Yes and they also played the role of test tube for the style of communism that would soon be loosed on the world by the cult. They refined it there. You can literally see what we avoided. When you couple hidden tech and coming tech advances it would have only gotten exponentially worse. Sometimes i think we fail to embrace the plight of the Chinese. Bred and raised by the state they may as well be zoo animals. They also couldn't speak up if they wanted to. Re-establishing the Republic would have been impossible had we progressed much further in the hands of the cult. Blows my mind we have come this far. God is leading the way. Only way has been possible.