China doesn’t even imperialize as hard as America. They have this slow thing on taiwan and some of the nearby countries but they’re not going to like Iran and bombing the shit out of it
But don’t worry, some dutch guy from mom’s basement living on welfare will tell us that it’s not what it looks and it’s actually good for unified diversity of all people
Just read the actual law that Reuters is talking about. It explicitly guarantees minority language rights among a variety of other protections for ethnic minorities. Acting like teaching mandarin is imperialism is absurd. It’s a constructed language designed to be the lingua franca of China. Even most Han Chinese do not learn mandarin as their first language.
Lmao this is cultural genocide 101. I know because soviet union did the same to my country under the same absurd language like “unity” and “greatness”. Even if you are delusioned here you have to admit these are almost satire levels of red flags, no?
It would be a red flag if the law interfered with the many regional laws that mandate minority languages be taught in schools. This law does not do that at all. It explicitly guarantees the right to learn and use minority languages. To compare it to the cultural genocide of settler colonial countries that enforced language bans with violence and brutality is ridiculous.
Also don’t just apply whatever context you’re familiar with onto China. You’re severely underestimating the amount of cultural and lingual diversity in China. As I said before, Mandarin is a constructed language that was developed relatively recently, very unlike Russian. The vast majority of people in China do not learn Mandarin as their first language. That includes most of China’s political leaders. You’re basically trying to suggest that these people want to destroy their own regional languages and culture which is just absurd.
Man could you be more spineless and subservient or are you a bot? Central government says it’s time to abandon your local culture for “great unity” and you bend over and take it. You don’t see a problem here? Maybe it’s good you guys are contained in your basement dwelling .ml just stay there and never leave please
It’s a pretty big meme amongst people who actually experience horrors of communism that prominent tankies are as far removed from real communism as possible e.g. mom’s basement in an extremely privileged west europe/us doing nothing but armchair analysis without actually contributing anything else.
Why do you think it is bad for the Sami to use the Dutch language? Why is it bad for the Cherokee to use English? Why is it bad for the Zulu to use Afrikaans?
I mean if we’re reaching that far back we should probably talk about all the states that used to be independent now a part of China. Let’s just say that unification wasn’t a peaceful proccess and involved a healthy amount of geneocide.
This is probably unpopular, but Taiwan is imo not a good example of imperialism. Taiwan is where the old government has fled to and where the government there officially still claims to be the rightful goverment of China. Their official name is republic of China, which obviously leads to tensions with the “people’s republic of China”.
Imperialism is when a nation excercises significant influence and control over other independent nations. Taiwan is not an independent nation, they are a rival/competitor with similar regional claims.
A better example of Chinese imperialism could be their economic initiatives in Africa.
East Turkestan has never existed in history, and no natives on Xinjiang have ever expressed a desire for that to be brought into existence. Turkish Terrorists have though. Weird how Uyghurs in Turkey live a worse life in all respects than those in Xinjiang now though…
Also No. They didn’t occupy Tibet, they freed it. But hey if you want to take the side of a child sex slave owning pedophile like the Dalai Lama…
…it’s racist to say the East Turkistan movement, created in 1992 by the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front organization responsible for hundreds of propaganda outlets and colour revolutions across the many states of America’s and Israel’s enemies, is a terrorist movement, despite the fact it has been linked to more than a dozen instances of violence in Xinjiang, resulting in China’s investment in the region (and the accompanying very harsh treatment of all people in the region, not just the uyghur minority)?
Or are you saying it’s racist to say Uyghurs in Turkey live objectively worse lives than those in Xinjiang? Because then you’d have to take that up with the world bank.
Or are you saying it’s somehow a racist stereotype for Tibetans to be pedophiles? Because that’s just not true, it’s a documented historical fact that the Tibetan theocracy had child sex slaves, including the Lama at the time; if the Dalai Lama is reincarnated, then there’s at least 50 years there where it was documented that he explicitly raped children, regularly, and created an entire Priest class that had exclusive rights to whatever non-Priest-class children they wanted to fulfill their sexual desires. It’s one of the main reasons the civil war started; regardless of how you feel about China’s involvement after the civil war started – so it’s pretty clear that’s not a stereotype in any civilized land, just that Tibetan Buddhism is code for child sex.
