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Votskomit
Jun 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/committeeonccp/status/1703038199260492258?t=N9xdtE7ul8DnbupME8khHw&s=19


quote:

BREAKING: The Chinese Communist Party has ordered @BlackRock executives in China to take classes in “Xi Thought” while dedicating “around a third of working time” to studying the communist ruler.

“Attendance is mandatory.”

https://www.ft.com/content/b410e920-ecaf-44ab-b4c8-602f2c42bfd8

Votskomit has issued a correction as of 17:10 on Sep 16, 2023

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this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006
figured most people could work out what "houses are for living, not speculating" means in about a minute if they didn't know anything to start, those executives must be kinda slow

this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006
wait maybe instead of "learn xi thought" 学 习思想 they've been ordered to "learn to think" 学习 思想

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Mandatory reeducation is way nicer than what I'd do to black rock executives

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005

are there any good books on the cultural revolution, what precipitated it, and the way government was organizaed after?

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 25 minutes!
See, I just love this kind of poo poo, as it's not just the realm of reddit but also how a great deal of the Western MIC and military planners actually feel...keep being complacent. Keep being complacent. Yes your neoliberal toys built for oligarch self-enrichment rather than actual strategic reality and cost effectiveness will lay waste to the savages! Totally! Don't change a thing!
Rude awakenings are priceless...as long as they don't lead to nuclear apocalypse.

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Punkin Spunkin posted:

See, I just love this kind of poo poo, as it's not just the realm of reddit but also how a great deal of the Western MIC and military planners actually feel...keep being complacent. Keep being complacent. Yes your neoliberal toys built for oligarch self-enrichment rather than actual strategic reality and cost effectiveness will lay waste to the savages! Totally! Don't change a thing!
Rude awakenings are priceless...as long as they don't lead to nuclear apocalypse.

Japan had superior armaments which made up for their lack of industrial capacity which is why they defeated the U.S. in WW2. hold on a second I’m being handed a note,

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
yeah those goofy tankettes were really something else.

Exo-
Dec 8, 2021

I thought it was cool when they started putting a bunch of seaplane catapults on everything to make up for losing all of their carriers.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://clips.twitch.tv/BlindingFairGerbilPJSalt-HJDmk-9phxN8m76H

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1702315161904648354

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Punkin Spunkin posted:

See, I just love this kind of poo poo, as it's not just the realm of reddit but also how a great deal of the Western MIC and military planners actually feel...keep being complacent. Keep being complacent. Yes your neoliberal toys built for oligarch self-enrichment rather than actual strategic reality and cost effectiveness will lay waste to the savages! Totally! Don't change a thing!
Rude awakenings are priceless...as long as they don't lead to nuclear apocalypse.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Punkin Spunkin posted:

See, I just love this kind of poo poo, as it's not just the realm of reddit but also how a great deal of the Western MIC and military planners actually feel...keep being complacent. Keep being complacent. Yes your neoliberal toys built for oligarch self-enrichment rather than actual strategic reality and cost effectiveness will lay waste to the savages! Totally! Don't change a thing!
Rude awakenings are priceless...as long as they don't lead to nuclear apocalypse.

I also like how comically racist the drawings of Chinese people are, with the cue hairstyles and slanted eyes

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012

stumblebum posted:

china cheated by using human wave tactics on material science

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Good news for fans of the twenty-first Triple Crown Champion in WWE history - Li Shangfu (whose position renders him as like unto a king in the Chinese defence ministry) has disappeared from public view with little or no explanation, like a mystery waiting to be solved.


https://www.ft.com/content/6dca8dea-c7bf-436a-919e-99fe4a6c1e3c

Then there were two: disappearance of second Chinese minister sparks speculation
Joe Leahy in Beijing and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
September 16 2023

Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu told a China-Africa security forum in Beijing last month that the world was entering a new period of “instability”.

Just over two weeks later, officials and experts outside China are raising questions about the durability of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s cabinet, after Li became the second high-profile minister to disappear with little or no explanation from public view in less than two months.


US officials told the Financial Times they believed Li had been stripped of his duties in a pattern that seemed to follow that of China’s former foreign minister, Qin Gang, who mysteriously disappeared in June and was officially replaced a month later. His fate is unknown.

“As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’,” US ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel posted on Thursday on X, formerly Twitter.

A week earlier Emanuel wrote that China’s government was “now resembling Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None”.

While senior Chinese officials are periodically purged for corruption, analysts say two cabinet ministers have not disappeared in this way in recent decades, especially in such quick succession.

Their situation — which comes just six months after Xi announced his new cabinet as part of the inauguration of his third-five year term — adds to perceptions that decision-making is becoming even less transparent at a moment when China is struggling to rekindle domestic and foreign investor confidence in its struggling economy.

In contrast to the removal of previous senior figures, Li and Qin were both picked by Xi, making it more difficult for the president to deflect blame for their failures.

“It’s very unusual. I could not have imagined in such a short period of time that two very important ministers would disappear and without any information,” said Alfred Wu, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore.

Although the defence minister wields little power, he serves as the People’s Liberation Army’s face to the outside world. An aerospace engineer with little international exposure, Li was confirmed as defence minister in March after joining the Central Military Commission, China’s highest military body, last October.

Internationally, Li’s appointment was controversial from the start. In 2018, the US placed sanctions on him for engaging in transactions with individuals affiliated with Russia’s defence or intelligence sectors. Li was director of an agency that planned, developed and procured weapons for the PLA at the time.

China refused to let Li meet US defence secretary Lloyd Austin while the sanctions prevailed, complicating the countries’ military ties.

US officials have said Li is being investigated for corruption, but one said it was unclear whether it was related to his time in charge of the department responsible for developing and procuring weapons.

In July, the Central Military Commission, which Xi chairs, announced a corruption probe into equipment procurement going back almost six years. The following month Xi removed the two top generals at the PLA’s Rocket Force, which oversees the country’s missiles and nuclear weapons, in the biggest shake-up of the military leadership in a decade. Li was not named in those probes.

While many analysts view Xi’s anti-corruption campaigns as politically motivated, one US official said graft was endemic in the PLA, inhibiting the president’s ambitions of turning it into a force capable of tasks such as subduing Taiwan. “It [corruption] has had a profound effect on what they’re able to do, and how they do it,” the official said.

Officially, China has said nothing about Li’s whereabouts. The foreign ministry on Friday said it was “not familiar with the situation”. Reuters on Thursday cited Vietnamese officials saying that Li cancelled a meeting last week because of a “health condition” — the same reason given by the foreign ministry early in Qin’s absence.

