Bleeding like an irrecoverable failed state littered with economic graveyards, China, having fallen to the bottomless pit, seemed a destitute nation.
Famine which caused the deaths of millions of people also had millions suffering malnutrition. So inadequate were supplies of basic commodities that residents were doled out ration coupons for grains.
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