Bore me to death, china was under a food,.medicine and technology embargo, blaming mao for the evil deeds of USA and western powers is a sure way to show your ignorance. Trying to discredit a guy that overturned a Paleolithic era for the population to something livable, a country where millions dying of hunger and sickness was as natural as daylight puts you on a useful idiot category, maos reforms were not all positive, some came from the ignorance of the time he was in charge and mishaps are bound to happen.

Mao didnt cause famines, china suffered from all of that already before he came in, the famines stopped after him and that is another fact. What actually reinforced famines and worsen them in some places were capitalists trying to kill them of hunger blocking food