A History of Chinese Aggression

While many might buy into the lie that China has never been a country to invade another nation, if you look through out history you will see that it is full of Chinese aggression.

We can start in the past when after the different principalities were united under the Qin dynasty to form the first centralized Chinese state. Then the Han dynasty took over and they peaked after conquering the Xiongnu nomads of the western part of China. The next period of aggression came when the Mongols set up the Yuan Dynasty and conquered most of what is today modern China. This was when the Chinese tried twice to conquer Japan both times being foiled by Typhoons (called kamikaze in Japanese) that destroyed the Chinese armadas.

However, we do not need to go back in history to find periods of Chinese aggression. Ever since China has come under communist rule in 1949, its history has been filled with very bloody, aggressive proxy wars.

• We can start with the Korean War where against a UN mandated military action China sent in one million troops to defend North Korea against UN coalition forces.
• The Chinese conquest of an independent Tibetan kingdom.
• Then there was the Sino-India conflict, in which china invaded and tried to get control of Indian held territory. This ended in a Chinese defeat.
  After the failure with India there was a failed invasion attempt across the Soviet border in 1969 in the Damanskiy Island area.
• That was followed by a war of aggression against Vietnam in 1979.

This is just to show that you should not buy into Chinese propaganda that they are a peaceful nation that has no history of aggression. Just like any other major country they have always been the bully in the area, but unlike other powers they manage to always portray themselves as a victim.