You are blind, ignorant and wrong!
The difference is the motive.
Lives lost due to war of invasion and genocide are caused by evil intents which just want to kill to reach their objectives
Mao committed errors of calculation and judgement which were exacersbated by
1. the political and military pressures of USSR and USA combined
2. natural disasters
3. Korean war
which all resulted in causing so many loss of innocent lives
BS!!! , Genocide is "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group".
error of calculation you say, for what , to prove to the others that the china is a fairy land , even after repeated request of aid from others including Japan ( who seems to be more worried about the Chinese people than their own leader) , I guess for Mao his pride meant more than the life's of million's and million's of innocent Chinese , quite similar to what you see in North Korean now ..
Korean war ended in 1954 , this was 4 yrs later
agree with natural disaster which caused it,
look, I really don't care why the Chinese try to spin this; I am not trying to convince you neither do i want get your sugar coated spin,