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  • belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Arguably, the current Chinese entity hasn’t committed genocide against indigenous populations, but previous Chinese entities most definitely have.

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      But the nation of China wasn’t founded on genocide. The US was. Without the genocide of the Native Americans, there would be no US.

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        Correct. The modern extent of China was acquired by genocide, but the notion of China itself was not.

        I think the deciding difference is the foreign invasion and colonization that funded the US vs. the near mythologic cycle of violent fracture and violent reunification of China.