They require the same "economic" power to uplift out of poverty,

its not as if 2 of those 3 were tiny, but strategically placed ports vs china, with a literal continent's worth of people

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    4 years ago

    What western imperialism does to mfer. HK and Singapore were colonial outposts and inherited their capital investments and infrastructure. Taiwan got to loot their former citizens first and then snagged dat western development aid (for anti-communists only). China got to rebuild after a devastating world war and civil war then build an industrial sector from nearly scratch... Now they are about to strip the United States of its hegemony ahaha :sicko-hyper:

    • Gkalaitza [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Also on top of all these, for the vast majority of this time span China's development didnt benifit at all from the imperialist looting and pillaging of the global south by world capital, something that is a big handicap. No one got or stayed poor and exploited for China to get richer and more developed. As opposed to western capital's neoliberal tax heaven protectorats in east asia.

    • Poetjustice [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      yeah, at this point, it's like watching fans of a team crying about the refs when their team is getting blown out. all cope no substance