What Taiwanese Think of China | Street Interview 

quite interesting

Yes, but the geographic location of Taiwan is crucial to the naval containment of China. Then again, I thought the location of Afghanistan was key to monitoring the western frontiers of China.

Maybe while Biden is president, but most Americans I know of are very supportive of Taiwan as a free nation separate from China. The U.S. hasn't got a history of abandoning allies. But Afghans were not particularly benefitting the U.S., either. Taiwan has other supporters, too, including Japan, which is also a strong U.S. ally. The man who said that was a CCP influenced stooge. Maybe you are too?

@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Ignoring your clear partisan bias - you seem to have glossed over what other things the "CCP influenced stooge" said. For example, he said that countries will prioritize their self-interests above all else. The US understands how significant Taiwan is towards containing China's power projection and maritime claims - the US wants to remain the dominant military power not only in the region, but the world. Japan was literally occupied and had its society reformed by the US after its surrender, so it's in their best interest to stay on the US's good side. Post WW2 relations between China and Japan aren't exactly good, even though the younger generation holds less animosity towards each other. Japan has the diplomatic backing of the US to deter Chinese aggression, which is Japan looking out for its self-interest. See a trend? Anyway, feel free to reply with whatever you want, but no - I'm not a CCP shill. If it matters, my family is from Hong Kong but your US-centric worldview (and politically motivated) expressed in your comment goes against the goal of Asian Boss. The point of this channel is to give you a glimpse of perspectives and viewpoints in Asian countries, and the comment you leave is about pushing a pro-Republican/nationalistic narrative while labeling perspectives you disagree with as "CCP influenced".

Huge difference actually. Afghans didn't want the US there lmao

@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 when border fight happens, uk might have passed there(casual stroll in the past) When there is conflict, US must have passed Congratulations to US... In the name of freedom, you have successfully ruined the lives of natives, headbutted with libya,syria,iraq,cuba, Afghanistan,vietnam,germany(old),japan(old),UK(old),france(old),spain(old),italy(old) Following with mexico,liberia,2korea, and Philippine(old) Your current enemies are china,russia,iran,africa(this is not a nation,angered by racism),india(ally of russia) indonesia(ambitious),mongolia(horse noises) Ukraine (backstabbed) belarus(russia friend),turkey(Quite observer),switzerland(peace lover), Saudi Arabia (sand noises), and Venezuela (remember me?) Currently you(US) have won "most aggressive nation of the century" award "Covid king" title "Oil hungry" title "Master of internal conflict" title "War veteran(lvl 10)" "Canada" left the group* "Australia" left the group*

I want to ask did u people want to remain independent or wants reunification

Don’t be fooled that Asian Boss is more transparent… they are just good at making you feel that way.

My parents immigrated from Taiwan and I was born in the US. I feel like the general consensus here is that most Americans will SAY they support Taiwan if they're asked about it- but it's not because they understand the Taiwan/China relationship, it's because they're against the Chinese Communist Party. If Taiwan and China started a war today, I don't believe the US government would commit and provide the support that many local Taiwanese people might expect from this side of the world. Personally I don't have a strong preference on green or blue, but most of my family lives in Taiwan so I do really hope for peace.

@@GauravSharmaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR more independence, they have been taught that way for a long time

This interview made me realize there’s tons of CCP spies living in Taiwan

People in Taiwan province are just a bunch of ungrateful brats, they took every chance to benefits from Mainland China and they will keep doing it until the day we reunited.

People’s thinking is heavily influenced by many factors. Brainwashing is not only achieved through explicit government propaganda. In Taiwan it’s done through many years of subtle manipulation of education system and media undertone, and in many ways it’s way more effective than explicit propaganda, because it brainwashed you without making you realize you are brainwashed. This is how a manufactured identity is achieved.

我是大陆人，我热爱大陆，同时也尊重台湾人的选择。两岸作为华人的代表，真心希望能够共同发展和繁荣，人民幸福。仅仅希望台湾，不要被西方政府用作伤害大陆的棋子就好。

​@@user-si5sx8ob8wHarm the mainland? It's the opposite. It's Beijing regime ambition to force Taiwan people into a repressing communist regime. Taiwan is a sovereign nation. Their people are free to choose what to read, what to watch, without severely censored like in mainland. The only way Taiwan reunite with China is when CCP tyranny collapsed.

Chinese people should choose democracy. You are living in a cage.

So true. His description of how the US will only look out for Taiwan as long as Taiwan benefits the US is so spot-on. And he does not blame the US for that - he specifically calls out how it is natural for each country to act in its own interest. What he does not speak about (but I'm sure he knows all about) is how the Taiwanese government has pursued an intentional decades-long strategy of *ensuring* that Taiwan remains a benefit to the US, and to the world. This of course is its development of the semiconductor industry. In recent years this strategy has paid dividends, but it was not accidental: smart people planned it this way. Taiwan will not go the way of the Kurds or the Afghanis, and the reason, somewhat amazingly, is semiconductors.

@@henrykenyon311 Yes, finally someone point it out. There will be no way in this world the US will let China take the semiconductor tech from Taiwan by annexed it. Edit: At least they won't let China take it freely.

@@henrykenyon311 True but is fighting a war with China potentially going WW3, be worth it at the cost of some semiconductors. Something which isn't impossible to produce in other places. That is a variable that did not exist with the kurds or afghans.

totally agree

@@IronKurone Your understanding is too narrow, semiconductors are not that important, China never unified Taiwan because of semiconductor technology. Taiwanese companies rely entirely on Equipment from Europe and the United States, and TSMC cannot make chips if the United States embargoes Taiwan. Smic would have mass-produced 5nm without the US blocking amSL. China is now testing 28nm domestic equipment, I know this year's domestic equipment has not passed the national acceptance, I expect that by 2025 at most, China will have a 28nm production line that has been mass produced. The timing of reunification depends on China's supply chain dependence on Europe and the United States. The most dependent is semiconductor, and there are too many Chinese engineers in the semiconductor industry

Right, as varied as they were, no one wants war

Accordingly to Chinese media outlets, they support war “ going to Taipei to enjoy the rain in the winter” remember?

