The politics of Chinese fireworks
I have mixed emotions about China’s insatiable passion for using fireworks. On the one hand, they invented gunpowder and fireworks. They also were the first to invent guns, flamethrowers, hand grenades, rocket propelled grenades and tanks, all way before the West adopted them. Of course, racist Westerners then turned around and used all these Chinese…
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