Infrared are dead serious though, and their audience is growing pretty fast.
Good. I stan the fuck out of them for actually reading a book.
like seems like a real waste of energy to even discuss this as they are literally an empire like an actual empire with an emperor and stuff
Ah shit it’s time for genzedong’s daily cringe post. I’m still subbed though
Maybe a hot take, but I'm kind of like "fuck it, whatever" on this. With capitalism rapidly killing the planet and sinophobic violence on the rise, I'm temporarily okay with legions of dum dums supporting the right country for the wrong reasons, especially the kind of people who's opinions on geopolitics is easily swayed by a single video. If they're gonna be consuming bullshit anyway, better this than PragerU.
RESTORE THE QING DYNASTYYYYYYYYYYYYY
:mao-aggro-shining: (Mao was a Qing subject from 1893 to 1912 — in 1960 he invited Pu-I the last emperor to dinner, and he was like "LOL REMEMBER THIS GUY HE USED TO BE OUR LORD").
Both Tang and Sui tried to conquer Korea. From Han to Tang dynasties, parts of Vietnam were under Chinese rule. Qing made Xinjiang into China ~300 years ago. It's not imperialist in the Leninist sense, but it is similar to the pre-modern expansionism characteristic of the Romans, Turks, Persians etc.
"[Imperialism] first became common in the current sense in Great Britain during the 1870s, when it was used with a negative connotation.[5] Previously, the term had been used to describe what was perceived as Napoleon III's attempts at obtaining political support through foreign military interventions.[5] The term was and is mainly applied to Western and Japanese political and economic dominance, especially in Asia and Africa, in the 19th and 20th centuries."
The modern understanding of the term "imperialism" really is a Western concept that took shape since the 19th century, and can't be reasonably applied to other earlier contexts even ones in the West
