Why Taiwan Is Important (History of Taiwan)

(TIMESTAMPS BELOW)
▶ In this video I talk about the history of the island of Taiwan, from its early days with Native & initial Chinese settling, to its time as a Dutch colony, joining the Ming and Qing Empire, and then being ruled by Japan until being returned to the Republic of China.
▶ A thank you to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in Portugal for their help in making this video possible.
▶ TIMESTAMPS:
Intro - 00:00
Origins of the Natives - 00:24
Beginning of Chinese Influence - 01:36
Dutch Colonization - 02:55
Kingdom of Tungning - 04:47
Qing Rule - 05:21
Japanese Rule - 07:00
Taiwan during WW2 - 08:49
Return to the ROC - 10:08
Taiwan today - 10:48
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[@General.Knowledge]

Would you like to see more of these *specific* videos where I go through a certain country / region's history since the start until now? And if so, *which ones* ?

[@rafabastos4609]

Yes, maybe for a big country Brazil or China. But if you want small ones it could be like Iceland, Qatar, Cyprus, etc.

[@saikatmakar2422]

A daily reminder. Taiwan is an independent, sovereign and a democratic country. #FreeTaiwan. #TaiwanIndependence🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼

[@bigbubblebean]

What percentage of the worlds wealth was caused from potato's 🥔

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Absolutamente! Proposta de assunto: a historia do condade portucalense desde a pre-historia até se tornar Portugal.

[@matpk]

@@rafabastos4609 Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late

[@tung-hsinliu861]

I am from Taiwan, and this dude just basically explained the whole history of Taiwan we learned for 6 years back in middle school and high school in 13 minutes. Props to you!

[@charlestsai3708]

Goes to say how inefficient public education is.

[@willie333b]

And also 4 years of elementary school

[@bctvanw]

Depends on when you learn history... back before year 2000... it was mostly sinocentric learning about Taiwan history. In fact, some history mentioned here is about that... such as Yizhou mentioned here.

[@user-yr7eb7gs1o]

Indeed :D

[@jjc1347]

Wow, it seems like a chunk of the history from the formation of the "Republic of China" and how the ROC considers China mainland is supposedly part of it is not explained in this video.

[@adorablecatmaid]

Pretty sure you could also mention the importance Taiwanese economy is to the global supply chain, especially semiconductors, with major tech companies like Apple and Microsoft relying on TSMC's 5nm chips, which are the latest technology in chip manufacturing

[@matpk]

Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late

[@bloyblin1976]

Yep! Taiwan’s role in economy is more important today than what it was in the history.

[@Commonlogicguy]

@@matpkright, and the majority of the war post 2000 was instigated by whom? You really want to go there with your analogy?

[@Commonlogicguy]

Not going to be important much longer since US is basically gutting the core competency and forcefully taking it back to the states and set up manufacturing there.

[@DejectedCat]

@@matpk You trying to bankrupt his social credit or something....?

[@danielgn7849]

-20 social credit.

[@sandraneves968]

don't worry comrade, general knowledge knows that nothing happened on Tiananmen Square June 1989 🙂🙂🙂

[@hessen5498]

Eggman will help him with his social credit

[@G_FRE]

He didn't even mention the Uyghurs though!

[@maxscania]

+ 200 in patriot act.

[@anghelusz1]

Those comments keep making me laugh 🤣🤣

[@gorzux2829]

Loving so much this new animation and exposition of images, oh probably due to the support from Taiwan in Portugal mentioned while I was typing this comment. Please more of this quality!!!

[@kingswordsc]

After 1949, the defeated side of China's civil war fled to Taiwan. Due to the protection of the United States and China's lack of Navy, China did not recover Taiwan immediately. For the mainland, Taiwan is just a gathering place for losers. Sooner or later, China will recover the lost land.

[@caesar7734]

You did not mention that they had the world’s tallest building from 2004 to 2009.

[@General.Knowledge]

That's true! I grew up with it being the tallest building in the world

[@TheNecropolis20]

Is China going to go after Taiwan ? Russia is going / went after Ukraine in the year 2022 AD.

[@KennyNGA]

@@General.Knowledge you grew up in 5 years?

[@vta2265]

*angry Winnie the Pooh noises*

[@BBarNavi]

-8964 social credit, your execution date is tomorrow morning and the only last meal you can have is bing chilling with lao ganma

[@Emilechen]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5SWm396mamoepI mainland China doesn't need to be angry against the loser who flee to Taiwan,

[@lvjinbin28]

why blame Xi? because you don't have courage to admit a fact, 99% Chinese are more angry than Xi's soft stance on Taiwan and USA, so don't blame Xi, if China is democratic then China will attack Taiwan and USA tomorrow.

[@YouFool001]

@@Emilechen 1. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Taiwan does not seem losing right now. 2. We hate those force their wills onto others. There will be fights when we encounter such lunatics.

[@chunchun9080]

@@lvjinbin28 does the 99% Chinese means exclusively China Chinese or including other Chinese in other countries?

