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China, officially the People's Republic of China is a large authoritarian capitalist or authoritarian socialist state, claiming much of the geographic region of Eastern Asia and several outlying islands, it is near the states of Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Positives and Negatives
This discussion is really hard to be had because of the presence of propaganda in both pro and anti-China discourses. We try to use objective information that neither side could deny.
Positives
- According to the World Bank, more than 850 million Chinese people have been lifted out of extreme poverty; China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015, as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity terms.[1]
Negatives
- China has a pretty bad record on foreign policy.
- From 1974, China (along with the USA) supported Eritrean ML rebels against Socialist Ethiopia.[2]
- In 1975, China (with the USA and France) provided material support for anti-communist rebels in the Angolan Civil War that tried to overthrow the socialist government.[3]
- China tried to invade Vietnam in 1979, RIGHT after Vietnam had suffered brutally at the hands at the USA in the Vietnam War. Border skirmishes continued until 1991 where relations were normalised.[4]
- China, along with the USA and UK, also supported Pol Pot as they waged a war against Vietnam and socialist Cambodia.[5]
- China ended support for the Communist Party of the Philippines in their insurgency in 1976 as part of its normalisation of relations with the Philippines.[6]
- Since 1992, China has been closely cooperative with Israel on military matters.[7][8]
- Since 2002, China has been selling weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan.[9]
- Since 2003, China has supported the government of Sudan whilst carrying out anti-Arab ethnic cleansing and mass rape.[10]
- In 2005, China sent military aid to Nepal to help them fight the Maoist rebels.[11]
- In the 2010s, Chinese state-owned companies invested in gas pipelines in Canada over indigenous lands without the consent of indigenous people, leading to protests.[12]
Major Social Struggles
- 1920: Guangzhou Commune
- 1929: Shinmin Autonomous Zone
- 2007 - 2014: Chinese Protest Wave
- 2007: Xiamen Anti-Factory Campaign
- 2008: Chengdu Stroll
- 2009: Guangzhou Anti-Landfill Campaign
- 2010: Chinese Honda Strike
- 2010: Tibetan Student Movement
- 2011: Shanghai Truck Drivers' Strike
- 2011: Haining Anti-Pollution Campaign
- 2011: Dalian Anti-Factory Campaign
- 2011: Tibetan Food Boycott
- 2011: Wukan Land Defense
- 2012: Ningbo Anti-Refinery Campaign
- 2012: Qidong Anti-Pipeline Campaign
- 2012: Shifang Anti-Factory Campaign
- 2013: Unchain The Truth
- 2014: Shenzhen Golf Factory Strike
References
- ↑ https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview#3
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean_War_of_Independence
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_conflicts,_1979%E2%80%931991
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War
- ↑ http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/Philippines2.pdf
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Israel_relations
- ↑ http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/05/c_137303278.htm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6975934.stm
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4469508.stm
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/wet-suwet-en-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-1.5448363