the "china hands" who were obvious communist sympathizers when they weren't operatives were driven out of government by mccarthy they found ready employment in universities where among other things they insisted the Great Leap Forward famines were fake
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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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I choose to believe this was 4 dimensional realpolitik by people who realized that China was the best bet for a superpower to succeed USSR and that MAD remained the best guarantee of relative world peace.
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this is an extraordinary thread
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So, very savvy but unironically.
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