The Shang are powerful, an old civilization going back thousands of years at least. Maybe tens of thousands. As the writer, I know how old they are, but I\u2019m not telling yet. \ud83d\ude09 They claim to be our gods, and the Chinese at least seem to fully accept that the Shang helped build their ancient civilization back in the day. Or that the Shang can give them enough of a leg up on the Russians and Americans that they won\u2019t argue the point over much. Not that most people in the Western Alliance know that. News out of China is heavily redacted, and even transmissions from the Shang are heavily edited before the common citizens see it. Only conspiracy theorists spreading disinformation think the Shang actually claim anything like that. And that\u2019s crazy. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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