This Country Claims To Own 300x Its Actual Territory

[@iwersonsch5131]

How to offend both sides in one sentence: 1. Call it a country 2. Say that its territory is small

[@mintsushi9598]

that's 2 -30000000 social credit

[@coolbeans5992]

Lol

[@alexdelaloire8739]

@@mintsushi9598 This country's territory is small...it could be one

[@staudinga]

Funny seeing you here, Mario guy! ^^

[@DaybreakPT]

It is small by country standards though, I live in a small European country and even that is 3x the size of Taiwan.

[@AdmiralKarlDonuts]

I'm from Taiwan. Once my dad told a Mongolian professor about why we technically "claim" Mongolia, and we all laughed so hard cuz the idea itself is just so absurd.

[@scoperman6445]

-99999999999999999999 social credit

[@snusey3642]

@@pulsar-_-4504 that isnt funny

[@cnaitt]

Taiwan? You mean China Formosa 😁

[@bullet6140]

@@60zoneoneway My guy this guy is from TAIWAN he knows his own history, its just funny how a island in the middle of the South Chinese Sea claims the steppes of Mongolia

[@flashwrlddd]

Taiwan is the name of the island as a whole, although the 'nation' of Taiwan is named as the Chinese Taipei in respect to the Chinese government, because there is no way Chinese Taipei could fight China for the mainland, but China could easily invade Taiwan in. A heartbeat. The 'nation' of Chinese Taipei also claims several islands around SE Asia. Taiwan is one of the islands claimed by Chinese Taipei, who happen to just name themselves after the main island of 'Taiwan'. Edit: By Chinese Taipei, I mean ROC, Republic of China. Chinese Taipei is the name that is used in agreement with PROC, (China) to refer to Taiwan as a nation without troubling or angering China.

[@LaVaZ000]

Everyone's gangster until Mongolia starts claiming land based on historical territory.

[@LittleWhole]

Uh oh...

[@dr.peashooter]

*Laugh in Vietnamese*

[@God-uv4nq]

@@dr.peashooter Cackles in Japanese

[@dr.peashooter]

@@God-uv4nq should we shake hands ?

[@inventor121]

@@God-uv4nq Laughs in British

[@megasimp8885]

“This country lays claim to 300x its actual territory” Me, a Taiwanese: (sips bubble tea) wow I wonder what *country* it is

[@darthimperius8057]

When you gonna retake the mainland?

[@JOE-ft3gq]

@@darthimperius8057 they all want to just live their own life get rid off the ROC

[@booaks2980]

@@JOE-ft3gq what do you mean get rid of roc? You mean prc?

[@JOE-ft3gq]

@@booaks2980 Taiwan Name rectification movement, get rid of the name of roc

[@doaa7941]

@@JOE-ft3gq yeah but that'll probably start a war with China

[@mingzhong5481]

That is not as ridiculous as it sounds. Government in exile usually claims the whole country. This case is weird just because the government in exile actually governs something significant enough.

[@Rabid_Nationalist]

Yea

[@lubu2960]

Wonder what other case like this there's is in history?

[@guppy719]

@@lubu2960 Didn't the French government technically still control some territories after getting booted out of mainland France with their Vichy Government.

[@luciferkotsutempchannel]

@@guppy719 No, I'm pretty sure France legit surrendered and was reformed into Vichi France. Free France was made up of people who didn't accept the surrender... which means they'd technically be French rebel forces.

[@Nicoder6884]

@@lubu2960 In WW2, the Dutch government-in-exile still possessed Indonesia for like a year or so before Japan invaded.

[@Zykdon]

No way, I never realized that there is a huge country called China with a bunch of territorial disputes... it's cool to know about such a vague country that almost nobody knows about.

[@sgg.updates]

YoU aRe lIvInG uNdEr a roCK iF yOu dOnT knOw cHinA

[@ymj4256]

Lmao

[@e_motion823]

I thought china was just a myth. Damn my whole life was a lie

[@coconutperson1985]

E Motion and bran.... shut up

[@pixilmon]

China has rich history but fuck ccp

[@bw126]

The Denmark Canada dispute is basically just a meme, they take turns taking it over, and leaving a bottle of schnapps or whiskey for the other

[@hawkevick9184]

sO WHolSOme (return the colonies)

[@bw126]

@@hawkevick9184 I'll get right on that, luckily I hold a lot of sway in Canada

[@pablopereyra7126]

@@bw126 I will luckily also be able to help, as a south american, I also have an inmense influence in a country on a different continent. Yes. Obviously.

[@hakohito]

Ok

[@infinity8543]

So if someone is Danish-Canadian, can they occupy the entire island?

[@poankiyu7664]

3:56 Dang Toycat there was no need to own the Gibraltans like that.

[@Napoleon.82]

" Monkeys of Gibraltar "

[@zorpglorp]

“Deploying cova for mah brothas!”

