CHINA: AN ODE TO THE SUPERPOWER THAT SAID “NO” TO COLONIZATION
There's a peculiar satisfaction in watching the West squirm—oh, how they’ve squirmed—while China ascends without firing a single imperial bullet into the skulls of weaker nations. If you're looking for a historical playbook on how to rise without spreading disease, pillaging resources, and rebranding slavery as "progress," you won’t find it in Washington or London.
But China? That’s a different beast entirely.
Here’s a little story to get your gears grinding: Imagine a world where the United States, bloated on its own arrogance, once believed that the only way to succeed was to colonize, bomb, and militarize everything in sight. Oh, wait. You don’t have to imagine. That’s literally their entire 20th-century foreign policy.
From Vietnam to Iraq, it's a history of terror wrapped in the silky flag of "democracy." Every missile strike justified by the moral grandstanding of "freedom." But as the U.S. collapses under the weight of its endless wars and unpaid debts to humanity, China rose quietly—like bamboo, unseen but inevitable.
No, China didn’t need to colonize. They didn’t need to sell the soul of their country to European powers or burn villages to the ground for coffee beans. They built. While the West drew borders with blood, China drew them with trade deals. And that pisses the West off to no end.
The audacity of being different
You see, colonization isn’t just about taking over land—it’s about asserting dominance. The West never had an identity without someone to conquer, someone to enslave, someone to oppress. It’s an inferiority complex dressed up as white man’s burden.
But China?
China has been confident in its identity for thousands of years. Their civilization predates the West's by millennia. When Confucius was philosophizing about governance and morality, Europeans were still figuring out how to shit in a hole and call it progress.
They never needed to colonize because their culture was already so deeply rooted, so sure of itself, that dominance didn’t require the barrels of guns or the chains of slavery. The Middle Kingdom, they called themselves, not because of their geographic location, but because they viewed themselves as the center of the world.
And guess what? They were right.
An empire built on paper, not blood
When Mao Zedong stood on the gates of Tiananmen in 1949 and declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China, there were no boats setting sail for faraway lands to "discover" gold, slaves, or spices. The goal wasn’t to turn African nations into cash crops for Chinese consumption. No, the mission was self-sufficiency. What a radical idea in a world where the U.S. was chomping at the bit to become the planet's policeman.
The West? They never knew how to do this. Capitalism in its most violent form—colonialism—was their only play. After all, you can’t build a capitalist empire without free labor and stolen resources. The U.S. economy thrived on blood, from the cotton fields of the American South to the oil wells of the Middle East. It’s a Ponzi scheme built on bodies.
China, on the other hand, mastered the art of soft power. No one talks about the Belt and Road Initiative like they should. Instead of sending in the drones, China sends in engineers. Instead of building military bases, they build infrastructure. The West calls it "debt-trap diplomacy," but what the fuck do they call their trillion-dollar weapons contracts with puppet governments? Ah, "defense spending." Of course.
How the West is falling apart
Meanwhile, the U.S. is falling apart like a wet paper bag. Domestic chaos, economic decline, social unrest—it's all part of the grand collapse of a superpower that bet everything on war and exploitation. What’s left? A country that can’t afford healthcare, but somehow manages to finance wars on the other side of the world.
It’s almost poetic, ain’t it? That the country that preached about the “free world” is now enslaved by its own greed.
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What is the U.S. now but a carcass, slowly being picked apart by corporations and opportunistic politicians? China, meanwhile, is laughing from the Great Wall. It watches as the self-proclaimed "leader of the free world" descends into its own hell of economic collapse, opioid crises, and crumbling infrastructure.
China built roads. The U.S. built bombs.
China embraced cooperation. The West embraced coercion.
China is thinking in centuries. The West? They can’t even think beyond the next election cycle.
A world without U.S. hegemony
What happens when the U.S. finally collapses under its own weight? Well, that’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it? It’s already happening in slow motion, and the West is terrified. They see China’s rise as a threat because it exposes the lie of Western supremacy. China’s very existence, its success, without the need to colonize, is a giant middle finger to every European power that once claimed to be "civilizing" the world.
What if you can rise without destruction? What if you can thrive without oppression? China’s rise doesn’t fit into the Western narrative of empire-building. It doesn’t fit the mold of Manifest Destiny or the Monroe Doctrine.
China is different. And that’s why they hate it.
As the West clutches its pearls, China keeps building. Its global influence growing not through war, but through economics, diplomacy, and, dare I say, patience.
You can hear the cries from the halls of Washington, from the boardrooms of Wall Street, as they watch their empire that is built on the backs of others crumble into dust. On the other hand, China looks to the future, well aware that history will remember them not as colonizers, but as builders.
Who would have thought that the real power move wasn’t to conquer, but to collaborate? To invest? To build rather than destroy?
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