Why everyone’s mad about China’s new map

Because China believes Taiwan belongs to it, China’s been preparing its military for the specific task of taking it over. It now has a strategy designed to overwhelm Taiwan before the US can intervene. Our new channel, Search Party, explains how Taiwan and the US are working to update their strategy before it's too late. WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/2QmIZcTzMgM?si=ycANU38a5BR_DhWJ

At least Johnny and China have one similar obsession : Maps 😂

The Russian island claim is very easy to explain: it's a test to see how Russia will respond. Russia has a lot of territory in Manchuria that it took from China during the century of humiliation. China wants it back. So they are testing Russia to see how strongly they can respond here and will use that info to determine how to push their other claims

Interesting how the map of Israel changes all the time, yet nobody bats an eyelid. Also, the irony of JH being a US citizen and finding it eerie being so close to a country that's serious about exerting its power when no other country exerts its power more than any other nation as the US does.

According to your interpretation that the tenth dash line was added recently in this update. However, when I searched for maps published in 2019 and 2016, both maps already showed the tenth dash line next to Taiwan. Therefore it’s not a sudden change but a constant effort for Beijing to acclaim Taiwan as part of China.

Johnny's favorite topic (maps) combined with current geopolitical events... I would call this a win for the audience :)

I’d love to hear more about the border fence between Myanmar and China.

So why is it legal for Britain to divide the Sino-Indian border?

I like the part that when china is in control of certain area you say "it's CONTROLLER by China", but when India is in control of certain area you say "It BELONGS to india"

⬇ people who wants the Myanmar/China border video!

Myanmar-China fence was built to mostly prevent drug trade in that region. During WW2, ROC sent troops to Myanmar to fight Japanese, but as KMT was defeated by the commies soon after WW2, some of KMT's land forces retreated into the forest in northern Myanmar. After KMT fled to Taiwan, it couldn't afford maintaining supply and logistics of this military presence in Myanmar, and (I might be wrong here) subsequently decommissioned these regiments. However, instead of letting them to surrender to PRC or bring them to Taiwan, they just left them in Myanmar. These militants became the local warlords and started to grow poppies to finance/support themselves. Note, these aren't from creditable sources because it's a dark history for both sides. The true stories are covered by both sides. Only rumors and tales told by people from that region.

I feel like the phrase "recognized internationally" just means recognized by the USA

You often mentioned the international law in places where China breaks it, but when it came to Taiwan you just said it has been independent for decades, which in practice is was, but according to international law - it is not independent at all and it actually is a part of China, regardless of what political system one recognizes as the ruling one over China, which in practice is the CCP.

I think there is a major point missing in this video: Namely, that almost all of these territorial disputes have not simply been created by China’s Communist Party, but have been inherited (and later exacerbated) from the Chinese Republic and to some degree from the Qing era.  These border conflicts are the result of the absolute mess that we call the 20th century, and unfortunately the video doesn’t really reflect that. By watching, one instead gets the feeling that these disputes have mainly been orchestrated by the modern Chinese government. And while there are plenty of gross violations of international laws and norms that one can lay onto Beijing’s feet, these border disputes have a far more complicated story than that.  I also think that this outlook on China’s border conflicts actually minimizes the gravity of the situation, because one gets the feeling that if China was to become a democracy overnight, these problems would go away. Unfortunately, they would not, which may be exemplified by the fact that Taiwan holds almost the same, if not larger territorial claims. Taiwan also argues that the 9 (or 11) dash line is valid - and it has shown little interest to compromise on this stance thus far.  And while I understand the message of the video was to make a point about the political weight of creating maps, its still important to at least hint at the complexity and debatable story behind these disputes - even if there is no time to explain them in a short video, which is of course understandable.

I’d definitely love a video on that fence with Myanmar, I’d be super interested to see how it’s effecting peoples that have mingled and traded for years and now have to give that up for the sake of control.

This video characterizes China as a land grabber, which is not surprising. I think even people with scant knowledge of China know that premodern China has never been a land-grabbing belligerent. What they really mean is that Communist China is a land grabber. But is it? Communist China's territorial management has been studied by Taylor Fravel, a political scientist at MIT, who published a book called "Strong Borders, Secure Nation," concluding that Communist China is a land conceder and has not land-grabbed any of its neighbors. Taylor Fravel is a China hawk, so even he has admitted that China is not a land grabber. There is a land grabber by the way and that is India. Today, the territory of India is much bigger than it was in 1947, and all the land it acquired was through invasion and subjugation. You should find out how India's 'Seven Sister States' became part of India. Talking about maps in 1912, the first full year of the Republic of China (nowadays usually referred to as Taiwan) after the fall of the Qing dynasty, the United States National Geographic Society dedicated an issue on China and with the issue it included a very large and detailed foldout map of China. If you go to the area close to Bhutan, you can see the town of Tawang and the surrounding area, which is clearly within China. Today, Tawang is occupied by India, and the surrounding area is called Arunachal Pradesh by India. In fact, as late as the late 1940s after World War II, the flag of the Republic of China (nowadays usually referred to as Taiwan) was flying high in Tawang. Today, it is the Indian flag that is flying there. And India is still promoting the narrative that India is a hapless victim of an expansionist China.

First of all, it must be acknowledged that he has a strong storytelling ability. He always manages to appear very reasonable, and his animated editing is also very good. If you are not familiar with the topics he discusses, it's very easy to be deceived by him.

I'm from the north-eastern region of India I think these assertion of dominance are concerning We people will never get along to those people We had disputes and what not This video should get viral here in India Rather than Indians focusing on the ongoing war on middle east This is my first time watching your videos And I'm hooked

A dying empire is like a dying snake. still dangerous, but not for long.

Please note that in the video, according to the boundaries defined by China, the people there are wearing the traditional costumes of Chinese ethnic minorities, not those of India or any other country. This strongly underscores a point.