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> 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. Thin
by 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?