The status quo can't continue indefinitely though because of the fact the media is biased towards independence, which is also the reason young people are more pro-independence because they grow up in media telling them to be so. The status quo can only last until the older generations die off, and then war is inevitable because the young people will try to declare independence.

@@amihart9269 Or the young generation realizes that they've gone too far, their generation after them (those in school today) actually reel it back a bit.

Oh did they asked us if war was wanted when they fly those US made jets above us all the day just decades before? Nahh, we don’t really care about how they feels anymore, they can choice either unification with blood or without.

like the young boy

一针见血的

So we just need to read more books and cherish an open mind towards difference.

When a person's own life is not satisfactory, he will always put all the fault on the bigger things.

absolutely

@@LouisTsuiful Didn't know ROC belong to communist regime. Oh wait they shouldn't. 🤣

@@Kenneth-jt7ul Where did he mention "communist regime"?

@@LouisTsuiful The China that you speak of doesn't exist. The China everyone knows today is only 100 years old. The Communist party is the antithesis of what China was in ancient times. Communism and socialism are western ideologies. Read a book. If you are brave enough to use a VPN to view this youtube channel, then go search for something that defies your blelief system.

Young people in Taiwan should understand that conflict with China, means that Taiwan will become a battle ground, and the U.S. will use Taiwan as a pawn in the super power conflict. We should learn the lesson from Vietnam, in which millions of people died, and the U.S. bombed, and poison the land.

@@LouisTsuiful More like china belong to taiwan. The revolution war is often not mentioned. Only ww2. Lol. But i rather they just seperate. So many nonsense that the people doesnt need in their lives. China is bully.

It’s NOT complicated!!! The island of Taiwan was ceded to Imperial Japan by the Qing dynasty after the 1st Sino-Japanese War. After WWII, Japan relinquished its control over the island of Taiwan, repatriated most of the Japanese people that inhabited the island, and returned the island to China: 1 country 2 systems is how it has existed until now. Reunification was always the goal of the both the Nationalist and the Communists before the Communists fully gained control mid century and established the PRC. Mao Zedong claimed the island as belonging to the PRC. Deng Xiaoping repatriated Hong Kong from British Control and tried to peacefully repatriate Taiwan. Preeminent Leader Xi and the politburo standing committee are now adamant that the island be brought under control of Beijing. My proposal is that the U.S. and Japan unilaterally grant citizenship to the 25 million, mostly Han Chinese, living on the island and have the UN openly declare the island as belonging to the PRC. It’s the only way to preserve liberty for the Taiwanese people AND ensuring that international justice be served.

Seems like the local understanding is, We are apart of China and the west should mind their own business.

they dont need clear understanding as they will only hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe. its pretty simply

@@Stephensouraski the 25 million living on the island are mostly Han Chinese. Yes, they prefer democracy, but they are not under the delusion that Taiwan is or were ever an independent state. Many people have family on the mainland.

@@tristalacour2492 communist china must be banned.

I want Taiwan to be safe I don't like the idea china invade Taiwan. I love Taiwan and it's people it's their right to have their country it belongs to the taiwanese not China. 😞

@@RU-vidExplore777 agree with you！I was born in China and I think you are right

说实话，在外网这种真真假假和选择性报道下，是个人都会想独 世上根本没有言论自由

@@FangGGi 然而世界大部分人看外网，出了中国和俄国

我只希望保持現狀

WU WU WU

Agree with you totally

那几个年轻人就太夸张啦，，把大陆想成地狱啦。。。绿媒把他们洗的脑瓜子都不灵啦，，这就是自由嘛😄😂😂

You said it! I completely agree!!!✨

That's what true democracy does to people.

What he said is so true and wise. Especially about how every country puts their self interest first.

He is too naive to perceive the evil nature of Xi or you can say communist party of China. Whether Xi will launch a war against Taiwan or not is nothing to do with anything Taiwanese do nore any reasons from Xi but depends on the costs and probility of taking Taiwan successfully. Any reasons from Xi of attacking Taiwan is just execuses to cheat and confuse and avoid the other countries from helping Taiwan when Xi strike the attack.

@@EricAng295 so you mean that you want to fight for Taiwan as a foreign volunteer? Xi is still a cool minded person, he has been calculating risk factor long before, thats why Chinese navy has been mostly strengthened in naval invasion capabilities and costal defences.

@@EricAng295 Chinese civil war never ended. Jiang Jieshi wanted to invade and clear up the Chinese communist party in the past when he was strong and when he was in mainland China. He failed and led his party to escape to Taiwan island. Now, It's not their turn to say ok let's stop and be two different countries and we never hurt each other.

@@EricAng295 It's like you start a game with your partner and you lose, and you run to your mom and say "oh mommy come protect me, that bad guy wanna hurt me."

This is correct. Fortunately for Taiwan, China is such a threat to the United States and Japan that using Taiwan as a hedge against China will be a reality well into the future. The USA will have Taiwan's back for decades--not because of some neoliberal feeling nonsense, but because it's better (from the American perspective) to fight against Chinese expansionism using Taiwan as a battering ram/shield than to fight them in a real US v China kinetic war.

Dude face masking an Oping isn't facts.. sheep just kowtowing !!!

sadly young generations of Taiwanese are blinded by their beloved 'democratic' system, which in my view has been abducted by their political parties to gain votes only rather than to truly delivering positive results in the best interests of the constituents.

9/11

and it's rarely in the interest of the common people, but for the interests of the establishment. a lot of decision by america does not make sense untill you follow the money...

