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China musing over revisions for easing limits related to foreign stake in domestic publicly-traded companies.    

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2020: Xi Jinping to Politburo Collective Study Session on Chinese Archaeology

China  Books Review November 30, 2023 article The Bones Remember by Yangyang Cheng pointed out that Xi Jinping in a talk to the Chinese Communist Party Politburo Collective Study Session doubled down on the depth of China’s ancient past. Xi Jinping said “China ranks together with Africa as the locales for the earliest origin of humanity.  我国是东方人类的故乡，同非洲并列人类起源最早之地.” That may be a bit over the…

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Hello and welcome to today's post,this one is machine translated as well

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⚠️ LI SHULEI DIVENTA IL NUOVO DIRETTORE DEL DIPARTIMENTO CENTRALE DELLA PROPAGANDA DEL PARTITO COMUNISTA CINESE ⚠️

🚩Li Shulei, nuova figura entrata nel 20° Ufficio Politico del Partito Comunista Cinese, e fino ad ora Vice-Direttore della Scuola Centrale del Partito e Vice-Capo Esecutivo del Dipartimento di Propaganda, ha ottenuto la massima promozione nel ruolo, diventando Direttore del Dipartimento Pubblicità del Comitato Centrale del Partito Comunista Cinese (中宣部).

⭐️ La nomina è stata confermata il 26 ottobre, quando Li Shulei ha partecipato ad una riunione del Comitato Permanente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Popolo Cinese, presenziata da Li Zhanshu.

🇨🇳Nato nel 1964 a Yuanyang, nella Provincia di Henan, si è unito al Partito Comunista Cinese nel 1986.

📚 Si è laureato in Letteratura Cinese nel 1982 presso l'Università di Pechino, per poi perfezionare i suoi studi nella medesima materia, fino all'ottenimento di un PhD in Letteratura e Lingua Cinese.

📄 Dopo aver lavorato nel settore della Propaganda nella Provincia del Fujian, ha servito come Segretario del Comitato di Ispezione Disciplinare a Pechino, per poi essere elevato a Vice-Segretario della Commissione per l'Ispezione Disciplinare del Comitato Centrale nel 2017.

📖 Accademico dotato di enorme cultura in ambito letterario e filosofico, ha anche lavorato e tutt'ora lavora presso la Scuola Centrale di Partito, occupandosi di formazione sulla Filosofia del Socialismo con Caratteristiche Cinesi, nonché dell'organizzazione di gruppi di ricerca, tavoli di discussione e programmi di studio per i funzionari.

🇨🇳|📄 Il suo primo compito come Direttore del 中宣部 sarà la presentazione sistematica dei punti chiave del 20° Congresso Nazionale del Partito Comunista Cinese.

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⚠️ LI SHULEI BECOMES THE NEW DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL DEPARTMENT OF THE PROPAGANDA OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY ⚠️

🚩Li Shulei, a new figure in the 20th Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and until now Deputy Director of the Central Party School and Deputy Chief Executive of the Propaganda Department, achieved the highest promotion in the role, becoming Director of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中宣部).

⭐️ The appointment was confirmed on October 26, when Li Shulei attended a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Assembly, attended by Li Zhanshu.

🇨🇳Born in Yuanyang, Henan Province in 1964, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1986.

📚 He graduated in Chinese Literature in 1982 at the University of Peking, to then perfect his studies in the same subject, up to obtaining a PhD in Chinese Literature and Language.

📄 After working in the propaganda sector in Fujian Province, he served as Secretary of the Disciplinary Inspection Committee in Beijing, before being elevated to Deputy Secretary of the Central Committee Disciplinary Inspection Commission in 2017.

📖 Academic with enormous literary and philosophical culture, he also worked and still works at the Central Party School, dealing with training on the Philosophy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, as well as the organization of research groups, discussion tables and study programs for officials.

🇨🇳 | 📄 His first task as Director of the 中宣部 will be the systematic presentation of the key points of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Taiwan – Continuous Allies’ Training – Year ‘Round

Taiwan – Continuous Allies’ Training – Year ‘Round

Simple solution to China continually invading Taiwan’s sovereign air space ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) – implement a continuous (365 days / year) allied training mission on Taiwan, home of FREE Taiwanese individuals. Have a combined – continual training mission for: Navy – landings and sorties Army / Marines – landings and guerrilla warfareAir Force – landings / takeoffs, mock…

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BURBANK, CA - At the entertainment giant's world headquarters, Disney Imagineers showed off new technology that uses artificial intelligence to scan the more than 700 episodes of "The Simpsons" and replace Bart Simpson's probably-offensive catchphrase "Cowabunga!" with the much less problematic and more profitable catchphrase "Taiwan is not a sovereign state, dude!"

Sam Carter, Disney's Executive Vice President of Tyrant Placation, gushed over the technological achievement. "This new AI process is truly a great leap forward," said Carter. "It allows us to instantly scan hundreds of hours of audio for Bart's previous catchphrase, which is probably very offensive. We haven't really looked into why it's offensive yet, but I mean, c'mon - it's more than six months old and it's said exclusively by white people, so… definitely a slur."

"But anyway, we can now digitally remove that hateful rhetoric and replace it with a new, totally accurate, and not offensive catchphrase that we can all agree on. And if anything makes great comedy, it's computer-generated statements that have been pre-approved by a communist politburo, am I right?"