“Anyone who [has been] publicly claimed [as having] health issues will never be healthy again in the future,” said one user on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media service, in one of the few uncensored posts on Li.


While no mention was made of Li on official media, analysts said the rapid purges of the two ministers indicated troubles beneath the surface in Xi’s government.

Lyle Morris, a former Pentagon China official now at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said the investigation was a “big deal” that raised questions about the vetting process, since Xi has a large team that studies candidates for senior government positions.

He said the situation was embarrassing for Xi and reflected a weakness in the Chinese system in terms of instability, but cautioned it could also be a sign of the president’s power.

“Maybe this is Xi inserting himself in a system that is highly corrupt, so in some paradoxical way it shows strength with his ability to take someone down so early in his tenure,” Morris said.

Xi was already facing increasing policy challenges after his zero-Covid strategy pushed the economy into a nosedive last year from which it has struggled to emerge, with growth slowing in the second quarter.

“There is speculation his top aides are not aligning themselves enough with him so he probably is using this [the crackdowns] to enhance further loyalty to his leadership. Not only from the civilian side but from the military side,” said Yu Ping, a China expert and a former fellow at NYU’s US-Asia Law Institute.

The risk was that as Xi consolidated his power — at the 20th Chinese Communist party (CCP) congress last year, he installed loyalists to the top leadership positions and excluded rival factions — such apparent purges would become more regular, said NUS’s Wu.

Officials would compete to show their loyalty and try to expose rivals’ weaknesses, he said. In a paper on tensions between Xi’s top officials, Guoguang Wu, senior research scholar at the Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, said that these disputes accounted for many of China’s contradictory policies, such as trying to attract external investors while conducting national security raids on foreign consultants.


“When the supreme leader controls everything, ironically, the CCP regime becomes less stable politically and more inconsistent in terms of governance,” Wu wrote in The China Leadership Monitor magazine this month.

The other risk from the sudden apparent purges of ministers is that they might further disempower other senior officials, making them less inclined to take bold steps to solve the country’s problems, analysts said. Foreign countries will also wonder whether it is worth engaging deeply with cabinet ministers, knowing they lack clout.

World leaders “will be guessing about whether they really need to talk to [a given minister] or if that person will last very long”, said Yu.

Kindest Forums User
Mar 25, 2008

Let me tell you about my opinion about Bernie Sanders and why Donald Trump is his true successor.

You cannot vote Hillary Clinton because she is worse than Trump.
Inviting foreign investors and then raiding their offices is not contradictory policy. In fact its loving genius

Beefeater1980
Sep 12, 2008

My God, it's full of Horatios!






Kindest Forums User posted:

Inviting foreign investors and then raiding their offices is not contradictory policy. In fact its loving genius

All throughout China, risk management professionals at banks and investment funds are going to be telling their GMs “we loving told you we were going to get raided.” and then sacked immediately so that business can continue as usual.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

For quite some time readers have been fed a steady diet of commentary signaling economic decline in China. To use but one example, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell recently wrote that the Chinese economy has hit a “rough patch.” Rampell is not alone. Around the time of her column, the Post gathered together a number of contributors to muse about the why behind China’s economic difficulties.

Is it struggling? As this column always sheepishly admits, it would be very difficult to measure the “GDP” of one’s street, let alone a vast country. Furthermore, economies are not blobs that can have their temperature taken, they’re people. The speculation here is that measures of Chinese economic health are as misleading as they are stateside. The economies of both the U.S. and China are far too dynamic to be tracked by the kind of stuffed-with-conceit people who would presume to measure them.

At the same time it’s notable that U.S. equity indices haven’t corrected in any substantial way. Non sequitur? Not at all. China is a huge market for U.S. corporations. Readers have seen this recently with Apple’sAAPL $200 billion market cap loss that took place after Chinese officials threatened merely limited bans on the sale of iPhones. Apple sells lots of iPhones there, only for investors to express nervousness. Apple is not alone. If China’s economy weakens, we will see it very clearly through equity weakness in the U.S.

Which raises an obvious question: if China’s economy is so weak, why isn’t the latter showing up in market indices? Why indeed. Maybe the answer can be found in Xi Jinping, the very individual so many U.S. pundits point to as the source of China’s alleged economic malaise.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, Xi’s substantial power “is delaying the country’s response to its worst economic slowdown in years.” While “Officials in charge of day-to-day economic affairs have been holding increasingly urgent meetings in recent months to discuss ways to address the deteriorating outlook,” Xi has apparently been content to do nothing. In the words of Journal reporters Lingling Wei and Stella Yifan Xie, Xi “hasn’t seemed interested in backing more stimulus” despite “advice from leading Chinese economists to take bolder action.” Xi is the wise one.

Better yet, if Benjamin Anderson were around he would cheer Xi’s lack of activity. In his brilliant book on the 1930s, Economics and the Public Welfare, Anderson was clear that the “Great Depression” was only “Great” because in response to a weak economy, the political class arrogated to themselves the power to fix it. There was your depression.

Lost on economists and politicians in the U.S. then, and in China now, is that a “recession” is a sign of an economy in recovery as bad investments are mothballed, poorly situated employees are shed so that they can find work better suited to them elsewhere, and it’s broadly when mistakes are rapidly corrected. To fight “recession” is to fight recovery. Rather than let individuals and companies fix themselves, “stimulus” makes it possible for bad ideas to fester. Absent “do something” politicians in the 1930s, there is no Great Depression. There’s just a boom, much as there was when President Harding did less than nothing in response to the much bigger 1920-21 recession. Do nothing authored the Roaring 20s. Get it?

In doing nothing now, Xi is ideally making it possible for the Chinese to fix their errors, and for well-run businesses to acquire physical and human capital on the relative cheap. It all speaks to the possibility that Xi knows much more than economists do about why economies grow. So do stock markets, by the way.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012


President Jinping, the American corporate executive class yearns for reeducation

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Some Guy TT posted:

For quite some time readers have been fed a steady diet of commentary signaling economic decline in China. To use but one example, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell recently wrote that the Chinese economy has hit a “rough patch.” Rampell is not alone. Around the time of her column, the Post gathered together a number of contributors to muse about the why behind China’s economic difficulties.

Is it struggling? As this column always sheepishly admits, it would be very difficult to measure the “GDP” of one’s street, let alone a vast country. Furthermore, economies are not blobs that can have their temperature taken, they’re people. The speculation here is that measures of Chinese economic health are as misleading as they are stateside. The economies of both the U.S. and China are far too dynamic to be tracked by the kind of stuffed-with-conceit people who would presume to measure them.

