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EastToWest | 4 years ago

Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s.

I'm not sure what your post is about.

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temp8964|4 years ago

I was responding to this: "Many people are grateful to him for his contributions in fighting famine. "

TeMPOraL|4 years ago

The OP said "fighting famine", not "fighting the famine". Without the definite article "the", their sentence can (and arguably should) be read as referring to famine as a class of calamities, not to a particular one.

As a further example, the job of a firefighter is to fight fires as they happen, not to help the UK forever recover from The Great Fire of London.

EastToWest|4 years ago

And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on?

Take your ideology crusade elsewhere.