瞎说 翻墙的多了 其实政府都知道 只是你并没有发表那种言论

台北也就大陆三流城市水平

Even then, Taiwan is pretty much China without a cruel authoritarian government, so I think I'd rather visit there.

@@fisher3317 in my opinion, you should first visit China and then give us your thoughts about this goverment that the media portrays as "cruel" and "authoritarian". Im Taiwanese myself and Ive been to mainland China, specifically to Shanghai, Harbin and Chongqing. I was as free as I would be in any other democratic country.

​@@hongkangzhu1398谢谢你 台湾友人❤

First of all，thank you for liking China and Taiwan.But i want to tell you，Taiwan is a province of China.This point is very essential.Long long ago，Taiwan is a part of China.They can't be separate！

I would imagine that's because they filtered out the crazies or inarticulate ones

They interviewed 100 people and screened out 10 people who were more suitable to appear in front of the camera

This. I don't know if it's edited but Taiwanese seems to be pretty educated

@@robertabella1806 I was thinking that too, Robert. While for comedic purposes several US shows intentionally keep in only the stupid and ill-informed responses.

@@AaTahya Of course it's edited. It's a "show." I like it, and think it's great, but it's edited like any other video show.

It's kinda like Hongkong, they scream "Free HongKong, we stand with Hongkong", but no actual help will come, the rebel has been captured, and HongKong suffers massive economic crash because majority of their visitors are from mainland, very very small amount even come from the US.

Taiwan already has its own military albeit much smaller than China. But its like top 10 in the world. USA doesn't want the two sides to unite as this would favor China.

@@jujuria13 taiwanese military is not even near to the top 10

@@febopennyficari8716 yeah you are right, its ranked number 13 in the world

@@free_manipur_from_india but Hongkong was clear that it end like this. They were bound by contract. They also had no sort of military force

小黃毛沒受過良好教育，確實是一個大問題

他講的話真的是台灣典型覺青-恨中國、愛民進黨、Gay

​@@YoYo-qr6fm 男同是认真的吗😅

他大概率把大陆当成北朝鲜一样的国家了，还关进劳改营🤣 之前有一个台湾人在大陆策动武装暴动都只是关了几天遣送回台湾了，要按照他的逻辑，这难道不得让他物理消失？？🤣 所谓维吾尔族的劳改营其实更像一个寄宿制学校，他们根本不用做任何劳动，每天只是念书和白吃白喝😅

与此同时，那位棕黄色皮夹克外套先生与之形成了鲜明对比。😂

+1

​@@qiswei3140teenager that do believe-in-every-dumb-thing-he- reads-on-social-media detected

Tf you saying Taiwan is a country? -10000000 social credits Castration date *都要去做什么的话*

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@@aaaaaa-hh8cq ?

@@husemeerbolat3861 ?

@@husemeerbolat3861how does it relate to the current topic ??

我也震惊了，新疆沦陷是什么意思？我一脸懵逼，笑死了😂😂😂

最后一句话味儿对了😂

Their are countries who do horrible things in peace time, but it doesn't compare to the amount of suffering that war causes. Maybe not a great comparison, but the numbers fit. Saddam Hussein government killed and tortured many people in the decades he was in power. But the most recent war in Iraq killed far more people in just a few years. This shows us why war is always a terrible option we should avoid as much as possible.

The mass weapon industry ?

@@MrBrochetjb not even they seem to be pushing for a war with China as far as I can see. Their seem to be much stronger (econimic) voices in the US which are pushing for conflict with China.

Evil govt won’t give up and be respectful to you rights and freedom just because you wanted peace. Say NO to tyranny and fight for freedom. your grandchildren will thank you

@@sdla690 Yeah, I will trust you if you promise you will join the war voluntary first. Don't same as my British housemate, always yell "fight fight fight! TW fight to CN quickly!" But same as the old man mentioned in VD that where is the war will processing once it launched? In TW man, not in CN or US, not JP, not in UK. The war will process in TW. That's mean the western people just being audiences in this boxing game, because it's not your business. Someone said the UN will blame to CN if the war happen, I always feel so funny, BLAME?? Does it work? That's a really efficient way and helpful if you see a Poodle gonna fight with an Elephant.＝.＝

The U.S has intervened before during the Taiwan Strait Crisis'. It's important to note that the situation in Afghanistan is completely different from Taiwan. If the Taiwanese people are willing to fight, the U.S, Australia, and Japan will be there to help in some form or another. That said, a war is unlikely. I feel that relationships between Taiwan and Japan/US will only improve more and more over the next few years.

@@FloofyMinari taiwan doesn't want to fight. Most people just want to get by in life.

@@hehehehehehe5801 Well the ROC has a decent Military, so at least there is that.

@@FloofyMinari yes. But physical war is what America wants. China does not want that. Taiwan doesn't either. The U.S is being selfish with China vs U.S sentiment

@Jerry you realize that if China lands into Taiwan, they will be facing guerilla warfare right? It's like the Vietnam War but Taiwan would have better equipment instead. Yes people will die but it's going to be a pain in the ass for China.

💯 agree!! It is important to listen and learn from multiple perspectives. It does a great job at fending off or offsetting our own biases and even brainwashing that could take place without learning/considering from multiple perspectives.

Their videos are made just for Internet trolls and bots to argue in the comments

@@jiji7250 Hong Kongers are Chinese, Taiwanese are Chinese, Malaysians are Chinese, we're all Chinese, but we all hate China's CCP 🤣🤣🤣 haha soooooo sad boohoo nobody likes China, the world hates China..Billy no mates ~ 对不起伤害了你 伤了你的感情 我听见有个声音 是玻璃心碎一地💔💔💔 I'm So Sorry 又让你森七七..😂🤣🤣🤣

@@jiji7250 you're kidding this video has one of the nicest comment section on RU-vid. Besides the ones commenting social credits.

@@kaneshirosan1642 no. Only the uninformed hates china.

The only people who want a war are Biden and his cronies.

