jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoChina’s Great Wall of Villages: China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. It calls them “border guardians.”www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1136cross-posted to: news@beehaw.orgchina@sopuli.xyz
arrow-up1136external-linkChina’s Great Wall of Villages: China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. It calls them “border guardians.”www.nytimes.comjeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: news@beehaw.orgchina@sopuli.xyz
minus-squareBob Robertson IX@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 month agoIsn’t this what the United States did, just without the genocide? yes, I know they too have committed genocide but I’m referring specifically to this action
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 month agoI mean yes, only the US did it more than a hundred years ago. A more modern comparison would be Israel, and, well… yeah.
minus-squarexorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoYeah, and it also somewhat happens as a consequence of building military infrastructure there too. Military bases need people to staff them, and those people need food, water, entertainment etc etc
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoCanada too (1953). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Arctic_relocation I’m sure it is wrong, but it also the way geopolitics is played.
Isn’t this what the United States did, just without the genocide?
yes, I know they too have committed genocide but I’m referring specifically to this action
I mean yes, only the US did it more than a hundred years ago. A more modern comparison would be Israel, and, well… yeah.
Yeah, and it also somewhat happens as a consequence of building military infrastructure there too. Military bases need people to staff them, and those people need food, water, entertainment etc etc
Canada too (1953). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Arctic_relocation
I’m sure it is wrong, but it also the way geopolitics is played.