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West Facing 'Payback' for Colonialism, says China's State-run Paper

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday January 15 2015, @05:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the schadenfreude dept.

AnonTechie writes:

The religious and cultural tensions the West faces are "payback" for slavery and colonialism, a Chinese state-run newspaper said Tuesday in the wake of the Islamist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.

The editorial in the Global Times newspaper — which often takes a nationalistic tone — dismissed the weekend's huge marches in Paris and elsewhere as "painkillers" that cannot halt the intensifying "clash of civilizations".

http://mg.co.za/article/2015-01-13-west-facing-payback-for-colonialism-china-paper

[Related]: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/901536.shtml

What do you think ?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 15 2015, @05:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 15 2015, @05:43AM (#134999)

    And what about China and its western Xinjiang province? Is China administering "painkillers" that cannot halt the intensifying "clash of civilizations"?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11342070/China-bans-burqa-in-capital-of-Muslim-region-of-Xinjiang.html [telegraph.co.uk]

    Anyway, China is not too correct here. Most of the problems are modern issues, not related to even colonial past. As for slavery, well, Arabs were one of the major slave traders!!!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade [wikipedia.org]

    So please, China, gets your facts straight.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Immerman on Thursday January 15 2015, @03:52PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Thursday January 15 2015, @03:52PM (#135154)

    Colonialism, as I understand it, need not only refer to a foreign government openly claiming new territory - it can also refer to installing puppet governments for strategic advantage and/or funneling wealth out of the country. And that applies very, very strongly to the West's involvement in the Middle East for most of the last century.