If you look at the progress China has been achieving in leading technical, industrial and scientific fields, such as AI, material sciences, semiconductors, robotics etc, their advances in military tech become credible.
There is a media bias that tends to underplay China's advances in those fields, case in point with AI:
That's actually a fantastic illustration why Western media's bias on China actually hurts the West more than it does China.
Deepseek is only "startling" if you based your understanding on China off reporting by the likes of The Economist, who keep picturing a China as a… https://t.co/HUbcnrhfiD
That was the basic Bolshevik program of class warfare, intent on wiping out the upper classes, "kulaks" or established rural peasants and clergy in order to "usher the proletariat into a new era". That type of class genocide was carried over in the USSR mostly under Lenin and Trotsky then by Stalin, from 1917 through the early 1930s. Anywhere from 20M to up to 55M purged.
Mao did his version, although it wasn't nearly as extreme as the Bolsheviks', with most of the deaths coming more from poor planning and ideologically-driven incompetence rather than from a more deliberate extermination program as seen in 1920s Soviet Union and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the mid-70s. All these incredibly bloody revolutions were influenced by the French Revolution (which conducted its own genocides) and the writings of leftist extremists like Francois-Noel Babeuf, whose work Pol Pot studied in his 4 years as a student in Paris.
The more direct purges in China occurred when the communists took over and again during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), whose excesses helped usher in Deng Xiaoping's era of reform, setting China on its current path of economic development. China's rise was enabled by the collaboration of western oligarchs led by the Rockefellers, who saw the outsourcing of US industry as a great financial opportunity and bought into China, Inc, at the ground floor. They are today part owners of giant industrial conglomerates like CITIC.
The traditional cultural elite of China survived Mao's era and gradually took over the CPC. Xi Jinping hails from a traditional family from Xi'An, the Chinese heartland and birthplace of Chinese civilization. His family was very harshly treated during the Cultural Revolution, with his father imprisoned for over a decade and his sister harassed to death by suicide. That is why people who believe that the Communist Party of China is communist are deeply misguided, it is a lot more like the Confucian party of China, rooted in Chinese traditional values.
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You know, I believe Trump would do something like this. He's got it in him.
Trump is a chaos agent and a disruptor, but I don't think he's the Queens version of Pol Pot.
