"We need to reunify with Taiwan province as soon as possible with our overwhelming troops and firepower" - sociologist Li Yi spoke to cadres at Beijing's Chaoyang District Party School about the lessons China could learn from the war on the road to unification with Taiwan.1/7
"The war between Russia and Ukraine has proved that, as I stated in December of last year, the campaign to liberate Taiwan necessitates the rapid elimination of Taiwan's air force, navy, missile forces, and armored forces.
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"Simultaneously it demands cutting off water, electricity, and mobile phones throughout the island. Electricity, water, and mobile phones can all be reconnected in liberated areas, but they must remain disconnected in areas the PLA has not liberated, particularly mobile phones
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"For the past eight years, Putin has been preparing for a showdown with the US and NATO in Ukraine in all aspects of Russian military, economic, diplomatic, financial, and social life, including the localization of key components...a full demonstration of what China should do.4/
"All China has to do now is follow suit. China's economy is ten times that of Russia's, and it can accomplish these goals with ease and delight 轻松愉快.
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"It can, for example, sell $3 trillion in debt, withdraw $60 billion in gold, locally produce and reserve enough important spare parts for military and civilian use, and produce and reserve enough ammunition;
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"a particular focus should be on producing enough intercontinental missiles, hydrogen bombs, and atomic bombs; China also should locally produce and reserve enough food, withdraw state assets in the US, Japan, and Europe, and so on." 7/7 Link: mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzUzOD…
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"One could argue that [the Bucha massacre] was staged; after all, Zelensky is an actor doing what actors are trained to do" - Professor Song Zhongping, a military commentator for Phoenix TV, blames everyone but the Russian forces for the atrocities in Bucha. 1/3
"When the car filming the scene passes, you can see in the rearview mirror the bodies coming back to life and standing up again.
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"Another argument is that they were ethnic Russians or people sympathetic to the Russian army who were assisting them in some way after their retreat from Bucha. It's possible that these people were shot dead by Ukrainian authorities just so the Russians would foot the bill."
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"America's wish is to sit back and watch while the ruthless flames of war rage in other people's homes, as it reaps the benefits, and strengthens its hegemony" - an interview with Prof Wang Wen, Exec-Dean of @RDCYINST published by the CCDI's newspaper. 1/8
Wang, like other official party-state sources, blames the "Cold War mentality" of the US and NATO as the real cause for this war, quoting Mearsheimer, who said that "the US could have averted the conflict in five minutes if it wanted".
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"The 'Russian invasion' frame has been hyped by Western media and politicians, obfuscating the fact that the US-led NATO has advanced eastward five times since 1999, attempting to place its cannons on Russia's doorstep...
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"From the fall of the USSR to today's cornered Russia, we can see that giving in to the enemy's demands will only result in their further advancement, so we must set aside our illusions and always be prepared to fight," writes Che Jianxing, the founder of Red Star Macalline. 1/7
Quoted from an op-ed published on April 2nd by Party tabloid, the Global Times, and written by Che Jianxing, the founder of Red Star Macalline, one of China's largest furniture retailers.
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Che criticizes post-Soviet leadership for trusting in US "goodwill," and adds that "fantasy is beautiful, but reality is cruel." He goes on to say that the US has repeatedly used NATO, and now Ukraine, as a "disposable proxy" to "push Russia into a corner," with the goal...
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"Institutional arrangements such as representative democracy, with political party competition at its core, provide a legitimate institutionalized platform for ethnic division" - Yang Guangbin, Dean of Renmin's School of IR, writes that ideology isn't back - it's never left.
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Yang places the blame for the war on Ukraine, for being a "politically immature nation, that "pushed itself out of the frying pan into the fire." Yang's explanation reveals a lot about how the Han majority CCP understands minorities:
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"Ukraine naturally embarked on the path of Western-style representative democracy after gaining independence from the former Soviet Union, with a plethora of political parties in fierce competition with one another.
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"The mutual trust between China and Russia is a positive asset for global stability," writes Wu Dahui, deputy dean of Tsinghua University's Russian Institute, where Xi Jinping graduated, in an op-ed published on March 24. He asks the reader to consider the alternative: 1/6
"What would the world be like without China and Russia's strategic cooperation?" Wu stresses that "Neither China nor Russia has the desire to form an alliance, and confront the West.
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"The internal logic of the development of Sino-Russian strategic cooperation is that you can't choose your neighbors, which means that we can only be friends and not enemies."
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"Does the US really care about the ordeals that the Jewish people went through or it just wants to use the tragedy as a tool to attack Russia in order to safeguard its hegemony?" - The Global Times rebukes the US Embassy in Beijing for glorifying Ukrainian Nazis.
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Party tabloid Global Times reported on March 25 that the US Embassy in Beijing uploaded a post to its official WeChat account on Thursday, which introduced the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA).
The UCCA describes itself as a "non-profit, non-partisan community-based organization established in 1940, which unites and advocates in the name of nearly 30 fraternal, educational, religious, cultural, veterans and humanitarian organizations in the Ukrainian American community"