[@jl_jc]

AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAA

[@Dawid23_Gamer]

Google maps actually does a version of the map for every country with disputes that acknowledge all of them in that country's favor, most extreme being China ofc.

[@artembaguinski9946]

which China?

[@CanadiansAreYummy]

@@zjohnson8773 It's the Republic of China

[@coolbeans5992]

@@CanadiansAreYummy yes

[@sevenoxia7199]

@@artembaguinski9946 they’re saying Taiwan, but it’s really PRC China, not “Chinese Taipei (Chinese Taipei is the legally allowed name for Taiwan that doesn’t annoy PRC China)

[@Dawid23_Gamer]

@@artembaguinski9946 China china, PRC.

[@pluralizes01]

toycat with a beard looks like a fever dream

[@RubyPiec]

HOLY WHAT

[@amiruliman5]

ITS SO CURSED

[@bedzi]

😨

[@tinnmyskyewalker9264]

He looks like the vault overseer from fallout 1

[@cheebsgod]

I think it exudes power

[@lartan18]

Honestly, on behalf of your other norwegian viewers I accept your claim to Scunthorpe 2

[@danielgn7849]

you may speak on our behalf

[@omska9325]

Indeed

[@HarrySmith-hr2iv]

I had a DNA check, showing Norwegian DNA from my ancestors, who went first to Normandy France and then invaded England 1066. Modern research shows Scandinavian Viking migration occurred because of starvation, warfare and and a period of incredibly cold winters. So I think the Norwegian Government should send me a few million $ compensation for driving my family out of Norway over 1000 years ago. After all, doesn't my Norwegian DNA constitute Norwegian identity and therefore right to Norwegian land?

[@lartan18]

@@HarrySmith-hr2iv Absolutely, especially with such a norwegian name

[@hawkevick9184]

@@HarrySmith-hr2iv You might descend from Gange-Rolve himself!

[@theidioticbgilson1466]

-1,999,999,999 social credit

[@Wackaz]

Social credit exists in the USA and UK. China scrapped the system, they simply have an implicit version which is the exact same as the US' and UK's systems.

[@karl2673]

@@Wackaz I knew that wumaos aren't particularly smart, but this is on a whole new level.

[@gothenmosph5151]

@@Wackaz LOL

[@arceusmewtwo7774]

@@Wackaz wumaos and their excuses.

[@manuelredgrave8348]

Bruh i replied the tiananmen copypasta and it gor deleted. - 100000 social credit

[@thefokin]

Funny enough, if you open Google Maps from Russia, it shows solid line borders on Ukrainian-Crimean border. If I'm not mistaken it does the same for South Kuril islands for Japan. Probably other territories as well.

[@SakethCVES]

it does the same thing for china and india and most large countries with large areas of disputes

[@Boxoty]

Toycat already made a video about that, it is called "How Google Maps Changes Based On Your Country"

[@bingozonk3143]

Based google maps

[@AyaanGaming2211]

@@SakethCVES does the same for Pakistan too

[@itismethatguy]

@@AyaanGaming2211 yeah

[@colinharter4094]

I was trying so hard to figure out which country it was before he said it, and then when it was revealed to be Taiwan, I felt so stupid for not immediately figuring it out.

[@mintsushi9598]

taiwan? what's that? -300000000 social credit

[@doginpillows20]

@@mintsushi9598 a part of china

[@abunchofiguanaswithinterne2186]

@@doginpillows20 Congratulations Comrade! You have acquired enough social credit to use the train again!

[@Spoopy_man]

😡🇨🇳

[@luciferkotsutempchannel]

@@mintsushi9598 An independent country that doesn't need to secede from China, because they never controlled them in the first place. 😊

[@anonymousigggsoo3664]

The claim of Taiwan is the Qing dynasty borders because in 1949 The ROC had basically nothing expected a tiny bit of China and the island to Taiwan

[@Wackaz]

