Video: The Burning of Yuan Ming Yuan – The restoration of the video before the Old Summer Palace burning and looting by the British and French armies is stunningly beautiful. 圓明園被英國和法國軍隊搶劫和燒毀前的視頻還原, 美得震撼.
There is a deep, unhealed historical wound in the UK’s relations with China – a wound that most British people know nothing about, but which causes China great pain. It stems from the destruction in 1860 of the country’s most beautiful palace.
It’s been described as China’s ground zero – a place that tells a story of cultural destruction that everyone in China knows about, but hardly anyone outside.
Ownership, legality questions swirl around treasures looted from Old Summer Palace
More than 150 years after French and British troops sacked Beijing’s Old Summer Palace in 1860, relics that may have been taken from the site are showing up at foreign auction houses, prompting an outcry from China.
Many other items thought to have been taken from the palace, which is also known as Yuanmingyuan, are housed in museums and private collections around the world.
In recent years, Beijing has called for the return of such items and for them to be withdrawn from sale when listed by auction houses.
In the UK, items thought to have been looted are on display in several military museums, according to Louise Tythacott’s paper Trophies of War: Representing Summer Palace, Loot in Military Museums in the UK.
It’s always said, ′′ God has eyes Karma! Justice may be late, but never absent! I believe that many Hong Kong people have been waiting for a long time today, and the Apple Daily News, which has been a long time since the people of Hong Kong have been in the middle of a long time, has finally been suspended today.
Apple and my grudge, also lasted for years. A friend who is very supportive of the Apple Daily, who has recently written articles criticizing poison fruit, asked me if I could give it a horse? I said very firmly, ′′ No! Absolutely, they don’t understand the Gratitude Report, and they have been harming me since the anti-amendment legislation, and they have been wounding me up to this day, this is the rotten apple. I ask my friend, why don’t you keep asking Apple to leave me alone?
I started as an entertainment journal from to, when Apple was founded in, and the media world was blurred. Turning the professional and noble media industry into a nasty paparazzi, reporters are no longer respected. In those years, Apple used three times more artificially high salary to dig corners, and I remember that many star friends told me never to go over apples or no friends would do it; I can imagine how disgusting it was at that time. It was also because Apple made the media a bad mood, that I gave up my journalist career to enter the financial industry.
I started filming recipes for Apple’s ′′ diet for men and women ′′ for free until the year of the year. At that time, I also tried to help them as much as I could, and I lent them free culinary schools and gave them free classes to their readers. But all because of my remarks on July,, I could throw away all the favours, ′′ Diet men and women ′′ first sent an article with me, and even more so I supported violence and said ′′ Shame on you.” . ′′ Never cooperate. It turns out that a media can determine that his character is good and bad because of the stance of others? I don’t need your help, but I don’t need to go out of the cut seat to go down! I also directed a large class of readers to my Facebook professional message to abuse and bullying, and it took me two months to shut down the page before reopening.
Another Apple reporter came to you when I asked her to help promote my new book, and she asked me to send it to Apple’s big enclosure e-mail. When I was in the middle of the day, I was asked if I was going to take an interview! Ungrateful knowing you’re going to sink a hundred miles on me, would I still be stupid to accept your visit? This reporter not only unfriended me afterwards, but also spread rumors to insult my reputation. Do you think I don’t know the bad things you say behind your back? I don’t fight back because I believe facts speak louder than eloquent and I believe in karma. Now you’re unemployed! I hope you can correct the reunification and don’t whistle and say it’s Taofi again.
At the end of the year, I had friends who accidentally left their disabled sons and wives, first Apple headlines reported to mess with their backgrounds, then Apple Fund tried to use money to lure their families into incitement interviews to attract readers to donate, but I was A friend’s wife refused. When I tried to contact those in charge of the Fund to ask them whether the donations would be in their hands, the reply was that the Fund had decided to be freely distributed to anyone, and those who did not do the visit would not be able to get a cent. As a result, I helped my friends and family on my page back then, and asked everyone to stop donating to the Apple Fund and deposit it directly to the person concerned. To this day, my friend’s wife still contacts me, and I am grateful for the help that I and everyone have given back then.
Apple has been negatively reviewed by every report of me so far, and has always used the ugliest pictures without makeup, and has used false accusations to discredit me… I believe many artistes and celebrities have experienced the same. A ghostly newspaper, or avoid it, everyone understands that no news in Apple is the best news.
Over the years, ′′ freedom of speech ′′ has been used to mess with the press, and the court cases where the accused has been blasphemy. Do you dare say you’ve been pursuing truth and justice? This is a newspaper that has no moral idea at all, violates the code of journalists! The media aura is also used to organize fight activities, and even incite violence in the late stages. Many have been killed by you, run over, and put into poison, many have been numerous. Many of the media in Hong Kong are the only ones that Apple has been rectified, and they are all on their own. You still say you’re being oppressed by politics? It’s just that evil can’t prevail. But it doesn’t matter, because our grievances are over from today.
