Like the amount of half truth and ignored nuance in this piece is staggering.

EDIT: It is even more insane when you consider there is an explicit plan by the US intelligence state to break up and balkanize China. Like they aren't even trying to keep it secret.

Edit2: "non amp version:https://web.archive.org/web/20211102155719/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/us-china-war/620571/" Courtesy of Alcoholicorn

  • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Deng once angrily insisted that he was not the "Kruschev of China," and while I'm glad his liberalization efforts paid off where Kruschev's didn't, I sometimes can't help but think that Deng just got lucky.

    • please_dont [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Deng upheld Mao and his contributions and the ideological and historical unity of the party and movement. Kruschev on the other hand

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        :corn-man-khrush: :stalin-gun-1::deng-smile: "Khrushchev? What good has Khrushchev ever done?"

        • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Was it Deng or Mao who called Kruschev to Beijing for an emergency meeting and then when he got there they were just chilling in the pool shouting things at him through his interpreter?

          And then made Kruschev get in the pool because it was easier to talk and they had to get Kruschev floaties because he couldn't swim?

          Edit: it was Mao