Im quite interested in reading up on modern general history. Its pretty interesting to study China at this point, having finished world war one, world war two and cold war in secondary 4. These western events which seem quite isolated at first because they hardly discuss the other countries have far reaching consequences that in the study of China it becomes apparent, and I think thats pretty cool.
I remember studying cold war in secondary 4 and noting that during the korean war, China and the Soviet Union were united and USA was afraid of the communist bloc, then during around the period of the vietnam war, they were attempting diplomacy with both countries, and both countries hated each other's guts. I never understood how that happened. Now that im studying China, its quite cool how everything comes together and I finally am making sense of the things I never understood two years ago. Its quite cool even to read about how Glasnost and Perestroika were part of the reason that made China soften its stance towards the Soviet Union.
Bttb.
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