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Old 07-30-2007, 13:01 PM   #13 (permalink)
astralis
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Here's where I'll have to disagree. Unlike Westerners, the average Chinese doesn't really care about casualties as long as it's somebody else's family members doing the dying.

But the Chinese population is large enough that even if tens of thousands die, too few families will be affected to have any real negative impact on morale and therefore support for the invasion effort.
if that was true, why is the CCP so leery of any sort of publicizing about 6/4? after all, "only" a few hundred mostly upper-middle class college students died.
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