@primozlampic9574 It is true that Maxism is highly honored by The CCP and also being adopted by CCP as their guidelines. But very few Chinese leaders and Chinese people will mention Maxism today. Civilization is something that has been evolving all the way. The CCP have created their unique theory and system of Socialism With China's Characteristics. That standards and goals are far above Maxism,albeit its spirit and essence still being included.
Mr. Jacques, your understanding and presentation of true China is greatly appreciated. God bless you. Your sincerity is great asset and eye opener for many people.
Thank you Jacques for your great talk. First time i visited China, it was in 1972. Tremendous changes since then. Their secret as i observed. Chinese people consider themselves as a member of a big family. They work hard for their family, for work hard for their descendant and they work hard for their parent and grand-parent. They work hard for the pride of the Chinese people. We as westerners, most of us work mainly for ourself.
Jacques knows China more than so many people including some Chinese. Our ancestors wisdom had been deeply rooted in our DNA, thank you Jacques for revealing this to us! ❤️from🇨🇦🇨🇳🇭🇰
lol jacques is professionally a china historian, hes a professor, its his job and passion most of us dont know our own family history let alone an entire civilisations why and wherefore.... heck most westerners dont know their own history whys and wherefore and where they come from..... most westerners think the US is their history lol which is only 200 yrs old and most of it has been at war and bullying people
It's in our culture, pass down from generations to generations. The older I get the more I'm convinced Confucius backed Chinese wisdom is extremely important and everlasting. And this is coming from a 3rd gen Malaysian Chinese who have never been to China before.
You are probably more truly "Chinese" than most Chinese living in China today. The CCP killed off most traditional Chinese culture that wasn't useful to them staying in power. That includes Confucianism. Confucius is pretty much banned in China today. I lived in Malaysia for a while and worked primarily with Chinese Malaysians. I was stunned at the long heritage of my colleagues. I also realized their values are quite different from today's mainland China if you pull away a few layers. And being a 3rd generation, you are kind of new to Malaysia : ) Some of my friends are 6th or 7th gens. Amazingly, they have kept records of every of their forefathers all the way back to when they left China.
@@kapdolkim1914 Nonsense! Who told you Confucius is pretty much banned in China today? The CCP have established many Confucius Academy in many foreign countries around the world. Don't you know that? I think you are a China-hater or CCP-hater. Confucius Sayings is a must-reading for all the junior and senior school students in today's China. And a must-test in Annual National College Entrance Exams.
Who knew having a planned economy that calculates value nationwide rather than whatever makes your capitalists and landowners happy would make your country prosperous.
@@DeletedSince.2020 who knew turning your country into a factory to meet the demands of other capitalist countries would make your country prosperous? 🤣🤣🤣
You can see China all over the world...just take a look at the overseas Chinese and those of Chinese descend living outside China, we are all the same inherently. Take the Chinese Malaysian for example, you'll see Chinese temples somewhere in rural Malaysia (temples that were established more than 100 plus years ago at the place where they first landed/settled), Chinese Chung Hua schools in rural areas set up with funds from charity and businesses/farming in those rural areas settled by Chinese, essentially see pockets of Chinese civilizational state in rural Malaysia. As an example, the city of Sibu, in the state of Sarawak, which was an unsettled swamp land made into a successful settlement/city today. The early Chinese that settled there demonstrated fundamental characteristics of China and were clearly the product of China's civilizational roots. They had the civilizational template from China which made them mobile and able to form successful settlements or settle on any land and anywhere in the world e.g. even Chinese takeaways in Nauru. Professor you are right, China is a Civilizational state and not a nation state, and the civilizational roots provided the Civilizational template which made the Chinese mobile and adaptable which can clearly be seen from the Chinese diaspora in the world today.
....so true! The Chinese are everywhere - you can even find a Chinese restaurant somewhere at the end tip of Argentina. I guess it must be the leftover of Admiral Cheng He´. MSM history says that, the straits was discovered by Portuguese Magellan. The truth is Admiral Cheng He´ was the first to discover that straits in the early 14 century. During that period and time the Portuguese didn't had the seafaring knowledge to sail that distance - not until the late 15 century when the self name King Vasco da Gama make his debut journey to India and finally ended up at Macao. Fact check: Gavin Menzies books - 1421 & 1434.
@@TacticalMayo, Is it a threat? But then I have no doubt the US together with a few of its doggie pack, will resort to sneaky nuclear attacks when they feel they are on the verge of losing the war or even if they are losing their influences (aka control).
