An analysis of the chinese student demonstrations in tiananmen square in 1989 would show that

Chinese youth wanted democracy--under this idea, the protests demonstrated the youth were not happy with a communist system in China and wanted more of a say in their government. 

The CCP was oppressive--the Chinese Communist Party could be viewed as oppressive and violent toward opposition as military was sent to end the protests. The protests ended with the massacre of students. 

In the late fifteenth century, a major world power that established colonies in the era of old imperialism was france or germany or spain. their colonial activity was mainly limited to america or africa or asia.