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Great Electric Brain Robbery?

Great Electric Brain Robbery?

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Aug 30, 2012
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The idea of a conquering barbarian horde has haunted European nightmares at least since the Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe. More recently, the term has been used to satirize those who exaggerate threats hypothetically emanating from Asia. Since the 1970s Nixon-Mao rapprochement, many Americans and Europeans have been sympathetic with what the Chinese…

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