Comment by js8
10 hours ago
Yes, I did interpret "it" as referring to China, not US, in that sense I misread it.
I agree that Great Famine was horrible.
My main point was, I would take economic control over tanks and bombs (and actually dead people) any day. (Which was kind of the point of EHS, even in it's most neoliberal incarnation.)
> My main point was, I would take economic control over tanks and bombs...
The problem is that most of the time, economic war ends with tanks and bombs.
That's not true, and anyway it's quite simplistic view of history.