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2026-06-25 12:15 UTC

yeah it doesnt really seem like it thou. controversial take, china isnt really “saving from western imperialism” they couldnt care less and they just trade with countries like any normal nation would. they dont intervene in military action or really export capital, they arent imperialist, but they arent actively opposing imperialism. Plus i dont see anything of theirs coming to help communists in non AES so idk. They are passively showing that a different system is possible, but eventually the world will have to pass to scientific socialism. Plus China trades with capitalist consumerist countries, that means they are for the interests of what the west will buy. That means that if we buy phones, plastic containers, indumets, ecc. from China, China is producing those and it needs to take the prime materials from earth (or someone else who took them from the eath) and manufactured those. they sell these to the west in the amount the consumerist west needs. At the end they are providing the west with what it needs and thus contributing to the living (also) of capitalist western countries. I dont know if you get what im saying

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-06-25 12:22

China is directly undermining imperialism by providing an alternative for the global south to turn to for development. Reading the works of Fanon and Nkrumah makes this fairly obvious, for a global south country to rapidly develop they need regional sovereignty and ideally a way out of their formerly colonial economies that isn’t just neocolonialism from the west. China presents a real alternative that does not underdevelop the global south, and gives them the opportunities they need to escape neocolonialism. China trading with capitalist countries does not give them what they need to continue imperializing. In fact, China serving as the outlet for the west to de-industrialize has actually harmed western industrial capacity, resulting in decreased military power and a decline in hard and soft power. They are not propping up the west, they are leading it to their grave as the west cannot help but go towards due to the profit motive. This isn’t about good will, this is a material process that happens when a socialist country is rising.

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