The rise of Xi Jinping, explained

[@MrHaydnSir]

now this feels like a classic Vox video

[@robert-rv8lo]

And now, these types of videos will lead to a third world war as it justifies the continued US decoupling from China and heightened tensions. Anything that challenges the unipolar superpower that is the US is unacceptable to the US, and requires immediate regime change.

[@ChannelTENthousandBC]

100% true

[@骆军骅]

yep butchering xi's name lol, not offended. just dissapointed they didnt make an effort.

[@organizedchaos4559]

@@骆军骅how u pronounce it?

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

@@骆军骅Chinese names is difficult to pronounce so I’d cut them some slack 😂

[@PhilipJackson03]

Deng Xiaoping once said “Hide your strength, bide your time.” Xi certainly heeded those words.

[@Flakester]

And he's still doing this today, building his military and economy. His intentions are clear as they expand their claim on territories that don't belong to them.

[@skp8748]

@@Flakester gtfoh what are you talking about? They're not the US, France, UK or Russia.

[@carsso35]

@@FlakesterNo, not at all. He gained his power following that well-known motto for us Chinese, but his philosophy of governance has gone the opposite way. Otherwise you may never know our expanding desire.

[@Varangian82]

“In fact, Xi Jinping, unlike Bo Xilai, who is a more honest person, is basically a faithful implementer of this basic plan that was laid down by the party hierarchy decades ago. What he is implementing is the next step in the "three-step reform and opening-up" strategy. Originally, when Deng Xiaoping formulated the reform and opening-up policy, the first step was to solve the economic problems and realize a moderately prosperous society; after the realization of a moderately prosperous society, the next step was to end the biding of light and to build a strong socialist country. Xi Jinping is carrying out this next stage, and he is just concretizing Deng Xiaoping's plan, which was still a vision at that time. In the process of materialization, he did not betray the basic plan of the party and the state (in Trump's terms: the deep state) for the party and the state, but rather won greater support than Bo Xilai and Wen Jiabao because of the considerable prudence and loyalty he demonstrated in carrying it out, and because he was much more reliable than either of them.”--Liu Zhongjing

[@shutinalley]

@@Flakester Thats an issue that goes back to forever everywhere. The problem is old world mentalities that is a global problem.

[@youzhang9201]

going out of Beijing to other province and even rural area is not simply Xi's strategy, it's actually a political tradition for people who want to go to the high level in the central government in China even at ancient time. It's a kind of training system for central government. Both in ancient China and nowadays PRC, most of the high level central government leaders have some experience of governing local governments.

[@havingdinneramaster]

中国虽然是中央集权制国家，但在某些领域地方的权限并不比联邦制地方的权限小，更不要提香港澳门还有将来的台湾。 这就意味着，中央领导人必须得有主政一方的历练。 央地矛盾是从古至今都存在的，毛泽东主席的论十大关系中也曾论述过。

[@abrahamgomez8832]

Same pattern for now mexico president. He did this same approaxh with rural providences.

[@kingjoe3rd]

Xi thinks he is Mao, you know since Mao's grandson is a ... genius ;) and couldn't be bothered with politics, Xi believes that he is the one to be Mao's true successor.

[@891delta]

In big companies, candidates to be CEO have to have experience across multiple verticals of the business so they can understand the whole org.

[@oswarz]

@@abrahamgomez8832 Mingling, living, working with ordinary people gives you a different perspective on how to govern. This is something Western leaders lack.

[@mnrbrt]

I wonder if Xi can also hear this intense background music in his daily life.

[@张三三-u5i]

sbS'B

[@lzhburn]

习也是在刀山火海中一步步爬上去的，显然，一个世界第二经济体，14亿人民的领导人，一个从农村一步步上去的领导人，是比你见识多一点的。

[@jjjukvffg]

BBC did the best

[@ywlee319]

Could you imagine the pressure he face daily, especially when he is sleeping.

[@Joseph-kd1zz]

@@ywlee319 he probably used to it, and see it as normal, he is been in power most of his life.

[@ordisigipma7064]

Vox should continue doing this type of videos

[@ianism3]

they've been doing them for like 10 years...

[@NicodemusT]

@@ianism3 * Johnny Harris has been doing them.

[@Racko.]

@@ianism3Nope, they had Harris doing it

[@KtenEditing]

@@NicodemusT plenty of examples of similar work they've done since Harris left

[@lurhashmazin5589]

@@KtenEditing i wonder why Johnny Harris left Vox?

[@joezhou6221]

Most of the content is very good, but Xi Jinping did not leave Beijing to go to the bottom to escape anything. For most officials in China to be promoted, going to the bottom is a must. After the Cultural Revolution, after Deng Xiaoping resumed his work, most officials and their families were rehabilitated. There is no danger. Going to the bottom is just to accumulate political capital.

[@leezhieng]

Plus, the places he went were not exactly rural.

[@prayunceasingly2029]

​@@leezhieng like Shanghai!

[@sherylyin5219]

​@@prayunceasingly2029shanghai was the very end. the provinces he went before Shanghai were indeed rural back then.

[@demal1010]

They expressed that sentiment; they said the party wanted humble leaders

[@TheSimianDeity]

@@demal1010 The party wanted control of the outlying provinces. Sending leaders from Beijing to rule over them was only nominally about humility. Allowing provinces to grow their own leadership was a recipe for a new, competing political movement. Mao and his successors were determined that they would not make the same mistake Lin Sen did.

[@jasonshen7600]

4:55 Those Chinese character they are carrying on their backs are meant to teach the troops how to identify and write Chinese while marching, which is why the red army had a much high literacy rate than the nationalist later in the civil war.

[@jerry85g7]

Amazing thanks for sharing that piece of knowledge.

[@yizoho5178]

The red army during the civil war ate better generally

[@milanvondelft268]

This is a really cool fact, and i want to use it in a quiz I'm writing, but I just can't find a source. It sounds plausible, but can you please point me to one?

[@CiviTian-br3fs]

​@@milanvondelft268 Everyone in Chinese know it😂. but where the pictures from is a difficult. Maybe you can get more information by reading a book……《红星照耀中国》. Its English name is "red star over china". written by Edgar Parks Snow. it tells the story about red army. 写英文好费劲😢。

[@CiviTian-br3fs]

（“图片的来源在哪”是个困难的问题）写到一半不知道“问题”该用哪个词，结果给忘了😅。

[@oaduloju]

This was very informative. You should turn this into a series on world leaders including Netanyahu, Erdogan, Putin and MBS

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

There already is a pretty good MBS video out there from a couple years ago

[@anotheryoutubeuser]

@@dwaynekeenum1916 I think, except Netanyahu, they have already covered all the leaders the OP mentioned.

[@redox4088]

​@@anotheryoutubeuserThe media is not allowed to cover Netanyahu in a negative light." Netanyahu is the father of democracy and defender of freedom" is the only acceptable narrative.

[@theperson3693]

@@redox4088lol.

[@zvck808]

also modi

[@tokenblackwoman127]

He really played the long game to gain power.

[@skp8748]

Not really he played the game of not stepping on people, not becoming beholden because of corruption and being technically proficient. He learned from his father that wings could be clipped so unlike Icarus decided not to fly too close to the sun. That's why he has the role he has now he's considered fairly impartial not a lackey of the military, the political princes or the business elite since he wasn't brought to power by one of them and more importantly he's more of an administrator than a political/philosophical revolutionary... His entire creed is just efficiency if it works study it, if it doesn't get rid of it, if it's corrupt dismantle it, if it threatens stability destroy it and this is all done relatively without prejudice. His only enemy is inefficiency

[@danpetrescu4915]

play long time to gain power ? but he work hard , very hard for his people . i think is ok to get power in this way

[@askosefamerve]

​@@danpetrescu4915I don't think unlimited power is great but he won it right and square.

