stirringwind:

shit, I honestly can’t believe those people who think China is some perfect economic model to replace the US- mainly because they think it can’t be imperialist, that it won’t throw its weight around. they’re walking, breathing and shitting out the Noble Savage and orientalist tropes that see China as this kind of passive, 100% orderly society that knows some secret to social order and peace. many of these folks are all starry-eyed about Chinese investment in the African continent because ‘it’s one developing country helping out another!’ whenever there’s news about another corporation going to Nigeria or Kenya or any other nation. it must be noted that a lot of these people aren’t chinese who have perhaps just been told government propaganda and subject to censored media all their lives- but westerners. 

where have these people been? have they bothered to take a glance past European history or just the history of the past 500 years? 

China is like THE imperialist power of Asia. Japan did try this in the modern era, but China has been doing this for four thousand years and running now. China didn’t build a seafaring empire like Britain or Spain because it was TOO BUSY conquering and pillaging overland. 

(Source: stirringwinds)