Taiwan is historically Chinese territory. The earliest historical writings on the island is the year AD230 when the Wu Kingdom during the Sanguo era deployed 10k troops to Taiwan, the then-named Yizhou. Mid 12th-century, the Song Dynasty put Taiwan, which was part of the Penghu area back then, under the Fujian Province, which still exists today. From Song to Ming, Penghu had been consistently Chinese territory and it is during that time when the most native of Taiwanese which migrated there 7000 years ago were blended with the most advanced civilization of that time and became an undividable territory of China. Nearing the end of Ming and at the start of the 17th-century, the Netherlands invaded Taiwan when Ming was under war. Very soon the Spanish did too but they were kicked out by Netherland in 1642. Taiwan became colonised by the Netherlands. 1644, the Qing Dynasty was established. 1661 April, Zheng Chenggong under the title of General of South-Ming Dynasty, engaged in a war to take Taiwan back with 25k soldiers and a few hundred battleships. 1662 Feburary, Netherlands surrender. Zheng becomes a national hero. 1811, Taiwan population reached 1.9 mil, mostly immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong. Taiwan becomes an important argricultural area for Qing. It is also then Taiwan is completely de-westernised, unfortunately for the island, colonial powers will still step foot on it once again. 1884-1885, Sino-French War, France invades Taiwan. Head of Taiwan Liu Mingzhuan kicks the shit out of them. Unfortuantely China lost all other parts of the war and were forced to sign the Treaty of Tientsin, nevertheless, the French was forced out of Taiwan. After the Sino-French War, to strengthen Naval defence, Qing let Taiwan become the 20th province of China. Under Head of Taiwan Liu, it became one of the most powerful provinces then. 1894, Sino-Japanese War. The next year, Qing lost. 1895 April 17th, the Shimonoseki Treaty was signed, officially giving Taiwan up to the Japanese. Army General in Taiwan Liu Yongfu refuse to comply, fought for 5+ months, lost anyhow. Taiwan will be under Japanese colonial rule for 50+ years. 1937 July, the Japanese started the Double-Seven Incident, starting the 2nd wave of Sino-Japanese War. After 8 years, China wins and the Japanese surrender Taiwan. Taiwan has been Chinese territory ever since. The current valid dispute is whether Taiwan should be under the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China. It is important to note that both Chinas claim the entirely of China, both the mainland and Taiwan, with the RoC controlling Taiwan and the PRC controlling mainland. This is the One-China Policy. The current Taiwan separatists wants China divided, they want Taiwan to become on its own. This is against both RoC and PRC policy and the movement is made popular by the current incompetency of Kuomingtang as the DPP gets elected two terms in a row. So no, Taiwan is not part of the PRC. There is dispute on that issue. But it is definitely part of China, a united China. Be it RoC or PRC, Taiwan is and will always be Chinese. The Qing dynasty held on to Taiwan for about 200 years until it was colonized by Japan. Do I think Taiwan should be an independent state from this, no. The land should return to the original owner. Then after WW2 Taiwan was given back to China by the Allies. Afterwards the Communists and Nationalists had a civil war and the communists won and the nationalists (backed by the US) fled to Taiwan. Since the communists won that war they got ownership. It’s a Chinese civil war. The fought for the sovereignty of China. Which includes the territories of Taiwan. If they didn’t it’s essentially saying the US beat the confederacy yet the confederacy still gets to own Florida. It doesn’t make sense. Also, it would be dumb as hell if Taiwan ever became an independent country. The KMT doesn’t even want to be an independent country. They know their economy would collapse if they became separate from the mainland.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@Wackaz yeah but Taiwan is the real Chinese so communist need to get out

[@kursdmapping6043]

@@NeostormXLMAX I smell salty

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodcl4824]

@@Wackaz Found the wumao

[@moonshinei]

@@Wackaz yikes, openly advocating for Chinese colonization of my peoples 😬

[@rachelcookie321]

Happy new year everyone! It’s officially January 1st 2022 in New Zealand.

[@tobikat8865]

Happy new year!

[@NoymoHD]

you couldn't wait to celebrate it? Well i suppose happy new year for you since here in spain we still have a few hours of 2021

[@AgeruR6]

happy new year from Melbourne!

[@skypig]

happy new year from adelaide

[@eliass8118]

@@skypig eyy

[@Esth.1]

Well, google uses different maps in different regions, you just see what google thinks is political correct enough for whereever you live

[@appa609]

I wonder if google maps hk shows it all in China's favour

[@yayayayya4731]

They don't do that to us 🥲

[@Esth.1]

@@yayayayya4731 idk who "us" is here, or did you mean the US? They show different maps all over the world so that means its to everyone

[@yayayayya4731]

@@Esth.1 No I mean they don't do that to my region. Probably because if they do that a bigger number of people will get mad who are not from my region even.

[@PatrickMapper]

13:00 I’m pretty sure that’s because the kanto (probably wrong region) region is surrounded by mountains and infertile land so loads of people were put in a small area causing Tokyo to grow so much because so much urban area. Whereas London is not surrounded by infertile land it is surrounded by fields and villages where people can spread out a lot, and green belt stopped the Greater London area expanding any more, but hey that’s just a theory

[@moreroidsmoreboys]

I thinks it’s not Kanto region as a whole but just the prefecture of Tokyo

[@PatrickMapper]

@@moreroidsmoreboys k thanks

[@moreroidsmoreboys]

@@PatrickMapper yup yup

[@Volcano4981]

There is definitely some truth to that theory based on little bits and pieces I have gathered, but I cannot elaborate on to what extent those are the main factors.

