Why 8 European Countries Shared This One Chinese City

[@KhAnubis]

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[@neroclaudius7284]

Japan is my favorite European country.

[@KhAnubis]

Oh right… briefly forgot Japan was on the list when making the title last night. I’ll take the L if I don’t think of a catchier title

[@neroclaudius7284]

@@KhAnubis I think it is perfect as is.

[@Solis-001-tfo]

Mine too it’s such a great European country

[@Names1234-v4g]

@@Solis-001-tfowhat is your country?

[@blikizz_nils7541]

​@@Names1234-v4gprobably Australia 😆

[@GavinLiuranium]

I’m from Tianjin, gotta say you explained the former concessions very accurately without losing the vibe of the Khanubis channel’s videos & inside jokes only long time viewers of your videos will get. Great job, I approve 👍

[@doogless]

lol "Open the country. Stop having it be closed."

[@MingJianYap]

Bill wurtz never would've realised his impact back in 2016

[@pattymcfatty0]

Respect at 5:31 for highlighting French Giana when showing the European borders. I bet that added a couple extra minutes of editing.

[@joshw.2920]

As a native of Tianjin, I'd say that the old Tianjin concession area is still the golden area of Tianjin, with the highest housing prices and the best living standards.

[@petercui5464]

The colonies were located fhere for a reason, golden part of the city

[@GavinLiuranium]

没想到在这儿碰着个天津老乡，幸会啊hh

[@PikeProductions23]

Your animations continue to get better and better. Well done!

[@anthonyn.7379]

I've heard about the concessions in Tianjin, but this is the first time someone explained them to me. Although this might be a bit nit-picky, the flag you used for Austria-Hungary is not the national flag of the nation. That flag is the civil ensign (what they use on civilian boats) and is very different from the national flag.

[@spac3fr0g]

except, Austria hungary did not have an overarching national flag, and they used the Austrian bicolor as a de-facto one

[@anthonyn.7379]

@@spac3fr0g Yes, forgot to mention that.

[@KhAnubis]

Yeah that is true (including the point of AH not having a true nat’l flag) but I sorta had to use something people would recognize

[@the_roman_emperor_fisheater]

Woah he uploaded

[@michaelowino228]

Good video.

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@carlwheezer1030]

Us eu4 stans get a lot from you khanubis

[@warrix8312]

Sharing is caring.

[@mondoman712]

Some more info on the concessions in other cities would be interesting. Parts of Qingdao still look quite European in a strange way, and China's second largest brewery got it's start there because of the German concession

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Dutch concessions could be a topic since there were Sino-Dutch treaties in relation to Taiwan and Taiwanese islands

[@morewi]

Wasn't that a full blown colony for the Germans

[@lzh4950]

@@GwainSagaFanChannel The Dutch had a trading outpost on Taiwan/the ROC I think, with a fort at Kaohsiung (髙/高雄) city, until Chinese admiral Konxingha (郑/鄭成功) conquered Taiwan in c.1639. Soon after, China's then Ming Dynasty was replaced by the Qing Dynasty, which then ruled Taiwan, until it was ceded to Japan under the treaty of Shimonoseki after the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, all the way until Japan's defeat in WW2

[@Kapankat_Plays]

hi great video 😊

[@basicallywellfed3453]

Here's the Spark Notes version of this video. Like in all times of mankind, in all parts of the world, as one empre falls another arrives to overwhelm those falling. Babylon, Persia, Greek, Roman, Ottoman, China, Britain all went through this situation. China was at the bottom of the cycle, Europeans at the top, just the facts. Saved you 600 seconds, friend.

[@andrewcloudy]

And ppl wonder why we think foreign governments have ill intentions towards my country

[@ErikHare]

Your Qing map is missing all of outer Manchuria. That was taken by the Russians at the end of the 19th century.

[@mikesatthehelm5115]

2:58 Well the very non-Roman Polos probably knew Latin fairly well as it was the European lingua Franca at that point and they must have used it on a regular basis as they were traveling merchants and Latin was the language of commerce in Europe then.