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

I gotta commend the guy, he played the political game perfectly. I respect it even though I disagree with his ideals.

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

@@askosefamervehe won it fair-ish sure, but when one holds power for too long it corrupts them. You can have the best person in the world be president of a large country, but the longer they hold power the less good they become, the power gets into their heads and they become corrupt. It’s really sad, many dream of what they could do if they’re in charge but when you actually become in charge those ‘dreams’ become a reality, but those dreams isn’t always 100% pure so… you know, corruption.

[@trangha1147]

He did the classic moves. "If you want to change the game, join the game and eventually be the game."

[@gongping908]

he wanted to be the game on the first day, even if he was once a victim of the same game

[@SandyHernandez-v7q]

China will fall to the west

[@Bellicose]

@@gongping908 he blames his own father for his suffering, it's straight up stockholm syndrome and he refuses to believe the system is wrong

[@haishantang4035]

@@gongping908 Because he has been deeply involved, he knows the reason. A system can have advantages and disadvantages, but it does not mean it is wrong. He firmly believes in the belief of the system, so he worked hard to lift the Chinese out of poverty after taking office. Although you don't believe it, I think he can get to where he is now because of his firm belief.

[@gongping908]

@@haishantang4035 first, there is absolutely right and wrong. A system where one person's will could top its people, a regime where it constantly abuse basic human right, and bully the neighboring countries, such is absolutely wrong second thing, china's economy growth is a path set from the day it joins WTO and plays the game in globalization, no matter who runs the country

[@pushyarareddy7484]

A very well made video. The narration, animation, timelines and many other aspects have fit in so well with each other. Please make more of these : )

[@jeff_forsythe]

Mao took away from the Chinese people all sense of the Divine. My friend was in Shanghai lately teaching English and every time the word God was mentioned students would ask what does God mean? Right now, Xi has given his blessing to the genocide of the 100 million Falun Gong using torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder.

[@jeff_forsythe]

Xi and his evil party are inhuman. They torture and execute innocent Falun Gong.

[@nathangillingham5734]

Xi studied chemical engineering at university, not philosophy. The program at the time required 15% of student's time be committed to studying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and 5% of the time doing work in the country side.

[@mandalorian3246]

overall this video has massive mistakes Zhejiang and Fujian provinces are not rular China they are industrial hubs.

[@lajibox]

What you said is not entirely correct, because he majored in chemical engineering as an undergraduate in Tsinghua University, but his postgraduate is Marxism.

[@ostrakos4785]

@@mandalorian3246 i dont think Zhejiang has much rural areas left, all their villages are quite suburban. Fujian on the other hand varies greatly, and thats why so many of them go to Myanmar to commit scams, or illegally immigrate to america

[@cjandre7789]

Xi never studied anything in any uni. He only went through elementary school.

[@monk786]

Xi received a Chemical Engineering Degree and a PHD of law from Tsinghua University.

[@Kabutoes]

This is the craziest revenge story I’ve heard of

[@AN31DO01RR96]

@@Huajierenmeiluziye I thought western social media etc. is blocked in China? Is the great firewall not working?

[@hhhhzr-rq1lg]

​@@AN31DO01RR96那个墙是​可以翻的，我今天刚整上，就是得花不少钱😢

[@sawkevinnoel7954]

​@@AN31DO01RR96 Usage of Facebook and messenger is banned in Myanmar as well, but everyone still uses it.

[@是魔王哒]

But what exactly did he avenge? Is becoming the leader of a country considered revenge? What decisions did he make that were more harmful than beneficial? Did he intensify the oppression of the people? Did he amass wealth for his own pleasure? I searched but couldn't find reliable information on this. Are some of his decisions controversial, yet on the whole, they are more beneficial than detrimental?

[@surprise-xg8pk]

习近平任上反腐干得不错,遏制了邓小平的利益集团

[@leezhieng]

Deng was rehabilitated and reinstated by Mao himself. This video makes it sound like it happened after Mao's death, but actually it happened BEFORE his death.

[@子产-u5k]

是你记错了，邓重反中央是毛死后，叶帅支持的

[@alexlo7708]

Some say Deng was rehabilitated by Zhou not long before he was dead.

[@wacxr123]

Yes, but with Mao's consent since the government can hardly run without a strong man like Deng (Zhou was sick at that time@@alexlo7708

[@TrueDreeamss]

​@@alexlo7708No. It was by Mao. Mao always liked Deng but sometimes Deng was too stubborn for Mao to tolerate

[@TheycallmeG-h4c]

Mao Covid lol.

[@ruebenjesse]

banished in his country?... ALL young people under the Mao regime were sent into the countryside so that they could learn from rural life. This was just a common policy and you're trying to make it sound bad.

[@DavidLockett-x4b]

Then they were sent to the factories to learn from industrial life. Then the jobs all dried up, because of robotics and so they lay down and let it rot.

[@ziqi92]

My dad, who lived through the Cultural Revolution, often said this about Mao: “Chiang only taught you how to fire a gun. Mao taught you how to fight with your spirit. This is why he (proverbially) won the civil war in the end.” Mao was an incredible wartime leader, but he was a garbage peacetime leader.

[@nunosilva187]

Im sure it wasnt because he convinced the peasants by providong them promises of food and wealth

[@haomingxia2109]

@@nunosilva187 yes, land reform was a very effective policy that he did follow up upon besides, during the civil war, there were many genuine reasons why many peasants had grievances against Chiang's government. having a coherent ideology instead of being a coalition of feudal warlords only helped.

[@mathewlett9104]

No he only won cause Japan helped weaken his rivals.

[@haomingxia2109]

@@mathewlett9104 doesn't explain all the mass defections to the PLA once Japan surrendered

[@christopherx2216]

@@mathewlett9104 When the Japanese surrendered, Chiang had 4.3 million troops, and Mao had 1.2 million. Chiang started the war again with the support of the USSR and the USA. In fact, Chiang had some advantages at the beginning. However, after the success of land reform, Mao took back the initiative on the battlefield. Then, the USSR started supporting weapons and supplies. 1.6 million of Chiang's army died, 4 million surrendered, and the last 4 million run to Taiwan is the end of the story.

[@ProdigalGeek]

Thank you for proving that journalism and education today doesn't need to have unnecessary humour to be entertaining. This is amazing stuff.

[@derroz3157]

4:55 Dum doom music

[@IsaiahRichards692]

Yes it does! Because humor is entirely necessary!

[@JuanTonSoupXP]

But you don’t know that tho

[@MaxRadioStation]

Tired of Wendoverr productuons?

[@spider6660]

This is not some worthy documentary.

[@Fadzi2342]

His policies aside, what Xi did to consolidate power is political play at one of its finest. From exiled to the top, he knew how to use the system to his advantage. Learned a lot from this video. Now THIS is the kind of videos I subscribed to Vox for.

[@sleepyearth]

Vox made a mistake of his rural humble training. At that time every single youth of a certain age are sent to rural areas to contribute to the society. It's not of Xi's own desires.

[@jackietreehorn069]

I learned a lot too. Going to copy his skills to consolidate power at my kid's gradeschool.

