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Funny thing is that things started to go bad for Mao when he suddenly started to have ideals. Luckily Xiaoping entered the chat and the rest is Chinese history
by WeylandYutani 3y ago
Funny thing is that things started to go bad for Mao when he suddenly started to have ideals.
Luckily Xiaoping entered the chat and the rest is Chinese history.
(I have always liked the Chinese for their pragmatism. Americans are too far up their own ass).
- MichaelMoser123 3y ago> Luckily Xiaoping entered the chat and the rest is Chinese history. I think Deng Xiaoping is a direct result of these developments during the Mao years. Things would have been very different for China, without the rapprochement with the west. Without friendly terms with the west they would have to maintain an enormously big army. Think of a China today that is more like North Korea.
- tjoff 3y ago> Without friendly terms with the west they would have to maintain an enormously big army. They don't?
- MichaelMoser123 3y agoit was relatively low, for quite some time.
- elkos 3y agocomparable to they population and GDP?
- malermeister 3y agoSo basically Russia in 2023?
- steve76 3y ago[dead]