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Which is exactly what Putin does too. Ask the Ukrainians about the value of Putin's claims of supporting national sovereignty. Borders matter! Except the ones in Eastern Europe. And to be fair to the Worldly folks, a lot of that evidence comes up later in the pod. 4/11
But it never causes them to backtrack and reassess @zackbeauchamp honestly rather naive-sounding reading of PRC objectives.
It seems to me that when the PRC says Nat.-Sov., what they mean is the 'restoration' (I'd say *creation*) of a "traditional" ordering of states. 5/11
Where traditional 'Great Powers' like the PRC are granted heavy, very paternalistic and self-interested spheres of influence over their (to use the Russian phrase) 'Near Abroad.' True sovereignty in that vision belongs only to a handful of big countries. 6/11
It's colonialism by another name and we should be honest about that: the PRC dreams of being a colonialist power. You can see the propaganda justifications for it - the '5000 years of history' (BS, as a side note; China is about as old as Greece and younger than Egypt). 7/11
That 'old and civilized' argument should sound familiar to anyone who has studied the 'civilizing' adventures (read: colonial bloodbath) of modern European powers. I worry that we don't recognize the game because it comes from outside of Europe - but *it*is*the*same*game* 8/11
I am reminded of the number of well-meaning but foolish western left-leaning intellectuals who fell for the Soviet Union's 'anti-colonialist' line, as if Soviet conquest of Uzbekistan wasn't imperialism or colonialism. I suppose the Kazakhs never wanted that Aral Sea, right? 9/11
Actions speak louder than words, and the PRC's actions say clearly that Xi Jinping wants to be a colonialist power. Say it until it sinks in: the PRC aims to be a colonialist power. It is *doing*the*colonialism*right*now.* 10/11
Xi Jinping wears a conquistadors' morion; he wears it in Xinjiang where he is doing genocide, and in Tibet which he is oppressing, and in the S. China Sea. So treat his protestations of 'sovereignty' the same way you treat Cortez' claims to being civilized; as rubbish end/11
Why do you think that colonialism is the term to describe the kind of international relations the PRC is seeking? Why makes it a better term than say Ming sinocentrism or cold war ideological camps?
In part because it is readily understandable - it is the word we use for extractive, paternalistic hierarchies between states. I mean, I suppose we could call it a 'Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere' but that might a touch on the nose.
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