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One night, me and my wife were watching World News. We started a pretty heated discuss ending up she swore at me in Swedish and I have to do all the dishes for the rest of the week.....
The problem is do everybody need to hate China for it to become a superpower?
When you look back to all the superpower, tracing from the Alexander the great and his Macedonia Empire to Julian/Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire, Ganghis Khan and his Mogol Empire, to the British Empire to the current day, the United States. What all these superpower have in common? People hate them.
Doesn't matter if you are a Friend or Foe of those empire, people regardless hate their regime. Their way to do business with other country, their emperialism and their expansion, not one of the empire we can truely called "Loved by all" Why?
The truth lies in their way to become a superpower. While they are ranged in different timeline, there are one thing in common to all the superpower, matter not they are from 1450BC or 1945 AD, they were expansionist.
Everybody know not a single country can survive on their own, country need resource, and there is yet to ahve a country that blessed with every resources they need, so you need to find them and get them from another country.
Expansionism is a doctorine that either use Economic Strength or Military Power to induce foreign influence, hence either bribe or force the other party into their own regime. This comes from the ages of trade where shipborne trader establish trade route to "New World" and then on the way, they stop and conquer and fortified those stop toward the trade route then finally the route itself, they do this to maintain a steady flow of resource and provide security for the merchant.
It does not matter if your expansion is fast or slow, you bound to set out enemy. People you conquer, people you don't bribe, people who you have taken the resource from will hate your guts. Hence war, is inevitable. But the one irony the expanionistism is, you need to use those conquered land to defend against your expansion obstacle. Much like macedonian and persian, and United States and the Middle East. You conquer them to either provide a safe passage or to secure your resource.
However, this is not always the case that you will success, over the course of history, many many more civilisation or country got wipe from the map just because of their own Expansion or someone else's So, once you tended for the bid to become a superpower, you need a big military to be able to afford the price. Doesn't matter if it's your 30 Roman Legion or a large US Fleet.
Soldier make trouble, that is a universial truth, so people they conquer will not hold graditute but grudges, and to be very honest, when you expand enough, you will bound to make a decision to piss off some of your friend too, so, not only the people you conquer hates you, but also your friend hates you.
There are another way to become a superentities (Note, not superpower) that's throught Unionism, which is probably most heard during recently, it is a more republic method to conquer the world by adopting a Union Management, pass example such as the Soviet Union or the Current European Union. Those are the communion of a collective country and share everything to become a super-entities.
Over the course of history, whenever expansionist meet unionist, 9 out nof 10 times the expansionist win. The problem is when you share everything, in the end no one entity have the most while you expand and conquer, you did made a lot of enemy but you do have a lot of resource in return. When the expansionist eat up the union bit by bit and the union will simply fall.
However, as with any other Expansionist, there are end game for them too, either the empire is too great to control and dissolve, or they were met with another bigger and stronger empire, or simply the command of the empire drove the empire to the ground. Eitherway, from all of the human history, there weren't a single entitity that can survive forever.
Fast forward to present, Where China set to become another superpower after Soviet Russia falls. Can any one imagine the road for China to become the Superpower? Will they be the expansionist like the America or will they be a Unionist like the European Union? Or is there a way for China to become a Superpower without pissing off everyone in its course? My wife seems to think it will be the first one, what do you people in this forum think?
Constructive Comment Welcome, Troll can leave now, thanks
The problem is do everybody need to hate China for it to become a superpower?
When you look back to all the superpower, tracing from the Alexander the great and his Macedonia Empire to Julian/Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire, Ganghis Khan and his Mogol Empire, to the British Empire to the current day, the United States. What all these superpower have in common? People hate them.
Doesn't matter if you are a Friend or Foe of those empire, people regardless hate their regime. Their way to do business with other country, their emperialism and their expansion, not one of the empire we can truely called "Loved by all" Why?
The truth lies in their way to become a superpower. While they are ranged in different timeline, there are one thing in common to all the superpower, matter not they are from 1450BC or 1945 AD, they were expansionist.
Everybody know not a single country can survive on their own, country need resource, and there is yet to ahve a country that blessed with every resources they need, so you need to find them and get them from another country.
Expansionism is a doctorine that either use Economic Strength or Military Power to induce foreign influence, hence either bribe or force the other party into their own regime. This comes from the ages of trade where shipborne trader establish trade route to "New World" and then on the way, they stop and conquer and fortified those stop toward the trade route then finally the route itself, they do this to maintain a steady flow of resource and provide security for the merchant.
It does not matter if your expansion is fast or slow, you bound to set out enemy. People you conquer, people you don't bribe, people who you have taken the resource from will hate your guts. Hence war, is inevitable. But the one irony the expanionistism is, you need to use those conquered land to defend against your expansion obstacle. Much like macedonian and persian, and United States and the Middle East. You conquer them to either provide a safe passage or to secure your resource.
However, this is not always the case that you will success, over the course of history, many many more civilisation or country got wipe from the map just because of their own Expansion or someone else's So, once you tended for the bid to become a superpower, you need a big military to be able to afford the price. Doesn't matter if it's your 30 Roman Legion or a large US Fleet.
Soldier make trouble, that is a universial truth, so people they conquer will not hold graditute but grudges, and to be very honest, when you expand enough, you will bound to make a decision to piss off some of your friend too, so, not only the people you conquer hates you, but also your friend hates you.
There are another way to become a superentities (Note, not superpower) that's throught Unionism, which is probably most heard during recently, it is a more republic method to conquer the world by adopting a Union Management, pass example such as the Soviet Union or the Current European Union. Those are the communion of a collective country and share everything to become a super-entities.
Over the course of history, whenever expansionist meet unionist, 9 out nof 10 times the expansionist win. The problem is when you share everything, in the end no one entity have the most while you expand and conquer, you did made a lot of enemy but you do have a lot of resource in return. When the expansionist eat up the union bit by bit and the union will simply fall.
However, as with any other Expansionist, there are end game for them too, either the empire is too great to control and dissolve, or they were met with another bigger and stronger empire, or simply the command of the empire drove the empire to the ground. Eitherway, from all of the human history, there weren't a single entitity that can survive forever.
Fast forward to present, Where China set to become another superpower after Soviet Russia falls. Can any one imagine the road for China to become the Superpower? Will they be the expansionist like the America or will they be a Unionist like the European Union? Or is there a way for China to become a Superpower without pissing off everyone in its course? My wife seems to think it will be the first one, what do you people in this forum think?
Constructive Comment Welcome, Troll can leave now, thanks