Executives also announced plans to expand the use of the technology, originally developed by Wu Xiao Fan, Ltd. (translated: "You don't need to know"), into much more of Disney's back catalog.

Carter explained further, while a Chinese government representative held a large bag of cash just out of his reach, "In the future, Fozzie Bear's 'Wakka wakka' will become 'Hong Kong protesters are a menace!' and Chewbacca's 'Gggwwarrr!' will become 'I'm sure Peng Shuai is just fine!' It's yet another example of Chinese communist-approved technology making things better for everyone."

[centrally-unplanned]

alright lets start - mao zedong (with the caveat that i suspect at the time "replacement" was more heavily weighed towards Yet Another Warlord Leader), tho ofc there was a possibility of a palace coup too

@nonevahed

mao VOR?

Ugh, like how do you even do this? Mao's VOR is probably irreplaceable, he is one of the most impactful people in human history. Its just also almost entirely awful?

I think his VOR pre-independence is definitely strong but often overvalued; for one, he was not the uncontested leader of the CCP in those times. There was a lot of myths around the CCP in the 1930's and 1940's of "two factions" (Soviet vs Mao) that were primarily invented after that fact- it was an oligarchic system then, and Mao wasn't even the primarily leader of military affairs until probably 1943-1944. He was still important of course, definitely a strong advocate of the "let Japan and the KMT bleed each other dry" approach, but he wasn't blazing the trail.

I do think at the start of the Second Chinese Civil War his VOR shoots up - he is very much the architect of using land reform, tax reform, and bureaucratic reform as this multi-pronged propaganda approach to get wide swathes of Chinese society on his side, and there is a big debate in the CCP leadership between the "peace" and "war" factions, and iirc he was the biggest war proponent. He is not an operational commander though - a lot of his "theorizing" on war is a bit bunk, like he will talk extensively about a People's War and all this stuff but the CCP achieved material superiority over the KMT and beat them conventionally, they didn't use it.

After 1949 his VOR is just insane, because he was insane and also such a cache of political power and prestige that he was able to carry the day on so many initiatives. The Korean War, the added waves of land reform (the initial one would have happened no matter what), and ofc the Great Leap Forward all would have been radically different without him. And ofc the Cultural Revolution was literally his revenge against the politburo figures who ousted him after the GLF, he is the full architect of that. There was, to be clear, a ton of "revolutionary fervor" in China at that time, a lot of energy for big projects. His replacements would have probably done some dramatic things. But extremely few people were envisioning the extent he went to over and over.

To address that side comment, I think you should evaluate Mao's replacements as being Zhou Enlai or other CCP members, not the warlords per se. Maybe in a focused debate on just the Civil War, but the KMT post-WW2 was in an awful position - decimated by the Japanese and saddled with the burden of being the incumbent and therefore responsible for the famine, hyperflation, and deprivation of the time. The CCP was actually in a fine position to win that one - their victory was no miracle. So the likeliest non-Mao timeline in 1946 is one where the CCP still wins but another figure is the leader. But ofc you can debate timelines, etc, maybe if Mao dies in 1943 its different.

#vor debates

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Ruling parties in Brazil and China sign cooperation agreement

Brazil’s Workers’ Party and the Communist Party of China (CPC) signed an agreement on Wednesday to strengthen their cooperation and increase the number of high-level visits to both countries.

The two-page agreement states that Brazil and China are the largest developing countries in their respective hemispheres and mutual “strategic global partners.” The parties pledge to uphold “the principles of independence and self-determination, full equality, mutual respect, and non-interference in internal affairs.”

Both parties also pledged to “strengthen permanent strategic communication on prominent regional and international issues.” In April, heads of state Xi Jinping and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed an agreement under which state news agencies Xinhua and EBC will jointly publish stories and a limited number of photos each month.

Congresswoman Gleisi Hoffmann, the Workers’ Party national chair, said in a video message that the visit of high-ranking Chinese Politburo officials to Brasília demonstrated the importance of the Workers’ Party to the CPC and to China-Brazil relations. “We now want to have a closer relationship, especially in party leadership, organizational experience, communication, and political education,” she said.

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[mariacallous]

Just after Christmas, the People’s Republic of China’s increasingly authoritarian leader-for-life Xi Jinping celebrated Mao Zedong’s 130th birthday. Xi led the Politburo’s Standing Committee in a requiem in the Great Hall of the People for the infamous Red Emperor, the greatest mass murderer in modern if not all human history. The members thrice bowed before the grand killer’s statue and remembered his “achievements.”

Mao’s thoughts are a “spiritual treasure” and would “guide our actions in the long term,” Xi said. The Chinese people must “work to enable our party to adhere to its original mission … maintain vitality and vigor, and ensure that our party never degenerates, never changes its color, and never loses its flavor.” Under Mao, Xi said earlier last year, the Chinese Communist Party developed a “brand new form of human civilization.”

Ironically, by strengthening his arbitrary rule, Xi is actually making an eventual counterreaction more likely. Ever-tightening repression poisons the entire system. Fear exiles honesty and accountability in policymaking, leading to more and bigger mistakes, including at the top. State centralization and politicization are reversing the very forces that spurred economic growth. The determination to indoctrinate as well as regulate already has spawned antagonistic youth movements that challenge authority. Political stability is likely to be only temporary; when Xi passes from the scene, the succession fight is likely to be more bitter and fraught.