[@antigonemerlin]

CSIS has a more in depth series of interviews with experts on this topic. The book reviews are all really good.

[@dionjohn1744]

Hes actually very smart. I give him that

[@DonTrumpF2024ever]

and what has the US govt done for 99% of americans in the last 100yrs?! NOTHING!

[@Llllll-ci1jq]

I am Chinese, and I have to say the remark you made on cultural revolution in 1966 is totally not right. I have grandparents who have been through that age, and that revolution was started by Mao’s wife, who wanted to take control of the power after Mao got old and felt sick. They were called the four people group. THEY, led the cultural revolution not Mao. They were taken down after Mao’s death because the committee were afraid or unwilling to arrest or punish Mao’s wife. And the core value of this revolution is not about abusing people who don’t agree with Maoism, but against capitalism. If you understand Chinese, you know the broads were written with 走资派, which means capitalists. You have to do more researches on such a serious topic, especially when your audience don’t know much about Chinese history, they will take whatever you said. Mao may have started the cultural revolution, but he is not the reason why it ended bad. It was because of other people who tried to take over his power. I understand how western media love to say CCP abusing its own people, but history is not that simple. And no government would be sadistic towards its own people without any cause.

[@Llllll-ci1jq]

I am still impressed by the accuracy of the images shown in the video. And the time you have put in this video. Generally, it is pretty accurate. Just don’t fall in the western perspective of communism in understanding the story. History is a lot more complicated than a small group of people abusing its people in maintaining its power. China has a long history of having a sole leader, called 皇帝 in thousands of years of Chinese history. The reason why the system works is due to Chinese history and culture. And it has its own merits. Like the leaders can plan for the long term instead of four years. And when they made a bad decision, they are accountable for their actions. This is not seen in western countries where the party who made the bad decisions can easily get away with it by having the subsequent party dealing with the problems they have caused. Debates about political systems are just pros and cons instead of the hero-villain tales

[@chaosbutterflies-rz2ir]

u are right

[@沒問題啊雙射手]

随他们去吧，不知情的人总认为文革是个人崇拜导致的，其实很多中国人都不知道三面红旗、文革、74年调整、改革开放都是经济因素大于政治诱因，很多难言的苦衷，一代人吃三代人的苦。所言不虚

[@okayyeah-bn8lx]

不用理会老外，这段历史我们国内在过去也一直曲解了，完全掩盖了它的正面意义，直到现在才逐渐有纠正的声音。老外压根更不懂这些了，不管啥视频，老外只会说thanks for sharing, well done,, great video…全都是一些空话。换作国内，随便啥视频，评论区都能就视频内容评论出个花来，先不说对不对吧，就这方面来看，国内网友的脑子确实比老外好使

[@macfadyenpecho]

认可的

[@Vnbrtl]

Good video, but one major interpretation flaw: Xi’s time away from Beijing wasn’t a ‘strategy’; it’s just how the CCP works. To be part of the Politburo you need to have governed at least 4 different cities - it’s the way to attest to your political and administrative skills. Tbh, it’s a much better system to select leadership than, for comparison, corrupt two-party systems. But in no way this was a “strategy”. It’s a requirement. What Mao did in the second half of his leadership, and Xi is doing now, it’s limiting the ability of the party to distribute and valour competencies and engage with the wider body of the party (which has MILLIONS of members).

[@Q-se5oh]

It’s also kind of odd that this video didn’t talk about internal party politics and ideology.. pretty significant factor to understand who xi is. Disappointed the video just used common western sensationalist tropes.

[@aitharel3009]

Indeed, China is a meritocracy, it invented imperial examinations a long time ago for similar reasons after all

[@aitharel3009]

@@Q-se5oh Can't really expect much else from Western media though haha. Turned on the cc to find the opening music was [sinister electronic music] lol, such a classic.

[@billedifier8584]

Great, so instead of a corrupt two-party system, China has a corrupt one-party system.

[@davidzoo2246]

“异地为官”is an ancient political practice as an, part of china’s own Confucianist political history, it means “serving as a statesman somewhere that’s not ur hometown” this is why federalism will likely never work in chija

[@roozbehzarei6943]

This episode was very informative. Thank you to all the people behind it.

[@AJ-jx5gm]

Such videos are needed for people that dont pay attention to world news. Xi has been called dictator / emperor for a while now but there's still ignorant people saying he's not. Xi is the Putin of china right now, where people disappear instead of falling out of tall buildings.

[@rongyaowang1075]

Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?

[@Mr.Mister420]

Xi xuan je shu kemo na che Xi phuc yu ma dar phuc kar xuan ji chi

[@_noen_3806]

Não foi informativo, teve inúmeras distorções de narrativa, é um desastre pra quem estuda história

[@GL-iv4rw]

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@coensu]

Thank you all for the amazing work

[@jeff_forsythe]

The evil CCP backs most of the terrorism in the world. Zhang Zemin introduced a genocide of the 100 million Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, using torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. They believe in a Creator and practice truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, things that the Satanic Zemin had no use for, they threatened his ultimate power. Xi is now continuing that genocide, hiding it from the world at the cost of billions. Pure evil.

[@chasebemis1976]

Fascinating focus on the consolidation of powers. I would be interested to follow up on this video with a deep dive in what is meant by "Xi Jinping Thought" as defined in the Third Resolution and the contrast between its theory of change, rhetorical tone, and consequences.

[@rgcv]

Certainly worth a video!

[@nathangibbs246]

Just read his books. The four volumes of the Governance of China. And read Roland Boer's "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, a Guide for Foreigners." Great reads, very informative!

[@aejlim6912]

​@@nathangibbs246no, its internet everyone wants summarization, so spill it here

[@frankartanis1290]

The content of the third resolution is unimportant here. The fact that Xi put a thought named after him into the party constitution symbolizes the amount of power Xi has.

[@nathangibbs246]

@@frankartanis1290 maybe, but it's based on his spoken and written words

[@foreignproduction5589]

Chinese history is so fascinating. You've put a lot of information in there, surprised that you haven't included information about Russia and China and Mao's relation with Nikita Khrushchev. How all that affected Cultural Revolution and aftermath of the revolution, after all it was a huge contributing factor.

[@alexworldfan]

Can you elaborate how

[@hellfireboy]

Well, these are Americans, they are not very good at history, I’ve come to terms with it

[@wongyoonchark5050]

​@@hellfireboyThe success of MAO ERA under the socialism with Chinese characteristics had droved out all evil foreign powers encroached inside China & laid the foundation for future generations who brought China rising, strong & prosperity. China is good learner , industrious & self-reliance in all field of innovations & technologies.

[@cupertinoish]

@@wongyoonchark5050 yeah like starving and punishing 70 MILLION of your own people to death. In that regard he accomplished more than Hitler

[@greentea8852]

Is there a good book covering this relationship?

[@neill362]

just to be clear in 00:43 , ‘president’ is not the most powerful man in china’s political field, there are ‘general secretary of the party’ and ‘chairman of the military’ above the president. As a result Mr. yang and Mr. li were not the number one person at that time for they didn’t control the military

[@jeff_forsythe]

Xi executes all the no men, just as Hitler. Xi is pure evil. Mao took away from the Chinese people all sense of the Divine. My friend was in Shanghai lately teaching English and every time the word God was mentioned students would ask what does God mean? Right now, Xi has given his blessing to the genocide of the 100 million Falun Gong using torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder.

