fwiw related to earlier queries/comments on China an extract from page 14>
Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive in Unity to
Build a Modern Socialist Country in All Respects
Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
October 16, 2022 (Speech by) XiJinping

II. A New Frontier in Adapting Marxism to the Chinese Context and the Needs of the Times
Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology upon which our Party and
our country are founded and thrive. Our experience has taught us that, at the
fundamental level, we owe the success of our Party and socialism with
Chinese characteristics to the fact that Marxism works, particularly when it is
adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of our times. The sound
theoretical guidance of Marxism is the source from which our Party draws its
firm belief and conviction and which enables our Party to seize the historical
initiative.
Adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times is a
process of seeking, revealing, and applying truth. With new changes and
practical demands emerging both in and outside of China since the 18th
National Congress, there was an urgent need for us to provide in-depth
theoretical and practical answers to a series of epochal questions on the cause
of the Party and the country as well as the Party’s governance of China.
With the courage to make theoretical explorations and innovations, our
Party has, from an entirely new perspective, deepened its understanding of
the laws that underlie governance by a communist party, the development of
socialism, and the evolution of human society. It has achieved major
theoretical innovations, which are encapsulated in the Thought on Socialism
with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The main elements of this theory
are summarized in the 10 affirmations, the 14 commitments, and the 13 areas
of achievement that were articulated at the 19th National Congress and the
Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Party Central Committee, all of which we
must adhere to over the long term and continue to enrich and develop.
Chinese Communists are keenly aware that only by integrating the basic
tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and fine traditional culture
and only by applying dialectical and historical materialism can we provide
correct answers to the major questions presented by the times and discovered
through practice and can we ensure that Marxism always retains its vigor and
vitality. To uphold and develop Marxism, we must integrate it with China’s
specific realities. Taking Marxism as our guide means applying its worldview
and methodology to solving problems in China; it does not mean memorizing
and reciting its specific conclusions and lines, and still less does it mean
treating it as a rigid dogma. We must continue to free our minds, seek truth
from facts, move with the times, and take a realistic and pragmatic approach.
We must base everything we do on actual conditions and focus on solving
real problems arising in our reform, opening up, and socialist modernization
endeavors in the new era. We must keep responding to the questions posed
by China, by the world, by the people, and by the times; in doing so, we
should find the right answers suited to the realities of China and the needs of
our day, reach conclusions that are compatible with objective laws, and
develop new theories that are in step with the times, so as to provide better
guidance for China’s practice.
To uphold and develop Marxism, we must integrate it with China’s fine
traditional culture. Only by taking root in the rich historical and cultural soil
of the country and the nation can the truth of Marxism flourish here. With a
history stretching back to antiquity, China’s fine traditional culture is
extensive and profound; it is the crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese
civilization. Our traditional culture espouses many important principles and
concepts, including pursuing common good for all; regarding the people as
the foundation of the state; governing by virtue; discarding the outdated in
favor of the new; selecting officials on the basis of merit; promoting harmony
between humanity and nature; ceaselessly pursuing self-improvement;
embracing the world with virtue; acting in good faith and being friendly to
others; and fostering neighborliness. These maxims, which have taken shape
over centuries of work and life, reflect the Chinese people’s way of viewing
the universe, the world, society, and morality and are highly consistent with
the propositions of scientific socialism.
We must stay confident in our history and culture, make the past serve
the present, and develop the new from the old. We must integrate the essence
of Marxism with the best of fine traditional Chinese culture and with. the
common values that our people intuitively apply in their everyday lives. We
should keep endowing Marxist theory with distinctive Chinese features and
consolidating the historical basis and public support for adapting Marxism to
the Chinese context and the needs of our times. With this, we will ensure that
Marxism puts down deep roots in China.

– We must put the people first.
– We must maintain self-confidence and stand on our own feet.
– We must uphold fundamental principles and break new ground.
– We must adopt a problem-oriented approach.
– We must apply systems thinking.
– We must maintain a global vision.

Sounds a bit like what one might hear at a Multi-national Corporations Business Marketing Seminar – Our next 5 Year Plan for the Company. (That’s not a criticism of what was said, things have a way of being systematized at scale.)

