319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao
The Realignment
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The Importance of Sympathy in the United States
The U.S. has been sympathetic to China for decades, says Hu Jintao. Why? It's a very good question, but it's not a quick one,. So I'll keep it for a minute. Where did the sympathy originate from? Was it Chinese specifically? Was it Communist Marxism? Like, why were they sympathetic? That's an issue that runs deep through out of the United States and is widespread. You either believe that Chinese communism is not really communism. Or on the other hand, which tends to be the minority of people, you understand that Chinese communists are communism. And it comes from 1917, Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the Leninist principle of a
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