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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by boomboomsubban on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:52AM (#25090891)
The UN coalition army that refused to acknowledge China's existence, invaded China's neighbor and marched to China's border. That does not justify twenty years of an embargo.
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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by flurben on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:50AM (#25091747)
That is factually untrue. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.

As I said, the PRC's policies are what drove its people into poverty. It was a choice the PRC made to attack the UN armies, it chose to do so fully aware of the consequences of supporting North Korea and Kim Il-sung.

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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by free_rms on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:11AM (#25112587)
The 'UN' at that pinpoint in time had no representation from China or Russia, so it was basically NATO.
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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by boomboomsubban on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:44AM (#25093408)
>That is factually untrue. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.

Which led to almost everything that happened in my post, the UN had already refused to acknowledge China. Nothing factually untrue in it at all.

>it chose to do so fully aware of the consequences of supporting North Korea and Kim Il-sung.

Mao called the decision blackmail at the time, and it's a fairly apt description. Imagine the hell that would be raised if China helped a Mexican despot and marched an army to the US border.

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