From The Standard:
With the National People’s Congress set to pass today the anti-secession bill aimed at Taiwan, many mainlanders speak of a historical precedent rooted not in Mao or Marx, but in an unlikely hero – Abraham Lincoln.
The US president, who went to war in 1861 to prevent the south splitting from the union, has more admirers than might be expected in China.
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