This list is quite disingenuous and requires a whole lot of caveats to be even technically true.

Let’s take Liberia for example. European powers had trading posts established and the country was later colonized by the US. So only in the strictest reading of definitions of being colonized by a European power would it be on this list.

Jellyfin is great! As for a suggestion I’m a big fan of How Yukong Moved the Mountains

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/823038

Quite a few good ones there

So a bit of background info, I’ve read all 4 volumes of The Governance of China.

Xi is most definitely in the same camp as the ‘reform and open up’ crowd, so a revisionist. He supports the market and wants to open more industries to the market and remove government involvement in some areas.

That said I can respect the crackdown on corruption and the elimination of poverty even though I don’t like how pro private business it was

Have you been reading a lot of theory lately or is this your first dive in? Asking because it gets easier with practice.

Also, any parts that were particularly difficult for you that you’d like to discuss?