This content was created by David Oualaalou. This content was uploaded by David Oualaalou. This is a YouTube video titled "China: How Past History Shapes Its Present & Future! Geopolitical Trends" (created 2025-09-03). The excerpt is a first-person on-location commentary/walkthrough in Beijing’s old town (Huxi Street), describing historical sites (Shanggouzi/Shanggu Temple, references to Mei Lanfang and the People’s Theater), contrasting old Beijing with nearby modern financial districts, and introducing geopolitical topics the speaker will cover (Yemen, Turkey, Venezuela) along with commentary on the SCO final communiqué and Xi Jinping’s remarks about a shift away from unipolarity and China’s role in a multipolar world.
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of Beijing. In other words, a section within Beijing that is the old town, and I always like to visit those old places. So one place that I'm at right now, it's called the Huxi Street, which is about— and I'm gonna walk you through all this— is about 600 meters long, and this goes back to the Ming Dynasty. So it was called at that time Shanggouzi. So my apologies if I mispronounce the Chinese name. So That's what it was called back then, and it was named after, uh, Shanggu Temple. So that's the equivalency of the new— there are some passengers here, so, uh, so Shanggu Temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty. That's how old this part of town. That's why I was so attracted to it, cuz I wanted to share this with you. So it was renamed, uh, and I'm going to Once again, my apologies if I mispronounce it. It was called the Danlongshan Huugou Temple, or Huugou, Huugou Temple. And this in the Qinghua period, and the Qinghua period was during the Ming Dynasty. That's how far back it goes. And the streets, that's when it was built. So, and of course they changed the name later on to what is called modern day today, the temple. So that's what it's known for. And in the streets are like an important sort of cultural resources, historical sites. And so because it was the former residence of the somebody by the name of Mei Lanfang. So, and that's also included the People's Theater. And they, so in 2011, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce. That's why they established this feature as a commercial street. So I'm gonna walk you through the streets here. Let me switch the— uh, there we go. So we're gonna take a long walk, it's about 600 meters, then I'll go on the other side and show you a few things. So, uh, just to let you know, I wanna— I'm gonna cover in this talk, beside the historical aspect I'm gonna talk about 2 or 3 topics. One of them is Yemen, second one is Turkey, and third one is Venezuela. So I'm gonna give you a sort of rundown exactly of what's going on. I'm keeping up with all this, and I also want you to stay informed. Even though the— and I'm also, of course, is going to talk about the final communiqué of the SCO. I had a chance to listen to President Xi Jinping Words, they were, oh man, man, man, they were so measured and poignant and the message was loud and clear. So sort of, they don't care what the US, whether the US gets it or not, it doesn't matter. But anyway, in any event, I'm gonna be talking about this. Suffice it to say, I'm walking in the old street. If you can tell, there are no sort of high rising buildings. And I was this morning, I went to the financial district districts within Beijing, which is about 3 locations. They have 3 financial districts within the same area. So somebody pointed that to me. He was watching me looking for the directions and he said, where you want to go? I said, I heard about the financial district. He said, yeah, there are 3 of them here. So, so it was very interesting. But this part of town here, it's very laid back. This is again where the beauty of Beijing, in my opinion, is. It's the mixture of the old civilization and the modernization that China has achieved. You still can have both ways when you visit Beijing. You can stay, of course, in the elegant 5-star hotels and all that, or you can, like I do— I prefer sometimes to see the old sections of town. I've always liked this. It's like in, uh, it's like in, uh when I was in Shanghai, I had to go to Qibao, and Qibao is way, way back in time. So I know the light in here, guys, it's not that clear, but again, it's— there's only the regular street light in here, but it won't matter. So the idea of— you're gonna get to see— let me switch this one back up, and you get to see the, the streets. We're gonna get into where there are more lights, so I'm gonna just walk over here. Suffice it to say, I'm gonna start with talking about the his CEO final communiqué. So the key thing that I get out of this speech by President Xi Jinping was that enough of this unipolarity because the world has decided to move on. And the role that China is going to be playing into this is going to be very substantive. I'm still wondering what kind of role that China is going to play because it has to play a role into this. And without it, you know, there is no multipolarity because what other country can you think of as as its economic
