How have US or European invasions got anything to do with Stalin’s purges in 30s or the Holodomor, or the atrocities and disastrous policies that lead to tens of millions of deaths in the Great Leap Forward or Mao’s attempts to defeat internal enemies by launching the Great Leap Forward?
I’m also unclear how the changes Deng launched in t…
How have US or European invasions got anything to do with Stalin’s purges in 30s or the Holodomor, or the atrocities and disastrous policies that lead to tens of millions of deaths in the Great Leap Forward or Mao’s attempts to defeat internal enemies by launching the Great Leap Forward?
I’m also unclear how the changes Deng launched in the 80s have much to do with military opposition to external invasion?
You criticise American exceptionalism, but it seems to be the height of Western exceptionalism to think all things are merely a response to external Western influence.
Could China have become the force it did without Maoist repression? It’s obvious something we can never know, but for all the fact the Sth Korea & Taiwan took decades to emerge as liberal democracies they never descended to the levels of atrocities that Mao inflicted on China.
How have US or European invasions got anything to do with Stalin’s purges in 30s or the Holodomor, or the atrocities and disastrous policies that lead to tens of millions of deaths in the Great Leap Forward or Mao’s attempts to defeat internal enemies by launching the Great Leap Forward?
I’m also unclear how the changes Deng launched in the 80s have much to do with military opposition to external invasion?
You criticise American exceptionalism, but it seems to be the height of Western exceptionalism to think all things are merely a response to external Western influence.
Could China have become the force it did without Maoist repression? It’s obvious something we can never know, but for all the fact the Sth Korea & Taiwan took decades to emerge as liberal democracies they never descended to the levels of atrocities that Mao inflicted on China.