Hit TV dramas “The Rebels” help CPC revolutionists’ thoughts gain ground among young Chinese by Ji Yuqiao Jun 23 2021
The five-volume Selected Works of Mao Zedong, which collects the thoughts and experiences of the late chairman Mao, gained more fans among young Chinese after the most recent episode of TV drama The Rebel, a hit on China’s streaming platform iQIYI and China’s Central Television. Physical copies of the book have even sold out on an e-commerce platform.
The Chinese TV drama about a group of young people looking to save the country under the guidance of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and their strong belief in their mission has been getting good audience reviews since its debut on June 7. It currently has an 8.4/10 on media review platform Douban, making it one of the highest scored Chinese TV dramas of recent months.
The 31st episode of the drama that aired on Sunday featured a plot that brought viewers’ excitement to a boil, with some reviews praising it as one of the most stunning highlights of the drama.
The lead character Lin Nansheng, played by young actor Zhu Yilong, finds himself trapped in darkness and confusion in the episode. Undergoing medical treatment in Hong Kong in 1938 and feeling desperate to save China from Japanese invader, he happens to hear a radio broadcast from Yan’an, the revolution center of the CPC, and it is like a light in the darkness helping him find the right direction.
The radio program was a broadcast of Mao’s well-known series of speeches, On Protracted War. The speeches were given from May 26 to June 3, 1938 at the Yan’an Association for the Study of the War of Resistance against Japan. In them, Mao calls for a protracted people’s war as a means for small revolutionary groups to fight the power of the state.
Lin’s excitement while listening to the speech on the radio has been reflected in the young audiences tuning in to the drama.
“Probably because I live in an age of peace, I hadn’t tried to understand the experiences and thoughts of revolutionists, even Chairman Mao, but after watching the episode, I suddenly have a similar feeling as Lin Nansheng and respect the strong will and belief of our predecessors,” Wan Feng, 27, an audience of the drama, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
E-book sales of Mao’s speeches have skyrocketed, while orders for the second volume of Selected Works of Mao Zedong have flooded e-commerce platforms.
A 78-year-old veteran surnamed Fang living in North China’s Shanxi Province told the Global Times that Selected Works of Mao Zedong is one of his favorite works as a great deal of wisdom can be found in the book that cannot only be used on the battlefield, but also help people overcome difficulties in work and life.
“I read it every day when I was the secretary of the Party of our village,” Fang recalled.
Attracting youth with youth
In addition to Zhu, the drama also stars other hot young entertainers who possess a large number of fans. Using hot talent to bring in younger viewers hasn’t been limited to The Rebel. Faith Makes Great is an example of a show that has been using star power to get young viewers to learn more about the CPC history.
The cast of the drama, which tells the stories of 40 historical figures during the founding and growth of the CPC, includes actor and singer Wang Yibo and actress Zhao Liying, two extremely popular stars in China’s entertainment industry.
Restoring history and making audiences feel that it is real are important for this kind of TV series, Shi Wenxue, cultural critic based in Beijing, told the Global Times.
The religion of US’s freedom, democracy and human rights.
I have clients, not even Chinese went to the polls every 2 years last 40 years.
I make an effort to ask them when I see them during tax seasons.
I asked have your life improved, same or get worst.
Most answers I got was get worst, followed by same and very few said improved.
US democracy is like going to church. What does people do when things don’t get well, they go to Church to pray. Does praying meant things will change for the better. The answer is 99.9% no. But that gives people hope.
US is using the same religious concept named democracy. If things get bad, go to the polls (church) every 2 years to vote (pray) and things would be better. What a stupid idea, but AngloSaxon world based on Christian faith bought it.
Chinese is much smarter. That is why China rising and AngloSaxon world sinking fast.
Chinese said cut the bullshit on freedom, democracy and human rights, give us food, shelter, education and medicine. Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights meant nothing. But Americans not too smart, they bought into the empty promises until the day they die.
How could US not failed? It is a system designed to benefit the top 1-5%. What about the other 95%, who cares because they will continue to pray, their son and grandkids will do the same when the top 1-5% laughing to the bank everyday.
