Filming this video was a HUGE thrill, and I wanted to thank everyone that took part again. There are relevant links to every group mentioned here in the description, but I will paste there here again as well: National Council of American Indians - www.ncai.org/ Office of Tibet in Washington - tibetoffice.org/ Central Tibetan Administration - tibet.net/ Council of Khalistan - councilofkhalistan.com/ East Turkestan Government in Exile - east-turkistan.net/ World Service Authority (the administrative arm of the World Citizen Government) - worldcitizengov.org/ The World is My Country documentary (presented by Martin Sheen) - www.theworldismycountry.com/ Florida House - www.floridahousedc.org/ Southern Cameroons Peoples Conference (the body which gave rise to the Secretariat) - www.scpconference.com/
@@fshoaps By that standard, anything anyone says that is not in line with Xi's current policy is "anti-CPC propaganda." Do you have an specific or substantive criticism?
@@FredoRockwellExcept this isn’t just some guy going against the line of the CPC. I think human beings have the right to do that. But this person serves something greater than himself: western imperialism. He’s talking about non-violence, and dialogue in order to achieve change, but the government in exile has received hundreds of millions of dirty CIA money in order to destabilize, and literally attack with weapons China’s national interests. This isn’t rocket science.
Bermuda, The Myanmar and Syrian opposition and The Knights of Malta also have D.C embassies. Also the various member states of the Organization of American states have permanent delegations to the OAS in D.C. Shoutout to Guatemala's who allowed my college's model OAS delegation to come in. Had fun learning about the country and showed my proposed flag with Capybara on it. The ambassador found it amusing.
You are correct! I interviewed the NUG Myanmar ambassador to Prague in another video. Check it out! I also stopped by the SMOM building in London in my second video on London embassies. Sounds like a cool flag design! Copabaras are great!
@@FredoRockwellhey these khalistanis once attack plane in which indians are flying you American becouse 9/11 distroyed whole afganistan now you tell about them
My Great Grandfather died Stateless. He was a soldier in WW1, forced violently to fight in the Austria-Hungary Army. His time in the war lead him to despise the concept of nations as he realized he had more in common with the Russians he was forced to kill than the officers forcing him to do it. In 1929 he left Poland and moved to Canada but never applied for Canadian citizenship and the Poland he left ceased to exist in 1939. I suspect he would have been very interested in the concept of world citizenship but he passed away in the early 1950s.
@@FredoRockwell He spent time imprissioned in Siberia as a POW. He didn't want to kill anymore and surrendered to the Russians... then during the revolution in 1917 he was released and walked all the way back to Poland... and got to meet Lenin during the October Revolution.
@@asianman9303 Desperate times man. All of Eastern Europe was a chaotic mess, WW1 was still happening and within Russia the Civil War was starting. The guards basically let everyone out and they had to find their own way. With no where else to go he just started walking west. He said that he saw some horrible things in WW1 but wandering through Russia as a lost foreigner during the civil war was much worse. During the World War you could tell who was friend and who was enemy just from their uniform and even on the Eastern Front there was some semblance of rules for warfare... the civil war lacked such niceties, but make it home he did.
His wife spent the war in a slave dairy farm in East Prussia. She survived only by stealing milk when the guards wearn't watching... and after the war had to find her was back home which is today close the Ukrainian border. Neither talked much about their war experiences. No doubt though her experiences also inspired a reluctance to the concepts of nations. It was her idea to move to Canada to protect their children from the horrors they experienced, she was certain another world war was coming some day and others from her family were already homesteaders here. Originally they left with his brother and adopted another young woman from the village to help her get a better life. The brother followed up to Hamburg where he decided to head to Argentina instead of Canada... and the family that young woman started in Canada was in attendance at my Granny's funeral last December. We are still considered cousins and expressed to me how grateful they were for the generosity of my family.
AND THE WORLD SERVICE AUTHORITY PART WAS JUST BEAUTIFUL AND INSPIRING GIVE ME SOME MORE FAITH IN HUMANITY AND THANK YOU MR ROCKWELL THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH GOOD SIR
It’s quite the opposite though They talk about freedom but they want to force everyone into a single centralized authority Even if said world government was a democracy that would just result in Asia dominating the rest of the world and the largest political party on earth is the CCP, imagine the entire world being run with the laws of China, its actually horrible!
It really was, wasn't it. I couldn't bear to include the part where I say, "Thanks for talking to me" after that. There just wasn't anything else to say.
