China to go to war and occupy one of these countries
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Technically, the chinese did try to invade burma in the later part of 1760s. Of course can said it the manchu emperor so no count lah. One the few campagins by qianlong that failed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino–Burmese_War_(1765–1769)
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Events in China in the last two to three hundred years has ingrained the Chinese mindset not to lag behind the rest of the world powers, and in this she has made up much lost ground. China is a big country, big enough without the urgent need for grabbing more land. As long as she is able to be on level terms in any negotiation and not be talked down upon, she will be satisfied. However, recent developments have allowed for China to rise higher than that and is now at a higher level than many of her negotiating partners (in terms of finances). I doubt China has the wish to invade other countries, her priority is raising the standard of living for her rural poor, educating them, providing them a chance to share the country's rising wealth. Her neighbours should not fear China, she has no expansion plans.
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Historically, the Han Chinese have never been expansionist, in the sense the word's used with the other big empires like Pax Romana or Pax Britannica. The stronger and wealthier it was, like during Tang or Northern Song, the more pacifist it was, the more it was subjected to opportunist attacks by surrounding tribal nations. Even at its most expansionist, the ruling perpetrators were actually non-Hans, e.g. Mongols and Manchus.
China's 2 overriding priorities today are: 1) raise the standard of living of the poor and ameliorate the wealth gap; 2) guard the territorial integrity of lands she deems to be hers. Both also serve the nationalist agenda of preserving party survival.
It is (2) that's causing their neighbours to be apprehensive, to label it 'expansionist'. But the Chinese have long memories of past humiliations of land grabs by the West and Japan at gunpoint, and from their perspective it's merely reclaiming their rightful territories, not invading other nations' land. Other than righting past wrongs, there's no reason why China needs more land; their leaders already have their hands full dealing with 1.3 bil people and 9.7 million sq km of land that is subject to every known kind of natural disaster.
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Right. That's why the Chinese are more interested in signing trade deals, engineering corporate takeovers, securing land and sea rights, and greasing the palms of Third World leaders than indulging in adventurist military excursion.
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Actually no. It's better to be a creditor than to be a debtor, insofar as the debts don't turn bad. With three rounds of QE and still counting, and the risk of the USD becoming a banana currency looming by the day, the Chinese are actually caught between a rock and a hard place. Sell your treasuries and you lose your biggest market. Hang on to them and you risk them becoming worthless.
thanks. good research.
SEA region would be backward places if Burma is part of China and all trades route via Rangoon.
SEA region would be backward places if Burma is part of China and all trades route via Rangoon.
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The chinese no need to send their soldiers to invade a nation. They just get millions of peasants to migrate to any particular country and the rest is history.
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agree, soon Australia will be Chinese territory, Chinese top the list of migrants and the angmohs are fucking Chinese women in great numbers and inter breeding. Even marry older Chinese women. Other Chinese men wives they also want, kind of hardup.
