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It is hard to explain the near-total lack of acknowledgement of the 50th anniversary of the death of Chairman Mao Zedong on September 9th, 1976. I’ve been following China on a daily basis since early1978, and it slipped right by me.
To recap what happened that year, it is necessary to delve into the final years of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...
Anyone even peripherally connected to Hong Kong in the last quarter of the 20th century was acutely aware of the use-by date: July 1, 1997. On that day, the British lease on the 86% of the Crown Colony known as the New Territories would conclude, and the sun would set on the British Empire in Asia.
The tabloids called it The Great Chinese Take-Away, or The Hangover....
One in five stars similar to our sun have planets in the inhabitable goldilocks zone we occupy. There are two hundred billion stars in our Milky Way alone, which means forty billion candidates for life somewhere … out there. The closest is 4.2 light years away (25 trillion miles), over thataway by Proxima Centauri.
Which makes it all the more puzzling whe...