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Do you prefer the 1% or The Party? (Or: Why China wins). Ramin Mazaheri’s New China Scholarship Series, Part 7 of 8

2018-09-15
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| Categories: 44 Days Backpacking in China book, Book Review, china, China history, China Is Communist Dammit, China Rising, Chinese culture, Communist Party of China, CPC, Jeff J. Brown, Podcast, Radio Sinoland, The China Trilogy

By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Pres. Xi reviewing honor guard. A highly qualified statesman for our troubled times. Crosslinked with: The Greanville Post is the best anti-imperial website, bar none. Sign up for the free newsletter… https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/05/14/do-you-prefer-the-1-or-the-party-or-why-china-wins/ The Saker provides the best coverage of all things Russia, bar none. Add it to your favorites… http://thesaker.is/do-you-prefer-the-1-or-the-party-or-why-china-wins/…

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Daring to go beyond Western propaganda on the Great Leap Forward’s famine: New China Scholarship series, by Ramin Mazaheri, Part 2 of 8

2018-05-23
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| Categories: china, China history, China Is Communist, Chinese culture, CPC, Jeff J. Brown, Podcast, Radio Sinoland, The China Trilogy

By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Western circulated photo of “Chinese famine”. Images don’t lie, they say, but erasing context does—an old Western technique. As explained by  Wikipedia, rarely an impartial source, The Great Chinese Famine (1959—1961) “was caused by social pressure, economic mismanagement, and radical changes in agriculture in addition to weather conditions and…

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