Posted by: SeanAU | Oct 25 2022 7:36 utc | 103

It is apparently an evil day with the partial eclipse for these who believe in bad omens.
As Sunak – the Damian satanic world banker child – ascends the throne and is anointed by King Charles , C3Poo at the exact moment of the evil eclipse.
Also has anybody else noticed the similarities between the evil Borg Queen and the sci-fi character.
https://labourheartlands.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/d0e92ada-ursula-von-der-leyen-elected-european-commission-president-under-a-cloud-of-corruption-and-scandal.jpg
&
https://media1.tenor.com/images/cdf19f21f04caeacbb7f41c118ca45f7/tenor.gif?itemid=16932792

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 25 2022 9:54 utc | 105

What I really like is the way that everybody reads what they like into the Sunak announcement seein it as good or bad depending on their politics ‘n feelings about england copping its first unwhite PM whilst they all skip their eyes past the 2 tonne gorilla in the space.
Sunak is an associate member of the billionaires club, a former goldman sachs bankster turned hedge fund manager yet no article or even opinion on a blog ever comments on the fact that the dreadful tarty slapper known as the truss was brought undone by a muster of money marketeers. Well they may mention it but I’ve yet to see any of ’em sheet it home to Sunak an established ‘player’ on the money markets.
I don’t bring this up outta any concern for the truss whose ejection is best summed up with the old saw “good riddance to bad rubbish”, nevertheless we should all be concerned everywhere because AFAIK this is the first instance of these destructive parasites moving past their usual bribery, blackmail & bullying aka ‘lobbying’ of elected politicians or using rather obvious leverage as they did in Italy to install a so-called technocrat into actually warping & twisting an archaic & stagnated political system to install one of their own whilst pretending he’s just another politician.
Obviously Sunak isn’t the sharpest tool in the drawer since he actually had to suffer the humiliation of being beat by some moronic nonentity before the penny dropped
The copper disc which creased the back of his skull finally alerted him to what should have been an obvious truth, that 60 or 70 thousand geriatrics who comprise the englander conservative party will never support an unwhite in sufficient as long as there is someone/anyone of a fairer complexion also running. Nevermind aforesaid fairest of ’em all is thicker than two short planks.
Once that happened daddy warbucks sunak’s tech billionaire father-in-law rousted out the players in england’s markets to get ’em to short the quid as soon as the truss launched her nonsensical ‘plan’.
It was tht easy plus everyone made on the deal.
Hardly worth commenting on really other than to point out that even the most rabidly anti-sunack elements of england’s gutter press have failed to draw a line between truss’ demise sunak’s rise and sunak’s money market experience & connections.
Of course this bodes extremely badly for englanders as anyone who has suffered a country under the political leadership of a goldman sach operator (Aotearoa did for close on 10 years) can attest that at the end of such a reign there is virtually nothing nailed down or not left as a national asset.
Energy was what they specialised in stripping out in Aotearoa. All the former electricity companies many of which had been subscriber owned co-operatives ended up in hugely secretive off shore private equity rackets. As just about all of those have already been handed over to tory mates for pennies in the pound , you’d have to consider england’s citizen/subject owned health service & possibly the bbc (which has been so corrupted few would see as any great loss) as the targets of the davos fucks.
Of course before that happens sunak will blow billions of govt revenue ‘modernising’ the two of ’em prior to giving them to his mates to fix.
Truss is a blithering idiot same as thingummy starmer the labour boss who has expended all his energy expelling alleged anti-semites a swathe of whom happen to be jewish. Not ‘good jews’ tho most of em are old school lefties implacably opposed to zionism and/or any other form of imperialism.
Right now it seems as though the next englander general election will be a walk in for starmer. However he is another englander pol who would struggle to run a piss-up in a pub so if sunak can play it cool n just let starmer do his own nonsense, he starmer, will lose once more.
Crazy but there ya go.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Oct 25 2022 10:49 utc | 107

Both Brandon and his WH Spokesperson both welcomed “RASHEE(D?) SANOOK” to number 10 Downing.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/25/joe-biden-says-rishi-sunak-becoming-prime-minister-groundbreaking/
Wow. Yeah Murika, Europeans really feel the love lately.
Makes one wonder, did Ben Wallace go to Washington to plan a dirty bomb with you, or to beg you not to blow up the London Tube?