[@GeographyNuts]

This is my favorite video, I love how you explained Taiwan's history

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks!

[@mrusyello]

@People it's a it was ROC the republic of China but after cummnist came on main land of China they replaced by Taiwan

[@bctvanw]

@Safwaan Taiwan was safe, so KMT escaped to Taiwan. It was hard for CCP to reach Taiwan through that water at the time.

[@bctvanw]

@Safwaan Cause and effect… not so good

[@AtlantisRepublic845]

@People Respect Taiwan dude

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Excellent video here, meu amigo português. More than an youtube video, this is a mini-documentary worthy of a TV news report segment. This is true jornalism. Grande trabalho, amigo. Abraços de um fan português.

[@General.Knowledge]

Obrigado!

[@great_channel]

o......u......r......o

[@animatedmichaelproductions]

@@General.Knowledge cadê o nosso 𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗢!?

[@Guitzo08]

@@General.Knowledge to viciado no seus videos kkkkkkk

[@nunosilvacycling6769]

@@General.Knowledge Ganda tuga ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@user-gn2gu1dd2o]

Fans from TAIWAN! THANKS for making the video! TAIWAN NO.1

[@Karl_T]

Thank you for introducing the history of Taiwan to the world. Animations in the video are so delicate, making it easier for foreigners to understand the complicated relationship among east Asian countries.

[@antoninakobzon9366]

I’ve been watching your videos for around couple years just for recreational purposes, but this one is definitely playing quite a big role in nowadays’ geopolitics. It makes a lot of sense since you’re Portuguese 😊 And the first European name for Taiwan was also given to an island by Portuguese, so it makes even more sense now 😀

[@user-yd9cz3dt9m]

I'm surprised that a group of people came across half the world and occupied a piece of land. It's a very glorious thing. How many overseas colonies are there now? Your morality is all lip service

[@AIRJASON2002]

@@user-yd9cz3dt9m 葡萄牙並未殖民過台灣，你是搞錯什麼了

[@fabio7746]

Yes, Westerners invaded Asia and gave a meaningful name XD Why don’t you mention Macau, China? Places occupied by Portugal

[@Maria-vd7cq]

@@user-yd9cz3dt9m I'm Portuguese and I say we never invaded Taiwan. Portugal and China have been business partners and friendly countries for over 500 years

[@bbkiii6712]

This a an excellent brief history of Taiwan. It covered so much in 13 min. I live in Taiwan and watch many of these, but this vid is exceptional. Well done!

[@ricktrickshots2642]

Would be cool if you would‘ve focused more on Taiwen today.

[@General.Knowledge]

I can always do a part 2 more focused on current days! I always get caught up in the history since it's what I like the most

[@matpk]

@@General.Knowledge Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late

[@archstanton6102]

@@matpk Why would it be too late?

[@eyar163]

@@matpk ????

[@eyar163]

@@matpk Compare USA and the nato to the axis!

[@praisebetokek]

Nice video! I live on the East coast of Taiwan. We actually have a huge Indigenous festival going on this weekend. One thing to note is that until the 1980s, languages such as Taiwanese, Hakka, and indigenous languages were persecuted. This is partly due to the politics of Waishengren vs Hoklo people. However, the divide between these two groups is nearly gone with the young generation.

[@leadharsh0616]

Also because of your dictatorial government before transition to democracy.

[@user-yd9cz3dt9m]

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[@user-lq7qc6mk9r]

@@user-yd9cz3dt9m 中國人就是因為你這樣的嘴臉，才會在全世界被視為毒瘤。

[@andycapybara]

hey @heads is the Hakka dialect the same as spoken in Malaysia?

[@thornados4969]

The new Taiwan generation should preserve their freedom and democracy by convincing China to stop blocking Taiwan internationally and instead help Taiwan contributes to the world bodies including the membership of the UN. Taiwan can be a model country for China to change the communist dictatorship to democracy of the Chinese people in China.

[@GarrettMerkin]

Been following this channel for a while and this is one of your best videos. Well done.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice" - Lin Yutang (林語堂)

[@casualpaokfan]

-20000 social points. Congrats for being in jail

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Lin was a smart dude.

[@andachen7473]

that should be USA

[@lvjinbin28]

@@casualpaokfan what is social points?

[@casualpaokfan]

@@lvjinbin28 are you kidding me? HOW DON'T YOU KNOW ABOUT SOCIAL POINTS

[@user-xs9of3hl7u]

Hi, I'm Taiwanese I'm proud of being a Taiwanese

[@had0j]

my life when i first found the social credit memes

[@harrybeta]

我也是

[@taipeistp5660]

丢我们华人的脸，让外国人看笑话。🙄

[@tylerruff6302]

Respect from America

[@edison7300037]

@@taipeistp5660 遵守法律，不要翻牆

[@RuiSilva-rw6vl]

Your videos are getting better and better. Good job!

