Now that the relationship with China has soured and the People’s Republic of China has become the greatest adversarial threat to the U.S. and Western security, policymakers should revisit thi…

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    1 year ago

    What garbage clickbait.

    China defaulted on the debts in question in freaking 1938. Does anyone remember what else happened in China eleven years later? That’s right, the CCP took over. In the process, they decided not to honor debts from the previous regime, thus leaving a bunch of American millionaires holding the bag OVER EIGHTY YEARS AGO.

    I’m no fan of the CCP, but according to the calendar it is now 2023. Which means it is past time for the descendants of those millionaires to write off their losses like good little capitalists. If they wanted a risk free investment, maybe they should have bought American bonds instead.

    What’s next, an article about how Americans still haven’t paid the families of English merchants for the tea they dumped in a harbor???