@@FredoRockwellisn't funny how they claim they are being occupied while in the same breath claiming the territorial homeland of the Dzungarians/Dzungaria as part of their imaginary country, would be like the Apache Claiming the entire United States of America as their homeland while using historical revisionism to wipe out the memory of there ever being other tribes, culture's, languages, traditions etc that have a rightfull claim to different Homelands in what is today the USA. thou I'm not surprised seeing as they take after and their ideology resembles the Turks in turkey who ethnically cleansed Anatolia of its millennia old populations of Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Bulgarians etc to form the perfect Turkish state on their homeland and then call it turkey.
@@edwardsnowden8821 East Turkestan is meant to be an ethnic union of the eastern turkic speaking peoples. Its different in scope than just an independent Uighur state. In a way East Turkestan is kind of similar to how Yugoslavia united the south slavs, and would probably end the same way.
Maryland is officially recognized in the flag code as the only state that should do this, as it was volunteers from Maryland that covered the retreat of the Continental Army across the Delaware River, likely saving the Revolution.
As a big fan of the United Nations and other International Orgs/Bodies I'm shocked that I'm only just now learning about the World Service Authority. Such a brilliant idea to help the problem of statelessness and also just the divisions we have in our world, plus an idea with an actual legal base. Also loved the talks with the reps for Tibet and East Turkestan, hope they get their independence at some point and we see their flags wave with the rest of us. The Southern Cameroon Peoples Secretariat is such a brilliant idea as well, hope that helps their independence movement. Even Flordia's embassy idea is actually a great idea to make the states more connected with the nation's capital, would love to see more states and territories join in, plus the free orange juice thing is just cute (I actually paused the video when you mentioned that and said OF COURSE you get free orange juice from there XD just amazing) Also just discovered your channel via this video, you have defiantly earned a sub from me :D
The World passport speech is extremely misleading to the point where it might be considered a scam. He says "almost every country has stamped a world passport", which implies that they accept it as a valid document, but that's not true at all. There isn't a single country that recognises it as a valid identity or travel document, and the few cases where they were stamped was via a special request by people who had other passports or applying as stateless. It was either "please stamp this instead of or along my real passport" or "I am stateless and applying as a refugee, I also want a stamp on this piece of paper". The world passport did not give any advantage or help or recognition that's any different from being stateless. No country recognises the world service authority
18:04 Pensacola Mentioned 🗣🗣🗣 This video was really well made! Its a really cool concept. I've heard of these existing before but never knew how many or really what they did.
I ordered a package from Ukraine controlled Crimea, while it was in transit, the Republic of Crimea was declared, by the time I got the package, the Republic of Crimea was declared to be part of Russia.
Good job man, try visiting other capitals to reach out to more embassies or even go to those unrecognized states yourself, i would love to see more of these types of videos
Glad you liked it! Regarding the name, originally there was a Germany colony called Kameroon, which was divided between the UK and France after WWI. Most of it became a French posession, and the parts that were given to the UK were divided into the Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons (so the North/South thing was relative to each other, not the part of Cameroon controlled by France). In the 1960s the two British Cameroons were given the option of joining Nigeria or Cameroon (but not independence, which was a bad decision in my opinion). The Northern Cameroons joined Nigeria, and the Southern Cameroons joined French Cameroon. See my video "Ambazonia the 5 minute guide" for more details. :)
Perhaps a little too openly supportive attitude towards all of these movements but I understand that “I support you and am giving you a voice” is probably necessary to get access to these diplomats.
I'm actually very critical of a vast number of national movements, but I tend to be more sympathetic when the force opposing them is a brutal dictatorship. I think they should at least be heard if not much more. The people who were willing to speak to me in this video fall into that camp. If I'd spoken to the Council of Khalistan or the Iranian Council of National Resistance, the content would have been very different. Which is why, perhaps, they didn't want to talk to me!
Honestly of any state was to have an embassy I would have thought it would be Texas or Hawaii since they were independent nations in the past The old Hawaiian government still preforms ceremonial functions too and has a national guard unit dedicated to it as royal guards
More people needs to hear about the occupied territories of China. You barely hear about them even in East and Southeast Asia. They deserve more recognition.
I totally agree, and for lots of reasons. One is just that people who are suffering should be heard. But also, I think more awareness might (hopefully) make the CCP feel more accountable. Maybe.
What are you even talking about, the Anglo countries tried turbohard to push the Hong Kong and East Turkestan narrative just a few years back. They are in the international section of the news pretty much daily, it fizzled out because it ain't working and people eventually lost interest.
The map of Tibet depicted 3:29 is the map of Tibetan Autonomous Region which is a part of Historically Independent Tibet. That historically independent Tibetis much larger than that.
True, and apologies if it caused any offense. Finding the right map that I can use with permission and also is high res enough to use in a video is often a struggle. It certainly was in this case.
