Being on different scales/different strategies doesn't mean it didn't happen, though. Our new NAFO frens think that China "stole" all of its modern tech from the West instead of the reality where they turned the tables on an extraction-based economy. These people absolutely think that China wouldn't be where it is today without the UK and France and that every part of China outside of Hong Kong (Pre-Protests) is a backwards dystopia.
Being on different scales/different strategies doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, though
If someone breaks into your house and steals all your stuff, your email login info, your credit card statements, your bank account info, your identity
And someone breaks into my house and steals only a flat screen TV
Then in relative context, I basically didn't get robbed. And me being better off than you would be a point of evidence that being robbed is bad (I know you agree on this, the point was to rebut the mayo mindworms)
Also in ABSOLUTE context, mainland China was never directly administered by a foreign government. The closest you can get is Japanese Manchuria, which would be analogous to if Europeans administered only Bangladesh and Goa and literally nothing else.
Being on different scales/different strategies doesn't mean it didn't happen, though. Our new NAFO frens think that China "stole" all of its modern tech from the West instead of the reality where they turned the tables on an extraction-based economy. These people absolutely think that China wouldn't be where it is today without the UK and France and that every part of China outside of Hong Kong (Pre-Protests) is a backwards dystopia.
If someone breaks into your house and steals all your stuff, your email login info, your credit card statements, your bank account info, your identity
And someone breaks into my house and steals only a flat screen TV
Then in relative context, I basically didn't get robbed. And me being better off than you would be a point of evidence that being robbed is bad (I know you agree on this, the point was to rebut the mayo mindworms)
Also in ABSOLUTE context, mainland China was never directly administered by a foreign government. The closest you can get is Japanese Manchuria, which would be analogous to if Europeans administered only Bangladesh and Goa and literally nothing else.