[@موسى_7]

Tehran is surrounded by mountains too

[@Bismarck-S]

Sweden, Norway and Finland: Causually fighting through the entire 1500s Also Sweden, Norway and Finland today sitting right next to each other: _This is fine... :)))_

[@PS3PCDJ]

Google always picks a side when showing a map from within of the countries that are disputing it and just acknowledging the dispute everywhere else.

[@nickmeier4098]

Dude u should do a video of countries that do leases. I know Djibouti has a lot of military bases.

[@slashslash501]

Also Ukraine allowed Russia to have military base in Crimea in 2010 until 2017

[@Mike-ukr]

@@slashslash501 it was from 91, 2010 was just a renewal of the lease

[@HunterAllan]

It's odd that Taiwan still claims China since usually in the west when someone is kicked out of their land it means that land no longer belongs to them

[@wompo5628]

It’s not a thing that’s unique in the west

[@HoneyCruiser]

Bruh...you don't understand. If we try to give up those claims, it would be seen as an attempt to independence from PRC, and we'll be fck up .

[@TotallyKoolaid]

@@HoneyCruiser If the PRC did try to invade Taiwan, Taiwan would probably be taken out but so would the PRC.

[@underhorse5367]

@@HoneyCruiser yeah, China actually hope you would stay the claim because it means the government of republic of China still identifies as China

[@andrelee7081]

Governments in exile do it all the time, including in the west. It just hasn't happened there to such an extreme degree since world war 2.

[@e.1ijah1]

Bruh I'm actually grateful that he makes these videos, I think they are great and full of information.

[@fieldsfamily6447]

yes I know about The Peoples Republic Of China

[@lensy6]

the order of malta is a soverign state but doesnt own any land, meaning it claims infinitely more than its size

[@mr.markan657]

Nice

[@levoGAMES]

It doesn't claim anything though.

[@lensy6]

@@levoGAMES when did they renounce their claims on malta

[@levoGAMES]

@@lensy6 I'm not sure they even claim Malta, but I would love to see a declaration of such.

[@lensy6]

@@levoGAMES I'm sure they did claim Malta because they literally ruled it and didn't just give it up. Also a quick wikiped search mentions that they didn't accept an offer of the island of Gotland because it would mean renouncing their claim on Malta. Since we now know they definitely did claim it the only way to know if they renounced it is if you can find something saying they did.

[@telemassacre]

The ultimate Chad with no territorial disputes

[@putinpunhere]

That's what winning a war with Libya gets ya.

[@putinpunhere]

@Communist Onion Yup, that's one way to make infantry mobile.

[@trueriver1950]

Pedantically: the UK did not exist as such in 1704. It was the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1604ish to 1707. I say 1604ish because James VI of Scotland also became the king of England by a separate inheritance in 1603. However it was initially still two separate kingdoms that just happened to have the same king. I am not sure how long it took for James to get the idea of "The Kingdom of Great Britain" accepted, though he made a proclamation to that effect in sixteen oh something. The challenge of uniting the Parliaments would take over a century, and that was bitterly resented both sides of the border. The Act of Union renamed the country the "United Kingdom of Great Britain", the first words being pure spin. Nothing new to Parliamentary practice of course. So... It is kind of fun that Gib has been owned by the UK for longer than the UK has existed.

[@rhyleigh_calix]

Happy New Year Toycat and to everyone

[@johnotm]

The greater Tokyo area includes rural areas that are not connected to the metropolitan area. Like Tochigi, Gunma and Ibaraki. Counting these areas as part of Tokyo is equivalent to counting Southampton or Oxford as part of London.

[@dylanminett8552]

Google change the borders depending on your location. iirc at one point they messed up and showed the Indian stance to Chinese Google and the Chinese stance to Indian Google concerning their border disputes, and the governments became quite annoyed.

[@dariogutierrez6716]

I knew it was Taiwan but I always love the complicated way he gets to the point

[@jnusslein6301]

Taiwan is not what today’s republic China only left. Republic of China 🇹🇼 currently exercises jurisdiction over the entire Taiwan province, 4 counties of Fookien province (Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and Lienchiang), East Sandy islands of Canton province, Yiciangsan island in Chekiang province and several tiny islands of Hainan province in South China Sea.

[@CMcvYT]

"I don't know this China place" -30,000 social credit

[@DarkRaven4649]

For those interested in the specifics, the borders "claimed" by the ROC are the borders of the Qing Dynasty at its greatest extent, minus some territory along the coast of Manchuria that Russia owns today. Presumably the reason they claim the little bit and not the Manchurian coast is because the latter was formally ceded by the Qing dynasty to whose borders they lay claim, and I suppose would have to honour the agreements of.

