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They never admit that? Easy to call something “strange” when the narrative is completely twisted by editorializing the original source.
by wbsss4412 5y ago
They never admit that?
Easy to call something “strange” when the narrative is completely twisted by editorializing the original source.
- josephcsible 5y agoIsn't that what this is saying? > the company decided to engage in a war to open Chinese ports. This was the origin of the infamous Opium War whose final outcome in 1842 was the opening of five Chinese “treaty ports”, cession of Hong Kong
- wbsss4412 5y agoNo? In what world is that liberation?
- josephcsible 5y agoBecause Hong Kong was mostly free (until last year) as a result of it, while the rest of China was ruled with an iron fist.
- wbsss4412 5y ago“Liberation” implies freeing someone(s) from a pre existing entity. So no matter what you think of the CCP today, the opium wars had nothing to do with liberation, it was just outright conquest. The CCP didn’t event exist until 1921, almost 75 years later. If anything, a direct line can be drawn from the carving up of China by European, and later Japanese powers, to the fall of the Qing, the Chinese civil war, and the rise of the CCP. What’s “strange” is interpreting dynastic greed and colonization as a good thing in 2021.