China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by yters on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:12AM (#24555399)

maybe we do something else bad now, but we no longer do the particular thing known as colonialism

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by sangnoir on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:33PM (#24559554)

Are Guam and Puerto Rico not de facto colonies?

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by free_rms on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:19AM (#24555500)

Afghanistan, Iraq? And that's before we get into proxy wars.

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by yenwodyah on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:33AM (#24555688)

Neither of those countries are being colonized, by any definition of the word.

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by bobbyz on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:44PM (#24556729)

If puppet governments don't count as colonialism, then the British were not very colonial and the Japanese did not colonize Manchuria.

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by NegativeLatency on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:46AM (#24555901)

https://www.wordnik.com/words/colonized

> adjective politically ruled by citizens of another country.

Seems to fit this definition

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by kube-system on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:12PM (#24556256)

16 years ago, one of those countries met that definition for a period of 14 months.

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:17PM (#24557235)

If the Ba'ath Party and Taliban had taken back control after those 14 months in each respective country, are you under the impression the US would've gone "welp, we tried!" and left?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Ba%27athification

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