The more you know: Australia is so stupid that, in the 80s, we inadvertently helped China get its first aircraft carrier... Because derp. I mean, we've been increasingly verging on "vassal state" territory for a long time, but still... - Kotaku In Action 2

The more you know: Australia is so stupid that, in the 80s, we inadvertently helped China get its first aircraft carrier... Because derp. I mean, we've been increasingly verging on "vassal state" territory for a long time, but still... (archive.is)

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– Steampunk_Moustache 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

1980s China, in a word, was a wasteland. Especially compared to the China we have today.

While it's true that huge parts of the country were basically medieval backwaters (there are still parts like that today, even) even in 1982, China was already manufacturing huge quantities of goods for for foreign companies and economies.

To think that they (China) would even want to build an aircraft carrier was like saying that Nigeria would want to build an aircraft carrier today.

The biggest difference, really, is that Nigeria isn't a communist country with a government that openly talks about how much they can't wait to crush you.

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