What If China Broke Up

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▶ In this video I talk about how China's regions are culturally different from each other. And how it isn't completely wrong to discuss the hypothetical situation of the country breaking up.
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[@General.Knowledge]

*Are there any other countries you think could break apart in the near future?*

[@davidedupm1321]

Britain idk why

[@buddhasshadow]

...Mabye Canada? Quebec really wants independence, and that may snowball into a independent British Colombia, mabye a united Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, a US annexation of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and an extremely weakened Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador would probably be annexed into Quebec. Honestly I don't know what would happen to Yukon, Northwestern Territories, and Nunavut.

[@tynoArcher]

Most likely candidates imo: 1- Spain (Catalonia , Basque, Galicia unites with Portugal?) 2- UK (N Ireland unites with Ireland, Scotland) 3- Somalia (Somaliland) 4- Belgium (Waloonia?) 5- Post-war Russia (if it loses) 6- Post-war Yemen (if it loses)

[@cartier2312]

Can't wait to see part 2

[@quizdiscovery]

Why not: UK Ethiopia Spain

[@staffan-]

About the time zones: Crossing the border between China and Afghanistan means a 3.5 hour time difference.

[@absorbingsulfuricacid9959]

24 likes and no comments?

[@staffan-]

@@absorbingsulfuricacid9959 No need for any comments, really. Personally, I am surprised this random fact got so many likes? I suppose many people in the comment section cross the Afghan-Chinese border in their daily commute.

[@auliamate]

@@staffan- yea getting to work is insane. unlike you kids who drive to work, we had to cross a warzone to get to the office, put in 15 hours of work, and then travel back across mine fields to get back home so you can go play roblox for 30 seconds. btw this is satire on the parent trend of saying "we had to walk 8000 kilometres to get to school"

[@absorbingsulfuricacid9959]

@@staffan- hmmm And also Apple Workers in Xinjiang Province were quite stressed with the China National Time so they made Urumqi/Xinjiang Timezone in their work schedule

[@Portuguese401]

All of China follows Beijing time so it could be night and 9AM

[@shdjkao6197]

As a Chinese I must say that Manchuria isn’t going to break anyway as Manchus population are too small compared to Han Chinese in northeast China, it would only break if Han Chinese region, or China proper itself collapse into smaller pieces. Anyway, nice video!

[@TylerSolvestri]

Doesn't Manchuria has a native language?, I heard it was going to disappear in a few decades.

[@sirduo2845]

@@TylerSolvestri It most likely will disappear because theres nearly no point in speaking it when nearly all of your neighbours speak mandarin

[@johncao6516]

@@TylerSolvestri Yes, but the Qing ruling class pushed sinicization on their own people for stability, and so now most Manchu people are indistinguishable from Han Chinese. Without sinicization it's unlikely that the Qing would rule for over 250 years, just look at the Mongolian Yuan dynasty as an example. Historically, there was another Northern ethnic group that sinicized so much that they disappeared from history: the Xianbei, who ruled northern China for a few centuries. The ruling class of Xianbei systematically abandoned their original family names and adopted Chinese family names. The ruling families of the subsequent unified dynasties (Sui and Tang) all trace part of their ancestry to the Xianbei people, but they are considered Han Chinese nonetheless.

[@Yuqiqiqi]

@@TylerSolvestri as a manchu, we do. Part of the tungustic language, there only 20 first language speakers left though mainly in heilongjiang. But many many more speak it as a second language. Since my family moved away. I can't speak fluently but most family's are still teaching simple phrases or at least mine are

[@boost1718]

YOU HAVE KZbin IN CHINA!?!??!

[@albevanhanoy]

Idea for a future video: A guide to Pacific islands nations. There are so many, including many overseas territories from other countries, and it can get quite confusing.

[@user-lt4pg7bn5v]

I am a Chinese, in fact, if China may split, it is Tibet that is most likely to become independent rather than Xinjiang, and if China is divided, it is most likely to be divided into the southern region, the northern region, the Tibet region, and the southern and northern regions will fall into endless wars, and Tibet will fight with the winners after the north and the south have divided the victors. The Chinese masses attach more importance to civilization than to race, so no matter what ethnic group, we pay more attention to whether this nation is part of our culture in history than to any race. This belongs to different ideas produced by different histories, because China has long belonged to a unified state, and since the Qin Dynasty, the ancient countries in this region have believed that only those who occupy all the land here can be considered legal, so we have a strong attachment to unification, and any country in this land also tacitly has the right to conquer the entire land. So we don't understand why, after the dissolution of ancient Rome, every country that was divided was legal, and in our eyes, only by retrieving all the land that was once ancient Rome can it be considered a legitimate state. I don't speak English well, and I'm sorry, and you're welcome to say what we think that you can't understand

[@blackman5867]

Bruh you said you don't speak English well but how come you just did it significantly better than me 💀

[@user-lt4pg7bn5v]

@@blackman5867 Real-time translation software| ू•ૅω•́)ᵎᵎᵎ

[@blackman5867]

@@user-lt4pg7bn5v u cheater 😡👎👎

[@ouyangon5711]

由于历史的差异，中华文明倾向于集体主义，而在欧洲则相反。

[@user-lt4pg7bn5v]

@@ouyangon5711 赞成，所以他们总是觉得我们集权。。。。

[@stevejohnson3357]

You talked about Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, a distinction dating back to the Qing dynasty. There was also inner and outer Tibet (you bet), Inner Tibet now part of 2 central provinces. In historical Tibet, there was no distinction at all.

[@robertgarcia7782]

If that’s a ‘The Who’ reference I love it!

[@wonderfulchina1344]

most in three but live in 5 provinces,till yunnan

[@taipeistp5660]

The propaganda of the western media is a lot of false news, just like this video, everyone in Tibet supports the CCP, Dalai Lama was the dictator at that time, Tibet was a slave society, slave owners would peel people's skin and make them into paintings. The Western media always promote human rights and the Dalai Lama, but not the Tibetan slaves at that time. Then use these dictators as pawns to divide China. Taiwan's government-in-exile is also a pawn of the United States.

[@Go4Broke247]

Don't forget inner and outer Manchuria.

[@durudcapacity7458]

@@robertgarcia7782 Time zone does not exist in uncivilized animal Kingdom China...Xi Jinping and all members of CCP central committee must face Nuremburg Style Justice and Execution for China's Uyghur Genocide, Tibetan Genocide, Manchurian Genocide, Yellow Uyghur Gansu Genocide, Kazakh Aksay Genocide and extermination of non-Chinese ethnic groups in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Vast Uyghuristan (Eastern Turkestan), Tibet, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang region,Yunnan and non-Chinese territories. Communist Soviet Russia created CCP in 1921. CCP created China on 1 October 1949. There was no "China" in entire world history. Since then war criminal China's army unlawfully invaded into Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region and other territories. Since ancient times Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turk elites on the plains of Yellow River. Since 1954, Mandarin language is the official language of New born China. Mandarin is not Fictional Chinese language. In fact in real world there is no such thing "Chinese ethnic group, Chinese DNA, Chinese language, Chinese culture, Chinese medicine, Chinese civilization ...". Since 1954, China have Created Fictional "Chinese civilization" and Fictional "Han-Chinese" by unlawfully mix up the cultures of many totally different nations on the plains of Yellow River, YANGTZE RIVER, shores of Pacific ocean, East Asia, etc. Han-Chinese are CCP. Han-Chinese eats everything moving around, zero hygiene, zero civilization, zero morality. They are Masters of deception, cheat, lie, spy, steal, hack, copy, troll, murder, deny. All Han-Chinese are illegal invaders, war criminals, terrorists, thieves in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Vast Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and all non Chinese territories. In fact Han-Chinese do not belong to Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Karasu (aka Gansu), Koknoor (aka Qinghai), Kazakh Aksay. All terrorists are 100 Percent Han-Chinese in China unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and non Chinese territories. In fact The world's biggest single issue in 2022 is China's Uyghur Genocide in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. We have worked as Foreign Experts for China's government for over 20 years. We are masters of Mandarin language. We are experts of China. We travelled all over China. We travelled all over war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Ten Countries: UYGHURISTAN (Eastern Turkestan), Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Karasu (aka Gansu after 1952), Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor (aka Qinghai after 1952), Ningxia Hui Republic, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Cantonia. China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur-Turk Nation. Because East Turkestan is very rich in all kinds of natural resources, naturally very diverse and vast. Chinese wanted to totally exterminate Uyghur Nation and Chinese wanted to take over Eastern Turkestan from Uyghur Nation. Uyghurs DO NOT LIVE IN CHINA in East Asia. Uyghurs live in own Natural Territory Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation is not "Xinjiang" of China. Uyghur Nation is not "Ethnic minority of China ". Uyghur Nation is not "Chinese Muslims ". Uyghur Nation has nothing to do with Han-Chinese and China. China is a country in far East of Asia. East Turkestan is a country in Central Asia. The world's second biggest Gobi Desert has totally isolated Eastern Turkestan in Far West and China in Far East of Asia. East Turkestan has nothing to do with Han-Chinese. Size of Eastern Turkestan is bigger than the combination of Europe's biggest Four Countries - Germany, France, Britain and Italy. East Turkestan is the world's biggest producer of rare earth materials, uranium, jade, gold, silver, cotton, tomatoes, garlic, silk, cashmere, green, raisins, Grapes, wool, leather, meat, marble, etc. East Turkestan is one of the world's biggest producer of coal, salt, petrol, natural gas, mika, and many others. Uyghur Nation was the Riches Nation in the world before China's illegal invasion into Eastern Turkestan on 20 October 1949. China has been robbing Trillions of US dollars of energy, food, raw materials, uranium, rare earth materials, Jade, gold, fresh bottled water, fresh bottled air, Uyghur Organs, Uyghur blood, Uyghur flesh, and many goods from Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Poor China, over 1.4 Billion hungry Chinese and millions of junk factories in China cannot survive without Robbing TRILLIONS of US dollars of natural resources from natural resources extremely rich, naturally very diverse and vast Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Since late 2016 China unlawfully cut off all telephone connections, Internet connections, postal services and travel for all Uyghurs in between Eastern Turkestan and rest of the world. China has kicked out all foreigners from East Turkestan of Uyghur-Turk Nation and China DO NOT ISSUE VISA FOR FOREIGNERS TO TRAVEL TO EASTERN TURKESTAN. China do not let foreigners with China's Visa to travel to East Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents under strict surveillance. Only China paid foreign criminals with Han-Chinese State security agents together go to Eastern Turkestan to make propaganda videos for Chinese government to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide. Even China paid foreign criminals cannot travel to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents under strict surveillance. All pictures and videos are strictly controlled by Chinese government. All "HAPPY UYGHUR VIDEOS " on KZbin are "Made in China" by China' state security agents with China paid foreign criminals. China do not let Uyghurs from Eastern Turkestan freely travel to China. China do not let Uyghurs from Eastern Turkestan to travel to any other countries. China do not let Uyghurs from other countries to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with their parents and family China do not let Uyghurs escape from East Turkestan to other countries. Many Uyghurs are shot dead on the way escape from East Turkestan to other countries. Uyghurs cannot be refugees in neighbouring Pakistan. China do not let foreigner to talk to Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state security agents in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Strict SURVELANCE and strict Family planning are only applied to Uyghur Nation in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Chinese illegal invaders have no family planning in Eastern Turkestan. War criminal China has been unlawfully transferring millions of own Han-Chinese from extremely poor Chinese villages in China to Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and all non Chinese territories to destroy local people. War Criminal Chinese government and China paid foreign criminals are producing disinformation campaign Worldwide to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide, China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting, China's Uyghur Concentration mass murder camps, China's crime against humanity, China's war crime, China's erase Uyghur Nation in Chinese army unlawfully occupied East Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Many over 80 years old Uyghurs are locked up in "China's Uyghur Re-education mass murder camps" in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Many Uyghur children are locked up in " China's Uyghur Concentration Re-education camps " in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. China did not lock up Han-Chinese Terrorists in "China's Re-education camps " in Eastern Turkestan. Since 1964, War criminal China Tested 46 Nuclear Bombs on Defenceless Uyghur Civilians in Chinese army unlawfully occupied East Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. China's Uyghur Forced Sterilisation, Forced Abortion and Organ Harvesting industry are booming. China do not let Uyghurs access Internet, smart phone, international phone call and postal services. CHINA UNLAWFULLY CUT OFF ALL TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS, INTERNET CONNECTIONS, POSTAL SERVICES AND TRAVEL FOR ALL UYGHURS IN BETWEEN UYGHUR EAST TURKESTAN AND REST OF THE WORLD. From 2015, China do not issue Tourist Visa for foreigners to travel to Eastern Turkestan. China has exterminated all Uyghurs who has spoken with foreign tourists in Eastern Turkestan in the past. China do not let Uyghurs to talk to Foreigners without Han-Chinese state security agents in Eastern Turkestan. China do net let Journalists from democratic Countries to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents. China do not let UN officials to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents. China's disinformation campaign Worldwide to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide are going on in all countries. China has bribed all top leaders of all Muslim countries including PALESTINE, OIC, ISIS, Al qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban. Except Turkey, Albania and Bosnia, All Muslim countries including PALESTINE have officially supported China's Uyghur Genocide at the UN HRC assembly in every session. Independence and Self Governing for Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong ...vvv..

