#+title: is china imperialist?
- tags :: [[file:20200607220252-imperialism.org][imperialism]] [[file:20200607220504-china.org][China]]

* China is imperialist
- China extracts wealth from peripherial countries in Africa
* China is not imperialist
- China is a semiperipherial country in the capitalist world order
- As such, China transfers most of its surplus value to core countries than it
  receives from the periphery, despite developing extractive relationships with
  peripherial countries
- China complements the imperialist center