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Why China went to war against golf
- stephenitis 12y agoThe article never leads the user to gain any takeaway other than golf in China is growing and buy my book...
- contingencies 12y agoTLDR: due to land use concerns, nominally limitations have been placed on the construction of additional golf courses. In reality, they're still getting built.
- justincormack 12y agoNot due to land use concerns, because Mao said golf was a decadent sport of millionaires, and China was not to have those.
- contingencies 12y agoI'm talking about now (...additional golf courses). You're talking about some interpretation of the impact of what Mao said half a century ago on the Communist Party's latter-day policymaking ... which, given that the CP are not Maoist or even really communist anymore, is dubious and of passing historical interest at best.
- shiven 12y agoPresent day China is probably as 'Maoist' (or some would argue, communist) as GM or Chrysler are 'American' cars.