> Korea is more like China's Canada. It's tiny (Canada has one tenth the population of the US; Mexico is more like one half) and culturally, though not linguistically, similar.
So your argument now is that makes it non-imperialistic?
So your argument now is that makes it non-imperialistic?
1. China, ruled by the Chinese, has been incredibly uninterested in expansion compared to pretty much anywhere else in the world.
2. In fact, they have a many-centuries-long tradition of applying social stigma to military careers.
3. They have been especially uninterested in attacking regions that are not already highly Sinicized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sino-Korean_relatio... doesn't really suggest that the Chinese have been interested in invading Korea at any time in the last 1500 years. Communist China specifically wanted North Korea to be independent as a buffer state between itself and the US.