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Since WW2 the CCP under Mao began a gradual, brutal quest to reconfigure Chinese culture to point where it is capable of responding to western imperialism in a manner that can successfully allow the continued security and development of China under Chinese leadership and true sovereignty.
Mao crushed his people with the culture revolution and the great famine that came with the great leap forward which killed millions of Chinese via famine to achieve this soft independence you claim they have.
So substantial advantage is wrong. China is in trouble
The way Mao and many Chinese thinkers understood the problem was that Chinese culture had been based upon a number of cultural norms which had served China well until it was confronted by the west. If you understand the history of The Opium Wars you should understand at least some of this.
What Mao was seeking to do was smash those Chinese traditional cultural norms and reshape Chinese culture to the extent required to respond to western culture and power projection.
Yes the result was brutal, but so were the Opium Wars and the Japanese Occupation in WW2.
History is brutal and Mao sought to shape China into a form able to regain and reassert its sovereignty- we can criticise the sheer brutality of his actions but the end result was China eventually being recognised by the west in the 1970s and today now having developed to the extent that China is a real threat to US power and wealth.
Again I would suggest several years of study of the history of China will give you deeper insight- I have spent 20 years on the topic and still am not proficient to explain it all as well as many books and resources on the subject can.
Merry Christmas from New Zealand.
This is a positive spin on killing millions of your own citizens
Merry Christmas to you as well
True - it was effectively a civil war in China...after more than a century of occupation, subjugation and humiliation by Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Japan, Germany, Portugal, Russia-USSR, Italy and USA. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_concessions_in_China)
How many died in the US Civil War and the wars the US has sent its soldiers to since?
History is brutal.
War is in our DNA.
Deal with it, or die on a cross.
Always a better way
If only.
You did not answer my question.
You are instead engaging in wishful thinking and avoiding the issues raised.
Have you heard of the saying 'eating bitter' ?
China and its political structure would appear to have a higher tolerance and capacity to endure suffering and sacrifice in the already commenced contest for global supremacy.
If you read history you will know that since 1840 and The Opium Wars Chinas sovereignty was inflicted multiple attacks and incursions.
Over the following 100 years China was a shambolic mess and this is known as the 100 years of humiliation- culminating in the murderous WW2 occupation of Eastern China by Japan. Read about the Massacre of Nanjing if you have time and stomach for it.
Since WW2 the CCP under Mao began a gradual, brutal quest to reconfigure Chinese culture to point where it is capable of responding to western imperialism in a manner that can successfully allow the continued security and development of China under Chinese leadership and true sovereignty.
High on the list of early imperatives was getting nukes and getting Tibet so US could not position nukes right over China...
Tell me this- how many nations today enjoy true and full sovereignty?
Japan?
Europe?
UK?
Canada, Australia, New Zealand?
S.Korea?
All the above are monetarily and militarily subservient tribute states to the US military industrial combine
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The rest of the world?
I would suggest currently are either under US or Chinese tribute...or in an often precarious 'non-aligned' category.
Again- Tell me this- how many nations today enjoy true and full sovereignty?
I say only China and the US can be said to enjoy full and true self determination.
What do you say?
China aims to rebuild, maintain and develop under true sovereignty and to understand that ambition you must understand what it implies.
It is a lofty aim and one few if any other cultures have or can achieve- what it almost certainly requires is to confront the USA and gain a position of either domination or equality with US imperialism.
If you think that can be achieved easily then go back to read history again.
This is the contest of the 21 century and many of the trends suggest China may succeed.
In part it will depend upon how resilient both Chinese and US populations are.
How much their citizens are prepared and able to sacrifice and suffer in the name of gaining true and ongoing self determination.
Again I would suggest China may have a substantial advantage here as many US citizens appear obese, unaware and ill-informed of history and hugely arrogant and ignorant of the way the US is seen by many of the nations and cultures it has subjugated in one way or another.
Most educated Chinese are well aware of what The Opium Wars were and of what the modern Chinese government is seeking to achieve- the same cannot be said for the vast majority of US citizens I have encountered in this dialogue.