[@GarrettMerkin]

Been watching your channel since the start and you've got a good niche here, dude. Thanks for the videos. Well thought out, animated, etc...

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks for watching!

[@TPG128]

YOO THIS WAS LITERALLY THE VIDEO I WAS LOOKING FOR A MONTH AGO

[@dolcethesmorse1890]

I think the breakup of any big nation (China, US, Russia) would be incredibly interesting if it were to happen

[@sdhubbard]

What would be interesting is if two of those broke up, leaving the third alone as the only super power. Russia's in shaky ground, and who knows what will happen with China.

[@angrygopnik2317]

@@sdhubbard USA is more likely to break up earlier tbh

[@VoidSpace9]

@@angrygopnik2317 yeah with a civil war incoming

[@kevinweltje4604]

@@angrygopnik2317 this talk of secession is overbloated and overhyped stop believing in all that crap

[@parkjoonkwang9259]

@@kevinweltje4604 CPI 9% , Negative GDP growth ，Millions of people have been tortured and killed by the pandemic，millions of homeless, A serious drug epidemic, Systemic and deep-rooted racism，People hate each other, the endless shootings, the largest prison population in the world .Serious social tearing,The intensifying political struggle between the two parties. Ray Dalio predicts there's a 30% chance the US will break out into civil war in the next 10 years. Lol. Obviously，the internal problems of the United States are more serious than China~

[@kaplanbahadir2301]

China is encouraging han Chinese to move to these regions to ensure they indeed have a han majority everywhere. So a territorial split is unlikely. At best it will be more like Ireland and Northern Ireland, than full on soviet collapse. So at the end China wouldn't lose that much territory. And lastly, China has most of their military stationed in these regions... Guess why.

[@GlaciaDay]

I'm pretty sure its the other way around. Chinese or Han people are leaving these remote regions and moving to coastal metropolitan areas. At the same time, Chinese government has rather strict laws to prevent lets say Tibetan or Uyghur population leaving their land.

[@kevinfeng1113]

Just what the US did, they encouraged whites to populate Texas, California, south east, Oregon, etc

[@j.w.b5048]

@@GlaciaDay No, the government encourages Han Chinese people to move to those regions indeed.

[@dantefreeman7849]

@@GlaciaDay I would say it’s both. Preventing mongols from moving so China can act like they have the real Mongolia, and flooding Turkistan switch hans to wash out the Islam identity

[@jonseilim4321]

Source: Trust me bro

[@sahiblindberg]

I just now understood the joke in this channel's name. It's not like general knowledge but a general whose name is Knowledge, but then again the name can mean both. How smart haha Ps. Great video as always. Chinese history is so amazing, it's so wild to think that their civilisation still stands and thrives. It's basically the same as if the Sumerians still habited modern day Mesopotamia.

[@daxplumfox]

U just made my day

[@auliamate]

i did not pick up on that until you just said now lol!

[@thecolorblue9609]

didnt think of that lol

[@shriekingbushpigshrieking]

His wife is Miss Information

[@mysteriousDSF]

Wait a minute what? My life has been a lie up until nowww

[@sjofus2073]

I would love to see a part two of this vide!

[@PatSmashYT]

If a country wants to keep a culturally different part of their country from breaking away, they should give that part a reason to stay not a reason to leave

[@mxn1948]

why not both. carrot and stick works best not individually.

[@TK-my7jg]

The reason is simple. China is richer than any of its neighbors. I mean per capita The Vietnam guys born in China are 3 times richer than the Vietnam guys born in Vetname . One single Inner Mongolian city in China is richer than the whole Mongolian country. Even the Xinjiang Uygur people, who have been repeatedly rumored by Western medias, have higher per capita income than their cousins in Türkiye

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

Now why didn't Abe Lincoln think of that?!

[@tritium1998]

When it comes to this country, the separatists (including their cheerleaders) only look at the people and reasons they want.

[@TheRezro]

@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 He in fact did. For Union slavery didn't become a factor until late of war.

[@RyoKasai25]

"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been."

[@me0101001000]

China is whole again.... then it broke again.

[@Sanguicat]

Based 3 kingdoms quote

[@SordMasta]

"China has many cultures and ethnicities". CCP: "don't worry, we're working on that".

[@jonseilim4321]

Uyghurs: Lemme just take over Bilibili...

[@kevin-jg1pt]

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[@Nickel_Eye]

@@kevin-jg1pt +100 social credit score

[@kunwu5276]

@@Nickel_Eye 恭喜你获得了100政治正确积分

[@Lucas-vr1qr]

You know Chinese government actually appreciates different cultures in China

[@gracealive5191]

Good video and clear points.

[@johann0714]

A great watch! Def wanna see an episode about South East China, cuz as a Han myself I think us Cantonese has been also very very different from for example Shanghainese.

[@king-jl2nh]

If you pretend to be Han Chinese, you will go to hell.

[@quizdiscovery]

Great video. I learn a lot on Chinese culture and the different ethnicity

[@davea6314]

Have you heard the expression, "A bull in a china shop"? Well, this video explains the aftermath of broken China.

[@Aelloque]

Very informing video ))

[@barbarossarotbart]

This video needs a sequel!

[@squared4440]

Love the videos !

[@xanderreyno]

Props to all the cool Chinese people in the comments just taking this like it's meant, a theoretical "what if" not an attack on china. I've seen 3639263 different videos on what if my country broke up, and you start to just enjoy the entertaining theorising after a while before you just go back to real life and enjoy your day.

[@gamermapper]

It's absolutely possible that this could happen, there's a lit of countries which broke up, but it's also pretty possible that it doesn't break up

[@xanderreyno]

@@gamermapper in the same way it's absolutely possible for the USA, Russia or Germany, Iran or Indonesia to break up sure. It's also absolutely possible that is doesn't happen. This was my original point, it's just a cool theorising what if video.

[@unconscious1076]

Which country ur from?

[@alicedog368]

And thank you for not commenting some sinophobic crap and realizing that we’re all just here for a fun theoretical scenario :)

[@beautanner8409]

@@xanderreyno Even if it weren't a theoretical, "what if" video - it still wouldn't be an attack on China. It may be unsettling to certain views on what China should be, but that doesn't constitute an "attack" on China.

[@gabvib9389]

I like just how Inner Mongolia is literally barren of Mahjong, it only just have small areas instead of large areas of Mahjong in it

[@TomKellyXY]

Historically, China is best thought of not as a nation state but as a civilisation, with many regional and political factions attempting to control all of it.

[@daniel7385]

Exactly right. It's more than just a country

[@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv]

Yes there are mainly two countries for civilisation in broader sence India and china.