At the same time it’s notable that U.S. equity indices haven’t corrected in any substantial way. Non sequitur? Not at all. China is a huge market for U.S. corporations. Readers have seen this recently with Apple’sAAPL $200 billion market cap loss that took place after Chinese officials threatened merely limited bans on the sale of iPhones. Apple sells lots of iPhones there, only for investors to express nervousness. Apple is not alone. If China’s economy weakens, we will see it very clearly through equity weakness in the U.S.

Which raises an obvious question: if China’s economy is so weak, why isn’t the latter showing up in market indices? Why indeed. Maybe the answer can be found in Xi Jinping, the very individual so many U.S. pundits point to as the source of China’s alleged economic malaise.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, Xi’s substantial power “is delaying the country’s response to its worst economic slowdown in years.” While “Officials in charge of day-to-day economic affairs have been holding increasingly urgent meetings in recent months to discuss ways to address the deteriorating outlook,” Xi has apparently been content to do nothing. In the words of Journal reporters Lingling Wei and Stella Yifan Xie, Xi “hasn’t seemed interested in backing more stimulus” despite “advice from leading Chinese economists to take bolder action.” Xi is the wise one.

Better yet, if Benjamin Anderson were around he would cheer Xi’s lack of activity. In his brilliant book on the 1930s, Economics and the Public Welfare, Anderson was clear that the “Great Depression” was only “Great” because in response to a weak economy, the political class arrogated to themselves the power to fix it. There was your depression.

Lost on economists and politicians in the U.S. then, and in China now, is that a “recession” is a sign of an economy in recovery as bad investments are mothballed, poorly situated employees are shed so that they can find work better suited to them elsewhere, and it’s broadly when mistakes are rapidly corrected. To fight “recession” is to fight recovery. Rather than let individuals and companies fix themselves, “stimulus” makes it possible for bad ideas to fester. Absent “do something” politicians in the 1930s, there is no Great Depression. There’s just a boom, much as there was when President Harding did less than nothing in response to the much bigger 1920-21 recession. Do nothing authored the Roaring 20s. Get it?

In doing nothing now, Xi is ideally making it possible for the Chinese to fix their errors, and for well-run businesses to acquire physical and human capital on the relative cheap. It all speaks to the possibility that Xi knows much more than economists do about why economies grow. So do stock markets, by the way.

lmao

Honky Mao posted:

President Jinping, the American corporate executive class yearns for reeducation

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
I wish I could get a third of a paycheck for going to communism school

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i would bring an apple for the teacher each day

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Some Guy TT posted:

For quite some time readers have been fed a steady diet of commentary signaling economic decline in China. To use but one example, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell recently wrote that the Chinese economy has hit a “rough patch.” Rampell is not alone. Around the time of her column, the Post gathered together a number of contributors to muse about the why behind China’s economic difficulties.

Is it struggling? As this column always sheepishly admits, it would be very difficult to measure the “GDP” of one’s street, let alone a vast country. Furthermore, economies are not blobs that can have their temperature taken, they’re people. The speculation here is that measures of Chinese economic health are as misleading as they are stateside. The economies of both the U.S. and China are far too dynamic to be tracked by the kind of stuffed-with-conceit people who would presume to measure them.

At the same time it’s notable that U.S. equity indices haven’t corrected in any substantial way. Non sequitur? Not at all. China is a huge market for U.S. corporations. Readers have seen this recently with Apple’sAAPL $200 billion market cap loss that took place after Chinese officials threatened merely limited bans on the sale of iPhones. Apple sells lots of iPhones there, only for investors to express nervousness. Apple is not alone. If China’s economy weakens, we will see it very clearly through equity weakness in the U.S.

Which raises an obvious question: if China’s economy is so weak, why isn’t the latter showing up in market indices? Why indeed. Maybe the answer can be found in Xi Jinping, the very individual so many U.S. pundits point to as the source of China’s alleged economic malaise.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, Xi’s substantial power “is delaying the country’s response to its worst economic slowdown in years.” While “Officials in charge of day-to-day economic affairs have been holding increasingly urgent meetings in recent months to discuss ways to address the deteriorating outlook,” Xi has apparently been content to do nothing. In the words of Journal reporters Lingling Wei and Stella Yifan Xie, Xi “hasn’t seemed interested in backing more stimulus” despite “advice from leading Chinese economists to take bolder action.” Xi is the wise one.

Better yet, if Benjamin Anderson were around he would cheer Xi’s lack of activity. In his brilliant book on the 1930s, Economics and the Public Welfare, Anderson was clear that the “Great Depression” was only “Great” because in response to a weak economy, the political class arrogated to themselves the power to fix it. There was your depression.

Lost on economists and politicians in the U.S. then, and in China now, is that a “recession” is a sign of an economy in recovery as bad investments are mothballed, poorly situated employees are shed so that they can find work better suited to them elsewhere, and it’s broadly when mistakes are rapidly corrected. To fight “recession” is to fight recovery. Rather than let individuals and companies fix themselves, “stimulus” makes it possible for bad ideas to fester. Absent “do something” politicians in the 1930s, there is no Great Depression. There’s just a boom, much as there was when President Harding did less than nothing in response to the much bigger 1920-21 recession. Do nothing authored the Roaring 20s. Get it?

In doing nothing now, Xi is ideally making it possible for the Chinese to fix their errors, and for well-run businesses to acquire physical and human capital on the relative cheap. It all speaks to the possibility that Xi knows much more than economists do about why economies grow. So do stock markets, by the way.

hyperbolic spacetime confirmed because a closed universe isn’t large enough to contain the “actually Xi is good because he’s a libertarian” take

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Centrist Committee posted:

I wish I could get a third of a paycheck for going to communism school

You also have to ruthlessly take away the houses of handicapped Ukrainian veterans benefits and properties after attending the Xiist thought seminar.

It takes special material to make a Blackrock soldier.

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Bad news for employees at Evergrande Wealth Managemement - Police in China have for the first time detained a number of employees at the financial subsidiary of Evergrande – the world’s most indebted property developer – two weeks after the group again failed to make payments on its investment products.

Chinese police detain Evergrande employees after financial arm of indebted company fails to pay investors
Cyril Ip
Published: 5:57pm, 17 Sep, 2023

Police in China have for the first time detained a number of employees at the financial subsidiary of Evergrande – the world’s most indebted property developer – two weeks after the group again failed to make payments on its investment products.

In a statement on Saturday night, police in the southern city of Shenzhen, where the cash-strapped developer is headquartered, said they had detained employees at Evergrande Wealth Management, including a person surnamed Du.

Du Liang is the unit’s general manager but it is not known if he is among those detained.

According to the notice, the suspects were subject to “criminal compulsory measures”, a term that usually refers to detention or restrictions on movements.

