[Asia/Oceania] Yellen says she hopes China wont mount retaliation against any steps Washington takes

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Maya Fey: Jan 22, 2017

Homeless Friend posted:

https://twitter.com/marco_maiocchi/status/1474402571695628290

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# ? May 26, 2024 06:59

strange feelings re Daisy: Aug 2, 2000

Merry Christmas. I am happy to see relations between China and the North Pole strengthening.
https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1474777887483912196?s=20

# ? Dec 25, 2021 22:33

Grapplejack: Nov 27, 2007

A communist debate between Santa being socialist and Santa being capitalist

# ? Dec 25, 2021 22:36

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Ghost Leviathan posted:

It really is just the US losing its poo poo Iran-style over a country daring to no longer be under their literal control.

That's another fun tidbit from my half-assed "research." When Bush first started implementing their plan to set up a missile defense system in Europe, he claimed it was to defend against Iran. The Russians interpreted this as a lie, because it was.

# ? Dec 25, 2021 22:47

Corky Romanovsky: Oct 1, 2006; Soiled Meat

CaptainACAB posted:

just wanted to remind you all that 30 years ago today, the CIA backed forces of reaction illegally dissolved the USSR against the will of the soviet people, and we owe it to them to never forget what those scum took from humanity.

we narrowly avoided this on January 6th

# ? Dec 25, 2021 23:39

Maximo Roboto: Feb 4, 2012

Grapplejack posted:

A communist debate between Santa being socialist and Santa being capitalist

# ? Dec 25, 2021 23:42

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

happy 128th birthday to chairman mao!

# ? Dec 25, 2021 23:57

THS2: Oct 2, 2021

i wish mao zedong 70% of a revered and heavenly birthday

# ? Dec 26, 2021 04:01

Red and Black: Sep 5, 2011

Raskolnikov38 posted:

if anyone has knowledge on Chinese feminism or women�s emancipation in the prc I�d be interested in hearing it. looking at it in the SFR Yugoslavia and CSR shows it�s been a very complicated issue in socialist societies

You should check out the �Golden Flower� chapter of Jack Belden�s China Shakes the World. Here�s a summary of it:

quote:

In 1949, the story of a young woman named �Gold Flower� became known around the world as an example of the path toward liberation taken by millions of Chinese women.

Civil war was raging between the Communists and the bourgeois nationalist Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-Shek at the time. The war receded with the triumph of the revolution on Oct. 1, 1949.

Gold Flower�s story was made famous by journalist Jack Belden in his 1949 book �China Shakes the World.� Belden wrote about a small village in northern China that was transformed by the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army before the triumph of the revolution.

Gold Flower is the English translation of the woman�s name, Kinhua. She was forced into an arranged marriage despite her love for another man. Her husband and father-in-law routinely abused her.

In 1945, a representative of the Red Army came to the village and called the women together to form a women�s association. Though Kinhua feared attending the meeting, a friend in the newly formed association came to her and asked about her suffering. Kinhua told her story.

A few days later, four women from the women�s association visited her father-in-law to discuss his treatment of Kinhua. When he screamed at them to go away, they summoned 15 more women with clubs and rope. When he refused to change his ways, they tied him up and held him prisoner at the women�s association.

Three days later, they convened a general meeting of women in the village to decide his fate. Kinhua testified about her suffering. Feeling the power of the women in the room, the father-in-law promised to reform.

Upon returning to her husband�s home, Kinhua�s behavior changed. She didn�t go back to the old ways of docility and servitude. She was elected to lead a group of ten women who investigated the treatment of other women in the village.

When the nationalist offensive against the Red Army grew stronger, she struggled with men in the village who did not want their wives working in the fields. The women grew food to feed the Communist soldiers. They encouraged their husbands to fight with the Red Army, recognizing their new freedoms as a product of the ongoing revolution.

Young men and women began to marry freely. Women challenged the centuries-old traditions and customs with the women�s association to back them up against their husbands� physical threats.

Kinhua�s father-in-law still wanted to beat her back into submission. Defiant, Kinhua summoned her husband. When his father filled him in, he threatened to beat Kinhua to death. She went to the women�s association and brought several women back to the house.

Her husband was belligerent, so the women tied him up and brought him to the women�s association. Still unrepentant, the women beat him until he promised to reform.

But when he got home, Kinhua�s husband said he did not support the new society. He threatened to join the nationalists. When he attempted to strike Kinhua, she ducked from his blow and ran to the women�s association.

Finding the chairwoman of the women�s association, she yelled: �My husband is not yet reformed.� The chairwoman went up to the roof of her house and called through a megaphone. �Comrade women! Come at once! Something of importance!�

Women came out from nearly every home in the village. Rushing toward the women�s association building, they heard the chairwoman explain: �Gold Flower�s husband is bad again! Get ropes and catch him!�

With Gold Flower, Kinhua in the lead, forty women ran through the village. But her husband had already fled. The women chased him for three miles, but in the dark he escaped.