[@AdventureAttitude]

So interesting man, I was actually thinking about this last week, So many nations in ¨one¨ sovereign state. Excited to see what the video is about.

[@haiironezumi]

The bit missing from your opening is that it isn't simply a case of the PRC staking a claim over Taiwan - both the PRC (mainland China) and the ROC (Republic of China, aka Taiwan) officially maintain a claim of One China, with both claiming De Jure sovereignty over both mainland China and the island of Taiwan - at least officially under the ROC constitution.

[@nayuta6468]

The civil war hasn't stopped yet

[@leehaseley2164]

Yes, please! Follow up video!

[@goojxue1971]

I born in neighboring province of inner mongolia. Inner mongolia is a man-made province consists of several different areas. Many of my ancestors immigranted to socalled inner mongolia over 300 even thousand years ago. Actaully central inner mongolia was part of our province in the history. Central monglia share the same language and culture with us. It's hard for a possibility of spontaneous independence. The real area possible for a indepence will be southern xinjiang where han chinese is not the majority and the locals have a very distinct life style and religion.

[@LyuChen94]

山西老乡?

[@halaga-kb8ez]

But Mongolian is very different from Han chinese

[@ErikHare]

China did break up with the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. I have two maps I look at, one the Three Kingdoms of 400 CE that shows broad cultural lines today. The other is the PLA Theaters of Command, presuming things go as they did in 1912.

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

yeah, a throw back to the warlords era in the republican period

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

also, there is historical precedent for small nations breaking away from china that is the only reason why vietnam is a country today

[@michaeldelisieux]

China, Russia and the late Yugoslavia and the Austro- Hungarian and Ottoman Empires have more in common than we can imagine. The question is : why some multi-ethnic multi -national entities break up and some don't? Why some have longer life than the other(s)? ( The Hanseatic League and the Poland - Lithuanian " Commonwealth also come to mind. There are others, though!) And to finalize this line of thought : why they all disintegrate at the end? ( Big Empires included).

[@frankyuanzx]

No, except outer mongolia with help from Russia, even Mogolia's case did not settle dust before the end of WWII when Soviet became a big winner. In Tibet, there were represents from central government handle foreign affairs, though the 13th Dalai Lama evicted these officials from Beijing or Nanjing for several times, they never get full indenpendce. Tibet was a vassal state since Yuan dynasty to help them hold togather from internal conflict. Tibet experienced religious wars for almost two hundred years, and they need support from China to stablized their position against adversary in Tibet, in exchange they agree to be a vassal state (藩属) of China.

[@tappyguy_5084]

if cultural and ethnic differences are a reason for the break up of a nation, then India, having an amazing amount of religious and cultural variation in each region of the country would be prone to a break up too. And granted, thats exactly what happened with Pakistan and Bangladesh, but even after the two regions full of muslims was separated from India proper, India today still has a sizeable muslim majority, which could split the country even further by this logic. this is not even taking into account of the various sects of Hinduism, the Sikh population, the Jain population, the Buddhist Population, and the ways of life different regions lead (rajputs, people from punjab, people from bengal, and people from the south and centre of India all lead very different lives, and the major uniting factor is simply religion. however, when a religion is as seperated into different sects as Hinduism is, the result is similar to that off which has occured to the middle east.)

[@user-ow2rd9wc9s]

but china bad

[@huaiwei]

I don't think even Indians themselves assume India will remind united forever.

[@syhuhjk]

@@huaiwei as an Indian, I can say India is more political stable than china at this moment. 1990sto 2014 was actually unstable era. No doubt muzlms make prblm everywhere because it's in their book. If India was meant to be disintegration it might happen before. Of course everything has expiry date. I think the old India will die and a new will born. I mean from secular liberal to highly religious like Iran but India as a political system will run more years than china.

[@syhuhjk]

Your views were wrong.religion was never actual or primary factor in indian politics at least until 2014. But not anymore.

[@kirubhakaran7043]

@@huaiwei From the realistic perspective, India could be prone to break-up as well as Pakistan..

[@yuanjv]

not enough researchs, but i appreciate the effort

[@jasonli7547]

Interesting and informative. Can you also make a video on "what if Russia would break up? " AND "What if USA would break up?" ? Thank you.

[@hackman669]

If Ryssia breaks up into small nations, China might add territory to its possession. While western Russia might join Europe for protection. Not likely

[@milanpavlovic2456]

You can't just use autonomous provinces as newly independent countries. There are also autonomous prefectures in other provinces. Knowing that Tibet would also encompass almost all of Qinghai province and a large part of Sichuan province.

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

Counties rarely become Countries. However Autonomous Territories are Nation-Built inherently set to be Countries that are sovereign

[@ryunosukeakutagawa5280]

Fact is that even the Han Chinese can be further categorized into more detailed groups of nations

[@justinarzola4584]

Han is more of a national identity than an ethnic one.

[@paulxu9653]

Correct.

[@elnorton7113]

Like your family also can be divided into different families too

[@ryunosukeakutagawa5280]

@@justinarzola4584 Chinazism/Hanazism that is

[@taotao98103]

99% of the products made in China came from the Guangdong Province. They are the most wealthy province of China. They want to be independent too .

[@MeFcb]

I was literally googling about it recently! Your video was the most instructive thing among everything I read.

[@Mao11622]

"China might one day break up." is about as vague a statement as can be.

[@mastrey]

honestly china have 4 fases of unity first a long stable fase second a small scale collapse in a couple of divisions third a totalitary unity (where they grow) forth a big scale collapse in what fase they are ?

[@Mao11622]

@@mastrey do you mean phase?

[@vincent412l7]

My aunt lives in LA and plays mahjong every week. These are all elderly women, who fled the communists to Taiwan and moved to the US. When they get together, these women (all Chinese) communicate in English. Because of the different dialects, they could not understand each other in Chinese.

[@ALAN-bf2qd]

Chinese dialects are not so different. The dialect speakers can basically do basic communication.

[@jazzlover10000]

@@ALAN-bf2qd Different enough that in a group, English is the distraction of least common denominator!

[@CoconutPanels]

But the question is do they play the same variety of Mahjong?

[@vincent412l7]

@@CoconutPanels since they are playing together, I hope so? (Imagine them playing together but each with different rules. That has to be interesting.) :)

[@poom323]

@@jazzlover10000 maybe he mean between each sounthern dialects. They're all different but partially understandable.

[@NG-cx1mm]

thank you for the information. It would be good for anybody to feel free to express their culture and believes. Being surprises does no one good. So if seperatipn would mean more happines, it would be better for everybody involved.

[@matthiasdvorsakhillebrand2393]

I would like to see how these new breakaway countries would fare and how they would be like

[@ady_plaz5483]

"what if china broke up ?" india and tiwan: *happy noises* bhutan: what is china ?

[@chiguashinian9143]

印度解体的可能性更大

[@edomin1148]

I like your idea of respecting the self determination of the people. I wonder what your take is on Negorno karabakh conflict and the self determination of Artsakh Armenians?

[@NON155]

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[@damirfuchs7442]

Hi General, I'm from the Balkans (an ex-Yougoslavian state), it is hilarious to hear the word balkanization. Did you made up that word? Anyway it's funny. 8:44

[@jeffrey2326]

It’s a actual word

[@eugeneng2721]

I see that quite a lot of work has gone into this video but unfortunately it has not touched upon the more realistic scenarios for a breakup of China. The scenario in which China can possibly breakup would be one in which the Han majority becomes divided against itself for various reasons. E.g. politics, regional pride, finances, culture. Having border regions breakaway would merely be an inadvertent consequence of the situation.

[@mxn1948]

no chance. in china's entire multi thousands year old history, it has never broke apart because of some "Han majority becomes divided against itself for various reasons". literally has never happened. it was always a collapse of governance or external invasion. that's literally it.

[@eugeneng2721]

@@mxn1948 yes, collapse of governance would be one such reason.

[@mxn1948]

@@eugeneng2721 indeed and I would say, short of some apocalyptic natural disaster(ie a comet hits the earth and darkens the sky for 100 years). Failure of governance is the only possible way china fractures, since it's mainland is essentially safe from external invasion, what with the biggest modern army and nukes.

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@mxn1948 If you know anything about china's history this is hilariously wrong.

[@mxn1948]

@@AL-lh2ht okay, then name a single instance where a united chinese dynasty collapses where the reason is not directly internal governance failures usually coupled with natural disasters, or external invasion. we can start with the qin, -extremely harsh laws -internal scheme that saw a extremely weak emperor put on the threat by a corrupt eunuch. Han, emperor ling was a terrible emperor that only cared for women and wine, and for some reason was really greedy for money(despite being emporer) leaving power to eunuchs, leading directly to the han's collapse jin, internal war cause by the empress whose son, the emperor who had a learning disability. sui, terrible second emperor who wasted a million+ lives on failed military campaigns and massive internal works followed by him fleeing then parting the rest of his days away while his empire fell. tang, internal rebellion by a general lead to weakening of imperial power to regional warlords who then usurped power and descended to civil war song, losing wars to liao, jin, then finally mongols, external threat was coupled with a government system that favored an extremely weak military giving its general basically no independence of action yuan, power instability with many quick successions of emperors, the later ones going on massive spending sprees on bribes, parties and women, using a years worth of taxes in like a month in addition to the then climate change causing crop failures and floods every single year that the corrupt and incompetent emperors could not deal with leading to massive peasant rebellions Ming, 4th to last emperor didnt go to court for the last 20 years of his rule, 3rd to last emperor was only on the throne for like a year, second to last emporer didn't go to court for his entire 10 year rule. by th etime the last emperor ascended the empire was already falling all around qing, the westerners showed up and got the empire addicted to drugs at the point of a gun, and do many other things at the point of a gun. so tell me, which one of these was not external invasion or governance failures? literally none was because of some irreconcilable differences between han groups internally that caused civil wars it was almost the entire nation conquered by external forces, or the citizens pushed to extreme and the peasantry across the nation rose up.

