{"id":23,"date":"2006-01-26T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/01\/26\/china-as-an-imperialist\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T19:45:03","slug":"china-as-an-imperialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/01\/26\/china-as-an-imperialist\/","title":{"rendered":"China as an Imperialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a31'><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nIf you have been Chinese since the 1940's it's hard to imagine anyone thinking\r\nChina is imperialist.  Of course it is possible to say that China as capitalist \r\nwould be equally shocking to Chinese society before 1980.  Imperialism requires\r\neither a king or heavy handed policy.  Historically war has been the direct\r\nresult of this style of policy however in recent times economic sanctions also\r\nwork.  Take for instance the US led sanctions on Iraq.  \r\n\tWhile most countries require the UN to impose economic restraints, China has the\r\nsingular ability to make economic policy with it's own weight.  Google's recent\r\npolicy decision to self censor information fed to Chinese citizens is proof of\r\nher ability.  Even though the United States does not have the\r\nsame sorts of restrictions on information dissemination Google has chosen to \r\nimpose restrictions on itself in order to continue diplomatic relations.  It\r\nwould be interesting to know whether Google has Taiwanese relationships and \r\nhow they plan to explain themselves.  \"Taiwan Independence\" is one of the \r\nrestricted keywords.\r\n\tChina is not new at imperialistic tactics.  A paper from the China Quarterly,\r\nfrom Cambridge University Press, describes the \"Macedonia Project\" where China\r\nbought influence in post communist countries before Taiwan could.  Countries \r\nwho are UN abiding do not recognize Taiwan as a soverign country.  Macedonia did \r\nrecognzie Taiwan for a time as a country.*  Capitalist nations follow their\r\ncorporations.  Corporations follow the revenue.  Any percentage point higher then\r\none from the overall population represents a large potentional of revenue from China.  \r\n\tThe Japanese idiom that \"business is war\" could be taken literally here.  As \r\nour nations corporate players jockey around the Internet our governments bend\r\npolicy to their will.  In this case the pronoun \"their\" is entirely subjective\r\nand could be the government's will (presumbly linked to the people) or the corporation's\r\nwill (presumbly linked to the shareholders).  If the government were to enact a policy\r\nthat stated \"corporations could not create policy that would be illegal to enact on\r\ncitizens of the United States\" then entities like Google and Yahoo would be \r\nbound to comply.  There would also not be a financial risk to them since the US\r\ngovernment would be responsible, and the ultimate defendant, in legal action.\r\nUntil that time China will have the ability to bend corporate policy to her \r\nown will regardless of that company's own laws.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>* Canada currently favors Taiwan with diplomatic level relations.  The US officially<br \/>\nrecognizes &#8220;One China&#8221; but continues to sell fighter jet and submarine technology<br \/>\nto Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been Chinese since the 1940&#8217;s it&#8217;s hard to imagine anyone thinking China is imperialist. Of course it is possible to say that China as capitalist would be equally shocking to Chinese society before 1980. Imperialism requires either a king or heavy handed policy. 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