In 50 years, China will have a population smaller by around 200 million people, and older, there is no impetus for lebensraum expansion in China. In 50 years they will have long cracked the energy issue with efficient nuclear fission and fusion, which means they can irrigate their arid land with pumped desalinated seawater.
Bunch of pretentious language and inflated words, trying to make China sound utopian and profound. For the record, the country has made strides in its development but this stuff is atraight out of the commie LLM brochure.
Turning China into the factory of the world and prioritizing economic growth happened due to pragmatism but came at the cost of severe environmental pollution. Decades of CCP mismanagement have turned parts of China into a toxic wasteland. Scant CCP environmental policies, a corrupted nomenclatura and a selfish and in general ignorant population have led to the contamination of China's air, water and soil. Sometimes beyond repair. Official numbers are bad, reality is even worse.
China is the most populated country in the world, but has relatively little fertile land, and even less water. Maintaining the quality of its...
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China's increased global reach has anno 2025 made this the world's problem. Unfortunately signs of improvement are scarce. Illegal logging and deforestization on behalf of Chinese timber companies, poaching and smuggling of the world's most endangered and protected animals because culinary tradition and TCM dickpills, illegally fishing the world's oceans empty destroying the marine fauna in the process, toxic waste dumps everywhere, bribing local officials to turn a blind whilst stripmining entire countries using prohibited methods etc.
The Yangtze River is one of the most polluted rivers in the world and now this tradition gets exported to the world. Zambia's main river Kasue got Shanghai'd and is now highly carcinogenic and toxic (aka dead) due to a Chinese operated Copper mine upstream dumping/spilling their toxic waste in the river.
Dead river in Zambia
Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that poisoned a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers downstream.
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Casually admitting to causing yet another environmental and health disaster but only after people started noticing. Leak happened in China.
Chinese authorities said Tuesday they had controlled a leak of toxic heavy metal into a river, after media outlets reported that officials had known about
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The Chinese are not Vikings, they are not obsessed with colonizing distant lands. They are achieving wealth at home through smart industrial capitalism. If they were colonizers, the Philippines, Indonesia or Australia would have long been Chinese.
More nonsense, trying to revise history as to frame the Chinese (and by extension today's CCP) as historically peaceful. The Chinese are apparently not interested in conquering distant lands yet half of China's modern territory is inhabited by non-Han, and the majority of what it is now considered the Han Heartland only became so through centuries of conquering and settling.
Before Qin and Han Dynasty expansion the Han settled the Central Chinese plains and mountains in and around Henan. Henan is the birthplace of Chinese culture and people, it's where the Han people had its ethnogenesis. Chinese folklore traditions estimate the birth of Han civilization at around 1500 BC, back then they were called
Huixia, identities centered around dynasties like the Zhou and Yan. More scientific historical sources approximate the emergence of a specific Han identity much later, at around 400-200 BC. In the area around Henan for the first time references to
Hanren are found.
Expanding Han statehood and ethnics/identity happened intermittently throughout Chinese history and had three components: the (re-) emergence of a strong centralized State, Han migration to the borderlands and subsequent Sinification of subjugated peoples. This happened in waves. In the third and second century BC Qin and Han Dynasty started the conquest and Sinification of much of Central and Southern China. The area up until Shanghai was at that time populated by mostly tribal Austronesian-like peoples that shared lots of ethnic and linguistic commonalities with modern Viet and South East Asians. The Han called them
Baiyue. The Han considered the Baiyue barbarians, their language, noticeably primitive civilization, half naked tattood bodies, societal structure and short and brown stature in contradiction to Han Chinese culture.
Next wave of Han expansion happened in the eight century under the Tang dynasty. The Tang considered access to the Ferghana Valley of high importance due to the high quality purebred Nisean horses from that region. Han conquered and settled much of what used and was/ would be the Silk Road. Tang Dynasty moved into expansion into Central Asia and was could have reached the Aral Sea were it not for the Persian-Arab Abbasids fighting the Tang to a standstill in 751 AD Talas.
Pattern is the same everywhere. Yunnan was a mountainous borderland on limited importance, populated by Bai, Tai, Li and many other non- Han people. The non-Han had their tribal fiefdoms and at times Kingdoms in Yunnan but would occasionally submit to Chinese imperial rule when pressure grew. This would continue up until the Ming Dynasty Yunnan became incorporated in State structures. Waves of Han migrants and steady assimilation of non-Han minorities turned Yunnan into a 90 percent Han province.
Same in Tibet. Tibet was never Sinicized despite stints of Mongol/Chinese (with the Yuan taking on a distinct Chinese character as the dynasty matured) rule over the centuries. Tributary dynamics alternated with periods of sovereignty, and Han/Hui settlement in Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Sichuan and Tibet only started a few centuries ago.
Dongbei and Inner Mongolia were up until the 19th century
Chuang Guandong by law off limits for Han Chinese. For millennia the area north of the Shanhai Pass was inhabited by nomads and barbarians, Tungusic and Turko-Mongol steppe people whose cultures differed like day to night with the Han civilizations. The nomadic steppe dwellers appear in different forms and with different names throughout Chinese history, but always parasiting on tye sedentary Southward neighbour and hostile towards its population. The Khitan, Jurchen, Tangut (?), Mongols, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Oirats, Manchus dwelled on the plains north of the Liaoxi Corridor, the agrarian Han lived south of those.
In the late 19th Century the Manchu Qing lifted the ban on Han settlement north of the Shanhai Pass and easternmost gate of the Great Wall. What followed was the Han rush, and literally within a generation the Manchus and Mongols had become a minority in their homelands. Anno 2025 the Manchu language is functionally dead and in danger of becoming extinct.
Han migration to South East Asia has been occurring for over a millennia, but picked up again in the late 1800s - and this wave to this day still calls itself Chinese. These migrants have been outperforming the SEA natives economically about everywhere and hence have an oversized influence in politics, media and academia. 9 out of SEA's 10 richest people are Chinese, Thailand's main political dynasty is ethnically Han, majority Han Singapore is the most successful state in the region etc.
Han Chinese are not a race of passive fencesitters who prefer their low risk village lifestyle over grabbing the bull by its horns. The whole assertion that the CCP won't move on SEA and beyond because there is no historic precedent is logically bunk and laced with historic revisionism and narrative building.