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I love this information and the context. We lost a great deal in the genocide visited upon the native population, as well as from the bigotry and violence foisted upon the Chinese and other non-Anglo ethnic groups. We have so much more to gain through friendship and cooperation than from subjugation and hate.

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Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating history..

I don't think more than a handful of people have any idea about this relationship..

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Fascinating!

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Excellent content and thanks for what you do Matthew.

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Very interesting article. Leaves one to ponder about the things that are going on.

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These kinds of stories continue to be a revelation. It's often said, metaphorically, that the Chinese think not in terms of years and decades but centuries, if not millennia; so perhaps the current predicament can best be seen as just a hiccup in the grand scheme of things. Harmonious progressive development between East and West will resume, all in good time. We just need to get rid of the fools and charlatans currently holding power in our societies.

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Thank you, Matt; well written, easy to read glimpse into history which forged the nation, as well as being a golden spike in the age of what has been dubbed the Age of Robber Barons.

Would be interested in your view of current status: BRICS and NATO summits, The Schiller Institute call for no bailout of broken western financial system, but moving toward emerging East/West cooperation in Belt and Road type structures, with National Banks.

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You propound a compelling narrative in which China inherits and develops the American spirit, which the West has traded for a mess of pottage. But it’s difficult to square this narrative with the top-down authoritarian surveillance social-credit Technocracy that Chinese elites have piloted. Patrick Wood, for example, believes that western Bilderberg elites made Chinese elites an offer to transfer technology and capital to China, and promote its exceptional economic growth, on condition that it implemented Technocracy, as a stepping-stone towards spreading this new form of totalitarianism throughout the world.

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It's worth finding out what the Chinese themselves think of the social credit systems (etc) rather than what Western analysts say about them. Among the latter, very few understand how China works. China may take an engineering approach to many problems, but IMO it is not a technocracy, at least not in the Western sense of the word.

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A complaint - when the article goes to a website it becomes white print on a black background - for me a VERY UNCOMFORTABLE format in which to read!!! Otherwise, all is well.

Doug

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true story Doug: today for the first time a surprise here, because from white-on-black Matt's post now appears all black-on-white. I've been told it has to do with 'something' that needs to be reset in your computer, but I didn't do anything to mine (I'm not good at stuff like that) and for some reason it changed, all by itself. life can be amazing sometimes!

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I prefer the black on white... easier to read somehow... Maybe I'm used to it from paper and ink.

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