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Feb 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"We must determine which is the principal and which is the secondary contradiction. The primary aim of the struggle is the US imperialist hegemony, while the historical baggage between China and Russia can be shelved for the time being" - editorial board of Eric Li's Guancha
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Needless to say, her use of the terms "primary contradiction" and "secondary contradiction" is based on one of Mao's most famous lectures, which would become the essay "On Contradiction." (marxists.org/reference/arch…)
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"There was a time when China and the US got along, but our economic size and development model have reached a point where we must meet the US head-on.
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"The US not only rejects a win-win approach to cooperation, but also continues to play the cards dealt to it by imperialism and exerts constant pressure on us.
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"This inevitably brings China and Russia closer together and necessitates the temporary shelving of historical disputes in order to better cooperate and deal with increased external pressure."
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Feb 20
"Maintaining fairness&justice in🇺🇦, actively encouraging talks, & promoting peace are more in line with China's int'l image, strategic goals, & the common interests of the int'l community than hoping for a reprieve after a major conflict b/w the🇺🇸and🇷🇺" - Cui Hongjian, CIIS
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Cui, senior research fellow and director of the Department for European Studies at CIIS and a contributor to the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center has also said that "achieving regional stability and strategic balance will better serve China's national interests in the long run."
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The article's main argument, however, is that "linking between the fate of Taiwan and Ukraine is a trap". Cui argues that the US-led West's insistence on drawing parallels between the two cases belies three premises:
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Feb 17
"If in the 90s - and going into the last decade - globalization was interest-driven through trade and investment, one of the many characteristics of today's globalization is the return of ideology" - Renowned Chinese economist Zhang Yuyan on the post-pandemic world.
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Zhang, a Senior Fellow & Director of the Inst. of World Economics and Politics at the state-led Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), has published a new article titled "The Game of Major Powers in a Post-Pandemic Era" in the "World Economics and Politics" journal.Excerpt:2/
"The game between major powers or groups of states has shifted from pure 'interest politics' to 'interest politics+principles politics,' making it more difficult to reach an intn'l consensus. Of course, in the end, the principles that uphold justice for mankind will triumph." 3/3
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Feb 16
"China has been pursuing its own form of decoupling for more than a decade" - Since 2018, policymakers in China and the US have been frequently using the term "decoupling" to describe the changing dynamics in bilateral relations.
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Despite leading voices in the Biden administration now talking about "recoupling," many analysts, including former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, have warned that this could be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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In a new column titled "Prophecies and Realities of Sino-US Relations," Yu Yongding, ex-pres of the China Society of World Economics and dir. of the Inst. of World Economics and Politics at the state-run CN Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), also warns against this eventuality
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Feb 6
Not only that, but also China's "civilizational" superiority, e.g., the recent article by Xie Maosong, a senior research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (IIDS) and senior fellow at the Taihe Institute.
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Xie has written an article highlighting the "civilizational significance" of the Beijing Winter Olympics in a mishmash of geopolitical strategic analysis mishmashed with convoluted Chinese exceptionalism based on the classics, particularly based on the Book of Changes (I Ching)2/
This text, which dates from the Western Zhou period (1000-750 BCE), has been used by the people of East Asia for over a millennia to guide how to count and interpret yarrow wood stalks for divination and advice. Watch this excellent demonstration: .
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Feb 6
"Sino-Russian solidarity makes the US uneasy: corralling a few dogs, even a pack, is easier with two lions than with one" - Hu Xijin, the Global Times' retired but active editor, offers his thoughts on the unfolding crisis in Ukraine vis-a-vis Sino-US-Russia triangle.
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Excerpts: "China and Russia's mutual support for each other's core interests will undoubtedly grow stronger in the future. This is something that Washington and its allies must not underestimate.
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"They can't presume that their old-fashioned alliances will continue to be the foundation of their hegemony over the 21st-century. Hegemonism has waned, and an alliance between the US and related Eurasian countries is no longer a viable option.
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Jan 25
"PLA warplanes are tightening the noose around the neck of 'Taiwan independence'" - a Global Times editorial reacts to reports that the PLA has flown 39 aircrafts into Taiwan's air defense identification zone on Sunday, the largest sortie since October 2021.

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"The PLA's military planes have now become the norm, looming like a sword of Damocles over 'Taiwan independence' while taking concrete steps to back the mainland's warning and deterrence.
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"It is important to emphasize that there is no real distinction between PLA military aircraft over Taiwan and US military aircrafts over Hawaii. Taiwan is a part of China. The concept of "Taiwan airspace" has never existed. 'China airspace' is the only thing that exists.
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