@@scotswarrior9535 and china also

Behind all these, the military industrial complex are those who want war threats to keep looming.

@@ManishG1410 Doubt. But I think China gotta prepare if they dont wanna end up like the middle eastern countries.

@@MEGASTRIX that's right even in this era china is thinking about land expanding for country even if they captured Taiwan and some other land in the end they end up like what happened to USSR and they will break down

You should learn history once again

not what happened, the Republic of China (which today we call "Taiwan") was internationally recognized as the official government of China during WW2 and the main source of resistance against Japanese occupation. the actual physical Taiwan island was occupied by Japan for almost the entire duration of the war; only after the Communist victory in the chinese civil war did the Chinese Nationalists escape to the island, becoming the Taiwan that we know today

The history education received is different between people in mainland and in Taiwan so don’t show a confuse.

I think they know their own history just fine, much better than you.

中華民國國民黨殖民台灣比日本殘暴，誰跟你一樣

He is a CCP

So, do you doubt my ROC citizenship and my residency of Taipei city? Huh?

Of course, they are scared of the extreme nationalistic backlash on their channel.

@@LouisTsuiful No one thinks they are not Chinese, unless they're blind. But it's a totally different culture in TW, just like that one lady said. China and TW has been separated for so long already. I live in Canada and I know both mainland Chinese and TW and both are quite different. Can feel the cultural and personal views are very different.

@@henryleung007 some slight difference doesn’t make you become a independent state, Taiwanese speak Mandarin and share some cultural root with Mainland China!

@UCkiy3GRAx9U6arw1Z81eAUA oh god! there you go again with your "ancient time" card. Listen my dear, no one said they're not Chinese. But that doesn't mean they must join the Chinese mainland and completly ditch their own government (which has worked so hard into maintaining Taiwan all these years of separation) for the CCP. What has the CCP gave them?! What has mainland China gave them?? Not much and certainly not enough to justify the annexation of their nation!

@UCHmHJH7MuP9ZBzQYhPc1QFQ The fact is China = CCP, you like it or not. CCP controls every part of China. Anti-China is anti-CCP until CCP is gone. Anti-China is not the same as anti-Chinese people

Taiwan belongs to China 🇨🇳 since the ancient time! The separatist DPP is brainwashing Taiwanese people and make them believe they are not Chinese 😠！

@@LouisTsuiful did you not watch the video? They literally said they are Han Chinese

@@dooy6762 there is just one guy who is not brainwashed .

@@LouisTsuiful you are brainwashed. Since ancient time? This is how you manipulate history? Taiwan was part of China from 1683, not ancient times. It was ruled for 212 years until it was lost to the Japanese in 1895. And has never been part of CCP. The way you rewrite and erease history is amazing. The power of nationalism.

@@LouisTsuiful You mean the one not wearing a mask. Do you think he is working for the Ministry of Truth?

Unfortunately its not. Read the other comments.

whats bad about taiwan remaiing independent?

@@gavinstuart6704 Because there will be two Chinas, a capitalist one and a communist one. People of RoC seem to fine about that but PRC citizens are way too patriotic about their regime.

​@@gavinstuart6704从战略角度，台湾位置很重要，离大陆很近，如果独立很可能美国会在台湾设立基地。你们想想别人拿刀站你家门口你们愿意吗？要想独立只有战争一条途径

@@user-lv7uj7qr2p its not china to decide what taiwan ants, its still no justification for china to invade a soverign country. Taiwan is free to do as it pleases.

@@gavinstuart6704China Doesnt want to invade taiwan if western countries dont put thier fingers in everything in taiwan.

POAST TRANSLATED - When you interview a lot of people and find that everyone has different opinions and views, and you don’t worry about the problem of speaking, this is freedom of speech

言论自由对于任何文明社会来说都很重要，但最可怕的是人民被欺骗，被蒙蔽双眼，以至于失去了独立思考的能力。 It's horrible for the people to be taken away the ability of knowing truth, seeing truth, and independent thinking.

@@cameronbruce1862 thank you

@@dahou9473 確實會有這樣的狀況，畢竟民主社會就有不同聲音，人民可以選擇自己相信的，並尊重不同人的觀點。沒有絕對的對錯，但一個民主國家要以國民為出發點才經得起時間考驗

看了这个视频，我感觉到了台湾人民的可爱，如果没有必要，我也希望能和平下去。也希望台湾同胞多多来大陆走动走动，大陆远比你们想象的自由啦！随便说什么都没问题的，我身边有个同事喜欢美国，天天说共产党的坏话，也没有人把他怎么样啊，哈哈，我们依然是好朋友。而且我蛮多台湾的兄弟的，希望大家多沟通交流吧！

might as well singing chinese anthem lol XD

This may be even more relevant now with Ukraine in context. Interesting times.

@@bangonkali wow now that you say it, that could be the supposed future of taiwan when it leaves china

@@KF-zb6gi I pray not though. Peace 🙏

Russia's missile attack on Kiev made it clear that Russia would send troops to attack. The whole world said that Russia would not send troops to attack, but only the powerful United States said that Russia would send troops. The Minsk Agreement in Ukraine was signed by Germany and France and Russia, and neither Germany nor France wanted to send troops beforehand. It is not stupid enough to wipe the butt of Germany and France, but only lend a helping hand in the surrounding countries at the right time, and the latter depends on the determination of Germany and France. Before the Sino-British Hong Kong Agreement and today's Russia Minsk Agreement, who in today's world would believe in these two evil country agreements, each country must develop its own armament and weapons, including small but intimidating projectiles.

As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"... But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world." Now ,what I can say is... "Ok" "We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"... Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅 Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊

@@diabloprimordial5735 These who were interviewed just a small part of Taipei citizens. They should interview other places of Taiwan people.

