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<p>It’s kind of hard to not have such concerns when within the last 170+ years, it has been subjected to colonialist invasive wars and policies, civil wars of various types driven partially by the first, two revolutions, and at least two major ill-conceived domestic policies by an ideologically motivated Maoist government. </p>
<p>All of which brought Mainland China down to a really low sorry state and did make it the proverbial laughingstock in many parts of the Western world of that time. In many ways, it isn’t too far removed from how the foibles of the North Korean Kims has made them and their nation into an international joke within the last 2 decades. </p>
<p>In contrast, the last time the US has been subjected to a serious colonialist invasion was during the war of 1812 when the British Army took and set fire to Washington D.C. Not surprisingly, it’s a war that’s not usually covered in much detail in most US schools…especially the part about how the US actually started the war by trying to “liberate” Canada before being beaten back by local British forces and then subsequently invaded by British reinforcements by sea. </p>
<p>Ancient history to the US…especially considering it surpassed the British as a superpower after WWII.</p>