A postcard from China’s Ming dynasty

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Emmanuel Daniel

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@HONGKONG952 4 ай бұрын

You have done an incredible job of explaining Chinese history to a Chinese

@cabasadefogo9533 4 ай бұрын

Great video again Emmanuel. Hope you had a great time in Bosnia. Anyways a few points I want to make. 1) For the Ming those voyages were prestige trips. Their failure was not setting up trading posts and routes. 2) The belt and road project was a reactionary move after the US Fed kept doing quantative easing ie printing, despite protest from China. From that point on, China decided to break the USD recycling system by investing trade surplus USD into creating new markets for China. This is bearing fruits as the South East countries like Indonesia are having robust GDP growth and increasing trades with China. Same can be said of some of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Lastly in terms of governance I think China has a continuous track record of reform. Except many of the reforms are not towards the liberal democracy model. I also think given what is happening to the west, no one in their right mind would recommend modeling their political system after western liberal democratic model now.

@KennyL0009 4 ай бұрын

Well said. China is on the right path. All that QE was mass transfers of wealth to the top 1% in the west.

@NorCalMoDo 4 ай бұрын

You are incredible! A man of history thinking. Your reflection is definitely insightful. For a culture of thousands of years, nothing changes quickly.

@SoonWahStuartLim 4 ай бұрын

You are infectious. Dont normally like history, you kept me watching.

@river-dragon6032 4 ай бұрын

Amazing! So informative! Thank you very much for your hard work sir!🙏❤️🇲🇾

@drakeplus2858 4 ай бұрын

Interesting, Sir. Thank you so much...❤

@gl7252 4 ай бұрын

Interesting analogies. For an ancient civilization, there would be some parts of its modern era that would find parallels with its past, I think. History does repeat itself in small amounts.

@lowengkok1201 3 ай бұрын

Spot on

@Janicef247 4 ай бұрын

So interesting history! N v educational.. TQ!

@MrJasonfoo39 4 ай бұрын

Good job Sir thanks. 🌻🙏

@thomasho4825 4 ай бұрын

That’s beautiful and amazing. I’ve fallen like you know so much about Chinese history that is great.

@lowengkok1201 3 ай бұрын

Incredible insight of Ming Dynasty history and the voyager of Admiral Zheng He.thanks you for the history.

@colonylaser4860 4 ай бұрын

Always enjoy your entries. It's a crime you do not have more subscribers. There are quite a few podcasts of Zhu Di sending Zheng He on the voyages both to legitimize (or take attention away from) usurping his nephew and as an excuse to look for him. There are not so much on KZbin in English (lots in Chinese though. So it's nice to see you bringing it up for a Western audience. I hope you would bring up the Song Dynasty one day, as it might have the most progressive inventive dynasty on the verse of starting the Industrial Revolution, but ultimately unlucky timewise. If the Song hadn't lost those 16 Yanyun provinces at the start, and thereby could use the Great Wall to defend against the northern nomadic invasions (Liao, Jurgens, Mongols), may be the Mongols could have never been. It took the Chinese 400 plus years if you don't consider the Yuan to recover those 16 provinces when Zhu Yuan Zheng came to the throne (but what a bloodbath after. He sure killed a lot of his old buddies)

@AnnieT369 4 ай бұрын

That's what I worry about, that China is going to give away to other countries all the wealth that their hardworking citizens have worked so hard for.

@binhe6500 3 ай бұрын

there are some parallels but like you said yourself they are very different. Zheng He's voyages were to show Ming's magnificence, but today's BRI is to create economic growth to make common prosperity a future reality. Zheng He's ships came and went, but today's infrastructures will remain.

@liamporter1137 4 ай бұрын

Based on US and Yellen overcapacity logic, China should also tell US to tell Apple to produce fewer iPhone and Microsoft to reduce number of Windows licenses. Shocking that US can say such a thing. Does US and Yellen understand how business work?

