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China...3000 years, no colonies or imperial conquests in that time, except constant efforts to keep the nation unified and keep the barbarians out...unless of course you call reabsorbing Tibet (which had been part of China for almost a thousand years prior to the Brits taking it away) conquering.
Your view of Chinese history is a little skewed. It's like saying the Roman Empire never had any territorial ambitions or imperial conquests. What we think of as China, has had a long history of internal strife, with the waxing and waning of her borders, fracturing into multiple warring states, or one faction fighting another for control of their Empire. Saying Chinese is synonymous with saying European, from a religious and ethnic point of view. There is also their attempts to conquer Japan and their conquering of Korea, Eastern Turkmenistan, Mongolia and Manchuria to consider. Most of the nations around the Chinese Empire, that weren't swallowed, were vassal states that paid enormous amounts of tribute to the Son of Heaven.
However, this being said, I have to compare China to Rome once more. Being conquered by China could bring peace and prosperity with the arrival of imperial troops. European, African and Asiatic people welcomed Pax Romana just as the people of eastern Asia welcomed the Chinese version. China's latter stability is also due to its natural fortifications, huge mountain ranges and deserts tended to keep invaders out. What lay to the east of Europe were the steppes that stretched thousands of miles, which allowed any and all peoples with a desire to move west, room to build up speed.
As for Taiwan. It wasn't conquered by anyone, it was ceded by the Chinese to the Japanese in 1895. The Japanese renounced their claim to it in 1952, naming no benefciary. Whether or not it unifies with China is a matter for the Taiwanese people to determine, blood and business are two of the srongest factors within Chinese society. Chinese unity is rooted in their belief of the Middle Kingdom, a view alive and well today.
As for China being communist, I think we can all agree that isn't the case anymore. What we are seeing in China is the resurgence of a Confucian society, authoritarian in nature, but one that operates on WIIFM rather than socialism.
I see Weasel whack job is still a lying piece of shit. I guess it's natural, like when he denies rinsing syringes.