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> Korea is more like China's Canada. It's tiny (Canada has one tenth the population of the US; Mexico is more like one half) and culturally, though not linguist
by fweespeech 9y ago
> Korea is more like China's Canada. It's tiny (Canada has one tenth the population of the US; Mexico is more like one half) and culturally, though not linguistically, similar.
So your argument now is that makes it non-imperialistic?
- thaumasiotes 9y agoNo, I thought your point about Canada being similar to the US was reasonable, but I still see the major facts as being: 1. China, ruled by the Chinese, has been incredibly uninterested in expansion compared to pretty much anywhere else in the world. 2. In fact, they have a many-centuries-long tradition of applying social stigma to military careers. 3. They have been especially uninterested in attacking regions that are not already highly Sinicized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sino-Korean_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sino-Korean_relatio... doesn't really suggest that the Chinese have been interested in invading Korea at any time in the last 1500 years. Communist China specifically wanted North Korea to be independent as a buffer state between itself and the US.