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I'm sorry China has solved many problems the West is still working on. They've had public funded healthcare/education from the medieval era and they haven't bee

• Semiapies 6y ago
  Disregarding who actually had access to that healthcare and education (since by similar definitions of who had access, the West had both public services by the classical Greek era)...No major wars? Really? Even ignoring the phrasing that could be read as claiming no major wars since the medieval era, we don't have to go so far back. I mean, sure, the Cultural Revolution killed more Chinese people than WW2 and the Korean war did combined, but that's still eleven million or so Chinese people dead in those conflicts.
• kansface 6y ago
  China is responsible for murdering many 10s, possibly 100 million of its own citizens and is actively and purposefully engaged in genocide of its own people right now. I have a very hard time separating the good from the bad here. > they haven't been involved in any major wars and yet still dictate policy in the region. As far as I know, the last major war China fought in was when they invaded Vietnam in 1979 after Vietnam had invaded Cambodia (Chinese ally) to get rid of the Khmer Rouge (the same regime that killed everyone who wore glasses because they may have been reading too much)...