Not everyone agrees with Xi. On a recent trip to China, I met an academic colleague who expressed profound pessimism, which he said many intellectuals and others shared. In the past, he observed, they at least could look forward to some change every five or 10 years, when a new party general secretary (and president) was chosen.

But no longer. Not only is Xi president for life, but the party is also rapidly reverting back to the habits of the Maoist era.

Yet Xi was not alone in reveling in the supposed achievements of the Great Helmsman. Mao’s birthplace in the southern Hunan province, which I’ve visited, has long been a major tourist destination. Today, it may be the one place in China where a dissident can covertly promote revolution. As a Nikkei report on the anniversary observance noted, “The younger attendees on Tuesday seemed particularly inclined to chant slogans considered more extreme in their rhetoric. Those included such slogans adopted by China’s Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution as ‘No crime in revolution!’ and ‘To rebel is justified!’”

However, as Xi concentrates his power, I wonder who these young visitors think they’re rebelling against.

Right now, Xi’s power seems unshakeable. But so did Mao’s during his lifetime. Almost immediately after he died, policies began to change—and had shifted on the ground even beforehand. Within a decade or two, the country was almost unrecognizable.

Some of the devotion to Mao was real, and he retains some fervent fans. When I visited his impressive mausoleum in Tiananmen Square a few years ago, the lines were long. Many people bought flowers from vendors before entering to set before Mao’s massive bronze statue in the entryway. Some visitors seemed genuinely overcome with emotion. However, capitalism ultimately triumphed: On exiting, everyone passed by stalls marketing overpriced Mao tchotchke.

That the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to cling to Mao to maintain its revolutionary credentials is embarrassing, but hardly surprising. Mao remains one of China’s most recognizable symbols. His portrait hangs on the Gate of Heavenly Peace on Tiananmen Square’s northern edge. His mausoleum dominates the space and is much more impressive than Vladimir Lenin’s dark and dank resting place. And Mao’s face adorns China’s currency.

All this was built on a pile of corpses. The CCP consolidated power with campaigns against so-called counterrevolutionaries, landlords, and other enemies, killing 5 million or so Chinese. In 1950, Mao made the decision to enter the Korean War to save North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. Some 200,000 Chinese soldiers died, along with untold thousands killed by them in a war prolonged by two-and-a-half years. In 1956, Mao initiated the Hundred Flowers Campaign or Movement, in which he encouraged the people to speak freely. Apparently shocked after receiving criticisms rather than encomiums, he responded with the Anti-Rightest Movement, in which millions were killed.

In 1958, Mao’s fertile mind came up with his worst idea yet: the so-called Great Leap Forward, simultaneously collectivizing farming and decentralizing manufacturing. Estimates of total deaths vary widely, but perhaps the most comprehensive account came from a party member and Xinhua reporter. Yang Jisheng figured: “[T]he Great Famine brought about 36 million unnatural deaths, and a shortfall of 40 million births.”

Mao’s final flight into pure madness was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The murderous mix of party purge, civil war, and social collapse may have caused as many as 2 million deaths.

Mao’s death was almost as consequential as his life. Pragmatic revolutionary Deng Xiaoping won the resulting power struggle and moved China down the course of economic reform. However, Deng, like Mao, rejected political liberalization and orchestrated the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, which was followed by purging millions of party members.

The CCP recognized that Mao had made mistakes, but it was unable to let go of the legacy of the national founding father altogether. Mao was still 70 percent right, the official verdict decided. (Contrast the Soviet Union’s Nikita Khrushchev, who was able to take Joseph Stalin’s legacy down entirely, in part because Lenin provided a convenient alternative state founder.)

Even after Tiananmen, China remained far freer than under Mao. However, that was then. In almost every way, Xi has shoved his nation backward.

Independent journalists and human rights lawyers are gone. Internet controls are tighter. Repression of churches is more intense. Academic exchanges are more limited. Controls over Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Hong Kongers have metastasized. Companies host party cells. Business is being made to serve the CCP.

And Xi has greatly strengthened party and personal control and uses both propaganda and coercion to insist that everyone thinks like him. He has tried to control history, presenting an idyllic version of the party’s bloody past. There is a burgeoning personality cult, though it seems perfunctory, lacking the ardor and intensity that more often surrounded Mao, at least during the latter’s life.

An important problem with Xi’s retreat to Maoism is the absence of Mao. Give the latter his due: Charismatic and driven from the start, he took a weak and divided movement from defeat to triumph and cast off centuries of Western and Japanese imperialism. In contrast, Xi is a colorless apparatchik who carefully ascended a party structure created by others. He wants Mao’s control without having earned, brutally and bloodily, Mao’s power.

Opposition exists but is futile. Wall Street Journal reporter Lingling Wei reported on a meeting at which a forlorn liberal administrator who had worked on stock market reform “signaled me to a corner of the venue. … ‘The whole thing about getting listed companies to set up party committees,’ he said, ‘is a reversal of what we had tried to do.’ Then he walked away without saying anything else.”

