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1. #NixonMao #rapprochement 50th ANNIVERSARY: SOME FACTS & LESSONS.
In only 50 years, everything changes. Strategic interests of two great powers aligned then as much as they clash today.
I hate threads but my blog is not out yet: here some disorderly thoughts.
2. In 1972, China needed to avert a terrestrial invasion from #USSR. The #UnitedStates was keen to gain a heavy-weight partner to checkmate #Moscow; but the long-term objective was to bring the most populous country into a rising US-led global economic order for the US to profit
3. In the following decades, the relationship was not void of tensions. However, strategic interests were important enough to save it from #TaiwanRelationsAct, #Reagan anti #communism and support for #Taiwan; #TiananmenSquare; #StraitCrisis 1995-1996; #Belgrade bombing
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🚞 Avui que és la Diada de la Catalunya Nord, 👇🏽 fil amb recull de fotos d'ahir d'alguns vestigis d'unes de les línies ferroviàries probablement més desconegudes del país: Prats de Molló/Sant Llorenç de Cerdans-Arles i el tram Arles-Ceret, al #Vallespir. ImageImageImageImage
A Prats de Molló, primer nucli urbà passat el coll d'Ares, hi arribava un dels ramals de l'anomenat Tren petit de l'Alt Vallespir. La línia, de via estreta, es va inaugurar el 1913 i va funcionar fins al 1937. L'explotava la Compagnie des chemins de fer des Pyrénées-Orientales. ImageImageImageImage
Al costat de l'edifici de l'estació de Prats de Molló, prou ben conservat, hi estan construint un consultori mèdic. Image
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