So I’m failing to understand what you think is racist about any of this, I suppose I’m saying.
I mean, they did invade Tibet with ground forces and eventually bomb the shit out of them, kidnapped tons of children and killed their parents. Between 10k in the first three days (the tiny tiny tibet army was very overwhelmed) and their government estimates 1.2million tibetens were killed then and during the 220k Chinese soldier occupation, but the actual number is likely more around 87k to 150k, with the remaining number being imprisoned in slave labor camps and the children kidnapped to grow up as “real Chinese” children. Like the indeginous schools in the US and Canada. Things got so bad that according to the PRC’s own reports, over 70% of rural PRC members defected and fought for the rebels. Skeletons clogged the Yellow River one year apparently. But as typical with all imperialism whether western or eastern, the winners try to explain the deaths away as famine when the soldiers steal all of the crops and shoot out the legs of the people, but they “technically” die of starvation or disease.
Then they came and cut all of their old growth lumber (maybe the real end goal?) with massive deforestation and resource harvesting.
But it is no question that China’s current imperialism is economic for 90% of it. It is also by far the lesser of the evils and much much less violent and physically harmful nowadays after 1970 or so.
Like I know the world is really shitty, but 50 years ago isn’t that long ago. Especially when we’re taking about forgetting a river of skeletons caused by a war of territorial expansion.
Like I know the world is really shitty, but 50 years ago isn’t that long ago.
Y’all got some very long, very selective grudges. I feel pretty confident in saying that if the US had been at peace since Vietnam, I’d hate it a hell of lot less.
No, they aren’t. One is freeing serfs in a region that’s been part of your country for 200 years and then living peacefully with the world afterwards for the next 70 years and counting. The other is waging campaigns of violence and death, covert and overt, across every continent in the world, overthrowing democratically elected leaders in favor of autocrats who will sell out their country’s resources.
Murder? Of slave owners? Yeah, that is often required for freedom. Do slavers really count as human enough for it to count as murder? Self-defense at worst.
and genocide
What “genocide” would that be?
Anyway take that boot and shove it up your ass until something pops
Right back at you, I’m not the one defending a slaver theocracy.
Refer to the meme again. I swear it’s like arguing with a toddler. I’ll keep it simple not defending China’s genocide is not supporting the US. I refuse to engage with your rampant denial of facts and support of authoritarianism.
No human being deserves to live under a boot. I don’t care which boot smells better
China doesn’t even imperialize as hard as America. They have this slow thing on taiwan and some of the nearby countries but they’re not going to like Iran and bombing the shit out of it
I guess we don’t count Xinjiang and Tibet because everyone’s already used to them being part of China
Imperialism only comes from the imperial region of the US, if it’s from China it’s sparkling liberation
The People’s Boot!
The imperial valley is not in the Empire State… where do they grow imperialism?
Or any other minority in China
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-set-pass-new-ethnic-minority-law-prioritise-use-mandarin-language-2026-03-12/
But don’t worry, some dutch guy from mom’s basement living on welfare will tell us that it’s not what it looks and it’s actually good for unified diversity of all people
Just read the actual law that Reuters is talking about. It explicitly guarantees minority language rights among a variety of other protections for ethnic minorities. Acting like teaching mandarin is imperialism is absurd. It’s a constructed language designed to be the lingua franca of China. Even most Han Chinese do not learn mandarin as their first language.
Lmao this is cultural genocide 101. I know because soviet union did the same to my country under the same absurd language like “unity” and “greatness”. Even if you are delusioned here you have to admit these are almost satire levels of red flags, no?
