thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2024 at 5:13pm:


If they are such fast learners, why did it take 50 million deaths for them to even realise something was up, when anyone who could read an economics textbook would have seen it coming?

freediver wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2024 at 5:56pm:


The Great Famine in China was rather ironic. The government were trying to increase production of agricultural products. But, their techniques ended up reducing food production.

1. Agricultural technique of overproduction. This led to crops having failed because the crops were competing with each other for soil nutrients.
2. The mass killing of sparrows. The sparrows would be the predator to the crop-eating insects. No sparrows around, the insects were able to destroy crops unopposed.
3. There was a misunderstanding about the amount of grain production. Farmers then shifted to other crops that would have made the farmers more money. The government exported too much grain overseas, for the purpose of increasing foreign capital to invest in the industrialisation.
4. Industrialisation led to farmers moving from farms into industries. The lack of manpower in the farms cut production of agriculture.
5. Same again with the natural disasters. Although flooding did not lead to destruction of crops. There were the matter of 2 million workers (mainly farmers) being ordered to help repair the banks of flood affected rivers. Therefore, farms were not tended.

They learned their lessons. But it took a long time for them to learn. I bet the One Child Policy might well have hastened the changing policy of how to deal with preventing famines in China. If the CCP had some political opposition, there would have been some motivation to get more done early to avert famines in China.

They did not "get away with" killing 50 million in starvations. The starvation happened because of mismanagement of the CCP in dealing with trying to produce a greater agricultural harvest.

hope china invades australia and ships all the cookers to groot eylandt

JC Denton wrote on Jun 24^th, 2024 at 7:52am:


"Cookers"?

Definition: "(slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked; a crazy person."

Do you think that a country, barely over 10 years old, and with 650 million people can organise a coup over a vast area of land to take down authorities allied to the communist government of China? And I am talking about being able to take out a government that has the military -- a battle-hardened military, at that anytime during or after the 1960s?

The calls for democratisation in China are taking shape as we speak. It is more likely that we will see a dissolution of China into smaller (yet very populous) countries that can be managed more easily. That will see the end of what is left of the CCP.