
Hua Bin • January 16, 2025 • 3,700 Words
The US government likes to say that it is in confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather than against the Chinese people. The US Congress often takes pains to label its anti-China legislations as anti-CCP. The controlled media also follows this politically correct approach to describe the US-China competition. I often wonder why. I...
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I’ve been deeply immersed in an excellent history book, Stalin’s War by Sean McMeekin, 2021. It is at least partially revisionist, and not overtly anti-Hitler and does not often engage in reduction ad Hitlerium (reducing everything to the evil of Hitler, including Hitler himself). It does still believe in the holocaust, a glaring error that...
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