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No one is justifying colonisation or even invasions!
But what is important is that we are not in a position to change history. It is the past.
What is important, learn from the past, hopefully do not make the mistake and move ahead.
Take the case of the Holocaust. It has been beaten to death.It does not arouse the same disgust as it did after the truth emerged after the WW II. By breast beating all the time, people get bored. People want to move ahead and not live in the past and whimper and wail and even fail in the future.
The Western humiliation and the Japanese subjugation of China did immense good to China. You got rid of the Qing (foreign) Dynasty because they were helpless against the western economic invasion and you got rid of the Japanese but learnt big lessons out of the same whereby China is becoming a challenge to the world!
If this had not have happened, you would be living in the feudal imperial ways even now!
Likewise, India learnt a lesson from the Islamic invasions and the British colonisation. We never agreed to join any Bloc during the Cold War days. We had our own policies and I daresay it was easy. We have survived. Even today, notwithstanding good reasons, we are not aligning ourselves with the US.
But look at Pakistan. Learnt nothing from history and see where they have landed themselves!
As they say - every black cloud has a silver lining!
It is better to see the silver lining than wail and whimper and cry an ocean over the black clouds!
Though you are a Taiwanese, let Mao, for a change show you the way:
One watches the unyielding pines in the vast azure sunset
And the fleeting clouds below in seeming chaos yet majestically moving.
Here beside the cave of the Taoist Immortals one sees that boundless beauty
is to be found only among the most dangerous peaks.
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