Indeed, China may be slipping back toward the Soviet Union in terms of political sentiment, if not economic achievement. People are still much better off than before, but a sense of ennui, even despair, afflicts those who desire personal freedom to enjoy their material bounty and personal opportunity to shape the social order around them. Xi, like Leonid Brezhnev, insists that soulless apparatchiks are the center of society.

It appears to be the fate of every nation that the worst will get on top, sometimes. However, as Friedrich Hayek predicted, they will do so more often in communist systems.

China is proving the rule. There was Mao. Now there is Xi. With Xi celebrating Mao, hopefully there won’t be another.

[theculturedmarxist]

China’s path to reducing carbon emissions should be determined by China and not controlled by anyone else, President Xi Jinping told dozens of officials, at the same time as US climate envoy John Kerry is in Beijing seeking consensus on global warming.

Xi was speaking at a two-day national conference on ecological and environmental protection that started on Monday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday night.

“China’s commitments are unswerving, but the path towards the goals as well as the manner, pace and intensity of efforts to achieve them should and must be determined by the country itself, rather than swayed by others,” he said.

“[We should] actively and steadily work toward carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, foster a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, accelerate the formation of a new power system and strengthen the country’s capability of guaranteeing oil and gas security.”

Xi also urged the country to safeguard ecological security and nuclear and radiation safety to “ensure that the natural environment and conditions, which are the foundation of survival and development, are not threatened or damaged”.

He asked for a concerted legal, market, technological and policy effort to achieve his goals.

The conference was attended by all seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the pinnacle of the party’s decision-making apparatus, as well as a wide range of party and government bodies.

Kerry, whose four-day visit concludes on Wednesday, has met Premier Li Qiang and top diplomat Wang Yi, as he seeks consensus on the fight against climate change.

There are also hopes his trip will add positive momentum to US-China relations, in their worst shape in decades.

Kerry tweeted on Tuesday that he appreciated the opportunity to have “an important discussion” with Li on how the US and China can work together to keep the pledge to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius about pre-industrial levels – a commitment of the 2015 Paris agreement – alive.

Li called for both sides to stick to climate commitments made in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

Xi promised in September 2020 that China’s carbon emissions would peak by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060. In 2021, he said China would tightly control coal consumption and gradually reduce it after 2025.

China has repeatedly emphasised the need to secure its energy security and deliver on its climate commitments.

The most recent government work report to address the issue – submitted to the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, in March by the previous premier Li Keqiang – said research and development of clean energy was a priority for 2023.

In April, the National Energy Administration announced plans to add 160 million kilowatts of installed wind and solar capacity by the end of this year, boosting the share of wind and solar electricity to 15.3 per cent of society’s energy use.

“Three years after making its carbon-reduction pledge, China’s energy and industrial transitions are still far from complete,” said Ma Jun, director of the Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs, a non-profit environmental research firm.

While China’s renewable energy is increasing, China has approved more coal projects recently, noted Ma. “Due to complex geopolitical changes, China has shifted its focus to energy security,” he said.

A major stumbling block to an agreement between the US and China on climate issues is China’s use of coal power. Washington wants China to reduce its domestic reliance on coal to cut more methane emissions. But Xi has reiterated many times that it is a matter of “energy security”.

There has been a significant increase in approvals for coal power projects within China since last summer’s extreme heatwave, which led to power supply crunches in several southern provinces. The rise in domestic approvals has sparked international concern about China’s ability to deliver on its climate promise.

On Kerry’s last visit to China in August 2021, he asked Beijing to stop funding coal power projects outside its borders. A month later, at the UN General Assembly, Xi announced that China would no longer build new coal power overseas.

Regarding China and US’s differences in climate issues and carbon reduction, Ma said, “What we have to see is what kind of cooperation the two sides are going to go for, and whether they can achieve a win-win situation on what each side is good at.”

#china #climate change

[zvaigzdelasas]

The delegation arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday evening, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), and is joining a Chinese Communist Party group headed by Politburo member Li Hongzhong.[...]

A red banner with a sign saying, “Welcome, Comrade Defence Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu!” in Korean and Russian stood behind a line of saluting soldiers.[...]

North Korea has conducted three separate rounds of missile firings since last week, apparently in protest of the US sending naval vessels, including a nuclear-armed submarine, to South Korea in a show of force.

Since the start of 2022, North Korea has test-fired about 100 missiles[...]

North Korea has backed Russia over the war in Ukraine, insisting that the “hegemonic policy” of the US-led West forced Moscow to take military action to protect its security interests. The US has accused North Korea of providing arms to Russia to aid its fighting in Ukraine, although Pyongyang has denied the claim.

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[taiwantalk]

the arrogance of russians and chinese is this. although you might already know about it as such that they’ve always been arrogant anyway.

but to just spell it out, it’s that they automatically think the world is out to screw them to keep them down because they’re destined to be so much greater. and that america or europe or jointly have always been undermining them.

contrarily, europe & United States had been too naive and friendly to allow Russia to take things for granted and blamed the breakup of Soviet Union on the west when in reality, Soviet Union sucked so bad that each of the soviet states were willing to gamble on catastrophic bloodshed in 1991.

at the time of breakup, each state had their own shit loads of russian politburo and kgb and political commissar. putin was 1 of them.

putin is deranged to think russia should be the successor of Soviet Union. even russians who had been living off those states wanted to break off from kremlin.

instead of reflecting on themselves and do right by democracy, they’re looking to build their own fiefdoms. That’s why there are oligarchs in each of these countries doing everything they can to maintain their connection with sauron putin paying tributes to mordor in the form of political endorsement. Hungary for example. And even Germany.