Without specifying the number of employees held or the charges against them, the notice stated that the case was “under further investigation”.

It also called on the public to report suspected fraud in four ways – online, by phone, by text or by mail.

The wealth management unit was in the spotlight in 2021 after it was revealed that half a dozen employees redeemed wealth management products ahead of their scheduled dates.

Du reportedly cited “familial urgency” in his decision to redeem, sparking fury among thousands of clients whose redemption had been paused.

The group later said the six managers were reprimanded and ordered to return the proceeds.

Nationwide demonstrations erupted after Evergrande missed payments on 40 billion yuan (US$5.6 billion) of wealth management products in September 2021.

At the time, about 200,000 people had bought the products, according to investors.

By the end of June, the group had estimated debts of US$328 billion. On August 31, the wealth unit announced that it was unable to make payments to its investors due to a liquidity crunch, and that subsequent redemption arrangements would be announced separately.

After years of serious insolvency, another Evergrande operation – its life insurance arm – was taken over on Friday by the newly created state-owned vehicle Haigang Life Insurance.

The vehicle is owned by Shenzhen City Penglian Investment, the China Insurance Security Fund and three other state-backed companies.

On Saturday, China’s securities regulatory commission filed a case against Evergrande over suspected violations of disclosure regulations.

Rating agency Moody’s last week revised its outlook for China’s property sector from “stable” to “negative”, arguing that the government support measures to boost property purchases would have a short-term and uneven impact.

Another debt-ridden developer, Country Garden, narrowly avoided default this month, after reporting a record loss and debts of more than US$150 billion. It has since received enough support to extend repayment deadlines for a series of onshore bonds.

Similarly, state-backed developer Sino-Ocean on Friday suspended payments on all its offshore debt, including almost US$4 billion of dollar-denominated bonds, to embark on “holistic debt management” – the latest company to show signs of trouble in China’s deepening property market crisis.

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

Big surprise

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1703586748754694468?s=20

More: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-secret-behind-chinas-spy-balloon/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17

quote:

Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said.

So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track.

The balloon had been headed toward Hawaii, but the winds at 60,000 feet apparently took over. "Those winds are very high," Milley said. "The particular motor on that aircraft can't go against those winds at that altitude."

Hmmmm, that explanation sounds familiar... where have I heard that before?

DiscountDildos has issued a correction as of 03:53 on Sep 18, 2023

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
China sent a spy balloon that didn't spy on anything to prove that they could spy on the US

... if they wanted to

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/FrancoisOuell15/status/1702843144159862817

when even the immigrant parents don't believe in the RFA lies lmao

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
So Wang Yi and Sullivan had a long meeting yesterday (again), nothing has said about the Xi Biden meeting.

I say it's still up in the air without the US giving up something.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
from the africa + middle east thread:

OhFunny posted:

Middle East’s Mandarin push sets the tone for ‘convergence’ with China on trade

Saudi Arabia has made Mandarin compulsory for public and private secondary schools to teach.

Iran and Egypt are moving forward with introducing Mandarin as an optional subject in their middle schools.
al-saqr how do you feel about your imminent cultural colonisation and genocide?

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
gonna apply to be third mic on the upcoming stephenthinkpad Al-Saqr podcast

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
well, every podcast needs an adam

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
:owned:

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

crepeface posted:

well, every podcast needs an adam

yeah, cool adam

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Good news for disabled individuals in China under the leadership of General Secretary Xi - In General Secretary Xi Jinping’s mind, the cause of disabled people is the “cause of spring.”


https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202309/17/WS65078abda310936092f22291.html

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s story of caring for people with disabilities
2023-09-17
23:58

Xinhua News Agency reporter

In General Secretary Xi Jinping’s mind, the cause of disabled people is the “cause of spring.”

Affectionate words and kind encouragements convey the warmth like spring breeze blowing on the face; heart-warming actions and assistance measures are like the continuous spring rain, making the hearts of disabled people nourished and full of hope.

Warmth like the spring breeze blowing on the face: "We must pay special attention to the disabled"

On May 16, 2019, the Sixth National Commendation Conference for Models of Self-improvement and Advanced Disability Assistance was held at the Great Hall of the People. General Secretary Xi Jinping met with the participants and took a group photo.

In the front row of the team, a young man in military uniform with thick gauze covering his eyes stood up straight. His name is Du Fuguo, and he unfortunately lost both his hands and eyes during a demining mission in October 2018.

Although his eyes were dark, Du Fuguo could still clearly feel the General Secretary coming to his side.

"Hello, Chairman!" Du Fuguo's voice was loud and he stretched out his incomplete right arm to salute a special military salute. The General Secretary held Du Fuguo's elbow with his left hand and patted his shoulder with his right hand.

Warmth and love are speechless.

More than two months later, Du Fuguo was awarded the honorary title of "Heroic Demining Soldier". At the honorary title awarding ceremony held by the Central Military Commission, General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly hung the Hero and Model Medal on Du Fuguo's chest and carefully arranged the ribbon. "Take good care of your body." the general secretary urged.

These two meetings took place less than half a year after Du Fuguo became disabled. The warmth given by the general secretary supported him through the most difficult moments in his life.

The truth is seen in the subtleties. This true love remains the same.

Back then, there was a child named Lingwa in Liangjiahe. He was slightly mentally handicapped and would sometimes conflict with the villagers and be bullied.

Lingwa’s mother is always worried about her children getting into trouble. Unexpectedly, Xi Jinping, an educated youth from Beijing, has always been very kind to Lingwa and always treated the child with a smile. Sometimes, Lingwa robbed his things, but he never got angry.

"With Jinping here, Lingba is not bullied and feels much more comfortable." An educated youth who went to the countryside together recalled that when Comrade Xi Jinping returned to Beijing to attend university, Lingba's parents "cryed the most sadly" and "just felt like they were It’s as sad as a relative has to travel far away.”

In 1993, Comrade Xi Jinping returned to Liangjiahe from Fujian for the first time to visit the villagers. He learned that Lingwa's life was difficult and he even left money.

Replace true love with sincerity.

In October 1975, on the day Comrade Xi Jinping left Liangjiahe, Shi Yubing, a disabled villager with limited mobility, moved over step by step on crutches to say goodbye. Comrade Xi Jinping saw Shi Yubing in the crowd at a glance, and immediately rushed forward and took his hand, with tears in his eyes.

Along the way from the yellow land, the care for people with disabilities has become ever-deeper.