It would be a red flag if the law interfered with the many regional laws that mandate minority languages be taught in schools. This law does not do that at all. It explicitly guarantees the right to learn and use minority languages. To compare it to the cultural genocide of settler colonial countries that enforced language bans with violence and brutality is ridiculous.
Also don’t just apply whatever context you’re familiar with onto China. You’re severely underestimating the amount of cultural and lingual diversity in China. As I said before, Mandarin is a constructed language that was developed relatively recently, very unlike Russian. The vast majority of people in China do not learn Mandarin as their first language. That includes most of China’s political leaders. You’re basically trying to suggest that these people want to destroy their own regional languages and culture which is just absurd.
Man could you be more spineless and subservient or are you a bot? Central government says it’s time to abandon your local culture for “great unity” and you bend over and take it. You don’t see a problem here? Maybe it’s good you guys are contained in your basement dwelling .ml just stay there and never leave please
You clearly don’t know the first thing about China. Unfortunately for you, belligerence won’t help you overcome your own ignorance.
CulTural GenoCide. My grandma was punished if she dared to speak dialect. That’s indeed erasing a culture and it’s wrong.
On the other hand, you have people in lebannon getting BOMBED WITH FUCKING WHITE PHOSPHORUS. How are they even remotely comparable?
Cultural genocide is genocide as much as going to the dentist is torture. It’s not literally torture.
What does Lebanon have to do with China destroying domestic minorities? What are you even on about
You’re the one equating china with the people who bomb civilians.
What?
LMAO you’re so left wing you have the same insults as facebook fascists boomer.
My friend is dutch and on welfare, bitch, do you have a problem?
It’s a pretty big meme amongst people who actually experience horrors of communism that prominent tankies are as far removed from real communism as possible e.g. mom’s basement in an extremely privileged west europe/us doing nothing but armchair analysis without actually contributing anything else.
So you personally experienced the horror of communism? How was it? Enlighten us AHAHAHAHAHAH
Yes it was pretty bad. It’s well documented, you should try reading.
Tell me sweetie what did they do to you?
Try to erase my culture and my country through a century of forced occupation while sending my family to gulags in Siberia?
Why do you think it is bad for the Sami to use the Dutch language? Why is it bad for the Cherokee to use English? Why is it bad for the Zulu to use Afrikaans?
I guess we don’t count the Confederate States of America because everyone’s already used to them being part of the USA.
I mean if we’re reaching that far back we should probably talk about all the states that used to be independent now a part of China. Let’s just say that unification wasn’t a peaceful proccess and involved a healthy amount of geneocide.
Me when whataboutism
Not every comparison is whataboutism, friend
Not every, but this one is
The meme is literally “what about China” idiot
It’s about hypocrisy of China bootlickers such as you. But I guess if you could understand the difference, you wouldn’t be a bootlicker
Bitch I will go to ukrane and make you swallow a litteral boot, cunt.
Do you really think that using an analogy is whataboutism?
Yet another example of how “whataboutism” just means, “trying to apply consistent standards and definitions instead of favoring Western countries.”
This is probably unpopular, but Taiwan is imo not a good example of imperialism. Taiwan is where the old government has fled to and where the government there officially still claims to be the rightful goverment of China. Their official name is republic of China, which obviously leads to tensions with the “people’s republic of China”.
Imperialism is when a nation excercises significant influence and control over other independent nations. Taiwan is not an independent nation, they are a rival/competitor with similar regional claims.
A better example of Chinese imperialism could be their economic initiatives in Africa.
Or their occupation of Tibet and East Turkestan
East Turkestan has never existed in history, and no natives on Xinjiang have ever expressed a desire for that to be brought into existence. Turkish Terrorists have though. Weird how Uyghurs in Turkey live a worse life in all respects than those in Xinjiang now though…
Also No. They didn’t occupy Tibet, they freed it. But hey if you want to take the side of a child sex slave owning pedophile like the Dalai Lama…
Wow, that’s racist
…it’s racist to say the East Turkistan movement, created in 1992 by the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front organization responsible for hundreds of propaganda outlets and colour revolutions across the many states of America’s and Israel’s enemies, is a terrorist movement, despite the fact it has been linked to more than a dozen instances of violence in Xinjiang, resulting in China’s investment in the region (and the accompanying very harsh treatment of all people in the region, not just the uyghur minority)?
