Dwayne Monroe wrote:
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> China, colonized by Europeans and Japanese and later
> abused by the CP, is only now assuming its proper
> place on the world stage. Where might China be today
> if this meddling hadn't occured?
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Could this have happened without the CP? Whatever one thinks of the CP, it was the force that gave China independence. Without it China would be in even worse straits than Brazil at the present time.
"China has stood up." Mao's words at the launching of the People's Republic.
Carrol