#PRC: Chinese history and the Prigozhin Mutiny. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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#PRC: Chinese history and the Prigozhin Mutiny. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-27/the-russian-mutiny-drew-parallels-in-china-with-a-massive-medieval-rebellion
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye of the World. I'm John Bachelorette Gordon-Chang, my colleague and friend. |
| 0:10.4 | And we welcome Charles Burton of the McDonald's Lorry Institute to take us into history. |
| 0:15.1 | Eight century AD, the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi disturbance. What did Russia think when |
| 0:23.2 | Purgosan send his battalions up M4 towards Kremlin? They thought of several events in the past |
| 0:31.4 | 1991 or 1917. What did the Chinese think? Charles, a very good evening to you. What was the |
| 0:39.2 | Anxi disturbance that might have wiped out a six of all humanity? Might have. Good evening to you. |
| 0:45.2 | Good evening. Yes, I mean it was, you know, disastrous in terms of the human and economic |
| 0:51.6 | costs, but essentially the Tang Dynasty under the Emperor's friendsong was doing extremely well |
| 0:58.6 | at that period. And economically they were considering much more freedom of economy. It was a |
| 1:05.6 | dynamic multicultural society. And Chenzong had a concubine, the voluptuous and beautiful |
| 1:13.3 | Yanguey Fay, who was of the Yang family that was the family of the previous dynasty this way. |
| 1:19.5 | You know, quite a common thing to marry someone from the previous dynasty to sort of dampen bad |
| 1:25.0 | feelings over the change. And somehow or other, a gentleman called An Bouchan came into the |
| 1:33.5 | favor of the concubine Yang, who adopted him as her son. And the concubine convinced Emperor |
| 1:40.9 | Chenzong to give him the right to control a considerable portion of the dynasty and 164,000 troops. |
| 1:51.6 | Subsequently, this gentleman who, you know, had no connection to the Tang Dynasty really, |
| 1:57.1 | we don't even know where he came from, but apparently was a figure that was able to |
| 2:01.3 | ingratiate himself to the Emperor. And who the Emperor built as a result, a beautiful mansion with |
| 2:07.2 | gold and silver and and every modern convenience of the eight century available in the Tang Dynasty. |
| 2:13.4 | Anyway, he then rebelled taking advantage of natural disasters, discontent over the Tang |
| 2:19.6 | Dynasty's extravagance, ethnic tensions and staged a coup against the, against the Tang Dynasty |
| 2:30.0 | and established the Yen Dynasty. It only went through from 756 to 762, I think, but was disastrous |
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