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by Fricken 237 days ago
The CIA was operating for a long time in Tibet and got the Dalai Lama kicked out. Taiwan wouldn't even exist if it weren't backed by forgeign powers, namely the US and UK. The US dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia. The US has conducted thousands of drone strikes in Pakistan, and of course, they fought a war in Korea.
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JumpCrisscross 237 days ago
> CIA was operating for a long time in Tibet and got the Dalai Lama kicked out

Nobody contests that the U.S. projects power and culture globally.

> Taiwan wouldn't even exist if it weren't backed by forgeign powers, namely the US and UK

…this is true for most countries on the planet. Including the US and UK.

> US dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia. The US has conducted thousands of drone strikes in Pakistan, and of course, they fought a war in Korea

How is this relevant to whether China projects its culture?

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Fricken 237 days ago
China does not project it's power across the globe. You only listed countries China can literally spit on from within it's own borders.
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JumpCrisscross 237 days ago
> China does not project it's power across the globe. You only listed countries China can literally spit on from within it's own borders

China's projects power into the Red Sea and Central Asia, and is building bases to project further into the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Thailand, South Atlantic and Coral Sea. (Also ironic to reference Tibet and China's borders in the same sentence. In imperial terms, China, Indonesia, Libya and Russia stand alone in having annexed by force, since WWII, the sovereign land of other nations that weren't their colonisers.)

Examples of cultural projection outside Asia are rarer, given Chinese power projection as a whole is newer, but one would expect to see--as it's happened in its vicinity, as it happened in America's vicinity first--Chinese-language and cultural institutions following economic interests. (It's already happening, but not significantly enough yet to be of note. Most current objections from locals are around the migration and settlement of ethnic Chinese workers in their communities.)

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