As expected, Andrew Yang lost! Chinese or Asians have little chance to win in any major US political races in current racist anti-Asians, anti-Chinese political environment except maybe in Hawaii when Asians are majority. But Hawaii has absolutely no influence in National politics for 2 reasons: 1) it is such a small State and a welfare state for decades meant Hawaii received substantially more Federal funds compared to Federal Taxes paid and 2) Hawaii is a one party State for the Democratic Party meant Republican Party will ignore it and Democratic Party will ignore it too because it is a free lunch. 在當前種族主義的反亞裔、反華政治環境中，華人或亞裔幾乎沒有機會在美國的任何主要政治競選中獲勝，除非在亞裔佔多數的夏威夷。 但是夏威夷對國家政治絕對沒有影響有兩個原因：1）它是一個如此小的州，幾十年來夏威夷是一個敗家仔的州，這意味著夏威夷支付的聯邦稅相比，夏威夷收到的聯邦資金要遠多於付聯邦政府的稅；2）夏威夷是一黨專政, 完全臣服於美國民主黨意味著共和黨會無視它，民主黨也會無視它，因為民主黨不用花一分錢, 選票祇投民主黨, 這是免費的午餐.
New York Times: In the end, the Yang Gang went bust.
Andrew Yang entered the race for New York mayor in January as the front-runner, but his happy-go-lucky, antipolitical style of campaigning left him unable to hold onto voters’ confidence. As early results came in for the Democratic primary after polls closed yesterday, Yang was on track to finish in a distant fourth place. He’s since conceded.
‘Star team’ of Chinese space scientists gets warm welcome at HK universities. Hong Kong is playing a more important role in China’s space program. 中國太空科學家的“明星團隊”在香港大學受到熱烈歡迎。 香港在中國的太空計劃中扮演著更重要的角色
by Professor Yung Kai-leung’s team includes some 20 researchers with an average age of 30 to 40, and the youngest is only 21 years old. Some of them are still students at PolyU, and the majority are Hong Kong locals.
A national “star team” of scientists from China’s top space projects started its much-anticipated visit to Hong Kong schools on Wednesday. Responding to the warm welcome from young people in the city, scientists encouraged them to participate more in the aerospace effort of the country.
The team, which consists of the commander-in-chiefs and the chief designers of the country’s Long March carrier rocket series, Shenzhou manned space programs, BeiDou Satellite Navigation System and the Tianwen-1 Mars mission, arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesday. They were scheduled to visit the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and six middle schools from Wednesday to Friday.
Experts pointed out that the warmly welcomed visit, especially at PolyU and HKU, which were turned into battlefields by rioters and tormented by violence and vandalism imposed by secessionists in 2019, sent a strong signal that the misunderstanding of the Chinese mainland’s development held by some local intellectuals in Hong Kong is unwinding, and the young generation in the city is full of hope and passion to participate in the country’s science advance.
Qi Faren, the first chief designer of China’s Shenzhou spacecraft, gave a speech emphasizing the theme of China’s aerospace spirit at PolyU on Wednesday, talking about the country’s long path over the past 50 years to advance its aerospace development and achievement.
Hu Hao, the chief designer of the third phase of the lunar exploration program, also said during a speech at HKU on Wednesday that universities in Hong Kong are all highly regarded, and they are welcome to participate in the study of lunar samples.
Qi’s speech was fully booked by students at PolyU, and it was livestreamed on many platforms, said PolyU President Teng Jin-guang. More than 5,000 viewers watched the speech solely through PolyU’s WeChat livestream platform.
A national star team of scientists from China’s top space projects started its much-anticipated visit to Hong Kong schools on Wednesday.
A staff member at PolyU told the Global Times on Wednesday that students engaged in rounds of opinion exchanges at the event with the aerospace giant, and they spoke highly of Qi’s speech.
When hearing that many young Hong Kong people are interested in joining the national aerospace department, Qi pointed out that some of China’s aerospace experts received their education in Hong Kong, and he encouraged interested students to join the country’s aerospace program.
Lam Tai-fai, chairman of the PolyU Council, said in a statement the school sent to the Global Times on Wednesday that the event enables PolyU students to achieve a close understanding of China’s space industry, and it will enhance their enthusiasm and interest in participating in national scientific research.
Professor Yung Kai-leung, who leads a research team at PolyU that developed and manufactured one of the key systems for the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission, told the Global Times on Tuesday that his team includes some 20 researchers with an average age of 30 to 40, and the youngest is only 21 years old. Some of them are still students at PolyU, and the majority is Hong Kong locals.
Yung and his research team developed the “Surface Sampling and Packing System,” in collaboration with the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). The system accomplished the tasks of automatic sample collection and packaging on the lunar surface, following the soft landing of the Chang’e 5 probe on December 1, 2020.
Yung recalled that in mid-November 2019, rioters left PolyU in chaos. A number of laboratories on campus were vandalized and dangerous chemicals were taken from the laboratories that might pose a serious threat of harm to the public.
The implementation of the national security law in Hong Kong has ended the history of Hong Kong’s undefended security system. Many Hong Kong residents have said the people of the city feel more secure and free from harm by rioters and separatists who gang up with foreign forces, and the law is a gift that the motherland presented to the city.