[@mariannelindsell6042]

Perhaps something like a clever use of the federalisation concept could allow everyone to win. Beijing could retain overall control at the federal level, but allow say Xinjiang, Tibet and Mongolia to each have an additional local government to which some authority would be delegated, allowing regions that cause friction with Beijing to retain their distinctive characteristics. Trying to force large numbers of peoples in distant places to all conform to a prescribed culture is likely to result in wars eventually. You can force soneone to behave in a certain way for a time, but you can't change what they think deep inside, even with psychological conditioning (which is truly horrific). Neither can you change the commonality they have with others of like mind. Federalisation would all but eliminate unrest, without losing the territory. It could conceivably even form the basis of a treaty with Taiwan, establishing a connection with Beijing. No-one in the entire human race can really be forced to conform completely to something that is too far removed from their own culture. But that doesn't hinder alliances and federations. But that's all just speculation, as I am a Brit. I'm quite fond of the Chinese peoples and their original cultures though, and I would like to see more harmony and prosperity there; just without the coercion, force or brutality, as these don't serve the interests of any of the peoples.

[@kevinfeng1113]

When you talk without knowing, the constitution states that the autonomous provinces Inner mongolia, XinJiang, Tibet needs those natives minorities to be in the local goverment, same as autonomous prefecture which can have koreans, yi, etc.

[@auliamate]

That would require the current government or a future government make up to actually want to preserve the unqiueness of different parts of the vast nation. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case, even though it would HEAVILY benefit the country in the long term, likely the short term too.

[@ibrahimozgursucu3378]

I would be for the complete independent self-governance of all ethnic/cultural groups across the world if it weren't for adversaries. Some of the things done in the name of centralization are horrendous indeed, as they have been in many societies. People in China need to co-operate so that there is a strong alternative to US supremacy; so that as western culture corrupts we don't enter a new dark age, but the era of some other society's enlightenment carries humanity forward. I did however wish, it would be possible to maintain a strongly cooperating and thriving China that is federal or even unionised; unfortunately everyone would sell the others out to western powers to gain an edge over their neighbours, making Asia a second Africa. Even the EU can be weakened through division at times; but one can dream, maybe some day it could be possible before all other cultures in China are destroyed. To the Uyghurs I pledge my support for visa's to Türkiye may they wish to flee.

[@quickcube2834]

The Problem with federalisation is that the central government can take the power back, while seperate countrys are much safer to hold up there power. A better Solution is an economic union with Independent countrys

[@abuhammad]

The Chinese mentality is that the winner takes all, that has been the case for more than 2000 since the first Chinese Emperor. That's how China is run, centralized and totally controlled by the emperor or everybody is killing to found a new dynasty of his own when the old power is weakened . Federalization is a tradition long lost in China after Autumn and Spring Era around 500 BC. This is not going to happen all of a sudden.

[@hairyhobbit3391]

Common General Knowledge W 😎

[@DudaAS100]

Every and any country has its own culture variety. But the bigger the country is, more and more distinct it’s peoples are. But I truly believe countries will not fell apart. Perhaps turning in Confederations/Federations. Some countries could become too small and struggle financially.

[@etahhcumosevahi]

Should make a similar video for New York City. Because the same characteristics you’re basing your reasoning on also apply here in NYC.

[@stuartroberson9646]

Nice try!

[@dambrikk]

Next one "What if Russia broke up" pls

[@giancarlo10501]

Yes 🙌

[@ForageGardener]

It won't Russia's been unified longer than Britain

[@gamermapper]

What if USA broke up

[@gamermapper]

@@ForageGardener the current Russia borders exists only since the 90s lol so wrong

[@TheGrace020]

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[@paulheydarian1281]

Okay, next do a similar video for the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

[@dragonlung6304]

There 3 facts we need to know: 1. The population of Tibet is around 3.5 millions. It is the poorest region of China, and receives hundreds of million dollars from the central government. 2. The population of Inner Mongolia is 24 millions, in which Han population accounts for 85% and ethnic Mongolian is only 3 million (12.5% only!). 3. Both Han and Uyghur people account for about 40% of Xinjiang population. Ethnic minorities (~20% of total) other than Uyghur probably do not support the independence, because they are still minorities if a nation of Uyghur is established.

[@trinityisntreal]

Lol kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Tajiks and other Muslim nations would be glad to become independent with Uyghurs which also the muslims who suffer from China, at least they'll breathe a free air, not the air of concentration camps and prisons.

[@trinityisntreal]

I have my relatives who is immigrants from China. The independent journalistic analysis said that over 1,000,000 ethnic Muslim are in concentration camps or prisons.

[@dragonlung6304]

@@trinityisntreal 1,000,000 is equivalent to the population size of Cologne, Germany. How do Chinese government hide 1 million people?

[@trinityisntreal]

@@dragonlung6304 I have the same question. How China could hide 1,000,000 people? Country have to have ability and resources to that, which China successfully have. Hiding the 1,000,000 people in 40,000,000 region is hard. But USSR hide 5,000,000 people in 160,000,000 country.

[@dragonlung6304]

@@trinityisntreal If one million ethnic Muslim are in concentration camps, why Saudi Arabia (the richest Muslim country), Indonesia (the most populous Muslim country), Pakistan, Turkey,.... still maintain good relationship with China?

[@DSpace1]

Inner Mongolia is majority Han Chinese at this point and Manchus are a minority in Manchuria at this point

[@jayden8759]

Yes, you should make a video on how each state or break off country would do by themselves

[@hackman669]

Very poor consider how much money feds spend on wealth fare and infrastructure.

[@blee04524]

you're right Indians in the US catalan in Spain kashmir in India and many more should have their own country 🥰

[@stoneruler]

Can you do a video on the possible Myanmar breakup!?

[@triniboy775]

I like this hypothetical question and although it is indeed possible that China could break up (because anything is possible) I think it is highly unlikely as the conditions that made this possible in the past are much less significant if not non existent today. Over the years the Chinese government (CCP) did a very good job in creating a sense of national identity in the minds of the different ethnic groups as well as the different Han subsets by creating things like a common language and building out connective infrastructure that made it possible for people from different parts of China to interact more easily. Today hundreds of millions of Chinese people live in parts of the country that they did not historically live and all of these things have greatly diminished the strong sense of regionalism that contributed to previous breakups. Tibet and maybe Xinjiang could try to break away if China ever descended into chaos but they would most likely be reconquered again when stability returns to the country as it always does.

[@durudcapacity7458]

Are u OK?.....Xi Jinping and all members of CCP central committee must face Nuremburg Style Justice and Execution for China's Uyghur Genocide, Tibetan Genocide, Manchurian Genocide, Yellow Uyghur Gansu Genocide, Kazakh Aksay Genocide and extermination of non-Chinese ethnic groups in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Vast Uyghuristan (Eastern Turkestan), Tibet, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang region,Yunnan and non-Chinese territories. Communist Soviet Russia created CCP in 1921. CCP created China on 1 October 1949. There was no "China" in entire world history. Since then war criminal China's army unlawfully invaded into Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region and other territories. Since ancient times Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turk elites on the plains of Yellow River. Since 1954, Mandarin language is the official language of New born China. Mandarin is not Fictional Chinese language. In fact in real world there is no such thing "Chinese ethnic group, Chinese DNA, Chinese language, Chinese culture, Chinese medicine, Chinese civilization ...". Since 1954, China have Created Fictional "Chinese civilization" and Fictional "Han-Chinese" by unlawfully mix up the cultures of many totally different nations on the plains of Yellow River, YANGTZE RIVER, shores of Pacific ocean, East Asia, etc. Han-Chinese are CCP. Han-Chinese eats everything moving around, zero hygiene, zero civilization, zero morality. They are Masters of deception, cheat, lie, spy, steal, hack, copy, troll, murder, deny. All Han-Chinese are illegal invaders, war criminals, terrorists, thieves in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Vast Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and all non Chinese territories. In fact Han-Chinese do not belong to Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Karasu (aka Gansu), Koknoor (aka Qinghai), Kazakh Aksay. All terrorists are 100 Percent Han-Chinese in China unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and non Chinese territories. In fact The world's biggest single issue in 2022 is China's Uyghur Genocide in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. We have worked as Foreign Experts for China's government for over 20 years. We are masters of Mandarin language. We are experts of China. We travelled all over China. We travelled all over war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Ten Countries: UYGHURISTAN (Eastern Turkestan), Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Karasu (aka Gansu after 1952), Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor (aka Qinghai after 1952), Ningxia Hui Republic, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Cantonia. China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur-Turk Nation. Because East Turkestan is very rich in all kinds of natural resources, naturally very diverse and vast. Chinese wanted to totally exterminate Uyghur Nation and Chinese wanted to take over Eastern Turkestan from Uyghur Nation. Uyghurs DO NOT LIVE IN CHINA in East Asia. Uyghurs live in own Natural Territory Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation is not "Xinjiang" of China. Uyghur Nation is not "Ethnic minority of China ". Uyghur Nation is not "Chinese Muslims ". Uyghur Nation has nothing to do with Han-Chinese and China. China is a country in far East of Asia. East Turkestan is a country in Central Asia. The world's second biggest Gobi Desert has totally isolated Eastern Turkestan in Far West and China in Far East of Asia. East Turkestan has nothing to do with Han-Chinese. Size of Eastern Turkestan is bigger than the combination of Europe's biggest Four Countries - Germany, France, Britain and Italy. East Turkestan is the world's biggest producer of rare earth materials, uranium, jade, gold, silver, cotton, tomatoes, garlic, silk, cashmere, green, raisins, Grapes, wool, leather, meat, marble, etc. East Turkestan is one of the world's biggest producer of coal, salt, petrol, natural gas, mika, and many others. Uyghur Nation was the Riches Nation in the world before China's illegal invasion into Eastern Turkestan on 20 October 1949. China has been robbing Trillions of US dollars of energy, food, raw materials, uranium, rare earth materials, Jade, gold, fresh bottled water, fresh bottled air, Uyghur Organs, Uyghur blood, Uyghur flesh, and many goods from Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Poor China, over 1.4 Billion hungry Chinese and millions of junk factories in China cannot survive without Robbing TRILLIONS of US dollars of natural resources from natural resources extremely rich, naturally very diverse and vast Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Since late 2016 China unlawfully cut off all telephone connections, Internet connections, postal services and travel for all Uyghurs in between Eastern Turkestan and rest of the world. China has kicked out all foreigners from East Turkestan of Uyghur-Turk Nation and China DO NOT ISSUE VISA FOR FOREIGNERS TO TRAVEL TO EASTERN TURKESTAN. China do not let foreigners with China's Visa to travel to East Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents under strict surveillance. Only China paid foreign criminals with Han-Chinese State security agents together go to Eastern Turkestan to make propaganda videos for Chinese government to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide. Even China paid foreign criminals cannot travel to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents under strict surveillance. All pictures and videos are strictly controlled by Chinese government. All "HAPPY UYGHUR VIDEOS " on KZbin are "Made in China" by China' state security agents with China paid foreign criminals. China do not let Uyghurs from Eastern Turkestan freely travel to China. China do not let Uyghurs from Eastern Turkestan to travel to any other countries. China do not let Uyghurs from other countries to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with their parents and family China do not let Uyghurs escape from East Turkestan to other countries. Many Uyghurs are shot dead on the way escape from East Turkestan to other countries. Uyghurs cannot be refugees in neighbouring Pakistan. China do not let foreigner to talk to Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state security agents in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Strict SURVELANCE and strict Family planning are only applied to Uyghur Nation in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Chinese illegal invaders have no family planning in Eastern Turkestan. War criminal China has been unlawfully transferring millions of own Han-Chinese from extremely poor Chinese villages in China to Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and all non Chinese territories to destroy local people. War Criminal Chinese government and China paid foreign criminals are producing disinformation campaign Worldwide to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide, China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting, China's Uyghur Concentration mass murder camps, China's crime against humanity, China's war crime, China's erase Uyghur Nation in Chinese army unlawfully occupied East Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Many over 80 years old Uyghurs are locked up in "China's Uyghur Re-education mass murder camps" in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Many Uyghur children are locked up in " China's Uyghur Concentration Re-education camps " in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. China did not lock up Han-Chinese Terrorists in "China's Re-education camps " in Eastern Turkestan. Since 1964, War criminal China Tested 46 Nuclear Bombs on Defenceless Uyghur Civilians in Chinese army unlawfully occupied East Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. China's Uyghur Forced Sterilisation, Forced Abortion and Organ Harvesting industry are booming. China do not let Uyghurs access Internet, smart phone, international phone call and postal services. CHINA UNLAWFULLY CUT OFF ALL TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS, INTERNET CONNECTIONS, POSTAL SERVICES AND TRAVEL FOR ALL UYGHURS IN BETWEEN UYGHUR EAST TURKESTAN AND REST OF THE WORLD. From 2015, China do not issue Tourist Visa for foreigners to travel to Eastern Turkestan. China has exterminated all Uyghurs who has spoken with foreign tourists in Eastern Turkestan in the past. China do not let Uyghurs to talk to Foreigners without Han-Chinese state security agents in Eastern Turkestan. China do net let Journalists from democratic Countries to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents. China do not let UN officials to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents. China's disinformation campaign Worldwide to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide are going on in all countries. China has bribed all top leaders of all Muslim countries including PALESTINE, OIC, ISIS, Al qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban. Except Turkey, Albania and Bosnia, All Muslim countries including PALESTINE have officially supported China's Uyghur Genocide at the UN HRC assembly in every session. Independence and Self Governing for Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong ...vvvvv.

