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[windsclouds2030]

Via People's Daily's facebook page 2021.09.01:

Xi Jinping stressed that at present, the great changes in the world that have not been seen in a century have accelerated the evolution, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a critical period.

The risks and challenges that the nation of China face have increased significantly. It is unrealistic to always think of a peaceful day and do not want to struggle. We should abandon our illusions, be brave in struggle, never give up an inch of land on issues of principle, and safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests with an unprecedented quality of will.

習近平：努力成為可堪大用能擔重任的棟樑之才

https://www.facebook.com/peopledaily/posts/2999344920307173

Also here (in CN) - 2021.09.01:

习近平在中央党校（国家行政学院）中青年干部培训班开班式上发表重要讲话强调 信念坚定对党忠诚实事求是担当作为 努力成为可堪大用能担重任的栋梁之才 王沪宁出席​

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Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony of a training class for young and middle-aged cadres at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance), stressing firm faith and loyalty to the Party to seek truth from facts and take responsibility as part of efforts to become a pillar of the country capable of taking on important responsibilities

 

[ansy1968]

@windsclouds2030 bro seems like a call to arms, maybe preparing for a major conflict? I'm not a warmonger but it sounds like Xi had given up on the west for rational discussion and is preparing the nation for a possible conflict, we are truly living in interesting time.

 

[windsclouds2030]

@windsclouds2030 bro seems like a call to arms, maybe preparing for a major conflict? I'm not a warmonger but it sounds like Xi had given up on the west for rational discussion and is preparing the nation for a possible conflict, we are truly living in interesting time.

At this very moment I don't think that far... Xi may just remind Chinese people that it is unrealistic to always think of a peaceful day and do not want to struggle, should abandon that illusions, be brave in struggle...

But if China wanna prevent the possibility of any formal secession of the island of Taiwan (or if she plans to take it back by force in near term), she must not be afraid of military conflict, any time, even to engage the alien forces. Nonetheless, under present geopolitics situation, a responsible leader will have to remind his people to face the contingency. Moreover there are many things that we, the laymen, don't know -- Question: How about, if the virus in 2019/2020 was a premeditated attack against China to paralyze that country? We don't know for sure but the leaders there of course know the true nature with certainty!

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mentioned about the DEFCON ONE situation in China during the 2020 CNY! "At that time, all of us inside of China were stunned when out of the blue, all the holiday celebrations were cancelled, called up all militia, set up road blocks everywhere, and manned all the ICBM and SLBM installations on full retaliatory strike mode. China was on FULL ALERT and FULL MILITARY FOOTING. World War III was adverted, but just narrowly." I know some may question the reliability/credibility of this source. But what I wanna assert, we all may be in darkness, but the leaders in Beijing know with certainty what indeed happened in Wuhan! So, if thing is indeed like that, an existential threat, if the adversary is willing to go that far then you as the victim or target must be very very very alerted to face any possibility at any time! Those things are what we never know!

 

[AndrewS]

@windsclouds2030 bro seems like a call to arms, maybe preparing for a major conflict? I'm not a warmonger but it sounds like Xi had given up on the west for rational discussion and is preparing the nation for a possible conflict, we are truly living in interesting time.

It's preparing the Chinese people for a strategic competition with the USA, as relations are going to get far worse.

In the next 10 years, China could grow to 2x larger than the USA, then 3x larger in the following decades.

But US Presidents and their administrations are unable to accept anything other than America First, whether they are Republicans or Democrats. Inevitably, they will lash out at a China which has supplanted the USA in many ways. China needs to manage this relative decline of the USA.

As for war, theoretically, there is also a window in the next few years where the USA could conduct a massive war against China and conceivably *win*

 

[AndrewS]

At this very moment I don't think that far... Xi may just remind Chinese people that it is unrealistic to always think of a peaceful day and do not want to struggle, should abandon that illusions, be brave in struggle...

But if China wanna prevent the possibility of any formal secession of the island of Taiwan (or if she plans to take it back by force in near term), she must not be afraid of military conflict, any time, even to engage the alien forces. Nonetheless, under present geopolitics situation, a responsible leader will have to remind his people to face the contingency. Moreover there are many things that we, the laymen, don't know -- Question: How about, if the virus in 2019/2020 was a premeditated attack against China to paralyze that country? We don't know for sure but the leaders there of course know the true nature with certainty!

