The dragon fruit in our garden is blooming 我們花園的火龍果開花了
Category: business.blog
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Taiwan 2-Stars retired General discuss US proxy war against China in Taiwan. He gave detail military analysis why US beats the war drums with a death wish on Taiwan but won’t be there to defend Taiwan 聯合軍演“被看破手腳”！ 漆黑2022“17國湊數”？ 日本戰略意涵! 露骨的”抗中保台”操作? 帥化民：部署千枚遠程飛彈”實屬自衛”威脅大陸!
https://rumble.com/v1gzjg9-taiwan-2-stars-retired-general-discuss-us-proxy-war-against-china-in-taiwan.html
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Talent in Chinese government is undeniably very strong: Peter Walker by Global Times Aug 20 2022
Editor’s Note:
During the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of “the East is rising, and the West is declining” in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, particularly the US, plagued by internal woes, have sought the old path of passing the buck and instigating turmoil elsewhere to ease their own pressure. China, representative of the emerging countries, is proposing new solutions to global problems. By advocating win-win development, facilitating consultation and reconciliation and proposing a balanced and effective security mechanism, China is striving to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
In the 11th piece of the series, Peter Walker, speaker on China-US relations and author of the book Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the misconceptions and differences between China and the US, told Global Times reporter Yu Jincui that in China, meritocracy contributes to China’s achievements as the best and the brightest always aspire to government service. He also dismissed Western misperceptions such as Chinese people are unhappy, and government has not been serving the people.
GT: You have visited China more than 80 times, what do you think of changes in China over the past decade?
Walker: My business in China really goes back probably 20 years and anyone who visits China frequently as I did can’t help but be impressed by how the infrastructure has changed and how effectively things get done.
I think the talent in the Chinese government is undeniably very strong, because if you go back to Confucian values, the best and the brightest always aspire to government service, not to business. In the US, the best and the brightest aspire to business and to make money, not to serve the government.
In China, the Party is made up of, especially at the most senior levels, very highly educated and experienced people, they make long-term decisions in terms of investment. So, the investment in cutting-edge technologies, in terms of energy and microchips and renewables – all of those things – China has made 10-year, 20-year commitments, and you can’t do that in a governance model where you have different parties coming in and changing direction.
And China is also very good at executing things. I spent a lot of time in my book with people who were involved in the five-year planning process. And it’s very thorough when that planning process is done, which is top-down and bottom-up, syndicated in every industry and every province, you have agreed to direction and goals and key performance indicators that everybody follows.
So, when China sets out to deliver strong economic growth or to make advances in science, it’s because they set out to do it, they put the resources behind it to do it, and they delivered. So, I think China’s progress over the last 10 years has been nothing short of amazing. I think it’s likely to continue. Obviously, there are challenges. COVID-19 has presented problems. Supply chains have been broken up. But at the end of the day, China has always dealt with its problems as they come along and done it in a fairly efficient and effective way.
GT: Based on your observation and your experiences in dealing with China, what’s the biggest misunderstanding in the US about China over the past decade?
Walker: One of them, I think, is that “people are unhappy” and that “people are oppressed.” That is just not true. In the West they’d like to believe that, because communism has always been associated with the Soviet Union and a total lack of freedom. But communism in China is very different from communism in the Soviet Union. In China, you have a large group of very highly educated, experienced people who weigh decisions and make choices. And those choices have over time benefited the quality of life in China.
I got so tired of reading in the Western press that the Chinese people were unhappy and had no freedom because I never met those people. Wherever I went, I met people who were happy. They were proud. Their standard of living was increasing on a very steady basis. China had shifted its attention from building strong positions in commodities to being much more sophisticated and focused on advanced technologies. And so, the people see that every day. There’s a phrase in the US “it’s the economy, stupid!” The same is true in China. So as long as people in China believe that the quality of their life continues to improve, they’re going to be happy.
The second thing is you’ll even frequently hear people say things like I like the Chinese people, but I don’t like the government. When you think about it, that’s a very illogical statement. The reality is when you look at the polls, what you discover is that the Chinese people are more committed to their government and have more trust in their government than people in almost any other country in the world. So how can you say we like the people, but we don’t like the government when the people of China who are the ones living there actually support the government very strongly. So that’s another misconception that the government has not been serving the people. It’s obvious that the government has been serving the people. Otherwise, the standard of living wouldn’t be as it is.
GT: There are many predictions about China’s future in the West and different comments on China’s development path. Are you optimistic about China’s future development and prosperity?
Walker: You’ve had 40 years of reform and opening-up. If you look at the model, it’s really very similar to the most successful model that the US businesses have been using for years. So, if you’re a US business, what do you want? You want to have a board of directors that provides oversight and direction at a very high level. China calls that Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau. You want to advance people, meritocracy plays. If you look at the history of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and its role in evaluating people in government, it makes sure that people are advanced after they have adequate experience in a number of different areas. So, people are advanced based on what they accomplish.
And then the next thing you have is a focus on strategy. What do we want to do long-term? China is investing in new technologies. The Belt and Road Initiative is another good example of a long-term investment that will improve China’s relationships with other developing countries. And then if you combine that with short-term operational planning, which are China’s five-year plans, you have a model that will always be effective at getting things done.
