Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece and Council Member of the Progressive Worldwide, spoke at ‘Europe in opposition to the chilly battle – China is just not our enemy’ on Saturday 23 October 2021.
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Agree with you. US manufactured Cold War is irresponsible, dangerous, & outright loser mentality
all these wumao propping up the propaganda. its not america starting anything. its the terminally insecure CCP
China is going to collapse and also usa will collapse
I am not sure who is a worse President… ignorant and bellicose Trump… or sleepy Biden who keeps mumbling that Chinese Communism is still a threat to democracy from the 1950's popular "cold war rhetoric" record.
Capitalist economy doesn't make sense. How can 'printing' save anything?
The clear and present danger is countries wiping out the oceans of all edible creatures….that shuts down the planet before ‘cold wars’. Let’s do that first.
Shame such an intelligent bloke has been sucked in by the US propaganda re Uygurs and Hong Kong to justify the cold war that Varoufakis condemns. Democracy is no ideal to hold up. It certainly doesn't guarrantee compassionate and transparent governance.
I agreed and fully support human rights but in HK case, the riots were instigated by foreign power. Police and locals received far worst revolt from the clueless young demonstrators who doesn't even grasp the real underlying reasons of their demonstration, not to mentioned destroying public property smashing the shops, that's arson! In Xinjiang case, they were fabricated lies created to instill western countries especially NGOs and politicians to criticize China's peaceful way of eradicating radical thoughts of the locals which can lead them into joining terrorist or extremist groups. Its still better than using artillery.
DONT BE FOOLED EUROPE HAS NO RESOURCES AND NOTHING TO TRADE SO IT WILL ALWAYS ALLIE WITH AMERICA A MERCENARY EUROPEAN COLONIAL EMPIRE DEVOTED TO THE PLUNDERING OF THE WORLD FOR IT IS AMERICA WHO ROUTE ITS PLUNDER TO EUROPE TO SUPPLY IT FOR EUROPEANS ARE THE ENEMY OF ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I concurred with Louise Robinson and disagree with you Yanis. The Uyghur genocide is also a farce so as the authoritarian accusation. If China follow the US way or the west way of democracy, the death in chi a would have been millions due to covid. I suggest u go and visit xinjiang.
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Yanis, you might want to look a bit deeper on Xinjiang and the Uyghers, and what transpired in Hong Kong is 2019-2020.
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I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another.
When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire.
Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium.
After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government:
1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free.
2. Make opium legal in China.
Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French (with supports from the US), started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor.
In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance. These ,8-Robbers were: Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire (including India), France, USA, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris.
In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone.
Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles.
Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from.
In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height.
For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China.
Everything China does is negatively reported.
They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor.
They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US.
They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US.
When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices:
1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists.
2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes.
China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky.
During the pandemic,
When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman.
When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers.
When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated.
Western Media always have reasons to bash China.
Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good.
Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world.
They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars?
When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down.
The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad.
China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not by looting the world.
I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.
Karma will fall, on those who did dirty job. Just Covid 19, those who did it, will feel the pain. But those Polilticians got NO feeling at all. Hundred of thousand of their citizens die, they are innocence
China is doing great things and has a cultural tradition of honor above all.
Another guy with a right head. ✅
I simply click into this video because he looks like Voldemort in Harry Potter 😂. All these geopolitical BS, honest, everyone knows what’s going on and everyone is just talking abt what they want to say. No point waste ur life such issue, it’s purely political.
I agree with Yanis that USA interest in stirring up conflict with China is to disrupt their progress in big tech & finance, so I wonder why he’s simply framed the recent violence in Hong Kong as a student led movement. The fact that it’s one of several Chinese centres of finance is just a coincidence ?
USA Empire has no interest so-called "democracy"
China-PRC is by far more genuinely "Majoritarian-Rule" democratic than USA or Europe in both 21st Century (now) and last 20th Century.
it's unfortunate Yanis Varoufakis gets that "whole process" democratic aspect of China-PRC completely wrong with his bizarre FALSE "totalitarian authoritarian" narrative misapplied to China-PRC.
xingjiang and hk are a part of the us war effort. you got confused.
