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> How long is China going to put on the mantle of victimhood over events 160 years in the past?! 160 years in the past? The Chinese reparations, totalling $US
by wombatmobile 6y ago
> How long is China going to put on the mantle of victimhood over events 160 years in the past?!
160 years in the past?
The Chinese reparations, totalling $US 61 billion is today's dollar equivalents, were only completed in 1940. Then China sided with the Allies in WWII. 15 million Chinese lost their lives in that war.
But I wouldn't characterise Chinese trade policy as victimhood. Chinese entrepreneurs don't rely on any such arguments. They just make products that western consumers want to buy.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoYou do know that Japan had been invading China and trying to influence it in the decades before WW2 don't you? Joining with the Allies was the common sense thing to do
- dingaling 6y ago> Then China sided with the Allies in WWII. 15 million Chinese lost their lives in that war. That was under the Kuomintang regime, who fled to Taiwan in 1949
- azernik 6y agoThe families and friends of the dead didn't flee to Taiwan. This is like saying that the Poles didn't deserve reparations from Germany for WWII because the pre-war republic wasn't restored and instead there was a new regime. The country and people exist independently of the governing system.
- ng12 6y ago> Then China sided with the Allies in WWII This doesn't really make sense. The Second Sino-Japanese war predates the European theater by 2 years. It'd be more accurate to say the US sided with China to help them fight a mutual enemy.