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mentioned about the DEFCON ONE situation in China during the 2020 CNY! "At that time, all of us inside of China were stunned when out of the blue, all the holiday celebrations were cancelled, called up all militia, set up road blocks everywhere, and manned all the ICBM and SLBM installations on full retaliatory strike mode. China was on FULL ALERT and FULL MILITARY FOOTING. World War III was adverted, but just narrowly." I know some may question the reliability/credibility of this source. But what I wanna assert, we all may be in darkness, but the leaders in Beijing know with certainty what indeed happened in Wuhan! So, if thing is indeed like that, an existential threat, if the adversary is willing to go that far then you as the victim or target must be very very very alerted to face any possibility at any time! Those things are what we never know!

It's plausible that China went to DEFCON ONE during Chinese New Year 2020.

At the time, the origins of COVID were still unknown, plus China's conventional forces would have been stood down because of COVID.

So you would want the ICBM and SLBM forces at DEFCON ONE - so they can act as a war deterrent and also be sealed off from possible contamination

 

[Gatekeeper]

Lol. It's the Japs again.

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Japan’s Afghanistan evacuation plans criticised after C-130 plane leaves Kabul with one passenger​

• Tokyo is unlikely to able to evacuate several hundred Afghans who assisted at the Japanese embassy and with NGOs, following attacks at the airport
• But the situation has been blamed on a delayed response, attributed to debate over the military’s role overseas under Japan’s constitution

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[taxiya]

@windsclouds2030 bro seems like a call to arms, maybe preparing for a major conflict? I'm not a warmonger but it sounds like Xi had given up on the west for rational discussion and is preparing the nation for a possible conflict, we are truly living in interesting time.

The speech is not in a narrow aspect of armed conflict but covers all aspects for the future in nation building. You can compare it to Deng's call for "opening up and reform" which focused on the economy side and lasted through Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao's era. Xi's speech today is a milestone adjustment that will turn the focus to more balanced manner (economy and politic and culture). You can see the shift in many recent events, sustainable development, cleaning up the entertainment industry and internet personality, strictly disciplining party members, fighting back on the ideological front. This shift is a necessary change regardless outside environment. The outside factors only affect the timing of the shift, but not "whether it happens".

 

[Gatekeeper]

Anyone from new Zealand here? Look at how they report this Zhao Wei story. Chinese "erasing" celebrity.


Here's a take on it from someone with a bit more knowledge.


Look at how Western media spins China's reining in of their corrupt and unscrupulous billionaires. ‍

This Chinese celeb was a mistress to an infamous corrupted city Mayor, who transferred money to his personal driver when caught, hoping to reduce his sentence. This mistress then ran away with the driver who got the money and married him in Singapore.

She is a billionaire who made wealth by cheating in the share market via looting from small investors through fraudulent operations, inside jobs and shares manipulation. Her wealth grew from 60 million to 15 billion.

She is a traitorous billionaire who colluded with foreign anti-China powers, using their influence and power to laundry money for foreign organisation to feed the Fifth column armies within China.

She is also a Chinese actress who wore and glamorized the Japanese Imperial military flag. It is a symbol of the blood thirsty Japanese Imperial army during WWII who murdered millions of Chinese. Her act is tantamount to a Jew who wears a Nazi flag and idolise Hitler and the Nazi.

She is also a billionaire, who along with other billionaires, control Chinese social media. Much like how the Murdoch empire who monopolized Australia’s media industry to manipulate, censor and dominate public narratives and discourses.

She fueled anti-China sentiments, promoted tititytainment and low social moral spiritual media to drug and poison China's youths.

Yes, China doesn’t allow the formation of Wallstreet financial fraudsters, Murdoch Empire, Military Industrial Complex, Hollywood, Revolving door of Washington, Monsanto, etc etc. which people in the West are screaming about.

You can say that from a certain perspective - it is authoritarian and China's communism.

But this is the beauty of China's system.

