freediver wrote on Jan 29
th, 2022 at 12:13pm:
They were from China, not hungry. A lot of your other comrades were also confused about where the Great Chinese Famine occurred.
Nasty...a joke at the expense of someone who does not have english as his first language.
Quote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒, "three years of great famine") was a period between 1959 and 1961 in the history of the People's Republic of China (PRC) characterized by widespread famine.[2][3][4][5][6] Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962.[7][8][9][10] It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million).
Yes, the catastrophes associated with trying to lift a huge subsistence poverty population out of poverty. Democratic India even now has still failed to improve the lot of 700 million subsistence farmers, whereas China today, with 5 times the per capita income of India, has finally eradicated this type of
absolute poverty.
Quote:The Chinese Communist Party killed the Chinese people with their idiotic socialist policies.
And yet, fast forward to today:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-american-dream-is-alive-and-well-in-china/[Ellen Brown examines why Chinese on average are more satisfied with their government than Americans]
Quote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy, requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques, the Four Pests Campaign that reduced bird populations (which disrupted the ecosystem), over-reporting of grain production, and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production.[4][6][8][15][17] During the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference in early 1962, Liu Shaoqi, the second Chairman of the PRC, formally attributed 30% of the famine to natural disasters and 70% to man-made errors ("三分天灾, 七分人祸").[8][18][19] After the launch of Reforms and Opening Up, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially stated in June 1981 that the famine was mainly due to the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward as well as the Anti-Rightist Campaign, in addition to some natural disasters and the Sino-Soviet split.
Yes. Meantime, much of democratic India is still a disgrace to humanity, breeding like rabbits, and without sanitation...
Quote: Wow. What a relief.
So now can you leave China alone to govern itself, rather than pushing the absurd 'China threat' nonsense propagated by paranoid Pentagon spooks watching US global hegemony disappearing before their eyes.