When Comrade Xi Jinping was working in Fuzhou, he learned that there was Lin Kongxiang, a disabled employee in Shangdu Street, Cangshan District, who had retired due to illness. His wife was disabled due to illness, and his 18-year-old daughter was mentally retarded. The family's life was very difficult, so he discussed it with the relevant person in charge of the district. , the civil affairs department arranged to rent a commercial store to Lin Kongxiang, allowing him to run a grocery store, and applied for relevant subsidies for him.

"The government should pay special attention to people with special difficulties and provide them with help in times of need." Comrade Xi Jinping said.

Such "special concern" and "helping in times of need" are not uncommon in Comrade Xi Jinping's political experience.

When taking charge of Fuzhou, Comrade Xi Jinping adopted the work style of "do it right away" and worked on-site to receive visits. He coordinated the living allowance for a 70-year-old man who came for help, and asked the welfare institution to properly accommodate her two visually impaired children. child;

When he was the Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, one year before the Spring Festival, Comrade Xi Jinping went to Quzhou to visit people in need. Although the schedule was tight and the itinerary needed to be streamlined, he still specifically said that "families of disabled people should not be left behind";

While working in Shanghai, Comrade Xi Jinping visited orphans and disabled children in the municipal children's welfare home. Knowing that the children had difficulty moving, he squatted down many times to talk to the children, and patiently watched them draw, perform, sing, dance, and play table tennis;

After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked along the rugged mountain road into Zhaojiawa Village deep in the Luliang Mountains of Shanxi Province during an inspection. He sent rice, noodles, and oil to Wang Sannu, who was raising her disabled grandchildren by herself. Instruct local officials to arrange special education for children...

"Disabled people are a group with special difficulties and require special care and attention." This "extra" love is as important as General Secretary Xi Jinping's heart.

As moist as the spring rain: "Maintain the dignity of the disabled, protect the rights of the disabled, and enhance the welfare of the disabled"

After more than thirty years, Huang Daoliang, vice chairman of the Disabled Persons' Federation of Minqing County, Fujian Province, is still excited when he recalls President Xi's care for him.

Huang Daoliang lost his arms in an accident when he was young, but he picked himself up again, learned to write with his feet, and went through elementary school, junior high school, and high school. However, despite his two consecutive college entrance examination scores reaching the junior college level, no school was willing to admit him.

In 1990, Huang Daoliang took the college entrance examination for the third time. The father, who was worried that his child's wishes would be frustrated again, wrote a letter to Minjiang Vocational University, telling the story of his child's education. Xi Jinping, who was secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee at the time, also served as president of Minjiang Vocational University. With his care and coordination, Huang Daoliang finally entered the school and became the first armless college student in Fujian Province.

"I would like to thank the school for admitting me back then, giving me an extremely precious university life, and giving me a new life." Huang Daoliang said.

Thank you, it turned into decades of daily struggle. After graduating from college, Huang Daoliang returned to Minqing County and became a staff member of the Disabled Persons' Federation. He worked on the front line and insisted on providing services to the disabled at home, calling on the whole society to pay attention to and help the disabled.

“Disabled people are equal members of the social family.” In the mind of General Secretary Xi Jinping, disabled people should fully enjoy the fruits of economic and social development and live happily under the same blue sky as able-bodied people.

The construction of a barrier-free environment is an important guarantee for disabled people to participate in and integrate into social life equally, fully and conveniently.

On September 17, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium of grassroots representatives in Changsha, Hunan, to listen to the opinions and suggestions of grassroots cadres and mass representatives on the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan". At the meeting, Yang Shuting spoke as a representative of disabled entrepreneurs and put forward suggestions on improving the service guarantee system for disabled people.

Yang Shuting still clearly remembers that when he spoke, General Secretary Xi Jinping listened very carefully and took notes in his notebook from time to time. "The construction of barrier-free facilities you mentioned is a symbol of the civilization of a country and society, and we must attach great importance to it." General Secretary Xi Jinping said to Yang Shuting.

Because of this experience, Yang Shuting paid more attention to the construction of barrier-free environment. She became a barrier-free experiencer in her hometown, providing her own opinions and suggestions for the renovation, improvement, and maintenance of barrier-free facilities.

In June 2023, my country's first specialized law on barrier-free environment construction, the Barrier-free Environment Construction Law, was voted and passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order to announce it.

"Every word of this law is immersed in the meticulous care and love of the General Secretary and the Party Central Committee for people with disabilities. I believe that with the continuous development of barrier-free environment construction, more people will get rid of the constraints caused by physical disabilities, and more people will be free from the constraints of physical disabilities. Get out of your home safely and conveniently and integrate into society," Yang Shuting said.

Enriching the spiritual and cultural lives of disabled people is an integral part of protecting the rights of disabled people.

After finishing writing another paragraph of the movie commentary, it was already past 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. Only then did Du Chengcheng clear up the desktop and bring an end to the day's work.

Du Chengcheng, 37 years old, is a commentator for the "Blind Movie Show" in Qingshan District, Wuhan City, and is also a severely physically disabled person.

"Speaking" about movies is not an easy task. It usually takes 1 to 3 months to prepare the commentary for a movie. Du Chengcheng, who cannot sit for long periods of time, often lies on the bed writing and changes positions when she is tired, but she never tires of it.

In April 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping met Du Chengcheng during an inspection of Qingheju Community in Qingshan District, Wuhan City. Seeing Du Chengcheng in a wheelchair, the general secretary stepped forward, leaned down, held her hand cordially, and praised her work as "a very meaningful job."

"Before leaving, the General Secretary said 'Thank you' to me, and my tears fell down at that time." Du Chengcheng said, "The General Secretary feels that my work is meaningful because he deeply understands the needs of disabled people. .”

"All construction projects must include the cause of persons with disabilities, and the system for protecting the rights and interests of persons with disabilities must be continuously improved." General Secretary Xi Jinping has always emphasized this.

To implement the General Secretary’s call of “the whole society must have a heart of kindness and care for children, especially orphans and children with disabilities”, more goodwill and love will gather to support children with special difficulties, including children with disabilities, and a blue sky ;

To implement the instructions of the General Secretary to “care for and care for people with mental disorders”, the integration of community rehabilitation services for mental disorders in various regions continues to be carried out;

Keeping in mind the general secretary’s praise of the “braveness” of Chinese Paralympic athletes, more and more disabled people have the courage to break through, challenge themselves, and fully enjoy the pleasure brought by sports...

"Improve the social security system and care service system for persons with disabilities, and promote the all-round development of the cause of persons with disabilities." In the happy picture of Chinese modernization painted by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the cause of persons with disabilities is prominently featured.

Hope like a bright spring: "Strive to create a wonderful life worthy of the times"

"Sing a folk song for the Party. I compare the Party to my mother..." Yao Cuiqin, a paraplegic recuperator at Tangshan Paraplegic Nursing Home in Hebei Province, once again opened the singing software on her mobile phone and sang her favorite song again.

