Which European Countries are Most Pro-China?
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Let's talk about how European attitudes to China differ. By looking at a couple of the most pro- and anti-China countries in Europe, as well as where the two European heavyweights - France and Germany - fall on the spectrum.
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I love the clickbait with big green poland as a friend of china and then not speaking about poland lol.
That's true, didn't spot that
They should start adding poland as a big player comparable to italy though
Poland is pretty China friendly though. Their President was one of the attendees at the Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
@@skazka3789 not Poland is less friendly to China than France or Germany. We are the most close of USA, one of first ban Huawei 5g device in infrastucture.
Just to add abit of juice detail, Poles are not happy about the purchase of the main brands of Wodka by the Chinese. So its not a mega friendly, but friendlier than most of neighbouring countires
so wtf is this thumbnail?
Since when did Poland become pro-china EVER?
What’s wrong with it
@@aaxe1766 You. You're the problem.
one of their worst
@@aaxe1766 It's clickbait & doesn't match the information in the video.
I find the thumbnail confusing.
As confusing as Brexit. The British don't understand it, nevertheless are strongly opinionated about it.
@@argiberico Not everything is about brexit. And the UK did well to leave, yeah it hurts to leave your parents house but in the end it pays off, unless you still have to pay for their upkeep like the UK. the UK with as slow growth as it have still beats germany and sweden whom is officially in a recession. This entire channel is just liberal socialist (oxymoron i know) propaganda. They have gotten nothing right in their years of "prognosticating"
The thumbnail is irresponsible… you can’t post something like that and not explain anything about Poland. It’s not even a click bait anymore, just lie.
cry
@@Zigzag5710 ??????
@@Zigzag5710He/she's right tho
@@Pigraider268 I understand but i dont think its that serious . i tjink this thumbnail stems from the fact that poland is a fairly backwards and a “non western” country who alligns themselves with russia and china despite not being true
I honestly clicked on the video, because it showed Romania as the deepest green & I was worried about that. But nothing about Romania was even shown or mentioned once... (or Greece, for that matter)
Serbia joing EU? In their dreams lol. India will join EU before Serbia
It ain't in our dreams, we don't wanna join.
Serbs: We don't wanna join the EU... We don't like it , it sux! We love Putin and Russia!!! We are brothers we are Russians!!! Also Serbs: 70% Work and live in the EU... talking trash about the EU from France,Austria,Germany from they'r Serbian Ghettos and Communities... :D
@@Vide501 then withdraw your application 🤡
EU bad because EU doesn't let Serbia deport minorities to camps :(
I'm sure India EU FTA will happen soon before Serbia will join EU
Saying poland is a good friend of china is like saying that Russia is a good friend of poland...
Russia is a good tradings partner. This animosity is artificial
@@yunusgokcen174 Yeah whatever, I'll let the coment section do the roasting...
@@Gloverfield what roasting? Are you an NPC? Russia is not our enemy, China is not our enemy. The enemy is the USA, who holds abnormal large control of the EU and Nato. And through the EU and Nato, they control us. This war, it was a mistake. We have to call the EU out on this.
@@Gloverfield @Gloverfield what roasting? Are you an NPC? Russia is not our enemy, China is not our enemy. The enemy is the USA, who holds abnormal large control of the EU and Nato.
@@Gloverfield @Gloverfield what roasting? Are you an NPC? Russia is not our enemy, China is not our enemy.
Bit disingenuous to say "Serbia and Hungary support China's one China policy" and neglect to mention that the entire European Union also 'supports' this 'policy'. Sometimes I get a feeling you guys just say whatever you think will sound right to your audience without any consideration for accuracy.
Even USA supports one china policy. Of course one china policy means everything, anything and nothing depending on which supporter you ask. Even Taiwan supports the one china policy. Basically everyone who cared to weigh in on the issue supports the one china policy. Apart from a minority of Taiwanese citizens, everyone supports one china policy.
@@nydydnthere's a difference between supporting it to appease China and actually supporting it. Statistics showost people support Taiwan independence
@@matthewmiller6568That's incorrect because the One China policy is the official position of the US government and the basis of China-US relations. As Blinken reiterated again during his latest trip to Beijing.
@@MJ-revered at the same time the US consistently says that the US will defend Taiwan in the case of an invasion from China and is both gifting and selling billions in military hardware to Taiwan
This is a western propaganda channel pretending to be an independent analysis.
For us in Lithuania, China may also remind Soviet Union, which is obviously not a good look. Although, such opinion is not as prominent so far.
Since when America’s lapdog has an opinion?
Why? That's like saying UK reminded you of the nazis.
Depends if you are close enough to them. Cuz we, as one of their neighbors, we can feel it.
CCP is creepy af. UK is kind in comparison.
your opinion is basically imposed by your master U.S
You guys have a serious problem mixing Europe and EU. Can you please clear that up? As a Norwegian, I'm kind of pissed at not being counted as a European.
But you guys along with your neighbors are even better than Europeans, you are Scandinavians, a well independent and proud faction of your own forged throught out the centuries. Why settle for less?
