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Thai Cabinet Formally Approves Bid For BRICS Membership
(thediplomat.com)
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China? They've been subject to colonialism and imperialism since the 19th century, it only ended with the foundation of the PRC.
Do you actually think the current government is a continuation of imperialist China? Feudal China ended with the revolution. Mao was an anti-imperialist. The PRC is built from ideological opposition to all forms of imperialism.
So the existence of a state is evidence of imperialism? Even if the creation of that state brought a deliberate, ideologically-driven and measurable end to the imperial and feudal systems that preceded it?
Lol what definition of imperialism are you using to make this accusation.
imperialism is when emperors, and even in that framework china is not imperialist.
You may as well point fingers at all the various Islamic, Indian, African, or even indigenous "Amerindian" empires then. But your whataboutism ignores the fact that these empires were vastly different from the system of imperialism as practiced by the west.
It's like saying "black people enslaved other blacks too," or "what about the Arab slave trade," or "indigenous peoples killed each other all the time." Sure, but the specifics of how the west did it are a world of difference, and you're a racist for saying it that way.
And you think this has what to do with modern China? This is like criticising the USSR for Tsarism. You realise the CPC overthrew the previous system? And when it did, it had the cultural revolution to overcome the trappings of that system, for which it is regularly criticised?
aight bro, i am going to hold the PRC accountable for the cruelties of the ming dynasty or whatever.