Editorial addition: North Korea and Iran are also the same way. They have to make noises every once in a while because they think the world had forgotten about them.

#ukraine #russia #taiwantalk #Sauron #Mordor #putin #Soviet union #1991 #arrogance #china #Hungary #Germany

[kneedeepincynade]

Another machine translated post,as always the collective is on telegram

Also here mine and collettivo opinion on Vladimir putin speach: YES YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO,seriously,started strong but crash-landed

⚠️ XI JINPING, LO SPIRITO DI YAN'AN E LA MISSIONE ORIGINARIA DEL PARTITO COMUNISTA CINESE ⚠️

🇨🇳 Oggi, 27 ottobre, Xi Jinping - Segretario Generale del Partito Comunista Cinese - ha visitato, insieme ai nuovi membri del Comitato Permanente, una vecchia base rivoluzionaria nella Provincia dello Shaanxi, sottolineando l'importanza della promozione del Grande Spirito (伟大的精神) fondante del Partito Comunista, nonché lo Spirito di Yan'an.

🌟 Xi Jinping, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Ding Xuexiang, Li Qiang, Cai Qi e Li Xi hanno poi visitato il luogo in cui si tenne il 7° Congresso del Partito Comunista Cinese, l'ex Residenza del Presidente Mao Zedong durante il periodo rivoluzionario, e una mostra sulla storia dei 13 anni in cui il Comitato Centrale del CPC ha avuto sede a Yan'an.

📄 Al 7° Congresso il Partito Comunista elaborò la linea della mobilitazione delle forze popolari per sconfiggere gli aggressori giapponesi, liberare la Nazione ed edificare una Nuova Cina.

💬 "Dopo aver sconfitto l'aggressione dei militaristi giapponesi e aver condotto la Guerra Popolare di Liberazione contro l'imperialismo, il feudalesimo e il capitalismo burocratico, il nostro Partito, il nostro Popolo, ha ottenuto una grande vittoria: la Rivoluzione, l'Indipendenza Nazionale e la Liberazione." - Xi Jinping.

🤔 Che cosa si intende invece per "Spirito di Yan'an"?

🇨🇳 Alla fine della Lunga Marcia (1934 - 1935), ciò che restava del Partito Comunista Cinese e dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione raggiunse la zona di Yan'an, che divenne il Centro della Rivoluzione dalla fine del 1935 fino all'inizio del 1947.

🚩Analizzando l'esperienza della Lotta, il Partito Comunista Cinese - con Mao Zedong come nucleo centrale - attuò una revisione dell'operato, abbandonando l'influenza sovietica nell'organizzazione delle strategia per la Rivoluzione, sostituendola con una specifica interpretazione basata sulle condizioni materiali della Cina, che si rivelò vittoriosa.

📄 Per chi fosse interessato alle strategie attuate per la vittoria della Rivoluzione, può leggere qui: I, II, III. (Su telegram)

⭐️ Fu proprio a Yan'an che si formò il Grande Spirito per la Vittoria della Rivoluzione.

📚 Dopo la fondazione della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, l'1 ottobre del 1949, lo Spirito di Yan'an fu promosso in vari campi, quali la letteratura, la politica e le questioni militari.

🖼 Nel 1961, Ha Qiongwen (哈琼文) - artista Cinese che lavorava nel Dipartimento Culturale dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione - pubblicò un manifesto il cui titolo era "延安作风万岁", ovvero "Lunga vita allo Spirito di Yan'an"

🖼 Nel 1962, Wang Jiao (王角) - artista Cinese - pubblicò un manifesto il cui titolo era "学习延安作风发扬革命传统", ovvero "Studiare lo Spirito di Yan'an, per sviluppare una Tradizione Rivoluzionaria"

🖼 Nel 1975, Huang Naiyuan (黄乃源), Fang Etai (方鄂泰) e Wang Laixin (王来信) pubblicarono un lavoro congiunto, intitolato "亲切的教导", ovvero "Gentile Insegnamento", che rappresentava il Presidente Mao Zedong durante una lezione di teoria politica proprio a Yan'an.

🇨🇳|⭐️ Dopo aver visitato la Base Rivoluzionaria, Xi Jinping ha affermato:

💬 "Da questo giorno in avanti, il Compito Centrale del Partito Comunista Cinese sarà quello di guidare il Popolo Cinese di ogni gruppo etnico in un grande sforzo per realizzare l'Obiettivo del Secondo Centenario di trasformare la Cina in una grande nazione socialista modernizzata sotto ogni aspetto. Solo impiantando le radici nel ricco suolo storico e culturale del paese e della nazione, la verità del Marxismo potrà continuare a fiorire" 🌺

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⚠️ XI JINPING, THE SPIRIT OF YAN'AN AND THE ORIGINAL MISSION OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY ⚠️

🇨🇳 Today, October 27, Xi Jinping - General Secretary of the Communist Party of China - visited, together with the new members of the Standing Committee, an old revolutionary base in Shaanxi Province, underlining the importance of promoting the Great Spirit (伟大 的 精神) founder of the Communist Party, as well as the Spirit of Yan'an.

