stephenthinkpad posted:

De Gaulle was very anti American hegemony. He tried to mess up the US dollar new world order by exchanging as much gold from US as possible under the gold standard rate; also pulled France out of NATO but later French politicians went back in. He also believed the police were part of the JFK assassination plot. I haven't looked into it but I wouldn't be surprised if the US had a hand in getting him out of French politic.

exmarx posted:

getting performatively mad at china is def reddit behaviour

Kassad posted:

I dunno, he was still reliable in the really important way : hating communists.

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/frances_hui/status/1534680510869524482

smh at twitter for not including a content warning about such intense violence

stephenthinkpad posted:

De Gaulle was very anti American hegemony. He tried to mess up the US dollar new world order by exchanging as much gold from US as possible under the gold standard rate; also pulled France out of NATO but later French politicians went back in. He also believed the police were part of the JFK assassination plot. I haven't looked into it but I wouldn't be surprised if the US had a hand in getting him out of French politic.

quote:

Far from supporting Gen Charles de Gaulle's right-wing regime, the US blamed him for the anarchy in France and apparently hoped the Socialist patriarch, Pierre Mendes France, would take power. On May 30th, 1968, the head of the CIA, Richard Helms, sent a five-page secret memorandum to President Lyndon Johnson. De Gaulle had just returned from Germany, dissolved the National Assembly and vowed on television to save France from the threat of "totalitarian Communism".

Helms was merciless in his criticism of the general who had two years earlier expelled NATO headquarters from Paris. "The Gaullists have repeatedly violated and perverted their own constitution," he reported to President Johnson. "They have treated even the moderate opposition with disdain and indifference."

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Whereas until May 1968, monetary issues had been a source of friction, de Gaulle’s financial misfortune now set the stage for an unforeseen rapprochement between France and the United States. De Gaulle vowed throughout the crisis that he would not devalue the franc. It was, however, uncertain how long France could resist the pressure from the market given the hemorrhage of reserves – and by November the air was rife with speculation that the French central bank was reaching a breaking point.

[...]

By early June, the Johnson administration therefore began working on plans in the strictest confidence to save the franc, the pound, and the dollar. 86 Above all, Washington was trying to dissuade any unilateral moves by the French and was similtaneously weighing in on Germany to revaluate the deutsche mark, since this would help to take off the pressure from the franc, the pound, and the dollar. It insisted on a multilaterally agreed currency adjustment, if any. In November 1968, fears of a unilateral devaluation by France reached a peak.

[...]

Johnson’s handling of the franc crisis of November 1968 – a crisis that Lacouture has labelled the “monetary equivalent of May” 96 – thus greatly contributed to an improvement of the bilateral relationship near the end of his presidency.

pp. 322-24

DirtyRobot posted:

I know this is the Asia thread so apologies if this is too off-topic, but:I got interested in this and looked some things up.

Oglethorpe posted:

thailand legalized it

Cao Ni Ma posted:

https://twitter.com/CGMeifangZhang/status/1534781085111951360?s=20&t=1izmiSVu0wAGwugs4PQmwQ

Shear Modulus posted:

Why don't we have government posters in america that talk poo poo about china online all day. or are they all on weibo?

Shear Modulus posted:

Why don't we have government posters in america that talk poo poo about china online all day. or are they all on weibo?

Shear Modulus posted:

Why don't we have government posters in america that talk poo poo about china online all day. or are they all on weibo?

mawarannahr posted:

https://www.rfa.org/english/

mawarannahr posted:

https://www.rfa.org/english/

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

mawarannahr posted:

lol I’ll take it to politurds after this one but drat thanks DV for reminding me RFA exists + is completely trustworthy now

mawarannahr posted:

lol I’ll take it to politurds after this one but drat thanks DV for reminding me RFA exists + is completely trustworthy now

mawarannahr posted:

lol I’ll take it to politurds after this one but drat thanks DV for reminding me RFA exists + is completely trustworthy now

stephenthinkpad posted:

Can somebody explain? Xi shows dead Mao that he is evil???

stephenthinkpad posted:

Can somebody explain? Xi shows dead Mao that he is evil???

quote:

Beauty is in the Eye of the Powerholder
China's Communist Party, with a long history of revising and whitewashing history to serve contemporary political needs, is sparing no effort to glorify its past and cover up tragic periods in the run up to its 100th anniversary on July 1, 2021. People who present a less-than-rosy view of the CCP's past can face legal punishment for distorting party history or defaming Communist heroes. The Cyberspace Administration of China recently launched a website and hotline for citizens to report “historical nihilism,” defined as any departure from the party line.

Shear Modulus posted:

pissed off my tax money is paying for this poo poo

quote:

Wang Liming (Chinese: 王立铭; pinyin: Wáng Lìmíng; born 1973), better known under the pseudonym Rebel Pepper (Chinese: 变态辣椒; pinyin: Biàntài Làjiāo, lit. "Abnormal Chili pepper"), is a Chinese political cartoonist in exile in the United States.[1] Wang left China out of fears for his safety resulting from the increasing crackdown on freedom of expression by the Chinese Communist Party.[1][2] Since 2017, he is working at Radio Free Asia as a political cartoonist on the EB-2 visa.[3]

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Wang describes himself as an anti-communist, anti-socialist and pro-democratic activist. A staunch supporter of independence for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang, Wang regards China's hegemony detrimental to democracy and freedom. Likewise, he often criticizes the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong that does not actively seek independence, as well as the Kuomintang in Taiwan that advocates for reunification with China. Wang supported Donald Trump's platform, claiming that that he supports American right-wing conservatism and criticized the Democratic Party, Black Lives Matter and the moderate left.

Unlike many pro-democratic activists from China, he opposed the policy adopted by the U.S. government to differentiate the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people, on the ground that the Chinese culture, rather than communism, is the bedrock for collectivism and dictatorship.[17] Wang supported the demonstrators in Hong Kong during the 2019 protests.

mawarannahr posted:

helpfully, RFA cartoons have explainers

https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/100th-anniversary-ccp-cartoon-04292021095515.html

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1534729329866702850

im here for the chinese cover of nothing's gonna stop us now