@@kaiserxblue They can't be better than Europeans, they ARE Europeans. Left-handed Europeans are also Europeans. Green-eyed Europeans are also Europeans. And there is no such thing as "being better". Or are you some follower of master-race myths?
@@dnocturn84 Well so are Russians but I don't see you calling them Europeans either.
@@kaiserxblue I call Russians Europeans, for my part. Because a vast majority of them are. It's of course tricky with these countries that span multiple continents. Turkey for example is even worse, because most of them are Asian.
@@kaiserxblueJust curious do you see Australians as Europeans?
2:05 Hey TLDR guys. Could you please source this information because I follow you dearly and I like your videos, but this number is incorrect to say the least. The total Chinese investment in Serbia is 10.3$ billion from 2009 onwards. It is nowhere near 20$ billion. I would be grateful if you could explain more. P. S. GeoPolitics is my profession. Thank you.
Their source is whatever their masters in the UK tell them to say. Don't put much mind into it.
China: Don't politicize trade!" Also China: We won't trade anything with Lithuanian components because of politics
Would the USA trade with countries that recognize CSA? Would Ukraine accept to trade with countries that recognize the Russian conquest?
"It's political only if I don't like it"
@@hgkghkhgkgh8378America doesn’t hypocritically say not to politicize trade.
@@BrightWendigo except for the countless sanctions. But I guess those don't count.
@@hgkghkhgkgh8378 My point is they are constantly the ones saying not to do the exact thing they do constantly. Simply don't say it
Im proud of my country Serbia to have this mighy nation of China as ally. Eu can't decide for 20 years what they want with Balkans, and they force Serbia to make precedent in Europe to give up Kosvo it's legimite and legal part of land to procide with joining EU in faaaar future i mean wtf.
Mighty nation 😂 Nice propoganda. How about them landsliding birth rates little bot?
@@SpamTown It's free nation at least unlike all mighty westerners with 0 freedoms just follow orders of USA their god.
@@SpamTownlmao I’m in France and We know that if the child birth rate is high in Europe in countries such as UK, France and Germany it is because of the African and the North Africans and the Indians and pakis in UK. The whites are in fact still making more child than let’s say china and Japan but not by a fair margin. We are getting « carried » by the immigrants and their descendants. So if you are living in Europe you are either not living in Western Europe or either a traitor because these peoples brought some major problems.
@@SpamTown Europe has the same problem, and all the other high economy countries. The only difference is EU imports third worlders to replace their own people lmao.
Lithuania must be one of the most politically reliable nations on the EU side of things. In NATO terms, they are an important ally.
Nope, they are too small to matter. There numbers are Negligible
Lithuania talks big game because they have nothing to lose lmao, they were BARELY uplifted to sapience by Europe and still is an economic sink. They are still Eastern Europeans in many regards. While UK, France and Germany have actual economy, industries and culture, and reasons to be against/for cooperation with China other than overcompensation.
in NATO terms they are liability
@@yuliusseraph4973 least xenophobic westoid
@@yuliusseraph4973 Lithuania has nothing to lose? o.O We are literally poking a bear that is our borders attacking it's neighbors. From Europe subsidies, we are nearly don't receive more than contribute, not that far off. You know nothing, you can think nothing of a substance, don't share stupid things that bounce around in your head to others please.
I don't think we can be surprised by Serbia (which isn't even an EU member as detailed), since the 1999 bombing. Serbia is symbolic because it has ties to Russia, so naturally it has been on Russia and China's side. About Hungary, I feel we are separating apart. In Poland today, we are seeing not a Hungary that has remembered the 1956 oppression, but a megalomaniac who tries to stay cozy to Putin. We are so disappointed by it.
A fascist
Neither is the UK. As detailed.
Hungary has internally revisioned history into "being occupied by Germany during WW2". That leads into your point, as in the new dogma Hungary claims it was liberated by USSR.
@@toyotaprius79hahahahahahahhahahahahah like our overlord Biden isn't a fascist
Long live the EU the US and the wonderful Polish people
I love the effort you guys put into your videos!
Czech here. We are still being reeled by the shocking situation in Slovakia where a Putin sympathiser came to power. We remember how China threatened us over our deal with Taiwan despite we didn't see it as a violation of One-China.
Who cares what you see? Don't mess with others' politics
Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾
the European arrogance is unmatched. you don't see it as a violation, so everyone including the Chinese must conform to how you 'see it'
@@whatisayoutubehandlebro What about Pakistani hypocrisies? You claim Muslim but you assault your Muslim friends.
@@whatisayoutubehandlebro What about Pakistani hypocrisies? You claim Muslim but you assault your Muslim friends.
I came from Budapest the airport has Chinese signs translated everywhere didn't except that 😅
lol, really!?
@edc1569 yes all the signs in the airport is translated in English and Chinese also many bank of China ads! Maybe China has a stake in the budapest airport I don't know there should be pics on Google maps of the signs ( Gates, toilets, passport control etc)
The entire country is full of Chinese stuff. I wouldn't mind if Chinese product quality wouldn't be terrible
There’s a lot of Chinese living in Budapest fyi
@@donaldlee8249 yes,yes..., in the famous Chinese overseas territory, called Hungary, there are many Chinese, most of them working for the security forces of coloni... i mean for the forces for prosperity and peace, ALL HAIL THE CCP!!!
