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  • As someone that’s spent a lot of time in China with Chinese people I strongly disagree with this assertion, “They know as much about the Chinese Civil War, Tienanmen Square, and the Hong Kong protests as you know about The American Civil War, 9/11 and the War on Terror, and the BLM protests.”

    In my experience Chinese people know extremely little about world history as well as their own uncensored history. It’s not a casual topic of discourse and many are hesitant to even speak about these things. They are not a truly free people but they are not ignorant of that. Often they believe that because of their size harsh controls are needed to prevent chaos and they now easily point at the US as an example of what they don’t want to become.