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by danieltanfh95 23 days ago
The counterfactual was not to imprison him in the first place. That was what the orignal article : https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/americas-greatest-strat... is about.

Qian was widely considered as a "strategic" scientist in China. The knowledge he had counteracted the Soviet political apparatus, and was enough to propel China into superpower status in less than a hundred years.