[@jeff_forsythe]

Xi and his evil party are inhuman. They torture and execute innocent Falun Gong.

[@mudassirali2158]

"from being banished in his country, to taking complete control of it" this line hit hard.

[@jeff_forsythe]

He executed all the competition. The evil CCP backs most of the terrorism in the world. Zhang Zemin introduced a genocide of the 100 million Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, using torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. They believe in a Creator and practice truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, things that the Satanic Zemin had no use for, they threatened his ultimate power. Xi is now continuing that genocide, hiding it from the world at the cost of billions. Pure evil.

[@earthwormjim6962]

I'm thankful that the guy single handedly resolved San Fran's homeless crisis. Albeit for just a week or so. But at least people saw what was possible.

[@robertborunda9845]

Oh the satire😅

[@xprettylightsx]

There was nothing resolved. He displaced them temporarily.

[@chosenone5536]

@@xprettylightsx😂😂😂😂 then you should thank him for showing Cali can get rid of the homeless in the street but they won't do it.

[@earthwormjim6962]

@@xprettylightsx Which is one of the resolutions for the problem. Not the best, of course, but given the city is going to be run by democrats forever, I don't see any other resolution. Just move them permanently.

[@xprettylightsx]

@@earthwormjim6962 fun fact, your tax dollars are spent by the millions on this problem in an ever incompetent fashion

[@TimeBucks]

This episode was very informative

[@mdshahabulislam1810]

Good

[@priscaamy1987]

Good one

[@nazrulstore-qg2kf]

Best

[@jeff_forsythe]

Xi is pure evil. Mao took away from the Chinese people all sense of the Divine. My friend was in Shanghai lately teaching English and every time the word God was mentioned students would ask what does God mean? Right now, Xi has given his blessing to the genocide of the 100 million Falun Gong using torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder.

[@beatrizcascelli]

A MASTERPIECE! Thank you, Vox!

[@wengbx]

吓死我了，这些老外太可怕了，好好的国家被扭曲的不成样子了，满满恶意，这么恐怖这国家还能变成世界第二经济体？

[@electronspark6740]

​@@wengbx在和平年代，有着如此大量的如此吃苦耐劳且有强烈意愿改善自己生活的国民，在东亚文化的加持下，用了半个多世纪才成为世界第二大经济体，才是天理不容的。

[@fitfirst4468]

thank dee's nuts

[@williamt.sherman2573]

i wouldnt call it a "masterpiece". its our perspective on china and xi, doesnt mean this has to be the absolute right one

[@rongyaowang1075]

Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?

[@aplastician]

One of the best pieces of journalism I've ever gone through 👏🏾

[@la-Kiii]

you can't image how i am wordless as a student from xinjiang,hhh so funny to find how American's hypocritical😂😂😂

[@timo4463]

​@la-Kiii then tell me thr truth

[@mousmnwltr]

Wow, this was a great history lesson. Thank you! More of these please.

[@shushunk00]

This is history for u 😂 Brainless western exceptionalist chewing up the manufacturing consent made by the "independent media" literally always aligning with state department talking points when it comes to foreign issues😂

[@GL-iv4rw]

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@abdilio9384]

As long as his country is moving forward, he can stay in power for 100 more years

[@TimeMakerDotPH]

The country moved forward because of collective leadership and no overstaying leaders for the past 30 years that preceded Xi LOL. Take a look at the USSR for instance, Brezhnev had it all, overstaying politburo members, overstaying generals, etc. They let the Soviet economy stagnate and by the time Gorbachev came, the USSR was terminally ill, Gorbachev was not there to cure the USSR but rather, to euthanize or salvage it. And for that, China learned a lot from both Mao and the Soviet tragedy. The problem with overstaying leaders is that they are becoming outdated and they started calling bad decisions and by the time the country is really fvcqed up, it became hard for them to be removed from power. Putin is now on that stage, Xi will follow the same. Give a chance to younger innovative leaders to rule the country LOL.

[@abdilio9384]

@@TimeMakerDotPH it's okay. Muammar Gaddafi stayed in power for 42 years before "the perfect West" sold us propagandas and killed him like a dog. He left a track record in his leadership but his people are now suffering. It's the same with the Chinese. Their country is on the right track and they don't have to listen to documentaries and videos done by the West to learn anything. If it were possible, they would have invaded China too to "free the Chinese people"

[@billyu2936]

​@@TimeMakerDotPHso a 4 year term presidency could make a long-term beneficial decision for his own country instead of worrying about his election and trying to fullfill his promise made to the people who voted for him？this kind of democracy doesnt make any sense!

[@limlisa]

@@billyu2936 may 8-10 years but not forever

[@zhoda1128]

@@TimeMakerDotPH 习延长任期是非常明智的，三年前我不理解，但是看到如今世界的动荡，我就理解了，习至少也要等中国在这次世纪大变局告一段落时离任

[@am4deuss]

He's not only the most powerful leader in china but also doing it during the most powerful era of the history of china

[@sleepyearth]

Vox also glossed over the fact that Xi's family are as corrupted. They are billionaires and have properties all over the world.

[@willyang4487]

Interesting point.

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

Tbf ancient China was pretty nice too

[@Duncangiks]

He pushed china towards its most powerful era

[@TacticalMayo]

But now they have to clash with the US and you know what that means.

[@NAGANDRANALMURUGIAHKPM-Guru]

I'm reading the comments, more than watching the video. Very informative.

[@pavloceza956]

the chinese actually commenting here makes this informative instead of the video itself lol

[@endot1152]

This is prolly one of the most informative Channel I’ve ever came across

[@williamxu2402]

Until it talks about the topic that you’re familiar with.

[@shushunk00]

Manufacturing consent Learn about it

[@isakpetterssonmusic]

until t comes to the palestine-israel conflict and trump videos where they spew missinformation

[@thanhavictus]

​@@williamxu2402I'm familiar with most of their topics. Some points they miss and they do issue corrections but most are pretty spot on honestly.

[@thanhavictus]

​@@isakpetterssonmusicjust because they disagree with you doesn't mean that it's wrong.

[@JesseY18]

A small error at 9:58 : Zhu De was not purged at all; he remained his post as the Chairman of People's Congress until his death but he had been sidelined even before the foundation of PRC

[@jeremybiggs8413]

Also Deng Xiaoping came after Mao’s short serving successor Hua Guofeng left office in 1981.

[@Varangian82]

Maybe he mean Pang Dehuai, the commander-in-chief of the Korean War.

[@charon2987]

Zhu De was freezed to death, like a Russian guy falls out of window

[@songyang2750]

However his grandson became a criminal and be executed in 1980s😂

[@zzq-gg]

@@jeremybiggs8413他是政变上的！

[@kiranrajpurohit5781]

After everything you've produced so far, I wonder if you've got plans to create multi-hour documentaries? Thank you for your work! You people produces some of the best content on the internet.

[@Taylor-k9p]

I wish. I bet the economics of it are prohibitive though.

[@rongyaowang1075]

Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?

[@GL-iv4rw]

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@splashygaming6932]

What?​@@rongyaowang1075

[@igeorgoudi]

Xi , unlike his competitors, played it smartly. He left Beijing, won over the hearts of people, made friends in different parts of China and solved difficult situations. It was like he went on a lifelong campaign. He might be a genius .

