China helps build Wealth!

by: Nick Lee

Summary: In the world today, we are faced with the ideas of expansion; to the moon or spreading out to areas of desolation in Eurasia. The specific spot is near Kazakhstan and it was an area in which the Soviet Union had used to farm and drill oil from the ground. This is Chinas main goal of getting and gaining this land, the total profit would be $30 million from being able to connect the oil pipes with China's. Also by gaining and using this land properly, China would be able to use seaports for excessive trade. But not all of the land is used for good. There were around $130 million dollars found in the smuggling ring. There is high corruption and very few people who live here are wealthy.

Opinion: My opinion on this article is that there are many factors contributing to securing land and its uses carry a history good or bad, and I think every country should be able to expand and improve and secure greatness. But I believe that China does not need any more new land with the pollution they already have.

Connection: I can connect this to the idea of Manifest Destiny as China like the US are looking toward gaining land and showing that they were the best. Also in Manifest Destiny, there was the ability to make an area full of production and make it in a sense industrialized

Questions:
-Do you think powerful countries should be continuing to take over empty land?
-Why do countries spread and expand, is it mainly to gain profit or is there another reason?
-When has the US expanded in order to gain land for money?

AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 9:47 PM
I believe in the idea of imperialism for a country, but no longer believe it is a good idea for powerful countries to continue to take over empty land. Instead, what I would prefer would be for some smaller countries to get in on the action, or more viably, negotiate a compromise with other nations over the land. When immense, powerful nations like China expand solely for their own benefits, it leads the world away from unity, as it encourages domination by those larger nations. After all, most large powers like the US (especially in its Manifest Destiny stage), Russia, China, and India imperialise not only for profit and resources, but most importantly in order to assert their own power over other nations. Here, for example, China is trying to increase and promote unhealthy dominance over Kazakhstan through acquisition of former, very valuable oil fields--thus harming the native cultures of Khorgos. Taking over empty land is harmful for smaller countries if done by larger countries because it discourages the idea of having fairly balanced cultures and power around the world, but it is beneficial if done by smaller countries looking to grow. As for the US, one significant expansion was when the US annexed Alaska and made it its 49th state. The US looked to purchase this land because it wanted to utilize the abundance of oil there, which they believed would run lots of money into the US economy.
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