• Dammam No. 7@lemmy.world
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    Since the Opium Wars. Churchill even talked about breaking China apart a la the Muslim World so that it can never rise again.

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      Yeah, that guy’s gone. The policy with China was to encourage it to become the Germany of Asia in the hopes that it would liberalize. Well, shit happens…

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          I don’t think anybody planned beyond that, by everyone’s reactions. But it looks as if people read too much Fukuyama uncritically and not enough Huntington.

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        How about this from 2025?: Kaja Kallas: EU Must Focus on Russia Before Taking on China | Dawn News English

        It is not like Sinophobia and Yellow Perilism suddenly stopped in the West. China sees what the West is doing to Gaza and the Middle East as a whole, and knows if it weren’t for its might they would do the same to it. I see Westerners online openly daydream of breaking up China and post their maps of a broken-up China. Breaking up the Middle East and the Muslim World doomed it for over a century, why would China allow that for itself? They know they are next.

        Also, why is liberalism mandatory? I don’t want my country <insert bad evil illiberal arab country> to liberalize. There are other systems that work just as well if not better than [mandatory] Liberalism. If Chinese liberalize that’s their own business and if they don’t that’s their choice.