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You have a better one? Really seems like nearly all of China's issues after the civil war were self-inflicted.
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Now China has the rare earths supply chain stranglehold the US military industrial combine is crippled.
Study Chinas hisory going back at least to The Opium Wars and from there until the present day and you might understand China today better than you do currently.
Peter Hesslers books on modern China are very good. Enjoy :)
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That can't be healthy to be using a period of victimhood as the starting point for understanding a country. I think I'd rather start with the Ming.
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Yes, the further you go back the better, but to understand the modern era you must at least understand from The Opium Wars onward.
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LMAO.
Nice story bro.