🌟 Xi Jinping, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Ding Xuexiang, Li Qiang, Cai Qi and Li Xi then visited the 7th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the former residence of Chairman Mao Zedong during the period. revolutionary, and an exhibition on the history of the 13 years that the CPC Central Committee has been based in Yan'an.

📄 At the 7th Congress the Communist Party drew up the line of mobilizing popular forces to defeat the Japanese aggressors, liberate the Nation and build a New China.

💬 "After defeating the aggression of the Japanese militarists and waging the People's War of Liberation against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, our Party, our People, achieved a great victory: the Revolution, the National Independence and Liberation. " - Xi Jinping.

🤔 What is meant by "Spirit of Yan'an" instead?

🇨🇳 At the end of the Long March (1934 - 1935), what was left of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army reached the Yan'an area, which became the Center of the Revolution from the end of 1935 until the beginning of 1947.

🚩 Analyzing the experience of the Struggle, the Chinese Communist Party - with Mao Zedong as its core - carried out a review of the work, abandoning the Soviet influence in the organization of the strategy for the Revolution, replacing it with a specific interpretation based on material conditions of China, which proved victorious.

📄 For those interested in the strategies implemented for the victory of the Revolution, you can read here: I, II, III. (On telegram)

⭐️ It was precisely in Yan'an that the Great Spirit was formed for the Victory of the Revolution.

📚 After the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the Spirit of Yan'an was promoted in various fields, such as literature, politics and military affairs.

🖼 In 1961, Ha Qiongwen (哈琼 文) - a Chinese artist who worked in the Cultural Department of the People's Liberation Army - published a poster whose title was "延安 作风 万岁", or "Long live the Spirit of Yan'an"

🖼 In 1962, Wang Jiao (王 角) - Chinese artist - published a manifesto whose title was "学习 延安 作风 发扬 革命 传统", or "Studying the Spirit of Yan'an, to develop a Revolutionary Tradition"

🖼 In 1975, Huang Naiyuan (黄乃源), Fang Etai (方 鄂 泰) and Wang Laixin (王 来信) published a joint work, entitled "亲切 的 教导", or "Gentle Teaching", which represented Chairman Mao Zedong during a political theory right in Yan'an.

🇨🇳 | ⭐️ After visiting the Revolutionary Base, Xi Jinping said:

💬 "From this day forward, the Central Task of the Chinese Communist Party will be to lead the Chinese people of every ethnic group in a great effort to realize the Second Centennial Goal of transforming China into a great socialist nation modernized under every aspect. Only by planting its roots in the rich historical and cultural soil of the country and the nation can the truth of Marxism continue to flourish "🌺

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Official Intro.

The Cold War as we know lasted a long time from 1945 to 1991. A time when the world was split between the yoke of East and West. No Matter where you came from, You were living in two different worlds, one of freedom and one of oppression.

After the end of WW2, With the Nazis and Imperial Japan defeated, The only two powers that were in the strongest position to be superpowers were The United States of America

And the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, better known as the Soviet Union.

These two now knew that once the war was over, the guns would now be pointed at each other. The Cold War had begun.

For the duration of the 40s and 1950s decades just like our own timeline, The American and Soviets never fought one another, instead deciding to spread their influence on the global stage through proxy wars, Like Korea or the wars between Israeli and the Arab states.

All the while attempting to solidify their control over the spheres of influence. Thus they began the arms race with both sides developing atomic weapons. The Americans had a head start due to the Manhattan Project and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.

For a bit, they were the sole nuclear power in the world. However, things changed in 1949 when the Soviets detonated their first Atomic bomb, The Rs. Now the balance had turned.

Mutually assured Destruction (MAD for short) became adopted by both sides as neither wanted to fight the other without getting destroyed. Yet this didn't stop the two from increasing the number of bombs and Military equipment.

The Americans, Under the administration of President Dwight D Eisenhower and Brainstormed by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, adopted a massive retaliation strategy, which was to threaten severe retaliation on the Soviets, Including Nuclear weapons.

The Soviets, under the new leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, Who came to power after Stalin died, Tried to build up the nuclear forces while also pursuing Detente.

The invention of ICBMs in the late 50s as well as the production of strategic bombers like the B52 Stratofortress and the Tupolev Tu 95 And Tu 16 respectfully, Combined with repeated nuclear tests, Only escalated the tension further.

Now It's the 1960s, and the Cold War was at its hottest. The new US President, John F Kennedy is reeling back from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

The Landing, which was supposed to complete the objective of overthrowing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Had failed miserably with all members of Brigade 2506 ( The Brigade made up of Cuban exiles) imprisoned or killed. It was a humiliation for The Kennedy administration.

The Us had once tried to place missiles in Turkey as a one-up over the Soviets in 1959, However, Turkey refused to authorize the installation of Jupiter missiles in their homeland, fearing retaliation by the Soviet Government.

Plus, The missiles would have been Obsolete by the time they were installed. They would have been useless in the event of a war. So after a lot of meetings and discussions, The US eventually decided to not put the missiles in Turkey.

