Humanity's entire recorded music canon is of enormous historic importance to the musical arts specifically, and to world culture and civilization broadly. It can be an immensely gratifying experience to become more familiar with all parts of our musical history and legacy, as a well-rounded person...
"Western media, needless to say, played along with all of this. Why? They knew that any criticism of Western civilization must be true. Of course. It's easy for them to wind up as willing pawns of Chinese government propaganda. And pawns they were." ...