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US officials: "We realize that efforts, implied or explicit, to shape or change the PRC over several decades did not succeed" (www.whitehouse.gov)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The British Empire and basically the world was controlled by a single city of ~1million. And besides the historical and current examples of smaller cities controlling much more land and people then they had themselves, the statement doesn't make sense. Why can't a nation of 330 million control a nation of 331million?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Those days are long past and were a historical anomaly. We live in a world where Afghanistan defeated the US-led coalition forces.