Would the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) count as an unofficial and unrecognized embassy as it represents the largely unrecognized country of Taiwan?
Be honest. Who got drawn in by the Florida one Seriously though this is a really cool video! Never knew some of these places had embassies around the world.
Hey I’m a Welshman and I was very curious about the Welsh embassy that didn’t want to speak to, but I could find very much about it online. Could you tell me more about it and its location?
Alright? Happy to help. Technically the Welsh "embassy" in DC is one of several international offices operated by the Welsh government internationally, primarily to focus on trade, investment, tourism and that sort of thing. The message I got from the DC office was, "Unfortunately, nobody in the Washington DC office will be available to take part in the filming." I would have filmed from outside it like I did with Florida, but there's nothing to see from the street. The office is inside the UK embassy and I was told there is nothing to indicate that there's a Wales office inside. :( There's not a huge amount of info availalbe online, but you can start here: www.gov.wales/international-offices
I don't think I heard modern China be referred to as an empire before, but I can totally see it now (much like how North Korea is referred to as a kingdom). Also, I feel like what China's doing in East Turkmenistan and what Russia's doing in Ukraine are "Eastern imperialism."
If you think about it, the current borders of China are mostly the same as they were for Imperial China. The only difference is that Outer Mongolia (now just Mongolia) is now independent. The rest is the imperial possessions still remain in the empire. 😥 Thank you for your comment!
And the USA is not an empire after expanding east from the original 13 colonies (taken from the cold dead hands of the natives) to the rest of America and taking land from Mexico and annexing the kingdom of Hawaii etc etc while the millions of natives where wiped out. if you are going to call China a big country an empire then every big country is one the USA is an empire, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, India, Russia, Brazil.
@@FredoRockwellthose poor people's, cultures, languages, countless tribes, stories, and unique rituals and identities all wiped out by the American imperialists and in their place a homogeneous Anglo Saxon dominated entity without any ideas of separatists influence based on indigineity or a different identity and culture to worry about EVER😢 While hosting and sponsoring more tolerant countries and cultures ethnic separatist/ radical elements in our capital built on stolen Land as a way of geopolitical leverage and standing on a moral high horse, aint that a win😂
@@lakevon Yes, the US government and the European settlers committed countless crimes against the native population of North America. This is well documented and regularly discussed in American politics, and I think most Americans understand and accept this now. I didn't understand the second half of your comment, but I get the feeling you think there is some sort of hypocricy going on here. Try again if you want to.
I can see why you'd think that, as the concept of the passport is based on rights which, although guaranteed by treaty, are routinely ignored by states. The difference is that David and the WSA are well aware of the limitations of the passport and their world view, while very optimistic and hopeful, is rooted in reality.
I think it's important for everyone to know that I am speaking on my own behalf on not on behalf of any one group or the Secretariat. The Secretary of the Secretariat has not yet approved this comment.
There's also TECRO, the de facto embassy of the Republic of China, and the Iranian Interests Section in the Pakistani embassy. Texas had an embassy too, for the brief period where it was an independent republic. I don't believe the Hawaiian Kingdom or Republic of Hawaii sent long-term delegations abroad.
Gosh, I don't know. I don't have another channel. I wonder what it could be? To me, when I hear recordings of my voice, I sound like Kermit the Frog. But I'm guessing that's not who you mean. 😂
Several times. I visit the London embassy in my first London embassy video (during the pandemic, I didn't try to go inside), I interviewed the deputy Taiwan representative to the UK in my video about Somaliland's celebrations at the UK parliament, and I have an entire video about Taiwan's relations with Vanuatu. I hope to make a video just about Taiwan before long. 🙂
I have an unrecognized embassy in DC. It's actually more of a box in a back alley. When I say box, a tin can would be a more accurate description. Truth be told, it's really just a rock. Okay, fine, I don't have an unrecognized embassy.
It was goat stew with a side of cassava chips. I would definitely try it if you're ever in West Hyattsville! Also, the pineapple soda (imported from Cameroon) was the bomb!
If you are ever in Greenville, N.Y. do pay a visit on the Hawaiian Embassy. They advocate for restoration of of the kingdom's rightful status in the global community via U.N. proceedings.
i found the ambazonian talk the most interesting - the two comrades seemed very mature, wise and honest - and came across as good statesmen, dare i even say their talks were better than the tibetan/ east turkestan talks
I agree that both Comrade Earnest and Comrade Alem both provided some of the most thoughtful interviews. I really enjoyed meeting them! Thank you for your comment! 🙂
There's a diplomatic mission to the US from the SADR, but I'm not sure if there's a physical office. I've met the SADR representative to the UK, and he helped me make the long form video about Western Sahara I made. I'm keen to make more content about this topic on future!
