Thanks for the links. I will read them.
I only spoke as I find. Knowing quite a number of Chinese and Taiwanese Taoists, Taoist-Buddhists, Buddhists - some of whom are Confucianists also - (T, B, C) they are very much like older generation Indians. Such people are of course not the kind who'd have ever been or would ever become emperors or communist dictators in China.
Conceding that imperial or monarchic China has for many ages been a threat to neighbouring nations, might that not be different if the average B,T,C Chinese person - if they are like the people I know - were part of a democracy rather than an empire/communist country?
I mean, if the current communist-dictorship collapsed and China ceased to have an authoritarian government - wouldn't a democratic government that is more representative of the C,T,B population be a much safer and more sincerely friendly neighbour?
Am rather worried about the creeping christoterrorism in China, though. It will destroy the average Chinese person's character if given a chance. So in that case, if China were to become democratic eventually, it would certainly not be a neighbour heathen Asian countries would wish to have.
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Have now read the 3 links. Feels like history is repeating itself these days, what with islam and Chinese imperialism having helped each other for their own reasons in the past to destroy Indian (and other ancient) societies, as Pakistan and China's communism are doing today.
I only spoke as I find. Knowing quite a number of Chinese and Taiwanese Taoists, Taoist-Buddhists, Buddhists - some of whom are Confucianists also - (T, B, C) they are very much like older generation Indians. Such people are of course not the kind who'd have ever been or would ever become emperors or communist dictators in China.
Conceding that imperial or monarchic China has for many ages been a threat to neighbouring nations, might that not be different if the average B,T,C Chinese person - if they are like the people I know - were part of a democracy rather than an empire/communist country?
I mean, if the current communist-dictorship collapsed and China ceased to have an authoritarian government - wouldn't a democratic government that is more representative of the C,T,B population be a much safer and more sincerely friendly neighbour?
Am rather worried about the creeping christoterrorism in China, though. It will destroy the average Chinese person's character if given a chance. So in that case, if China were to become democratic eventually, it would certainly not be a neighbour heathen Asian countries would wish to have.
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Have now read the 3 links. Feels like history is repeating itself these days, what with islam and Chinese imperialism having helped each other for their own reasons in the past to destroy Indian (and other ancient) societies, as Pakistan and China's communism are doing today.