What makes China become a first world country within a period of 50 odd years speaks for itself. And it’s not stopping but with its BRI policies helping build Third World countries in a peaceful non hegemonic agenda is itself a telling contrast to Western countries’ colonization policies. The records speak for themselves.
Western and Chinese modernization is vastly different and shall be different. From history of China, the great voyages of Cheng He, structures like the great wall of China to the story of Sibu, a city in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, the Chinese had always look to trade, businesses and built structures to create an environment conducive to trade. The voyages of Cheng He was not for conquest of lands or territories but trade routes. When the Chinese first settled on that unsettled swamp land called Sibu, they were there to carve out a living not conquest. The one belt one road initiative China brought investment and development to Africa and other parts of the world for business, to establish land route for trade. China's modernization is about trade and prosperity as many would agree, violence, chaos, wars, fights etc are bad for business. The west in the past resorted to supply of opium to China, colonization, conquest, divide and conquer in Africa, profit from sales of weapons and looting of the country's resources etc.. and today, media propaganda as part of the tool to topple China, to incite more wars etc.. What is the difference between the two? One has the one belt and one road initiative that builds whilst the other, veto ceasefires and funds more wars even if their country moves ever closer to ruins.
The British built the subcontinent up for two hundred years and then gifted it to the people in the subcontinent in 1947. Just like South Africa in 1993 was the most advanced country in Africa, India in 1947 was the most advanced country in all of Asia. China was poorer than India all the way to the 1980s.
LMAO, most advanced? In which Bollywood movie? Or was it your own dream? 300 years colon-nised. Not only 200 years. You forgot the first years under the East-Endian-Company. And you forgot the caste-system. How can you improve when your head still uses the caste-system?
@@ijatpingrhyb The subcontinent was never rich. There is no such thing as India when the English arrived. The British build up the subcontinent and gifted it to the people in the subcontinent in 1947. Without the British there is no India. And if India was already rich how come it is so poor today? The British has left the subcontinent for over seventy years, what is keeping India down?
@@PomegranateChocolateLOL the British just like the other Europeans stole the wealth of all the lands that they conquered. They did build things in India but not for any altruistic reason.
As a Chinese descendant, who born and raised outside China, I confirm the impact of Chinese civilization very much shape my identity and beliefs, eg. Strong belief in Humanity and egalitarian tradition instead of monotheistic hierarchy culture
To understand why China can progress so rapidly, you have to understand the history and culture throughout their uninterrupted 5,000 years of civilization.
@@ericwong4213 Very new dynasty that came in that time brought new innovations, art, culture and a lot of things. Unlike other civilization like Egypt, Rome, Greece, Chinese Civilization have survived for 5000 years. If the dynasty collapse they can rebuild unlike any other civilization that once collapse they could never rebuild them.
@@TacticalMayoU$ Military might? You could not win in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine proxy war. Russia is winning! In your face 😂. You are having issues with Yemen. Please keep talking so we can laugh more 😂
Why not? Whatever you say they are still advancing. Look at ev's and space exploration, nothing can hold them back. China does not gives a toot about all those bad mouthing nations. Go ahead, show your sourness and jealousy.@@TacticalMayo
fully agree, there is only one next china and is still china, india has unsurmountable problems : illiterate and poverty and killing pollutions, huge inequality and corruptions and very broken infrastructure, vietnam is small and has big inequalities, fragile economy, property collapsed... . no more
India doesnot want to china , india has resolved all issues , it’s propaganda video and in 10 years one will see the difference , nobody wants china irrespective of their progress .as expected china’s economy will slow down which it has already started and china is also grappling with aging population , it doomed for sure and ya emerging economies will dominate and remember Europe will become poorer day by day and it has started . Best example great britan , there is nothing Great now in that country and people are becoming poor day day
China grew fast over last 40 years is an eroneous saying that must be corrected. Its high rate of growth began since PRCs founding in 1949, so its been almost 75 years of fast growth. Its just that before the 1980s, China didn't use GDP to express the size of its economy. Also by emphasing the last 40 years, certain people are using it as a trick to devalue China's enormous economic progress made under Chairman Mao, who passed away in 1976.
When the ancestors of Chinese saw a huge flood coming, they didn't just pray for the help from some higher force or build a big boat only for their own families and abandon the rest... They really worked their axx off to fight the flood in order to save everyone......
