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Re:China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video] by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @01:53PM (#20216058)
England let a lot of its colonies go peacefully, I don't know if that counts.
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Re:China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video] by manishsharan on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:20PM (#20216542)
>> England let a lot of its colonies go peacefully,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March

The protesters were peaceful. The English oppressors were violent.

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Re:China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video] by learc83 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:18PM (#20220083)
They didn't say all of their colonies. Some were let go relatively peacefully.
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Re:China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video] by xmly on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:10PM (#20216382)
Sounds like they have a choice.

They do not have the ability to fight with them, so let them go peacefully.

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Re:China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video] by ryanmarsh on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:00PM (#20216199)
If I'm not mistaken they were let go long after the industrial revolution, which changed the calculus around colonies. Pre-industrial economies expanded by territory, to over simplify.

Additionally, when the crown let the colonies go did it lose its business interests or did it still retain control of them? How much capture still exists?

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