Pretty long video to say Serbia and Hungary are opportunistic and France/Germany can't get their Strategic Autonomy/Ambiguity thing working properly.
Serbia and Hungary are neo communists.
Fun fact: After the fall of the SovietChina and Lithuania(and other eastern European states) actually used to have great relationships as anti-colonise anti-great power states.
1:40 what's the source for that "pro China" sentiment graph?
Portugal is saying hi
I love how this guy accuses China of divide and conquer. That is straight out of the US regime's playbook. Look how it has split Taiwan further from the rest of China, how it severed Kosovo from the rest of Serbia, and even broke up Yugoslavia, and want to do the same to Russia.
"I love how this guy accuses China of divide and conquer.That is straight Out of the US regine's playbook' This tactic was always used by different Empires, especially european ones
You mean Vrits right ✅😅
Absolutely, this guy is a propaganda machine always singing in tune to US foreign policy 😂😂😂 Unfortunately the ship is sinking, some are clever enough to understand it 😊
Taiwan has never been a part of PRC
Taiwan was always the ROC!
As a Taiwanese, i cannot literally enter Serbia.
How come? Since when? In my previous company (in Belgrade) we worked with company from Taipei. I was in Taipei with Serbian passport (but we had to get ROC visas through ambassy in Hungary actually). But lots of our partners from Taipei were in Belgrade lots of times so there must be a way for a person with Taiwanese passport to enter Serbia if you have visa. Maybe something changed since Covid.
Almost like cold war borders
kinda.
Except the baltics
We are living in a New "Cold war"
Outside the weather is so frightful. But inside it's so delightful. Let it snow ❄ Let it snow ❄ Let it snow ❄😅
Where do you see it's like the cold war borders?
They're not pro-China, they are pro-business. Apart from trading perspectives, no European country supports nor is inspired by the Chinese model, believe me. Trading with them doesn't imply we're pro-China, business is just business and is a need for our population.
Pragmatism is respectable. Honestly once the west secures it's own chip and metals supplies I will be against the United States' hawkish stance towards China.
Yeah we can definitely see how this is going. CCP literally buying our (ROC, or Taiwan) diplomatic countries away by money.
and what happens when China needs some diplomatic weight thrown around like denying Taiwan's autonomy? sure would be a shame if those fancy new businesses and trade deals evaporated if they don't say what Whinnie the pooh over there wants. Guess Germany didn't learn anything from being so closely tied economically to Russia
What? The technocratic EU government is directly inspired by the Chinese government. Old European countries are now provinces that have the "autonomy" to implement the laws the central government tell them to. They both have a meme parliament rubber stamping directives by non-elected officials, and they both have extensive internet censorship and laws against freedom of speech
100%
Do a video about a list of European countries that are vessels of the United States. That will be a lot I promised.
It would be amazing for Serbia to join the BRICS.
Why?
@@nicolaspoveda3675 because
@@ZoranJovic-li2ee fair enough reason
We should. Chinese president invited us to join.
The UK really can’t afford to be anti anything. The country is so pathetic since the 21st century
So you just cooked it up out of an opinion poll you flash on the screen for half a second 1:36 and do not mention. Peak journalism.
SHOW THE FRICKING MAP OMG
That desk received copious amounts of love from your left hand. Smooth and gentle caress.
lol the mandarin tone of "Xi jin ping" is perfect
Xi jin ping pong
Wolf warrior diplomacy isn't easily forgotten.
"Just a mouse under the foot of an elephant" high praise given how elephants back away and give mice a wide berth, possibly because they are afraid of mice but it's hard to tell what is going on inside an animal's head.
From what I recall, I think scientists believe this is an evolutionary fear from the potential of a mouse entering their trunk?
@@awsblacknight6956see my mind went to disease, but your scenario is 100 times worse
Are elephant actually scared of mice is it that just from cartoon shows?
I think it's prob their instinct of not stepping on other animals. Mice are small and move very fast.
Russia is 40% of europe and by far the most populous country in europe. Even if you do not count the trans ural oblasts, russia still has the largest population in Europe. Why are they not on the scale?
There’s been an intellectual push by poles and Ukrainians as well as their collaborators to label Russia an Asian country which is technically true Russia is both European and asian
@vard - Do narcissists include their ‘victims’ in anything? Have they not been claiming that Russia is ‘isolated’ paying Flying Monkeys ( propagandists) to blacken Russia’s character etc.? Selling WMD and claiming to be Humanitarian? Denying Genocide in Palestine and calling the Palestinians who are defending themselves terrorists? And the invaders playing the victim? Do you somehow expect transparency / honesty ?
Why was Romania green on the map lol?
tbh from the Romanian perspective, anyone who is a friend of Hungary is an enemy of Romania
Clickbait, they are irresponsible.
If you are democratic countries,then you should respect every country...