Meanwhile, In Cuba, Castro slowly started to get paranoid. The Cia had first tried to assassinate him, and now they had tried to do a covert ops mission involving Cuban exiles to bring him down. For Castro, his position was in jeopardy. The Americans were proving to be the aggressor as he had believed. Thus the only way to preserve Cuban sovereignty was to have Soviet troops protecting him.

So in late 1961, He asked the Soviets to give him more Sa 2 Anti-air missiles, which generally looked like this.

The Politburo ( The Soviet equivalent to the Us Congress, although different from Congress) was At first hesitant to give the missiles to Castro and Cuba. But they knew that If they did not comply, they would risk ruining relations with Cuba and they would probably go to the Chinese Instead.

Also, Cuba was nearly 90 miles from the Us. That would serve as a perfect spot for naval bases, where the Soviets could position a fleet of ships there. they were also mostly obligated to help since Castro had come to them and requested aid. It would look bad on them if they were to abandon a fellow socialist brother country.

The Discussion between the members of the Polltiburo lasted almost the whole day. It was divided between pro-war members who wanted to send the Aa missiles to challenge the Americans and those who protested against the action, fearing war.

Eventually, a decision was made: the Soviets would send the Sa 2s plus a huge amount of guns, tanks, and aircraft to the island under a defense pact treaty. In return, the Cubans would have to pay them back in sugar exports and cotton. They presented this to the Cubans, who came to accept the deal (though there were those that protested against it)

Thus what would become known as the Cuban- Soviet Mutual Treaty of Defense and Friendship was born and put into effect on December 18th, 1961, with deliveries starting in February of 1962.

Meanwhile, Kennedy was planning another invasion of Cuba, But not with Cuban exiles. This time, It would be American boots on the ground. He began laying the groundwork for Operation Ortsac( Castro spelled backward) All the while unaware that Soviet supply ships were reaching Cuba.

The Clock ticks a second more to Midnight.

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A court in China has jailed for 24 years the leader of a gang linked to a vicious attack on female diners that spurred a debate about gender equality in the country.

Chen Jizhi’s criminal group “acted with impunity to carry out bad deeds, oppress the people, and harm the local economy and public order, having a severe impact on society,” the court in the northern city of Langfang just outside Beijing said in a statement on Friday.

Another 27 individuals were handed prison terms ranging from six months to 11 years for beating the women and gang-related crimes dating back to 2012 including robbery, running a casino and illegal detention.

People across China were outraged in June, when video clips posted online showed a group of men beating four female diners at a restaurant in Tangshan, an industrial city some 155 kilometers (95 miles) east of Beijing, went viral. Video from security cameras showed a man dragging one woman by her hair out the front door where she was attacked. 

The incident revived the #MeToo movement against gender inequality that President Xi Jinping’s government has repeatedly tried to suppress. Many Chinese women took to social media to post about times they have been mistreated, such as one who said she was afraid to go out alone at night after suffering harassment on a beach.

Xi’s government views the debates as a vehicle for spreading liberal Western values, and women who have spoken up about sexual assault have been repeatedly silenced by the nation’s patriarchal culture. There’s only one woman on the ruling Communist Party’s 25-member Politburo, and she’s set to retire from the decision-making body this year.

The episode was still reverberating in China on Friday. The sentencing of the attackers and others in the gang was the top trending topic on the Twitter-like Weibo platform, attracting more than 920 million views.

“Thank you social media for bringing the crimes of the culprits to light,” one person wrote.

— With assistance by Li Liu, and Jing Li

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-23/ringleader-in-brutal-attack-on-chinese-women-jailed-for-24-years?leadSource=uverify%20wall

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“On 25 September the Politburo called on its embassies in the region for an accurate update. They were firmly told:

“[D]o not undertake any steps and do not give any explanations without instruction from Moscow.” 

Two months later Stalin wrote to Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs Kliment Voroshilov reminding him that the Japanese issue was both “complicated” and “serious”. The outlook was bleak. Tokyo was evidently in pursuit of not only Manchuria “but also Beijing”, intent on forming a government to counterpose to Nanjing. “Moreover”, Stalin continued, “it is not to be excluded and is even likely that it will reach out to our Far East and possibly also to Mongolia.” Japan might not move against the Soviet Union that winter, but in the future 

“it could make such an attempt. The wish to reinforce its position in Manchuria would push it in that direction. But it will only be able to reinforce its position in Manchuria if it succeeds in fostering hatred between China and the USSR.” 

That would require it to help Chinese warlords seize the CER, Outer Mongolia and Russia’s maritime province, putting in place puppets totally dependent upon Japan. Stalin defined Japanese aims as fourfold: 

(a) to safeguard Japan against “the Bolshevik infection”;

(b) to render a rapprochement between the USSR and China impossible;

(c) to create for itself an extensive economic and military base on the mainland; and

(d) to make this base self-sufficient for war with America.

Without such a plan Japan would find itself “face to face with American militarisation, China in revolution, and a rapidly growing USSR pushing towards the open sea”. The Japanese believed that waiting a couple of years inevitably meant that they would leave it too late to pre-empt disaster. Only the failure of the United States to act (which Stalin thought unlikely), the failure of the Chinese to mobilise against Japan (which he also thought unlikely), the failure of a powerful revolutionary movement to emerge in Japan (no sign of this so far) and the failure of the Soviet Union itself to take preemptive military and other measures would make it possible to carry out their plans.

