Rob C

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@NhanVi33961 The Japanese finds it inappropriate for foreign dignitary to wear a kimono for a level event so there is offense to Vietnamese and Japanese.

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@nguyenanhthe19 The problem is Vietnam forgetting history. Over 2 million Vietnamese people died during the Japanese occupation of Vietnam during WWII. By wearing the kimono, is it an affront to the dead.

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@brown1757556 @trublion92600 China exported rice and used the funds to import wheat at the same time. Wheat was a lot cheaper than rice and had a higher caloric count than rice and this minimized famine conditions. Mao did not make the situation worse.

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@FaradayH23340 Filipinos are also completely brainwashed and totally ignorant about their history and becoming subservient to the US.
Maybe China should assert complete dominance in the South China Sea to stop the spread of stupidity.

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@BeijingDai There are new research on China's famine of the 1960's and it was deemed to be just a "regular" famine, not massive with a huge death toll. The huge population decrease was not wholly due to famine but counting the unborn.

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@TheKinG1715526 @lostinargument So far, rapid development occurs mainly in homogeneous societies with high collective intelligence and India is not amongst them. The West, Japan, Asian Tigers and China have these traits.

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@BeijingDai Singapore has a US military base on its port so that signals to Indonesia and Malaysia to not cause trouble.

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@jiazupinganmb Switzerland is super expensive for tourists and in terms of value for Chinese people, it is much better to visit France, Italy and Spain.

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@samdunningo Don't subscribe to Sean Haines' substack. He became sinophobic and a conspiracy theorist on China matters.

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@ElysiusThor Joining the EU requires financial contributions to the EU budget from all members but poor members are a net beneficiary of the EU budget. Canada has no intention of contributing huge sums, abide by its laws, and getting nothing of value in return.

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@FredVargasxdbo AI needs more training. The report is clear:

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@FredVargasxdbo The CIA declassified report on the GLF confirms it was natural disasters that contributed to higher death tolls not famine. You can google "CIA National Intelligence Estimate -Number 13-61".

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@FredVargasxdbo The UK, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries had embassies in China during that time as they recognized the PRC over Taiwan and none reported on the massive deaths.

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@FredVargasxdbo FYI ... The made up 30 mm death toll was initiated by Judith Bannister in 1987 who extrapolated the number using calculation based on previous famines from Ireland and India.

Western embassies in China also never reported on the massive deaths from famine.

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@FredVargasxdbo Nobody reported on the massive deaths during that time. The massive deaths reporting only started in the 1980s. Hong Kong and Taiwan which has complete access to what happens in China never reported on the deaths.

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@ZZZ1320871 @gehu925179 The CIA declassified reports on the GLF confirmed that there weren't massive deaths from famine but more from natural disasters, primarily from earthquakes and floodings. Agricultural yields were high but food distribution was disrupted by natural disasters.

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@FredVargasxdbo The graph has been debunked. The massive deaths during the Great Leap Forward were unsubstantiated. Most of the deaths came from natural disasters, primarily floods and earthquakes.

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@zerohedge Kavanagh is well-known for staging viral videos to get Youtube views in order to make money.

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@ThisSideUp76 80% of the people of Taiwan originated or descendent from mainland China with no ties to Japan or the colonial rule period.

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@Ignis_Rex It has been reported that Japan has reduced its dependence on Chinese REs by 30-40%. But what really happened was that Japan just moved away from manufacturing that requires difficult to access Chinese REs, it did not find replacement for them.