Re: AIDS and sex with a monkey. I remember them pushing the bushmeat and native peoples eating monkey brains story which is an even better match to the wet market in Wuhan.
btw - 1.5x works much better
In 1960 Taiwan's population was about 10 million.
China's about 670 million.
If Mao had only Chiang Kai-Shek to worry about, he would have gladly sacrificed 10 million red Chinese to reclaim Taiwan.
Ho wasn't a communist idealogue. And Vietnamese "communism" wasn't and isn't anything like that in China or the USSR.
Ho was willing to align himself with anybody who would help him break the bonds of French colonial oppression in order to achieve independence. He didn't particularly care what...