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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 16 Apr \ parent \ on: China 'ready for war' w/ America and Sec Hegseth Comments Evaluated Politics_And_Law
Check out the Opium Wars dates yourself.
They started in 1840 and began the serial and ongoing incursion of western and Japanese imperialism upon Chinese sovereignty from that date.
It was not until Hiroshima and the US airlifting the Japanese occupying forces out of China that China was not constantly imposed upon although the US still sought to remove the new Chinese government via Korea and via efforts to capture Tibet for the positioning of nuclear missiles which would have left China extremely exposed and vulnerable to US aggression.
The US did not formally recognise the mainland Chinese government until the 1970s.
For any deep understanding of the current situation regarding China the Opium Wars are the correct starting point- one you appear tragically ignorant of. One that most Chinese are however well aware of.
I am not obliged to respond to you incorrect, irrelevant and muddled assertions just as I am not responsible for your lack of historical knowledge.
Just hope some US govt employees have a better grasp on Sino-West history and its logical implications than you demonstrate.
September 1839 I actually could not find a source that said it started in 1940 as even the British Government and China state it started in 1939 but according to you both governments are wrong lmao the ignorance is beyond me...
In spring 1839 the Chinese government confiscated and destroyed more than 20,000 chests of opium—some 1,400 tons of the drug—that were warehoused at Canton (Guangzhou) by British merchants. The antagonism between the two sides increased in July when some drunken British sailors killed a Chinese villager. The British government, which did not wish its subjects to be tried in the Chinese legal system, refused to turn the accused men over to the Chinese courts.British warships attacking a Chinese battery on the Pearl (Zhu) River during the First Opium War, 1841. Hostilities broke out later that year when British warships destroyed a Chinese blockade of the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) estuary at Hong Kong.
Also would love to see some evidence of this supposed air lift of Japanese forces from China. Were surrendered forces returned? Of course as with POWs.
You did help me remember of The Hump which was a daring thing again for arming China during the conflict.
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