@@diabloprimordial5735 Your friends are insofar right, that the majority in Taiwan does not want unification with China. A huge part in Taiwan does not want to change status quo due to the single reason of threads of war and death from China and and another smaller part wants independence. If you read this carefully, you see that actually most people want to stick with their current lifestyle and quality of life which would DEFINITELY not be given once China would invade or even after a peaceful unification. Boss Asia is competely distorting by doing the inverview in Taipei (I call it usually "xiao beijin" or small Beijing, as most business men making good money, polluting the air in the southern half of Taiwan with their factory, enjoy the clean air up north and good connections to China). Most of Taipei is pan-blue, while more than the half Taiwan (souther half mostly) is green. So by going to the blue capital, you will get an artificially high number of sympathizers for China. Most of the ROC invaders that came, killed and took over Taiwan in the Chiense civil war, as well as their now elderly children and adult grandchildren live in the North and in Taipei. They ruled the country with an iron fist in one of the longest Martial law periods any country ever endured - the times of the White Terror. Asking many of them is like going to Shanghai and interviewing the people there if China has internment camps and concentration camps in Xinjiang. Why not go to Xinjiang to ask the Uyghurs there?

@@user-bl8mo4qb1w Yeah, they actually should interview Taiwanese, not the children of 2nd generation ROC immigrants.

時代總是在進步嘛

西方最爱搞分裂了

Same as Singaporean used to call themselves Chinese

Your correct. But its sort of stupid tbh. Ccp really needs to stop pushing reunification, it only ramps up the fear of invasion in taiwan and gets them to ask for us defence help(not occupation). That and containing nationalism(and related education) could lead to an actual armistice and mutual official recognition of the two countries. They are too different to reunify now, but they can still be friends if the ccp is more flexible(and taiwan can work out constitutional and security issues). Time to leave behind the dangerous 19th to mid 20th century nationalism that often led to rich elites, exploited workers,and foreign enemy distractions(ie ww2 ww1,etc), and move to cooperation.

@@abcdedfg8340 lmao are unified Korea and unified China is something the west Dont want... Look at history and you will understand the more than half of human history until the modern time it was ruled by China and Korea and japan benefited from a unified china. Pomepo said so himself that US is good a lying/cheating/and dividing.

@@kaisasong1332 Think of it this way. Before tv and mass media, countries were able to pretend conflicts were about nationalism or history. Now with mass media, they have to be honest about if it's about sea trade, oil, or other real factors. It's good though because it reduces tensions by cutting to the point so it's easier to address. So truth is taiwan isnt about history or even taiwan, it's about prc sea lanes and defence. But there are better ways to solve it besides threatening taiwan.

@@kaisasong1332 Do your country have any declassification documents? Your favourite """west""" have them to let people know what did the government do.

@@nmslesecnmbese917 My country? u talking about the US? lol many declassify information here is what the US want us to know... Heard of Snowden? yea he epoxed many of US wrong doing and is wanted for it... Heard of Julian Assange? also expose us war crimes... If they did the same with china... they would be praised and be awarded with a nobel peace prize but instead they expose the western human right violation... these are the classify document the US dont want the public to know...

Embodiment of a wise old man. Taiwan politicians should take notes

反正真打起来第一个跑的肯定是蔡英文，会死的都是跑不掉的台湾老百姓。 说到阿富汗伊拉克，别忘了发动战争的就是美国，台湾人真的指望发动战争屠杀中东人的美国人会救台湾？

@@furryboar29 別忘了現在一天要打台灣的是你們中國！ 中國人不打中國人 所以我們是台灣人 這樣懂嗎 你們的邏輯就是TM台獨 這樣懂嗎？

"Chap. 5: The Second Chinese Civil War"

@@user-sc5dd4pz9c 和平统一不要，只能武力统一啊！没得选啊！你们的蔡总统就是台独啊! 我们能怎么办？连执政者都是台独了，中国大陆老百姓恨不得共产党马上梧桐台湾！岛上有几个人承认是中国人？从李登辉开始民进党已经把年轻人洗成台独了，台湾年轻人有几个承认自己中国人？现在你们跟我说中国人不打中国人？？?台湾岛上一群自私自利造谣对岸的人 辱骂中国人！让利了你们这么多年, 良心已经给狗吃了！

? Sorry I’m from mainland China but I totally disagree with the opinion “you can get all Chinese culture and food in Taiwan”…Although I’ve never been to Taiwan, I’ve traveled a lot in mainland and I feel that every region has its own culture and food. It’s hard for a Chinese like me to explore and understand all the cultures and foods in China, so how can it be possible to achieve all this in Taiwan? If what you think is true, then there should be no cultural and food differences between mainland and Taiwan( but actually there are a lot. Mainland internally have many cultural and food differences between different provinces and regions, if you say you can get everything from Taiwan, which part of Chinese cultural and food are you expecting?)

I think most western people when visiting in China they choose Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong…It is a good choice for foreigners because it’s convenient for English communication and you can have an impression of the modern side of China. But if you want to experience food and culture, these are never good choices. It’s hard for me to explain but I feel cultures and beautiful landscapes are what attract me most, and each province is worth visiting. Beijing and Shanghai they are so modern…it’s just boring

Go to Taiwan and waste your time. LoL China is way more fun and way more interesting to people who really appreciate chinese culture

Ignorant

是的，这个视频真的很用心很客观了。还有作为中国大陆的一个普通人，中国媒体对舆论的控制我觉得也是挺夸张的。我不喜欢战争，只希望有一天能够能去台湾旅行，感受你们生活的方式😊

@@user-kc8qj6zx6k 讚讚!