In July 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a special trip to Tangshan Paraplegic Nursing Home during his inspection tour in Tangshan, Hebei Province. In the sunroom of the nursing home, accompanied by Erhu music, Yao Cuiqin sang "Sing a Folk Song for the Party." After the song, the general secretary took the lead in applauding.

It was during this inspection that General Secretary Xi Jinping deeply encouraged: "Able-bodied people can live a wonderful life, and disabled people can also live a wonderful life."

Bearing in mind the general secretary's instructions, Yao Cuiqin and other paraplegic recuperators worked hard to live a wonderful life.

Yang Yufang, who once recited original poems for the General Secretary, taught herself the key-matching skills, bringing convenience to residents in nearby communities. She continued to write poetry in her free time; Li Dongmei, who also listened to the General Secretary's encouragement at the scene, regained her youthful competitive dream. Won 3 gold medals at the Hebei Provincial Paralympic Games...

There is only a broken body, but no broken life.

This is a lively and quiet class——

On the podium of the Special Education School in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, beauty and hairdressing teacher Wang Yani patiently explained to the students, and the students raised their hands to ask questions from time to time. Different from ordinary classrooms, communication between teachers and students is conducted through sign language.

Becoming a teacher has been Wang Yani’s dream since childhood. What sparked this dream was the meeting between General Secretary Xi Jinping and her a few years ago.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Hohhot Children's Welfare Home to visit the children living here. Wang Yani is one of them.

The General Secretary encouraged Wang Yani to study hard and achieve academic success. Xiao Yani couldn't help but stretched out her right hand and bent her thumb to "say" thank you to the General Secretary. The general secretary also stretched out his hand and made the same gesture, with a kind smile on his face.

Grandpa Xi’s encouragement gave Wang Yani inexhaustible motivation to persist in her studies. Now, Wang Yani, who has stepped onto the podium, has begun to help more disabled children change their destiny. “Now, ‘study hard and succeed in school’ has become what I ‘say’ to my students the most. Grandpa Xi’s expectations back then have also become my current pursuit of work.”

Gather the power to pursue dreams and inspire the spirit of advancement.

On April 8, 2022, at the summary and commendation meeting of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically mentioned a sentence that impressed him: "Just like a visually impaired athlete said on the field: 'I can't see the world clearly, but I want the world to see me.'"

Wang Yue, a Chinese Paralympic cross-country skiing and biathlon athlete who listened to the General Secretary's speech at the scene, was extremely excited. This sentence is exactly what Wang Yue said in an interview with reporters.

After the Beijing Winter Paralympics, Wang Yue took a brief rest and began to prepare for a new round of competition: "I will use my diligence and hard work to continuously improve the level of competition and let the world see the grace of China's disabled people in the new era. .”

The Chinese Dream is a national dream, a national dream, and a dream for every Chinese, including people with disabilities.

Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu, villagers of Pingzi Village, Wulong Town, Dongchuan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, only have one hand and two feet. But the two of them moved forward clinging to each other without waiting or relying on each other, throwing off the hat of poverty.

"Although we are disabled, we are not disabled mentally. We still have brains and hands to think about it." At the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically mentioned Zhang Shundong's words, which inspired the general public. The confidence and courage of the people who have been lifted out of poverty are praised for their self-reliance and self-reliance.

Today, this pair of strugglers on the road to poverty alleviation have become the "leaders" in rural revitalization. Not only did the couple succeed in growing grain and breeding, Zhang Shundong also became the liaison officer for the disabled in the village, traveling to every household and busy making money for everyone.

In the homes of Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu, there is a red flag with the five characters "Always Follow the Party" written on it. It took Li Guoxiu, who had no hands, a month to embroider it with his feet.

What this stitch and stitch embroiders is the sincere voice expressed by this "sibling couple" to General Secretary Xi Jinping, and it also represents the eager expectation for a better life for the approximately 85 million disabled people in our country in the new era and new journey. (Reporters Zhu Jichai, Gao Lei, Sun Shaolong, Dong Boting, Yin Siyuan)

(Zhu Jichai, Gao Lei, Sun Shaolong, Dong Boting, Yin Siyuan)

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/China4Tech/status/1703232340699603339

the roombas are getting new jobs in president xi's economy

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

fizzy posted:

Good news for disabled individuals in China under the leadership of General Secretary Xi - In General Secretary Xi Jinping’s mind, the cause of disabled people is the “cause of spring.”


https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202309/17/WS65078abda310936092f22291.html

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s story of caring for people with disabilities
2023-09-17
23:58

Xinhua News Agency reporter

In General Secretary Xi Jinping’s mind, the cause of disabled people is the “cause of spring.”

Affectionate words and kind encouragements convey the warmth like spring breeze blowing on the face; heart-warming actions and assistance measures are like the continuous spring rain, making the hearts of disabled people nourished and full of hope.

Warmth like the spring breeze blowing on the face: "We must pay special attention to the disabled"

On May 16, 2019, the Sixth National Commendation Conference for Models of Self-improvement and Advanced Disability Assistance was held at the Great Hall of the People. General Secretary Xi Jinping met with the participants and took a group photo.

In the front row of the team, a young man in military uniform with thick gauze covering his eyes stood up straight. His name is Du Fuguo, and he unfortunately lost both his hands and eyes during a demining mission in October 2018.

Although his eyes were dark, Du Fuguo could still clearly feel the General Secretary coming to his side.

"Hello, Chairman!" Du Fuguo's voice was loud and he stretched out his incomplete right arm to salute a special military salute. The General Secretary held Du Fuguo's elbow with his left hand and patted his shoulder with his right hand.

Warmth and love are speechless.

More than two months later, Du Fuguo was awarded the honorary title of "Heroic Demining Soldier". At the honorary title awarding ceremony held by the Central Military Commission, General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly hung the Hero and Model Medal on Du Fuguo's chest and carefully arranged the ribbon. "Take good care of your body." the general secretary urged.

These two meetings took place less than half a year after Du Fuguo became disabled. The warmth given by the general secretary supported him through the most difficult moments in his life.

The truth is seen in the subtleties. This true love remains the same.

Back then, there was a child named Lingwa in Liangjiahe. He was slightly mentally handicapped and would sometimes conflict with the villagers and be bullied.

Lingwa’s mother is always worried about her children getting into trouble. Unexpectedly, Xi Jinping, an educated youth from Beijing, has always been very kind to Lingwa and always treated the child with a smile. Sometimes, Lingwa robbed his things, but he never got angry.