[@windowstudios45]

5:59 What's with the dual audio?

[@kevinschreiner4179]

austria hungary flag in the thumbnail kinda incorrect I think. there was a whole debate on wikipedia!

[@NeroPiroman]

2:10 quing owned vladivostok transamur area until 1860s

[@Trethan3266]

I like the small reference to Bill Wurtz’s “History of Japan” video at 3:53

[@512TheWolf512]

i disagree, the UN doesn't have "enough trouble" because it doesn't actually *DO* anything.

[@ricebro7044]

7:16 wrong republic of china flag

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

Whoa! :0

[@py8554]

The next to talk about should be Shanghai

[@mitchyrosa]

It’s not 8 or 9 it’s actually 10 Austria and Hungary shared their zone

[@benjaminprietop]

I remember concessions appearing in "The Blue Lotus", one of my favorite Tintin comics lml

[@Asan.i]

EU4 grain icon

[@czech_ring]

austria hungary's flag is incorrect

[@LittletbigT]

2:03 Qing Dynasty missing their russian (and a few other) territories, it was even bigger than you show...

[@felixdatche9278]

Where did you disappear to... Anyway, this matter still annoys China todate...

[@sleefy2343]

Not really The average Chinese don’t even know about this They only know Japan ww2

[@lzh4950]

I imagine less people are also aware about Russia's involvement in these concessions too? Especially as it's seen as friendlier with mainland China today

[@miklas8424]

Japan can into Europe!

[@kqurmi_ferinu-zeyox]

Did the Japanese archipelago somehow end up in Europe?

[@KhAnubis]

I put it there

[@Vryheid]

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[@molybd3num823]

early

[@Kraed3]

Ah yes, the European country of Japan.

[@campbellblock3061]

7 European countries and 2* Asian ones

[@W.M.Pitt1]

Russia is not Asian.

[@siondafydd]

They seem just like embassies

[@Sceptonic]

Basically embassies but much bigger and had foreign citizens living in it

[@siondafydd]

@@Sceptonic foreign citizens live in embassies as well

[@Sceptonic]

@@siondafydd but are restricted to a tiny plot of land

[@theMOCmaster]

Did Italy leave the concession after they changed sides? Weren’t they on Japans side?

[@blede8649]

They didn't have the time. The Japanese attacked the Italian concessions as soon as they heard of the armistice. They were besieged for a time, and then the Italian garrisons were taken prisoner. Mark Felton made a video about it (title is "Italy vs. Japan - The Forgotten Pacific War").

[@finthegreat08]

What they should've done to Austria-Hungary section is to divide it evenly amongst its sucessor states. One street for Austria One street for Yugoslavia One shack for Fiume.

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

One city block named after the glorious region of Banat

[@juliánito59]

Fun fact: These 8 Nations have never in their entire histories agreed on anything in unison ever, never before, and after this one instance, never again (so far). It's a miracle that they even managed to march out of Tianjin together, diverged into separate fronts and remerged in the center of Bejing without accidentally pissing off one another.

[@sirBrouwer]

So in short you could have seen them as a extreme version of a embassy. As those can also act like as a forward base for the guests countries.

[@bhubestakesoponsatien1143]

Hegemony, disregard Intl rules

[@olorin4317]

I bet profits are involved.

[@shinsenshogun900]

China ain't that entirely humiliated yet. The colonial powers, fresh and stale empires, should have foreign concessions on every Chinese city and town!

[@W.M.Pitt1]

They did, there were European concessions, leased territories and international settlements in Tianjin, Beijing, Xiamen, Shamian, Weihai, Zhanjiang, Macau, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Yantai, Huizhou, Gulangyu, Shanghai, Dalian, Jiujiang and Wuhan.

[@shinsenshogun900]

@@W.M.Pitt1 Not enuff cities! >:D Foreign leases as deep as Lanzhou, Urumqi/Didao, Chengdu, Lhasa, and Kunming for example

[@W.M.Pitt1]

@@shinsenshogun900 Lhasa was occupied by British soldiers from 3 August to late September 1904.