Asap need how was imperialism a cause of world war i

The World War I occurred because of two major factors, nationalism and imperialism. Some countries in Europe had lot of colonies around the world (lik France, the British Empire), while some didn't, or had only few (like Germany, Austria-Hungary). The countries that didn't had lot of colonies had big imperialist aspirations, and they wanted much more colonies for them in order to be able to have much more natural resources at disposal, as well as spheres of influence. This was not fondly seen by the countries that already had lot of colonies, as that meant that they will have to give up from some of them. This resulted in big dispute and lot of tensions, and eventually those tensions led to the World War I, the worst things that has happened to the humanity until then.

china unilaterally claims the entire south china sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim. it suddenly activates an air defense identification zone over the east china sea, and threatens to down any aircraft that does not report its position. it builds roads into indian territory, then redraws the maps to show that it is actually chinese territory. the people's republic under president xi jinping is quickly becoming the bully of asia.

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