I didn’t want to argue with my hosts. I.... : Quote by Howard W. French

“ I didn’t want to argue with my hosts. I wanted them to talk. But I felt like reminding Li that perhaps forty million Chinese people had died of starvation a half century earlier because they followed their government’s orders. It was the largest famine in history. A snapshot taken then would have given a very different picture of the supposedly essential character of Chinese people, and it would have entirely missed the point. Governments matter. Markets matter. History matters. International circumstances matter. ”

Howard W. French
  • From : China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
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