The action lowered morale. this did not lower morale as many common folk did not understand the need for ports and thought themselves self sufficient.
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Basically their goal was to defend the nations members from threats from the communist enemies/countries.
Like for example, France and the US would be in the United Nations/NATO and Russia and China would be the communists.
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance between North America and Europe.
I believe rice became a Chinese Staple food during the Tang dynasty because new types of rice and new growing techniques yielded bigger harvests. Hope that helped.
