Not really meant to be a flame or anything,but....
Laotou It's hard to let your comment about 20th century Chinese history slide "blame the USA and it's allies for their infinite anti-communist China trade sanctions over the last 60 years. Dubious strategy - just slowed things down a little - actually ended up pushing China towards the Soviet Union instead of splitting the two most powerful communist block nations in the world at the time."
Do you really believe that the Chairman had little to do with the state of present day Chinese society? Since your father was "semi blinded by French troops garrisoned in his house", you surely must be old enough to have witnessed first hand the effects of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Truly progressive movements with endless misery.persecution and murder of just about anyone considered an intellectual or possessing the ability to think. Once the Great Leader had what he needed in the way of military and nuclear weapons,at a cost of,perhaps 70,000,000 civilian deaths(more than Stalin himself,who was quoted as being "quite impressed" with the ruthlessness of the PRC) he dumped the Soviet Union like a hot potato. Instead of finger pointing,perhaps a little introspection is in order..China and the Chinese people really need to look in the mirror and at their own history in order to understand themselves and their problems