[@watchman835]

Many people like to see China gets broken up. It sells.

[@vivafreedom4947]

china definitely will break up after the fall of C C P because part of the reason china is so aggressive its it inability to manage the different regions and ethnicities so it need to bully & subvert other nations into access to resources (aka "the Great Fall of China")

[@watchman835]

@@vivafreedom4947 If Jan 6th was successful, US is likely to break into multiple pieces as well. Maybe the prospect of American Civil War II is not that far away. 😉 China was tested for 3000 yrs, US , well only 200.

[@Leothecat2way]

China is a caqhole, it has the most deaths per year. Not even India is close to that danger.

[@MichaelLeonard]

I’d like to see a similar analysis of the United States.

[@jazzlover10000]

Once we stop being a Christian Republic, a successor to the US will be needed. That would be china, if she wants it... but I don't think she does. So maybe someone else... the country at the top needs to employ a culture of grace, not perfectly, but at least have that grace of God emanating from her core. Otherwise, rule will always be short-lived.

[@captainsnakeye4495]

thats much harder to do

[@TheFlagUnit]

@@captainsnakeye4495 there’s a risk for civil war in the USA

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

@@TheFlagUnit yeah & itd be a cluster fuxk. States would be indiscernable. Maybe Counties would be unified but itd be more like The British Civil War AKA The Troubles

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@TheFlagUnit No lol

[@futo]

General Knowledge, you should do one for Russia, considering they conquered overtime a vast amount of land inhabited by so many various different ethnic races FYI, there are over 50 ethnic groups in China, Zhuang is larger than the rest except the Han. The most distinctive groups are Zhuang, Hui, Manchu, Uyghur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibet, and Mongol.

[@danielduan2134]

Good to see that happens!

[@andred7684]

I highly doubt it would ever happen that way. Except for Xinjiang and Tibet. The main reason is that most of the minorities recognized today in China (PRoC) were identified (giving their recognition of minorities plus other perks) by the Communist Party, that is, if it weren't for the Communists I highly doubt a Republican China would ever recognize and give these minorities rights the same way the Communists gave them at the time. Plus Han Chinese isn't a monolithic ethnicity.

[@evancombs5159]

Agreed, it is unlikely right now. It is not popular enough in most of China to recognize oneself as anything other than Han Chinese. As long as everyone wants to be Han they aren't going to want to separate. Right now, I could only see the Canton region separating as it is the only region that has really held on to its language (I think probably thanks to Hong Kong). As long as the CCP is in charge, I don't see that cultural shift happening.

[@user-xh2id5yy7p]

@@evancombs5159 what does it mean to say “see canton separating?” As a native Cantonese from the canton province in mainland china, i am supposed to say what is the real situation and our thoughts. Never do we want to be separated from our country cause language is not the only factor to unify people, ethnicity and the common-shared history play a more important role in forming our nationality-recognition. The only conflict is that we want to preserve our mother tongue-that is Cantonese. We wanna that people from other provinces can respect Cantonese which shouldn’t be banned from using while mandarin is the status quote standardized official language.

[@evancombs5159]

@@user-xh2id5yy7p the Canton region is the Chinese region that is the most different from the rest of China. In a hypothetical situation where any region would want to separate Canton would be at the top of the list.

[@user-xh2id5yy7p]

@@evancombs5159 It is just ridiculous that difference equals to separatism. I’m just quite doubtful of the “purpose” of such kind of speech.

[@evancombs5159]

@@user-xh2id5yy7p difference is the only historical indicator towards separatism. There is no purpose to what I am saying it is just a hypothetical analysis of the topic of the video.

[@nyleeu2632]

In fact, strictly speaking, the cultural differences within China today are comparable to those in France at the time of the Revolution. Neither the Normans nor the Provençals or the Burgundians were culturally what they were, and they were neither willing enough to break away from Parisian rule nor able enough to do so. But speaking of federalism, I am more worried about the fascist tendencies of India, and to be honest in Asia Japan, China and India are similar to Britain, France and Germany in Europe in every way, the order of their rise, their cultural heritage and their political organisation.

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

lol what are you smoking, wolf warrior. how much does the ccp pay per comment? or is it salary based?

[@nyleeu2632]

@@anonymouslyopinionated656 Imperialists always imagine that they can deflect domestic conflicts through hate propaganda. China's population is about to enter a sharp decline zone from 2022, the first post-WWII baby boom is already retiring and our ability to export consumer goods will continue to decrease, which means your domestic inflation rate will continue. Think about your own wallet than asking hysterically if I am receiving funding from the Chinese Communist Party.

[@kaizhao2807]

笑死了。中印日，是一个级别的国家模式

[@nyleeu2632]

@@kaizhao2807 我说的是中日印很大程度上是亚洲的法英德。 我寻思我用翻译器还确认过一下英文应该没问题，如果哪里有问题可以说清楚，我去修改英文部分。

[@nyleeu2632]

@@kaizhao2807 十九世纪英法殖民帝国的崛起后的德国：我们需要阳光下的土地。 二十世纪末中日相继崛起后的印度：印度制造替代中国制造。 问题是它们都走向了一条几乎注定失败的道路，无论是英法还是中日在领域内的先发优势已经锁死了这条路径。 于是今天的印度似乎正在走上德国的老路，民族主义变成沙文主义再到纳粹主义的道路印度走得比中国快得多。

[@olefella7561]

What if Colonization ends, from North/South America to Australia/New Zealand to Siberia/Far-East Asia??

[@jaymarx]

I actually hate the time zone in the USA, so confusing and counter-productive to waste time on calculating, same time zone doesn't mean everyone goes to work at 9... it's different working hour in different city, from a bigger picture, it's much easy as traveler to adapt. and for setting up meetings making so much more sense...