That's makes no sense at all. I don't see why they have too
There are some people, cultures and nations that actually believe in the values they espouse. That actually have loyalty, and honour, and respect. Both the Chinese and the Serbs have one trait in common - they never forget when you help them. They actually have something called loyalty.
7:01 him... Now where have I seen Germany do this before?
I miss the dislike button, nowdays people are not afraid to misjudge the public for the views(thumbnail + content). About the video, very little information given, driven to confuse the public. Evaluation: 2/5
France, Japan, Australia, USA and Philippines just had a large naval exercise in the West Philippine Sea called Balikatan exercise.
Gangsters in the hood doing everything they could!😅 Bros break it down. Sing it. "We are family. All my brathas, sisters and me!😂
You really should take a pause between pronouncing Vucic and Orban, sounded like Vucicohorban😄
You know, maybe don't put Poland as being pro-china in the thumbnail without explaining your reasoning...
Europe needs Unity.
a desperate effort. US/RU/CN/UK: good dream, honey
You are confusing Europe with the EU. What is the point of the video?
3:00 TLDR News EU..... The Chinese stance is the ONE CHINA PRINCIPLE. The ONE CHINA POLICY is an American held position.
I want to see what happens in the future for those who made deals with the Chinese. I'm not racist but from this situation we will see how things really are on both sides. At the moment they are coming to be producer as we have done for them before but I don't think that they will teach something interesting.
Perfect clickbait. You should feel ashamed
As a Hungarian, I didn’t expect those statistics from the population While a lot of people in our population still support the government, opposition voters are pretty much overwhelmingly anti-China (only a very small portion of them could be classified as pro-China, but they are usually even further to the right than Orbán, and only do that because they really vehemently hate Europe and the US), and there are a lot of public fears about China’s growing influence here. The railways built recently cost a lot, and it doesn’t help that it seems like Orbán wanted to replace EU funds with Chinese loans, so he can steal from them as long as EU funds are frozen. However, we all know what happens to a country when they can’t pay their loans back. There are also a lot of fears about the recent battery factories, as our environmental regulations are probably the weakest in the EU, and they are known to be very polluting. I imagine even some of the pro-Fidesz crowd is afraid of this. Then again, maybe all of this positivity is from government voters, but even in their case, I expected a lot of them to be more neutral. While Orbán is pretty much pro-China, he only very recently started including this in his propaganda. Before that, he bashed the EU a lot, but focused more on pro-Russia views, and didn’t really talk about China publically, doing deals under the table and just mentioning them as the “traditional East” against the “declining West” at most. So it’s surprising that the support from them is that high, as they didn’t talk about China a lot before; really. There is unfortunately also some racism against Asians, which is on the rise recently thanks to foreign Asian workers arriving to our country (they don’t really do anything wrong, but you can imagine how a rural person who never left the village before in his life feels when people speaking different languages arrive).
Hallod haver ebbe bele tetted szívedet lelekedet... És tényleg nem látod, hogy (vagy trollkodsz) mindent vissza vesznek amit az "dremokrata/szocilasta" kormányok eladtak? Lopnak? Remélem is én sem csinálnám 2misiért ezt! De nem a népet lopják meg azzal, hogy eladják a stratégiai infrastruktúrát! Az EU meg a DS seggnyalója évek óta bizonyítja, hogy nem EU érdekeket képvisel hanem az U.S.A csicskása. Rasszizmusról hablatyolsz? Na ne ez a kulcs szó a hitbéli elvtársaidnak erre uszítanak országokon át majd tele basszák illegális alakokkal és ha pl kitennéd német nyuggerként a német zászlót Berlinben akkor a rendörség veteti le veled mert olyat nem lehet? Troll geci remélem meggyőződésből írod és nem pénzért mert akkor egy kibaszott nagy barom lehetsz! Puszikák😁🤣😅🥰
Of course the support from conservatives towards trading with China is high. Same goods at a lower price. As a conservative I assure you that we don't think about global or international objectives such as environmentalism and who we trade with, but only economy and how our lifes go. China trades stuff for cheap. Russia trades oil and gas for cheap. Environmentalism is expensive and Hungary is relatively poor. All these kind of justify our position as conservatives. Most of us aren't even pro-Russia or pro-China. We just don't bother to avoid making trade with them if it helps us. We don't try to make a passive cold war with them. Spending less for more goods means more money remain for the country and its people. And last I checked the entire EU doesn't even reach 1% of the global emissions. When I saw videos with the Just Stop Oil protesters blocking roads in West European countries like France and UK I knew I want that behaviour outlawed as it wastes time, resources and only causes well justified hate.
Well, Hungarians are racist for sure. But than again they dont like anyone.
