. The China centric view might be that their geography is a significant factor ? We mentioned famines and cannibalism upthread. That's a recurrent feature of their history. Irrigation on a massi… (View Post)

Quite. The US already dealt out serious damage to Iran's nuclear ambitions. There was no immediate need for this attack if preventing bomb development was the aim (and that's far from clear… (View Post)

I think Malcolm is correct. (View Post)

About that. WELKER: Do you think it's appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of a Bronze Star, Purple Heart recipient who served in Vietnam? BESSENT: Neither one of us can understa… (View Post)

I don't know the context of those accounts of cannibalism in 19thC Formosa - but cannibalism was, several times during the century, widespread in China, as a symptom and result of devastating fa… (View Post)