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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by microdrum on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:01PM (#17717010)
Exactly. Also worth studying Mao's Great Famine. Great podcast on this released yesterday: http://www.econtalk.org/frank-dikotter-on-maos-great-famine
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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by d0lph on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:30PM (#17717257)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, you can argue to what degree Mao was responsible, but in the end China's authoritarian government was at least partially responsible.

They estimate 20 and 43 million died, if not caused by, then exacerbated by policies implemented under Mao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign

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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by microdrum on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:40PM (#17717316)
Can these wiki links be viewed within China? Can someone try?
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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by d0lph on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:58PM (#17717464)
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia#China

"Since June 2015, all Wikipedias redirect HTTP requests to the corresponding HTTPS addresses, thereby making encryption mandatory for all users. As a result, Chinese censors cannot see which specific pages an individual is viewing, and therefore cannot block a specific subset of pages (such as Ai Weiwei or Tiananmen Square) as they did in past years. As a result, Beijing chose to block the whole Chinese Wikipedia"

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