The Sovereign Military Order Malta has Diplomatic Relations with a 113 countries; I don't believe that they have an Embassy in Washington, D. C. ? Maybe you could tell me why?
As far as I know, the SMOM only had embassies in countries that recognize its sovereignty, and the US is not one of these. Neither is the UK, but there is a SMOM mission in London that I visit in my video "More Unrecognised Embassies of London." I'm not sure if there's an unrecognised mission in DC. 🙂
You only have 8000 subscribers this is stuff like TLDR global news and Bobby broccoli size of video documentation in editing how do you not have more subscribers you should at least have 100,000 maybe even 200,000 Because I can tell that you put time and effort in these videos just by this one video
I'm glad you liked it so much! I did put a lot of time and effort into this video in particular, and the last two as well. It would be great to get to 100K some day. At the moment, I'm just delighted to have reaced 9K (which happened not long after you posted your comment). Thanks again!
It does! I mentioned it briefly in the video. If you want to see me visit the outside of their embassy in London check out my first unrecognised embassy video. 🙂
16:58 - I honestly agree with you, but I also think that war and violence is simply an instrumental part of how humans evolve and advance with time - but it's also a part that I think is impossible to remove. The reason why I think this is because wars and violence have a real, serious cost. Take any war from any era, and think about what we learned from it. Would we have learned that without a war to begin with? My answer is no. You're welcome to change my mind.
I think it’s a bit silly to lump in Quebec, Wales, Greenland etc with “unrecognized countries” - the US recognizes those places, they just aren’t (nor do they claim, or for the most part desire to be) independent sovereign states. That isn’t like Tibet etc which are active independence movements that are not recognized by their parent governments or the US.
Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure what you mean by "lumping in," though. I don't say that every embassy I visit belongs to an unrecognised country (Florida certainly isn't, and I'm pretty confident I didn't say the NCAI is an unrecognised country). All of the offices I visited in this video (and the two previous videos in this series) function as embassies to some extent, but without being officially recognised as embassies. Sometimes they represent an independence movement or an unrecognised state, sometimes an autonomous region, sometimes something difficult to classify. Whatever they are, I find them interesting. 🙂
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus operates a representative office in Washington, D.C., even though the United States doesn't recognize Northern Cypriot independence
The World passport speech is extremely misleading to the point where it might be considered a scam. He says "almost every country has stamped a world passport", which implies that they accept it as a valid document, but that's not true at all. There isn't a single country that recognises it as a valid identity or travel document, and the few cases where they were stamped was via a special request by people who had other passports or applying as stateless. It was either "please stamp this instead of or along my real passport" or "I am stateless and applying as a refugee, I also want a stamp on this piece of paper". The world passport did not give any advantage or help or recognition that's any different from being stateless
It's the official advice of the WSA to get a visa for the county you wish to enter with your world passport before arriving at the border. This does happen, and I think the examples I show in the video are of stamped visas. In other words, both a consular official and a border official have decided to accept the passport as a valid travel document. Whether or not the World Passport is accepted is usually down to the discretion of the official that it is presented to. I think saying this makes it close to a scam is overstating things, though. The WSA doesn't claim that the World Passport is universally and unquestionably accepted. Lots of people are happy to have one nevertheless, however, and there are other uses for passports other than crossing borders. One more thing - even with a passport which is legally recognised, entry into a country is still in most cases down to the discretion of the border official. 🙂
@@FredoRockwell Yes, they need a visa beforehand, and they apply for a visa using their actual citizenship, or they apply as a stateless refugee, but nobody is applying for a visa as a world citizen passport holder. In fact, showing up with the passport actually makes it HARDER and will cause more trouble for you than showing up without a passport at all (assuming you already have a visa)
@potato_nugget There is plenty of evidence that visas have been obtained and used in World Passports. There are dozens of photos showing this on the WSA website. If you're saying these were only granted because the person applying had another passport and the official put the visa in the wrong passport, or agreed to put the visa in a passport they considered invalid because of the other passport, what is your evidence? The most likely explanation is that some officials, either knowingly or by accident, choose to recognise the World Passport as valid.
@@FredoRockwell I never said it was an accident or mistake, I said that it was done in addition to or in place of their real passport, or a replacement for giving a stateless person a piece of paper. So it's a case of "I am a stateless refugee and I want my visa stamped on this paper" or "I am a citizen of country X, but I want my entry stamp on this" it's more of a special request done for fun or them not seeing a problem with the request (you can also request not to have a stamp at all). What is true however, is the fact that nobody has ever applied for a visa as a World citizen or WSA passport holder, they applied using their real citizenship or as stateless. No country recognises the WSA as a legitimate organisation This is covered extensively in the Wikipedia page about the passport, and also in every single article about it that's not their website or made by them
@potato_nugget can you cite one of these articles? I'm not sure how such an absolute statement could be proven. I've looked through the Wikipedia page just now and not seen anything to say it has only been used in conjunction with another passport.
