POST COLD WAR WORLD
RISE OF CHINA
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Famine, 20 million people died
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The economy was boosted
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China became a player in the international setting
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Chinese citizens were given more freedoms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Instead of stimulating the country’s economy, The Great Leap Forward resulted in mass starvation and famine. It is estimated that between 30 and 45 million Chinese citizens died due to famine, execution, and forced labor, along with massive economic and environmental destruction.
Detailed explanation-2: -Millions of people died in China during the Great Leap, with estimates ranging from 15 to 55 million, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest or second-largest famine in human history.
Detailed explanation-3: -From 1960–1962, an estimated thirty million people died of starvation in China, more than any other single famine in recorded human history. Most tragically, this disaster was largely preventable.
Detailed explanation-4: -The origins of the famine can be traced to Mao Zedong’s decision, supported by the leadership of China’s communist party, to launch the Great Leap Forward. This mass mobilisation of the country’s huge population was to achieve in just a few years economic advances that took other nations many decades to accomplish.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Chinese Famine constituted an extreme loss of life and led to an interruption in schooling for millions of people. Estimates of premature deaths range from 16.5 to 30 million between 1959 and 1961, up to five percent of China’s pre-famine population (Jowett 1984, Li and Yang 2005).