[@alexanderkelsey202]

I recently made a theoretical map with China divided into Tibet (with the Tibetan majority parts of Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan etc), Uyghurstan (mostly just the Tarim basin), northern China (mandarin and Jin-speaking, including northern Qinghai and eastern Xinjiang), and southern China (all non-mandarin along with SW China and Taiwan, very multilingual with most of the ethnic minorities), with transfer of small Kazakh and Mongol majority regions to Mongolia and Kazakhstan

[@kaijuan15]

why not transfer spanish speaker In us to Mexican? culture reliegous never be a problem for indentity only economics,wake up

[@durudcapacity7458]

...ccc....Xi Jinping and all members of CCP central committee must face Nuremburg Style Justice and Execution for China's Uyghur Genocide, Tibetan Genocide, Manchurian Genocide, Yellow Uyghur Gansu Genocide, Kazakh Aksay Genocide and extermination of non-Chinese ethnic groups in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Vast Uyghuristan (Eastern Turkestan), Tibet, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang region,Yunnan and non-Chinese territories. Communist Soviet Russia created CCP in 1921. CCP created China on 1 October 1949. There was no "China" in entire world history. Since then war criminal China's army unlawfully invaded into Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region and other territories. Since ancient times Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turk elites on the plains of Yellow River. Since 1954, Mandarin language is the official language of New born China. Mandarin is not Fictional Chinese language. In fact in real world there is no such thing "Chinese ethnic group, Chinese DNA, Chinese language, Chinese culture, Chinese medicine, Chinese civilization ...". Since 1954, China have Created Fictional "Chinese civilization" and Fictional "Han-Chinese" by unlawfully mix up the cultures of many totally different nations on the plains of Yellow River, YANGTZE RIVER, shores of Pacific ocean, East Asia, etc. Han-Chinese are CCP. Han-Chinese eats everything moving around, zero hygiene, zero civilization, zero morality. They are Masters of deception, cheat, lie, spy, steal, hack, copy, troll, murder, deny. All Han-Chinese are illegal invaders, war criminals, terrorists, thieves in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Vast Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and all non Chinese territories. In fact Han-Chinese do not belong to Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Karasu (aka Gansu), Koknoor (aka Qinghai), Kazakh Aksay. All terrorists are 100 Percent Han-Chinese in China unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and non Chinese territories. In fact The world's biggest single issue in 2022 is China's Uyghur Genocide in war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. We have worked as Foreign Experts for China's government for over 20 years. We are masters of Mandarin language. We are experts of China. We travelled all over China. We travelled all over war criminal China's army unlawfully occupied Ten Countries: UYGHURISTAN (Eastern Turkestan), Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Karasu (aka Gansu after 1952), Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor (aka Qinghai after 1952), Ningxia Hui Republic, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Cantonia. China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur-Turk Nation. Because East Turkestan is very rich in all kinds of natural resources, naturally very diverse and vast. Chinese wanted to totally exterminate Uyghur Nation and Chinese wanted to take over Eastern Turkestan from Uyghur Nation. Uyghurs DO NOT LIVE IN CHINA in East Asia. Uyghurs live in own Natural Territory Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation is not "Xinjiang" of China. Uyghur Nation is not "Ethnic minority of China ". Uyghur Nation is not "Chinese Muslims ". Uyghur Nation has nothing to do with Han-Chinese and China. China is a country in far East of Asia. East Turkestan is a country in Central Asia. The world's second biggest Gobi Desert has totally isolated Eastern Turkestan in Far West and China in Far East of Asia. East Turkestan has nothing to do with Han-Chinese. Size of Eastern Turkestan is bigger than the combination of Europe's biggest Four Countries - Germany, France, Britain and Italy. East Turkestan is the world's biggest producer of rare earth materials, uranium, jade, gold, silver, cotton, tomatoes, garlic, silk, cashmere, green, raisins, Grapes, wool, leather, meat, marble, etc. East Turkestan is one of the world's biggest producer of coal, salt, petrol, natural gas, mika, and many others. Uyghur Nation was the Riches Nation in the world before China's illegal invasion into Eastern Turkestan on 20 October 1949. China has been robbing Trillions of US dollars of energy, food, raw materials, uranium, rare earth materials, Jade, gold, fresh bottled water, fresh bottled air, Uyghur Organs, Uyghur blood, Uyghur flesh, and many goods from Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Poor China, over 1.4 Billion hungry Chinese and millions of junk factories in China cannot survive without Robbing TRILLIONS of US dollars of natural resources from natural resources extremely rich, naturally very diverse and vast Eastern Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Since late 2016 China unlawfully cut off all telephone connections, Internet connections, postal services and travel for all Uyghurs in between Eastern Turkestan and rest of the world. China has kicked out all foreigners from East Turkestan of Uyghur-Turk Nation and China DO NOT ISSUE VISA FOR FOREIGNERS TO TRAVEL TO EASTERN TURKESTAN. China do not let foreigners with China's Visa to travel to East Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents under strict surveillance. Only China paid foreign criminals with Han-Chinese State security agents together go to Eastern Turkestan to make propaganda videos for Chinese government to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide. Even China paid foreign criminals cannot travel to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents under strict surveillance. All pictures and videos are strictly controlled by Chinese government. All "HAPPY UYGHUR VIDEOS " on KZbin are "Made in China" by China' state security agents with China paid foreign criminals. China do not let Uyghurs from Eastern Turkestan freely travel to China. China do not let Uyghurs from Eastern Turkestan to travel to any other countries. China do not let Uyghurs from other countries to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with their parents and family China do not let Uyghurs escape from East Turkestan to other countries. Many Uyghurs are shot dead on the way escape from East Turkestan to other countries. Uyghurs cannot be refugees in neighbouring Pakistan. China do not let foreigner to talk to Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state security agents in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Strict SURVELANCE and strict Family planning are only applied to Uyghur Nation in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Chinese illegal invaders have no family planning in Eastern Turkestan. War criminal China has been unlawfully transferring millions of own Han-Chinese from extremely poor Chinese villages in China to Eastern Turkestan, Tibet and all non Chinese territories to destroy local people. War Criminal Chinese government and China paid foreign criminals are producing disinformation campaign Worldwide to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide, China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting, China's Uyghur Concentration mass murder camps, China's crime against humanity, China's war crime, China's erase Uyghur Nation in Chinese army unlawfully occupied East Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. Many over 80 years old Uyghurs are locked up in "China's Uyghur Re-education mass murder camps" in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. Many Uyghur children are locked up in " China's Uyghur Concentration Re-education camps " in Chinese army unlawfully occupied Eastern Turkestan. China did not lock up Han-Chinese Terrorists in "China's Re-education camps " in Eastern Turkestan. Since 1964, War criminal China Tested 46 Nuclear Bombs on Defenceless Uyghur Civilians in Chinese army unlawfully occupied East Turkestan of Uyghur Nation. China's Uyghur Forced Sterilisation, Forced Abortion and Organ Harvesting industry are booming. China do not let Uyghurs access Internet, smart phone, international phone call and postal services. CHINA UNLAWFULLY CUT OFF ALL TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS, INTERNET CONNECTIONS, POSTAL SERVICES AND TRAVEL FOR ALL UYGHURS IN BETWEEN UYGHUR EAST TURKESTAN AND REST OF THE WORLD. From 2015, China do not issue Tourist Visa for foreigners to travel to Eastern Turkestan. China has exterminated all Uyghurs who has spoken with foreign tourists in Eastern Turkestan in the past. China do not let Uyghurs to talk to Foreigners without Han-Chinese state security agents in Eastern Turkestan. China do net let Journalists from democratic Countries to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents. China do not let UN officials to go to Eastern Turkestan to meet up with Uyghurs without Han-Chinese state agents. China's disinformation campaign Worldwide to cover up China's Uyghur Genocide are going on in all countries. China has bribed all top leaders of all Muslim countries including PALESTINE, OIC, ISIS, Al qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban. Except Turkey, Albania and Bosnia, All Muslim countries including PALESTINE have officially supported China's Uyghur Genocide at the UN HRC assembly in every session. Independence and Self Governing for Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong ...vvv...

[@frankfleming1103]

the most impossible one is Tibet, remember Tibet can't feed Tibetans, The grain/vegatable/tea output on the plateau cannot meet the needs of Tibetan people from history to today, only meat and milk is enough. this is why Tibet never independent from history, tibet has only one route of supple. the another way is climb 8848 meters Himalaya then transport from India

[@alexanderkelsey202]

@@qihaho I did!

[@andrewlim7751]

There're about 2 millions Tibetans in China comparing to 1 billions Han Chinese.

[@firstcynic92]

PRC doesn't want to annex Taiwan. They say they already own it. Just to note, Taiwan also says it already owns China. If China "broke up" it would mostly immediately reform into China. Tibet might not join, but so many ethnically Chinese have been moved in that it might stay in China.

[@cablefeed3738]

Taiwan no longer says it owns China quit using that as an excuse. Taiwan just wants to be left alone as a democratic nation not bothered by China

[@realtissaye]

@@cablefeed3738 read their constitution

[@cablefeed3738]

@@realtissaye As I already said that is an excuse used to try and make them seem bad when everything they've ever said and ever voted for has to be Taiwan a independent nation free of Chinese influence.

[@General.Knowledge]

It's an interesting take, nobody ever remembers that Taiwan technically claims all of China itself. But I think in reality they just want to exist as they are and be left alone

[@cablefeed3738]

@@General.Knowledge Exactly like I've been saying A majority of the people who bring up Taiwan claiming China tend to be doing it to say that it's OK for China to be claiming Taiwan it's disingenuous.

[@wabalaladabdab]

Great idea, let's make it happen

[@tplink3499]

🇨🇳那是不可能的我是中国人我我并没有发现少数民族有独立倾向，连台湾都不敢发表独立宣言一直都是中国的一个省 不要被BBC和英美媒体给骗了 😏😒

[@PeterLiuIsBeast]

4:44 The way the video is worded (using agian) seem that you imply that Liu Song and Song are somehow related. They are not. Liu Song is 5th century while Song is 11th to 12th century.

[@yuey0602]

trivia: Inner Mongolia is the TRUE Royal mingolia. Outer Mongolia just take the name.

[@watchman835]

Can you do a “What if US broke up” video? US is actually way more divided politically, economically and ethnical. It should be fun.

[@williamwong7820]

wildly optimistic!

[@jerolvilladolid]

Its about damn time!

[@lcy5169]

I am also wondering what if the US, Canada, Australia, Russia, and even more countries are divided by the cultural areas and indigenous zones. Very interesting video anyway, well done!