[@ishaandivgi7635]

Wow, I really like that video. Especially the way how you made that video. You should do it more often!

[@qaq651]

厲害......第一次看到有國外的KZbinr可以這麼詳細的講出台灣的歷史。 感覺好像在複習高中歷史課本喔，超強的。

[@julioduan7130]

台北驻葡萄牙经济处提供的稿子，他只是念一下而已。

[@kaihsiangju]

很厲害 但這個內容最多就是國小國中的歷史程度而已 算是非常簡明地帶過而已 跟高中歷史的強度差蠻多的 但是還是很棒的內容

[@hopdog2619]

感覺他是台灣人，腔調有點重

[@HenOOXX]

@@hopdog2619 呃.. 你的意思是他台灣人但不會念中文也看不懂中文拼音?

[@quofeng]

厲害個頭，教科書上的台灣有什麼厲害？我就想看看外國人是怎麼說台灣的，結果還是照本宣科。

[@danielaustin3650]

Me: Taiwan is a country. My phone: Xi Jing Ping has accessed you location.

[@Mario123007]

Which is funny cuz chances are many people phones are Chinese brand lol.

[@andyyang5234]

Kinda unfortunate that the authoritarian rule of KMT and the later civil movement to democratize had been overlooked, for a non-stop emphasis on its "strategic importance". Yes, driving that point is important, but Taiwan's real accomplishment is as an counter-example to the authoritarian China. Taiwanese people will remain dedicated to living their best life politically, economically, and socially, to stick it up to Chinese propaganda that their system is the best for the Chinese people. Taiwan will fight against authoritarianism, because it suffered greatly under it in the past. There is no way Taiwan will give up its freedom and way of living, and we only ask that the international community start seeing Taiwan as the independent, polar-opposite of communist China that it is, and support it from falling back into the claws of China.

[@freeman10000]

Totally agree.

[@miliba]

Overseas Chinese stand with Taiwan. Fuck Xinnie the Pooh

[@quasar7055]

Cry more, your doom is near.

[@TrendyStone]

I hope you are correct. The genocidal CCP is evil….and wants Taiwan.

[@TrendyStone]

@@quasar7055 Supporting an evil totalitarian dictatorship that wants to squash an independent democracy. Nice!

[@sovhistorian4169]

As a Taiwanese-American its always cool to see my favorite history and geography channels covering it's history, especially in such a detailed and well-researched manner. This is awesome!

[@yuantingkung378]

Taiwanese here, already following your video for a long time and thanks for this video.

[@21Kyzix12]

Really interesting video. There are always lots of videos about the more modern day history and the current conflict with mainland China, but I don't often see people talk about Taiwan's older history.

[@Mark-kr5go]

@no work The original settlers are polynesian. Furthermore, most of China was peopled by other indigenous groups tpp. If you want to get further back, we're all African. Please stop embarassing yourself.

[@algarviomarafado4814]

Fantástico vídeo, parabéns pelo canal. Deu logo para ver que és português quando disseste formosa. Continua assim que vai longe mano.

[@ThePierre58]

Great video. I have trying to research Taiwan and this has increased my knowledge in on giant leap. Thank you!

[@the193thdoctor5]

As a mainland Chinese who has studied a lot in Taiwan history, I am fascinated with how accurate and neutral you presented the information. Even the history of Taiwan is a very disputed topic among mainland Chinese and Taiwanese sholars. One thing is that in the census, "waishengren” is “外省人," which just means people from other provinces instead of name of an ethnicity.

[@OoOoOgways]

Uhhh how do you have access here didnt china ban youtube ,google and stuff like that?

[@the193thdoctor5]

@@OoOoOgways 1. I am now no longer in Mainland China. 2. If you are in China, VPN can do the trick.

[@gtPacheko]

Taiwan é realmente formosa. Recomendo visitar. Ótimo país.

[@OceanRight_]

Mano, qual app vc usa pra editar seus videos ?

[@321__]

第一次看到外國人介紹台灣歷史 而且非常仔細It’s the first time I saw a foreigner introduce the history of Taiwan and I was very carefu

[@teymurbunde6215]

I gotta say that editing is muito bom.

[@nunyabusiness863]

Nicely done. No politics, just facts. Thanks for posting this.

[@silveryuno]

Great Video General Knowledge!

[@rodrickhatton8636]

This was really helpful to me as a person that knows very little about the country. Really informative!

[@inlovewiththerepublicoftai4929]

I would like to visit Taiwan 🇹🇼❤️ peacefully, as a French tourist 🇫🇷🗼😀.

[@JoshayXdanton]

No. Stay away please european

[@inlovewiththerepublicoftai4929]

@@JoshayXdanton don't say to a French man 🇫🇷😁 what he must do. The Republic of Taiwan ❤️🇹🇼 is the civilized version of mainland China 🇨🇳😵. I have been in Taiwan, and what I have seen there makes me come back 😀. As soon as the Taiwanese borders are opened.

