You know nothing of Chinese history,
you just plagiarized, cut and pasted large text from an anti-China X account and post :
Pretty obvious straight plagiarism, complete with the author's original typos, like "Song Yongi, Chinese Historian working at Calstate LA". His actual name is Song Yongyi, chere is no "Yongi" in Chinese, and noone puts "Calstate" in one word, it's
Cal State.
Next time you plagiarize, at least make an effort to not be so obvious, lest you become known as the Nasa Test Pilot of anti-Chinese/anti-Russian/pro-Israeli commentary on this board...
This being said, here is my criticism of the post by Andrew Côté (who btw is
a neoliberal luciferian satanist from San Francisco) that LaNegra ripped off:
Dikötter is a virulent anti-China activist-academic, along the same lines as Adrian Zenz or Sarah Paine. It's kind of surprising that he is still based in Hong Kong, though he really is part of the Hoover Institute US neocon academic ecosphere. As is Song Yongyi, the Cal State Fullerton prof also quoted above.
I can also quote articles from Time or Newsweek about the Bucha massacre, incredibly deceptive outright anti-Russian lies, turning the massacre of Bucha civilians who collaborated with the Russian troops that conquered the city by Ukrainian militia (the "Safari" unit) into fictitious Russian war crimes:
The scenes of depravity they left behind have changed the course of the war in Ukraine. The Russian army’s crimes, described in both Kyiv and Washington as a campaign resembling genocide, have hardened the will of Western governments to arm Ukraine and narrowed the space for a negotiated peace. Leaders from across Europe have come through Bucha to see the devastation for themselves. They emerged voicing new pledges of support for Zelensky, promising more than a billion dollars in military aid from the European Union alone.
The scenes of depravity in this commuter town outside Kyiv have changed the course of the war in Ukraine
time.com
There is no doubt that the Cultural Revolution was a period of great repression and bolshevik folly along the lines of the Khmer Rouge horrors in Cambodia, the Bolshevik culls of the 1920 or the
Grande Terreur during the French Revolution. Dikötter's estimate of 2 million killed is probably an accurate high estimate, but cannibalism was a very marginal phenomenon among those millions.
As well, making sweeping generalizations on Chinese culture based on that decade of bolshevik folly would be as misguided as making those generalizations about German culture based on the Weimar period, or on French culture based on the Great Terror.
Dikötter also has other kooky takes about China, he is so anti-China that he claims that the period of prohibition on opium that came after opium was strictly banned under Mao was worse than when opium was evrywhere in China. In fact the CPC culled over a million drug dealers, triad members and people who profited from the opium trade. They took the same wide net approach as Bukele did in El Salvador, except they killed the people they've rounded up instead of putting them in labor camps.
Dikötter is also from the same retarded school of professional China doomers as Gordon Chang, claiming that the economy of China is all smoke and mirrors and is going to collapse anytime now.