Stop communism China otherwise it will spread dictatorships to the world.
He’s pulling his punches even now
Coocoo for Cocoa Puffs….
I from Malaysia I dont agree u about hk roit they just over doing and crossing the red line. No country allow the citizens play with treason and request independent ..uodate I can see many people no agree with u on hk and xinjiang
Another mouthpiece of CCP propaganda..by a fool willing to sell his soul to appease the evil China is under Xi, the CCP and PLA.
I hope Yanis revise his position on HK and Uyghurs jihadi, his kantian a priori fundaments are making him terribly wrong on those issues
Yikes, the Chinese paid commenters are in full force here.
A shallow westerner.
Agreed on everything except the failure to understand that HK student protesters and Uighur issue, is already part of the Cold War on China.
HK protests were financed and supported by foreign powers in plain vision to all and Uighur issue is not even an issue, but a constracted issue financed by warmongering politicians and ASPI.
I hope that Yanis just haven't research about these enough yet and may have been misled to conclude the wrong conclusions.
I appreciate many if y our well- elaborated thoughts. I do, however, urge you to study the Chinese political system in more depth, and also investigate the truth about the Uighurs and about the Hong Kong riots. I think you are buying into American propaganda to try to weaken China. I’d call their political system very closely managed rather than just authoritarian. It is doing quite a few things that the US should do rather than let it’s industrial capitalism have free reign and destroy the future f or much of the middle class.
Anyways, I appreciate the open dialogue on all of this.
Dear Yannis? At what point were students being beaten up in Hong Kong? You have zero evidence for it. What you heard were the words "human rights" which for western liberals is a hypnotists cue to shut down their brains. Yannis has a lifetime of brainwashing as much as any westerner. He can debunk the trade and economic lies because he has closely studied the the economics. But the human rights in China he has no experience of. His sceptism is absent and the ruling class hypnotists can therefore project anything they want into the gaps of his knowledge. Anything Yannis thinks of HK, XJ etc is not based on evidence but MSM stories.
Maybe Yannis can use his economist brain to figure out why a high-tech society like China, with robotic harvesting and planting machines, would resort to slave labour for cotton picking. The economost in him knows it is nonsense for the very reasons capitalists switched from slaves to exploiting workers centuries ago. But his liberal brain needs to accept the bogeyman of communism. And so he will swallow irrational lies that contradict his rational experience. Its faith based politics. The faith being, don't believe Chinese can ever do human rights and democracy better than Europeans. He's Greek godammit. They invented democracy and no lesser race is gonna show them up.
Message makes sense to me.
Varoufakis, you are clueless about Hong Kong and other parts of China, and need to educate yourself more on that matter before repeating nonsense you've read in the mainstream western media. HK riots that were funded by the NED and Uyghur jihadists were real and were dealt with by Beijing in an effective and humane way that was completely distorted by the west. You would never support violence and terrorism in Greece, so don't be a hypocrite by support it when it comes to China. The Chinese government is loved by its people and puts to shame the western systems.
Your socialist- hypocrisy, anti Christian ideology attempts condone the Chinese Communist Communist Party's Wuhan designed and released COVID- 19. Further, the Chinese Communist Party harvests and sells it's citizens organs for profit – Capitalistic organ peddling. Your socialist state under you would not exist, But for Capitalistic intervention, repeatedly.
Yanis, now you have lost my respect.
You can create convincing arguments to support a lot of positions in today's world;
But today's world demands not an intellectual stand but a moral one – even if there is relativity involved.
CCP is brutal regime, that has killed more of Chinese people than all the wars combined.
CCP is the modern day thug , a cancer on civilization.