[@luxderudder9420]

@@inlovewiththerepublicoftai4929 Il a raison en fait. La situation là-bas s'apparente à de la colonisation de la part de la Chine. Y'a un milliard de raisons de la part des Taiwanais de pas vouloir d'européens, et particulièrement des français, débarquer chez eux.

[@luxderudder9420]

@@JoshayXdanton As a frenchie too, I approve the fact that you don't want us here. Your country is legitimate and we don't have any business to do here since our govt is supporting China's colonisation on your lands.

[@inlovewiththerepublicoftai4929]

@@luxderudder9420 je suis très surpris par ta réponse/conviction 🤔. Elle ne correspond pas du tout à l'accueil que j'ai reçu des taiwanais (qui ne sont pas des chinois). J'ai constaté que la France et les français ont une excellente image auprès des Taïwanais❤️. Par ailleurs, la société taiwanaise est très agréable à vivre et le pays très beau 🇹🇼❤️. Le secteur touristique de Taïwan est durement touché par la fermeture des frontières, et je sais que les touristes étrangers sont impatiemment attendus. Rien ne m' empêchera de retourner à Taïwan.

[@bctvanw]

1. About the people: a. The number of Aboriginal people or mixed by DNA should be higher than 5%. For example, the current president Tsai is a mix of early immigrant Hakka Chinese and Paiwan aboriginal, but she is classified as Hakka. b. In early 1600s, the early pirates and traders included Japanese, but it is often left out. Koxinga is always prostrated as Ming Royalist of China; however, Koxinga was born in Japan to a Japanese mother. c. The rulers of Qing were the Manchus rather than Chinese. Qing only ruled over half of the island until it gave up Taiwan to Japan. Japan actually was the first country to unify the whole island under one administration. d. Waisenren=Mainland Chinese. They are technically not Taiwanese, but they got stuck on the island and became part of Taiwan's population because of Chinese civil war. Most of the first generation of Waisenren think that they are Chinese citizens, while many of Taiwan's elder people of Hoklo, Hakka, and aboriginal people think that they were once Japanese citizens before 1945. 2. There is still no direct prove that "Yizhou" was Taiwan. Actually, it was first proposed by a Japanese scholar from reading ancient Chinese articles to make such assumption in 1919 (when Taiwan was part of Japan). However, later other scholars made other assumptions of proving Yizhou to be today's Okinawa or the islands just off the coasts of China. The CCP and KMT government of China just picked what flavored their propaganda as a prove to show that China "gained" Taiwan that early. This shows some history about Taiwan out there is still "sino-centric" ... and is with weak proves. For example, at least before 1593, Japan started to call Taiwan "Takasagun". As the main leader of Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the time sent an expedition to Taiwan. The writing was kept and is a museum now... rather than some weak assumptions. This important part of Taiwan's history is left out replacing by that weak Yizhou theory. 3. Taiwan was ruled by KMT from China for 50 years; however, after Taiwan became democracy, KMT gains less and less votes. The current government is DPP which was founded in Taiwan in 1986 with mostly Taiwanese. KMT prefers the name of ROC and wanted to retake China, while DPP just wants independent Taiwan. A lot of history mentioning Taiwan skip this little detail can mislead to other to think that "all Taiwanese are like KMT and its followers who escaped to Taiwan after 1949. 4. Taiwan was not returned to KMT China in 1945. KMT was ordered by USA to occupy the island and accept Japan's surrounder. KMT just used the chance to annex Taiwan. USA need an ally to fight agianst the Soviet allies, so USA just let it happen. KMT lost Chinese civil war and escaped to Taiwan in 1949, but Japan did not officially give up Taiwan until 1951's SF Peace Treaty.

[@dmraven]

Actually Japan did not officially give over Taiwan until the Treaty of San Francisco on April 28, 1952. And in reality, although the USA did not have control over Taiwan at the time, the leaders of the countries of the USA and the UK supported Chiang Kai-shek. As a result of that, after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW2 the island of Taiwan was placed under the governance of the (ROC), ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT), on 25 October 1945. That's also why ever since 1945 the ROC had been a part of the UN (United Nations) and not China, until 1971 and then took Taiwans place, that's 22 years.

[@Zero01948]

@@dmraven yes that is absolutly correct as well as the date. Back as early as 1943 the US and UK had already maid deals with Chiang Kai-shek himself about Taiwan. And they did so about a month after the end of the war. The thing is at that point the US and UK already knew a Civil War in China would continue again. They placed their alliance on Chaing Kai-shek because they did not support Communism. But they did not count that the ROC could help fight against Russia since China had its own large war to continue to deal with. That's simply why they supported them as being anti-communist.

[@tftfgubedgukm7911]

Taiwan already had a lot of Chinese influence before the Japanese and European

[@dmraven]

@@tftfgubedgukm7911 very true, the Dutch had a colony in Taiwan for a short time from 1624-1661. But Taiwan was administered by China's Qing dynasty from 1683 to 1895 before the 1st Sino-Japanese War when Japan took it and held it until 1945.