Chinese women organized and empowered

There are literally millions of stories like that of Kinhua�s. As the revolution overthrew the landlord and capitalist classes, women were free to liberate themselves from centuries-old traditions of abuse by husbands and landlords.

Across China, women formed mass women�s associations such as the one in Kinhua�s village. They created a people�s court for women. Abusive men were tied up and forced to face large meetings where women could testify about their abuse. The associations also guaranteed that abusive behavior did not continue.

One of the first major laws passed by the revolutionary Chinese government was the Marriage Law. This law outlawed paying for wives, polygamy, concubines and child marriage, prohibited interference in the remarriage of widows, and guaranteed the right of divorce to both parties. By the next year, there were over 20,000 divorces, almost 80 percent of which were initiated by women.

The new government also placed special emphasis on campaigns to raise women�s literacy. In 1950, many cities reported that around 95 percent of illiterate women workers were attending classes.

Classes were also organized in rural areas. In Shantung Province, there were almost 600 literacy classes for women in 1949. By 1950, the number of classes tripled, involving over 40,000 women. (Ruth Sidel, Women and Child Care in China, 1972.)

Progress for women in China continued in the years after the revolution.

Also read Miss Chao�s suicide: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1919/miss-chao.htm

Red and Black has issued a correction as of 06:14 on Dec 26, 2021

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Orange Devil: Oct 1, 2010; Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Palladium posted:

I noticed "X in US costs ~20x more per capita versus China" is a common theme when it comes to infrastructure, military and healthcare costs.

Mysteriously the US has more billionaires and said billionaires own nearly three times as much wealth.

# ? Dec 26, 2021 11:31

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Driving west through texas was really cool imo even if i did have slight fuel concerns considering it was insanely hot and there was very little around other than road and rock so I'd like to do this

https://twitter.com/shen_shiwei/status/1475080314934292482?s=20

# ? Dec 26, 2021 13:35

Agrajag: Jan 21, 2006; gat dang thats hot

Orange Devil posted:

Mysteriously the US has more billionaires and said billionaires own nearly three times as much wealth.

and our politicians brag about this like its a good thing

# ? Dec 26, 2021 17:04

Grapplejack: Nov 27, 2007

Orange Devil posted:

Mysteriously the US has more billionaires and said billionaires own nearly three times as much wealth.

https://www.hurun.net/en-US/Info/Detail?num=LWAS8B997XUP

Not anymore! China has officially passed the US and now has the most billionaires of any country in the world.

# ? Dec 26, 2021 17:23

Nonsense: Jan 26, 2007

Disturbing what Beijing is capable of!

# ? Dec 26, 2021 17:24

Agrajag: Jan 21, 2006; gat dang thats hot

Grapplejack posted:

https://www.hurun.net/en-US/Info/Detail?num=LWAS8B997XUP

Not anymore! China has officially passed the US and now has the most billionaires of any country in the world.

seems like its time for china to jack ma a few of those billionaires just to make sure they dont get too big of a head

# ? Dec 26, 2021 17:31

Muscle Wizard: Jul 28, 2011; by sebmojo

Nonsense posted:

Disturbing what Beijing is capable of!

but at what cost??!

# ? Dec 26, 2021 17:33

KomradeX: Oct 29, 2011

Ahh so we're just bragging about doing Gladio poo poo in Ukraine

Training Civilians, Ukraine Nurtures a Resistance in Waiting

Some Dumbass in New York posted:

Eastern European nations have drawn a lesson from America’s wars of the last decades: Insurgency works. Ukraine’s training of volunteers has become a factor in the standoff with Russia.

# ? Dec 26, 2021 20:48

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Remember the early days of the Donetsk war when the Ukrainian army didn't have enough fuel to drive east?

# ? Dec 26, 2021 21:01

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

quote:

Eastern European nations have drawn a lesson from America�s wars of the last decades: Insurgency works. Ukraine�s training of volunteers has become a factor in the standoff with Russia.

Yeah there is no history of resistance against occupying invaders in Eastern Europe. None at all.

Edit: Anyway lets see what the article actually says

quote:

Government-sponsored training for civilians has underpinned Nordic and Swiss military strategies for decades, and is gaining traction as a military doctrine in Eastern Europe.

Civilian defense is not unfamiliar in Ukraine; volunteer brigades formed the backbone of the country�s force in the east in 2014

Last year, the Ukrainian Army began weekend training for civilian volunteers in these units.

Private paramilitary groups like the Ukrainian Legion run other sessions, for which their members pay all the costs. The legion conducted the program in the forest outside Kyiv this month.

The goal is not to achieve victory against the weight of the Russian military, which would be virtually impossible for Ukraine anyway.

At one picnic area, the lesson of the day was topical, if nerve-rattling: how to screw a fuse into the slab of high explosives of an anti-tank mine.