Jacques is one of my favorite academics. Vijay Prashad is my favorite. Together with John Ross & Jeffrey Sachs i think the 4 of them TOGETHER in ALL debates/talks to WESTERN AUDIENCES wd be extremely EFFECTIVE at countering western msm/bias/distortion of the truth. If i were billionaire, i wd fund exactly that objective. Go to (insert anti-China nations) & TELL/SHOW / PROVE the Truth !! 📸🎯🌏
@@TacticalMayoYour point is what? YOU don't like the truth? You are jealous and envious of others that do better than you? Maybe you should work harder. The people, that you mentioned, point out the illness in the Western democracy. I can tell you are affected by the whitewashing by MSM. Most western countries practice some form of socialism. It is funny how you like to label people. Lets guess what people call you 🤡.
Thank you Dr. Jacque for the big picture about China & the world. All people hope for peace, prosperity & harmonious co-existence. And it's hearthening to know that China's advance & Development will lead to a better tomorrow for the world! Salute to that.
So China after centuries of humiliation just somehow spontaneously became prosperous and a global power? Do you want to know another nation that started off as a dying feudal state, and became a spacefaring power in just a few decades? The Soviet Union. China is precisely as powerful and great as it is now because of the CPC. No dynasty has been capable of achieving what the Vanguard party has. And no capitalist nation has been able to do what the communists have. The Soviet Union and The People's Republic of China are the two fastest growing nations in existence. Who knew that the scientific method applied to economics and history (Marxism) allowed you to achieve unimaginable prosperity.
There is always a sense by the Chinese people that we can go top... because we've been there.. and so we can go back. Just work a little bit harder, and take your time. In contrast to what the west has been trying to bad-mouth China's aggression, China never was a military power like the Mongols or Anglo Saxons trying to rule the world,... but as a wealthy and civilized state that accounted for 60% of world GDP. That's what the Chinese mean as the goal of returning to the top.
Indeed, China is contributing to the human kinds in both itself own extraordinary progress toward modernity and the unique model of development which is copied by other many third world countries like India and Vietnam to benefit their citizens.
With great power, comes great responsibility. China has not been interested in leading the world. No one can clearly explain if this is because they do not want to rock the boat with the USA currently holding that role, or if it is in their civilisation DNA that they don't do it. In their thousands of years being the most powerful, they never wanted to lead any other outside their civilisation. Unfortunately with globalisation, China has no choice but to lead. This is essential for world peace and development. Developing countries are looking forward to China's lead.
China is leading the world, but doing so differently from the USA. You can see this in BRICS, SCO, RCEP, and G77+China. What's interesting is that China isn't pushing to restore Vietnam (Chinese Province for 1,000 years) nor Korea (tributary for centuries), even though both are culturally essentially Chinese.
China is not leading the world because they built their country next to our American Military bases /s "China has not been interested in leading the world. No one can clearly explain if this is because they do not want to rock the boat with the USA currently holding that role, or if it is in their civilisation DNA that they don't do it." Don't use superstition and spontaneity to explain historical developments. There is a scientific method for economics and history, called Marxism. It is materialist and seeks to explain everything in the material world through understanding the conditions that lead to its developments. There is no "No one can explain." or "Civilization DNA." which are both idealism and unscientific. "In their thousands of years being the most powerful, they never wanted to lead any other outside their civilisation." Unscientific. China doesn't conquer or lead other nations for thousands of years because they never needed to. They don't need to conquer (that much) other nations for resources *because China is so rich it doesn't need to do that.* Not to mention China's geography encouraging a united country in an isolated bubble surrounded by desert or mountains and easy assimilation between the tribes and people inside that bubble. Europe developed capitalism which required them to expand endlessly to maintain infinite growth (which is necessary for a Capitalist economy, as economic stagnation leads to economic failure) which resulted in them invading and colonizing hundreds of countries over the ocean to survive with their volatile economies. Now, as the third world becomes independent and free of colonialism and necolonialism. You can see the capitalist economies of the west waning. While nations like the USA keeps intervening in the 3rd world as they attempt to keep the price of their resources tolerable with West Asian Oil.
Humanity civilisation catastrophe are just some words put together by the greedy west to scare others into submission. These DEVILS are greedy but they ain't stupid. They wouldn't want to live in their bunkers stashed with cash and gold but deprive of the sun.