At the end of March 1932 the Soviet ambassador in Tokyo, Alexander Troyanovsky, advised Moscow that Japan’s general staff were convinced that neither the United States nor the USSR was willing or able to fight, but that in due course they might become so. Hence Japan had to move quickly. He warned Moscow that the “slightest change in the international situation” might easily result in “dragging us into a war”. Apparently it was only the intervention of Japan’s navy—which had the Americans always in its gunsights—in the form of Admiral Kato that forestalled precipitate military action against the Soviet Union. Looking back years later Molotov recalled how at that time in the Far East security was “neglected and the Soviet Union could undoubtedly expect many surprises”.

In response to the threat, and with the first fruits of industrialisation to hand, the build-up of Soviet forces in the region was intensive. Within four months, as of January 1932, the number of men stationed in the Soviet Far East had risen from 42,000 to 108,610; of planes, from 88 to 276; and of tanks, from 16 to 376. But much more would be needed in the event of war. Late in April 1932 Comintern Secretary Karl Radek let it be known 

“that the Soviet Government were getting extremely anxious about the position in Manchuria and feared war with Japan in the near future … He was convinced that if hostilities did break out Poland and Roumania would come in on the side of Japan. This would lead to complications in Europe to which it was impossible to forsee any limit.” 

This was clearly an oblique reference to the Rapallo relationship and what Germany might do if the Russians were at war with Poland. 

Radek added that Moscow 

“had spent milliards of roubles in the last seven months to prepare against a danger it foresaw from the outset of the conflict. These preparations had strained the country’s resources, and compelled the government to alter its five-year plan. The whole programme for the metallurgical industry had been changed owing to production for war purposes. They had stored enough stocks of corn to feed the army for a year, and this and the necessity for transporting supplies to the Far Eastern army accounted for the present food shortage [famine] and general tightening of conditions.” 

Radek insisted that they would “remain strongly on the defensive” as the five-year plan’s completion was the highest priority “and would not shed the blood of the workers for any material interests in Manchuria. If there were a genuine revolutionary movement there, that of course would be a different matter.” Japan’s refusal on 13 December 1931 to accept the Soviet offer of a non-aggression pact confirmed existing fears.

Worried as they all undoubtedly were, Stalin none the less had a problem restraining subordinates in the Far East, whose escapades held dangerous implications for Soviet security. In the summer of 1932 a sabotage unit of the OGPU made up of ethnic Koreans was sent into Korea to blow up railway bridges. Hearing of the operation, Stalin called on Lazar Kaganovich for the punishment of those concerned:

“Speak to Molotov and take draconian measures against offenders from OGPU and the Fourth Directorate (it is entirely possible that these people are agents of our enemies in our midst.) Demonstrate that there [in the Far East] Moscow still has the power to punish offenders.” 

Other such provocations also prompted outbursts from Stalin: 

“It is clear that such issues and ‘incidents’, which carry the risk of ‘suddenly’ unleashing a war, must be handled, down to the tiniest details, by Moscow alone.”

Japanese expansion into Inner Mongolia in January–February 1933 certainly kept the Russians on their toes. In April 1933 Lieutenant Colonel Suzuki of the Japanese Bureau of Military Affairs told the Marquis Kido Kōichi, the emperor’s closest advisor, that 

“there are two kinds of enemies, an absolute enemy and a relative enemy. Since Russia aimed to destroy the national structure of Japan, he cited Russia as the absolute enemy.” 

The Russians were both an old geopolitical rival and a new revolutionary interloper. The Comintern was, of course, trying its best to destroy the monarchy and empire, though in Japan itself it never had any chance of success. In 1931 more than 280 members of the party (including the leadership and the Tokyo district chiefs) had been arrested in two waves, on 15 March and 16 April.”

- Jonathan Haslam, The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. p. 98-101.

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American Purpose

From Dictatorship to Gamesmanship in China

In attempting to maintain a "zero-Covid" policy, 5.5 percent economic growth, and his own stranglehold on power, Chinese president Xi Jinping is turning from a leader to a political gambler.

By: Jianli Yang & Yan Yu - June 3rd, 2022

On April 29, at a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Committee Politburo, Chinese president Xi Jinping stressed—once again—the country’s need to maintain its “zero-Covid” policy while continuing to pursue its 5.5 percent annual economic growth target. There would be no compromise.

Xi’s top political priorities are to maintain both his present power and his prospects for achieving permanent rule, the latter anticipated at the 20th CCP National Congress in October. On the basis of any objective standard, the two goals appear to be in sharp conflict. Moreover, Xi has recently shown not just obstinacy but paranoia, two further obstacles to achieving his simultaneous goals. This does not mean he has abandoned either one; it just means that Xi is becoming less a dictator than a political gambler.

No CCP leader since Mao Zedong has singlehandedly created so much turmoil and so many crises as Xi Jinping—including the continued deterioration of relations between China and the West, the humanitarian catastrophe spawned by the CCP’s draconian Covid-19 control measures, and the country’s severe economic stagnation. Unsurprisingly, Xi’s international reputation is in decline. Although independent public opinion polls are not feasible in China, it appears that Xi’s support is also declining within the CCP and the Chinese public... [Continue Reading]

Source: https://www.citizenpowerforchina.org/the-myth-of-public-opinion-under-xi-jinping/

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