Critics point to perils in the plan for civilian defense. One concern is that domestic political divisions could spark violence from armed militias. Some scenarios envision Moscow seizing on this vulnerability, turning nationalist militias into a destabilizing threat to the government.

He described how the volunteers might resist based on the tactics of Islamist militias in Aleppo, Syria. The volunteers should use their knowledge of their own neighborhoods to move close to the Russian soldiers, leaving too little separation to call in airstrikes or artillery, he said.

Ms. Biloshitska � who studied to be a teacher but is now working as a waitress

Yeah this all sounds fine.

Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 22:08 on Dec 26, 2021

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KomradeX: Oct 29, 2011

Lostconfused posted:

Yeah there is no history of resistance against occupying invaders in Eastern Europe. None at all.

Edit: Anyway lets see what the article actually says

Yeah this all sounds fine.

I live that it's Moscow that will use fascist militias to destabilize the country and not just an out growth of this obvious CIA program

# ? Dec 26, 2021 22:14

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Russia's aim is to keep Ukraine destabilized so long as they're a candidate for NATO membership - and we're obliging them by not only refusing to drop the issue but backing all the worst elements of Ukrainian society just to look like we're doing something.

# ? Dec 26, 2021 22:16

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Remember the early days of the Donetsk war when the Ukrainian army didn't have enough fuel to drive east?

i keep wanting to kick the beehive in the eastern europe d&d thread ugh

OddObserver posted:

Russian oligarchs would be less thieving if only not for the dastardly HW encouraging them!
(because Soviet Union, of course, had no corruption...)

# ? Dec 26, 2021 22:16

Flavahbeast: Jul 21, 2001

i say swears online posted:

i keep wanting to kick the beehive in the eastern europe d&d thread ugh

haha what the heck is this tweet

Hizawk posted:

Nice one Russia.
Always be evil.

https://twitter.com/MID_RF/status/1474763289267683329?t=boR-LZtuVL657T8kF98osw&s=19

# ? Dec 26, 2021 22:32

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

that was clearly made by russia hence the russian voiceover of an english track??

edit owning the libs translates across all barriers

https://twitter.com/St_Cyborg/status/1474827953401995268

i say swears online has issued a correction as of 22:43 on Dec 26, 2021

# ? Dec 26, 2021 22:40

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Russians are fighting the war on Christmas while Americans do appeasement to Sciencemas believers and their beloved Darwin Claus.

# ? Dec 26, 2021 22:56

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Santa Is Real twitter sure took off in the last week

# ? Dec 26, 2021 23:00

Mantis42: Jul 26, 2010

Neil DeGrasse Tyson so pedantic and annoying that he united everyone against science.

# ? Dec 26, 2021 23:18

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

lol at this preview pic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aDZe-RoMA

# ? Dec 26, 2021 23:30

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

i say swears online posted:

lol at this preview pic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aDZe-RoMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yd0aoIp2b4

# ? Dec 27, 2021 00:19

Mister Bates: Aug 4, 2010

Lostconfused posted:

Yeah there is no history of resistance against occupying invaders in Eastern Europe. None at all.

Edit: Anyway lets see what the article actually says

Yeah this all sounds fine.

the US would call these tactics 'terrorists using civilians as human shields' and 'using our values against us' and kill 500 children

# ? Dec 27, 2021 01:42

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1475275380995022854

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Cpt_Obvious: Jun 18, 2007

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1475275380995022854

# ? Dec 27, 2021 04:23

Corky Romanovsky: Oct 1, 2006; Soiled Meat

Here, is carry the torch not a metaphor, rather an admission to setting fire to APCs?

# ? Dec 27, 2021 04:39

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

the ideal he's keeping alive is, I assume, believing that Africans are stealing scholarships from Chinese people and murdering and raping them when they come over.

Oh, he means the fake ideals they tacked on later after the fact, right.

# ? Dec 27, 2021 04:47

DiscountDildos: Nov 8, 2017

It's so loving insane how much the western media talks about that poo poo

# ? Dec 27, 2021 04:48

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

'I'm trying to keep those ideals alive, by which I mean forming lynch mobs based on literal rumors and urban legends'.

'brave, stunning, heroic even'.

# ? Dec 27, 2021 04:49

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1475239463420932105?t=PGS1IqHg2aywnKlWSGx6AQ&s=19

# ? Dec 27, 2021 09:08

Not So Fast: Dec 27, 2007

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1475275380995022854

https://twitter.com/badiucao/status/1475229218250231811?t=C42hMjHxkpCUHQk4eI5W7w&s=19

# ? Dec 27, 2021 15:51

stephenthinkpad: Jan 2, 2020

Lmao, let's hope Blinken start talking about NFT.

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John Charity Spring: Nov 4, 2009; SCREEEEE

Not So Fast posted:

https://twitter.com/badiucao/status/1475229218250231811?t=C42hMjHxkpCUHQk4eI5W7w&s=19

lmfao

# ? Dec 27, 2021 16:04

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