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I found this to be an informative video! Thanks!

[@hzpj]

Thank you for making this video!!

[@litak5079]

I was happy to see your interest in Taiwan, where I was born and brought up, but little disappointed to find that, though main accurate, it is still coming from the Chinese point of view, stemming from the material given by the government exiled from China. From a country who had given the name Formosa, which Taiwan was known for to the western world for many centuries, I would love to see some digging of old documents about pre-Han history of Taiwan, which might be buried in the libraries in Portugal.

[@rolandfadel5356]

Hey li tak how are you doing?

[@user-fi3iz2fw7v]

然而，台湾本来就是汉人的台湾，土著只占2%

[@inverse_of_zero]

Great video, but incomplete without any mention of the movement towards independence.

[@colinchen2638]

*EXCELLENT RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION. KEEP UP THE THE GOOD WORK*

[@jeungbou]

Interesting! Liked the population stats throughout history.

[@casualpaokfan]

I really didn't know you were from Portugal

[@bosanski_Cevap]

He literally says it in every video

[@casualpaokfan]

@@bosanski_Cevap lol I watch him for almost an year and I haven't realised it yet😂😂😂

[@casualpaokfan]

@@bosanski_Cevap what illness do I have and I haven't realised it?

[@bosanski_Cevap]

@@casualpaokfan well he mostly says it fast like "portugal is next which is my homecountry"

[@ruatapachuauruatapachuau9116]

The aborigines of Taiwan and we Mizo look so much alike. 😂😂. There was a time when I visited Taiwan and many of the Taiwanese Missionaries mistook me as a Chinese and the aborigines also mistook me too. Our skin colour and dresses look so much alike.

[@defjam137]

Check out the igorots

[@ruatapachuauruatapachuau9116]

@@defjam137 Thank you. We also have a dance called Cheraw. 😂😂👍. We Mizo have break the Guinness World Record of largest Bamboo Dance in 2010. If you're interested to watch our Cultures and traditions Watch 'Chheih lam' perform by Bangalore Mizo Association. 👍👍

[@kevinpuja]

A trilha sonora na parte sobre o Domínio Japonês é maravilhosa

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Congrats! Great video!

[@matteojaco8642]

Eu e me familia, nos amamos seus videos

[@IapetusStag]

The Sui Dynasty 隋 is pronounced as SWAY. Shi is pronounced as SHIR.

[@ckl3814]

This is one of the fairly accurate video. I would like to point out that from start of the video to 10:20 are basically about the “island” of Taiwan. The actual political and government dispute of current Taiwan and China is simplified from 10:20 to 10:48 timeline . Yes, a mere 28 seconds is really all it takes to explain the China Vs. Taiwan government dispute :)

[@theworldexplained8253]

Hi. Like your videos which are worthy for being a TV documentary. Yours are very short and are simple to understand. Conhecimentos gerais bem executados.

[@akuto17]

Support Taiwan 🇹🇼 from The Philippines 🇵🇭

[@neosaintcolumbiamapper]

The reason why some people know that Taiwan is a independent country is because is feels like a country they have their Government, Currency, Capital, & other stuff that was released as a country and idk if China PR was extremely underestimated to Taiwan as a "Province" because mostly all of the UN members don't recognize Taiwan as a country except some countries including Vatican City

[@user-nl2js1bk1p]

China has already made some deals with Pope in recent years, maybe Vatican will quickly turn in the near future. Vatican only care about the appointment of bishop.

[@jmhsieh7103]

Well actually Taiwan itself isn’t a independent country but rather a province of the Republic of China whose government is in exile on the island of Taiwan. This demonstrated through the republic of Chinas constitution and the legal claims on all of mainland China and the 9 dash line including Inner Mongolia. Kinmen island and matsu island are incredibly close to the Chinese mainland and are administered by the ROC as Fujian province not kinmen or matsu since Taiwan is a province of the ROC. The area code of Taipei is actually 002 since 001 is still given to nanjing on the mainland as it is the capital still. Taipei being a temporary capital legally.

[@bctvanw]

@@jmhsieh7103 Old KMT propaganda here

[@jmhsieh7103]

@@bctvanw indeed although legally Taiwan is a province of the republic of China.

[@theylaughatmynickname4860]

@@bctvanw old KMT propaganda which is still used as the constitution on that island

[@andrerodrigues1114]

obrigado pelo vídeo continua

[@VicenteChenHolaatodos]

Wah! Actually it’s still wired seeing my country be introduced on KZbin haha! But still thank you for telling people the history of our beautiful island. Obrigado :)))

[@scottgordon1781]

It was hard to leave Taiwan , everything just worked , there for 4 months , was in awe . I did some of the history , yet , was so vibrant and organised ! Transport , at all levels ! 1 Rubbish disposal and road repairs , outstanding ! I did refuse disposal in the UK 1968 -1972 , tipped bins ! In Taipei , folks brought out stuff and was sorted :-) Brilliant ! Sure , was a stranger in a strange land , thats travel . Yet made to feel welcome ! traffic lights work ! Got to see how the MRT is expanding in one part of Taipei , will be world class when complete . must see what has happened in 18 mths :-)

[@davidmagyar6093]

I can feel my social credit score dropping down

[@kxtyusha]

Social credit isn’t real

[@Catlily5]

I think in China it is.

