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Re: Olympics opening ceremony

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 02:38
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On 15 Feb 2018 19:38:26 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:

>On 2018-02-15, jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote:
>> Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>>> Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
>>>> Combat between First World nations is a bad idea anyways. But foot
>>> and they turned out a paper trying to absolve State for giving China to
>>> the communists
>>> https://archive.org/details/VanSlykeLymanTheChinaWhitePaper1949
>>>
>>> and recent reference to "Is Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin"
>>> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#14 Predicting the future in five years
>> as seen from 1983
>>>
>>> perpetual war posts
>>> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
>>> military-industrial(-congressional) complex
>>> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
>>
>> /BAHa
>
>'No cite but from memory, 'Vinegar'Joe Stillwell , an US general that
>was put in charge of one chinese (Nationalist) Army, so despised
>Chang- Ki Check (sp?) that after a while he would not even talk to
>him. Chang's wife was a member of a powerfull, very corrupt, Chinese
>family with high ties to the US government, The Chinese resistance to
>Japan tied up large numbers of the Japanese Army for most of the
>war,in spite that resistance being split between the factions.
>
>The numbers cited for the Russian invasion of Manchuria seemed
>skewed, I had books on all that years ago,now they are just
>'somewhere' in the pile, and I cannot be bothered.
>
>Anyway, anyone who is interested in recent Chinese history
>should read up on the 'Opium Wars', during which China was forced to
>allow importation of opium from British India.
>
>( The descendents of Stillwell's army are reported to have an sorta
>enclave still in an inaccessable part of the Yunnan-Burma area, which 
>produces opium, and includes gambling facilities,)
>
>One reason why there is unlikely to be a Chinese-US war is that the
>Chinese now own so much of the US and the UK, that they would be
>damaging themselves. 

How much of the US do you believe the Chinese own?

>There was a sort of plan, like the way that Europe was divided into
>Soviet and Western spheres of influence, for Japan to be divided that
>way as well, with the Northern Island, Hokkaido, to be occupied by
>the USSR. There is still a lot of aggro about a couple of islands
>that the Soviets occupied, and never left.
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