人们现在进入了信息茧房，不论大陆还是台湾亦或是其他地方。在有争议的地方，大陆许多年轻人对台湾有些许不屑，而台湾年轻人也对大陆有偏见，双方都在报道对方的负面新闻且做歪曲解读甚至无中生有，我认为都来源于某些自媒体的不负责。有时会在大陆社交平台见到“呆蛙”的称呼，我觉得这是把矛盾的特殊性当成了普遍性，个别台湾人调侃的言论在大陆被无限放大。而外界对于新疆的报道也感觉在无中生有，我在新疆我也感觉和新闻中的报道是两个世界。

還缺了一個 偏紅的

😅作为一个大陆人，最羡慕的就是台湾的言论自由，在大陆实在是太压抑了，每时每刻都活在被审查和自我审查之中，和朋友打电话说到一些敏感词大家都会很害怕，一个不允许任何反对声音的政权，就是邪恶政权。

Taiwan belongs to China 🇨🇳 since the ancient time! The separatist DPP is brainwashing Taiwanese people and make them believe they are not Chinese 😠！

@@LouisTsuiful PRESIDENT XI LOOKS LIKE POOH BEAR!!! TAIWAN IS FREE & INDEPENDENT!

^ you can easily tell Vivian is playing devil advocate to generate hate to divide the readers. She's pro Taiwan. Those are the same vile creatures who spread misinformation on vaccine and mask. They really grind my gears. 🐻

Borrowing a saying by Deng Xiaoping, "Be it a white cat or a black cat, a cat that catches mice is a good cat." Yes, be it democracy or communism or socialism, the political system that brings peace and stability to a country is a good system. A system that brings prosperity and a contented life to the people is a good system. USA is so boastful of its democracy, but look at the life of the Americans, I doubt how many Americans are satisfied with their lives. The country is so much troubled by Covid, random gun shootings, shop robberies, poverty, homelessness, crimes, racism, inequality, extremism and terrorism. Democracy in USA has been misused by crooks, abuse by politicians. --Eugene C That was why President Xi said to his government in late 2017/early 2018 that "the world is set to undergo a sea change which has not been seen in a hundred years, & China has to be prepared to deal with it." It reflects his confidence & insight into the inevitable rise of China together with Asian countries, in the face of western developed countries weakening due to their mishandling of their internal social & economic problems, & the consequential conflicts that China has to face & resolve with the West. The legacy of the past colonization of the world by the West will be a hidden driving force for US to convince some cohort countries to do whatever it takes, be it hypocritical, deceitful, dirty, &/or unscrupulous to oppress & bully China. China knew it was coming, but is soberly prepared to respond to each & every aggression with matching effect & intensity under its control of pace & initiative of/on moves. However, China's ultimate intent is to make the aggressor understand that confrontations & oppressions do not benefit anybody, but harmonious co-existence, mutual respects, & constructive co-operations for win-win results will not just benefit both sides, but also the whole world. -Donat Wu 👀

YERLERİN VE GÖKLERİN VE HERŞEYİN SAHİBİ YÜCE ALLAH CC ALLAHTAN BAŞKA İLAH YOKTUR ALLAH KATINDA HAK DİN İSLAMDIR MUHAMMED RESULULLAH ALLAHIN KULU VE RESULUDUR

😢 what's wrong with CCP

@@BoazKiriama-do3xy what is right with CCP?🤣

@@shaoli9371 everything 😅

@@BoazKiriama-do3xy you r so funny🤣

Happy seeing this comment. CCP is filth

I’m in China but met taiwanese friends in online games, and we get along nicely. I mean it's not like how the West portraied us hating on each other and want the worst for each other. Fxxxk those who wants to stir up things and escalate the things, we both just want a nice life without the west interferences.

This topic has always came up every time I meet someone new or whenever I personally identify myself as a Taiwanese-American in recent times and an issue I usually try to steer away from. As for talking to or meeting someone who is Chinese, I usually find myself mentally censoring topics I end up actively trying to avoid talking about. I always pay attention whenever the issue of Taiwan comes up but sadly, living in the United States, there's practically no news report as far as I've seen about what the locals actually think, which mostly annoys me. This video is really well done and I like the variety of the interviewees.

Thank your for understanding that's you're a human not a government toy

YERLERİN VE GÖKLERİN VE HERŞEYİN SAHİBİ YÜCE ALLAH CC ALLAHTAN BAŞKA İLAH YOKTUR ALLAH KATINDA HAK DİN İSLAMDIR MUHAMMED RESULULLAH ALLAHIN KULU VE RESULUDUR

@@solkels_z4794 Let's keep the status quo and the peace. Happy 2022 !

I know right? the last time was abt 3 years ago

they are scared of losing their chinese audiences.

@@12823matthewkao chinese audiences need vpns to see youtube, but there is still a lot of them, I am one of them. But also, I hear youtube algorithm filters those audiences using vpns.

this type of interview cannot be conducted in China xD people would be afraid to answer

After seeing some more background information about this interview, must say that I'm really disappointed in Asian boss. For those interested, they purposely found a few people that are pro-China and place them as "random people".

作为一个大陆人只想说 我们没有自己的选择 只能愿台湾安好

身為一個台灣人只能說 我們這種小老百姓該做的就是把生活過好 台灣式民主好，還是中國式民主好？可能只有結論史實的後代知道 但願你我都平安的生活，不要變成兩種社會下的犧牲者

@@ab359180 同意 让历史来评判V(^_^)V

作为一个大陆人我只想说,台湾是中国的一个分离的省份,中国任何政权,都不应该容许台湾长久的分离

@@samzhang4847 包括中华民国政权么？

At least 85% Taiwanese really dislik dictorship China Communist Party (CCP) without human rights .

Not sure about anything. I even see spanish comment who said it's usa propaganda and they want to be fully integrated, but they don't offer polls or anything

​@@MikeScott-zl9ve are you realy? please don't balderdash.

@@KaliSwift NOT BALDERDASH

@@MikeScott-zl9ve I apologize to you.I don't know if the real data is what you say. But to achieve the complete reunification of China is the trend of The Times, the great justice, and the aspiration of the people

Which is why I watch these videos :D

@Excelsior! RU-vid is a American owned corporation. Not calling it a pro-western propaganda site is like not calling the KKK racist

You're right.

