I am from Malaysia 🇲🇾 We just went to Xiaoyoukeng few weeks ago but we didn't hike. Thanks for the sharing and I love that ice-cream so much 🤭 I tried pineapple 🍍 It is really delicious with natural taste ❤
Weird! My well-informed comments intended to stress some overlooked truths and counter the erring comments of Chinese nationalists have been erased. I’ll check on this comment section and my comment will be back. Count on that.
@@AsiaHikelopedia How many of them have been able to infiltrate Google in Mountain View, California? A “Taiwanese American” could easily join Google to silence anti-Chinese voices.
The Takasago Volunteers (高砂義勇隊, Takasago Giyūtai) were just that, volunteers. Japanese officials were amazed at the large number of applicants that exceeded previsions by far. Their prowesses and commitment earned them the respect of their brothers in arms and the hatred of the allies. The fact that the Japanese government failed to look after those veterans after the war is another Chinese lie. The Chinese occupier regime on Taiwan has been enjoying all the wealth the Japanese had left behind. They were supposed to deduct from that war booty the funds required to properly care for those veterans. At 4’:50”, you are talking of the campaigns led by that fake Taiwanese aborigine, real Chinese mole, Kao Jin-sumei (高金素梅). During Chen Shui-bian’s tenure, that aging wench -- a silver screen starlet turned LY representative -- led a group of Taiwanese aborigines to Yasukuni. There she conducted herself in an intentionally astoundingly offensive and despicable way. She trampled the hallowed halls of Yasukuni with her shoes on, demonstrating her aggressive, beastly Chinese nature. In contrast, Taiwan Civil Government (台灣民政府, TCG), a Taiwanese political group founded by the late Roger Lin (林志昇), makes regular year end pilgrimages to Yasukuni and the Imperial Palace. In Taiwan since the surrender of Japan, there are two distinct populations, natives Taiwanese who can trace their identity to a Japanese era household register (戸籍, koseki) and the Chinese occupiers-colonists-rulers. The latter are the offspring of Chinese illegal immigrants who fled to Japan in 1949. Tut-tut ! Hold on! Taiwan was Japanese territory, albeit an occupied one like the rest of Japan, until April 28, 1952. Those illegal Chinese immigrants pretended to rule the roost for 50 years from 1945 to 1995. Apparently, those Chinese are the only population ON Taiwan (在台人民, TRA terminology) taken into account by the US. The Japanese Komins (皇民) of Japanese Taiwan and their offspring have been taken for granted by the “principal occupying power”, i.e. the US, since it wrongly decided that the Taiwanese population -- except for Taiwanese aborigines who so gallantly defended Japan -- was Chinese and, for that reason, deemed friendly to the allies in the war against Japan. It is to the point that when we speak of “Taiwanese” and “Taiwanese Americans” today, we mean only the 1949-50, Chinese illegal immigrants ON Taiwan. While the US “Sinicized” Japanese Taiwan when it dropped Chiang “Peanut” Cash-my-check on Japanese Taiwan, the same US never recognized the sovereignty of Taiwan to the exiled Chinese regime. Why? Because the US remembers that John F. Dulles prevailed on Japanese PM Shigeru Yoshida not to cede Taiwan to any China. The US only “takes note” of the Chinese claim common to the Chinese from both shores of the Taiwan strait that Taiwan is part of China. U.S. policy does not recognize the PRC's sovereignty over Taiwan. U.S. policy does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country; and. U.S. policy considers Taiwan's international legal status as undetermined. Why is Taiwan’s international legal status undetermined? Because the Chinese Communists/Nationalists United Front (共國統一戰線) has been preventing the native population of former Japanese Taiwan from self-determining in favor of UN-ordained Taiwanese independence.
Interesting story Richard . As we know during Covid people didn't like being told to not to go in public and to wear a mask so i don't no how they stopped the villages in those days to isolate . Is it because the church was in control of the situation and not the government ? not that i'm a churchy but in those days they must have been . No eating English meals in this vlog , very disappointing :-)
I think it might have been as simple as greater mortality touching everyone directly didn't allow for such denialism. And not having to contend with bad actors spreading disinformation via Internet must have helped. It's a very morbid theory, but I wonder if even more had died and hospitals collapsed in the beginning, especially in the USA, if more would be saved by today and put down all the anti-science, conspiratorial thinking that still very much exists today. Sadly the very success of vaccination efforts has allowed younger generations to forget the horrors of times before. And to be fair, there are enough very dark and horrific moments in medical history that understandably cause skepticism especially in vulnerable, minority populations.
Very interesting Richard. I vaguely knew of its role in the Plague as I used to regularly hike in that area, but I didn't know of the details such as the quarantine zone demarcation and the money exchange. Good work, and it showcases what a lovely part of the UK that is the Peak District.
SuHua road along the cliff is the most beautiful parts, but riding in those tunnels was terrifying. We gave up in the middle and take train since it is really scary when you hear a truck approaching from behind in a tunnel that you don't know how close it may gets you......
