TIL the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, was responsible for the deaths of over 65 million people, making him the most prolific killer of the 20th century.

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

on the one hand china makes a lot of cheap junk for us and that helps keep wages here down, which the rich like. But the most important thing to them is untapped potential to sell stuff to china's market, they have a middle class.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

they have a middle class.

They do now. I think we can both agree that the relationship is due to be renegotiated.

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it's like when the english wanted to sell opium to the chinese, that was an untapped market for them. This has gone on for a long time. The ruling party members of china are corrupt and like luxury so they make a lot of capitalistic deals.