Feels unnecessarily jingoistic, China succeeding will not come at our expense. Unlike the US, they don’t want to project their values across the globe.
Who’s working on gene editing for IQ maxxing?
Who’s working on gene editing for IQ maxxing?
Tell that to Pakistan, Taiwan, Cambodia, Korea and checks notes Tibet.
America’s cultural projection was similarly local while the British Empire reined.
What dispute do they have with Pakistan? You mean India?
You’re the one who straw manned to territorial disputes!
Beijing culturally projects in Pakistan. Capitalism with Chinese characteristics, a growing prevalence of Mandarin being taught as a second language [1], requiring Islamabad embrace Beijing’s foreign policy, et cetera.
(To be clear, this seems fine. Both Pakistan and Russia have proven dangerously incompetent as fully sovereign states. Perhaps being under Beijing is more stable and prosperous.)
[1] https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/19/WS634f462aa310f...
Hong Kong, Xinjang (yep, that was a country), and the very barely kind-of existing Tibet and Mongolia.
Nobody contests that the U.S. projects power and culture globally.
> Taiwan wouldn't even exist if it weren't backed by forgeign powers, namely the US and UK
…this is true for most countries on the planet. Including the US and UK.
> US dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia. The US has conducted thousands of drone strikes in Pakistan, and of course, they fought a war in Korea
How is this relevant to whether China projects its culture?
China's projects power into the Red Sea and Central Asia, and is building bases to project further into the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Thailand, South Atlantic and Coral Sea. (Also ironic to reference Tibet and China's borders in the same sentence. In imperial terms, China, Indonesia, Libya and Russia stand alone in having annexed by force, since WWII, the sovereign land of other nations that weren't their colonisers.)
Examples of cultural projection outside Asia are rarer, given Chinese power projection as a whole is newer, but one would expect to see--as it's happened in its vicinity, as it happened in America's vicinity first--Chinese-language and cultural institutions following economic interests. (It's already happening, but not significantly enough yet to be of note. Most current objections from locals are around the migration and settlement of ethnic Chinese workers in their communities.)