• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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    Good for them. Going to go imperialist by invading a neighboring country that is no threat to them? Because that’s what this has become now. If they do this, all claims to be “anti-imperialist” become hollow and false.

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      Going to go imperialist by invading a neighboring country that is no threat to them?

      1. Not a country.

      2. War isn’t imperialism. Imperialism is an economic system, not just something you call any and all military action by any large country. Imperialism is an elevated form of capitalism in which finance-capital has evolved to become such a power that it merges with the state and uses all state powers in the pursuit of the expansion of capital abroad. Imperialism isn’t one specific action, it is an entire state of being of a country. Like capitalism, but at its highest stage.

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      invading a neighboring country

      Read the thread again. Not a neighboring country, but a region of China.

      If they do this, all claims to be “anti-imperialist” become hollow and false.

      China is rapidly becoming the most powerful and richest country in the world. No country will care about cheap slander from the collapsing US.

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        Read the thread again. Not a neighboring country, but a region of China.

        Feel free to keep that view, but I’m sticking with how people live their lives instead of how the CPC’s ideology wants things to be.

        China is rapidly becoming the most powerful and richest country in the world.

        China shouldn’t get too overconfident there. How’s the housing market? And the aging population?

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          I’m sticking with how people live their lives instead of how the CPC’s ideology wants things to be.

          People living in Taiwan are by and large happy with the status quo. Why are you trying to project your ideas on them? They don’t want independence, they want things to remain as they are. Why are you so insistent you know better than them?

          How’s the housing market?

          Considering 90% of people own their homes and Chinese cities never show up in most expensive cities in the world, it seems to be going great.

          And the aging population?

          As if that’s not a problem anywhere. Didn’t stop the US from becoming and being the richest and most powerful country for a long time.