[@zhoda1128]

他的对手也是一样的做法，想要登上高位，必须有基层治理经验

[@jeff_forsythe]

He executed all the no people, like Stalin. The evil CCP backs most of the terrorism in the world. Zhang Zemin introduced a genocide of the 100 million Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, using torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. They believe in a Creator and practice truthfulness-compassion-tolerance, things that the Satanic Zemin had no use for, they threatened his ultimate power. Xi is now continuing that genocide, hiding it from the world at the cost of billions. Pure evil.

[@dexterts63]

A very well made short video about a brief chinese history. I loved the economist podcast as well called The Prince. It is much more in depth but this video is pretty much covered all the key points.

[@端狐]

事实上他只是把西方的刻板印象做成了视频而已，当中拥有大量错误。自然灾害的发生与政策毫无干系，同时文革的发动原因也不仅仅只是为了巩固自己的权利。

[@eddiezhang2186]

@@端狐说的对

[@李培源-s7w]

@@端狐 我觉得你这才是胡扯，三年大饥荒当然是政策的直接后果，文革也主要是为了自己的权利

[@GGY-yh6li]

@@李培源-s7w 文革是路线问题，毛本来准备好有序接班的，但在政策的执行中日益发觉底下人的路线和自己不一样，于是通过政治斗争收回权力，并倚重一群政治投机分子搞“无限革命”试图彻底消灭所谓走资派。权力之争只是表象，落实自己的路线才是目的。路线还要结合当时国际环境，尤其中美苏的三边关系（当时很微妙），以及国内开局几年建设的情况看。单独从权力博弈角度看问题狭隘幼稚。毛虽然在世时搞得轰轰烈烈，但心里很清楚自己死后这些都会烟消云散，因为他对抗的不是具体的人，而是人心，人性中自私的一面。这一面注定会被唤醒，他只是凭借自己的能力暂时压制住而已，所有人都在等着他死。所以他晚年经常流泪，动不动就大哭，还给周恩来写诗，感叹忍将一辈子的事业付诸东流。他的理想国过于浪漫，没有实现的路径。把毛看成贪权恋权的人，井市小民之见

[@icarus_light]

China is day by day closer to be the first superpower in the world, while the west is wasting its time with Ukraine and Israel problems 😂

[@杨洋-g9r]

西方的历史太短了，以至于他们不知道什么叫隐忍，说实话，我现在十分的相信中国的军事实力已经远超美国了，但中国一直在隐忍，保持和平，虽然西方人根本不可能相信这一点，但我觉得这有可能就是事实，中国的实力只有在开战的那一刻，才会被外人知晓，连中国民众都不清楚。

[@haile308]

Don't underestimate the power of the people. When you stop providing for the people, revolution will take place. He will stay in power as long as the people want him there.

[@Expandacraftboats]

Subscribed.. I like the production quality as much as the content. Good job.

[@sanzhang-tx1zm]

不要相信他说的，非常夸张，虚假，偏见

[@flahyon]

@@sanzhang-tx1zm I would really like to hear your arguments, not as a joke or anything, but out of pure curiosity, what in the video has been exagerated for exemple, i would like to inform myself

[@sanzhang-tx1zm]

@@flahyon 毛主席对我们中国人来说，功劳大于缺点，他带领中国人走出压迫，把封建的陋习，地主阶级彻底消灭了，是我们伟大的民族英雄 你可以来中国看看 我们这里才是真正的最自由，最民主，最安全，最幸福的国家 真正的自由是你可以通过自己的努力完成自己的梦想，没有人限制你 真正的独裁是美国，美国已经被犹太人裹挟，他们倡导快乐教育，用奇葩的几百种畸形变态性别，大麻来麻醉底层人民，让他们变得好洗脑，好控制 因为美国大多数人都没有接受过良好的教育，他们没有思考能力，他们沉醉在楚门世界

[@cappieie]

@@flahyon they'll only believe what they saw on their censored history textbook, don't mind them

[@brettygood1]

Excellent piece, really well done to everyone involved in this!

[@TAIWANPARTOFCHINA]

150 countries in BRI and there is 195 countries in the world. This says a lot about Xi's leadership 🐉🇨🇳

[@ssmot113]

This video on Chinese govt is a lot better than the older one ..

[@maggsvamp]

Last month it was "Chine Collapsing", "China No More Money", "China's Economic Downfall, etc. Now he's rising...

[@dawuid1491]

Xi is rising, China is not.

[@TacticalMayo]

No that's not what it is.

[@alexmccauley503]

Great informative piece. Could have done with a bit more on the recent developments at the end, like Hu Jintao's soft purging (and his supporters). China's politics is really an underreported affair in the west, glad you covered some of it.

[@roym4457]

It's underreported EVERYWHERE especially in CHINA LOL...

[@BensonMTG]

A lot of China watching and China current events news is heavily paywalled. Too many of those sources have the market cornered and it’s sad they take advantage of it.

[@yank-blood-no-eat-get]

"Hu Jintao's soft purge"? Can you elaborate? Do you have some insider's information that I don't know?

[@Guangatron]

take everything with a grain of salt especially when hearing opinons that are not from the people in china.

[@MasterBayden-allday]

They are talking about the most recent video (a year ago) of hu jintao sitting next to Xi, then getting escorted out in front of everyone, I'm assuming for show.

[@hiyahiya5317]

I have great respect and admiration for the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳

[@mathewanthony1264]

Thank you all for the amazing work ❤

[@sohanarahaman8070]

This reminds me of the similar situation in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 and Italy 🇮🇹 too and geopolitically in the government.

[@graysonjd5624]

This video is a great exercise in recognizing how writing and phrasing affects the viewer’s understanding of content, and how that can be used for manipulation and disinformation. Media literacy is important.

[@underdog3864]

ominous music in the background

[@abbytrandel4284]

I agree with you. It's very important that Vox continue to do media literacy now and in the futre for the of our future generations.

[@graysonjd5624]

@@abbytrandel4284 Perhaps English is not your first language (I mean that genuinely), but that is not how “media literacy” would be used.

[@lelouchlamperouge-pi5kd]

Do you mean the historical documents showed in this video does not conform to its explanation or anything? Bro, why not just lay out any clear and substantive arguments and evidence without being sarcastic like this, as if there were some strict comment censorship here.

[@terri6854]

@graysonjd5624 Your comment is a great exercise in recognizing how passive aggressive people try to create an air of superiority by using intentionally vague or incomplete implications. Comprehensive communication is important.

[@fallvotez03]

Absolute banger🔥🔥🔥

[@normantan7796]

One think for sure, he is not corrupted. He had to get rid of corruption among the leaders. Other things can wait but not corruption.

[@leezhieng]

The china gov is surely more efficient now compare to era before Xi. His corruption purge helped a lot.

[@Loafbread2013]

He uses agent/proxy to get money. His family owns the whole Covid testing/vaccine industry and now EV.

[@mclwizlon]

Sure bud

[@kingsleyokike97]

Its the truth​@@mclwizlon

[@torresromain]

I love documentaries about China's history during the 20th century, that was one of my favorite subjects in high school. Does anyone have any documentaries to recommend that I could watch?

[@atomabg5498]

Watch Joris Ivens's How Yukong Moved the Mountains if you haven't yet

[@torresromain]

@@atomabg5498 I have never heard of it, no. Thank you, I'll give it a look!

