BONUS EP: China's census mystery and its policy shifts

05/10/21 • 19 min

Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity

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Part 6: The Chinese Civil War - The Reshaping of the World Order after the First World War

“...This war was completely tilted to one side. There was almost no doubt as to the outcome. As soon as Chiang exhausted within one or two years the military resources he accumulated in the latter part of the Anti-Japanese War, the war was over. And the industrial zone in the northeast would be able to continue to produce. If the Northeast had been an independent country like Manchuria, it would have no difficulty to beat a big country like China, just as it would be no problem for Israel to defeat a big country like Egypt. One was a small industrialized country and the other a large agricultural country without industrialization. The large agricultural country had only scattered and disorganized peasants...”

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Part 7: Mao's gaming strategy in the 1950s - The Reshaping of the World Order after the First World War

“...Only from this angle could you understand the rationale of the Cultural Revolution. Mao wanted to groom purely localized Chinese cadres, to replace the former overseas students who returned from the Soviet Union and the veteran Communist Party cadres groomed by the Soviet Union, so that he can achieve complete security and a true dictatorship. As a shrewd politician, he was certainly right to have such a plan. Although of course it meant scourge for China all over again such things as national interest are never a consideration for politicians who are eager for quick success...”