Posted by: Et Tu | Oct 25 2022 12:23 utc | 109

Then assuming it can be shown that it is more centralized, then, what are the red flags being raised?
Posted by: SeanAU | Oct 25 2022 6:19 utc | 99
Well, am admittedly finger-painting, sharing impressions.
First, he has changed the constitution to extend his premiership beyond the 10 year limit which Hu observed and apparently did not approve of Xi’s extension.
Second, he kicked out several top people and replaced them with his own cadre. This is typical with any new 5-year term, but added to Nr 1 it raises a red flag or two.
Third, a couple of times now he has gone on massive ‘anti-corruption’ drives arresting tens of thousands. Maybe they are all corrupt (quite possible of course for corruption is always there, the only question being whether it gets nipped in the bud or not and allowed to entrench as in the West) but maybe they are simply people with differing agendas and networks. It looks very dictatorial; it looks like it might be purges. Just sayin.’
Personally, I think it hard for any one from outside a group, be it a small family or a huge nation like China, to know what’s going on inside another group, especially in terms of how things are perceived from within. I was imagining yesterday what it might be like to grow up Chinese in a nation with almost 1.5 billion people. Clearly the way they perceive the individual and wider society is peculiar to them and clearly it is also a very powerful dynamic. The Chinese have a sense of group projects and scale unique to them (how they could erect large, fully-functioning hospitals in a matter of days, literally, when covid hit). Obviously they don’t always get it right as evidenced by the past couple of centuries which have been very difficult for them so there are no guarantees. At the same time, they have a level of normalized groupthink which most of us a) couldn’t handle and b) are not really aware of even though c) we have groupthink issues in spades which go largely unacknowledged.
It seems that the modernization drive since the 70’s has been good for the people generally and moreover has given the nation a clear sense of direction with forward momentum. No small thing. With steady growth generally things go well in a society. Once the growth days are over then things get much harder but China is still growing so…
But:
By Western standards (clearly in a sorry state these days!), they have a highly authoritarian-style polity. No doubt with good reason – how else to manage 1.5 billion without a certainly level of firm, steady, unchaotic leadership at the centre and top? Could 1.5 billion people exist harmoniously and safely in a decentralized patchwork of tens of thousands of local jurisdictions? Probably not. But still: there is a danger inherent in any autarchic / authoritarian type system as everyone knows. Right now they seem to have a very good balance between having a VERY strong state and a huge, VERY dynamic private sector producing more millionaires per capita than any other polity operating at razor-thin and thus highly efficient profit margins which operators in the West would find punishing. Obviously, what they are doing is extraordinary with cities of millions going up in only a couple of years, huge bridges, fast trains, new technology, an expansive vision for world trade, expanding middle class, high quality education, confidence, optimism, industriousness, grit, smarts and so forth.
For me personally I find the lack of any obvious high culture quotient a little troubling to counterbalance the rampant materialism that material growth especially engenders, but perhaps there is a nascent one that is still semi-secret. They surely have an upper – very wealthy and/or high-ranking – class which socializes amongst themselves but whether that culture is an open part of Chinese society I cannot tell. Most of what I see from afar is utilitarian, managerial, commercial. I find their speeches almost impossible to read – deadly boring bureaucratic verbiage. That’s partly due to the difficult of translating Chinese into English but…
I talked to one old friend who has lived there for 30 years when I was briefly in Beijing on my way to Yangshuo further south. He said in passing that everything in China is sort of shitty. A throwaway remark and no doubt not entirely fair – as all such remarks. But there is something to it as well… Have huge respect for their history and what they are doing but glad I don’t live in a crowded, super-busy nation of 1.5 billion either.

Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 25 2022 13:09 utc | 111

Last little thought about the Hu episode:
No matter why he was led out, clearly it was a poorly choreographed move on a very public stage at a very important moment involving the transfer of power and a previous leader just to the left of the current leader.
It does not augur well and all orientals there who witnessed it know it.

Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 25 2022 15:20 utc | 113

So a new english prime minister what has to say first?That Jerusalem is the capital of the zionist state..and the “brave” occupiers as if to thank this dirty financier who has just taken office,attack the West Bank and kill 5 people.

Posted by: LuBa | Oct 25 2022 16:12 utc | 115

@ 114 james
Thanks for the comment, james! In this case, Europe really is a “garden” compared to the “jungle”. Some other political news out of Alaska for the curious…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-stevens-dies-age-63-former-alaska-senate-president-dead-hiking/
https://alaskapublic.org/2022/08/22/former-alaska-state-rep-westlake-died-after-son-pummeled-him-according-to-manslaughter-charges/
https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/08/08/trump-stumps-for-palin-on-same-day-of-fbi-search/
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2017/05/26/trump-budget-delivers-body-blows-to-alaska-fisheries/

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 25 2022 17:11 utc | 117

Like a visit to a Disney theme park, Germany’s president Steinmeier is getting all the thrills and chills in his visit to Ukraine
In a bomb shelter
https://twitter.com/barthreb/status/1584864131324477440
On the streets
https://twitter.com/VassiliGolod/status/1584869193698402304
(Aside- How does that guy get a blue check mark??)
RT report
https://www.rt.com/news/565329-german-president-ukraine-bomb-shelter/

