• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    China is a threat to Africa, trying to buy land for military bases from African countries. China is constantly trying to expand and dominate its culture. If that isn’t the definition of imperialism, I don’t know what is.

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      4 minutes ago

      It must be so nice being an anti-communist. You can just make up whatever unsourced bullshit you like and expect people to believe it

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      No sources for that claim of course, as usual.

      To my knowledge the only military base China has in Africa is the one in Djibouti, and literally every country who can afford to have a base there has a base there.

      If that isn’t the definition of imperialism, I don’t know what is.

      Indeed, you don’t have a clue what it is. Try looking up “unequal exchange”, or better yet reading a book on the subject. Lenin’s Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism and Fanon’s How Europe underdeveloped Africa are good reads on the subject.

    • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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      You clearly don’t know. I suggest you read about France’s parasitic relationship to Central and Western Africa that continues to this day, it even controls the issuance of the currency for eight West African nations and six Central African nations. Nothing China does even in your imagined worst case scenario comes close. And that’s just France.

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      China is not trying to expand nor dominate its culture. China has mutual development projects with African countries, it isn’t dramatically expanding its millitary presence. The US Empire has hundreds of overseas millitary bases, China has 3. This is just the typical western projection onto China.

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      If that isn’t the definition of imperialism, I don’t know what is.

      Yeah, its clear you have no clue what that is. Trade and development are not imperialism.