Hong Kong rarely sees such a high-level expert group sent by the mainland, which indicates the high importance the visiting team has attached to the trip, Song Zhongping, a Hong Kong-based space analyst, told the Global Times on Wednesday. “It is a real ‘universe-level’ team,” he said.
The national space scientists’ visit could serve a strong role in unwinding the misunderstanding of the Chinese mainland’s development held by some local intellectuals in Hong Kong, he said.
“Some of the younger generations in Hong Kong believe that in the fields of aerospace and such high-technology industries, China lags behind the West. But through such events, they will understand better that we have in fact caught up, to become one of the heavyweights in the world’s aerospace development,” Song noted.
Professor Yung said that his team will join the future Chang’e-6 mission in a similar quest for lunar samples, and new designs will be added to the old system to meet the new mission’s requirements.
He added that his team would be ready for the country’s call for future lunar missions including the Chang’e-7 and Chang’e-8, as well as Mars sample-retrieval quests and asteroid probe missions.
AMERICAN EMPIRE, COMMENTARY, FOREIGN POLICY, MEDIA, MIDDLE EAST, U.S., WIKILEAKS ‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order June 23, 2021
U.S. officials babble endlessly about “rules” and the “rules” are literally always tools for the benefit of the U.S., which literally always flouts those “rules” worse than any other government on earth, writes Caity Johnstone.
The U.S. government has shut down multiple news media websites based in the Middle East, including Iran’s state-owned Press TV, and al-Masirah TV which is owned by the Houthi group Ansarullah in Yemen. The Department of Justice said on Tuesday it had seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, claiming without evidence that they were associated with “either disinformation activities or violent organizations” and were shut down for a violation of U.S. sanctions.
This would be the same U.S. government that is imprisoning Julian Assange for journalism which exposed U.S. war crimes, the same U.S. government which paid for the weapons used to destroy more than 20 Palestinian media outlets in Gaza last month, the same U.S. government whose unipolar domination of the planet is made possible by the journalism-destroying propaganda of the media-owning plutocratic class in alliance with sociopathic government agencies.
This would also be the same U.S. government which constantly pays lip service to the need to protect the freedom of the press, as part of the “rules-based international order” it purports to uphold in the world.
The Biden administration has been bleating “rules-based order” so frequently and with such obvious meaninglessness that even The New York Times voiced some criticism of the way that vapid, idiotic phrase is being used instead of the well-defined term “international law”. As Medea Benjamin and Nicolas JS Davies wrote for Salon last month:
For Blinken, the concept of a “rules-based order” seems to serve mainly as a cudgel with which to attack China and Russia. At a May 7 UN Security Council meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested that instead of accepting the already existing rules of international law, the United States and its allies are trying to come up with “other rules developed in closed, non-inclusive formats, and then imposed on everyone else.”
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Today, far from being a leader of the international rules-based system, the United States is an outlier. It has failed to sign or ratify about 50 important and widely accepted multilateral treaties on everything from children’s rights to arms control. Its unilateral sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and other countries are themselves violations of international law, and the new Biden administration has shamefully failed to lift these illegal sanctions, ignoring UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ request to suspend such unilateral coercive measures during the pandemic.
Indeed, U.S. government officials babble endlessly about “rules”, and the “rules” are literally always tools used for the benefit of the U.S. government, and the U.S. government literally always flouts those “rules” exponentially worse than any other government on earth.
What the phrase “rules-based order” actually means is Washington-based order. It means a world order imposed by the U.S. government and its lackey states on pain of devastation and death, which exists solely to keep the U.S. at the head of a unipolar empire. It means do as I say, not as I do. It means rules for thee but not for me. It means we decide what happens based on what suits our interests.
If you peel away all the narrative spin and outward politeness, the U.S. empire just looks like any other tyrannical force that has ever existed throughout human history, except it kills a lot more people than most of the others. In the old days the thugs with the most effective killing force would dominate everyone else using terror, wearing frightening battle costumes adorned with the body parts of their enemies. Nowadays they still dominate everyone else using terror, except they do it while wearing suits, and while waxing self-righteously about the “rules-based international order”. And they are much better at killing.
There is no other government on earth that is less qualified to impose any “order” upon the world. This is the only government on earth which has killed millions of people and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century, the only government on earth that is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working to destroy any nation which disobeys its dictates.
Yemen alone completely delegitimizes any claim the U.S. may have had to be the arbiter of “order” in the world, to say nothing of Iraq, Vietnam, Libya and all the other innumerable atrocities that this monstrous regime has inflicted upon our species.
The sooner humanity can extract the parasite that is the U.S. empire from its skin, the better off the whole world will be.
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Highlights of Americans daily activities on freedom, democracy and human rights towards Chinese and Asians Americans. 美國針對華裔和亞裔美國人的自由、民主和人權活動的每日亮點 World Journal Newspaper San Francisco 美國加州洛杉磯世界日報 June 23 2021
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