely.
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