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This is simply history. You can read about it in normal everyday history books of any sort regardless of affiliation or background.
I'm not trying to give a one-sided impression of what happened, but simply counter-arguments to your statements, which is why I didn't bother to reiterate your own points. I'm not saying that what you said was all wrong, but that it was only half the story. I provided the other half. If you consider it illiterate propaganda, then I suppose all hail the Han dynasty and all of Earth awaits the day they overthrow the whites in Confucius glory or something.
I read a LOT about History, and it seems that the history YOU are reading is 'Alternate Historical Fiction', not good sold History. It is not 'trying to give the other side of the story', it is pure anti-Chinese racism. They are not counter-arguments at all, they are pure racist propaganda talking points. Not a word you said has any basis in the factual historic record.
China is doing exactly what it needs to raise its people out of poverty, allowing them to take their proper place in the world order. Nothing to do with greed. There is EVERY justification for China to do what it is doing, there is NO justification except pure racism to try to prevent China from doing it.
Raise it's people out of poverty, right after starving the entire country almost into oblivion you mean? Rural Chinese aren't even that much better than where they were a hundred years ago. Hell, parts of rural China is far worse than it was back then since at least there wasn't any government interference beyond taxation back during the previous government.
Emperor Xi is not doing a single thing for the benefit of the Chinese people. Every single metric that can be backed up with physical evidence shows that China is in a serious decline right now, and it's entirely caused by their government. You say that China is justified in doing what it is doing, then you say that their aggression towards their neighbours in the South China Seas is justified? Ramming their fishing boats against coast guards? Sending thousands of fishing boats just outside of the EEZ of Argentina? Performing highly aggressive and potentially lethal stunts to harass neighbouring patrol planes doing completely legal and globally standard regional patrols because China decided to enact territorial laws that haven't been enforced the entire time the CCP had existed?
You are making completely bad-faith arguments. I'm not the one being racist here. Especially since I am a pure-blooded East Asian myself.
Your complete ignorance about what is happening in China is appalling. It also smells of racism.
I return the same words. What about the Uyghurs, or the Tibetans?
Amnesty International is in many aspects a spokesperson for the Vatican. Nothing they say about China can be considered truthful or factual.
The Chinese have nothing against the Uighur. They are, in fact, living prosperously and peacefully in China. It is the Uighur terrorists that China has effectively dealt with, and most of the Uighur people support the Chinese efforts. They can now live in peace, free from the terrorist bombings and intimidation.
In point of fact, American bombings of the Uighur terrorists killed more Uighur children and citizens than the deaths in China, yet not a word about this massacre the Americans committed against the Uighur. It was this massacre of Uighur civilians that forced them into China in the first place, and it is these displaced Uighur who are doing all the agitating. They HAD a homeland - in Afghanistan. The Americans evicted them from their homeland.
Incidentally, it was Trump who ordered the massacre.
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-targets-chinese-uighur-militants-well-taliban-fighters-afghanistan-n845876)