The fear of ‘race suicide’ permeated Congressional debates and popular monographs, and shaped national policies. He would always have been in danger of being lynched. Along with disabled white people, he would have been liable to incarceration in an asylum for the unfit, and possibly forcibly sterilised. An epileptic black man born in the early decades of the twentieth-century, would have been disenfranchised and segregated, and legally barred from consorting with or marrying a white woman. Brutal though it was, the American civil war was not of greater scale than the Chinese civil war, extending from the 1911 fall of the Qing Dynasty to the Chinese Communist Party’s victory in 1949.Ĭhina’s treatment of Uighurs and Tibetans is rightly criticised, but there were deeply repugnant aspects to America’s domestic policies during its rise.
Both experienced a brutal civil war before their ascendancy. Both China and the US underwent domestic and external transformations. There are a number of superficial similarities. The US’s trajectory from western hemisphere state to global power has some economic, military and foreign policy parallels with authoritarian China’s growth in the twenty-first century.
Its trajectory from western hemisphere state to global power has some economic, military and foreign policy parallels with authoritarian China’s growth in the twenty-first century.
Between 18 the democratic US became a great power.
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