Or are you saying it’s racist to say Uyghurs in Turkey live objectively worse lives than those in Xinjiang? Because then you’d have to take that up with the world bank.
Or are you saying it’s somehow a racist stereotype for Tibetans to be pedophiles? Because that’s just not true, it’s a documented historical fact that the Tibetan theocracy had child sex slaves, including the Lama at the time; if the Dalai Lama is reincarnated, then there’s at least 50 years there where it was documented that he explicitly raped children, regularly, and created an entire Priest class that had exclusive rights to whatever non-Priest-class children they wanted to fulfill their sexual desires. It’s one of the main reasons the civil war started; regardless of how you feel about China’s involvement after the civil war started – so it’s pretty clear that’s not a stereotype in any civilized land, just that Tibetan Buddhism is code for child sex.
So I’m failing to understand what you think is racist about any of this, I suppose I’m saying.
Cool of you to say that it’s just in Tibetans nature to have child sex slaves. Not racist at all
I wasn’t aware of the lack of education in Australia, I’ll be sure to write smaller words and sentences when interacting with you all in the future.
Smart, the answer to racism is more racism 🤡
I mean, they did invade Tibet with ground forces and eventually bomb the shit out of them, kidnapped tons of children and killed their parents. Between 10k in the first three days (the tiny tiny tibet army was very overwhelmed) and their government estimates 1.2million tibetens were killed then and during the 220k Chinese soldier occupation, but the actual number is likely more around 87k to 150k, with the remaining number being imprisoned in slave labor camps and the children kidnapped to grow up as “real Chinese” children. Like the indeginous schools in the US and Canada. Things got so bad that according to the PRC’s own reports, over 70% of rural PRC members defected and fought for the rebels. Skeletons clogged the Yellow River one year apparently. But as typical with all imperialism whether western or eastern, the winners try to explain the deaths away as famine when the soldiers steal all of the crops and shoot out the legs of the people, but they “technically” die of starvation or disease.
Then they came and cut all of their old growth lumber (maybe the real end goal?) with massive deforestation and resource harvesting.
But it is no question that China’s current imperialism is economic for 90% of it. It is also by far the lesser of the evils and much much less violent and physically harmful nowadays after 1970 or so.
Which western genocide are you confusing with the liberation of Tibet during its civil war?
You had me in the first half
Like I know the world is really shitty, but 50 years ago isn’t that long ago. Especially when we’re taking about forgetting a river of skeletons caused by a war of territorial expansion.
Y’all got some very long, very selective grudges. I feel pretty confident in saying that if the US had been at peace since Vietnam, I’d hate it a hell of lot less.
Yo you did the thing.
You’re here proving the meme. Both are imperialism both are evil.
No, they aren’t. One is freeing serfs in a region that’s been part of your country for 200 years and then living peacefully with the world afterwards for the next 70 years and counting. The other is waging campaigns of violence and death, covert and overt, across every continent in the world, overthrowing democratically elected leaders in favor of autocrats who will sell out their country’s resources.
There is absolutely no equivalence whatsoever.
Is murder and genocide what we call freedom these days?
Anyway take that boot and shove it up your ass until something pops
Murder? Of slave owners? Yeah, that is often required for freedom. Do slavers really count as human enough for it to count as murder? Self-defense at worst.
What “genocide” would that be?
Right back at you, I’m not the one defending a slaver theocracy.
Refer to the meme again. I swear it’s like arguing with a toddler. I’ll keep it simple not defending China’s genocide is not supporting the US. I refuse to engage with your rampant denial of facts and support of authoritarianism.
No human being deserves to live under a boot. I don’t care which boot smells better
We all know that is not because they lack the will.