I'd never heard of those things in Nepal, with the bandits and the Chinese advisers. Admittedly, I haven't ever really paid any attention to Nepal. Not that I found anything wrong with Nepal per say, except it's well, Nepal. Ok, well I understand better where you are coming from then.
I have no animosity toward China, on the contrary, I think they have been fairly wise in the way they expand their interests. They've managed to keep out of quagmires of unwinable wars unlike how the US seems to get bogged down time after time.
Not that I view China's rise with any particular warm and fuzzy feelings, they are a threat to the US without a doubt. They have gone about the same things the US has always done, but the Chinese seem to think in longer terms than we do in the US. Their strategies are a lot more subtle, like a quite creeping vine until the day comes when one wakes up and finally notices that vine has wrapped itself firmly around one's neck and is tightening.
The US on the other hand doesn't do any creeping. She comes in with a club, roaring and shouting as she smashes everything that moves over the head.
Hell, I don't even hate North Korea, I pity those fools. So I don't ever really regard nations as good or evil. People can be good or evil, nations just act toward their own national interests, which often times contradict another nation's national interests. It's just a consequences of geopolitics I guess.
I marvel sometimes at the things nations do, the absurdity of some actions. Others I can understand. Like I can certainly understand China's desire over HK, hell, I'd do the same thing if I was in their position. Not because I'm intentionally trying to be evil or intentionally trying to harm people, but HK is too rich a prize to just let it be on it's own, or worse, under someone else's thumb. From China's viewpoint of course. I always try to see the other sides POV, even if I don't agree with it or even if that POV is in direct conflict with my own.
Don't hate your enemy, understand your enemy. That's makes it easier to beat them.
And yeah, mrswdk's comments on China not troubling her neighbors made me chuckle. So I can understand you taking exception to that line.
S'all good man! Don't sweat the petty stuff, pet the sweaty stuff!
