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[ General Chang Chin-Wu ]
We were like you.
We were an isolated country.
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Then trade began.
For our spices, silks, tea.
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But there was nothing that we,
the Chinese, wanted from the West.
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So they gave us something
to want: opium. We craved opium.
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They tried to use it
to destroy us, the imperialists.
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We are here to rescue you
from imperialists,
or they'll do the same to you.
1:20:37
[ Monk Chanting ]
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You cannot imagine,
sitting here,
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where I came from.
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The floods,
the famines,
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were so bad.
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China was fragmented.
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Society was crumbling.
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There was a day
before the war...
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when I came upon a man
with a dead baby.
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He was gonna cook it.
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He shouted, "It died.
I did not kill it. It died."
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That is what it was like
in China before Chairman Mao.
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[ Gasping ]
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We believe that the time has come
for you to go to lndia.
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India is our friend.
You'll be safe there.
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The Americans will help us, Holiness.
You've read their letter.
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That letter's unsigned.
It is not a real promise.
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China is close.
America is far away.
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Many Tibetans could die,
and China would still be close.