[@Doochos]

@@kxtyusha it is. there are chinese media reports and govt documents about it.

[@r_dcruz1394]

@@kxtyusha yeah

[@sesameqq4121]

It really exists. China government is proud of it and regards as part of smart city.

[@NikolasSerpanos]

Very insightful thank you

[@turbine276]

Hi! What's the name of the editing software you use in your videos?

[@inigobantok1579]

You forgot to mention that 67 percent of the global chip and semi conductor production are in Taiwan.

[@WensBlog]

As a Taiwanese, thank you for talking about my lovely Country!

[@WensBlog]

@ᜑᜃᜒᜇᜓ ᜆᜃᜒᜐᜒ ✓ My lovely Western Taiwan you mean?

[@BBarNavi]

@ᜑᜃᜒᜇᜓ ᜆᜃᜒᜐᜒ ✓ TAIWAN NUMBA ONE PHUCBOI CHINA NUMBA 19 DUTERTURD SUXX

[@BBarNavi]

他沒講到白色恐怖，真的不足

[@kxtyusha]

@@BBarNavi China richest country in the world now 💪🇨🇳

[@uki1102]

This video is crazy. I feel like reading my history textbook of middle school. Awesome .

[@paleamigo8575]

Very informative!👍

[@user-nl1hk5pu8m]

Thanks you from Taiwan!❤️🇹🇼

[@ErikHare]

Thank you to the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Center, which is definitely not an embassy.

[@eui2o979]

Which app did you use to editing a video

[@Spineloro]

very interesting, thank you !

[@zyghom]

I spent few years in Taiwan - what a country! What a beauty! What a people! A M A Z I N G! Thank you for this video. Most of the people have no idea about Taiwan ;-)

[@yume6532]

*province

[@oworandom]

@@yume6532 Dont get salty to stuff that you dont even controll my man

[@yume6532]

@@Kai-rust *People's

[@oworandom]

@@Kai-rust Man that Calvin Guy do me salty rn

[@erapunongbayan6067]

-99999999999999 credit score

[@riyanabdurrahman5733]

i've been watching taiwanese netflix series and i wonder why there are several non-chinese looking characters. Turns out, there are indigeneous populations over there. This video really helps my indepth understanding of taiwan!

[@BBarNavi]

If you watched Seqalu, then you'd know that there were Indigenous peoples and they were powerful. You wouldn't have learned it from this channel, which leaves so much out.

[@javidjohn5742]

What series?

[@jmhsieh7103]

Oh yes their are Taiwanese indigenous people although sadly they make up 2-5% of the population compare to 95-98% Han Chinese.

[@danijmartinez]

Great video!

[@bwboy92]

Great history of Taiwan, and this will help a lot of people to understand Taiwan is much more diverse than just another Chinese influenced island. It starts as a Austronesian culture. In fact the 570k Austronesian population exceeds a lot of Pacific island nations population today.

[@gkky-xx4mc]

The 570k Austronesian population mostly comes from Indonesian/Filipino immigrants, though. And Pacific island nations are tiny, most of them don't even have 100,000 population, so not a fair comparison. Taiwanese culture is still mostly influenced by Han Chinese culture.

[@Mario123007]

12:22 lol this made me laugh so hard cuz the 200 new Taiwan dollar is actually by far the rarest dollar bill in Taiwan. To the point many convenience stores in Taiwan have reported to refuse to accept the 200 NTD bill.

[@sys839]

Gonna show this to some friends who still get Taiwan and Thailand mixed up 😅

[@Bapu4President]

Crazy how relevant this video is about to become

[@ivanbarbosa81]

I just realized you are portuguese by the way you Said formosa and pescadores.Muito bem.Excelente vídeo.

[@protix9880]

-500000 social credit!

[@kxtyusha]

Social credit isn’t real

[@SaskStarsFan]

@@kxtyusha you literarily have a PLAN crest as your profile picture... You are apart of the Genocidal regime.

[@kxtyusha]

@@SaskStarsFan Where has the PRC committed genocide?

[@bankerdave888]

Taiwan obviously is an independent and democratic country with highly educated and civilized society, high GDP per Capita and transparent governments elected by multi-party systems.

[@ajidiaz6409]

As an Indonesian, yes, the language and several major ethnicities in Indonesia come from the Austronesian family which originates from Taiwan.

