@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Propaganda sounds negative cos it's a cold-war phrase used by corporate media. In fact, propaganda universally exists. Trump is the biggest propaganda in US at now. The important thing is what does propaganda achieve. Most of the time, CCP delivered the benefit for Chinese people
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters No, but the CCP used it as an opportunity to recuperate from KMT losses, preserve strength and grow whilst the KMT sacrificed men and professional troops. The CCP won because of the propaganda campaign, which it continues to wield until today.
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@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters CCP did grow during the time, but so did the Central Army by Chiang Kai-shek, and remember they got huge support from US in and after the anti-Japanese war. Just a simple question, if you were in 1946 ,would you bet CCP can win the civil war ?
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Benefiting ? Did CCP ask Japanese troops to invade China? It was simply KMT doing wrong and CCP doing right, and it was all about which side won more support from the mass majority, from those who had nothing to lose and those who had been suffered almost a century.
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters USSR and German scorched earth didn't work either, modern supply wagons and refusal of orders saw to that. But hey, those were WWI tactics that eventually ended up benefiting the CCP. I hope that you're aware that you owe the Imperial Japanese Army a lot for the PRC's existence.
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Also, I see you have a cold war mentality. Just because China, USRP are soviets, they act the same way? No, it's not, the different between them is way bigger than between western democratic countries.
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Standard scorched earth tactics. Soviets and other forces also applied it. I mean, the PRC until this day continues to complain about Japan so, I'm pretty sure they would've done the same, looking at the failures of their peacetime policies.
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters The KMT didn't starve millions and decimate the Chinese economy. Something incredibly difficult to do, I might add.
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters This is not convincing at well. The author claimed the cadre corruption existed in Maoist era, however he also admitted it was impossible to quantify either the Maoist or the post-Mao. Just another quibble.
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters This is glorifying the incompetence of KMT. Even in 1948, the CCP had only occupied a few marginal regions and they had very limited impact on the overall Chinese economy then. The ROC still had 135 tons of gold shipped to Taiwan in 1949, about 0.5% of the world.
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Of course, post-war reconstruction, particularly when you've been devastated by the Japanese, and had the top of the ROC talent killed off, while the CCP forced bided their time, wrecked the Chinese economy. It hit the Pound Sterling quite badly too.
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Of course it was. Just because you have class struggle doesn't mean that corruption didn't exist. It's just, famine, deaths and re-education are higher priorities than widespread corruption. Difference was, things were more centralised under Mao.
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters So do these people mourned him at the metro station last September actually listened to the Chinese state media ? “根據大量現場血腥視頻及人證、物證,外界強烈質疑,831晚到底有多少條命案?而連登平台,則公布了多位沒有出現在警方被捕名單中,但當晚受襲後失蹤者的容貌。”
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Other than that, other countries, including the Asian tigers, would have to wait until 1970s to start the economic boom.
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Germany and Japan were already strong powers before the war. Japan had many of its infrastructure preserved (apart from Tokyo,Hiroshima), and they had skilled workers for rebuilding. In the cold war era, they had the US army on their territory and hence economy support.
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters "it's known" because the corporate media wanted you to know. How many lies told by protests have been nailed now? What about the man rumorly died at Prince Edward station and was mourned by protesters to arouse hatred against the police, somehow magically back to life at Britain?
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Tell that the the Communists in 1949, will you return the government to the ROC in compensation for the Civil War? Also, it's known that undercover Police regularly are the ones who make it seem that the protestors are more violent.
@FilmFlic@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters Even you have a good motivation, doesn't mean you can sacrifice everything to achieve what you want and destroy everything if you can't achieve. Any reasonable grown-ups, whatever businessman, lawyer, official, could get this. Vandalism is only good for those who instigated it.
@Liozzlee@est_rick@scottcbell@Reuters I'm pretty sure it was due to the extradition and national security laws. Pretty sure the protest signs held up, the business community, lawyers, government officials, all who protested, including the demands, spoke of those reasons specifically.