Anti-Japan protests in China spread.

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Kasz216 said:

SickleSigh said:
Read my post again. No one is talking about conquest. Political hegemony involves many things besides imperialism, such as treaties, economic aid, free trade benefiting one more than the other, arming rebel groups, etc etc.

Please provide a broader argument if you wish to say something, A direct counter argument would be America has already conquered Russia in the Cold War, considering it was....a Cold War fought over ideologies. The Great Race in the 18th century between Empire of Britain and Empire of Russia over East/West civilizations.

To say America has no ambitions of slowing China's growth or Russia's defiance of NATO and Western policies is false and proven.

Except that's exactly what your post suggested when talking about military positioning to russia and invasion exercises.

It's hard to provide a broad arguement to something so silly.

 

As for political hegemony.  Pay closer attention to the inroads China has made in Africa and South America.  They're forming their own economic counter axis.

It's too early to tell but we can both agree that China is expanding through economic means. How heavily they will try to influence the region remains to be seen in the future. As it is now they just want raw materials which is not un-like the Western Powers Scramble for Africa but the major difference is China is not imposing themselves as Colonial rulers or demanding regime changes and Autocracies to quell popular uprisings in exchange for aid.

I doubt China will remain neutral in these countries for long but for now it's harmless in comparison to say arming PJAK to overthrow Iran or claiming they have WMD's when the U.N. has stated otherwise.