7. china lacked the type of convoluted coastline necessary for dissidents to hide out in. bizzare! is jared diamond trying to claim that dissidents can only hide on convoluted coastlines? this is about as strange as his assumption that only large bodies of water constitute an effective barrier to trade and travel. china abounds in intractable wastes and remote mountain ranges where bandits and outlaws fled the authority of central government, the most obvious region being the famous water margin.
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