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UK/US also divided India on behalf of Arabs. ( Look it up where Japan sent first Toyota and than 2nd one). and whole host of other European colonies especially the misrule of French. There is reason Saudis have appointed a French speaking African to the the senior Post of OIC.
The only other nation that current house of Saud owe anything are the Afghans and the other are Baluch due to Oman. make sure you understand why this Sultan of Oman and its people are regarded so high in Gulf Emirates. and only Sultan of Oman got such reception in UAE which usually not happen on this scale among the Gulf Arabs.
I am fairly convinced that the West in general, and the imperial center in particular rolled a natural 1 by going out of their way to antagonize China, and rolled a critical failure by antagonizing both China and Russia in the same decade. I just hope I live long enough to see the final end result of such hubris.
There is some caveats to that. Spain not only allowed but even promoted Nathualt, writing grammar books about it. That is the Main reason that nowadays we know the language.
Later on some Spanish king declares Spanish the official language of the empire, what is wrongly mistaken by some historians as forbid the other languages in the empire (thing that is now true)
Nathualt was predominant in Mexico until the independence, ironically it was the Mexican state the one that crushed the language and make it almost disappear.
The number of nathuatl speakers peaked in 1800, just prior to the independence of Mexico
Are you a Chinese citizen? Or a westernwe pretending he knows what is good or bad for China and how they should feel about Russia?
You are here distorting realities about Russia and China without point.
Their relationship has been pretty good for 2 neighbouring superpowers.
Imperial russia only took Manchuria after China was defeated by the British in the second opium war. What do you expect them to do? To allow British settlement there, neighbouring themselves?
I don’t think there is much to blame there, it is pretty normal in the context of the Great Game and the rivalry with the British empire
The Soviet Union did help a lot China. Many original Chinese communist leaders were trained there, as for example the father of Xi.
They also provided a lot of the original technology for the heavy industry.
And without wining nothing. The West did not provide technology for nothing by in exchange for basically mega cheap chinese Labour.
Compare it is absurd.
Then sadly come the split due to the idiocy of Krushev the traitor. Without that idiot, his animosity towards Mao and his reforms I think the U.S. system would be history already.
But China and Russia has been beneficial to its other to a large extent. Their relation has been far better than relation between most nato allies between themselves across history.
Also they have very different areas of interest. For a country the most interest is populated areas. Like Slavic countries in Western Europe and for China sino sphere in Asia
The main point is that the West was going to loose supremacy anyway.
Chinese system is simply more effective allocating resources, and they also have the man power and a crazy work ethic.
Without external actions China would have reach world supremacy anyway. And Russia would have reach supremacy on Europe sooner or later due to population and resources.
So for the west was imperative a conflict to stop this. They hoped that they could defeat Russia and then surround China.
This is in all their strategies since 100 years ago.
Russia and China know this and they collaborate to avoid it.
The west therefore could not avoid to fight Russia now. And while they could have avoid this tension with China, it would not have change the attitude of Chinese government towards Russia.
Also the west have the spirit of a bully and we should not underestimate the level of their racism and arrogance.
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Considering what Imperial Japan did to China during their invasion in WW2, and Japan's utter refusal to repent to this day, I hold more resentment against Japan than Russia. It puzzles me why some people don't understand this simple question:
The US can't stop the development of China's semiconductor industry.
ASEAN knows which side of their bread is buttered.
Get used to it. Someday one of China's periodic military exercises may well become a war of reunification.
Unmistakable signs that China's economy is bullish and booming.
Yes, and what is specially sad of the broken up of the empire is not the independence from Spain itself.
It is the crazy divisions artificially created there to have weak countries.
Before Colombia and Venezuela were one for example. The old Virreinato or Granada
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay also one. The virreinato de la Plata.
And Mexico, the old virreinato de nueva España was huge, including all Central America (Nicaragua, Guatemala) and half of nowadays US (Texas, Nuevo Mexico)
Without those divisions there would be huge powerful countries there that would not be so easily bullied by the U.S.
If you want to find other funny examples about the caricaturisation of Spanish of that time you also can check the Inquisition.
Infamous Spanish Inquisition burned 1 witch in 300 years or so. In liberal Democratic Switzerland they burned 5000 and in amazing liberal Germany 9000.
USSR did liberate Manchuria, calling it "pillaging" is Japanese/western propaganda, it's ok to criticize the soviets but you should have to resort to literal imperialist propaganda to do so. Also why are you simping for the nationalists? Their incompetency and selfishness are the reason why so many Chinese died.