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 25 2022 17:29 utc | 119

Today Chinese are celebrating the anniversary of Taiwan’s Liberation from Japanese Colonialism and the 30th anniversary of the extremely important 1992 Consensus arrived at between Mainland and Taiwan. Global Times has a good article on both, “Officials, scholars express full confidence in reunification as Beijing marks 77th anniversary of recovery of Taiwan from Japanese occupation”. Within the article is a link to the first part of a two-part 2021 article about Taiwan and Reunification that’s as important a read today as it was when it was published last December, “GT investigates: Why is national reunification an unshakable demand?”:

Reached between the mainland’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation in 1992, the 1992 Consensus has become the political foundation for peaceful exchanges and pragmatic cooperation between the two sides.
The 1992 Consensus made very clear the fundamental nature of the cross-Straits relations, which is that even though the mainland and the island haven’t been reunified, both of them belong to one China and China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity have never been split, said Mu Xuefeng, head of the publicity department of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League.
Both sides of the Taiwan Straits belong to the same country and Taiwan is part of China. This historical fact and the legal basis have never changed and will never change, Mu added.

I’ll note the importance of Taiwanese participation in this event. The reason Cancel Culture is being employed by the DPP is to erase the strong sentiment for reunification present in the older generation with hatred for the Mainland cultivated amongst the younger generation as advised by the Outlaw US Empire. The CPC’s new leadership cadre was put in place because the CPC as a whole is very hawkish on reunification since it’s the fundamental requirement for accomplishing rejuvenation:

“Resolving the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese, a matter that must be resolved by the Chinese,” read the report delivered at the opening session of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 16. “Complete reunification of our country must be realized, and it can, without doubt, be realized,” it said.
Officials from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the Taiwan Affairs Office of Beijing Municipal People’s Government, and the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s Beijing Municipal Committee emphasized the importance of communications across the Straits and called on Taiwan compatriots to reject secessionist forces and work toward national reunification and rejuvenation.
Some Taiwan compatriots who work and live in Beijing talked about the dramatic changes they have witnessed in the mainland, expressing determination to make their contribution to promoting exchanges across the Straits and their full confidence in China’s reunification and rejuvenation in the future.

And on the occasion, China’s Foreign Ministry issued this PR that contained this very important fact:
“Wang said that the number of countries with which China has diplomatic relations has increased from 60 to 181 in the past 51 years on the basis of adhering to the one-China principle, which fully shows that adhering to the one-China principle is the general principle of the international community.” [My Emphasis]
That’s a very large square the Outlaw US Empire is trying to change into a circle. As with its treatment of Europe and Ukraine, the Empire seems blind to how its behavior is isolating it from the genuine International Community.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 25 2022 17:56 utc | 121

One of the first article to surface from the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club whose theme this year is “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone” is by Timofei Bordachev, “The World After the Hegemony”, who writes:
“The institutional form of Western dominance by force has become its final incarnation, and now the main question is whether it is possible to preserve the form following the inevitable disappearance of its content and main function. Therefore, the collapse of the power positions of the US and Europe in international politics entails not just a change of leadership, but a revision of the institutions and rules which exist at the global level. In other words, the entire formal international order that emerged after the Second World War, but in reality over the past few centuries, will cease to exist.”
There’s the general reason for the loss in confidence. In the preface prior to linking to the Valdai Club’s Annula Report, “A World Without Superpowers”, links to relevant prior reports and says the following:

When one’s gloomiest predictions turn out to be the most accurate, this is bound to cause mixed feelings. The satisfaction of being proved prescient is offset by the reality of a more alarming future. Since 2018, the Valdai Club has been warning that processes leading to the total collapse of the global political and economic system are accelerating, while the international order that developed as a set of institutions in the latter half of the 20th century and persisted into the current century, is becoming increasingly deformed.
The crisis of globalisation as a universal framework for global development started in the 2000s. The pandemic proved that globalisation, as it was understood in th1980s, was quite reversible. The military-political crisis that broke out in Europe in 2022 – an extremely dangerous and almost unpredictable relapse into rivalry between the major superpowers – has impacted most of the world in one way or another. It also signals the end of the model of relations in which the “blessing” of mutual dependence was a bedrock assumption.
The extent to which different players are involved in the current international cataclysm vary. Many are trying to safely distance themselves from the fierce confrontation between Russia and the US-led collective West, for which Ukraine was a pretext. However, nobody has any doubts that what is happening now is not simply a regional conflict or even a dispute to determine which of the main players will occupy a higher place in the international hierarchy. The main question is whether this hierarchy will be preserved at all in the form we are accustomed to, and if so, how it will be constituted.

