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> Some in China really do consider this "payback" for the opium wars. Considering that the US played NO role at all in either of the opium wars and donated its
by tatrajim 5y ago
> Some in China really do consider this "payback" for the opium wars.
Considering that the US played NO role at all in either of the opium wars and donated its Boxer Rebellion reparations to help found Tsinghua University (Xi Jinping's alma mater), this false historical narrative is especially lamentable.
Maybe a visit to the heritage park in Guilin honoring the US Flying Tigers in WW II is in order?
https://www.flyingtigershistoricalorganization.com/museum-dedication.html https://www.flyingtigershistoricalorganization.com/museum-de...
- ssnistfajen 5y agoThe Tsinghua University in Beijing is a very different institution after 1949. A large group of Tsinghua faculty staff and alumni relocated to Taiwan including its longest serving president, Mei Yiqi. What was left behind soon got dismantled and reorganized along with other universities, turning every university including Tsinghua into Soviet-style institutions that focused on strictly defined disciplines instead of having a wide range of faculties. Its self-proclaimed long heritage before the PRC was not promoted much until the 80's when China started to reform and open up. The endowment fund set up from Boxer Rebellion reparations now belongs to National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and so is Tsinghua's American connection.
- truffdog 5y agoA lot of blue blood northeastern old money got their start selling opium to China during the opium wars. The Forbes family, the Astor family, the Delano family of Delano-Roosevelt fame. The US also got a treaty after the opium wars that exempted US citizens from being tried under Chinese law, kind of like the British did.