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To: Behind Blue Eyes who wrote (12253)	10/5/2007 12:02:57 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37540

I disagree! You were quite mistaken. You should have given the matter more thought and a thorough examination and consider history through Chinese eyes. Way back to about 225 BC, there was essentially no China to speak of but numerous mutually warring states ruled by their respective warlords. This state of affairs prevailed until one man, Chin Shih Huang Ti, defeated them all and unified all the states into one China and declared himself the absolute ruler of all; that is, he was their first emperor! The Chinese wouldn't regard that as colonisation. Simply because the various states involved were Chinese to begin with. Furthermore, Chinese history has it that the peoples of Korea, Japan and Anam (North Vietnam) were originally Chinese who had migrated to those territories. Invasions into those territories and putting them under China's control for a relatively short time is not colonization. That was nothing more than reining in people of the same ethnic origin and exercising a unifying control over them. This sort of thing has occurred in several big countries. As for China's apparent colonisation efforts in western Asia, be it known that some warring tribes (mostly Uighurs), at different times, had sought and forged military alliances with China in order to defeat their enemies. It turned out that some of these Uighur tribes were stupid enough to challenge the Chinese forces in their territories later on. They were defeated and so China dictated matters to them to ensure there would be no more uprisings. The point I am making here is that China did not aggressively attack and colonise the Uighur peoples. Whatever Uighur territories China occupied, China departed from them after a relatively short time after establishing law and order and achieving peace and reconciliation. This is in stark contrast to Britain which as a colonial power had held its colonies under its rule for up to 400 years (e.g., India). So, I am right in my statement that China has had no history of having been a colonial power. By the way, remember the Great Wall? Surely that wall bears testament to China's restraint and lack of colonising ambitions. .