Those who take the current Geopolitical scene seriously will want to read the linked Report and others that will be produced over the next few days. Putin is to address Thursday’s Plenary Session at 16:00 local time. The discussion scheduled before his appearance is one I’d like to participate in:
“Session 10. The World That Crumbled: Lessons for the Future From the 2022 Military-Political Crisis
“The institutions of world governance that were established in the second half of the twentieth century and provided a certain framework for international players are no longer working. The situation in world politics has returned to the historical norm: chaotic competition, which can only be limited by the balance of power of the opposing sides. Will there ever be a new system of rules and governance structures? What could it look like? Or has the year 2022 opened up a period of indefinite and dangerous instability?”
Yes, very serious shit as was last night’s: “Special session. The Ukrainian Question – Its Origins and Consequences.” This page has links to the five presentations already made.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 25 2022 18:58 utc | 123

Scorpion | Oct 25 2022 17:30 utc | 120
But high culture is more about sophisticated social mores than the entertainment they enjoy together
Oh, you’re using ‘sophisticated’ in its pejorative form. Silly me.

Posted by: john | Oct 25 2022 20:09 utc | 125

Scorpion #113
On Hu and his assisted entrance and exit.
I read that performance as a blunt statement that Hu and his type are finished and his acolytes are no longer welcome. A blunt factional assertion as I see it.
Then it can be read as a statement that leadership should not be in the hands of the obviously infirm and intellectually challenged. Note that usa.
Being a public performance enables the leadership to deal with it immediately and certainly. This minimises the intense whispering that can be so nefariously exploited by China’s enemies.
It was politics as usual and suavely executed.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 25 2022 21:29 utc | 127

choreographed
adjective
(of an event or course of action) planned very carefully:
@ Scorpion | Oct 25 2022 15:20 utc | 113
1) ” the Hu episode: clearly it was a poorly choreographed move”
One cannot carefully plan when a elderly person suffering from Alzheimers is going to have a “disorientated moment” in public. Clearly the man was not well and this has been explained despite the disinformation and unfounded conjectures.
Hu’s doctor who was present caring for him, is reported as the person who gave the health care directive to assist Hu off stage before the completion of the ceremony going on.
2) and all orientals there who witnessed it know it.
That’s not true. Many see it very differently than what’s being spread around the world.
There is really nothing to see here, except for care and respect for elder statesmen in public.
repost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hrMiLqO-A

Posted by: SeanAU | Oct 25 2022 23:47 utc | 129

@ karlof1 | Oct 25 2022 18:58 utc | 123 with all the links that I can’t keep up on….thanks for all your comments
Where from here?
@ SeanAU | Oct 25 2022 23:26 utc | 128 with the lengthy response to Scorpion…thanks but I see him as having an agenda and not educable.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 26 2022 0:05 utc | 131

Finian Cunningham today at Strategic Culture”:
“Beijing might be better taking Taiwan now – once and for all – before it festers anymore under American influence.
As Russia is finding out, to its cost, delaying the disease can lead to more fatal conditions.”

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Oct 26 2022 0:21 utc | 133

Scorpion | Oct 25 2022 13:09 utc | 111
“By Western standards (clearly in a sorry state these days!), they have a highly authoritarian-style polity. No doubt with good reason”
And above all is is very necessary to have a very strong solid leadership to prevent any crack that will allow a very capable county like the US to sneak in and make China another victim of what destiny it might be decided on by the US. I think non of us is in a position to judge on China’s leadership other than to write for an entertainment purposes.

Posted by: Man | Oct 26 2022 0:57 utc | 135

I like your posts…
Posted by: james | Oct 25 2022 15:14 utc | 112
————-
Thanks !
I replied to your last post to me, wonder if you managed to find it in this chaos ?
Here I want to share with you a vid.
Same as you, I normally prefer text over podcast or vid.
When I do post vid, that means it’d be worth your time !
From the british bullshit corp…
‘chicom beating up ‘peaceful protestors’ !
Rings a bell ?
[TAM, HK, TIBET, XINJIANG…….]
Here’s a twist, this time its even more outrageous, those brutes had the temerity to do it smack dab in perfidious albion’s home turf , right under the nose of a bunch of bobbies. !
The entire FUK is screaming with rage..
‘chicom embassy staff beat up ‘peaceful protestors’ right in …LOndon !’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVlzh6rfbC4

Posted by: denk | Oct 26 2022 4:14 utc | 137

Below is a link to the latest posting at Wall Street On Parade that documents the career of the new UK PM
A Former Goldman Sachs/Hedge Fund Guy Is the New U.K. Prime Minister
The take away quote

Sunak worked as a junior analyst at Goldman Sachs from 2001 to 2004, where part of his research involved railways. He left Goldman to obtain his MBA at Stanford University, following which he joined TCI hedge fund in 2006 as a partner and worked there until 2009, when he left to co-found the hedge fund, Theleme Partners with Patrick Degorce. Sunak worked at Theleme Partners until 2014, when he moved into conservative politics in the U.K. That’s a total of 13 years involvement in financial markets that Sunak wants to obliterate from his work history.