Chinese government be fighting back hard AF in this comment section
Seriously, Yanis, you don’t know the truth about Xinjiang? That it’s all lies and fabrications by the West – started by a guy called Adrian Zenz, who’s paid by the NED, to write a fake report which was based on allegations and zero facts. Please google and read Adrian Zenz’s report and make up your own mind on that. Please also watch Daniel Dumbrill and The New Atlas (Brian Berletic)’s take on that on YouTube where they debunk all these lies.
Also, Hong Kong – have you seen the violence from the students? And you support them? They’re just US backed puppets who’s now shouting for “democracy” which they never had under the British rule. HK belongs to China. That is undeniable. Has always been if not for the Brits plying the Chinese with opium before stealing it for 99 years.
Authoritarian government? Explain! The Chinese brought over 600 million people out of absolute poverty – the most remarkable achievement in human history. A study done by Harvard University shows the CPC has over 95% approval rating from its people. It’s highly unlikely they’re able to achieve this by being authoritarian.
Varoufakis is distracting us with irrelevant financial bla bla bla bla. China has for years been encroaching MILITARILY on its neighbors, not one or two of them but eight or nine of them, seizing international waters and sovereign waters of other states and claiming them as its own. It has seized sovereign territory belonging to India and Bhutan. It has annexed Hong Kong and imposed a brutal police state there.
Yanis, the 'Uyghur Genocide' has been debunked by GRAYZONE, Daniel Dumbrill,….already.
That's how grateful the US is when China saved them during the 2008 crash. I disagree with your assessments of the HK police. The HK students beaten up by the Police? Did you see how these rioters tried to grab the policeman's gun? How these rioters beat up innocent HK citizens when they tried to clear the roadblocks and got hit on the head with a steel plate? the taxi driver who got beaten up so badly that he needed to be hospitalised? All of these were not reported in the western media and hence you did not see them.
Man, the west's omnipresent propaganda on all things the US state department deems "enemy" is really doing it's number even on socialists/anti-imperialists. Sad to see Yanis being gaslit like this too, but at least his overall discussion is still based in reason and well-meaning.
Fact: China is now the new global leader along with the Russians meanwhile We(USA) are in clearly and fast decline now!
Everyone is mad at Trump 😀 But the fact is that he didn't do anything different than every other US ruler. The cold war was started with Labarack Obomba's so called "pivot to Asia" where the military was pivoted against Asia.
No one is born a terrorist and China's anti-terrorism measures are definitely the most humane in the world!
OMG, I stumbled across this guy by accident and found immense intelligence between those ears. Apart from Lee Kwan Yew, he is probably the next best person to listen to.
It is dumbfoundingly ridiculous that Biden endorsed all the dumb things inherited from the Trump administration instead of over -turning or reversing them like Donny did with Obama's achievements !!
Glad you mentioned how China bailed them out to the tune of billions of USD. something you rarely hear in their anti-China rhetoric which is manufactured to build a case for when they start their war offensive against China (cf Iraq's invasion based on Weapons-of-Mass Destruction accusation; Covid-lab conspiracy is another red herring, as is HK, Taiwan. Human Rights issues.)
What beggars belief is their arrogant self -righteousness when they have failed in epic proportions to recognize the human rigjts of their own Black Citizens, resulting in centuries of atrocious racial injustices, which is ongoing still !!
The US has only themselves to blame. Take a good look at where you went wrong as a country & self-correct if that's at all possible now (given the huge opposition & resistance to fix any flaws whether financial, economic, social – crime, drugs, poverty, etc.) Performing a Tonya Harding dirty assault on your opponent because they are winning is NOT a solution. If China loses, you lose too. Big time !! If your internal affairs is such a mess what right do you have to meddle with the world's foreign affairs ?? NONE !!
The U.S. started this war with China because they are worried about their growth. They did against the Japanese in the 1980s and basically stagnated their growth for 20 years now.
Varoufakis!!ha!ha!ha! The capitalist speaks against capitalism?! What a hypocrite!! This guy is a real clown!!
VIVA CHINA!!!!! FU..CK THE HYPOCRISY UNITED SNAKES!!!!!