For China, lighthouses and empire-building have always gone hand in hand | Hong Kong Free Press
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Aids to navigation, however, are not always so straightforward—and China ought to appreciate this more than most. Throughout the country’s modern history, lighthouses have been instruments of imperial control: instruments that projected power as much as light across the unruly waters washing China’s shores.