as Mao started sweeping through China in 1948 he started systematically imprisoning and beating US diplomats, partly to stop them from filing reports that he was getting support from Moscow
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the CCP really did this though they were not kind to the psyches of westerners who fell to their tender mercies the broke a daughter of some missionaries who was studying in beijing on a fulbright
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looooooooool the american Biderman's report described the specific methods used by the CCP to break POWs (they were all just conventional torture) after 9/11 the report was plagiarized and used as the first draft of new US Enhanced Interrogation
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the Pinko has found my thread and agents are seeking my death as we speakhttps://twitter.com/SadBoylshevik/status/1399222240403669000 …
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during the red scare we more or less hounded a remarkably talented Chinese rocket scientist out of the country. upon his return to china he led their nuclear program successfully. very savvy of ushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen …
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apparently the KMT planted a bomb on the plane carrying china's diplomatic corps to the Bandung Conference (1955) and blew it up over the pacific they only missed Zhou Enlai because he changed flights at the last minute
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oh shit there's speculation his return to china fell out of US-China negotiations where we were trying to split china from the russians. and so we returned him to help them go nuclear who knowshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1399229485900177408 …
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eisenhower threatened to nuke china on no fewer than eight separate occasions
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the Kennedy administration proposed to Khrushchev that the USSR acquiesce to US strikes on Chinese nuclear facilities (Khrushchev said no)
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diplomatic histories have the wildest and most entertaining counterfactuals
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huey p newton when he was taken on a CCP-sponsored tour of china declared that it was the first time in his life that he had felt free
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annals of serbian posadist thoughthttps://twitter.com/ShokuEnver/status/1399212122941313029 …
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apparently later the Soviets wanted to nuke china and Nixon refused because the USSR had to refused to allow it when Kennedy askedhttps://twitter.com/DictatorClass/status/1399290176199790592?s=19 …
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more on Yalta from KB all of this is very hard to evaluate even three quarters of a century out the complexity of the intertwined conflicts that comprised the war era is something else https://twitter.com/KBULTRA0/status/1399409257209020419?s=19 …
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