@@Hardcore_Remixer the problem is that china and russia trades goods for cheap specifically to undermine competition. China wont use sweatshop labor to undermine educated labor in europe forever, and as competition dies chinese goods will increase in cost until we reach a point where we become reliant on china for products. This is the problem with the "conservative" approach you got, because you completely disregard the long term, you disregard your own country and your countrymen's ability to thrive and endure. even enviromentalism is ultimately a long term investments in the enviromental health of your country, aka the ability for farmers to farm without having to fear irregular floods and droughts that could cripple industry. and thats without mentioning the risks of letting countries like china and russia grow more powerful. we saw what happened to ukraine. doesnt matter how profitable the trade is when one madman's ambitions for land could cripple your nation in terms of people and economy for decades if not centuries to come. This is why Hungary is so goddamn poor in the first place. This mentality is why the situation got so horrible for hungary in world war 2. disregard for the long term in the name of short term opportunism.
@@Hardcore_Remixer makes sense.
I don’t think that Xi is looking to … “divide and conquer”; I think it’s a geopolitical trip between China and several European countries; no different to any other geopolitical trip between any other country of the world and Europe. I think the topic of conversation behind closed doors on the table was … Peace Friendship Trade Again, no different to any other geopolitical trip between two countries.
Yeah right.Mean while supporting the bear 🐻 who eats all the sheep 🐑😅
It just so happened "by accident" that Xi landed in Belgrade exactly on the date of 25th anniversary of "accidental" bombing of China's ambassy in Belgrade by NATO in 1999. Yeah.
These scales are probably based on government policies and popular opinions, which can probably differ greatly and very rarely align given that in democracy everyone is suspicious of their government
Germany wants important commercial ties with Russia. We all know how well that ended. Now Germany pursue commercial ties with China. They never learn, do they? In the meantime they criticise countries that run a deficit when their own surplus is only due to their commerce with questionable partners.
The solution is obvious for the Germans to be honest. Fuck the EU, problem solved
Its simple lack of alternatives . Because we Germans have an Export economic. So you need to buy cheap and export for big money. We don't have much ressources so there is not really an alternative. So Germany will always have to take the risk to get cheap ressources.
@@Pointi69 An export economy is unbalanced and it is not sustainable in the long run. Especially not if Germany tries to maintain a façade of credibility, a ethical high ground among its peers and, at the same time, it make deals with the scum of the Earth. I remember very well German politicians blaming Spain, Greece and most of all Italy for their "crimes against humanity" when dealing with refugees. The same politicians who have accepted Russian money to fund their elections.
This, they also forget that China destroyed Nordstream and spying on their government.
It ended when US destroyed the North Stream, you forgot that detail lol.
What about Poland or Italy.
This seems like an unfinished video. The thumbnail is not even mentioned and the advertisement in the last 2 minutes is faar too long und unnecessary
Correction. 10:21. 100% of the countries in the world and the UN support the once China policy. The countries of the world that represent 99% percent of the people of the world and the UN said Taiwan is part of China AND the PRC is the only legal government of China. The other countries that represent less then 1% of the people of the world also said Taiwan part of China but the ROC is the only legal government of China.
No mention of Italy, the 3rd economy in the EU?
They on the China gravy train. Chu, chu yeah.😅
@@hackman669 Belt and Road was scrapped. So no
they are cutting ties, EU stance is clear by now, only Hungary is a pain in the ahh as usual
UK is heavily anti-China? Two possibilities then: -The Chinese must be doing a lot of things right -The Chinese have stopped pouring funds into the British economy, which would explain why British attitudes towards them moved from favourable to unfavourable (as with the Russians)
💯
aka ”I don't like the UK which means everybody who is against them are the ones I like."
EU thought Russia was nice too, but we all know how that turned out, let’s hope Europe doesn’t make the same mistake twice
Russia started the war with Ukraine, not with EU which decided to involve in this.
How about you do a video about Irish politics (such as the rise of independents in the polls)
Should be rephrased to: Which European countries are MOST independent?
In translation, Xi Jinping visited the only 3 independent countries in Europe that are not in the closed-minded European sect of America's vassal colonies, with the exception of Russia and Belarus.
You should comment on the tomorrow elections in Catalonia, it might seriously impact the future of European nationalities struggle for autonomy
China is a tough one to handle, but you nailed it when you said that a more unified tone would be more effective than 28 dissonant voices.
China can't transferring batteries because has a risk of disasters happening during transportation. EU and USA have these strict rules in place for a reason. Remember those disasters in the past? Some ships or planes had issues. But get this, while Europe might seem all strict about it, some countries like Serbia, Germany, and France are actually opening up to the idea of making batteries. It's like they're saying, "Hey, let's make some jobs, folks!" And don't even get me started on the history between China and Greece. I mean, we're talking about navy exchanges going back like 3000 years. That's no joke. And Piraeus Port It's practically a symbol of that ancient connection. But here's the kicker, some folks in Europe are giving China the side-eye over all this. They're saying Europe's got too many crazy rules, you know, making things harder than they need to be. But hey, that's just how it is. Reason is the following.... (others: Greece? we want part of the cake) The Port of Piraeus in Greece, dubbed the 'Dragon’s Head' of China's Belt and Road Initiative, has seen significant investment from China's state-owned enterprise COSCO. While shipowners and the Greek government have benefited economically, local communities and workers have faced challenges. Port workers have protested low pay and safety concerns, while environmental impacts and lack of public consultation have alienated locals. The Greek government, in a financial crisis in 2010, welcomed COSCO's investment. However, there's been criticism regarding the lack of enforcement of EU regulations and engagement with local stakeholders. Addressing these issues requires better enforcement of existing regulations, engagement with stakeholders, and systematic dialogue to balance economic growth with local concerns.
