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by liftbigweights 2761 days ago
> Who is “we?” People who look like me, a white person, who did mean things two centuries before I was born?

"We" as in the nation or government? And it wasn't 2 centuries ago. We were colonizing china up until 1949.

People truly do not understand how much "we" ( as in the US and imperial europe ) screwed over china. I bet not 1 in a 1000 americans knows that the US were imperial colonizers in china even after ww2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol

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But this is hardly the opium wars is it - not that the PRC is not adverse to whipping up nationalistic propaganda over it.