On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:57 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > > I remember reading English language publications of the Soviet and Chinese > states back in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. At that time, they had > no problem criticizing the other Government's treatment of ethnic > minorities or neighboring countries. The favored terms used by the Chinese > state for its Soviet peer were "Great nation chauvinist" and "social > imperialist." > > Going back before the twentieth Century, there is the long history of the > Chinese State maintaining tributary relations with countries throughout > their periphery. Such relations were not identical to those that the > United States or the European rulers of the early 20th Century maintained > with the rest of the world, but they are certainly comparable. Who knows > but had the Ming Dynasty not called back its ships in the early 1400s, the > Chinese State might have ended up with a string of colonies throughout the > Indian and Pacific Oceans rivaling in size those of the later European > States. > > For Russia, it is hard to ignore its territorial expansion across Eurasia. > Moreover, it had at least one overseas colony, its called Alaska. Plus, > until driven out by the Japanese, the Russians eagerly participated in the > carving up of China, just as they did with the Brits in dividing up Iran > in the days before Reza Pahlavi. > > SR > > >> On 11/19/2020 12:35 PM Vladimiro Giacche' <[email protected]> >> wrote: > > >> I can only add that there is NO POSSIBLE COMPARISON between the “sins” of >> the “West” (= western colonial powers) and those of Russians (not Great >> Russian, which never existed as a people) and Chinese. >> Very basic knowledge of history is sufficient for acknowledging that such >> an assertion is true. >> V >> >> >> Inviato da iPhone >> >> > >
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