Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "\"A Brief but Furious Campaign\": The Battle of the Pearl River Forts" video.

  1.  @Quincy_Morris  Well a Bosnian shot an Austrian.
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  2. James Clavell's Asian Triology , starting with Shogun, then Taipan and Gajin, are good read in the fiction genre, and have a good historic base in the period.
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  3. 'The West' is inclinded to think of Democracy , Russia China and most of the Midlde East have never been Democracies. Just a diffrent set of thugs in charge. At least we can get rid of our thugs eventually.
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  4. Though there wa s a lot going on in the background.
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  5. The Trade Wars with China, and that's what they were of the 1850's are relevant to today. Britiain was buying Tea, ( Americans going 'Not again') Silk and porcelain (China) in large quantaties. The expectation was China would buy goods from Britian in exchange. Except, the Chinease were having none of it, Cash on the barreel, in Silver or gold. Britian also had problems in India with Opium production , and use. It was also the only thing a lot of Chinese Merchants wanted. Alarmed for obvious reasons , the Chinese Rueling elite banned Opium. This was as unpoular with thier own people as the British. Eventually tea seeds were 'Aquired ' by a Scots man Robert Fortune, in 1848 . Silk Moths were also aquired and the monopoly of China brocken, as far as the British were concerned , and Tea in India replaced Opium as a cash crop, win , win for the British Empire. Silk production even took place briefly in England.
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  6. The Chinese communists have been at for a long time in 1949 there was the Yangtzee Incident. (Good film made about it) involving HMS Amathseyt.
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  7. And now as it wa shanded back in 1999 the CCP, are doing thier best to eradicate it.
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  8. Except THG checks his facts. Felton makes some blinding errors.
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  9. Well they dont like the idea of any freedom, a sthe current attitude to Hink Kong, despite International Treatys shows.
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  10.  @tommy-er6hh  Notonly parachutes. Silk Escape maps. I know of one , it is about A4 size and will wrap to the size of a postage stamp.
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  11. Try that now and its likley 'War were Declared'.
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