Somehow you’re still ignoring how those Euro-American exchanges occurred under duress, at the point of a gun.
Buying raw materials at a freely-agreed upon price, and then applying labor to them to create a finished good, is not exploitation. No one was coerced into anything.
Where are China’s guns? In China. The US has over 800 overseas military installations, while China has one, an anti-piracy port in Djibouti.
But that free international market argument applies to all (well, most of all…) countries, which is exactly my point. Modern China is as exploitative as any other highly developed modern country, independent of economic system.
Sure, as long as you insist on misdefining exploitation in that way, then by your self-serving definition, modern China is just as exploitative as the imperial core.
That’s the definition the imperial core wants to promote, because if they can’t look good, they can at least claim that their enemy is just as bad. But the majority of the world isn’t buying the hogwash that the always the same map minority is pushing.
Somehow you’re still ignoring how those Euro-American exchanges occurred under duress, at the point of a gun.
Buying raw materials at a freely-agreed upon price, and then applying labor to them to create a finished good, is not exploitation. No one was coerced into anything.
Where are China’s guns? In China. The US has over 800 overseas military installations, while China has one, an anti-piracy port in Djibouti.
But that free international market argument applies to all (well, most of all…) countries, which is exactly my point. Modern China is as exploitative as any other highly developed modern country, independent of economic system.
Sure, as long as you insist on misdefining exploitation in that way, then by your self-serving definition, modern China is just as exploitative as the imperial core.
That’s the definition the imperial core wants to promote, because if they can’t look good, they can at least claim that their enemy is just as bad. But the majority of the world isn’t buying the hogwash that the always the same map minority is pushing.