I believe imperialism doesn't just imply exporting capital, but exporting capital and trying to exert political control to dominate the foreign market. China claims to not want to do that and to respect sovereignty and from what I can understand that is largely true at least for now despite issues and complaints that do crop up.
They definitely dont do anything even nearly on the scale of western militaries or imf/world bank/structural adjustment so far.
So I would say it's debatable albeit minor. At least for now. Also important not to forget that China has class struggle too as well as being a national liberation project in addition to the communist project, so I'm sure there are internal debates in the extent of soft power, military power etc. to project vs. pursuit of world revolution or socialism in one country and so on.
I think it's easy to get to in our own western propoganda and forget that chinese aren't all slavering drones working for Xi, but have internal national struggles, class struggle, a bourgeoisie, liberals, Maoist, trade unions gay rights activists and inequality and, etc. Etc and all of the contradictions you would expect to arise from those contradictions.
Been seeing a lot of Chinese youth communist league Twitter accounts with rainbows and LGBT in the bio/name. They definitely have struggles even within the party, let alone the entire country.
Is this imperialism? Is China exporting capital?
I believe imperialism doesn't just imply exporting capital, but exporting capital and trying to exert political control to dominate the foreign market. China claims to not want to do that and to respect sovereignty and from what I can understand that is largely true at least for now despite issues and complaints that do crop up.
They definitely dont do anything even nearly on the scale of western militaries or imf/world bank/structural adjustment so far.
So I would say it's debatable albeit minor. At least for now. Also important not to forget that China has class struggle too as well as being a national liberation project in addition to the communist project, so I'm sure there are internal debates in the extent of soft power, military power etc. to project vs. pursuit of world revolution or socialism in one country and so on.
I think it's easy to get to in our own western propoganda and forget that chinese aren't all slavering drones working for Xi, but have internal national struggles, class struggle, a bourgeoisie, liberals, Maoist, trade unions gay rights activists and inequality and, etc. Etc and all of the contradictions you would expect to arise from those contradictions.
Been seeing a lot of Chinese youth communist league Twitter accounts with rainbows and LGBT in the bio/name. They definitely have struggles even within the party, let alone the entire country.