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...The FT’s Greater China correspondent Kathrin Hille’s comprehensive Weekend Essay provides helpful context, including detail on the nation’s complex colonial history....
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...It’s not the same as colonial impact, when so much was taken from us.”...
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...“This is an element of British colonial history which I didn’t know much about before and has ramifications now....
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...Jews arrived on the banks of the Nile and Euphrates at least 1,000 years before the Arabs conquered Egypt and Iraq in the 7th century CE....
...“[The buildings] are also symbols of a particular time, these colonial people coming in and lording over them....
...“We are not at all an instrument of the French colonial empire,” Rioux said, referencing the bank’s origin story as a funding mechanism for France’s exiled General Charles de Gaulle’s battle during the second...
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...Robert FattonYes, I think the colonial legacy is still very much part of the current history....
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...Gao said the government was focused on “national rejuvenation” — restoring China’s pre-colonial stature in the world — and did not believe this was the right time to “take a breather”....
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