@greggpon7466 4 ай бұрын

Great content.

@barrywong4327 4 ай бұрын

I agree with your observations except for your comment that China has a “governance” issue. You were a bit coy about exactly what you meant by that. In any case, let me debunk that: 1. China’s government enjoys 90+% approval rating from its citizenry. That’s the consistent findings by several western institutions when they did their surveys. That’s an envy of every single government on the planet. 2. You’re thoroughly propagandized by narratives from the west. The west abhors leaders from other countries who are effective, strong and competent. These leaders don’t allow the west to push them around. The west’s wet dream would be to regime-change them so some weaker leadership would replace them. It’s cynical and deplorable. The fact of the matter is: China’s speed of growth and advancements in the last few decades is unparalleled in human history. The government must be doing something right. Their governance must be working beautifully for them. And, there is no sign that China’s growth and advancement will slow down anytime soon in spite of all the bogus pronouncements from bogus China “experts” that China’s collapse is just around the corner. You know, we’ve been hearing these dumb predictions for decades and they don’t stop. I would suggest that you look at the facts on the ground before blindly parroting the west’s narratives. If anything, i would suggest that the governance in the west is sick and phony. BTW, I’m speaking as a US citizen and I’ve seen plenty of what the US is really about. Frankly, the west ought to take at good look at itself in the mirror, be humble and learn from a country which is much more successful than it in just about all aspects.

@georwoogle 4 ай бұрын

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@Brisamars-q1c 4 ай бұрын

Was in Quanzhou and environs 10 days last December. Beautiful pristine sea shores in Hui'an, ate loads of O' Chien.

@Branch7ShuZhi 4 ай бұрын

If Emmanuel studied in a traditional Malaysian National Chinese School, he would be able to appreciate more of Chinese history and its trajectory. Nonetheless, he did his best with the English that is also part of my tongue.

@HTeo-og1lg 4 ай бұрын

A must read for Chinese leaders, if this video were an article in a journal. I hope that someone in China will translate this video into Chinese for President XI to view. Thank you Daniel. May God bless you for your kindness.

@lkchoh1454 4 ай бұрын

Zhu Yuan Zhang not wanted to be just a scholar, he wanted to be ministry of department, anyway he failed in his imperial examination several times. He went to Buddhist temple and learned kongfu art after that he with kongfu fought up as emperor. Zheng he was a court eunuch so he could be sent out with no family problem, and handled with hundreds of beautiful ladies with no problem.

@gamesnerd6806 4 ай бұрын

The biggest mistake of the Ming Dynasty is to employ silver as the currency which in itself is deflationary due to limited supply in China and have to depend on the silver mines in Peru and Spanish trade to get silver. The break down in trade lead to bankruptcy of the dynasty and the last Ming emperor hanging himself. Things would have been different if they can print money like the US today to pay their troops for their wars with the Qing. BTW there is no such thing as overcapacity. Consumer like cheap goods. Do you have any data to show that money lend to Africa is not coming back?

@jacintochua6885 4 ай бұрын

Tailing rebellion was about opposing westerners.

@alextan6551 4 ай бұрын

China one belt one road is far from parallel to Zheng He voyage. While Zheng He voyage is offering n blessing , belt n road not only change the geopolitical structure but create jobs for Chinese citizens.. about the default payment , I m sure China has collateral security hold the other party like leasing Ports or assets to China

@nanyanguo1 4 ай бұрын

simplistic analogies but when dive deeper , they are not quite the same.

@htcphoneocs1239 4 ай бұрын

Ominous

@jacintochua6885 4 ай бұрын

Zhu Yuan Zhangvestabk8sed an imperial dynasty. There 8s no similarity about current givernment. Sorry, your comparison is way off and nonsensical.

@jparsit 3 ай бұрын

I enjoy your history telling but disagreed with your ideas and uncorrected history and personal comments. In order to think correctly one must deep understand the root of culture and timelines.