Frank Dikötter on Mao’s movement known as The Great Leap Forward: Take, for instance, the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962, when Mao thought that he could catapult his country past its competitors by herding villagers across the country into giant people’s communes. In pursuit of a utopian paradise everything was collectivised. People had […]

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I wonder how long until we start to see Arizona take North Korean approved actions along our borders.  Edward Wong in The New York Times: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a North Korean border guard shot dead three Chinese nationals and wounded one last week in an incident in northeast China, prompting the […]

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