@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters Propaganda sounds negative cos it's a cold-war phrase used by corporate media. In fact, propaganda universally exists. Trump is the biggest propaganda in US at now. The important thing is what does propaganda achieve. Most of the time, CCP delivered the benefit for Chinese people
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters CCP did grow during the time, but so did the Central Army by Chiang Kai-shek, and remember they got huge support from US in and after the anti-Japanese war. Just a simple question, if you were in 1946 ,would you bet CCP can win the civil war ?
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters Benefiting ? Did CCP ask Japanese troops to invade China? It was simply KMT doing wrong and CCP doing right, and it was all about which side won more support from the mass majority, from those who had nothing to lose and those who had been suffered almost a century.
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters Also, I see you have a cold war mentality. Just because China, USRP are soviets, they act the same way? No, it's not, the different between them is way bigger than between western democratic countries.
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters This is not convincing at well. The author claimed the cadre corruption existed in Maoist era, however he also admitted it was impossible to quantify either the Maoist or the post-Mao. Just another quibble.
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters This is glorifying the incompetence of KMT. Even in 1948, the CCP had only occupied a few marginal regions and they had very limited impact on the overall Chinese economy then. The ROC still had 135 tons of gold shipped to Taiwan in 1949, about 0.5% of the world.
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters So do these people mourned him at the metro station last September actually listened to the Chinese state media ? “根據大量現場血腥視頻及人證、物證,外界強烈質疑,831晚到底有多少條命案?而連登平台,則公布了多位沒有出現在警方被捕名單中,但當晚受襲後失蹤者的容貌。”
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters Other than that, other countries, including the Asian tigers, would have to wait until 1970s to start the economic boom.
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters Germany and Japan were already strong powers before the war. Japan had many of its infrastructure preserved (apart from Tokyo,Hiroshima), and they had skilled workers for rebuilding. In the cold war era, they had the US army on their territory and hence economy support.
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters "it's known" because the corporate media wanted you to know. How many lies told by protests have been nailed now? What about the man rumorly died at Prince Edward station and was mourned by protesters to arouse hatred against the police, somehow magically back to life at Britain?
@FilmFlic@est_rick @scottcbell @Reuters Even you have a good motivation, doesn't mean you can sacrifice everything to achieve what you want and destroy everything if you can't achieve. Any reasonable grown-ups, whatever businessman, lawyer, official, could get this. Vandalism is only good for those who instigated it.