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Imperial rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago

Of course modern China is an empire. Just without overseas military bases. A soft empire, one might say.

4 Chinese bases

So China does have oversees bases and is therefore in fact not a "soft empire" but a fully fledged empire.

Don't know why you bring up the US, we were talking about China. Which is by your definition an empire and should be treated as such.

[-] spacedout@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

No, foreign bases does not an empire make. If that was the case, watch out for Bangladesh. This dick measuring between nation states is unproductive and serves to legitimize imperialism itself. Rather than comparing oppressions, our focus should be on understanding and opposing the global system that enables imperial powers to divide and exploit working people worldwide.