"With Jinping here, Lingba is not bullied and feels much more comfortable." An educated youth who went to the countryside together recalled that when Comrade Xi Jinping returned to Beijing to attend university, Lingba's parents "cryed the most sadly" and "just felt like they were It’s as sad as a relative has to travel far away.”

In 1993, Comrade Xi Jinping returned to Liangjiahe from Fujian for the first time to visit the villagers. He learned that Lingwa's life was difficult and he even left money.

Replace true love with sincerity.

In October 1975, on the day Comrade Xi Jinping left Liangjiahe, Shi Yubing, a disabled villager with limited mobility, moved over step by step on crutches to say goodbye. Comrade Xi Jinping saw Shi Yubing in the crowd at a glance, and immediately rushed forward and took his hand, with tears in his eyes.

Along the way from the yellow land, the care for people with disabilities has become ever-deeper.

When Comrade Xi Jinping was working in Fuzhou, he learned that there was Lin Kongxiang, a disabled employee in Shangdu Street, Cangshan District, who had retired due to illness. His wife was disabled due to illness, and his 18-year-old daughter was mentally retarded. The family's life was very difficult, so he discussed it with the relevant person in charge of the district. , the civil affairs department arranged to rent a commercial store to Lin Kongxiang, allowing him to run a grocery store, and applied for relevant subsidies for him.

"The government should pay special attention to people with special difficulties and provide them with help in times of need." Comrade Xi Jinping said.

Such "special concern" and "helping in times of need" are not uncommon in Comrade Xi Jinping's political experience.

When taking charge of Fuzhou, Comrade Xi Jinping adopted the work style of "do it right away" and worked on-site to receive visits. He coordinated the living allowance for a 70-year-old man who came for help, and asked the welfare institution to properly accommodate her two visually impaired children. child;

When he was the Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, one year before the Spring Festival, Comrade Xi Jinping went to Quzhou to visit people in need. Although the schedule was tight and the itinerary needed to be streamlined, he still specifically said that "families of disabled people should not be left behind";

While working in Shanghai, Comrade Xi Jinping visited orphans and disabled children in the municipal children's welfare home. Knowing that the children had difficulty moving, he squatted down many times to talk to the children, and patiently watched them draw, perform, sing, dance, and play table tennis;

After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked along the rugged mountain road into Zhaojiawa Village deep in the Luliang Mountains of Shanxi Province during an inspection. He sent rice, noodles, and oil to Wang Sannu, who was raising her disabled grandchildren by herself. Instruct local officials to arrange special education for children...

"Disabled people are a group with special difficulties and require special care and attention." This "extra" love is as important as General Secretary Xi Jinping's heart.

As moist as the spring rain: "Maintain the dignity of the disabled, protect the rights of the disabled, and enhance the welfare of the disabled"

After more than thirty years, Huang Daoliang, vice chairman of the Disabled Persons' Federation of Minqing County, Fujian Province, is still excited when he recalls President Xi's care for him.

Huang Daoliang lost his arms in an accident when he was young, but he picked himself up again, learned to write with his feet, and went through elementary school, junior high school, and high school. However, despite his two consecutive college entrance examination scores reaching the junior college level, no school was willing to admit him.

In 1990, Huang Daoliang took the college entrance examination for the third time. The father, who was worried that his child's wishes would be frustrated again, wrote a letter to Minjiang Vocational University, telling the story of his child's education. Xi Jinping, who was secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee at the time, also served as president of Minjiang Vocational University. With his care and coordination, Huang Daoliang finally entered the school and became the first armless college student in Fujian Province.

"I would like to thank the school for admitting me back then, giving me an extremely precious university life, and giving me a new life." Huang Daoliang said.

Thank you, it turned into decades of daily struggle. After graduating from college, Huang Daoliang returned to Minqing County and became a staff member of the Disabled Persons' Federation. He worked on the front line and insisted on providing services to the disabled at home, calling on the whole society to pay attention to and help the disabled.

“Disabled people are equal members of the social family.” In the mind of General Secretary Xi Jinping, disabled people should fully enjoy the fruits of economic and social development and live happily under the same blue sky as able-bodied people.

The construction of a barrier-free environment is an important guarantee for disabled people to participate in and integrate into social life equally, fully and conveniently.

On September 17, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium of grassroots representatives in Changsha, Hunan, to listen to the opinions and suggestions of grassroots cadres and mass representatives on the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan". At the meeting, Yang Shuting spoke as a representative of disabled entrepreneurs and put forward suggestions on improving the service guarantee system for disabled people.

Yang Shuting still clearly remembers that when he spoke, General Secretary Xi Jinping listened very carefully and took notes in his notebook from time to time. "The construction of barrier-free facilities you mentioned is a symbol of the civilization of a country and society, and we must attach great importance to it." General Secretary Xi Jinping said to Yang Shuting.

Because of this experience, Yang Shuting paid more attention to the construction of barrier-free environment. She became a barrier-free experiencer in her hometown, providing her own opinions and suggestions for the renovation, improvement, and maintenance of barrier-free facilities.

In June 2023, my country's first specialized law on barrier-free environment construction, the Barrier-free Environment Construction Law, was voted and passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order to announce it.

"Every word of this law is immersed in the meticulous care and love of the General Secretary and the Party Central Committee for people with disabilities. I believe that with the continuous development of barrier-free environment construction, more people will get rid of the constraints caused by physical disabilities, and more people will be free from the constraints of physical disabilities. Get out of your home safely and conveniently and integrate into society," Yang Shuting said.

Enriching the spiritual and cultural lives of disabled people is an integral part of protecting the rights of disabled people.

After finishing writing another paragraph of the movie commentary, it was already past 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. Only then did Du Chengcheng clear up the desktop and bring an end to the day's work.

Du Chengcheng, 37 years old, is a commentator for the "Blind Movie Show" in Qingshan District, Wuhan City, and is also a severely physically disabled person.

"Speaking" about movies is not an easy task. It usually takes 1 to 3 months to prepare the commentary for a movie. Du Chengcheng, who cannot sit for long periods of time, often lies on the bed writing and changes positions when she is tired, but she never tires of it.

In April 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping met Du Chengcheng during an inspection of Qingheju Community in Qingshan District, Wuhan City. Seeing Du Chengcheng in a wheelchair, the general secretary stepped forward, leaned down, held her hand cordially, and praised her work as "a very meaningful job."

"Before leaving, the General Secretary said 'Thank you' to me, and my tears fell down at that time." Du Chengcheng said, "The General Secretary feels that my work is meaningful because he deeply understands the needs of disabled people. .”

"All construction projects must include the cause of persons with disabilities, and the system for protecting the rights and interests of persons with disabilities must be continuously improved." General Secretary Xi Jinping has always emphasized this.

