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Originally Posted by Caliplanner1
China has never historically been "one people". The country has for centuries been divided: e.g. country peasants versus urban merchant elite, Han versus Manchu, Mandarin speakers versus Cantonese speakers, Mainland communists versus Taiwanese and Hong Kong capitalists, Western Muslims versus Eastern Buddhists/confucian worshipers/communist atheists etc. etc..
Hence, one objective of communism is to unify a disparate Chinese society (that was too weak to keep European, and later Japanese imperialists at bay during the 19th and early 20th centuries) into a cohesive and stable nation-state.
So anyone who feels that China exhibits a single cultural perspective/political agenda is naive/ignorant.
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Correct. Just like Qin Shi Huang, over two thousand years ago - it's like if Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland or Ukraine conquered all the other ones and all the smaller countries in between, and then called the whole thing "Europe."
Which makes the ceremony and the reasons for it even more confusing, since the only diehard Communists are still on the Mainland and couldn't care less of a rodent's backside about what happens in a "foolish and backwards" country - which (to them) is every country that isn't China. Likewise, most here don't really care about the CCP, if not outright hate them.
I sincerely hope that the councilors involved have learned that they need to do some
actual research on foreign cultures and nations before trying to curry their favour.
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