[@myoptimumpride5178]

still im confused qing dynasty is manchuria right? even if qing changed there capital to beijing it doenst mean that they are china now

[@LioncatDevStudio]

5:39 That's the 1st time I am hearing that name I thought it was west Taiwan

[@sokamen]

I’ve never seen a minecraft player that likes history keep it going man

[@RubyPiec]

I am a minecraft player and I like geography, geography-related history & vexillology so now you've seen 2

[@trashtrash2169]

Haven't seen you.

[@KattalystFr]

I am a minecraft player and I personally started WW1 now you've seen 3

[@TragicTester034]

@@KattalystFr Franz Josef is that you

[@JohnPaulBuce]

By making this video, you just lost 999999999 social credits.

[@jjtt]

Uruguay are trying so hard to convince everyone they own the island they themselves call it Brazilian Island

[@CptDawner]

Everybody gangster until you hear throat singing coming from the steppe “ЭЭЭ~ЭЭЭ”

[@Sonof_DRN2004]

Toycat looks like a badass game of thrones character with that beard.

[@Courtnye]

these videos are my guilty pleasure

[@ToxicTripz]

Only watched 4 seconds of this video. Gonna make a wild guess this is about Taiwan lmao.

[@KattalystFr]

DING DING DING DING DING

[@ships219]

I could listen to you for hours, thanks for the great video as always

[@ibx2cat]

Thank you :)

[@coolxg4357]

I think the Kashmir region is the biggest border dispute that isn’t being forced by war.

[@radio_marco]

Technically Switzerland, Austria and Germany do have a dispute about the countryboarder of the Bodensee.

[@holdthedoor8130]

That " greater Tokyo area " meme. Got me good.

[@rogink]

But is it accurate? Presumably it's comparing the size of Greater Tokyo with Greater London. After all, you could extend 'London' out to cover most of the Southeast, although it's not quite as built up as Tokyo.

[@Volcano4981]

I don't really like comparing metro areas because they could be drawn up in any order based on regular commuters/people actively engaging with the core city or conurbation. Though, yeah, it would extend quite far out, and Tokyo proper is something like 14.3 m people or so iirc to Greater London's 9 m. Despite it being a meme, I have got to say that it is scary considering that metro area is home to close to 38 m people (vs. GL's 14.4 m ish), just about 18.5 m off the entire England which is like 56.5.

[@xiaodai125]

weird fact... while the war ended, the China and Taiwan did not had official agreement about the civil war between PRC and ROC... so, technically it still in war... maybe 0.0

[@jamwasd]

honestly i'm finding this channel more interesting than the main one

[@louclarcen5690]

Me whenever first channel comes up: “First channel, don’t care, goodbye.”

[@misspat7555]

Lookin' good, TC! 😎

[@supper_e1823]

The last time I saw toycat he was running social experiments with Minecraft servers and basing the rules off of real life governments. Nice to know he’s still around making videos

[@anguseverist4178]

Toycat's social credit score is now -69420000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

[@slashslash501]

Does anybody know the site that shows who de facto controls what? I remember toycat mentioned it but I can't find it

[@cisco9614]

Just wanna say Happy New Year from Australia

[@FQT_Keller-Ash]

You should make a video about Tibet, also I believe Tibet was its own country before PRC invaded

[@jowen9422]

hahaha Imao，在欧洲人达美洲大陆之前那是属于印第安人的，然而现在印第安人竟然成了少数族裔，好奇？他们都去哪了？

[@FQT_Keller-Ash]

@@jowen9422 sorry this is so late i dont speak chinese so this might be accurate but most native americans got murdered in a massive genocide i can recommend a book on this subject its very sad

[@jowen9422]

@@FQT_Keller-Ash 是的，闭上眼睛就看不到加拿大，美国教堂下埋葬的原住民儿童。热爱人权的人不能对自己犯的罪行毫无忏悔！

[@FQT_Keller-Ash]

Do not understand you well but yes the american system is corrupt and has done horrible things to native american communities, the so called great nations; america, china, russsia, england, and france have all done dreadful things to so many people

[@jowen9422]

@@FQT_Keller-Ash So, what I want to say is that western media should stop blaming others for moral sense, because Western society is far inferior in terms of morality to other places. 所以我想说的是西方媒体不要再用那高高在上的道德感指责别人了，因为西方社会在道德层面远远低于其他地方。

[@matthewlui1004]

I went to that website, and found out they forgot about that Brunei also claims the South China Sea.

[@AGoranksInABox]

Someone's social credit is decreasing exponentially

[@vocaploid]

happy new years toycat

[@bruh12458]

in 2002 taiwan stopped claiming mongolia

[@loyalf]

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM AUSTRALIA

[@jan-seli]

I'm guessing this is either Taiwan or Portugal

[@mynthie2576]

Chad being chad and not having any territory disputes

[@TheLocalLt]

The yellow territory on the RoC claims map is actually Tannu Tuva, which was a nominally independent Soviet satellite state alongside Communist Mongolia from 1921-1944, it was then annexed into the Soviet Union but not as a full Union republic like Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, etc, but instead becoming part of the Russian Soviet Republic, which is why it’s part of the Russian Federation today as the Tyva Republic.

