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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ok this is fun when Korea was winding down it turned out that half of Chinese national POWs wanted to be repatriated Anywhere But China this was a major PR embarrassment for the CCP so they decided to accuse the United States of War Crimes
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specifically they tortured US POWs to confess to having dropped bugs from airplanes on to Chinese troops an International Body of Experts that was chaired by a China operative found that yes there was Bug Warfare this caused a panic in China and spurred mass adoption of masks
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"this practice continues today, for different reasons"
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although 2/3 of Chinese POWs defected, 67 americans did as well this was explained as "brainwashing" (transliteration from Chinese) and spurred US fears of a psychic warfare gap this led directly to MKULTRA
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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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Incredible tweet considering you praise McCarthy in the same thread
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reality seems pretty complicated (but also see two tweets down)
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Ah. I agree that reality is complicated. Seems much depends upon what sort of motivations one imputes to various actors, and motivations are almost never purely one way or the other and almost always something that can be argued about in one way or the other
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