@@burentori9620 it is also a platform where mainland China uses to promote China's positive image with propoganda videos.

@@kaneshirosan1642 If you don't like the video, it must be Chinese propaganda right?

Do the people outside of Taipei tend to lean more towards China or against it?

Why are you spelling the city's name in Pinyin? The city's official romanization is Taitung.

@@windywendi Ah I didn't realize I spell it wrong! I'm still not used to spelling Chinese in English so most of the time I just wing it lmao- Thank you for correcting me!

@@cbeary2000 Well, people from the south and West are usually in the Green party while people from the North and East are in the Blue party ( Green= own country) ( Blue= combine to China) However, in the past few years the Green party has been getting more and more votes so, in the end, it all depends on your own belives That being said, the people outside of Taipei are usually not thrilled about the Chinese government if you will, Taipei is a very diverse city along with Kaohsiung ( also a very developed city that's located on the south side of Taiwan, but they have their own politics problem to solve) these cities tend to have many Chinese people or people who have relatives that are Chinese, the tours industry is also very active in these areas, so they usually support the blue party ( and corrupted governors but that's another can of worms) while people who are outside of these areas have more relations to the law and culture of Taiwan more then anything, so they usually support the green party ( this is my personal take on the situation, please to correct me if I'm wrong I'm not an expert hehe) Most of the older generation doesn't really have a strong opinion of the Chinese government since, well, in the end, Taiwan is their home and they are satisfied as long as they continue to live in the country they love ( an old man told me that once and it always gives me so much hope just by thinking about it) Many younger generations like me takes pride for our country and our freedom, so we tend to have a stronger opinion on the Chinese government. ( unfortunately many people like me have experienced strong discrimination from Chinese people while some Taiwanese people also discriminate against Chinese people quite strongly, this is an issue that both sides should acknowledge and take action to it) ( these are usually the younger generations) ( there is a lot of stereotypes that both sides have for one another due to our differences, for example, I have met some Chinese people who think Taiwan is a very undeveloped place and have no manners whatsoever -to be fair a lot of Taiwanese people like me tend to have a dirty mouth, this is due to our culture and the nature of our own dialect language- while I have met some Taiwanese who thinks Chinese people are narcissists who only cares about themselves, we also make fun of each other accent a lot as well, but yea things are not exactly as positive as it should) ( disclaimer, I have no ill will towards Chinese people at all, I do understand where these people are coming from but I don't believe any of this a single bit) ( this is racism and it's horrendous) Again, this all depends on how you are taught and your thinking, the stuff I said here are all either statically correct or my own experience, obviously I am biased when it comes to experience and politics, please don't try to fight me against my own belives, thank you :DD But yea! Hopefully that answers some of the questions you may have mate!

Rural vs City is an excellent point. It provides a whole perspective. Population however, is not as representative. But althoe wealth may be created in a city many with wealth and leisure wish to move to the countryside for "peace and beauty". And those who live and work in the rural areas, in poverty, also have a say. It appears it would provide some sort of balanced, I agree.

Only this wallet speaks to the point.

yeah. totally agree with you

US policy is easy. Support Taiwan because they're against China, but if Taiwan is pro-China, then bombs will be thrown on the Taiwan island. Remember that war would be fought on the Taiwan island, and Biden will say, "it's a shame Taiwan just disappeared" after throwing an H-bomb, but he'll be telling jokes at cocktail party in the White House.

@@asianamericancasestudies6434 are you taiwanese, the taiwanese youth I met doesn't see themselves as chinese anymore. And I also bet that they are indulge in Japanese, Korean or western culture more than Chinese one jn term of forign culture

@@asianamericancasestudies6434 The CCP will than purge everybody in Taiwan for colaborating eith the USA

As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"... But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world." Now ,what I can say is... "Ok" "We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"... Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅 Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊

还美国留学呢，不知道中国共产党的英文是CPC？早在荷兰殖民前就已经有汉人迁台了，不过规模较小。

@@whoareyou9218 CCP (Chinese communist party) 以及 CPC (Communist party of China) 都是可以的，自己去查Wikipedia。人家把历史解释的非常清楚，你却在这儿吹毛求疵。

Well said.

@@qiuyiisgorgeous 国名叫PRC不叫CPR，党也一样，那有主家都确定了名字还要被叫错的道理？你不觉得CCP跟苏联的很像么？真不是吹毛求疵

@@qiuyiisgorgeous 世界上主流媒体99%以上都是用ccp的简称。cpc只有少量中国国内媒体用过

宪法就是这样规定的😂

Most people in Taiwan who think Taiwan is part of China they think Taiwan and mainland are both belong to republic of China instead of peoples republic of China.

social credit score going up!

The same way north and south Korea are both Korea? Haha his weak ass argument is flawed. I guess Sudan and south Sudan are the same too? Oh and the entire Indian ocean belongs to India because you the name hahaha

@@jhonviel7381 going down no? because the republic of china is taiwans official name, so he said mainland china and taiwan, is apart of china under the control of taiwan, no?

@@jhonviel7381 it's going down since he essentially is claiming that both china and taiwan belongs to taiwan

@@hitler69 Social credit going up. The CCP tries to impose the "92 consensus" in Taiwan, which means people in Taiwan have to pretend they believe it all belongs to the Republic of China, which makes the CCP happy because this way they are saying "We are part of your country, and we are a national threat, please invade us".

Different government, same country Common for civil war

@@WhatsThis9977 different country... One is the Republic of China, the other is the People's Republic of China.

@@beng1540 same country. Both claim china territory. If two country, how could you are kicked out of UN

@@WhatsThis9977 North and South Korea also claim same territory but they are also two countries. As far as UN membership, it's a political organization and not a requirement for being a country. Switzerland wasn't a UN member until 2002, but surely you agree they were a country prior?

