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Cultural Revolution was not a civil war, and also...how would that possibly happen in America?As for who is the president, they would just defer to SCOTUS like

• donw 6y ago
  > Cultural Revolution was not a civil war That's splitting hairs. Mao's Red Guards -- student revolutionaries and young adults -- effected a drastic shift in power, from a more liberal government to Mao (a strong authoritarian), and something on the order of three million people died as a direct consequence. Moreover, China lost an unbelievable amount of its history, as revolutionaries purged the "Four Olds" (customs, culture, habits, and ideas).
  • 082349872349872 6y ago
    Pedantically, it's not splitting hairs when we do (at least did, last century) have an internationally accepted definition of a civil war: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880237