An astute suspicion! I know of at least one state (not Florida) that maintains an office in DC for engaging with the federal government, and there may be others. The office I found has zero public-facing activity and doesn't engage in anything in public (if other states do likewise that might be why they're hard to find). The Florida "embassy" is totally different as it's really there to be a visible promotion of Florida, and is also not state-funded. 🙂
Yes there is one in Washington. The US has recognized Kosovo for many years so it's an official embassy, not an unrecognised mission, so I didn't include it
@@jonathaslopes8038 Kosovo isn't a member of the UN, but it is recognized by about 90 countries I think. You could argue it's partially recognised. I hope to make videos like this in other capitals. If I come across an unrecognised Kosovo mission, I'll try to include it. By the way, I made a video about the Kosovo prime minister a couple years ago. 🙂
US states and Territories should do the same. I can think of a few ways a Puerto Rican embassy in Spain or a Alaskan embassy in Canada or a Guam embassy in Japan could help alot.
None of the places you just listed statistically want independence from the United States, regardless of their strong cultural identities. The main argument in Puerto Rico is autonomous commonwealth status vs sovereign statehood as a full member of the US, the independence group is comparatively small. Alaskans are deeply proud of and heavily identify with both Alaska and the USA, Guamanians (and the other territories besides American Samoa) have the same debate as Puerto Rico but on a lesser scale of intensity.
You're correct that this is how most people around the world pronounce it, including me until recently, but I changed my pronunciation after watching this Religion for Breakfast video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MWsClPXLApA.htmlsi=qkJpJ71a0OrpJJkV
On the council for Khalistan topic Sir please do through the topic of Khalistan They have sheltered in the west and were actively supported by Pakistan Persecution is a strong word to use Some of these individuals are terrorists or glorify terrorism India as a sovereign country has every right to clamp down on individuals with ulterior violent motives Regards.
India does not have a right to deploy assassination squads in US territory, whatever the justification. Not only does India not have a right to this under us law, but it violates the UN Charter and multiple other treaties. The Indian government acts illegally when it attempts extra judicial killings in foreign countries. Whatever the wrongdoings of some Khalistan supporters, these actions are wrong.
@@FredoRockwell Thanks for your reply. There are many precedents set by the US and allied countries of assassinations in foreign lands without UN mandate. In India’s case, multiple extradition requests, sharing of detailed dossiers and Interpol lookout notices, yet no response. Terrorism has to be clamped down. In my opinion, assassinations by Governments or Nation states is illegal and wrong on so many levels. Like for example the North Koreans killing their head of state’s brother. That is deplorable. However, to say the US is a holier than thou country and accepts UN charters is hilarious. I think no one in Africa, Latin America, Asia, let’s say the Global South would buy that. We literally had a killer of the head of state of Bangladesh roaming around in Canada for years and no action taken!!! There is a line to which countries can request for perpetrators of crime and terrorism (residing in other countries), can be brought to justice. If it is the judicial system in the country where the alleged crime took place that is in question, that can be decided in a court of law. But atleast do something that these terrorists and criminals do not roam around freely for no consequences of their crimes. Once the pot boils over, extreme steps how deplorable and illegal they may be(on let’s say American soil), taken become acceptable to people of the other country. I just wanted to bring out what many Indians feel. No disrespect Sir. We equally respect our Constitution and the rule of law. It is abhorrent equally to feel that a foreign nation would have tried to assassinate someone in India as that would be an attack on the rule of law, and questioned our sovereignty. The question should be why would someone go to that extent, risking to jeopardize friendly relations. Thanks. 🙏🏽
@Riccardocampagnieri The US government has engaged in repeated extra judicial extraterritorial killings over many decades. This is also wrong. Please don't assume I hypocritically support US policy automatically because I'm a US citizen. I don't know enough about the individuals involved, but there is a process for extraditing violent terrorists from the US to other countries. It's complicated but it does happen. If the terrorism allegation is based on what is protected free speech in the US, then attempts to extradite will fail. If the Indian government doesn't like the judgements of the US courts, sending in assassins isn't acceptable.
@@Riccardocampagnieri What specific crime do you allege Gurpatwant Singh Pannun was guilty of to deserve the death penalty? What was the process for Modhis decision to try and kill him?
