Between 1959 and 1961, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) underwent
the Great Chinese Famine, one of the country’s darkest times.
Yang Jisheng, senior journalist from the Xinhua News Agency, estimated that China registered 36 million deaths back then due to starvation. It was one of the greatest tragedies in human history.
Although current global circumstances are vastly different now, the following question offers itself up quite naturally: Can any lesson be derived from that experience in China 60 years ago for today’s world that is facing the worst pandemic of the last century?
Read more at : COVID 19 Today and China’s Great Famine - The Globalist
Yang Jisheng, senior journalist from the Xinhua News Agency, estimated that China registered 36 million deaths back then due to starvation. It was one of the greatest tragedies in human history.
Although current global circumstances are vastly different now, the following question offers itself up quite naturally: Can any lesson be derived from that experience in China 60 years ago for today’s world that is facing the worst pandemic of the last century?
Read more at : COVID 19 Today and China’s Great Famine - The Globalist
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