Milan Decree, (Dec. 17, 1807) economic policy in the Napoleonic Wars. It was part of the Continental System invoked by Napoleon to blockade trade with the British. It expanded the blockade of continental ports to those of neutral ships trading with Britain and eventually affected U.S. shipping.
Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping were both nationalists committed to communism, specifically Maoism with power based on the peasantry rather than the industrial working class.
