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"Did China not concede some of it's supposed ideology in order to be the sweatshop for 1st world capitalists?"
“Diplomacy: 1. the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations; 2. Skill in handling affairs without raising hostility: 3. Tact
Concede: to yield; to grant as right or privilege.” Merriam Webster 9th edition
The only way the Chinese actions of running sweatshops becomes a concession is if they had not been doing it all along; for the Roman Empire, for the British Empire and the Soviet Union. Last I checked an Emperor was the sovereign ruler of an Empire and Chinese history is riddled with Emperors, so it appears that global economic ambition is inherently Chinese.
The only knowledge I have of the "supposed ideology" of the Chinese is filtered to me through Western lens; if you are suggesting that China conceded some sort of moral high ground, you'd have to prove that they held possession of one to begin with; (we could ask the Tibetans) unless you believe that the Chinese controlled the Silk Road and subsequently, the Oceans Blue by 'gently' persuading numerous and sundry barbarians to accept the Buddha.
So all we have left is diplomacy; and if we believe that the Chinese standard of 'human rights' is supposedly divergent from that of the U.S., we are left to deduce that the Chinese are much better at diplomacy.
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