Stop Clickbaiting when you are aiming to be a professional/serious news chanel!
They aren't aiming for that. If they did then they'd get rid of bias.
The problem is for countries trying to have close ties with China, is that the closer they get, the more the country in question better behave themselves, China doesn't have any conditions on those countries, just as long as the government toes the line with China, in other words, to hell with the people in those countries, and it isn't by chance that China is making friends with countries that want to run like a dictatorship, the warning signs are there for the people living in those countries, and I feel sorry for what could happen if they get too close to China and try to show any independent thought. At the end of the day, the only thing that really matters is quality of life and living standards, you have to ask yourself, who is more likely going to deliver that, the EU or China? The EU have a proven track record on delivering that, whereas China, I sense want those countries to toe the line with China's interest, its geopolitics, which rarely is in the interest of the people, but honestly, maybe the EU and west at large, should throw these countries to the wolves, they'll learn far quicker this way, but it would be unfortunate for the people living in those countries as those are the ones that will likely get screwed over, but sometimes that needs to happen, because sometimes people don't want to learn, Hungary is a prime example of that, which should be thrown out of the EU, throw them towards Russia and China and see how well that goes for the people in the country, because honestly, the EU can keep banging its head against the wall trying to help these countries, but unless the people wake up and help themselves, then what's the point? but seriously, the EU has been way too soft on Hungary and Orbán takes advantage of that, it's time to throw Hungary out and let the wolves feast on them lol.
The myth of Orban as the “saviour of Europe” could not be laid more bare. This is the guy who says he can’t wait for the Chinese state to become the global hegemon.
He's right because the alternative is rainbow mafia neoliberal globalist which is a threat to Hungarian tradition and culture.
Actually 5 eye countries (minus New Zealand) are pretty negative on China.
Hi,someone from New Zealand here. We are becoming more negative towards China
What does that have to do with Europe?
@@winedragon guess what country in the 5 eye is in Europe?
@@user-uw5ps6nr8g You couldn't possible mean the one already covered in the video?
@@winedragon maybe?
European Union member states exhibit favorable attitudes towards China due to recent high-level visits, such as the German Prime Minister's trip to China and President Xi's visits to France and Hungary, indicating significant economic incentives at play.
Germany visited China. But China doesn’t visit Germany? That says alot.
@@TheBooban they dont care about american lapdogs tbh
@@TheBooban The German Chancellor just visited Xi mere days ago, Germany isn't some kind of clingy lover thats needs constant validation. At least I hope not.
TLDR, what did you mean by the thumnail? Why do you think we like China?
Everyone likes China .
If EU just let the trade between china and EU run free like a real free market seems like tension would be gone🤷. About quality and price just let the customers decide for themselves what they want
Speaking frankly, it seems there may be some misunderstandings regarding Lithuania's stance, unless they can demonstrate that they have not been influenced by a particular logic, such as that of the United States. On the issue of Taiwan, it's perceived as quite disappointing when a country deviates from its long-standing position. Such actions can be viewed negatively. Moreover, it's puzzling to see that such a course of action does not appear to benefit their nation in any way. For a smaller country to offend a larger one and avoid a fate similar to that of Ukraine is indeed remarkable." This translation aims to communicate the original message's concerns without resorting to derogatory language or personal attacks, which is crucial in diplomatic communications.
Lithuania is an incredible country, just spent a month there and surprised that it is very advanced, clean, peaceful, and great food!
Before coming to China, you may have had misunderstandings about what true peace, cleanliness, and extreme advancement really mean.
@@user-loveyunnan Can you please explain?
@@user-loveyunnan I’ve been to China in 2018 and it was dirty and poverty stricken and Beijing air was so filthy I could hardly see, and it was in the summer.
@@user-loveyunnanI have visited China, and it wasn’t too bad, but please tell me you’re not trying to suggest that your country is better than Lithuania
反正别来中国就行了。喜欢中国的人太多，不缺你一个😋
I think it is pretts simple: some countries need investment, which is lacking. China cam provide that.
What china provides is loans to country that can't afford them and supports projects that are not economically viable, yes China can provide that and does and there is countless examples of it being disastrous for economy.
@@rytisgluoksnys4505BYD is the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the world. Hungary's GDP growth is going to be accelerated by its factory. Not only BYD but also CATL which is the world leader in electric batteries. Orban is very pragmatic
@skazka3789 they are large not because they are good, because they are heavily subsidized by ccp, if you think BYD can have any success in European market, you are clueless on top of the fact ev are still small fraction of car market and ev market has shown slow growth already.
@@rytisgluoksnys4505 wt are the examples? Pls enlighten us.
@@rytisgluoksnys4505 You are utterly clueless if you think they are not good. In fact they are technically more advanced than European and Americans
Hi, would you like someone who helps with the Hungarian pronunciations?
sz is pronounced like Polish s, and s is pronounced like Polish sz.
