Struggle session engage. Post your pathetic arguments so that I and the other China Good Posters can dismantle them and you can learn.
Key points:
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China is a democracy. It is arguably the most functional and responsive democracy in a major country today. Its citizens consider it more democratic than the citizens of almost any other country do their own.
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China is on a clear path to socialism and economic justice. No nation in history has ever reduced poverty in anything like the way China is doing it.
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The vast majority of people in the PRC support the CPC. This is not due to being brainwashed. Americans are brainwashed and still hate their government.
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Almost everything you hear about China in the West sits on a spectrum between malicious misrepresentation to outright fabrication with no basis in reality.
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China's ascension to the premiere global power is an extremely good thing for world peace and the global socialist movement. While China does not actively support other socialisms (sadly it's not as good as the USSR in this regard) it does not do imperialism. China will allow socialisms around the world to flourish simply by not actively crushing them like the US and Europe.
Isn't China building islands in the middle of the South China Sea in order to claim large swaths of it?
https://www.uscc.gov/research/chinas-island-building-south-china-sea-damage-marine-environment-implications-and#:~:text=Summary%3A,of%20the%20South%20China%20Sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTPMHC7zHY&list=PLZLDyYaVeZPC8CAsUrcdrWU1qMg56oGPe (yeah I know USA stupid) https://thediplomat.com/2016/07/why-china-wont-stop-island-building-in-the-south-china-sea/ https://www.rt.com/news/383758-philippines-occupy-spratly-islands/ https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/04/17/chinas-island-fortifications-are-a-challenge-to-international-norms/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-china-southchinasea-idUSKBN25M0Y5
China was a latecomer in terms of SCS island building. Vietnam did it first. China just did it bigger.
Even if China's claims to this maritime territory are illegitimate, this doesn't qualify as imperialism in the Marxist sense:
This is where the tankie dorks go, "If America gets to have bases in the Pacific, then so does China!"
Yeah, but do they need to bully other island nations out of their domestic open waters?
"Hahaha moron, those countries are allied with the US so they deserve to be trampled!"
As the name suggests China actually has shores on the South China Sea and is well within their rights to secure those waters from a global navy that has lost nothing this far away from home.
They are claiming islands from the Phillipines and Vietnam, not the United States. What they are doing does not challenge US imperialism.
This is so laughably hilarious. I guess because American Somoa or North/South America is in the name, the United States of America gets to lay claim.
"What Latin American coups? You mean the domestic ones?"
You're being intentionally obtuse.
I think reducing imperialism to, "Well, it's in the name, therefore, it's theirs" is being obtuse.
It's called "The South China Sea". It's their sea.
China only started claiming it in 1947. Its claim is about as old as Israels is to Palestine.
When did Vietnam start claiming it?
The paracel islands have been considered by Vietnam to be part of its territory since the 1600s
page 11/12 of this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2123861
Hear that California peninsula? Manifest destiny is BACK!