[@baukewijnsma]

With Trump I wouldn't be surprised if the US would brake up. But most US states have a lot of power to make a lot of their own decisions. So that helps to keep the US together

[@francine13]

would like to see native americans regain their sovereignty

[@matthewdavid6134]

US doesn’t have that much cultural regionalism because it’s just a big melting pot, Canada I can only think of Quebec

[@chandy3859]

@@matthewdavid6134 considering the example of the former Spanish colony. They can break up base on state border and how connected they are to the other state.

[@matthewdavid6134]

@@chandy3859 That does make sense regionalism and regional integration levels, but that would still be kinda hard considering how interconnected the lower 48 are

[@enemixius]

I think the whole Taiwan issue basically revolves around the CCP not wanting anyone else getting any ideas. They're afraid of what might happen in other regions if they recognise Taiwanese independence.

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

Especially with the inevitable economic collapse of the real estate market. I suspect this is the reason of the CCP going into overdrive on Taiwan recently. The people must not learn about an alternative Chinese cultured system right on their doorstep with opportunities and freedoms with viable industries that grew organically. That is just too dangerous for the ruling class. The CCP cares a shit about China or Chinese. They only care for their own power and pockets. If they have to throw hundreds lf millions of people under the bus to keep it then you can bet they absolutely will do it. The morally grounded officials -if there ever were some- are long gone. The second and third generation of red princes is even more corrupt and cruel than the originals ever were.

[@d.b.2215]

It's very much the same as the Kremlin not wanting anybody in Russia to have ideas about liberalising like Ukraine was doing, so Putin "had" to invade Ukraine to install a puppet government there

[@toledochristianmatthew9919]

Especially since Taiwan basically hold the Republic of China founded by Sun Yat Sen. The CCP and Kuomintang both grew powerful because of Sun Yat Sen.

[@LukasCreeper]

Taiwan deserves to be the legitimate goverment of China

[@huaiwei]

@Stephen lee how is that logic applicable to the US when there are more differences between Xinjiang and the rest of China compared to Texas and the rest of the US?

[@juliegale3863]

The more I learn about Chinese history of its inner fights and divisions I would say it is quite possible for them to break apart again. Even in our relatively small island of UK it is beginning to break into its constituent historical countries. That is the way of peoples and history.

[@biochemwang2421]

Apparently you should learn more about Chinese history.

[@user-uo7dk1dn2k]

分裂之后也只会再一次统一。

[@mxn1948]

if you learned anything at all of chinese history, you'd know that it broke apart a whole bunch of times, only to could back together again. this is because of the ideology in place since the qin unified china, specifically that there can only be one legitimate ruler, until you conquer all of china you are not a legitimate emperor and have not yet been given the right to rule by the heavens. as such, all the times china broke, each of those pieces will always war until one wins out, hence china always comes back together.

[@taipeistp5660]

The propaganda of the western media is a lot of false news, just like this video, everyone in Tibet supports the CCP, Dalai Lama was the dictator at that time, Tibet was a slave society, slave owners would peel people's skin and make them into paintings. The Western media always promote human rights and the Dalai Lama, but not the Tibetan slaves at that time. Then use these dictators as pawns to divide China. Taiwan's government-in-exile is also a pawn of the United States.

[@juliegale3863]

@@user-uo7dk1dn2k wish I could read yours but only understand the first letter of your name as big. I am trying hard learn Chinese but find it difficult. But 谢谢 for writing

[@washfish6483]

The one thing that we can be sure from history is that a breakup will definitely cause civil wars with a stupidly high casualty rate. And then for the country to somehow rebound to a functional state after losing half it's population.

[@nomnomstirn1532]

Though I do agree with your reasoning for why places like Tibet and Xinjiang would wanting to secede if given the chance. I think that your Mongolian and Han Chinese arguments are flawed. I say that your Mongol argument is flawed, is because the Mongolians themselves are or at least were a collection of different people groups grouped together based on Language and Culture. Though that might sounds irrelevant and/or contradictory, if you were to look into the past the people we consider “Mongols” now were once a collection of different nomadic tribes who formed coalitions with other nomadic tribes to defeat and control other nomadic tribes from different coalitions, which also helped with cultural exchange. Though that was before Genghis’s time and even during Genghis’s time there still was a lot variety is “Mongol” culture and loyalties. Though, Genghis did issue a written form of Mongol language to be made. But then again if things really do get bad enough in China I do think that it is a possibility, though the majority of Mongol people are in the the Chinese province of “Inner Mongolia” and their homeland is the steppes. While each Sub-group of course has their own “Homeland”. But maybe Nationalism could spike. Then there is the argument for the Secession on Han Chinese people from Han Chinese Mainland China, claiming that because they were ruled by many different kingdoms and Dynasties from time to time. It then correlates to them having a reason to break away. The reason this is flawed because if you were to look at it with the assumption that these kingdoms and dynasties were fighting under the same circumstances of Western European kingdoms then it would seem like a reasonable conclusion. But, since this is China we’re talking about, and not Western European kingdoms, we should at least expect there to be some differences. But also similarities and there surely were. You see, whenever China would engage in another Civil war it would be local Warlords fighting each other, but what people forget is that they’re Officials, and for the most part usually belonged to a powerful families or “Clan” and these officials served under the Emperor, who was by the time of a civil war were either under the threat of having their power usurped by them by outright rebellious officials, used as leverage by a warlord to gain an advantage over other warlords, and/or being protected by loyalist, who may just try to usurp power later. So the people under the control of these warlords would’ve only seen them as officials who like them served under the same leader. But if that the party fighting over control of Han Chinese land wasn’t an Official, but instead a Foreign one then nobody would’ve had any loyalties to them because they’re foreign leaders with a different culture. The Yuan dynasty ruled by foreign Mongol people was kicked out of Chinese land. The Qing Dynasty was deposed and replaced by a Republic. Both of which certainly aren’t respected by Han Chinese people. Not sure about the Jin dynasty but it probably would’ve gotten the same treatment. There is then difference in Cuisine, Game boards, language and etc. Which doesn’t really make much sense, since here in America we have that too but we don’t have Americans sayings Acadian, Deep South, New England, (State)BBQ, (state dish), and etc dishes are better and we should secede because of it. Same with those other subjects. We still see each other as Americans. Just a variation in Culture caused by regional differences and isolation since you can’t expect people with a mode of transportation to start standardizing Culture down to the smallest touch only for new changes to occur caused by the regional isolation especially varies quite a bit in geography allowing for cultural isolation to take place. But than again maybe I’m wrong. But in my opinion only Nationalism would allow people to get upset over variations. Though I certainly am probably wrong about some of these things to an extent. Since I am an American and you can’t expect a foreigner to know so much about a foreign country’s customs, history and etc. Though I believe I got my information from a credible source that covers Chinese and Eastern History being the KZbin Channel “Cool History Bros”. I just hope my evaluation wasn’t terrible.

[@googane7755]

Sure there is a lot of variety in the mongol peoples but they all ultimately identify as mongolian not han chinese, think genghis khan is the greatest person to ever live and share more in common with each other in terms of culture, lifestyle and language than the dominant han majority. It's just too different which is why historically integrating the mongols in inner mongolia has proved very difficult where even subtle changes like forbidding classes in mongolian from being taught in school was seen as an attack on their identity. However, I do feel like if China was to collapse inner mongolia might not reunify with mongolia due to the han majority in the region that happened over centuries of settlement and colonisation sort of like the situation in northern ireland.

[@LukasCreeper]

I just want Taiwan to get china proper because fuck the CCP

[@Willxdiana]

@@googane7755 not really they are mongol chinese. Mongols today are half central asian . chinese mongol are half chinese and mongols. Even if they unite there is gonna be problems. They are not the same people. Most Mongols see themselves as chinese and mongols. Kind of like Manchus now

[@jamesmoy1214]

Your evaluation is has superior logic than this convoluted article! Imagine moving because they don’t play the type of Mahjong you prefer😂😂😂😂

[@seraphimworms899]

@@googane7755 Yes, the Mongols could no longer use mongolian scripts and customs, it was already a Russified country

[@hlo695]

The CCP is too authoritarian and I don't think they'll want to grant regions more autonomy. It may take a century, but the country as we know it will break apart.

[@ijlalrizvi9856]

Texas, California and puerto rico needs to break apart as soon as possible as Californian liberation has multiple times called for an independant foreign policy than that of US centre which doesn't represent the Californian people

[@Kai-rust]

@@ijlalrizvi9856 Yeah, agreed. The sad part is most of the people living there didn't want independence

[@mickkrever4084]

@@Kai-rust *you got it backward, Chinese regions do not want to break apart however annexed territories of America do*

[@Kai-rust]

@@mickkrever4084 For example? Can you tell me which part of US have the majority of the population seeking for independence? Texas, California, Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico just had a referendum on 2020, and 52% voted yes for statehood

[@Lucas-vr1qr]

@@Kai-rust and they didn’t get statehood though, very sad. The USA should stop postponing this and either let them join or give them independence

[@NemoInYoutube]

1:16 the Chinese title is : paM anihC fo cilbupeR. Yap the old style Chinese word is how that look.😂

[@weiminglu5331]

If you might start this episode with comments on Gordon Chang's book "The Coming Collapse of China" (2001), it would be more convincing to me. I'd like to understand why Gordon's forecast cannot be realized 20 years after? And, what are the new opportunities you really see?

[@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv]

Only scenerio in which China may break up in near future is world War 3. Other than that I didn't think it will happen in near future. The most critical decade for this war is 2020 to 2030 till 2036.

[@andrasbeke3012]

I think India would be a much more interesting subject for this topic. India has thousands of tribes and about 72 main ethnicities. On top of that, only about 57% spoke Hindi proficiently in 2011. Much more interesting than a mono-ethnic state like china.

[@jonseilim4321]

Tamils weddings are so fun, and Tamil sounds nicer than Hindi imo

[@ijlalrizvi9856]

yes, but India is an ally of US so why do we care which ethnic and religious minorities they persecute on a regular basis?