And majority of the Chinese people are celebrating it - that their government is actually doing something about the wild exploitative growth of late-stage capitalism and corrupt unscrupulous billionaires.

China isn’t America. Chinese people are thankful that they live in a so-called "evil Commie country" where billionaires and exploitative capitalism are reined in and punished when they do wrong.

Meanwhile, the West can continue to celebrate their Wallstreet, Big Pharma and "Freedom of Speech" under the yoke of Murdoch and his ilk.

 

[Agnus]

''Stewart, who co-founded the Turquoise Mountain Foundation—which has supported cultural heritage projects, health, and education in Afghanistan for fifteen years years—and is now a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, was skeptical of

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’s assertion that the strategic priorities of the United States no longer lie in places like Afghanistan, but in countering China’s expansion. “If this were true,” he said, “then clearly part of the logic of the American confrontation with China would be to say, ‘We’re going to demonstrate our values with our presence across the world,’ just as it did in the Cold War with the U.S.S.R. And one way you’d do that is to continue your presence in the Middle East and other places, because removing yourself is counterproductive. In the end, I think all of this talk about a China pivot is really just an excuse for American isolationism.”

''Back to the nagging question: Does the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan represent the end of the American era? On the heels of what appears to have been a disastrous decision by Biden to adhere to a U.S. troop drawdown that was set in motion by his feckless predecessor, it can certainly be said that the international image of the United States has been damaged. It seems a valid question to ask whether the United States can claim much moral authority internationally after handing Afghanistan, and its millions of hapless citizens, back to the custody of the Taliban. But it remains unclear whether, as Stewart suggests, the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan represents part of a larger inward turn, or whether, as Clad believes, the U.S. may soon reassert itself somewhere else to show the world that it still has muscle. Right now, it feels as if the American era isn’t quite over, but it isn’t what it once was, either.''

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[siegecrossbow]

Anyone from new Zealand here? Look at how they report this Zhao Wei story. Chinese "erasing" celebrity.

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Here's a take on it from someone with a bit more knowledge.


Look at how Western media spins China's reining in of their corrupt and unscrupulous billionaires. ‍

This Chinese celeb was a mistress to an infamous corrupted city Mayor, who transferred money to his personal driver when caught, hoping to reduce his sentence. This mistress then ran away with the driver who got the money and married him in Singapore.

She is a billionaire who made wealth by cheating in the share market via looting from small investors through fraudulent operations, inside jobs and shares manipulation. Her wealth grew from 60 million to 15 billion.

She is a traitorous billionaire who colluded with foreign anti-China powers, using their influence and power to laundry money for foreign organisation to feed the Fifth column armies within China.

She is also a Chinese actress who wore and glamorized the Japanese Imperial military flag. It is a symbol of the blood thirsty Japanese Imperial army during WWII who murdered millions of Chinese. Her act is tantamount to a Jew who wears a Nazi flag and idolise Hitler and the Nazi.

She is also a billionaire, who along with other billionaires, control Chinese social media. Much like how the Murdoch empire who monopolized Australia’s media industry to manipulate, censor and dominate public narratives and discourses.

She fueled anti-China sentiments, promoted tititytainment and low social moral spiritual media to drug and poison China's youths.

Yes, China doesn’t allow the formation of Wallstreet financial fraudsters, Murdoch Empire, Military Industrial Complex, Hollywood, Revolving door of Washington, Monsanto, etc etc. which people in the West are screaming about.

You can say that from a certain perspective - it is authoritarian and China's communism.

But this is the beauty of China's system.

And majority of the Chinese people are celebrating it - that their government is actually doing something about the wild exploitative growth of late-stage capitalism and corrupt unscrupulous billionaires.

China isn’t America. Chinese people are thankful that they live in a so-called "evil Commie country" where billionaires and exploitative capitalism are reined in and punished when they do wrong.

Meanwhile, the West can continue to celebrate their Wallstreet, Big Pharma and "Freedom of Speech" under the yoke of Murdoch and his ilk.

I prefer they didn’t ban the films/television series just because an actor or actress violated the law. You can still enjoy someone’s work even if you don’t agree politically.