[@andrespulido8]

Watch the movie the last emperor

[@skp8748]

Coogan has good one as does jabzy

[@skp8748]

Ryan Chapman as well

[@briankivuti]

Thank you so much for this well presented piece! I loved the infographics 🌟

[@GL-iv4rw]

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@linusleung979]

I would love to see the full interview with professor Shih

[@BlacksheepY-l8q]

the student standing in front of the tank is a friend of my teacher, he was moved out of the way by other people. Everyone assumes he died because surely the tank would run over him, and no one has ever seen the footage of the death of that man, or the footage of the 'massacre' of any students, you can find all kinds of footage from the time except the ones showing many dead bodies.

[@ChironWHC]

因为您的意识形态前辈它们在境外战略指导者鼓动下带领小年轻选择tiananmen政治鞭挞，等到了内地中央和军体大磨擦时期又下重药，闹到时间长了也不静坐了直接向军体发难对士兵动手，那就正中境外指导员下怀以牺牲稚幼学生群体对世界第一强军国家弄出军民分裂，最终结果学生首脑和境外hj指导员烂棋得以去到美国苟延余生😅

[@ChironWHC]

我不是红派蓝派更不是绿派，我只想说 更多当时的学生小领袖小组员知道被耍翻了大跟斗，而现在成为中南海战略小组指导员😂 再告訴妳件事，天龍人搞定了廣場協議後和全面征服歐巴後才有精力做兩件您現在知識認知的兩件事 1加把勁在內地搞個綠，最好列土 2準備台島綠派來好好砌個島鏈壁壘 信我 以前真沒有綠派😂我也不知道您的經歷是台綠陸綠還是鬥爭敗者後代還是欣欣唯我清醒者😂 信我 誰為你政治意識開腦的，爆出來 做污點證人還有很多50萬拿😂 別再更我說為民為對抗為安穩😂 70/80年代新生代敢反攻不多說😂 現在新生代罵得多狠就不敢打😂

[@zc-qf8ll]

污蔑并不需要真相

[@zc-qf8ll]

那些尸体中有你家里人吗？你那么在意。中国历史中的暴动海了去了，你指望我因为你所谓的“历史”感到愤慨，而后反gong反zhong吗？太天真了@@4gprogramz

[@likefoodbird2705]

@@4gprogramz 呵呵，你私信坦克压人的照片啊，私信天安门广场内死人的照片啊，放几张木樨地暴徒攻击解放军互有死伤的照片有毛用？装睡的人醒不了

[@iron4517]

15:48 you forgot to mention how much he improved the lives of the people living around these areas 20:55 you forgot to mention that unlike mao he got actual competent people to fill up these gaps you didnt mention the drastic improvements he did to chinas economy

[@yl7806]

cause that would be totally unacceptable. The point is to paint him dangerous and egotistical, not to present him as a successful leader.

[@iron4517]

@@yl7806 they’re narrating this story as if hes the one thats going to send china back into maos era, meanwhile in reality he was the one that brought chinas poverty rate from 12% during 2012 to straight up 0.6% by the year 2019 😒

[@yl7806]

You are talking about facts, which would probably be hard for their target audience to digest. They all have a narrative to follow. @@iron4517​

[@raymondqiu8202]

​@@iron4517could u explain how he improved the lives of the people living in the areas he governed if u know about it? And what drastic improvements did he to do china's economy?

[@iron4517]

@@raymondqiu8202 if you have read the previous comment I made then you would know. He introduced laws when he came into power during 2012 along with a campaign that decreased chinas poverty rates from 12% to 0.6% by 2019 though it is important to note that chinas poverty rates came back to 13% as a result of the pandemic and to be fair many countries including US also suffered economically as a result. In the video they mentioned and gave credit to zheng for improving chinas economy and building relations with overseas countries but during his time the poverty rate of china was 81% with people living on a $1.25 per day salary on average. He also decreased inflation rates of the country from 8% during 1980 to straight up 0.5% today compared to the US who has 6 times that number but the video still fails to mention that and paints him as a dictator. Oh and on the note of his accomplishments during his time in fujian he launched several campaigns including an environmental protection campaign with the slogan, 'Returning green mountains and rivers to our people' that moved many big graves built along a key road connecting Ningde to the outside world. This campaign pretty much angered many of the rich and powerful of the region but it was insanely popular with the local population as these graves disrupted how business is normally run around the region resulting in the harm of the local civilians income and contributing to the poverty of the region. This campaign made him an enemy to many public officials but made him a sensation amongst the locals as he was the one that brought an end to their economic struggles.

[@kenhuang3208]

the 3 provinces Xi governed are not countryside, they are most wealthy provinces in China. And Shanghai party sectary is much more powerful than Beijing party sectary who have big influence on southeast china. It's common mistake for many so-called china expert.

[@leezhieng]

I'm happy their experts are so clueless. Weak opponent.

[@mauriciogarcia4237]

Thank you for this video. I enjoy it a lot.

[@ZxZ239]

Very simplistic video and also typical. The good guys: The repressed Chinese people. The bad guy: Dictator Xi Reality is much more complex than this, but since this is VOX, so I won't waste my time explaining.

[@had940]

LOVE this video style. I hope you guys do more like this!!

[@braytechexoscience2790]

Mostly correct, though you did make a rather large error in saying Mao never gave up power in his lifetime - between the end of the Great Famine and the start of the Cultural Revolution, he was actually effectively politically exiled

[@braytechexoscience2790]

Sure, he maintained influence - but the point the video was trying to make was that he never lost the top job, which isn't true

[@zzq-gg]

不把中国说的那么坏，怎么让你们去仇恨呢😅

[@AaBb-j3k]

​@@zzq-gg咱们不是在说你的国家而是你们的政府呀

[@zzq-gg]

@@AaBb-j3k 我们的政府高官没上萝莉岛玩女童

[@zzq-gg]

@@nullnononullnononull 💲B 衮远点

[@coconutshrimp707]

The man went from living in a cave to ruling over a billion people. Regardless of your opinion, that achievement deserves respect.

[@Gavin-tb6ru]

One of Vox's bests!!! Bravo!

[@rongyaowang1075]

Be a human being! Don't be so shameless and villainous! Be less prejudiced! be oneself! What do you think you are? See if you are perfect? Take more care of yourself! This is the most important thing! People should have a correct mentality! One cannot be shameless! Thank you! You must be a human being! Life is alive! Why bother?

[@GL-iv4rw]

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Gavin-tb6ru]

This comment reads like it was generated by AI. @@rongyaowang1075

[@dongletron69]

Please keep informing us on foreign powers, this video was so fascinating. Much more interesting than the typical WWII stuff im used to studying. Very refreshing, keep up the good work!

[@anthonynjenga8329]

very detailed.very impressive.🇰🇪

[@lodiped]

Literally 90% of the facts here are presented in an extremely deceitful context. Lots of fabrications, this is a really bad. I feel powerless, there's so much people need to learn and so much this video completely disfigures from the truth. This seems like a think tank wrote it.

[@GL-iv4rw]

HELLO, I AM A SEXIST TRANSPHOBIC MYSOGINIST CHYNESE TANKIE, HOW DO I GET MY SOCIAL CREDITS ????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@osco4311]

Any particular examples people should know about?

[@leezhieng]

@@osco4311 First, Deng was rehabilitated by Mao himself long before his death, and not by the standing committee. Deng was brought down again in the same year before Mao's death, but the instruction was actually given by Mao's wife using his name, not by himself (he's already slowly dying on his bed and not conscious most of the time). And another error was the provinces Xi went can hardly be known as rural areas. Hebei was an industrialized province famous for its steel and building material industries. Zhejiang was the central of businesses for hundreds of years. Fujian was historically a major port city. And anyone who made a shanghai mayor was always confirmed his position in the standing committee. He was hand-picked by someone at the top to go to these places and someone was trying to groom him to power. Calling them rural provinces show how clueless and ignorant these so-called china experts are.

