The PRC isn’t imperializing Taiwan, though. China is not dominating and plundering Taiwan. The US Empire is using its alliance with the right-wing nationalists that fled there after they lost the civil war against the communists in order to have a millitary foothold in the region.
Really all that needs to be said. Imperialism is easy to recognize, because the enforcement is obvious. There’s an international organization headquartered in DC whose business it is to tell countries they’re not allowed to have welfare, and it’s not the Bank of China[1]. There’s a spy agency that overthrows governments all over the world when they don’t comply with its government’s desires, and it’s not the Ministry of State Security[2]. There’s a military that has hundreds of bases all around the world and has been in an almost continuous string of wars of aggression for decades, and it’s not the PLA[3].
The PRC isn’t imperializing Taiwan, though. China is not dominating and plundering Taiwan. The US Empire is using its alliance with the right-wing nationalists that fled there after they lost the civil war against the communists in order to have a millitary foothold in the region.
Really all that needs to be said. Imperialism is easy to recognize, because the enforcement is obvious. There’s an international organization headquartered in DC whose business it is to tell countries they’re not allowed to have welfare, and it’s not the Bank of China[1]. There’s a spy agency that overthrows governments all over the world when they don’t comply with its government’s desires, and it’s not the Ministry of State Security[2]. There’s a military that has hundreds of bases all around the world and has been in an almost continuous string of wars of aggression for decades, and it’s not the PLA[3].
It’s the IMF. ↩︎
It’s the CIA. ↩︎
It’s the American military. ↩︎
Yep!