Monthly Review | China: Imperialism or Semi-Periphery?
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Whether China has become an imperialist country is a question of crucial importance for the global class struggle. Although China has developed an exploitative relationship with South Asia, Africa…

I’d originally written a bunch of my own thoughts, but the article is long enough as it is and I don’t want to embarrass myself.

Edit: Huh, look at that, there’s another discussion about this article from three years ago. Half the comments have been deleted, but hey, neat.

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Thus, if China were to become a core country in the capitalist world system, the existing core countries would have to give up most of the surplus value they are currently extracting from the periphery. It is inconceivable that the core countries would remain economically and politically stable under such a development. Alternatively, the capitalist world system would have to develop new schemes of exploitation that manage to extract 140 million worker-years of additional surplus value from the remaining part of the periphery. It is difficult to see how the exploitation imposed on the periphery can be increased by such a massive extent without causing either rebellion or collapse.

    Huh… never came across anything trying to explain in a plain enough way to easily digest, that China trying to actively pursue an imperial project among the current imperalist powers, might be physically impossible.