• volodya_ilich
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    15 days ago

    A people’s liberation event in 50 years is really all you pro-US-imperialists have to point to as for how evil and militaristic china is. You guys are laughable.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      15 days ago

      Please do not make personal attacks like that. They violate community rules (rule 5) and you have no idea what my politics are. I am just challenging your claim that China is not expansionist by showing that they literally expanded their borders by a massive amount within living memory.

      I’m sorry facts anger you, but they’re still facts even if they disagree with your political worldview.

      • volodya_ilich
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        15 days ago

        Anger me? Facts? Again, you’re making me laugh

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          Was China bigger or smaller after taking over Tibet? I think you know the answer is bigger.

          Making your country bigger would be doing what with it? I think you know the answer is expanding it.

          And I doubt I’m making you laugh or you wouldn’t be making personal attacks.

          • volodya_ilich
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            You’re just showing you don’t understand basic concepts. You called China’s liberation of Tibet “colonialism”, proving you don’t know the meaning of it. Expansionism isn’t “when borders grow at any time in history”, it’s a tendency of a nation to view its territorial expansion as a desirable goal for the sake of it or for access to resource for example. Austria building an embassy in Tibet would grow Austria’s borders, technically counting as expansionism according to you. You have lib level of politics knowledge and analysis, and it’s hysterical how you try to bend definitions to make things look good for US imperialism

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              So Tibet wasn’t a desirable goal and didn’t give China access to resources? They just did it out of pure altruism?

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                If it was “expansionism” that China sought, why stop at Tibet?

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                  15 days ago

                  The U.S. stopped expanding its borders with various Pacific islands in the 1940s. I assume you still consider them expansionist.

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                    No, the US isn’t expansionist, it’s imperialist.