[@lolifico_banzago]

iirc Mongolia also tried to join the USSR but that would make things kinda worse between the back then Soviet Union and the PRC

[@TheLocalLt]

@@lolifico_banzago yes buffer states allowed the Soviet Union to conduct border operations without official involvement, the best example of this being the Battle of Khalkin Gol which was a Soviet-Japanese proxy war using their respective Mongolian and Manchurian puppet states for cover. The Soviets liked to keep buffer states on all sides to absorb the blow of possible invasion, which was the major reason on the geopolitical side for setting up the Warsaw Pact

[@NotBamOrBing]

Tannu what?

[@atlegin]

continental movements are gonna make this a whole lot more complicated

[@orion5992]

You missed the part of Antarctica that Argentina claims they own and even have troops there to administer it.

[@TragicTester034]

dont forget how argentina claims the falklands even though its not theirs

[@hakohito]

But how is that possible, there is a law on UN that countries cant take Antarctica as part of their countries

[@brotherhoodofsteelsoldier1356]

@@hakohito is Argentina part of the un? 😏

[@TotallyKoolaid]

@@hakohito It isn't part of Argentina, It's a claim on Antarctica, Like the US they claim a part of it but don't own it.

[@danielsj5929]

Crimea literally decided to be a part of Russia and it was celebrated when they finally became a part of Russia and they vote like every year to stay in Russia how is that even a dispute.

[@prority7175]

Well actually it depends on the nation your in (if you change your location with a VPN some countries will change to their preferred map)

[@dr_j0nes]

Google Shows the boarders depending on where your IP Address is registered, so they don't get in trouble or have so choose any side.

[@novemberguy9]

You can see how messy and complex it is 4:41 shows Uttrakhand which is not at all disputed Me: *in utter confusion*

[@hughmungus6964]

@5:34 I have only heard of west Taiwan so far. China is new to me

[@manuelcandia1940]

happy new year from Philippines!!!

[@jorin2146]

That thumbnail is deceiving

[@MatthewChenault]

The territorial dispute of Taiwan pales in comparison to the Territorial dispute of Virginia.

[@Wackaz]

Taiwan is historically Chinese territory. The earliest historical writings on the island is the year AD230 when the Wu Kingdom during the Sanguo era deployed 10k troops to Taiwan, the then-named Yizhou. Mid 12th-century, the Song Dynasty put Taiwan, which was part of the Penghu area back then, under the Fujian Province, which still exists today. From Song to Ming, Penghu had been consistently Chinese territory and it is during that time when the most native of Taiwanese which migrated there 7000 years ago were blended with the most advanced civilization of that time and became an undividable territory of China. Nearing the end of Ming and at the start of the 17th-century, the Netherlands invaded Taiwan when Ming was under war. Very soon the Spanish did too but they were kicked out by Netherland in 1642. Taiwan became colonised by the Netherlands. 1644, the Qing Dynasty was established. 1661 April, Zheng Chenggong under the title of General of South-Ming Dynasty, engaged in a war to take Taiwan back with 25k soldiers and a few hundred battleships. 1662 Feburary, Netherlands surrender. Zheng becomes a national hero. 1811, Taiwan population reached 1.9 mil, mostly immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong. Taiwan becomes an important argricultural area for Qing. It is also then Taiwan is completely de-westernised, unfortunately for the island, colonial powers will still step foot on it once again. 1884-1885, Sino-French War, France invades Taiwan. Head of Taiwan Liu Mingzhuan kicks the shit out of them. Unfortuantely China lost all other parts of the war and were forced to sign the Treaty of Tientsin, nevertheless, the French was forced out of Taiwan. After the Sino-French War, to strengthen Naval defence, Qing let Taiwan become the 20th province of China. Under Head of Taiwan Liu, it became one of the most powerful provinces then. 1894, Sino-Japanese War. The next year, Qing lost. 1895 April 17th, the Shimonoseki Treaty was signed, officially giving Taiwan up to the Japanese. Army General in Taiwan Liu Yongfu refuse to comply, fought for 5+ months, lost anyhow. Taiwan will be under Japanese colonial rule for 50+ years. 1937 July, the Japanese started the Double-Seven Incident, starting the 2nd wave of Sino-Japanese War. After 8 years, China wins and the Japanese surrender Taiwan. Taiwan has been Chinese territory ever since. The current valid dispute is whether Taiwan should be under the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China. It is important to note that both Chinas claim the entirely of China, both the mainland and Taiwan, with the RoC controlling Taiwan and the PRC controlling mainland. This is the One-China Policy. The current Taiwan separatists wants China divided, they want Taiwan to become on its own. This is against both RoC and PRC policy and the movement is made popular by the current incompetency of Kuomingtang as the DPP gets elected two terms in a row. So no, Taiwan is not part of the PRC. There is dispute on that issue. But it is definitely part of China, a united China. Be it RoC or PRC, Taiwan is and will always be Chinese. The Qing dynasty held on to Taiwan for about 200 years until it was colonized by Japan. Do I think Taiwan should be an independent state from this, no. The land should return to the original owner. Then after WW2 Taiwan was given back to China by the Allies. Afterwards the Communists and Nationalists had a civil war and the communists won and the nationalists (backed by the US) fled to Taiwan. Since the communists won that war they got ownership. It’s a Chinese civil war. The fought for the sovereignty of China. Which includes the territories of Taiwan. If they didn’t it’s essentially saying the US beat the confederacy yet the confederacy still gets to own Florida. It doesn’t make sense. Also, it would be dumb as hell if Taiwan ever became an independent country. The KMT doesn’t even want to be an independent country. They know their economy would collapse if they became separate from the mainland.

