Your content is really good. The only thing I can recommend is perhaps taking more than one take of your script so you can iron out your mistakes rather than just leaving in the awkward pauses. If you can invest in a better mic as well, you have real potential for growth! I look forward to following your progress.
I lived in Taipei in the mid to late 80s. As I recall, the KMT was considered a joke and a lot of people were very annoyed by the lack of competent governance.
I'd say the Taiwanese natives were much less wiped out than those in America. In fact, out on the east coast and in the mountains, the natives were able to live in their traditional way until the Japanese changed that around 1915...they were hunting heads in the 1900s.
That time frame isn't very different from the US. The eastern state of Oregon was only began being settled on mass by European descendants in the 1840's.
@@applythesamewaytoyourselve5918 that's because modern Japanese people have very little to do with it, and in spite of the government's nonsense, most Japanese if asked would agree that what was done in Taiwan, Korea, and China was horrible.
Hey, great video overall but there is a repeated mistake. The Leninist vanguard party model does not claim to be representative of the entire country, it claims to be representative of the overwhelming majority of the country as the leadership of the proletariat and oppressed people. The CPC in China would only begin its talk of representing *everyone* post-Mao after the restoration of capitalism. A more precise common ground between the Kuomintang and the CPC is the use of democratic centralism as the principal by which the party functions, which does have its foundation in Marxism but goes further back before Lenin. Again- overall a great video but I wanted to help out on this point. Thanks for doing what you do. Your content is very good!
Chiang Kai-Shek died while the CCP, reaping the benefits of their falling out with the Soviet Union at that time, was still considered an effective obstacle for democracy with respect to Taiwan.
I wouldn't label Abraham Lincoln as authoritarian while fighting a civil war against slavery. ROC should be considered a functional democracy when KMT and its president nominee Chiang Kai Shek were popularly elected in 1948. The main problem was that after communist takeover, election of the National Congress was no longer possible. As a result it stayed the way as was first elected into office.
The Confederates did have a point when they talked about state rights. They were, however, undermined by a leadership that did break away in part to keep slavery in an era where rest of the world already largely moved on from it.
I would love to see you do historical video on DPP. It seems there isn't much information in western sources how it was formed and how exactly it developed from tangwai movement. Would also love to learn how DPP ideology drifted from initial democratisation and hardcore independence cause to modern social liberal status quo preservation.
I never felt comfortable calling the Southern Min Language as "Taiwanese" because that's analogous to calling Cape Dutch as"Afrikaans." Additionally calling the Hokkien settlers sincey 1600's as "Native Taiwanese" is outright offensive given there is still an aboriginal population of around 500,000. (And calling those those true natives "Gaoshan" is also offensive.)
Afrikaans is a unique language not just of Dutch, but also German, French and African languages. Taiwanese is the same. It’s an identity shaped by land, that is the island of Taiwan. After 300 years of your family living somewhere, it’s silly not to consider yourself native
@@allentchang 100 years ago it was not rare to call white Americans who had a few generations of ancestry in the US "native Americans" to differentiate from recent arrivals from Europe, who also often came from different countries than the "native Americans". It's not that long ago that the term was switched over to the current native Americans after "Indians" became unpopular.
The CCP will never allow for plurality like the KMT, it’ll take the fall of the CCP to see a Democratic China. Especially under the trajectory of Xijinping, yes, China is becoming more and more fascistic. Economically and politically fascistic but yet by name “communist.” It’s all authoritarianism and an Orwellian state at the end of the day. I hope one day it falls. 打中共！
First Nations in Taiwan were purged many times in Taiwan. Would say it happened many times. Portuguese and Dutch Trade. Then Ming(Pretender) and Qing Dynasty invasions. Then Japanese Empire. And finally KMT. But yeah, there are still some first Nations left. A lot of people currently in Taiwan even though they're of Han origin, they have blood ties with first Nations as well. So all good for now but not that great since natives usually live in bad conditions.
It's interesting what you stated near the end, that the KMT would step aside and allow the democratic process to take place, therefore putting country before their own ideological power.
Why do the aboriginals vote for the KMT? I would've thought they would have voted for the DPP given that seems to be the narrative that the party uses to justify independence.
Fascinating. I did not know Taiwan had "aboriginals" (3:30). Where did they come from? They have darker skin and look polynesian. That's ironic that KMT had to keep up with China's "liberalization" and in doing so it eventually led to it's own demise - yet CCP did not share the same fate. I guess it's because CCP's liberalization was and is still very tightly controlled. Also, maybe because Chiang Ching-kuo didn't have anyone that he fully trusted to succeed him?
I think KMT is far from demise, but they did give up the one party state. I think they deserve some credit for doing the right thing too. there's a lot of aboriginals around, and more than a few "Taiwanese" with some aboriginal mixed in
U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman 1950 sent the U.S. Seventh Fleet to the Taiwan Strait to prevent an invasion of the island by communist armies from the mainland. The United States decided to send the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet to protect Taiwan from a Communist Chinese invasion and also to prevent the Nationalist government in Taiwan from continuing its attacks on the mainland. This act, introducing the Seventh Fleet into the Chinese theater, is considered the beginning of the U.S. policy to defend Taiwan from China. Since 1950, this commitment to defend Taiwan has been the largest potential cause of a U.S.-China war. Because the U.S. is a superpower and China is rising in strength, the Taiwan flashpoint is now considered to affect not only the U.S.’s national security but the world’s international security as well. This policy, originating with the movement of the U.S. fleet in June 1950, has had significant security ramifications for over six decades. Source: The Seventh Fleet Standoff by Eric P. Swanson
Chiang Ching Kuo himself favored the Communists during his youth during WW2. He learned the means and necessity of political control from them. Marry that with a neo-mercantalist economic model you get the perfect recipe.
At 1:00, incorrect statement that kmt grew along side with ccp. The fact is that kmt started and developed long before ccp. Doesn't appear to warrant further watching of this post.
your comment on Taiwan aboriginals at 3:35 is not correct. Taiwan aboriginals are still very active : 1. Educationally, they have privilege, unlike all the other citizens, to get into higher education institutions. 2. Employment wise, they also have privilege to take the advantage, so called "reserved vacancies" to enter the government as civil servants. 3. they have "reserved members" to be elected as representatives for their own tribes, from county councils to parliament. 4. there even is a ministry in the central government called " Aboriginal Committee ". By the way, I am not a KMT fan, but truth is truth, you should do a better home work.
If the elections are not rigged and average people can be candidates and form parties, then it's the literal definition of a democracy, something that socialist countries have historically lacked pretty badly cause they never really wanted to give "power to the people" but rather steal power from any other influential figure or organization and put it all in the hands of the one party state elite leaving the citizens with very little power to express themselves and participate in change, let alone starting a private business and make good money.
