[super175]

Sun wanted power. Sun was not G. Washington.

Power and Liberty cross roads at some point.

The Boston Tea Party comes to mind. At that time the American tea market was largely controlled by smugglers (American merchants). England's East India Company was going bankrupt and needed to get rid of surplus tea...and at the same time take over the American market, and save their company.

Those American merchants found a way to deal with the competition...

Not to mention the British were abusing the people's Liberties with their policies...

Boston Tea Party

Power in their case did not grow only out of the barrel of a gun, but out of the fatness of their wallets.

Can you believe those Americans? They started to believe they were equals with the crown...

[Lake]

Sun's revolution was different from American revolution. Its was not for freedom or democracy. It was for anti-feudalism, to some extent it was a racist nationalist movement. The life of Manchus after the revolution was miserable because Sun's slogan was "Expel Mongols". Sun was a radical nationalist.