[@gaaichia2238]

@@Wackaz stop your historical claims wumao, or let Italy revives the holy roman empire lol

[@David-tz1oi]

@@Wackaz You can't just say oh it should be given back to the original owner of that was the case we would have India being British or something what matters more is what the people in Taiwan think about that area Taiwan is governed separately.

[@doaa7941]

@@Wackaz Good job comrade, +999999 social credits, we will let your family go now

[@dogodog1247]

@@gaaichia2238 holy roman empire wasnt holy, nor roman, nor an empire, it was german. You meant the Roman Empire, remove the holiness.

[@RoyalThaiArmyCadet]

Happy new year!!

[@stephenclark9917]

The country of the Republic of China (Taiwan/Formosa) owns two islands just 10 miles off the CCP China coast.

[@misy5174]

This is a boring topic but I like the way this guy talk it made me watch this video till the end

[@E4439Qv5]

2cat in a nutshell.

[@cycklist]

It's = it is Its = belonging to it Error in the title.

[@RubyPiec]

No, it just forgot the comma: This Country Claims To Own 300x, It's Actual Territory as in "This country claims to own the city 300x, and it's actually a part of it"

[@ylette]

Can't take these word crimes!

[@kenneth8477]

China: "You called Taiwan a small country? A Country?"

[@weirdlyweirdweird0]

never heard of china. what even is that?

[@ShrekShrooms]

Happy Bhutan noice

[@jobansingh8628]

First time I've seen any of your vids cuz it was on my recommended and really gotta admit, love your style of vids , keep it up !

[@keepitalivebro]

As a Taiwanese, this is fucking hilarious

[@Kcation]

-100000000000000000000000000000000 social credit

[@keepitalivebro]

@@Kcation 我愛冰淇淋！

[@zealandia5668]

Fun fact: Gibraltar is the UK's only continental territory. Because of this tiny piece of land, the UK's status as an island country is controversial (island country suppose to have 100% of its territory on islands).

[@greenmc9339]

i have only heard of western Taiwan, not china

[@Vurinati]

I have only heard of east china not taiwan

[@ImperatorRom]

I'm sorry, you are technically wrong, Portugal and Spain can still claim half the world for each as per the treaty of Tordesilhas, sooo... :P (just a joke hehe)

[@sheryarahmed6331]

that is some quality clickbait let's see if the video lives up to it

[@ibx2cat]

Please respond when you make it through, I've been wanting to talk about this map for a while

[@Wackaz]

@@ibx2cat You're such a legend man, I love it how you open yourself up to different interpretations and perspectives

[@excelvalentino6972]

a country: exist china: some of your land is not your land

[@s888r]

The first ever only geography channel which I found. Isn't that unique, *ONLY GEOGRAPHY*?!

[@abrahamdozer6273]

The Han Island "dispute is hilarious on two levels. One is that does Canada REALLY need a couple of square kilometers of frozen rubble? It's not as if Canada is running out of that. The other ridiculous part is about this little European Imperialist Kingdom biting off the last available morsel of the New World in it's bid for greater greatness. Gilbert and Sullivan could have written an operetta about that part of the farce.

[@MarkRosa]

10:47 Zoom in a little on your map and you'll see Yonaguni Island, part of Okinawa and the westernmost point in Japan. If you draw a line in the ocean equidistant from Yonaguni and Taiwan, the disputed islands are very far onto Okinawa's side; they are northwest of Yonaguni.

[@JPaterson8942]

I'd love to see a video about Russia and it's... Territories? Disputes? I remember hearing once that they want all/most of the countries that split from the USSR back.

[@ilikeapples1824]

Lmao, I bet you average Russians must get sick and tired of these claims made by their government huh, I can imagine them making memes about it hilarious

[@BoxyPlains92587]

@@ilikeapples1824 as a Russian, yes, you are absolutely right

[@Wolfmeister666]

Yeah, Tsar Putin wants the bigger territory to abuse.