[@RebootingPC]

Thank you so much for this video

[@10verNothin]

Yeeah we're actually really similar to Canada or USA in that we're basically an immigrant nation but like... it doesn't feel that way because instead of emigrating from multiple tiny European nations, people come from all over the provinces of one giant Europe-sized China. Basically we're Canada if Canada's founded by Japan and China. We even have our own natives that we somehow simultaneously appropriate and marginalize at the same time. It's actually sad because we sing their songs and celebrate their traditions, then make them languish in poverty and pressure them to assimilate. Also we're not just strategically important, we're meteorologically important! We absorb Typhoons for China and those Tsunamis too.

[@dennisengelen2517]

Chill dude, in the end we're all just descend from apes that left Africa.

[@Karl_Lin]

@@dennisengelen2517 truth truth

[@jmhsieh7103]

Yeah that is true Taiwan is like a immigrant state although lacking the diversity part compared to the US or Canada. Since the diversity at this point is some SEA immigrant workers and the minuscule amount of Taiwanese indigenous people.

[@jmhsieh7103]

@Safwaan 540,000 out of 23 million people is big?

[@jmhsieh7103]

@Safwaan unfortunately not since they don’t have that much political influence. The Taiwanese indigenous people have a huge grudge against the imperial Japanese although for some reason isn’t exhibited by the rest of other Taiwanese people. The Taiwanese indigenous people tend to vote KMT

[@sireco2345]

és grande mano continua o bom trabalho

[@visitur4914]

Great job!!!

[@thexavierbaca]

I’m laying here and had a random “General Knowledge” question… what are the countries with the most allies and/or ally agreements (NATO, EU, UN, etc.) not sure if that makes sense but 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@noggin48]

Many Thanks, for that video! Before, I knew very little about the island and peoples of Taiwan, but after watching your brilliant video, I can get a clearer understanding of Taiwan as it is today, as well as where it's population wants to be heading, democratic freedom. Just one good idea to prevent the Chinese for getting their hands on on the top chip technology, in case of their invasion, have Taiwan have plans to destroy all of the chip technology, so they are prevented from using it on the rest of the world, as the spoils of war !

[@thescotchirishman3373]

What a great video!❤🇹🇼

[@yingjuchen4633]

Actually, there are so many different perspective that whether Japan returned Taiwan to ROC because according to some declaration ( e.g. San Francisco Peace Treaty) that Japan only claimed to give up the ownership of Taiwan. However, mention the issue of whose jurisdiction Taiwan has been under since the end of the war, and most people will think of the contents of the statements of the Cairo or Potsdam Declarations. Although the 1943 Cairo Declaration does mention that all of the territories “such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China” by Japan; the 1945 Potsdam Declaration demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally, and once again emphasized that “The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out.” However, these “declarations” only state positions and wishes during the war, and although function of the declarations remains, they do not have any legal potency.

[@Shaunt1]

Good video.

[@mamdouh-Tawadros]

Now i understand why the Taiwanese people have pride in their country. Most of the history, Taiwan was not a part of China.

[@ximrade4287]

Uhmm most taiwanese that are proud of their taiwan aren't the natives and when they fled from the People's army they took over the island from the natives

[@edison7300037]

@@ximrade4287they fled to the island and had land wars with the natives 300 years ago because of famine. and that was long before the republic was founded. there was nothing to do with your CCP army at all.

[@crazyshorts4278]

The thing is they are not Taiwanese they are actually fled Chinese.

[@nojusy1992]

Taiwan used to owned China tho

[@bctvanw]

The 1949 fled Chinese/Waisenren/Mainland Chinese/KMT followers only composed of less than 13% of Taiwan's population. Most people know about Taiwan through their point of view and misjudge Taiwan's situation. For example, the current ruling part was founded in Taiwan in 1986. The current president of Taiwan is a mix of early Hakka Chinese immigrant and Paiwan aboriginal.

[@kaohsuan-yun2482]

As a Taiwanese, great thanks for this video, introducing TW history completely.

[@KennyNGA]

Are you tsai ing wen

[@XX-by2dg]

In fact, more than 80% of Taiwanese are of mixed race. The Han people are mixed with the Pingpu indigenous and a few Japanese. Some even have Dutch ancestry.

[@kairon156]

Very cool video. I've always liked the idea of Taiwan.

[@paiwanhan]

Great video. Although you left out the Rover Incident, where US marines landed and failed to reach aboriginal villages. This resulted in the Treaty of South Cape, where US and the Seqalu tribal alliances signed to agree to protect shipwrecked crews in the area. This event and the failed petition by US consul Charles Le Gendre led directly to the Mudan incident, when Le Gendre left his post to act as the military advisor of the invading Japanese. The ROC's occupation of Taiwan was illegal. As the UN charter stated, all former Japanese colonial and Pacific territories should become trust territories. The ROC declared to annex the island immediately after the Japanese surrender. In reality, they never signed a treaty where the sovereignty of the island is given to any Chinese regime. As stated in the UN charter, the future of the trust territories should be decided by its residence through self-determination. Having failed to comply, the ROC and more specifically, the KMT's annexation of the island, 50 years of dictatorial and authoritarian rule, the persecution of local elites, as well as cultural/linguistic genocide were illegal. The freedom that Taiwan enjoys today is hard fought, and honestly the fight isn't over, as the KMT now tries to regain power by selling national interests to China and the CCP.

