• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    How exactly is China historically expansionist?

    Tibet used to be a seperate contry. The Uygurs were a Turkic Khanate to themselves.

    Bejing’s aim is to homogenise those regions instead of preserving their culture and integrate them further economically to China as a whole, which would have the benefit of improved economic outcomes to both “parties” and maintain arts, culture and liberties of the people there.

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      21 hours ago

      Tibet used to be a seperate contry

      Tibet used to be a feudalist dictatorship where 80% of the population were essentially slaves legally bound to the land of landowners.

      Bejing’s aim is to homogenise those regions instead of preserving their culture

      How many official languages are there in your country?

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          20 hours ago

          Nah, I’m not doing a whataboutism, I’m saying that your white ass doesn’t have a remote understanding on what “homogenisation” means. Go to a history museum in China, and in most exhibits they’ll have some remarks of the history in different places of modern China, and to the different ethnicities of the country, to the point that it would be categorised as PC-inclusivism in the west. And they don’t have a far right party fighting to destroy that :)

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      21 hours ago

      Not to mention China making artificial islands around it’s coast line to expand it’s territory. Boarder clashes with India, territorial disputes with the Philippines, taking over Hong Kong, and ofcourse the constant threatening of taking over Taiwan.

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          19 hours ago

          As far as I know, they Tibetans still speaking Tibetans and practicing their own religion, unlike Okinawans or ainus in Japan who culture and language got wiped out so clean that they couldn’t even sing their old folk songs in their native languages.