[@gamermapper]

Since it's a multinational state where no majority dominates over the rest, it also makes separatism less likely because no one is that much oppressed cuz everyone is a minority

[@gamermapper]

@@jonseilim4321 I've heard that South Indians are much more fat away from North Indians than North Indians are from Pakistanis and Bengalis

[@619ry7]

India has same religion majority are hindu. It unite people from all sate Also add cricket +

[@autarken]

America has more than one culture, even located in distinct geographical regions... looking forward to your video in support of the self determination of indigenous ethnic groups and the breakup of the United States, returning those lands to the original inhabitants.

[@toledochristianmatthew9919]

Whatifalthist made a video about it recently which covers this topic well.

[@Prosper_Dean]

I can't help but feel he's fantasizing a bit with this video lmaoo. Doubt this European KZbinr fantasizes about the USA in a similar way :)

[@Prosper_Dean]

I like the idea a lot though

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@Prosper_Dean this is no fantasy. this is predictable as a result of the economic collapse and, practically sealed after the defeat should China initiate aggression in the region

[@Prosper_Dean]

@@QWERTY-gp8fdthat would be the outcome as evidenced by what? I don't know why I'm humoring your " fantasy by another name" but go ahead lmao.

[@agami5547]

Very nice video! Could you please make a video about "What If India Broke Up?"

[@ashaypallav4158]

If it ever happens then Assam, West Bengal and Tripura will be the part of Bangladesh.

[@leafsilvery]

Really liking the new style. Nice work

[@abdulrehman636]

If mongolia annexes inner Mongolia then mongolia will have an Han Chinese majority.

[@stanleymcmillan4389]

Mongolia annexing Inner Mongolia?? Yeah sure, country whose military is not even in the top 50 (🇲🇳) competes with the 3rd strongest military (🇨🇳) lol🤣😂

[@tysonwastaken]

@@stanleymcmillan4389 its hypothetical

[@Adrian-xn1qw]

At least China should make Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia as Special Administrative Areas like Hong Kong and Macau. And let them run their governments by their own under “one country, two systems” policy, including having separate teams and representatives in Olympic Games, WTO, etc

[@dunnowy123]

That doesn't really make sense from their perspective. If you have regions with separatist leanings, more autonomy can make separatism more likely..look at Scotland lol

[@rorychivers8769]

@@dunnowy123 The UK is actually interesting because it acknowledges that it is comprised of historically separate countries, it's right there in the name of the country. I think it's a credit that we can even float the possibility of Scottish independence without having to put anyone in concentration camps to instruct them with the correct political leanings. It's why we're able to discuss the issue frankly and openly, because no one is coming for you in the night because of your opinion on the matter, one way or the other. This is the shame of totalitarianism. In a parallel universe, there is a Xinjiang that is quite content to be associated with the idea of a 'Greater China', because it's one that isn't actively stomping their face into the dirt with a jack boot.

[@chandy3859]

@@rorychivers8769 what about ireland? What is the difference with Scotland that cause them to have a war of independence against the British while Scotland does not?

[@AnimeNerd500]

eu amo seu canal

[@madisonsee7752]

Wishful thinking Sir !

[@GarrettFruge]

China has certainly experienced multiple episodes of central government collapses and the rise of warlordism throughout its history, and so it's easy to speculate similar events for the country's future, but on a realistic level I don't see that in the cards. The sheer might of the Chinese police state, military, and historical mass migration of Han people into those areas make any meaningful independence movements pretty unlikely to say the least. That is, apart from some extraordinary setback for the Chinese government. Don't get me wrong, I understand the context of the video, that it's purely speculative and it's interesting to imagine what the country would look like if similar events from its past were reenacted today.

[@baukewijnsma]

If China starts a Taiwan war and if US and EU helps Taiwan than that might trigger those country's to ask India for military access so they could attack inland China from the west while getting the fleet and planes attack from the east. If it will look like China will loose this hypothetical war some of these groups of people might see it as their change to 'get out' of the regime. It might sparkle rebels and separate. That's a lot of speculation and if's I understand, but it's interesting to keep in the back of your mind.

[@miaorenfeng1]

After the disintegration of many dynasties, the Chinese summed up the harbinger of the demise of the dynasty. Every time the dynasty is about to collapse, the following happens. (1) a very small number of people own a lot of wealth and land; (2) the rich who own a lot of wealth only have to pay very little tax to the government. (3) in order to maintain the normal operation of the government, a large number of taxes are borne by civilians with only a small amount of wealth. (4) military expenditure accounts for most of the government budget. Judging from these circumstances, there is still a long way to go for China to disintegrate.🤭

[@alanrichard4498]

@@baukewijnsma 😅

[@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv]

@@baukewijnsma right point see video of pvr narsimha rao on ww3 and break up of china.

[@yyangzhang4373]

you are wrong.

[@DanSolo871]

I wanted to watch this quick before China forces google to take this down.

[@MrElvis1971]

You misspelt Democrats.

[@bruhbutwhytho2301]

@@MrElvis1971 why would Democrats do that?

[@MrElvis1971]

@@bruhbutwhytho2301 you are asking the wrong person. You need ask the democrats to explain their behaviours.

[@bruhbutwhytho2301]

@@MrElvis1971 ok then what have they done?

[@MrElvis1971]

@@bruhbutwhytho2301 don't you watch the news?

[@r4jpyr24us3]

I think, western central shall be an independent country, if it is broken since for so long, in past, it was a semi-independent territory called Shok., capital city was Chengdu, large city is Chungking.

[@Beijing_1949]

Having chopsticks pointed down directly into a bowl or anything that has food in it is considered cursing since this was done in the past for rituals of the dead at funerals

[@no1ofconsequence936]

Correction: Turkic and Turkish aren't the same. Turkic is a much broader term that encompasses several more peoples. Bulgarians have Turkic roots, but I don't think they'd ever call themselves Turkish. Edit: Cossacks are not Turkic. My bad.

[@Jayvee4635]

I think his pronunciation is just wierd. I heard Turkitsch

[@aliartk9155]

Cossaks are slavic

[@no1ofconsequence936]

@@aliartk9155 , I had heard the word "Cossack" come from a Turkic word, and I knew they came from central Asia, so I assumed they were Turkic, perhaps wrongly.

[@JohnWick-cz3ph]

@@aliartk9155 not exactly, Cossacks were remnants of former khanate of Golden Horde, a Turkic nomadic state

[@giganotosaurus5826]

@@no1ofconsequence936 kazakh means kazakh not cossak

[@theyoutubeguy1]

But they were so cute together :(.

[@Just_living4567-_-]

Lol 😂

[@ameerabualeinein]

who’s getting custody of taiwan is the real question

[@ZetaPrime77]

@@ameerabualeinein Me

[@ameerabualeinein]

@@ZetaPrime77 make sure to treat them well :)

[@ganggang2537]

Lot of domestic abuse

[@TaifatAssassins]

A hundred years have passed, the wisdom of the people has not been opened.This is still the Qing Dynasty

[@I_am_your_father2024]

是的，你缺乏智慧才会说出这种话。

[@hetwitblad6544]

I'll grant you Iceland and Portugal, but Japan is definitely not a mono-ethnic country, as it also has Ainu and Ryukyu peoples

[@eilrahcgnaf6064]

Indeed I don't really think that Han Chinese territory, including most of Inner Mongolia and Manchuria, would break by culture. For several thousand years, with great differences, those parts remain to claim themselves as a part of China. If separation really happens, it would rather become warlords from different Han culture branches fighting each other for who is rightful China instead

[@eilrahcgnaf6064]

And notice before the video, that China is definitely a nation-state, Han has more than 90% of the total population, is it possible for the so-called "autonomous" to be separate? this is worth thinking about.

[@user-xm6qc7ew3p]

In fact, if you want to imagine a country splitting, you must first learn history. Manchu independence is the most impractical and completely illusory. After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu people were basically all sinicized. Now Manchu is a dead language. In other words, the Manchu people should be regarded as the Han people in culture, which is the most unlikely division. Secondly, Mongolia was gradually weakened after the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and was subordinate to the Manchu in the Qing Dynasty. In fact, Mongolia's independence was supported by the Soviet Union. Without the support of the Soviet Union, Outer Mongolia would not be able to achieve independence at all. Therefore, there is no saying that Inner Mongolia returns to Outer Mongolia. It should be that Outer Mongolia returns to Inner Mongolia. After all, the blood of the orthodox successor of the Mongolian Empire is in Inner Mongolia. Then there is Tibet. The possibility of independence in this region is very small. Buddhism has spread in most parts of China. At the same time, the current Buddhist leaders in Tibet are authorized by the central government. This tradition has continued since the Qing Dynasty. If he wants to become independent now, he must think about whether his religious status will be challenged. Finally, Xinjiang, the mainstream religion in Xinjiang, believes in Islam. This region is most likely to be independent, but to be independent, it must have the support of a strong Islamic country. At the same time, Xinjiang must give up its future economic development prospects. If you make a conclusion, you should first realize that China is most likely to fall into civil war rather than division. Even during the period of the Republic of China, all warlords recognized the integrity of China, and all places wanted to seize the rule of the country rather than allow themselves to become independent.Therefore, you will understand that it is unrealistic to speculate that a certain region will become independent from a narrow western perspective. On the contrary, it is more reasonable to imagine a civil war. To sum up, all this is based on the premise that the existing central government is weak, which will be difficult to happen in the next 50 years. If I can make a more reliable assumption, I think Russia will encounter big trouble after Putin's death. Outer Mongolia is weak, and it is more likely to return to China in the future. If Russia fails to elect a strong leader after Putin's death, China will have the opportunity to occupy the territory of eastern Russia. At the same time, there will be no super power in Central Asia in the next 50 years at least. Therefore, it is not impossible for China to expand its influence in the Islamic world.

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Tibet splitting isn't about Tibetan people. It's all about how weak China military is. If China military become weak enough Tibet will be splitted for sure without any consent of Tibetan people.

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@@poom323 Historically, this is true

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When I first saw this map, I thought it was referring to the 4 million square kilometers that China lost in modern times...