I see this term thrown around. I swear to God, with my limited knowledge of the world, this makes no literal sense to me. I'm not trying to be snarky, but it sounds like China has too many friends and this is imperialism, but obviously this isn't the meaning.

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Social democracy or other center left ideologies are sometimes called social imperialism by their critics because they socializes the gains from imperialism. Critics of China that consider China to be participating in imperialism (especially when raising the examples of the B&R and BRICS vis a vis the IMF and World Bank) could call China Social Imperialist because they are socializing the benefits of their form of imperialism.

    Good answer. Thank you.