[@kasami2598]

@@leezhieng 是的，你是对的，这个视频充满了西方视角的无知与傲慢

[@MsPhipho91]

@@leezhieng do you know who handpicked him?

[@anmeiwang8122]

amazing video.👏🏼

[@keithlui07]

Outsiders don't seem to realise the level of loyalty of most Chinese people towards the party

[@maxgurman633]

Yeah, you can tell they’re really trying to use editing techniques and harsh narrative tools to make it seem like he is this evil dictator. Same thing the US always does… Let’s not kid ourselves that Vox is that far on the left, it’s still neoliberal

[@rmcf1947]

the party has done great things to the people of China!

[@fullmetalpanda4785]

⁠@@rmcf1947ok mr state security ministry.

[@frontline324]

忠诚于国家，而不是CCP

[@banjoowo4001]

Almost 95% of the chinese people(aside from hong kong) supports the ccp according to a Harvard research study

[@Cubs3344]

Vox should interview more experts rather depending on just one

[@ifithrewmyguitaroutt]

I know it's probably out of the scope of this video, but a little more time spent on Bo Xilai would have been fun. He was seen as Xi's main competition for Chairman back around 2012, and the corruption scandal he got put away for was pretty wild. He'd also gained a reputation as a kind of fixer of problematic cities (first Dalian and then Chongqing). The people of Chongqing loved Bo, and in those parts, people didn't really like the way he was prosecuted and saw it as purely political.

[@caseymccollum173]

Great point - also wish they had discussed Zhao Ziyang, Deng's Premier & General Secretary. Feel like glossing over China's economic growth and classifying it as the "Deng era" broadly is a bit historically lazy and glosses over some key insights that could help viewers interpret the course of Chinese history better and understand the Xi era more deeply. Kind of as with Bo Xilai, without introducing people to these figures I think they run into the mistake of presenting Chinese history as a straight path when it really isn't. Oh well. I recognize it's tough with 20min KZbin primers.

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

There was also an international murder case on Bo's lawyer wife. They were wealthy and had properties overseas, their son studied at Oxford. Then their English butler was poisoned to death. The whole thing was super shady. Set-up?

[@csrupbxpan2711]

Do you know Bo Xilai hit his father on the public in the Cuturle Revolution? It is a devaster for the people if Bo was elected as Chinese presiden .

[@pjacobsen1000]

It's a good point, but this is a relatively short video. They had to cut a lot of detail out, or they could have gone on for hours, not that that would be a bad thing.

[@sleepyearth]

Bo's son is the catalyst of his downfall.

[@christopherblack5361]

This is such a fantastic video. Well done and thank you.

[@kafenaded]

I learn so much! Thank you!

[@ChescoYT]

Great piece Vox!! Ty for educating us further

[@Neutralino]

Eating a lot of honey gave him the stamina necessary to take and hold onto power.

[@billedifier8584]

@Neutralino, That is so good!🤣

[@Olga-d4l9l]

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

[@Moodboard39]

Some culture are more boring than others ....

[@bigtoosh]

@@Moodboard39 and some of those same cultures have reached the top of the global stage while you feed their economic growth..

[@MyLilNicole]

14:29 I'm a little mad that the young Xi is actually a bit of a looker 😅

[@bilibilikakakbaba]

hahaha unfortunatly I agree

[@KDG702]

Top notch video, Vox crew. One of your best in a while. Thank you

[@wasnt.here.3853]

Most fantastic work of Vox I have seen in many months

[@ladylandr]

Vox did an amazing job on this video. If only the video were 3 hours long. 😊🤔😊

[@shawnliu11]

How those present western leaders born with golden spoon in their mouths can compete with XI, a guy experienced such hard life suffered hugely in his growth journey ?

[@oliversdouglas]

awesome video I did a module on modern China at university, and it's some of the most compelling, rich history I've ever been able to immerse myself in discovering - possibly the most interesting country to study for 20th century political history

[@levelazn]

china is THE country to study asian history

[@weidongsun1898]

If you had time to immerse yourself in two histories at the same time, then neither of which would be the most compelling.

[@一点点-f6z]

你去过中国吗？

[@jjbully]

In Chinese system, officials are moving around for different positions and those who do well according to the KPI, they get promoted. The whole Chinese system works like a company. It is not the strategy of Xi building up his power as the video claim. I suggest VOX first understand how the Chinese system work first.

[@giliguluedinburgh]

💯 Vox is making stuff up out of nothing. He even said tgat Xi stripped Hong Kong of democratic process!! He ain't got a clue how HK was governed when the British were in control!

[@rupigo]

Yes, but that's not the narrative they want to push.

[@giliguluedinburgh]

@rupigo exactly...Hong Kong has a more democratic process than when the UK Opium druglord's selected HK Governor that they helicoptered in straight from Westminster.

[@davidchristenes9062]

Wow, there is nothing like a company in the chinese system, calm down a little. If you ever worked in a big corporation you will know that there is no such thing as "promotion by merit", is based by who you are and who you know more than how much you are capable, and also, if you are rich to begin with, you already will be at the top of the company, if companies where like Chinese government, half of company holders would be holders, look at Elon Musk for example, the man cant have a single company which does not take revenue from the US State, remember Tesla is only rentable because carbon credit, and Elon Musk never did anything to be worth being holder of a eletric car company. The chinese system has nothing equal to a company.

[@catsNcode]

Maybe not American company but in China, society and business is highly meritocratic. It's been that way for hundreds of years. @@davidchristenes9062

[@Istredd109]

This was great although I’d love to learn more about his possible motivations and long-term plans.

[@breezyashell]

Right, this video makes it seem like Mao and Xi are just power accumulators, with little to say about what it is they want to do with that power

[@pickettfury]

One of the big reasons is uncertainty regarding the state of the USA leadership. Changing leaders now without any idea of which direction the USA will go in is very difficult.

[@levelazn]

long term plan is to build chinatowns everywhere so chinese people can eat well anywhere

[@zzzstl6371]

What is the long-term plan? It is very straightforward, as he always says, "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", yeah... "make China great again". If he could achieve it, he would get his reward: being recognized as a great leader in Chinese history, which is the dream of most rulers in China. There are two specific goals for him to claim success: the first is to grow the GDP to the No.1 in the world. The second is "bring Taiwan back". These two are the cores, but they are somewhat contradictory, it is impossible for him to get support in Taiwan and peacefully take Taiwan, but a war will make China's economy fall down significantly. China's growth is slowing down, and the economic crisis is rising, pushing Xi further away from his long-term plan. The bad news is Xi knows little about the economy, while he is hardworking to put his fingers here and there. The good news is that the recent diplomatic move shows he hasn't given up Deng's “take economic construction as the central task” and wants to resume a good relationship with the US and the developed world; this means taking Taiwan by force will unlikely happen recently. But we never know what will happen in the next 5 years. It is obvious to the Chinese that he wants to seize power for at least another 10 years. What will he do if he finds he cannot achieve his dream? At least taking Taiwan by force is much easier than economic growth.

[@rupigo]

Long term plans are generally published and followed to the letter. So you just have to research it.

