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by freyr 7y ago
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- bcatanzaro 7y agoYup. Lots of sleight-of-hand in this claim. China does have a long history of invading other countries, but they try to suppress knowledge of it. That’s why they’re so hypersensitive about the definition of China, because they’re hiding their present and former invasions. Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, all the islands inside the vague nine-dashed line... Even border disputes with India.
- CharlesColeman 7y ago> China does have a long history of invading other countries, but they try to suppress knowledge of it. China doesn't invade other countries, it just discovers inseparable parts of China.
- DiogenesKynikos 7y ago> Read up on what's happening today in Africa and Afghanistan. Or the many examples of state-sponsored corporate espionage and hacking. Are these not forms of invasion in 2019? I do recall a couple of countries invading Afghanistan, none of them named "China." If you're going to call building railroads, highways, power plants and other infrastructure in Africa an "invasion," that's just plain unreasonable. I get that you may find the amount of debt African nations are taking on troubling, but it's dangerous hyperbole to call this sort of thing an "invasion."
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- throw0101a 7y agoOn the debt: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy