probably
considered
one real base
Not to mention…they show China, but it isn’t highlighted as a “Country with a Chinese base”
They can’t even do the colors on the Very Real And Scary Imperialism Map™ right
And the base is located in a country that leases land for military bases like it’s candy to any country that asks lol
So are they saying that having overseas military bases is a bad thing now, or?
They’re trying their damn hardest to conjure up some sort of whataboutism to throw at people who point this out
America, Britain and a handful of other military powers have a global network of bases that have existed for decades and are mostly legacies of empire, the second world war and the cold war.
“legacies of empire” lmao. “We’re not building new bases, just continuing to occupy 800 existing ones, so that totes makes our imperialism okay guys!”
Shoddy reporting here, The Economist is missing a few important ones like:
Countries that I had a wet dream about China hosting a base
Countries that start with the letter C, like China, that could have a base
Countries that China definitely hasn’t considered hosting a base in but might change their mind someday
Countries larger than a Chinese military base, and so could probably host one.
Updating all the land area measurements in Wikipedia to units of Probable Number of Chinese Military Bases Hosted
Countries that I had a wet dream about China hosting a base
came to the fleeting thought that China built a base in Liechtenstein
go ahead Kamala, send your best
idk The Economist, all of this sounds pretty… baseless
The Economist is a piece of rag that likes to get high on orientalism and neoliberalism…
The Economist is what happens when someone parses the first word of “Combat Liberalism” as an adjective instead of a verb.
Incredible. This should be a tagline.
Side note: I’ve never understood why 反对自由主义 in particular is translated to “Combat Liberalism” instead of “Oppose Liberalism” since all of Mao’s other works that start with 反对 are translated as “Oppose”, the most famous being 反对本本主义 “Oppose Book Worship”
Here’s a taste of their ideology…
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-98-the-refined-sociopathy-of-the-economist
Putting on my resume positions that I’ve considered and positions that I’ve applied to under the “experience” section
