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What are some of the signs you have officers look for to determine whether some has a mental illness in those sort of tense situations?

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I am conflicted about this. As someone with a great interest in China and having spent a lifetime studying it, I believe the Cultural Revolution was one of the greatest tragedies of our time. The lives lost are sad, of course, but any time information, knowledge, or history itself is destroyed, it can never be recovered or recreated, and it becomes lost to everyone. On the other hand, I have never heard of a foreigner who experienced the Cultural Revolution, and there are truly some fascinating stories to be told I'm sure. Whether we agree or disagree with her point of view, I'd be very interested in hearing some of what she saw and did, namely:

What was your usual role during that time? Were you sent down to the countryside with other intellectuals? Did you continue teaching?

How were you perceived as a foreigner in China at that time? While there were some Russians there at the time, a white person would certainly stand out(not that they still don't). You mentioned you received preferential treatment at first, did that continue throughout your time there?

Why do you believe the Cultural Revolution started, and why did it spread so quickly? Amongst the people you saw and knew, why were they so eager to make such a drastic change and destroy so much of the past?

Assuming you have returned to China since then, what do you think is the largest cultural change since 50 years ago?

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This is pretty par for the course for expats in China

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You can have a lot of something, but if it's less than it was before, it's still reduced. No mention of degree was made, and it certainly wasn't a bold-faced lie.

The US has definitely increased conventional support to European allies, exactly BECAUSE of what happen in Ukraine. Troop numbers, ground forces, aircraft deployments to Eastern Europe are all up.

I don't see how nuclear arms could have played any role in what happened in Ukraine. It wasn't a clear cut invasion, and it wasn't a conventional fight. It's unreasonable to use a single example of a conflict, much less an entirely new type of conflict, to disprove an entire theory. Saying the lack of nuclear arms lead to the invasion of Ukraine is no more accurate than someone looking at the atomic bombing of Japan at the end of WWII and claiming that it is the way all wars will be fought thereafter.