@@pbworld7858 i do nit speak polish friend. Nie rozumiem bo esztem vengjerkom. :) As a hungarian I wanted to offer them my help. :D
@@defcotheone3241 Hungarian sz is like English s and Hungarian s is like English sh. Szia
@@defcotheone3241 Szia or see ya
@@pbworld7858 na ide figyelj kis barátom. Nem értem mit nem értessz. De azt irtam nekik, hogy nem szeretnének-e valakit aki segit a magyar kiejtéssel. Mert Debrecent nem Debrecsennek mondják. But thanks otherwise, we need more friendly people.
I'm proud of the UK taking a firm stance on recognising China as the threat that it is, and its quick response to the HK security law.
UK has the worst relationship with China because of Hong Kong issues, UK accused China of breaking the Sino-British declaration, China accused UK of the ambition of recolonization. Majority of Hongkong people still prefer British rule evan after 26 years of handover to China
@@yipzoe3865 Yeah they have a saying there, "we'd prefer British dictatorship to Chinese democracy", which says it all really.
@@ricequackers the so called Chinese democracy means no democracy at all. Only the proChina people can be elected and they are puppet only, they can't decide anything, they just obey the instructions from Chinese central government only. During the British rule, we enjoyed much higher degree of freedom, the colonial officers would listen to our opinions, they rejected the unreasonable instructions from their prime minister to defend the interest of Hong Kong sometimes, UK gave very high degree of autonomy to the colonial officers and they could make over 90% decision by themselves
I don't know about them, but I'm very pro China 🇨🇳 despite my country being its worst enemy. Plus, it's better to side with China 🇨🇳 than to side with the European Union 🇪🇺, Islamic ☪️ countries, and obviously Russia 🇷🇺
China is an authoritarian shithole. Having a failing president for life will be the decline of China 😂
Most muslim countries are pro-China anyway
TLDR is the reason I ended my subscrption at Nebula.
Cry more please
Ah, I remember your country pins.
But, usa also supports one china policy. As long as its nonviolent. Which is also chinas policy. So all are in agreement.
On paper. In practice, not a chance.
different countries have different interpretations of one China policy, most western countries supports "there is only one China", Serbia and Hungarian support "there is only one China and Taiwan belong to it"
@@freethinker810 if you ever looked at the label of any of the electronics made in Taiwan, it says ROC, which stands for Republic of China. Even Taiwan thinks it’s China. The fundamental disagreement is if it should be a capitalist or a communist(*) system. I think the unification will happen through a ballot when the question is resolved one way or another. China would clearly like to unify with current prosperous Taiwan, i don’t think they would want to destroy it first through ground invasion just to get unified when the support for unification through a ballot is rising, the flow of people moving back and forth is high, people from Taiwan going to college in china, economic ties getting strengthened etc.
I am a Bulgarian and i can say that for Bulgaria, WE LOVE RUSSIA AND CHINA. We are brothers with the Russians and we support them and our common Orthodox Faith and our Slavic Brotherhood. We also support China because as Macedonia is Bulgarian, Taiwan is Chinese!
Actually Taiwan has never been part of Communist China, not even for a second, and the Communist China dictatorship has no credibility to represent or control even the people of Mainland China let alone the people of Taiwan because it has never been elected in a democratic election. Even if Taiwan is historically part of China it is not part of Communist China any more than is South Korea part of North Korea. Don't cater to oppressive dictatorships. It makes you look opportunistic, amoral and somewhat pitiful and pathetic.
Macedonia is Greece, since ancient times.
@@geofflepper3207What a ridiculous logic. Mainland China and Taiwan are both Chinese territories. What does it have to do with which ruling party? The ruling party should control all the territory in China. The ruling party has the obligation to safeguard the territorial unity of the country. The Communist Party of China is composed of Chinese people. Political parties, this is legality. Did the Creator tell you that you must vote for it to be legal? As a Chinese, I don’t feel oppressed. I feel very free. I feel that there are even ancient monarchs and nobles. Using political correctness Restricting freedom of speech and using political manipulation to create ridiculous confrontations to fake democracy is oppression. North Korea and South Korea are independent sovereign states, but Taiwan is not. Taiwan was not an independent country before, is not an independent country now, and will never be an independent country in the future. Now it's just a place ruled by another Chinese party
@@user-xq2kb5lk2j Sure, Taiwan is an independent country. It is older than the CCP. It is all that's left of the previous, more legitimate government of China. The CCP hasn't won the war against the Republic of China, it just forced them off of the mainland and established a new country where they had power. The only way both mainland China and Taiwan can ever be legitimately under a single government is if the ROC is returned to power over the whole thing. But of course, we could even go back to restoring the Qing Empire, since the ROC was a rebellion against them before the commies rebelled against the ROC. Anyways communist governments are never and will never be legitimate.
