People call China a "communist" country.
I say - Yes, or No.
Communism is indeed the ideal of we Chinese people, but China's Communism is different from communism defined in the West.
(1/N)
Economically, China's "socialist market economy" is more similar to the "New Nationalism" proposed by Theodore Roosevelt.
About China's economic system is not the focus of my talk today. I want to talk about the cultural core of China's communism.
(2/N)
What I want to talk about is, in fact, more than 2000 years ago, communism has become the highest ideal pursued by China's intellectuals.
Confucius (Kong Zi), the founder of Chinese Confucianism, was also considered the greatest of the ancient Chinese sages.
(3/N)
Confucius once put forward the three most important moral norms of the Chinese people - "仁 (Ren)、义 (Yi)、礼 (Li)".
仁 (Ren) - the spirit of human nature and humanity, that is, the spirit of people-oriented.
(4/N)
义 (Yi) - the fairness and justice, adhere to principles. The principle of "义 (Yi)" is often reflected in the form of law.
礼 (Li) - the country's political system also includes religious ceremonies, social customs and etiquette norms.
(5/N)
There was a famous article in Confucius' works Liji ( The Book of Li), called "The Great Together (Li Yun Da Tong)". It described Confucius' ideal Chinese society.
If you read this article carefully, you will find that Confucius described a communist society.
(6/N)
Therefore, I say that the ideal of we Chinese people, or the ideal of the CPC, is to realize the "Great Together" that our ancestors have been pursuing for thousands of years.
(7/N)
孔子:《礼运大同篇》
Confucius: “The Great Together (Li Yun Da Tong)”
大道之行也,天下为公。
When the Great Way is practiced, the world is for the public.
选贤与能。
Those with virtue and those with ability are chosen and used.
(8/N)
讲信修睦。
People value trustworthiness and cultivate harmony with each other.
故人不独亲其亲,不独子其子。
Thus people do not treat only their parents like parents, nor do people treat only their children like children.
(9/N)
使老有所终,壮有所用,幼有所长。
That makes the aged have the appropriate last years, those in their prime have the appropriate employment, and the young have the appropriate growth and development.
(10/N)
鳏寡孤独废疾者,皆有所养。
Elderly men with no spouses, widows, orphans, elderly people without children or grandchildren, the handicapped, the ill – all are provided for.
男有分,女有归。
Males have their station; females, their places to belong to.
(11/N)
货恶其弃於地也,不必藏於己。
Money is thrown on the ground and thus despised; it is not necessary to store money.
力恶其不出於身也,不必为已。
Labor is despised if it does not come from oneself, and it does not have to be on behalf of oneself.
(12/N)
是故谋闭而不兴,盗窃乱贼而不作。
Therefore people don't engage in intrigue or trickery, nor do they engage in robbery, theft, and rebellion.
故外户而不闭。
Thus, though people leave their houses they don't close their doors.
(13/N)
是谓大同。
This is called the "Great Together".
(END)
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A Taiwanese media said that in a video news in 2018, President Xi wore an "expensive" "famous watch".
In fact this "Omega Constellation '95 Ref. 1512" sells for only $1,300.
And First Lady Peng Liyuan wears the same "love watch".
Perhaps, a gift from their daughter.
Expensive?🤔
The watch worn by US President Joe Biden is a Rolex Datejust, which is priced at about $13,000, 10 times as much as President Xi Jinping's Omega watch.😅
As for former US President Donald Trump, the real estate businessman wore the "Vacheron Constantin Historiques Ultra-Fine 1968" in public for about $18,850.
American Myth: "They took our jobs."
US manufacturing jobs, from 1979 of 20 million to 13 million in 2024 with difference of 7 million.
Can't even fill all the manufacturing jobs in Guangzhou, population of 19 million.😅
Classic bourgeois using jingoistic nationalism to shift the blame away from themselves. It's effective though.
The US transformed into a service based economy voluntarily long ago, there was nothing to "steal" from in the first place. They outsourced manufacturing starting in the 1970s, to make a quick buck.
They did. A lot.
The Korean War was probably the most important war to China in the recent history, even more important than the civil war or the anti-Japanese war.
(1/X)
Because winning the civil war simply showed that the CPC was the stronger faction within China.
Winning against the Japanese showed that the CPC can win a defensive war of attrition, especially when the enemy is fighting multiple fronts.
PLA occupied the ROC's capital.👇
(2/X)
Both of these are important, but in the international community, who cares? They are still things that a resilient but backwards society can reasonably achieve.
(3/X)
Do you know the young man in the photo wearing an undershirt in the field with the farmers?
He is Xi Jinping in 1982.
He began his political career in Zhengding County, one of China's poorest regions.
40 years later, he became China's top leader.
The first policy Xi implemented in Zhengding was to lower the share of grains paid by farmers to the govt and to increase the cultivation of economic crops to raise farmers' incomes.
When he became China's president, “revitalizing the villages” remained one of his basic policies.
Xi's proposal of "tax cuts" for local farmers was fiercely opposed by his leaders.
Instead of shrinking back, he found a political ally, Lu Yulan, a local "model laborer" deputy county chief, and together they applied to the central government for the policy.
They made it.
In the civil aviation field, the check-in counters at most airports in China currently do NOT use the Windows system, but use UOS and deepin (two Chinese versions of Linux systems).
So, this global CrowdStrike/Microsoft failure has no impact on China.
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In China, 🇨🇳TravelSky company has developed its own complete solutions.
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