Pro. Jacques is knowledgeable about China. However, there is a crucial concept that the West, including most experts on China, fails to mention: Karma. Karma is a term that does not have an exact equivalent in English, but its closest translation would be "The Day of Retribution." These two concepts are definitely different. In the West, it is believed that one can invade other countries or kill their people if necessary, as long as it is done for a seemingly just cause and without any sense of remorse. For example, the killings of the Chosen People in Kaza. However, the Chinese have a different perspective. They believe that actions have consequences, and those who do wrong will suffer them sooner or later. The Chinese believe that even if someone commits an act of aggression, such as bullying, isolating, or issuing military threats, they will eventually face punishment from their gods, including natural disasters. The West is out of line in its belief system, and China, which has been given a dog's name, bears an increasingly silent burden of oppression from the West.
China is a unified civilization-state that constantly evolves. It is a mistake to image that China would be static or fail to continue to modernize, given the absolute competence of her leadership and the continuous push to improve in all ways.
@@TacticalMayo LOL, given China's rapid nuclear, naval, drone, and missile buildups, it's pretty sure that they have a pretty clear idea of where things are going.
@@TacticalMayo of course you are, youre the bad guys, everyone knows youre violent people...everyone see how they think? This is who they are deep down
China, throughout most of the last 2000 years had always been one of the greatest global powers to contend with. It was only in the last 100 years of the last Qing Dynasty that it started to crumbled into insignificance and set the scene for Qing's demise in 1912.
Truth. Throughout history, China has been the one civilization that could completely sustain an advanced economy independently. We're seeing China return to that, as they indigenize more and more technology, de-risking by decoupling from Western technology. Within a decade, China will very likely be fully technology independent, and the world will choose between Chinese and Western standards.
Past centuries belonged to the West, but the future is global. Embracing China's role in shaping the modern world is essential for progress. Blocking paths, like Malaysia has done, only holds us back. Let's unite for a brighter future together.
Mr. Jacques knows China so well and speaks so well and correctly about China to a point that he offended many pro western far right people, even those claimed to be political "scholars". He made them very uncomfortable!
u can c future china in singapore, constantly improving and adapting to the world. doing the western way of raiding and divide n conquer to stay on top is not going to last
China will remain as China as China’s history repeated demonstrated, independent from any advancement of modernization or material transformation of China because of its culture root which poses a contrary different mindset, behavior as the Westerner. The true question actually worth exploiting is how the future world is going to be affected by China modernization? The answer is yet to be discovered, but one thing is certain which is there will be more peace than war, more fairness and equality than preponderance and discrimination, and more development and prosperous than depredation and exploitation, and eventually lead to a more habitable mother earth.
Sirs, you are rite the words been written , no matter how the alliance of the western leadership with counter to china and still china perperous till 100 years to comes , because china is only trade with hardships Enterprise not with wars Let us wait the scenario,
i find it strange that a few people who really know China, such as, for example Prof. Martin Jacques, are not very visible, whereas those who do not know China very well are frequently sought after for their views about China on the western media. By chance or by design?
The Western media aren’t allowed to report any positive news about China. This is for the purpose of stopping China to overtake the US as the no. 1 nation which is gonna cease the US hegemony over the world.
Very true, look up American Indian's and Uranium (goole it), Bikini Islands, we have a shameful past no one wants to talk about... Aye. Not all China is fully developed but in Shanghai, street perfomers use QR codes, 10 yrs ago when I travelled. :)
No really, The current China is rather unique. It was very poor before and after WW2. And when the KMD "exited" to Taiwan, it become very much interesting case. It's like having identical twice but separated at birth. The culture revolution was a disaster while at the same time Taiwan started to developed. It was very obvious the standard of living was much better in Taiwan. That's what many people used as evidence that Democracy is better than communism. But when China decided to open up and modernize, the story just flip the other way around. So the moral of the story is, China can fail and will fail if it is control by the "wrong" hand. It become great not just because of the system, but it need good leaders. Leader who can be think for the people, have long turn vision and not about short turn profit, not about how "voters" keep voting them back with false promise. Lack of it and will guarantee to fail.
Just like any other countries, the fate of its people depends on the leader they chose. Look no further than the US, UK and EU who are hell bend to promote war.
Holy shit. No Great Man theory will you? Do you think great leaders just spontaneously appeared one day? And that the century of humiliation was just a spontaneous coincidence that was a product of having not a good enough leader? BE A MATERIALIST. Do not be superstitious and free-willest when it comes to economics and history. Marxism is the scientific method of economics and politics. Understand that everything is a product of another thing. And it is possible to understand the conditions that lead to the developments of today, and the possible conditions that will lead to the developments in the future. China is not powerful because they have Good people in good positions. THEY ARE POWERFUL, BECAUSE THEY APPLY SCIENCE TO THEIR ECONOMIES (COMMUNISM/MARXISM) It is why Capitalist India is a shithole, and Communist China does capitalism better than actual capitalists.
