The people and their culture is one thing, it’s a different matter entirely if a developing country is asked to embrace a new hegemony from a domineering industrial Mainland China, a power that is seeing an opportunity of occupying a power vacuum the Americans are vacating.
What the Mainlander government is doing ain’t new, but right now they’re speedrunning for the 2049 goal line.
The people and their culture is one thing, it’s a different matter entirely if a developing country is asked to embrace a new hegemony from a domineering industrial Mainland China, a power that is seeing an opportunity of occupying a power vacuum the Americans are vacating.
What the Mainlander government is doing ain’t new, but right now they’re speedrunning for the 2049 goal line.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=OubM8bD9kck