Tehon
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Imperialism implies control of one nation by another. Colonization is but a tool to exert control but by no means the only one as the US empire has demonstrated.You don't think the US is an empire?Fair enough, show me the information that leads you to believe China has imperialist aspirations. You know, something more substantial than "they want to emulate us", lol.To my knowledge China has given you no reason to believe they have imperialist ambitions. As it stands right now the US is the provocateur in the region. The Chinese are merely reacting to the provocations.
To your knowledge.
Well luckily I don't have your knowledge.
The Chinese and the US are provoking in the region. A little research would stand you in good stead.
I didn't say imperialistic aspirations. The US wasn't imperialistic.
The days of the Empire have gone. Now it's the days of the superpowers, this is what China wants to become. However controlling that land around it which it has claims to is its first desire. I'm not sure how much they actually want the issues to be resolved, they want to use such situations to further their nationalistic agenda, useful when you're not democratic to keep the people on your side. Such as the anti-Japanese protests in China in 2012, when no anti-CCP protests are ever allowed, even anti-a specific company protests are put down by the police, but they allowed this anti-Japanese one to go on for days.
They're even made an anti-Japan day, officially Nanjing massacre day.
Superpower is a euphemism.
No, it's not an empire. It's different. Clearly imperialism included a lot of foreign land grabbing, the US changed things, keep your land at home, setup bases in places on foreign soil, and play around with those who don't do what you want them to do. It's not nice, but it's not imperialism.