🧵A lesson from the last #ColdWar. In the 80s, one of the results of China's opening up to the outside world was that many underground movie studios popped up in neighborhoods, showing pirated western movies. When my friends and I saw images of happy and well-nourished people and fully-stocked grocery stores through these movies, we began to question whether capitalism was really as evil as we were taught .

#HistoryMatters Just read about this Chinese Schindler. His heroic deed deserves to be remembered. His name is Ho Feng-Shan. He was the Chinese Nationalist government’s Consul to Vienna in 1937. He recognized that the Nazi threat was real and urged the nationalist government to help Vienna’Jew to escape. When his boss didn’t respond, he acted on his own. He began to issue visas to Jews. He told them that they didn’t need a visa to enter Shanghai, but they would need a visa to escape Austria. By June 1938, 3 mos after Hitler annexed Austria,