Since only 51% of Taiwan’s population is Taiwanese, it is awkward for you celebrate Lithuania’s “Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania”. The office flies the Republic of China flag while it excludes 49% of the population under ROC control Only 40% of Taiwan voters support secessionist candidates, 60% favor continuing peaceful relations with the mainland You are misinformed
Macron first talked about strategic autonomy and that Europe may die, and then he met with XI, who has a plan to colonize Europe and divide it investing in countries like Serbia and Hungary.
LMAO they don't even put Czechia on the map in red and non-EU countries in green. Poland is not even mentioned once in this video despite being shown in the thumbnail. Indie journalism at its finest
Hi randomly scrolling hooman take care of urself :)
Okay😂
Everyone (almost) is pro money
Finally someone said it.
Always liked Lithuania. We all should be like them.
Neat
Poland learned their lesson already, non of what China promised was fulfilled
way better than allying with the US
???? when?
The EU needs to start thinking for itself instead of being dragged into the US’s disastrous foreign policy.
That's specifically what the EU has been doing. It doesn't mean they should unconditionally adore China.
You're right. The EU/Europe needs to be more aggressive about decoupling from China and supporting democracies throughout the world against authoritarian states.
European Army More investment and trade with Africa Nuclear reactors 👍
@@mnm1273 that’s exactly not what they have been doing. The EU does whatever the US wants it to do. The only one showing some backbone is France!
@@lcoyle1998 by supporting democracies you mean invading other countries like Russia or overthrowing democratically elected governments or supporting genocide like the US!? 😂🤦🏽♂️ The war in Ukraine could have been avoided if there EU had a backbone and prising it’s own foreign policy instead of running after the US like a lost puppy! Decoupling from China is a pipe dream, that had to be done decades ago. If you think inflation is a problem now, wait and see what’s going to happen if the EU tries to decouple from China 🤦🏽♂️.
I don't understand.. We speak about Lithuania with less 3 milion of people and not of italy, Spain and Poland
Guys why don’t you make a video about the university protests in amsterdam? Student got beaten, and bulldozed by the authorities!
if majority of people dislike the government, they can click them out with their votes, can people in China click out their government with votes? Do forget the massacre in Tiananmen square in 1989
@@yipzoe3865 Robot, stop the behaviour of brushing comments in the comment section, you are caught in a cocoon of information created by the western media. During the communist era China could not trade directly with foreign countries and had to use Hong Kong as a transit point for trade with other countries, Hong Kong prospered because of this and it was China that made Hong Kong what it is. After China's reform and opening up, Hong Kong's economic status was replaced by Shenzhen and Shanghai, and Hong Kong's prosperity was a product of a special period. Hong Kong's prosperity was a product of a special period. Now that Hong Kong's economy is fully supported by China, Hong Kong will slowly return to its rightful position.😅
Victor needs to support his “own” autocracy 😅
You mean the same way EU does by being colonies of the US? Ok, show me proof and evidence of Hungary being a dictatorship and Orban being a Dictator. :D
Aren’t we all pro-China in a way? For the sake of transitioning to a carbon neutral future, not only we but the entire West are heavily reliant on photovoltaic panels manufactured in China… That’s one of the primary reasons why solar energy is cheap for the time being. Edit: I’m just glad we didn’t designate the same magnitude of wind turbine manufacturing share to China.
Look up their emissions compared to ours. If the west wouldn’t be so naive, we’d be very anti China, also if we believe climate change; they emit a whole lot, and doesn’t seem like they care to move away from it.
just because you use a pc doesn't make you a pro at it 🤣 so no
@@sutenjarl1162 “Being a pro” You can tell that to the EU Commission or better yet, the American politicians.
@@mab9614 I would but america doesn't have politicians just paid actors 😆
No, im not pro china having monopoly over our renewable energy supply lines. Or us outsourcing our manufacturing to them.
Chinese government needs more chill.
Xi Jingping's surname is pronounced "see", not "gee"
BRO I was expecting him to talk about POLAND, and OTHER countires coundt care less about what UK thinks and whats Lithuanias standing on China
Nice
Chad Lithuania. Gz from Poland
Yes Bulgarians love China!
Majority of Hongkong people still prefer British rule evan after 26 years of handover to China, they prefer to be a British colony rather than a Chinese city, why? If Chinese Communist government really treat their own people well, how come majority of Hongkong people prefer to be ruled by a foreigner?
And that is why Bulgaria will stay poor 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@user-dt5nj3uk2s Yes after joining EU we are even more poor !!!fact!!!
@@yipzoe3865 Robot, stop the behaviour of brushing comments in the comment section, you are caught in a cocoon of information created by the western media. During the communist era China could not trade directly with foreign countries and had to use Hong Kong as a transit point for trade with other countries, Hong Kong prospered because of this and it was China that made Hong Kong what it is. After China's reform and opening up, Hong Kong's economic status was replaced by Shenzhen and Shanghai, and Hong Kong's prosperity was a product of a special period. Hong Kong's prosperity was a product of a special period. Now that Hong Kong's economy is fully supported by China, Hong Kong will slowly return to its rightful position.😅
@@user-dt5nj3uk2s Stay poor because of spending less? Doesn't make sense.