[@Nova-tl4yc]

"A few people know China" The thousands of China memes running around all year: *b r u h*

[@jackl2257]

Using memes related to China doesn’t mean they know China

[@Nova-tl4yc]

@@jackl2257 it's literally a superpower. How wouldn't they know about china

[@jackl2257]

@@Nova-tl4yc ofc they know China exist, but their knowledge on it stops at Chinese memes and at most a video of the social credit system

[@yunyizhe]

ROC was authoritarian because of political tutelage proposed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen after democracy failed. The idea was to educate the people and properly transition to democracy but the ROC faced many threats such as the warlords, imperial Japan and the communists. After the Taiwan area was fortified and protected and developing, a transition to multi-party democracy was installed. :) Democracy was attempted in 1912 and in the 1940s but failed unfortunately both times. It wasn’t until the late 20th century to early 21st century in Taiwan that it finally worked.

[@Hsalf904]

Literally the same reasons for PRC and USSR

[@Claro1993]

Actually it was Dr. Sun Yat-sen that made the CCP and the KMT work together, what shattered all of this was Chang Kai-shek.

[@yunyizhe]

@@Claro1993 Not exactly. He accepted the Communist Party because he wanted a multi-party system and they were somewhat similar to the KMT at the time and he wanted all parties of China to work together to install his democratic republic. The communist party wanted their rule under their ideology and so the civil war started. The PRC does not adhere to his ideologies, they were founded on Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory and hail Chairman Mao as their founder. Chiang Kai-Shek was a flawed man but sought to implement the ideologies of Dr. Sun. While unfortunately often violent in his methods (albeit resulting in less death than under Mao) he did protect China from Japan along with Taiwan from the communists.

[@yunyizhe]

@@Hsalf904 I don’t know much about the USSR. But the PRC afaik follows the Marxist-Leninist idea of a one party rule of the proletariat, with a rule of a single communist party. Afaik the PRC has never been a multi-party democracy with free elections and still isn’t today.

[@gamermapper]

So democracy is allowed to fail but when communism fails one time it means it's always failing.

[@karsten1565]

Woooooooah bro did you just say Taiwan was a country? -5999 social credit score

[@sniky3673]

I've wanted toycat to talk about the brazilian island for so long 😩 😫 😪

[@scoutgaming737]

If you added water disputes on the territory dispute map, almost every country would have a dispute

[@demonslayer4290]

taiwan was home to indigenous people that were not han chinese and the island was called formosa not taiwan after it was colonize be by the han chinese then by the japanese after japan won a war against china and they ruled taiwan for 50 years after the american nuck japan american. Forced japan to give up its colony's which include giving the korean peninsula its. Independence and give taiwan back to the dynasty china shorly after that the emperor of china was remove from power by the the nationalist which was the KMT of china but the KMT did not stay in power for too. Long because they went to war with the chinese communist party which they lost and fled to taiwan with his troops which makes up modern day taiwan that a short history of taiwan.

[@gaaichia2238]

A tiny reminder: The Dutch and the Portugese arrived Formosa earlier than the Chinese.

[@demonslayer4290]

@@gaaichia2238 yes the dutch and the portugese arrived earlier than the chinese but it was chinese that colonize taiwan. The dutch and the portugese use taiwan as a hub for their ships going from europe to there colonize in southeast asia.

[@70n24]

For this coming year 2022, no need for improvements indeed, this channel is already perfect as is. Three cheers for China, all of them.

[@karl2673]

Man, this comment section got so quickly overrun by wumaos and turned into a total wreck.

[@edgelord8337]

Hey guys this person is a wumao! I won the arguement lol!

[@stevefrommincraft3285]

this ratio of likes /comments : views is amazing

[@DevonianMapping]

Solution to Crimea: Make independent.

[@slashslash501]

Solution to Crimea: give it to Ukraine but make it an autonomous republic

[@francinelieto8899]

Crimeans voted to be part of Russia. what are you guys talking about?

[@DevonianMapping]

@@francinelieto8899 I heard that they declared independence from Ukraine and joined Russia the next day.

[@slashslash501]

@@francinelieto8899 that referendum was illegitimate

[@ZerotoxinsVOD]

please link the map in the description

[@martychisnall]

That Tokyo thing is still inaccurate though, it’s comparing the Prefecture of Tokyo to just the actual city of London (not the county “City of London”).

[@Volcano4981]

There is no 'city' of that shape and size. It's Greater London. You can call it a conurbation, Met County equivalent, region, whatever, but Greater London is not a city. The only actual cities in Greater London are City of London and City of Westminster. Though you are right in that the Greater London metropolitan area does spread quite far into the southeast.

[@AlexandraMiddleton]

Happy New Year!