Why Empires Fall
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Chinese Communist Party's Invasion of Sri Lanka
China is starting to, for the first time, really encounter what it means to be an imperial power. And that's going to be uncomfortable for China and my own view is let them make that adjustment. I think in the grand history, if we take the Iraq war out of the picture, you'd have to say that American imperialism was perhaps among the most enlightened. In fact, some of the best research institutions are not coming from the Western world. They're coming from these developing countries. We should embrace that as being a flourishing of shared value system," he says.
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