China, in all its thousands of years of history, has never invaded India.
Let me repeat that: China and India have existed for thousands of years right across the mountains from each other and China has never invaded India.
In my lifetime a tiny very wet little idland in the North Sea OWNED India.
Wave after wave of Aryan and pre-Aryan invaders came across the mountains west of China and conquered and OWNED India.
China has never even invaded India.
In fact, with a tiny almost unknown exception that proves the rule, China has never ruled anybody who was not racially Mongoloid.
What others refer to as “Chinese imperialism” is what Europeans would refer to as “taking over buffer areas.” For the giant China to take over southeast Asis is the equivalent of Fance taking over Belgium.
It would be aggression, but it would take a real stretch of the imagination to call a conquered Belgium The French Empire.
#1 by Bruce on 12/05/2005 - 6:08 pm
What tiny unknown exception would that be?
#2 by Twin Ruler on 12/05/2005 - 8:05 pm
The Chinese are a very interesting people. They were attacked by the more Westernized Japanese, during the time of the Second World War. What I have always found fascinating were the Chinese Nationalists. Their uniforms were almost identical to those of the Nazis. They had those distinctive German style helmets.
Still, if there is one Nation I admire, it is the British. There was once a time when the British were the most, and indeed, the only Industrialized Nation on the face of the Earth. There were unprecedented technological advancements during that time.
#3 by Bob on 12/06/2005 - 1:30 am
Bruce, there is a tiny Caucasoid population inside China.
I said this just to keep somebody from using that as a quibble.
#4 by Bob on 12/06/2005 - 1:31 am
Twin Ruler, I am sure you mean it WAS the British.
#5 by Twin Ruler on 03/02/2006 - 7:59 pm
I much admire both the British and the Chinese.