Our model is very different. Our model in the US is based on the underlying idea that our country is not going to be defined by the government. Our country is going to be defined by the businesses. So, America is home to many of the most successful businesses on the globe. And that model, taking advantage of US ingenuity, hard work, creativity, innovation, is a very different model. And that’s why I argue this is not about right or wrong. These are two very different models. They both have been incredibly successful in raising the standard of living in both countries. Therefore, rather than criticize the other model as wrong, why not accept the fact that it’s different?
I’m very confident that China is going to continue to be very successful. And we have to remember that the population of China is four times the population of the US so it’s inevitable that as China increases its productivity, China will become – there’s no question just do the math – the largest economy in the world.
As long as China’s core model remains, you are going to have a unified government, not a divided one. You are going to advance people who are the most educated, have the most experience and have a track record of delivering results. You will be thinking strategically.
I think at the end of the day, the most important thing for China is to continue to deliver on the economy. Nothing is more important than China continuing to deliver that economic performance and not get caught up in ideology. And for example, favoring state-owned enterprises over private enterprise is a mistake.
The great companies in the US were started by entrepreneurs who had a passion for what they were building. If you look at the US today, Elon Musk and what he’s done is amazing, but that’s a person who had the freedom in the American system to go out and build that and make it happen. China’s great companies are private companies. So, it’s very important that private enterprises continue to thrive in China, and that the opportunities to compete are there to create the next generation whether it’s Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent or Tiktok. China is very dependent on private enterprise being successful longer term.
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SF protest against Nancy Pelosi working with Taiwan Secessionist bringing US proxy war to Taiwan supported by the Military Industrial Complex
2022年8月21日上午11点在美国旧金山唐人街花园角广场，由旧金山湾区中国统一促进会及各界华侨华人联合举行《反对普洛西破坏中美友好关系》示威集会，许多讲者纷纷发言，群情激昂，声讨普洛西窜访台湾地区！各种口号声响彻华埠上空!
統促會反戰組織集會聲討 普洛西訪台破壞美中關係
2022-08-22 05:59:00
多個組織在華埠花園角聲討普洛西集會。
參與民眾手持標語聲討普洛西。
退休華裔法官及「重返和平」創始人鄧孟詩發言。記者洪郁欣攝
(本報記者洪郁欣三藩市報道)
舊金山灣區中國統一促進會（統促會）、「重返和平」、「粉紅代碼」等社區組織和反戰團體，周日在三藩市華埠花園角集會，聲討聯邦眾議院議長普洛西（Nancy Pelosi），抗議其日前執意訪台挑釁中國的行為，並現場收集請願書簽名，要求普洛西辭職。
活動組織者稱，普洛西於8月2日不顧各界的反對，以及在中國政府的多次警告下執意訪台，違背中美三個聯合公報的承諾。
統促會英文秘書張藍真是集會主持人之一，她指出，「普洛西這次魯莽的挑釁之舉導致了台海關係的緊張，美中友好關係破裂加深，直接影響了在美華人華僑。」她補充道，「普洛西作為具有高度政治敏感的美國政府第三號人物，她在台灣發表的聲明和行徑，已經違背美方50年前在中美三個聯合公報中作出的承諾，包括世界上只有一個中國，美不可與台灣發展官方關係等。」
統促會副理事長黃楚文說，中美關係的好壞直接影響了所有僑胞，「我們希望中美相互尊重，和平共處。中國人自古不惹事，但也不怕事。」
駐美中華總會館總董關家澄因事未能出席昨日集會，由代總董黃國康到場，他稱「作為身在美國的僑胞，希望中美關係友好，希望美國政府能重視仇視亞裔問題，讓華人社區得以安居樂業。」
退休華裔加州高等法院法官及「重返和平」組織（Pivot to Peace）創始人鄧孟詩（Julie Tang）表示，希望拜登總統重新調整對華政策，「希望美國把中國視為朋友和潛在盟友，因為中國不是敵人，也不是威脅。」「重返和平」另一位創始人兼此次集會主持蕭思華（Sheila Xiao）呼籲，民眾參與簽名請願，要求普洛西下台。她稱，普洛西由三藩市選民選出，代表三藩市出任聯邦眾議員，她的首要任務應當是解決三藩市的諸多問題，而不是一意孤行，引發前所未有的危機，使中美關係惡化，甚至可能導致軍事衝突，製造國際動盪。
各組織還稱，普洛西在國會休會期間返回選區，屆時可能會組織進一步的抗議。
集會主要召集組織還有知名反戰團體「粉紅代碼」（CODE PINK）、、「退伍軍人和平會」（Veterans of Peace）、「阻止戰爭並終止種族歧視聯盟」（ANSWER Coalition）等等。眾人之後還在醒獅團帶領下在華埠街頭遊行傳達信息。
Alliance for Peaceful Reunification and anti-war groups condemn Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan for damaging US-China relations
2022-08-22
05:59:00Community organizations and anti-war groups such as the San Francisco Bay Area Alliance for Peaceful Reunification, Pivot to Peace, Code Pink, and others rallied in San Francisco Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square on Sunday to denounce House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. They protested her deliberately provocative visit to Taiwan. They collected signatures for a petition that demanded Pelosi resign as Speaker.
