China’s Great Wall of Villages
www.nytimes.com
China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. It calls them “border guardians.”
  • Bob Robertson IX@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      I mean yes, only the US did it more than a hundred years ago. A more modern comparison would be Israel, and, well… yeah.

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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