Richard Werner

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4,694 appearances 9 recordings 3 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 22 May

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Now, if you want to engineer a famine, it's not a great starting point.

But because it happened at this point, it makes clearer that it was an intentional starvation of millions of people.

Because you had to take a particular combination of very specific policies to get this disastrous outcome.

And they're all policies.

There's actually no doubt.

No historian says it wasn't policies that led to this famine.

They just all, whether Western or Chinese historians, they all say, well, but sure, it was a mistake.

They didn't intend this.

Well, when it's such a very specific combination of highly unusual policies...

which are, however, necessary to have this outcome of a famine, then you really have to wonder.

And it wasn't under duress.

They were freely taken.

So there is no doubt that it was a policy-induced outcome.

The debate is, was it intentional or not?

Well, I'll give you some of the ingredients of this famine.

So if you want to start a famine when you have bumper crops, you've got to do some things.

I mean, otherwise there won't be a famine.

For example, what can you do?

Think about it.

What can you do?

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