— Koranic Secularism (@Book_of_Rules) March 25, 2024
2:00 An empire is a land consisting of the lands of different peoples and empires.
3:00 Belgium, Canada, Britain and America
5:00 Tibet, India and Pakistan
6:00 Kazakhstan
Imperialism is the highest state of capitalism.
7:00 America is an evil empire.
9:00 Imperialism
10:00 The Koran
11:00 Changing with the times
12:00 Imperialism
Imperialism is the highest state of capitalism.
14:00 Competing empires
16:00 Empire is a morally neutral term.
17:00 I am to read Das Kapital, Hegel and Kant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital
https://twitter.com/Eulipotyphla_OG
1) The best example is Hong Kong, when the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed, the relationship between the PRC-HK was agreed to be unchanged for 50 years from the relationship between the Britain and HK. If the Anglo-HK relationship was colonial (which is was), then the immediate continuity of unchanged insitutions and a consitution that China can change at will, points to the same colonial relationship being maintained.
2) It doesn't really matter if you think tibet, xinjjiang, or inner mongolia is chinese or not; the assimilation policies of those other ethnities (and even regional dialects and cultures) are imperial in nature. Sinocisation is fundamentally no different to anglicisation, that happened in Wales, or the clearings in the Scottish highlands.
3) Observing that China is or is not an empire is not a moral statement, it does not mean it is good or it is bad. It is simply an observation that no nation (definitely no nation as large as china) is formed without continuous conquest of others, and subjugation of nomadic/tribal/insular peoples that rejected government from the centre. That has been the case throughout the ages.
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