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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.
@BlokchainB
Thoughts?