The organizers of the event said that Pelosi, ignoring opposition from various sectors in the community and the repeated warnings from the Chinese government, had insisted on visiting Taiwan on August 2 in violation of the commitments made in the three Sino-US Joint Communiques.
Zhang Lanzhen, the English secretary of the Alliance for Peaceful Reunification, pointed out that “Pelosi’s reckless and provocative act has led to tensions in the Taiwan Strait; the rupture of the friendly relationship between the United States and China has deepened. This directly affects Chinese in the United States.” She added, “In a politically sensitive position of being third-in-succession for the U.S. Presidency, her statements and actions in Taiwan have violated the commitments made by the U.S. side in the three Sino-U.S. Joint Communiques of 50 years ago, There is only one China; the United States should not develop official relations with Taiwan.”
Huang Chuwen, vice-chairman of the Alliance for Peaceful Reunification, said that Sino-US relations directly affects all Chinese in America. “We hope that China and the United States will respect each other and coexist peacefully. Since ancient times, the Chinese do not initiate trouble, but are not afraid of responding to trouble.”
Guan Jiacheng, the general director of the Chinese Association in the United States, was unable to attend yesterday’s meeting due to business affairs, so Robert Wong, the acting general manager, was present. He said, “As an overseas Chinese in the United States, I hope that China and the United States have friendly relations, and that the United States government will pay attention to the issue of anti-Asian hate so that the Chinese community live and work in peace.”
Julie Tang, a retired California Superior Court judge and founder of Pivot to Peace, expressed the hope that President Biden will readjust its China policy, “I hope the United States will see China as a friend and potential ally because China is neither an enemy nor a threat.” Sheila Xiao, another founder of Pivot to Peace and M.C. of the rally, called on the public to sign a petition calling for Pelosi to step down. She said that Pelosi was elected by San Francisco voters to represent San Francisco. Her priority should be to solve many problems in San Francisco, not to go it alone and cause an unprecedented crisis, worsening Sino-US relations, creating international unrest, and possibly leading to military conflict.
The groups also said further protests could be organized when Pelosi returns to her constituency during the congressional recess.
The main convening organizations of the rally are the well-known anti-war groups CODE PINK, Veterans For Peace, ANSWER Coalition and others. The crowd then marched on the streets of Chinatown, led by a Lion Dance group to convey their message.
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Tesla’s CEO is a realist. He know praising China will be criticized, he speaks the truth. All Fortune 500 companies do well in China see their profits at least double.
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Pandora box is opened: CIA and Ukraine suspected murdering Putin’s key adviser’s daughter, Russia could return the favor 潘多拉魔盒被打開：中情局和烏克蘭涉嫌謀殺普京關鍵顧問的女兒，俄羅斯可能會報仇
Dugina assassin identified
WSWS sees it as a provocation for wider war with Washington’s fingerprints on it:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/22/mnnw-a22.htmlBoth the evidence of history and the logic of contemporary developments lead to the inescapable conclusion that the assassination of Dugina was a political crime, bearing the fingerprints of Washington, calculated to provoke a wider war.
The involvement of Washington in such a scenario is not only plausible; it is the political default hypothesis, that which must be assumed to be true unless otherwise proven false. The entire history of US imperialism is one of assassinations and wars instigated by the US intelligence agencies…
…Provocation has become the bedrock principle of Washington’s international behavior. This rationale underpins Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, pushing conflict with China, as it does the car bombs of Ukrainian secret forces.The targeting of Dugin and his daughter, both associated with the most hard-line and hawkish layers in the Russian military, will intensify the pressure on the Putin administration to escalate the war in Ukraine into open conflict with the United States and NATO. The New York Times indicated this aim today when it wrote that Putin had attempted to contain the war in an effort “to maintain a sense of normalcy” in Russian society. The assassination, they wrote, threatened to upend this.
The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that documents confirming cases of “chemical terrorism” by Ukraine will soon be relayed to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by the Russian envoy.
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These people lives in fantasy land, glad they left Hong Kong 這些人是否有病
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Xi Jinping Saudi visit will change the political landscape 習近平訪問沙特 一次改變中東格局的訪問
https://rumble.com/v1gvxyv-xi-jinping-saudi-visit-will-change-the-political-landscape.html
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US & UK: Hong Kong Is Not Your Colony! 美國和英國：香港不是你的殖民地!
https://rumble.com/v1gvqtx-us-and-uk-hong-kong-is-not-your-colony.html
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Video: SF protest against Nancy Pelosi working with Taiwan Secessionist bringing US proxy war to Taiwan supported by the Military Industrial Complex
2022年8月21日上午11点在美国旧金山唐人街花园角广场，由旧金山湾区中国统一促进会及各界华侨华人联合举行《反对普洛西破坏中美友好关系》示威集会，许多讲者纷纷发言，群情激昂，声讨普洛西窜访台湾地区！各种口号声响彻华埠上空!
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