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China doesn't even imperialize as hard as America. They have this slow thing on taiwan and some of the nearby countries but they're not going to like Iran and bombing the shit out of it
I guess we don't count Xinjiang and Tibet because everyone's already used to them being part of China
Imperialism only comes from the imperial region of the US, if it's from China it's sparkling liberation
The People's Boot!
The imperial valley is not in the Empire State… where do they grow imperialism?
Or any other minority in China
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-set-pass-new-ethnic-minority-law-prioritise-use-mandarin-language-2026-03-12/
But don't worry, some dutch guy from mom's basement living on welfare will tell us that it's not what it looks and it's actually good for unified diversity of all people
Just read the actual law that Reuters is talking about. It explicitly guarantees minority language rights among a variety of other protections for ethnic minorities. Acting like teaching mandarin is imperialism is absurd. It’s a constructed language designed to be the lingua franca of China. Even most Han Chinese do not learn mandarin as their first language.
I guess we don't count the Confederate States of America because everyone's already used to them being part of the USA.
Me when whataboutism
Yet another example of how "whataboutism" just means, "trying to apply consistent standards and definitions instead of favoring Western countries."
I mean if we're reaching that far back we should probably talk about all the states that used to be independent now a part of China. Let's just say that unification wasn't a peaceful proccess and involved a healthy amount of geneocide.
This is probably unpopular, but Taiwan is imo not a good example of imperialism. Taiwan is where the old government has fled to and where the government there officially still claims to be the rightful goverment of China. Their official name is republic of China, which obviously leads to tensions with the "people's republic of China".
Imperialism is when a nation excercises significant influence and control over other independent nations. Taiwan is not an independent nation, they are a rival/competitor with similar regional claims.
A better example of Chinese imperialism could be their economic initiatives in Africa.
Or their occupation of Tibet and East Turkestan
East Turkestan has never existed in history, and no natives on Xinjiang have ever expressed a desire for that to be brought into existence. Turkish Terrorists have though. Weird how Uyghurs in Turkey live a worse life in all respects than those in Xinjiang now though...
Also No. They didn't occupy Tibet, they freed it. But hey if you want to take the side of a child sex slave owning pedophile like the Dalai Lama...
Wow, that's racist
...it's racist to say the East Turkistan movement, created in 1992 by the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front organization responsible for hundreds of propaganda outlets and colour revolutions across the many states of America's and Israel's enemies, is a terrorist movement, despite the fact it has been linked to more than a dozen instances of violence in Xinjiang, resulting in China's investment in the region (and the accompanying very harsh treatment of all people in the region, not just the uyghur minority)?
Or are you saying it's racist to say Uyghurs in Turkey live objectively worse lives than those in Xinjiang? Because then you'd have to take that up with the world bank.
Or are you saying it's somehow a racist stereotype for Tibetans to be pedophiles? Because that's just not true, it's a documented historical fact that the Tibetan theocracy had child sex slaves, including the Lama at the time; if the Dalai Lama is reincarnated, then there's at least 50 years there where it was documented that he explicitly raped children, regularly, and created an entire Priest class that had exclusive rights to whatever non-Priest-class children they wanted to fulfill their sexual desires. It's one of the main reasons the civil war started; regardless of how you feel about China's involvement after the civil war started -- so it's pretty clear that's not a stereotype in any civilized land, just that Tibetan Buddhism is code for child sex.
So I'm failing to understand what you think is racist about any of this, I suppose I'm saying.
Cool of you to say that it's just in Tibetans nature to have child sex slaves. Not racist at all
I wasn't aware of the lack of education in Australia, I'll be sure to write smaller words and sentences when interacting with you all in the future.
Smart, the answer to racism is more racism 🤡
We all know that is not because they lack the will.
I mean, they did invade Tibet with ground forces and eventually bomb the shit out of them, kidnapped tons of children and killed their parents. Between 10k in the first three days (the tiny tiny tibet army was very overwhelmed) and their government estimates 1.2million tibetens were killed then and during the 220k Chinese soldier occupation, but the actual number is likely more around 87k to 150k, with the remaining number being imprisoned in slave labor camps and the children kidnapped to grow up as "real Chinese" children. Like the indeginous schools in the US and Canada. Things got so bad that according to the PRC's own reports, over 70% of rural PRC members defected and fought for the rebels. Skeletons clogged the Yellow River one year apparently. But as typical with all imperialism whether western or eastern, the winners try to explain the deaths away as famine when the soldiers steal all of the crops and shoot out the legs of the people, but they "technically" die of starvation or disease.
Then they came and cut all of their old growth lumber (maybe the real end goal?) with massive deforestation and resource harvesting.
But it is no question that China's current imperialism is economic for 90% of it. It is also by far the lesser of the evils and much much less violent and physically harmful nowadays after 1970 or so.
You had me in the first half
Like I know the world is really shitty, but 50 years ago isn't that long ago. Especially when we're taking about forgetting a river of skeletons caused by a war of territorial expansion.
Which western genocide are you confusing with the liberation of Tibet during its civil war?