I would have responded sooner, but it took me this long to go through all the red tape of figuring out how to sign in to this new blockchain.
There are some historical points here that could be debated, but your historical research to back them up is certainly compelling. The comparison between Imperial China and the "Holy Roman Empire (which I thought was always a funny name, considering it rarely ever included Rome)" is insightful. I wish I'd thought of that, because the notion of a hegemon-king (the literal translation of China's "Ba-Wang" who, though not recognized as sovereign beyond his borders, claims rulership over them by patronage and self-anointed Divinity, is a perfect match.
As for the US's role in creating modern China, there are some other layers to that. Sun Zhongshan, founder of the ROC and leader of the rebellion against the Qing, was such an unabashed protege of America that you find American slogans written into his work and even carved into his tomb, like "let there be liberty and justice for all," and "of the people, by the people, for the people." Also, his "Revive China Society (whose slogan roughly translated into 'Make China Great Again,' funnily enough)" was funded more by Americans and Japanese than by Chinese.
And less benignly, it must also be noted that the Communist Party of China would have been annihilated in Yan'an shortly after WW2 by Chiang's air force and artillery if American general George Marshall had not urged Chiang to come to peace talks with Mao instead. It's not something to be proud of, but the US did, in many ways, create modern China. Without us, the Qing Dynasty's fall would have come later and it would have broken into numerous smaller kingdoms, as China has done so many times in history. And frankly...
...East Asia would probably be better off that way.
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As your argument, the United States has contributed to the development and revival of modern China. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China in 1979, China, which has received US dollars and technology, has now become a great power.
Koreans resent the United States because modern China has become a superpower with the help of the United States. hahaha
I don't know how to use Steemit and Hive right now.
I look forward to your next work.