@@beng1540 just finish the war god damn it stop making excuses You want independence, fight for it

He probably visited China, instead of just staying in the Island believing in every dumb thing said on social media or biased local news.

Which way do you want it? Independence or constant interference????? As far as I have seen, nobody wants the American military in their own countries anymore, for "protection" or otherwise, but from what you say afghans and kurds should have been taken care of by the same american military that their people actually hate forever... Huh?

@@xiahnti I agree we're on the same page here, i was simply stating that those were good valid points that man brought up , i'm not for any American military presence, or bases in any country

young Taiwanese are too native because they don't see how USA pushed Georgia and Ukraine against Russia, then USA just ignore when Russia really attacked them. it's like China pushed Mexico or Cuba against USA, I don't think Mexicans are so stupid.

@@xiahnti first of all the Americans created the mess in Afghanistan so they should clean that mess up again. The people in Afghanistan don't hate the US troops so it's not like no one wants them. The kurdish problem is a lot more complicated as their enemy is turkey and turkey is allied with the US, but at the same time the US killed saddam hussein who oppressed and killed thousands of kurds. The latest event was in west Kurdistan or north Syria where just the presence of us troops was enough to hold back turkey from doing a genocide in that region and it was guaranteed by the US to leave the troops there becuase the kurds were the biggest enemy of isis and worked together with the US troops to fight them. Trump pulled the troops out of there and send them to the oil fields which left the kurdish population exposed for turkey. This is seen as a big betrayel from the USA by the kurds and that's why many kurds dislike the USA. So you can't make guarantees and interfere in everything and than just pull out in the middle of things and expect to have done the right thing. Every situation is different and you should have a look at them before talking about them. Looks a lot like you got all your information from a few main stream media shows as they don't really don't go into detail often which is misleading for a lot of people

@@lvjinbin28 Don't bring the Mexicans into this, they love USA

They help Afghanistan but in the end they still sing Afghani song 🤣

US have to help Taiwan. 1. we bought alot of outdated military equipment at premium price 2. we allows US ractopamine fed pig to enter Taiwan which banned in EU,JP 3. we open travel to unreasonably overpriced holiday package to Palau for US sake. 4. we adopted and funded US Black Water covid vaccine as our homegrown vaccine.

Seeing their answers, I am sure if the US does not come to intervene in case of war, more than 80 percent of them would directly surrender.

@@user-lh5sp1lg8d This just sounds sad, judging merely by what you are saying Taiwan and U.S just share a toxic and abusive relationship, if U.S. really care about Taiwan you think the things you mention will happen?

@@gleerevs It's real. Just ask any Taiwanese if any of those points I mention are not the fact.

Taiwan is already independent

As a foreigner me and my friends, always thought that 95% of the Taiwanese are anti to China "invasion" or anti to be called as a "province" of China, that is whye and my friends always spreading the words like "save Taiwan from China" "Taiwan is independent country" "Taiwan must have its own sovereignity"... But now after watching this, I think we were wrong for doing those things because we all can see that most or almost the people that were interviewed are not like so very determined or aggressive to shout to the whole world that "Taiwan is Taiwan and not a part of China, that Taiwan has its own sovereignity and 95%+ of people wants taiwan to be recognize as an independent country by the whole world." Now ,what I can say is... "Ok" "We'll never care" "it's an internal family fight" "there are many Taiwanese who doesnt really want to be totally separated to China"... Sorry for intervention 😅😅😅 Keep safe and happy reunion with China, soon you'll have your reunion now that the World is busy focussing in EUROPE and Middle East... We'll never believe again those foreign fake media's that people of Taiwan seeks help for defending their country or for fighting their sovereignity against China. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊...

@@diabloprimordial5735 yeah don’t care about their country. Like or not they all are chinese.. Forget politeness, dirty, cov19 …

@@diabloprimordial5735 yea people need to stop defending other countries they've never visited based on news reports . Unless we visit the country a d talk to the people or watch multiple interviews with the people.. we just need to sit back and shut up . I agree

@@analyticalmindset This channel has shared the views of "a few" Taiwanese people. What you see should be taken with a grain of salt, dont believe everything on the internet.

@@Nadeine I hear you . My sample size of data is as small as the number of people that were interviewed, which means I'm inconclusive on whether I feel like I have a correct pulse on the true sentiments of the majority in Taiwan.

Yep, because of the Chinese civil wars.

正好相反，正因为大部分台湾老百姓都很良善才只能也更应该武统，天天只想着小确幸的台湾人很容易就被一部分绿脑怪给带歪了，和统在美国退出亚太之前我觉得是没有希望的

身為居住在台灣的人很多都是鴕鳥心態，還有如果是我反而對台灣的入侵是蠻容易造成國際經濟打擊，而且晶片也會受到影響減少。

At least 85% Taiwanese really dislik dictorship China Communist Party (CCP) without human rights .

了解亚洲最好的办法是和亚洲人聊天

Asian boss is biased and trash

@@ericturner9436 u too !

Eric Turner sure.

I love this series, too. I'm from China, I want to kown other people how to think of our conutry.

Yes pls!!

Start with Vietnam or Philippines since they're one of the closest in terms of geography

Of course they will just base on media...

@@ck-bs2ms Depends, but the ones that care about international politics are far and few in between, and usually those that are, aren't as deeply invested, so many take things at face value, so really choose your sources if you want well informed locals.

Taiwan belongs to China 🇨🇳 since the ancient time! The separatist DPP is brainwashing Taiwanese people and make them believe they are not Chinese 😠！

@@LouisTsuiful PRESIDENT XI LOOKS LIKE POOH BEAR!!! TAIWAN IS FREE & INDEPENDENT!

@@LouisTsuiful Pawn of Xi, please try to invade Taiwan, because you will be shot doing so

他们甚至不愿意亲自去新疆看看

他们一厢情愿相信媒体报道罢了