Tag: History
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Taiwan’s 2024 election
The 1984 Sino – British agreement that Britain and China had over the status of Hong Kong, and the agreement that there would be one nation and two systems, has galvanised the elections in Taiwan. Furthermore, the questions concerning identity and independence is also being reflected by the war in Ukraine, and the difficulties that…
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Weekend read… Empires
John Darwin argued that a formal empire could be defined by a sustained effort to assimilate a country to the political, economic or cultural system of another power. (John Darwin (1997) SS9.2). Britain a maritime power and China a land-based empire, initially took significant different approaches to the expansion of their empires and how these…