[@swapnilsaurabh966]

Deng Xiaoping, the architect of modern China. Every Chinese should be indebted to his vision.

[@teflerchina.2987]

Other countries do/did not have term limits. Thatcher did 14 yrs. An Aussie P.M did far more , Canada does not have term limits.

[@半中国人兄弟]

the Philippines used to as well, but During Mao's era a Capitalist was trying to make a cult of himself and tried establishing dictatorship, only lasted 20 years where it fell.

[@feliciacote-floyd232]

This was very informative! Thanks for sharing! I've lived in China for almost 5 years and it's interesting to learn more about the history of the country.

[@MCee97]

Do you like China?

[@露透社]

居住五年你应该去中国历史博物馆和流行的历史书上去了解中国，而不是去看这种私人频道。何况了解一个国家不是这么短短几十分钟的事情，历史我看中国历史学家讲述美国历史我都要找很多信息对比才能得出客观的评价。私人频道，有时候为利益会夹带资助者要求的信息知识。因此，这就是很多人不喜欢传统媒体，开始蔓延到不喜欢这种简单讲述他国历史的频道。

[@habyi8423]

这两个人说了半天也是半桶水，读的肯定是西方人翻译的东西，你来了5年肯定会汉语，不如自己研究下中国近代史和中共党史

[@FranzFerdinand55]

why are you only learning after living there?

[@feliciacote-floyd232]

@@FranzFerdinand55why not? Is there a specific time to learn? I knew about him, generally speaking, but this video taught me more.

[@daniellassander]

You forgot one important factor that Deng did, he reinstated Private Property in china.

[@jennet6999]

There is never real private property in China.

[@stoicstone521]

No. There is no private property in china. It's collectively owned but you can lease the land.

[@thanhavictus]

It's a mixed system. Just like every other country. I mean you can actually argue that private property doesn't exist in the United States too as a result of eminent domain being a thing. The end result is all the same. The CCP government gets a share and has guidelines on usage, but it's virtually indistinguishable from say civil forfeiture in the west

[@Kenttheclark]

@@thanhavictuslot of 70 year leases on land

[@Trgn]

@@Kenttheclark It's a good tool to control crony capitalism getting out of hand with inefficient, misuse of lands and problems with speculation

[@JohnBarnett-u8j]

Crediable reporting ,❤ thanks John Barnett ❤❤❤

[@WaiLoon]

Awesome content. Thank you for making this 👍👍👍

[@Little-chilli]

偏执的傲慢与偏见只会伤自己，伤不了真相。至于中国，既非天堂亦非地狱，只是持续自我完善中的普通人间。不足的无需掩饰辩驳或否认（那一样改变不了真相），努力改善就是；非恶意的误解，正常解释一下足矣，无需对方非要接受不可；至于相当部分的智障偏执或恶意扭曲黑白颠倒，那连回怼都没必要∽他们并不想要也不在乎真相，他们只是需要永久的活在自我中心的优越感里∽对其相对优越感的一丝一毫的减弱都是在直接要他们的“命”…👊😋

[@kafka310]

正确的中肯的

[@musicwithimagine]

那真相是?

[@konstantinosmandalos7596]

Did you jump over the wall to post that?

[@dfdf-rj8jr]

@@konstantinosmandalos7596 You can never tell whether they're paid by CCP or real people.

[@jackeylee2924]

@@konstantinosmandalos7596 说得中国一年出国的人少似的，你查查中国每年通过正常途径出国的人数是多少，如果中国真如你们西方政府和媒体说的这么不堪，为什么会让这么多人出国四处旅游，并且这些人又没想过逃跑而是又回到了中国继续生活？如果中国真的这么差，你们害怕什么？

[@afterhourscinema782]

Bro was literally hiding his *POWER LEVEL* the entire time 🤣

[@kanestalin7246]

It's over 9000

[@amin8202]

I'm glad China is growing out of poverty and thriving. Although it's not a perfect example, but having a stable and economically sustainable country as big as China, is a blessing to the world

[@mochalotte4702]

China is no longer stable nor economically sustainable. The unemployment rate is sky high and there’s young homeless overeducated people all over the streets crying everyday because they can’t even make ends meet doing food delivery gigs. China hasn’t been economically successful since the U.S. put heavy tariffs on them for dominating the market unfairly and lying about implementing unethical business practices like plagiarism and faking reviews. It’s simply not feasible to practice a free market with a country that disrespects business practices in order to dominate the world with a money hungry goal at any cost (they produce the most pollution as well) ultimately requiring other countries to copy corrupt practices in order to compete and keep up. The reason why China got to the point it is today is because they received foreign investments who were looking to offshore their labor to save money. Now that many foreign companies have been pulling out, much of their revenue and their companies are gone. It is no longer super cheap or reliable to produce products in China so countries are vying for places like India and Mexico to take their place. Plus quality is not great in China to the point where it’s even hurting the Chinese people and their economy having low quality housing units and food made with literal poison like gutter oil. China will not be happy with this new global business trend and will strike out eventually. It’s too late now that China has amassed so much military power. To deny this is being naive.

[@laserharald3145]

This video was amazing. It was worth every second I spent on watching it. Thank you for your work!

[@kennpaqizaraki5707]

But as a Chinese, I'd like to tell you that this video interprets the politics and history of modern China in a completely wrong way, which will only make Western readers more misled.🤣🤣🤣

[@kwokholuk8723]

​@@kennpaqizaraki5707 well said

[@DanBolton-my9bx]

@@kennpaqizaraki5707 exactly, no chinese historians in the video, no actual chinese people gave their opinions on this, just a white american producer and opinions of asian americans that have no knowledge/experience of history of china

[@taylorverrall118]

One of the best Vox videos I’ve seen in ages. Brilliant return to form.

[@lwang9175]

Zhejiang province is not a "rural" area, it is one of the most economically vibrant area of China

[@yty1941]

to be fair, it is known for the "cancer villages" and lots of rural areas facing water and soil pollution tho

[@JikunCai-ln9yz]

@@yty1941 Whole China is evil in BBC.

[@Riza20462]

One comment lurk

[@Riza20462]

U got quiet

[@MusicArchon]

​@@yty1941that's like saying California is rural because zombies roam the streets of San franciso

[@Oogamed]

As a person who's exiled as well this video is very good and informative. Well done

[@bengalimapping]

How

[@Bariom_dome]

The line of emperors never extinguished. It just took another form.

[@thanhavictus]

Western feudal aristocracy is making a comeback too with widening wealth gaps.

[@cancanjaker1620]

But history has shown that China is crippled without her emperors.

[@Phoenix-d3y]

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.

[@ggzhhgao]

A lie can be more convincing if it contains elements of truth. This is what this video felt like.

[@Luxzue]

True,dude😆

[@Riza20462]

Xis boyfriend

[@Riza20462]

​@@Luxzue xis boyfriend

[@Gungadin-c1w]

@@Riza20462 more like xi's sugar boys

[@ryanthodyfirmansyah2791]

hate him or not. but hes actually made an impressive economical and military growth

[@intolerant_left]

What if your democracy is just two capitalist right wing parties? 😂

[@FreedumbSauceFriedFrogs]

Then it becomes Democrazy😅

[@kevinxu3892]

Basically every European country by 1848? The French finance minster told people who were too poor(98% of the population) to vote to “get rich”

[@rgohoo]

Usa

[@shawnv123]

united states be like

[@ramygamerxdz5621]

Spell it right DEMOCRACY