China has successfully conducted a full-range SL-ICBM test (should be JL-2) from a submarine into the South Pacific just now. This is the first full-range ICBM test into the South Pacific since September 2024.
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Yup. And it overflew South Korea, Japan, and the Northern Marianas too. That's certainly something.
Long enough to hit melbourne from SCS
Japan MOD and their usual "How dare the Chicoms only inform us about 1.5 hours prior" and "How dare the Chicoms' missile overfly us!" rantings.
Japan should be grateful to China; I recall that last time, Japan was not notified separately.
A Dam break occurred at Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou City, Nanning, Guangxi.
Chairman Mao is great!
It was at his funeral, when someone asked Deng Xiaoping, what did he think? The way I heard this story, is that the reply was "70-30," that was it.
Still, that 30% is a big number, relatively speaking, so there will be issues here with some people.
But, that is all ancient history now.
Today, no one in China is thinking of going back to those old days. There is great nostalgia for it, in some circles. The way forward is to create a new society, to create a new nostalgia for the future.
That is one of the core teachings of Chairman Mao. To remake society, make it a better place. Today's China still believes that.
plawolf
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The ludicrous claimed number of deaths was wilful misinterpretation of statistics and deliberate state propaganda.
It originated when China finally started doing censuses again after things have calmed down and stabilised, and the actual population was millions fewer than the expected population.
As a percentage of total population, the difference was massive, like 6-12% of total population massive, and should have been the first glaring warning sign that something was massively wrong with the numbers somewhere. The expected population was based on growth models that could not be updated properly for over a decade due to all the political instability and based on sample data reported by the provinces. So we are to believe all statistics in China was massively inflated during the Great Leap Forward except for population growth.
Rather than do any semblance of actual scientific or statistical analysis on the myriad of possible and indeed probable explanations, it was all immediately classified as famine deaths and seriously never questioned by anyone in the west.
Oh no, we still got to respect the historical facts.
During the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution, all the schools were closed, meaning no one went to university. No one in ten years. And since China was sealed off from the rest of the world, no information was flowing in or out, unlike today.
That was why China fell so far behind.
China like back then, is kind of unimaginable for today's people.