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2024: Shen Zhihua on Cold War Origins, Robert Suettinger on Hua Guofeng

From PRC Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s points on US-China relations Fourth, it is important not to challenge red lines and paramount principles. Contradictions and differences between two major countries like China and the United States are unavoidable. But one side should not undermine the core interests of the other, let alone seek��conflict or confrontation. The one-China…

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1957: XIII Rightist Critiques of Renmin University Educational Bureaucracy, Talks on Ideology, Society, Soviet Foreign Policy, Press Freedom, and the Hu Feng Case

This thirteenth and final installment of this series translates the two final appendices to Selected Rightist Statements from Institutions of Higher Education published by the Office of Socialist Ideology Education, Communist Party Committee, Renmin University of China 【高等学校右派言論选編 中共中国人民大学委員会社会主义思想敎育办公室】that was published in September 1958. This internal distribution only book published for…

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1957: XII 'Rightist' Criticisms -- Hungary, Industrialization, Slandering the Soviet Union

Hundred Flowers period ‘rightists’ criticisms of the Soviet intervention in Hungary, industrialization policy and slanders against the Soviet Union and China-Soviet friendship are the topics in Part XII. This is an installment in a full translation of  Selected Rightist Speeches from Institutions of Higher Education published by the Office of Socialist Ideology Education, Communist Party…

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1957: XI Hundred Flowers Criticizing Party Leadership, Policies, and Marxism

Criticisms by Hundred Flowers period ‘rightists’ opposing the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership, guidance and thought reform of intellectuals, opposing Marxism and criticizing how unqualified people who believe in communist ideology are preferred over experts are the topics this Part XI. This is an installment in a full translation of  Selected Rightist Speeches from Institutions of Higher…

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2024 Liu Jun: Beijing Does Not See Russia Using Nukes in Ukraine

October 6, 2024 interview in Russian business newspaper Kommersant      “In general, Disbelief prevails that the conflict will escalate into a nuclear war” Chinese expert Liu Jun on how Beijing perceives the upcoming changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine [Professor Liu Jun is a distinguished scholar at East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, China. He serves as the Dean of the School…

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2024: Trade Diversion Boosts Demand for China-Russia Freight Links

Demand for freight links from China and Kazakhstan to Russia boosted as well by trade diverted from Russia to Central Asia that is then destined (what a surprise!) to be passed along to sanctioned Russia. Robin Brooks at Brookings posted a graph of vastly increased exports from some EU countries to Kyrgyzstan which lies between China and Kazakhstan Freight transportation market October 16,…

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2024: Russia - China Discuss Trade, Need to Improve Coordination on Developing Countries

DeepL machine translations from the Russian business newspaper Kommersant on Russia-China relations and trade. China. Relations with Russia October 10, 2024       No ideology, only pragmatics Russian and Chinese experts assessed the development of Moscow’s and Beijing’s relations with the developing world The development of cooperation between Russia and China in Eurasia, and especially in…

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2024 Konpromat -- Cultural Revolution Icon Sun Binbin Dies in USA

The Russian online publication Konpromat which collects all sorts of derogatory information or stories of misdeeds of the officials and the well-known, published this article in late September 2024. The story below reminds me, when I worked in Beijing in the late 1990s, I knew the former Beijing Evening News journalist, imprisoned ‘rightist’, and in the 90’s environmentalist Tang Xiyang. He told…

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1957: Part X 'Rightists' Criticize Agricultural Collectivization, Industrial and Commercial Policy

Collectivization of Chinese agriculture and the transformation of commerce and industry during the first years of the PRC are the subject of ‘rightist’ critiques in Part X of a full translation of statements and talk excerpts collection at Renmin University during the Hundred Flowers Campaign during which people were encouraged to present their frank criticisms.  Selected Rightist Speeches from…

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1957: Part IX Excesses of 1955-57 Campaign to Eradicate Counterrevolutionaries; Defending Hu Feng in the Arts

Foreshadowing the excesses of the 1957- 1959 Anti-Rightist Campaign — which the Party admitted twenty years later to be 99% excessive — its future victims criticized the many excesses of the 1955 – 57 Campaign to Eradicate Hidden Revolutionaries aka Sufan (肅反運動) during the several months respite of the Hundred Flowers Campaign. The Sufan campaign originated as the development of a campaign by…

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1957: Part VIII Party Openness Campaign Confronts Unanticipated Democracy Movement Emerging Down Below; Party Itself at Root of the Dread 'Three Evils'

Translated below is Part VIII of my full translation of the 878-page Renmin University September 1958 book Selected Rightist Speeches from Institutions of Higher Education published by the Office of Socialist Ideology Education, Communist Party Committee, Renmin University of China 【高等学校右派言論选編 中共中国人民大学委員会社会主义思想敎育办公室】. The book is a collection not as one might expect of Communist Party critiques…

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2024 Komersant: Scrupulous PRC Banks, Russian Payments in Dollars Blocked Even Shanghai Co-op Organization Dues

US sanctions have made Chinese banks reluctant to do transactions in dollars with counterparts in the Russian Federation. The Russian business journal Kommersant has been reporting on this problem. Translation by the DeepL extension in my Chrome browser. October 22, 2024 Special envoy: Russia finds it difficult to pay membership fees to the SCO budget because of sanctions Спецпредставитель: РФ…

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1957: Mao on the Six Principles for Permissible Speech and Actions -- A Variation on the Famous 'Handling Internal Contradictions' Speech?

As I translate 888-page Renmin University (People’s University) September 1958 book I have been running down the many references that come up in the book — here a reference to Mao’s Six Principles for permissible speech. I found this from Mao Zedong after seeing this comment: “Right now, it’s a case of one voice alone; if anyone raises an opinion, they get labeled. Only the Communist Party is…

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Chinese Language Wikipedia on the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers Campaign

Chinese language Wikipedia articles naturally enough are often deeper and more comprehensive than articles in other languages. Many Chinese-speaking Wikipedians in Taiwan and other places outside Mainland China (outside the borders of the PRC 境外 some like to say in a confusing term) often write these articles so they do not necessarily have a reddish tinge in either how they are presented or in…

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1957: VII Criticizing Party Leadership During "Hundred Flowers" Speak Frankly Campaign

More critiques of the Party and biting insights about its leadership of Chinese society during the “Hundred Flowers” compulsory speak out months before the big crackdown. Topics include criticism of the relationship between the Party and the masses; slandering the Party, defending counter-revolutionaries and criticism of the Party leadership over trade unions and other organizations in Chinese…

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2013 Zhong Erju: Notes on Sayings of Confucius in the Mencius

China history and literature got a good going-over in the 18th and19th century by Chinese philologists who sought to determine the dating and authenticity of many ancient classics. Although apparently unrelated, textual criticism scholars on the western European peninsula had a simultaneous revival of this old field and were examining their own ancient texts including the Bible. Once one is going…

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1957: VI Rightist Critiques of Party Members, Organization, Bureaucracy, Tyranny and Privilege

In this part of the translation from the 1958 Renmin University compendium of ‘rightist’ criticisms from the 1957 Hundred Flowers mandatory criticism of the Party (please criticize us to help us improve!!) the focus is on the role of the Communist Party. Criticisms include the rapid deterioration in the quality of the average Party member after Party’s rapid expansion after taking power in 1949,…