To implement the General Secretary’s call of “the whole society must have a heart of kindness and care for children, especially orphans and children with disabilities”, more goodwill and love will gather to support children with special difficulties, including children with disabilities, and a blue sky ;

To implement the instructions of the General Secretary to “care for and care for people with mental disorders”, the integration of community rehabilitation services for mental disorders in various regions continues to be carried out;

Keeping in mind the general secretary’s praise of the “braveness” of Chinese Paralympic athletes, more and more disabled people have the courage to break through, challenge themselves, and fully enjoy the pleasure brought by sports...

"Improve the social security system and care service system for persons with disabilities, and promote the all-round development of the cause of persons with disabilities." In the happy picture of Chinese modernization painted by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the cause of persons with disabilities is prominently featured.

Hope like a bright spring: "Strive to create a wonderful life worthy of the times"

"Sing a folk song for the Party. I compare the Party to my mother..." Yao Cuiqin, a paraplegic recuperator at Tangshan Paraplegic Nursing Home in Hebei Province, once again opened the singing software on her mobile phone and sang her favorite song again.

In July 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a special trip to Tangshan Paraplegic Nursing Home during his inspection tour in Tangshan, Hebei Province. In the sunroom of the nursing home, accompanied by Erhu music, Yao Cuiqin sang "Sing a Folk Song for the Party." After the song, the general secretary took the lead in applauding.

It was during this inspection that General Secretary Xi Jinping deeply encouraged: "Able-bodied people can live a wonderful life, and disabled people can also live a wonderful life."

Bearing in mind the general secretary's instructions, Yao Cuiqin and other paraplegic recuperators worked hard to live a wonderful life.

Yang Yufang, who once recited original poems for the General Secretary, taught herself the key-matching skills, bringing convenience to residents in nearby communities. She continued to write poetry in her free time; Li Dongmei, who also listened to the General Secretary's encouragement at the scene, regained her youthful competitive dream. Won 3 gold medals at the Hebei Provincial Paralympic Games...

There is only a broken body, but no broken life.

This is a lively and quiet class——

On the podium of the Special Education School in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, beauty and hairdressing teacher Wang Yani patiently explained to the students, and the students raised their hands to ask questions from time to time. Different from ordinary classrooms, communication between teachers and students is conducted through sign language.

Becoming a teacher has been Wang Yani’s dream since childhood. What sparked this dream was the meeting between General Secretary Xi Jinping and her a few years ago.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Hohhot Children's Welfare Home to visit the children living here. Wang Yani is one of them.

The General Secretary encouraged Wang Yani to study hard and achieve academic success. Xiao Yani couldn't help but stretched out her right hand and bent her thumb to "say" thank you to the General Secretary. The general secretary also stretched out his hand and made the same gesture, with a kind smile on his face.

Grandpa Xi’s encouragement gave Wang Yani inexhaustible motivation to persist in her studies. Now, Wang Yani, who has stepped onto the podium, has begun to help more disabled children change their destiny. “Now, ‘study hard and succeed in school’ has become what I ‘say’ to my students the most. Grandpa Xi’s expectations back then have also become my current pursuit of work.”

Gather the power to pursue dreams and inspire the spirit of advancement.

On April 8, 2022, at the summary and commendation meeting of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically mentioned a sentence that impressed him: "Just like a visually impaired athlete said on the field: 'I can't see the world clearly, but I want the world to see me.'"

Wang Yue, a Chinese Paralympic cross-country skiing and biathlon athlete who listened to the General Secretary's speech at the scene, was extremely excited. This sentence is exactly what Wang Yue said in an interview with reporters.

After the Beijing Winter Paralympics, Wang Yue took a brief rest and began to prepare for a new round of competition: "I will use my diligence and hard work to continuously improve the level of competition and let the world see the grace of China's disabled people in the new era. .”

The Chinese Dream is a national dream, a national dream, and a dream for every Chinese, including people with disabilities.

Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu, villagers of Pingzi Village, Wulong Town, Dongchuan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, only have one hand and two feet. But the two of them moved forward clinging to each other without waiting or relying on each other, throwing off the hat of poverty.

"Although we are disabled, we are not disabled mentally. We still have brains and hands to think about it." At the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically mentioned Zhang Shundong's words, which inspired the general public. The confidence and courage of the people who have been lifted out of poverty are praised for their self-reliance and self-reliance.

Today, this pair of strugglers on the road to poverty alleviation have become the "leaders" in rural revitalization. Not only did the couple succeed in growing grain and breeding, Zhang Shundong also became the liaison officer for the disabled in the village, traveling to every household and busy making money for everyone.

In the homes of Zhang Shundong and Li Guoxiu, there is a red flag with the five characters "Always Follow the Party" written on it. It took Li Guoxiu, who had no hands, a month to embroider it with his feet.

What this stitch and stitch embroiders is the sincere voice expressed by this "sibling couple" to General Secretary Xi Jinping, and it also represents the eager expectation for a better life for the approximately 85 million disabled people in our country in the new era and new journey. (Reporters Zhu Jichai, Gao Lei, Sun Shaolong, Dong Boting, Yin Siyuan)

(Zhu Jichai, Gao Lei, Sun Shaolong, Dong Boting, Yin Siyuan)

actually i think youll find this is bad news because its genociding disabled culture

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

crepeface posted:

from the africa + middle east thread:

al-saqr how do you feel about your imminent cultural colonisation and genocide?

i am of two minds on this, the negative is that mandarin is harder to learn than english so im really gonna have a lovely time trying to speak that language

the positive is that ill be able to have many more chinese warhammer pals from now on lol

gradenko_2000 posted:

gonna apply to be third mic on the upcoming stephenthinkpad Al-Saqr podcast

we should name the podcast 'the three liberals' or better yet 'Two Libs one Dengist'

Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 08:40 on Sep 18, 2023

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ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

actually i think youll find this is bad news because its genociding disabled culture

In China the disabled are cruelly exploited by companies who give them free money without expecting them to work.

quote:

Globally, disability employment tends to be low and China, despite its communist background, is no exception. Like several countries, including Japan, it uses a quota system. Companies must employ 1.5% registered disabled people or pay a fine. Many choose to absorb the fine.

Proceeds from the fines are then used to support disabled people into the workplace

But some businesses abuse the system. They employ disabled people without expecting them to actually work so they don't have to meet their access needs. It means an income for the individual and government statistics look good, but it doesn't bring about meaningful change or fulfilment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-60539739

The barbarity of China knows no bounds. Fortunately, we live in western societies where companies would never dream of engaging in such abuses.

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