Go read it all….it is not flattering.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 26 2022 4:41 utc | 139

denk #137
Thank you for the Nathan Rich utoob.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 26 2022 4:53 utc | 141

It might be worthwhile keeping an eye on events in Prague this weekend. Friday the 28th is a national holiday in remembrance of the 1918 uprising that brought about independence for Czechoslovakia from Austro-Hungary.
Antiwar and anti-government activists have planned demonstrations for that day. Government ministers have called such demonstrators “scum” and “riff-raff” and some have even called for criminalizing such demonstrations.
NGO’s behind the five party government coalition are now organizing a counter-protest on Sunday the 30th.
I found a flyer in my mail-box last night quoting Van der leyen.
“We will manage it”… implying the energy and other crises.
And then the slogans:
“Against fear”, “Against hatred”, “For Czechia” and “For Ukraine”.
The flyer came from the NGO Milion chvilek pro demokracie (A million moments for democracy), which before Covid whipped up hatred in massive protests against then premier Andej Babis and president Milos Zeman. It seems the coalition and their NGO backers are now looking to whip up civil unrest.

Posted by: karel vp | Oct 26 2022 6:25 utc | 143

https://min.news/en/tech/cbc670a6be10c7e9422e284d2703a836.html
china about to open new tech chip making not using EUV manufacturing. can make 5nm easy as of its first development. can get smaller than the current 2 3-nm this is huuuuggge. means USA chip ban is for nothing. its usa that hold the bag of obsolete TSMC factories . game over

Posted by: hankster | Oct 26 2022 7:07 utc | 145

https:// http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/10/26/691613/Iran-sanctions-EU-institutions-individuals-supporting-terrorism
remove two spaces between // and www
this link provides the names of company’s NGOs and individuals that have been sanction for terrorism .. very useful in doing research.. I think.

Posted by: snake | Oct 26 2022 14:14 utc | 147

@ psychohistorian | Oct 26 2022 0:05 utc | 131
@ denk | Oct 26 2022 4:14 utc | 138/137
@ james | Oct 26 2022 15:04 utc | 149
Well, thanks to you 3 for speaking up.
” …call me paranoid, but there are blatant and subtle ways to destabilize a community”
Right james, and I don’t think that’s at all paranoid. I’m just surprised he’s been able to keep up the volume for so long with out getting more flack.
And as you mentioned some time ago james, the comment section has been deteriorating. Stuff like what Scorpion and c1ue do is
not conducive to good interaction. I don’t at all mind different opinions but to use the bar as your personal soap box to dominate conversations is
disrespectful to others who just want to enjoy the camaraderie and learn. It was fine that Rae called out c1ue for over-posting and
hopefully others will see that Scorpion does it too. I dislike that kind of stuff much more than trolls. Scorpion is worse because he’s everywhere while c1ue
at least usually waited for open threads to unload – (and sometimes had some really good bits).
The recent Bacon is indeed curious. He used to provide some interesting links.
A big THANKS too, as always, to b for operating this oasis in the middle of the info desert.
And while I’m mushing on, thanks to all the commenters who observe common decency and respect. You make this little hole in the wall a nice cozy hangout!
Skoal!

Posted by: waynorinorway | Oct 26 2022 16:41 utc | 149

Posted by: SeanAU | Oct 25 2022 23:26 utc | 129
SeanAU, thanks for your long and generous reply.
A couple of small points: I don’t follow mainstream media much and don’t have my opinions formed by them, especially about China or Russia. I try to read some of the major players’ speeches and observe things from afar but have no illusions as to being in touch with either polity.
As to the Hu event. Even if the exit was as benign as you and others here say, it was clearly improvised. As such it sent a ripple of confusion, of the unexpected, in an otherwise formal, important and largely ceremonial event. Such things are significant no matter the reason indicating an unexpected gap between script and reality. Again, this has nothing to do with why exactly Hu was escorted out the way he was. Indeed, it is precisely because it was clearly unscripted that it was subject to many different interpretations. Yours may well be correct, but it took a while to get the information about the doctor. The main impressions occurred in the moment when Hu was being taken out. And it is understandable that there were many different takes on what was going on. That in itself, clearly, was unfortunate. Something unfortunate happening at such a moment does not augur well, and millions of orientals viewing that would feel that way.

Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 26 2022 17:55 utc | 151

PS
Others are nervous too:
(Just realized why earlier one didn’t go through. Had a Zero Hedge link. Here again without link, just title.)
Title:
Wealthy Chinese Activate Financial “Escape Plans” Terrified Of Xi’s Coming Reign Of Terror, And Why This Is Good News For Bitcoin
PPS: Sean: thanks for explaining so much about corruption. I hope your take is an accurate one (that it was not tyrannical crackdown but bona fide purge of bad actors). Hopefully they have now changed their systems so it won’t rise up on that scale again. Obviously it would be great if the West could do such a thing but our way is to collapse everything and then start over with yet another corrupt polity!

Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 26 2022 18:30 utc | 153

And what makes you think hardline separatists are the majority in Taiwan? Or do you think supporting a small minority of foreign-backed extremists “valid”?
Posted by: Jun | Oct 26 2022 20:39 utc | 158
What makes you think I back hard-line separatists if they are in the minority?
I just said – weeks ago when it came up – that the people in Taiwan should be able to decide for themselves. I don’t have a dog in the fight either way. But I do understand why some might not want to be under the thumb of the CPC. But if they are maintaining their polity under false pretenses, they should be dislodged, preferably by plebiscite.
No?

Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 26 2022 20:47 utc | 155

This picture is worth a thousand words:
Its at The Cradle, illustrating an article about Journalists in the Firing Line
https://thecradle.co/
On the left is the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, to the right grinning in welcome is the US Secretary of State who ordered the assassination of General Soleimani, a few weeks later.

Posted by: bevin | Oct 26 2022 22:09 utc | 157

RT (sorry, can’t link or comment will be blocked) at the bottom of its main page has the first in a series of documentaries about weapons developed during the Cold War that documents lasers. IMO, it’s very educational, not just for lasers but for radar, which is only mentioned in passing as needed to properly target the laser.
From what we’ve seen over the past decade, the capabilities of Russian radar and other electronic systems have greatly increased well beyond the capabilities of anything fielded by NATO. My hypothesis is that Soviet research prior to the USSR’s implosion was well advanced in several areas such that despite the mothballing of much military and scientific research during Yeltsin’s misgovernance when it was restarted by Putin those advantages still existed, which is what we now see today. There’s also a hint in the film at what laser technology might be used for militarily today. So, carve out 27 minutes to watch and listen; I’m sure you’ll learn something!

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 26 2022 22:42 utc | 159

I wish we could figure out just when China invades Taiwan (inevitable eventually). We could buy YANG and Benefit Greatly.

Posted by: Eighthman | Oct 27 2022 1:00 utc | 161

@Scorpion 160
The people in the breakaway oblasts overwhelmingly supported independence. Such is not the case in Taiwan. By questioning why self determination is valid there and not in Taiwan, you make a false equivalence and obfuscate the issue. In the minds of the vast majority of Chinese and the world, Taiwan is part of China. Having lost the Chinese civil war, the Americans prevented a final mopping up of KMT elements so a festering sore can remain a tool of western powers which later was repeated in Korea and Vietnam.
Your trumpeting of a plebiscite as the authoritative answer to the Taiwan issue is telling. Since even Taiwan claims it is China, would you deny 1.5 billion voters on the mainland in your vote? I take it you would. But I don’t think Chinese people give a toss of western arrogance and their lecturing of democracy and the legitimacy of the ballot box. One generation of Taiwanese chafing “under the thumb of the CPC” will not negate 5,000 years of history.

