Say what you will about the Empire, but at least it was the dominant industrial power in the galaxy.
i wouldn't say that. Whenever you check in American history, rich people ruled the country behind the scenes, especially the last 100 years. USA was never a "people's republic". This time they shamessly took the government de jure. Just American history goes on as usual. Wars, debts, scandals, bullish internal and external politics etc
It was always going to end this way. As it’s declining it’s lashing out even more in a desperate attempt to show it is still powerful. Trump’s while economic plan is based on his chief economic advisor’s white paper. It’s theory and has never been done before. They expect it to never fail an go according to plan. That is scary because if it fails they have no backup plans. It is going to end in complete disaster.
Well, Japan's colonisation of Taiwan was different compared to its other countries in asia they invaded later . Taiwan is regarded by Japan as a "model colony" and they used it as an experimental case for their model colonisation policy which they just newley embarked on.
There was nothing Russian about the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. Look at the plain statistics. The bureaucratic elite of the Russian Empire were Baltic Germans and other Germans. The military elite were Finnish and Baltic Germans. The economic elite were Germans, Greeks and Armenians. Most Emperors were of German extraction. The entire period of reform of the Russian Church from 1650-1770 was spearheaded almost entirely by Little Russian-Ruthenian clerics, who imposed their customs and even taught in their language. Russification was not introduced into the Russian Empire until the tail end of its existence, which ironically weakened the Baltic Germans hold on the Baltic governorates and caused the flourishing of Latvian and Estonian culture. Then it was replaced by the Bolshevik Party, an organisation where 70% of the founding members were not Russian. The ethnic groups that were overrepresented in the Bolsheviks were Jews (almost all from the western, non-Russian areas), Georgians, Armenians, and especially Latvians. The non-Russian, westward soviet republics and satellite states were exceptionally subsidised in their industrial development by transfers of cheaper Russian oil and gas until the mid 1970s, and hence enjoyed a higher standard of living than Russia itself. Central Asian Republics especially Tajikistan received huge amounts of net budget and trade subsidies. If there was a Russian colonial empire, Russia is the colony.
Japan's contribution to Taiwan's infrastructure is a fabricated history deliberately shaped by the DPP and LDP. Among the more than 40 reservoirs in Taiwan, only the Wushantou Reservoir was built by the Japanese. Moreover, according to Japanese scholars in the book Taiwan Under Imperialism《帝国主義下の台湾》, although the area of paddy fields increased after the construction of the Wushantou Reservoir, the number of landless farmers also grew. An especially interesting statistic is that while Taiwan's rice production increased by 208%, rice consumption decreased by 23%, and sweet potato consumption rose by 38%. This clearly shows that during the Japanese colonial period, the lives of Taiwanese people did not improve but actually worsened.
Proof that Japan disproportionately improved Taiwan?