Thank you, Jacques Martin! You hit the spot like no one else in the West. China is a fascinating country and has been a global economic superpower for years. There is no question that China will continue to be the most interesting country in the world and with new, fascinating developments and technologies, while remaining true to its roots and traditions, additional with focus on supporting the global south out of the shadow of the West and guiding it to new prosperity.
Comrade Jacques in Great Britain. According to Wikipedia, “Jacques joined the Communist Party of Great Britain at eighteen, and at both Manchester and Cambridge universities was very active in student politics. In 1966 he was one of the prime movers behind the Radical Student Alliance, a left-of-centre cross-party organisation of around 400 students from 108 universities and colleges which sought to build a students' movement 'able to take collective action on matters of general social concern'. At Cambridge he was instrumental in the formation of the Cambridge University Students' Union.[6] By 1967 he was a member of the Communist Party's executive committee, "probably the youngest member ever at about twenty-two",[8] and he remained a member until 1991.” So?
common prosperity: "Four Seas One Family". China did not invade, just the neighbor countries came and fused in became part of China and accepted its rich culture and governance.
Jacques and I came to China at the same time. He came to visit, I came to live. He reads into the tableau that the peasants were working to lift themselves out of poverty. I would account for their motivations differently, although his projected rationalizations would play better for a Hollywood movie script. "Chinese modernization is a public good for the developing world," is the keystone of his argument. His definition of Chinese civilization is solipsistic, and he omits the ethnocentric bit; that Mao founded the dynasty which succeeded the Qing as a rabid ethnostate (not to mention that another of the foundational pillars was, "the destruction of the Western Powers.") Is he working for the Global Times?
@realrhetoric. You seem to be mired in the past. Yes, there was a time when the CPC worked to spread communism. When Deng visited Singapore LKY told him that it was not compatible for China to export Communism and to expect the south east asians to be friendly with it! China, under Deng stopped trying to turn the world marxist! The west probably knew that but it was better for them to portray China as marxist to prolong the western prejudices and rhetoric. Action speaks louder than words, RHETORIC, real or unreal is just a bunch of words !
I wouldn't name myself "real rhetoric" when I don't understand what "rhetoric" is! And I'm not even English! I had a vague understanding of the meaning of "rhetoric", so i googled it.
The next "China" is still China, a "civilization state". When we were in trouble we would not bother others. When we are prosperous, we share with and help others. There's definitely no threat to others; but, there's a lot of reasons for others to gain friendship with us.
Amazing, as I scroll through the comments, I see so many of my own subscribers here - great minds think alike - thank you T House for this presentation
I think ONLY Westerners like Mr. Martin Jacques entertain the idea that "China" is a Civilization State. Chinese people don't think about their "China" is without borders throughout its history. In very ancient China, like the "Xia n Shang Dynasty", talk of borders was meaningless. Borders became meaningful when Qin conquereed China, but still borders were meaningful as long as military presence could be sustained. The idea of "Civilization State" probably came from the partial readings of some proclamations of some die-hard n corrupted minded Confucianists scholars in some dynasty. The very two words--"Zhong Guo" should dispel this useless concept of Civilization State. "Zhong" means middle in Chinese, but its Heliographic origin should give clue to the concept of "middleness"--It is the Military Command Flag pole in the Center of a battlefield(an ancient battlefield). Center=Middle, but this is a Military Center. "Guo" means country and again its Heliographic origin give another clue for the concept of a country-- it is a square(4 borders) n in it, another word-"rong", a dagger which forms another word partially "yu" which means boundary. All together, Zhong Guo DOES NOT mean Middle Kingdom, thus Civilization State as most Westerners imagine it to be--It means ONLY by Military Force can "China" can be maintained as China. Luckily, people who govern Mainland China n Taiwan don't think China as the Middle Kingdom.
Expert for chine it's only Chinese people. But it's nice to hear someone out to think positively about...1946..was after ww2..not only Chinese was poor but all the world involved in war. Europe was worst Too .the culture of how working so hard for building Yourself future Chinese are example..Germany too. They never waited parasites years. Some *experts * thinks it's stategv political ideology which has on hand development. And people's power ..I agree..Chinese are Chinese without exception..
Thank You So Very Much, Sir. Your Insights Of China Is Extremely Informative And Very Exciting, Exhilarating , Extraordinary & Absolutely Fascinating! TEAM CHINA ALL THE WAY!👍🙂
