What China Wants and Why
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What China Wants and Why
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#2This is a way over simplistic view. It's not a CIV game where someone decides what "China/Han" should do for all these thousands of years. People's minds change, sometimes the people themselves change, accidents happen. You don't have to find some hidden "truth" that goes back 3000 years to explain what China today does.
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#3Can't take this serious. The "Hu Line" is massively inconsistent in the various maps used here!
In the topographical one, Sichuan is west of the Hu-Line, while in others it is east of it. Make up your mind.
Don't fuddle with the line just to tell a story.
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#5Few things in that article make any sense. Buffer regions? Who exactly is going to start a land invasion of China? And a land invasion through Tibet, the roof of the world?
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#6This is apologetic nonsense. China is a nation with nuclear armament and a population 1.4 billion. Nobody can realistically attack and control them, let alone their direct neighbors.
What China does is what CCP wants: to stay in power.
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#7> But I wouldn’t be surprised if, at some point in the future, the Han started a systematic Han-ization of Tibet.
The systematic "Han-ization" of Tibet has been ongoing since its annexation in 1950. The main cities like Lhasa are already majority Han.
Also, calling the Han "uniform" when they speak several dozen mutually incomprehensible languages and in general display the same breadth of geographical and cultural diversity as (say) Europe seems a bit of a stretch.
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#8This article talks an awful lot about this hypothetical line, but for the Chinese themselves, the key distinction is between North and South.
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#9> But I wouldn’t be surprised if, at some point in the future, the Han started a systematic Han-ization of Tibet.
Well, practically speaking, it already started a long time ago, although the colonization wasn't as intensive (after all, not many people would find the Himalayan conditions agreeable). Also, even Tibetans themselves speak less and less Tibetan, everything is in Chinese, your school, your job, everything except the language your grandfather spoke, so you basically become a Chinese.
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#10This is apologetic nonsense. China is a nation with nuclear armament and a population 1.4 billion. Nobody can realistically attack and control them, let alone their direct neighbors. What China does is what CCP wants: to stay in power.
China is incredibly strong, but in the last century it suffered from terrible invasions. Yes, it probably can overcome any attack but it makes sense for a strategic thinker to worry that another power would try to attack it again.
Think about the US.. Is the US really under threat of invasion? No. But there is a realistic historical concern about a surprise attack that animates US defense policy.
Getting attacked and winning is not that great if the attack has terrible costs. China suffered incredibly in the twentieth century.
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