[@raymondhuang128]

Well said 👏🏻👏🏻

[@ilt4761]

So true

[@jmhsieh7103]

That is not true. The KMT’s party right now doesn’t have too much power and it’s views are not pro-China as in pro-PRC albeit most of Taiwans millitary is pro-PRC. The KMT favors a pan-Chinese identity alongside a Taiwanese identity like Shanghainese being pan-Chinese. The KMT still do not like the PRC although do like to trade with the mainland which has helped Taiwan a lot in trade. In fact Taiwans number one trade partner is actually the PRC second being HK. Although arguing Taiwan is Japanese is oddly imperialist. Also the Taiwanese independence movement is very racist against any identity that isn’t hoklo and is very conformist with the far green being presbyterian Christians who deny even being Han Chinese because they oppose the PRC. Some even say that imperial Japanese is better which doesn’t reflect the fact that imperial japan mass murdered 400,000 Taiwanese austronesian indigenous people over 50 years, or what about the comfort women in Taiwan. Which by increasing efforts of the DPP says that they were volunteers which is shared by the NIPPON Kagi.. The DPP wants to turn Taiwan not into a truly independent state but rather it wants to steal the identity of Taiwanese from the Taiwanese indigenous people All because of politics. This is a big reason why Taiwanese indigenous people supporting independence is so rare because the Han Chinese colonized the island and then now they are taking the identity of Taiwanese indigenous people. It’s alot like European Americans who came and now there descendants claim indigenous descent just to say how not European they are. The Taiwanese Han DPP supporters just do mental gymnastics to satisfy their self hatred of Chinese people all because of this Cold War between the US and China lately.

[@bctvanw]

1946 TIME: This Is the Shame "....confiscated by the Chinese Army that took over the island, under U.S. tutelage" "Formosans complained that the Chinese occupation army was looting stocks, letting crops, refineries, railroads and power plants go to rack & ruin." "Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan." 1955 New York Times: Cairo Formosa Declaration Out of Date, Says Churchill "Sir Winston Churchill rejected today a Laborite suggestion that Formosa be handed over to Communist China under terms of the Cairo Declaration. The future of the island is now an international problem, and the question of its future sovereignty was left undetermined by the Japanese peace treaty, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons." Search the keywords the original articles...

[@jmhsieh7103]

@@bctvanw yeah although this was resolved in 1956 so you could make the case that the ROC was illegally controlling Taiwan although many ROC citizens actually wanted the KMT to come during the initial 1945 return of Taiwan to the ROC. Although things started to spiral since the KMT by this time was taken over by Generalissimo CKS after assasinating his political opposition.

[@BYWObserver30]

You said "Taiwan" -9,000,000,000,000 Social Credits

[@massivecowbreakout7555]

Why is there a $ sign?

[@BYWObserver30]

@@massivecowbreakout7555 cause I'm slow 😂. Fixed it

[@kxtyusha]

Social credit isn’t real

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Very interesting video. Quite suprised that Chinese influence began so late in history

[@booaks2980]

What do you mean late? Taiwan was apart of the Qing dynasty

[@lancetheking7524]

I got absolutely shocked when I heard GK's voice, I thought this would be one of those political videos about Taiwan lmao, tho this history would be nice

[@BBarNavi]

You left out why exactly the Japanese sent an expedition to Mutan in the first place. It was in response to the massacre of Ryukyuan sailors by an indigenous tribe, in an echo of what happened in the Rover Incident a few years prior. In fact, the Rover Incident was said to have been the catalyst for both the Mutan massacre and the Japanese "expedition" that followed. They just did a TV drama series about the Rover Incident called Seqalu. You should really watch it to get an idea about the politics of the era.

[@No_Anime_No_Life.]

i trying looking information that tv drama but what i found is that story where not Japanese and Ryukyuan sailors but the American where get massacre by indigenous tribe...... btw i like Kano (2014), that movie about real history of Multi nation-ethnic baseball and modernization of Taiwan in Japanese rule

[@2213danielyang]

Beside the strategic location impotence of Taiwan. Taiwan also has HUGE influence on not only traditional manufacture supply chain of shoes, bikes, daily basis products..etc. but also on electronic component supply chain. I think if China really invade Taiwan, it will have even bigger impact on global economic than Russia and Ukraine war. This is only my humble opinion.

[@Verinebjep]

This vid was recommended to me and it was next to a recommended video, that video was a social credit test

[@WayWillow]

Very good. Re religion: Taiwanese are 80% a Buddhist/Taoist blended religion. Another unique characteristic of the independent people on the island.