Posted by: Jun | Oct 27 2022 1:20 utc | 163

Thank you for the Nathan Rich utoob.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 26 2022 4:53 utc | 142
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utoob has x-rated that vid 😉
btw,
Embassies are supposed to be sovereign territory, FUK should apologise to China for its dereliction of duty .
aint gonna happen. !
The ‘ruse’ based west are above international law !
Exhibit A
BOmbing of Chinese embassy in ex Yugo..
‘The actual reason for the bombing was meant to cover-up NATO war crimes that were taking place almost daily, and the Chinese listening post located in the corner of the embassy that was bombed were intercepting orders issued by NATO which clearly revealed those crimes. The Chinese needed to be silenced and their operations ended, no matter the fallout. Take, for instance, that refugee column of Kosovo Albanians exiting the region on tractors and horse-carriages. The column that the US and NATO bombed, killing dozens.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article177116.html
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i can’t sign into youtube – i refuse to sign in to watch videos,
Posted by: james | Oct 26 2022 15:04 utc | 149
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No need to sign in.
Type ‘nathan rich’, or ‘lee jinging’, or ‘report on China’, ‘redacted’…..in the search box you’ll get to see the vid.
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. It was fine that Rae called out c1ue for over-posting and hopefully others will see that Scorpion does it too. I dislike that kind of stuff much more than trolls. Scorpion is worse because he’s everywhere
A big THANKS too, as always, to b for operating this oasis in the middle of the info desert.
Posted by: waynorinorway | Oct 26 2022 16:41 utc | 150
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Oasis is the word !
The least we can do to repay that hospitality is to help b to clear out the weeds !
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Btw, angry denk whoever you are, I’ve been reading here for many years but only a few months ago did I start reading and responding to the comments. And I still feel about Taiwan what I said earlier:
Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 26 2022 18:10 utc | 155
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Thanks for confirming my observation ealier on…
‘The scorpion was MIA all these years when FUKUSA were trampling on sovereignty of defenseless countries.
During the peak of TW provocation, the scorpion barged in and accused USAss China of ‘hypocrisy’, demanded to know ‘what happens to TW’s right to self determination’ .!
LIke I say, we oughtta know where he’s coming from, ;-)’
A witting/unwitting empire enabler.
The more he post, the clearer his agenda.
pssst…
scorpion is a pro. !

Posted by: denk | Oct 27 2022 3:15 utc | 165

Posted by: denk | Oct 27 2022 4:05 utc | 172/171
(I was quoting james there, btw.)
To confirm ‘group think’, (ie, any two or more saying the same thing, however independently),
I agree with your conclusion.
The bar is basically low on humor but as Gruff pointed out, it’s there if you look for it.
So as a last comment on all this, here’s a joke:

A Scorpion walks into a bar.
And he writes, and he writes, and writes some more.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Oct 27 2022 4:44 utc | 167

Below is another Xinhuanet link and this is to a download of a 25 page version of the newly revised China constitution which I am about to read
Full text of Constitution of Communist Party of China

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 27 2022 4:57 utc | 169

Interesting.
In other news a new mega canal project in Nicaragua. Has just resurfaced yet again.
After spending 300 billion yuan, China won the key overseas canal project, which is the Grand Canal of Nicaragua, and has also obtained the right to use this canal for 100 years!
USSA Obama administration originally killed the initial 500-meter-wide “Grand Canal” in 2014. Allegedly on environmental grounds?
Will bankrupt USSA find the trillions of air dollars required? To refurbish and enlarge the “Panama Canal”!
Will “Chiquita” create/promote another fake color revolution in Nicaragua? Will the formidable peon army of Nicaragua defeat the professionally lead Yankee imperialists yet again?
The answer is blowin’ in the winds of change sweeping across South America

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 27 2022 6:05 utc | 171

every wonder what the new world order is suppose to look like..? I found this definition of Plutocracy to fit the coming new world order and great reset … it gave as an example the City of London.[10]
I quote “The City (also called the Square Mile of ancient London, corresponding to the modern financial district, an area of about 2.5 km2) has a unique electoral system for its local administration, separate from the rest of London. More than two-thirds of voters are not residents, but rather representatives of businesses and other bodies that occupy premises in the City, with votes distributed according to their numbers of employees. The principal justification for this arrangement is that most of the services provided by the City of London Corporation are used by the businesses in the City. Around 450,000 non-residents constitute the city’s day-time population, far outnumbering the City’s 7,000 residents.[11]””
quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy

Posted by: snake | Oct 27 2022 7:00 utc | 173

I just said – weeks ago when it came up – that the people in Taiwan should be able to decide for themselves. I don’t have a dog in the fight either way. But I do understand why some might not want to be under the thumb of the CPC. But if they are maintaining their polity under false pretenses, they should be dislodged, preferably by plebiscite.
No?
Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 26 2022 20:47 utc | 157
No.
here is why.
I don’t want to be under the thumb of my capitalist government either, but I don’t have a right in Australia to secceed from the nation. I have a right to vote and sometimes to protest although that’s getting harder. but I do not have a right to say I don’t want my suburb to be part of Australia because I don’t like the government. The government would tell me to bugger off somewhere else.
If there are enough of people like me who want to mount an insurrection then that is another matter. However if my government suspected the Chinese (for example) were behind the agitation we’d be back to square one again. Bugger off back to your own country they’d say and leave Australia to us.
Every nation in the world follows these basic principles of sovereignty. Donbass is different because they have been persecuted. Not the case in Taiwan and even a cursory bit of research would have told you this.
The thing is Scorpion we all know you aren’t this dumb that’s why people suspect you.

Posted by: K | Oct 28 2022 8:18 utc | 175