freediver wrote on Jan 27
th, 2025 at 8:56am:
Quote:Your claim that one side ONLY is responsible for the slaughter in a war to settle an ideological dispute.
There was no dispute before the CCP started slaughtering tens of millions of Chinese people so that they could impose communism on China, kill tens of millions more with their incompetence, then embrace capitalism anyway.
Your error: 'capitalist pigs' were in charge of China's government after the collapse of the Qing dynasty, maintaining the vicious poverty of the masses.
Chinese communists (following Marx) believed in an alternative system of government, one which they believed would improve the condition of the masses.
Hence they set about creating a revolution - which of necessity was resolved in a war to settle this ideological dispute with the ruling 'capitalist pigs'. They won.
Quote:All I actually stated was that the CCP slaughtered tens of millions of Chinese people. So which part of what I actually said do you think is wrong
See above; you must be running out of your ideologically crippled 'logic' by now.....
Quote:Are you claiming it was another "little accident"?
The famine partly caused by forced collectivization of farms?
No - that was a disaster, related to the fact Marx himself said nothing about 'communist' reform of subsistence farming
in a poverty-ravaged pre-industrial economy.
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Fast forward to today: China is the world's 2nd largest economy, after eradicting poverty at the fastest rate in history) and largest trading nation, with leading-edge technology in several fields (notably EVs and PVs)
Trump - following his 'survival of the fittest' instincts - is upset, and is imposing a protectionist 'lose-lose' situation on global trade which badly affects allies as well as "adversaries" - with one of his chief aims (admittedly continued by Biden) being the containment of China's development, to maintain US global hegemony.
Here are Jeffery Sachs's** ideas on the matter, recorded during the 19th G20 Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from November 18 to 19, under the theme of "Building a Just World and a Sustainable Planet," chosen by Brazil, the G20 presidency.
(Google)
"The key issue of development is to boost critical investments in the low-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), notably in human capital (education, health, and nutrition) and in infrastructure (green energy, modern transport including fast rail and green shipping, and digital connectivity). A key solution is better access for the LICs and LMIC to long-term, low-interest loans. This increased financing should be brought about through expanded lending by the multilateral development banks and through improved market financing for the LICs and LMIC. The Global Financial Architecture needs fundamental reform to secure the improved financing of developing countries. Up until now, the US and other high-income countries have failed to take on their responsibilities for global financial reform." Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned American economist, a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
Obviously looking past the obsolete 'communist' versus 'capitalist' dispute you are still entrapped by, and confronting the issue of achieving good global governance in the modern post-industrial, AI and IT enhanced economy.