Once lauded by the international media, a Canadian sniper known as ‘Wali’ has returned from Ukraine to Quebec, telling local media that his experience there was a “terrible disappointment.” He claimed there was inadequate weaponry, poor training and heavy losses, as well as profiteering and desertion in the ranks. 曾受到國際媒體稱讚的加拿大狙擊手“瓦利”從烏克蘭返回魁北克,他告訴當地媒體,他在那裡的經歷“非常失望”。 他聲稱武器裝備不足,訓練不善,損失慘重,以及隊伍中的暴利和逃兵。 Video: https://youtu.be/Kz0qkS6aT5c
A story spanning thousands of years, there is far more to China’s market reformation than many Western scholars might have you believe.
Isabella Weber (UMass Amherst) discusses her new book on how China managed its transition from central planning to markets economy
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic system and move toward more marketization—but struggled over how to go about it. Should China destroy the core of the socialist system through shock therapy, or should it use the institutions of the planned economy as market creators? With hindsight, the historical record proves the high stakes behind the question: China embarked on an economic expansion commonly described as unprecedented in scope and pace, whereas Russia’s economy collapsed under shock therapy. Based on extensive research, including interviews with key Chinese and international participants and World Bank officials as well as insights gleaned from unpublished documents, the book charts the debate that ultimately enabled China to follow a path to gradual reindustrialization. Beyond shedding light on the crossroads of the 1980s, it reveals the intellectual foundations of state-market relations in reform-era China through a longue durée lens. Overall, the book delivers an original perspective on China’s economic model and its continuing contestations from within and from without.
Nina CN: On May 7, 1999, NATO deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in former Yugoslav capital Belgrade, killing 3 Chinese journalists and injuring 20 others. The strike was carried out by US warplanes as part of a NATO operation.
In Beijing, tens of thousands of furious demonstrators pelted the American embassy with anything they could lay their hands on: stones, bricks, chunks of concrete, firecrackers. They laid siege to the building, trapping the US ambassador James Sasser inside for 4 days as he holed up with security personnel and subsisted on ready-to-eat Marine meals. Protesters also threw bricks and rocks at the British embassy.
Elsewhere in China, protesters targeted American consulates. In Chengdu, the US consul’s residence was set on fire. The protests extended to cities around the world including Seoul and Berlin.
23 years on, China has transformed herself into a global technological, economic, and military powerhouse, but the humiliating memory of the bombing lives on. The bombing is vividly remembered by all the Chinese people, even though it’s largely forgotten in the West.
When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out between China and Japan in 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University merged to form Changsha Temporary University in Changsha and later National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming and Mengzi, in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
$ more important than life in US especially when the dyings are old weak and sick. US is God, played God only to serve the 1% elites 在美國錢比人命重要, 尤其是死的是老窮弱者, 這是因為美國政府有上帝的生殺大權祇為全美1%精英服務. 中國是「國以民為本」美國是「國以錢為本」看到分別嗎? 爸爸小時候告訴我們錢是重要但不能愛錢, 當你愛錢便失去理智, 不擇手段, 六親不認. 所以美國這個國家不死真的是天無眼.