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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

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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.

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