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I read all my comments again and no, I didn't. At least I can't see where I did. I simply disagreed with your definition of imperialism and noted that the definition I disagree with would fit China aswell. I'm of the opinion neither the EU nor Germany nor China are purely imperialist in my understanding of the word, apart from the aspects I already stated. This is basically an appeal to purity by myself, but I know I'm being pedantic and that's fine with me.
I never claimed the US wasn't imperialist, or that China was imperialist, I just disagreed with your initial claim Germany is participating directly in imperialism, while they aren't, in my opinion. If your opinion differs, that's fine, but stop trying to misrepresent my actual arguments. π
If we're going by the burden of proof laying on the initial commenter: the onus is on you to prove what you said initially.
Your definition of imperialism is one nobody actually uses, though, you're confusing some of the measures taken for colonialism and whitewashing the real means by which the west forces austerity, coups resistance, and plants compradors in subject states to this day. Even if I decided that you can keep the word itself and we can call the economic plunder that Germany, the US, and the entire west commits "plundering," you still haven't really tackled that. If Germany depends on plundering and China does not, then that should automatically disqualify Germany from being "fair and equal."