last line is pretty damning.

pretty weak video. - irrelevant "game theory" title. the positivist theory over triangular diplomacy is interesting, but he never discusses it, and N=3 games are basically not taught in game theory. - has Nixon dropping in at the Bohemian Grove in 1967 presenting a grand new vision of foreign policy and Soviet containment. No, Nixon simply adopted the China policy of de Gaulle and Adenauer whom he met with repeatedly in 1963-67. - saying U.S.-China trade caused the USSR collapse by depriving it of an Asian market. complete nonsense. the U.S.-China *geopolitical* alliance arguably contributed to the USSR collapse by defeating it in Afghanistan, and by diminishing its ideological legitimacy (in turn, giving room to the rise of nationalism in the Soviet republics). U.S.-China trade as % was negligible in this period; it peaked at 3% of China's GDP before the Soviet collapse, and in any case the USSR wasn't competing for it. - saying Mao was revered because he "calmed down" China after a century of turmoil and foreign interference. this is not in any way consistent with how Mao or the people of his era viewed the CCP's mission. Mao's belief was that Chinese society was *too stable*; he saw conflicts and Western influence both as progressive and necessary. he repeatedly suggested in the 1920s-30s that China may need to be broken into multiple states, some possibly colonized, to progress in its stage of development. This teleological view of history is core to Marxist thought. The "stablized our country" narrative is post-1990s revisionism. - misunderstanding the Mao-Lin split on multiple levels. Narrator says it's due to personal ambition and sycophancy at one point, which is false, because Mao did want him to be the successor, and loved sycophancy. Mao's issue was with his factionalist activities which he personally detested (same reason he later sidelined Wang Hongwen, the next successor candidate). Narrator also says it's because Lin was pro-Soviet, which is also false; Lin was a radical third-worldist and the architect of the extreme anti-Soviet military preparations that cost many Chinese lives. - Narrator concludes by saying Mao's diplomacy allowed for U.S. trade which lifted 800 million people in China out of poverty. Almost all of China's productivity changes in 1979-1986, which is when the greatest reduction in subsistence-level poverty occurred, occurred in agriculture, due to a combination of better incentive structure, capital investment, and technological change. This insistence to give Mao credit for something is weird, considering he also makes use of Li Zhisui's memoirs which contains absurd smears of Mao. if he wanted to be balanced, he could have just included less nonsense on both sides.

you're partly correct, but this wasn't the case in the 2000s-2010s. back then, many Chinese can criticize Mao. the main reason that today we can't point out Mao is a dictator is that it draws comparisons with Xi Jinping who's also a dictator.

this is from a protest in 1936 organized by the PSOE, the same party that built the Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line in the 1980s, the one that's killing people now

"guys you all are so fucking ignorant, how can you not know soc dem and communism are completely different things, my high school teacher told me this, OMG I can't believe you all know nothing about history"

that's how you know they aren't bots, bots would be more sophisticated. The CCP has a decent understanding of Western politics. these are real Chinese peasants who got their hands on a VPN for the first time and are entering a world they don't understand. please be gentle.

white shitlib: "Guyss you can't use critical thinking when talking to Chinese, they don't do that over there" insanely racist

@khalil_Mrhuang @ProcyonCoke731

"yes yes im a retarded subhuman who will never in 1000 years understand how civilized societies work"

I'm pretty sure the harshest Napoleon critics in the world are French intellectuals. The U.S. and China actually have a much more positive view of Napoleon than the French themselves.

OP: "Russians believe in guilty until proven innocent" Russian account shows up: Yeah they're guilty until proven innocent!!!

I'd say at least half the outrage is because a black person, who Chinese view as inferior, made the statement. There are white academics (e.g. Frank Dikötter) who have called Mao a dictator and are still allowed to do research in China.

the Chinese worship a dictator who killed 80 million people, and you think they'll get upset at Tiananmen?? you don't understand Chinese people. we only respect people who massacre us.

lol. you can't "love Chinese culture" and hate racism at the same time. racism is part of Chinese culture. for example, we all view negroids as subhumans.

@aoaodalu @Shazaminho @EmmanuelMacron

the guy literally runs a scam business involving fake medicine, I don't know why a single person takes him seriously

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