This series was produced by CCTV China. It is no doubt today that China is one of the most terrifying emerging power in the world. Many magazines or articles predict that China or India will overpass the US in the next few decades. This series shows their Chinese people's ambitions. This series discuss every super powers in the past or nowadays about the mechanism, the boundary conditions and the reasons for their success. These countries includes Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, British, France, Germany, Soviet Union, Japan, and United States. Every country took its own historical opportunity to become the major domination of the world. Such discussion generates a lot of buzz within China as mentioned in some newspaper. No matter whether the China will become the next super power as the media or Chinese people expect, this series can always be a good media for us to understand our world nowadays and the contemporary history in the world.
Be a Taiwanese, the funny thing learned from this series is that Taiwan was found as Formosa by the first super power, Portugal, then governed by the third super power, Netherlands, and then colonized by the other one, Japan, and finally controlled by the current super power, United States. It can be said that we are so internationalized.....ha...
Such a educative series can always help us understand where our position is even though we will be never in the list of super powers. The series still teach as how to find and hold our own opportunity. Hope one day we can be the Netherlands in the series ....... as long as we will not fight each other anymore. The vision should take further into the world rather than the political opponent as we are doing now.
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