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Why is something "as recently" as 1971 worth noting?
by 10xDev 4y ago
Why is something "as recently" as 1971 worth noting?
- bell-cot 4y agoTalk to a diplomat about "precedents". And to someone familiar with current politics in China about the policy of cultivating memories of past indignities, which were suffered at the hands of foreign powers.
- smeagull 4y agoIndignities as recent as 1945.
- bell-cot 4y agoI’m thinking that quite a few indignities were far more recent. Perhaps you are using the word as a euphemism for thing far worse?
- Ralfp 4y agoMake it eastern Europe, and you can go all the way back to 1003.
- bell-cot 4y agoIf you're opening the can of European/Near Eastern History, the clear record of foreign power atrocities (vs. mere indignities) goes back quite a few millennia further than that.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoAs recent as 1842
- arethuza 4y agoOf course it doesn't justify what China did (I wasn't making a "two wrongs make a right" argument) - but it might help explain the thought processes of the Chinese leadership in pulling a stunt like this - I would suspect that they are aware of US overflights over China.