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October 22 2023

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Sometimes stories are too good not to be true and this is one of them.

In 1972 Chinese Premier Zhou en Lai was asked about the effects of the French Revolution and his reply became an instant classic. “Too early to tell”, he said succinctly. The world gasped in awe of a country whose civilization is old enough to permit it such unimaginable long term th…

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