How did China survive/evade USA fuckery so well? (hexbear.net)

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When I look at other communist nations, they were invaded, couped, and/or sabotaged at every opportunity, and (forgive me, my history of China is weak) while I'm sure that China faced obstacles from capitalists outside of the country, it somehow rose up to be the power that it is today while the USSR fell, Vietnam and Korea got bombed to hell and back, Cuba was put under crippling sanctions, and surely countless other uprisings got squashed young.

But china didn't just survive, they thrived. How?

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

~ 1.4 billion people vs. ~ 25 million, as well as having a small fraction of total territory would account for a lot

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Not to mention, you know, being sanctioned to hell and back and being bombed into the past within living memory.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And possessing control over what was historically the least productive half of the Korean peninsula on account of it being mountainous as all hell while all the good farmland is in the hostile occupied southern half of the country.

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