[lbo-talk] For Chuck Grimes/pogroms

[Jim Devine]

One of my history profs in college argued that something like this
policy was practiced by the ancient Chinese empire: the person in
charge of a province was never from that province. He argues that this
helped the empire persist.

On 3/8/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This true. IIRC the practice was taken from the US
> diplomatic corps, which became alarmed when personnel
> in China would, after a few years, become sympathetic
> to the Communists.
>
> --- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm told that
> > the US
> > international news organizations do this,  so that
> > their reporters
> > don't start sympathizing too much with the Iraqis,
> > Russians, or
> > whoever.
> >
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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