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Dr. Sarah Paine on Dwarkesh Patel: How Russia Bled Manchuria

How Russia looted Manchurian industry after 1945 and provoked the Zhenbao border war: five interventions from the opium wars that kept China industrially weak.

Sarah PaineguestDwarkesh Patelhost
Oct 31, 20251h 31mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 23:46

    How Russia took advantage of China's weakness

  2. 23:46 – 34:39

    Reversal of the balance of power

  3. 34:39 – 46:10

    Russian imperialism

  4. 46:10 – 1:05:42

    China’s and Russia's existential problems

  5. 1:05:42 – 1:23:29

    Q&A: Sino-Soviet split

  6. 1:23:29 – 1:31:23

    Stalin's lessons from WW2

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