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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by peacefulhat on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:14AM (#24079948)
Cultural Revolution was not a civil war, and also...how would that possibly happen in America?As for who is the president, they would just defer to SCOTUS like in 2000.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by donw on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:04AM (#24080975)
> Cultural Revolution was not a civil war

That's splitting hairs.

Mao's Red Guards -- student revolutionaries and young adults -- effected a drastic shift in power, from a more liberal government to Mao (a strong authoritarian), and something on the order of three million people died as a direct consequence.

Moreover, China lost an unbelievable amount of its history, as revolutionaries purged the "Four Olds" (customs, culture, habits, and ideas).

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by 082349872349872 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:54AM (#24089415)
Pedantically, it's not splitting hairs when we do (at least did, last century) have an internationally accepted definition of a civil war:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880237

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