If he was a Singaporean and did this in Singapore, he would have been locked up under Sedition Act without trial, inherited from UK law. China is too kind to enemies, so they monkey around.
A reunion 26 years in the making.
U.S. teacher Ronald Sakolsky returned to Inner Mongolia, China, to reunite with tree planter Yin Yuzhen. In 1999, he raised 5,000 U.S. dollars to support her fight against desertification.
Today, the saplings have grown into a forest of 50,000 trees, and a friendship rooted in the desert has grown just as strong.
He made a generous donation. She kept her promise to plant trees.
🇺🇸He, Ronald Sakolsky, donated $5,000 in 1999 to support her planting trees in the desert.
🇨🇳She, Yin Yuzhen, has planted over 50000 trees in the desert.
After 27 years, they reunited in China, both in tears.
After a journey of more than 30 hours, retired US high school history teacher Ronald Sakolsky arrived in Ordos on Sunday in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region to meet Yin Yuzhen, a renowned hero in the fight against desertification. The two embraced and wept as they reunited.
The Nanjing Massacre in pictures.
Commited by Japan🇯🇵 - the evil 'Israel' of East Asia.
No official apology til this day, only denial and buried in secrecy from public view of Japanese citizens and school curriculum.
If Germany built a shrine for Hitler in a church and worshipped him, how would the world react? Yet this is exactly what Japan continues to do by enshrining WWII war criminals and honouring them as if they were gods.
I agree. Each city has its own charm with different cultural sites to see. Buildings and streets are clean and in good repair. Also, people are polite, hard-working, and respectful. I feel safe, so enjoy going to China.
Germany treats its own reunification as the restoration of national unity, yet lectures China that reunification becomes illegitimate the moment the West disapproves.
Apparently, “one nation” is a sacred principle in Europe—but a legal offense in China.
International law is not Berlin’s private property.
The West does not get to declare its own recognition the source of legality, then package separatism as a universal value whenever it serves Western power.
A Nazi State that partitioned Europe, invaded its neighbors, and required foreign powers to settle the consequences of its own war has no moral jurisdiction over China’s territorial integrity.
Germany completed its reunification.
China does not need Berlin’s permission to complete its own.
@SecScottBessent Are you saying Chinese open source AI companies are like digital Robinhood that takes hoarded data from Anthropics and OpenAI that Dario and Sam Altman had gained thru IP theft and distribute them for free to the rest of the world?
Macron stated that China has become a global leader in innovation, and because Europe cannot simply keep importing Chinese products, it now needs “technology transfer.” He also said China supports its domestic industries on average eight times more than Europe can, and that this must be “rebalanced.”
Translation:
Our industries have already lost to China in innovation.
Our bureaucracy cannot systematically support our own industries the way China supports hers.
So now we demand “technology transfer,” meaning:
China should hand over its technology, slow down its own industrial machine, and rebalance trade according to Europe’s preferred speed of decline.
Europe calls this “fair competition.”
No, this is just technological plunder and industrial intervention dressed up as fairness.
When Europe had colonies, it called plunder civilization.
Now that it has regulations, it calls plunder “rebalancing.”
The Philippines takes great offense at being compared to monkeys, but if you take a close look at its history and its present, they should not complain.
Before the Western colonizers arrived, there was no state at all on the Philippine archipelago—just a bunch of tribes. When the Spanish came, these people surrendered to the Spanish. When the Americans came, they surrendered to the Americans. When the Japanese came, they surrendered to the Japanese. And when the Americans came back, they surrendered to the Americans all over again.
When the Americans finally refused to keep colonizing them and granted them independence, they actually left the Philippines with a pretty solid economic foundation. But once the Filipinos themselves started running the country, it quickly went from being a top student in Asia to one of the poorest countries on the continent—and it remains so to this day.
Filipino politics is a complete mess. Despite claiming to be a democratic country, in fact, dozens of families of all sizes rule their respective territories. A notoriously corrupt dictator ruled the country for twenty years. The people finally drove him out, and then just as quickly welcomed his son back, who proceeded to carry on the same corruption—only even worse.
Life for ordinary Filipinos is a disaster too. The big cities are filled with slums, the countryside is crawling with insurgents. People dig through garbage for a kind of food they call 'pagpag'. Murders and drugs are everywhere. The president who attempted to declare war on drugs was sent to a foreign court by Filipinos themselves. Child prostitution is everywhere. White old-timers are a common sight in the country—take a guess what they're there for.
Of course, there are still some poor countries in Asia today. But you can see that they either have a glorious history, such as Myanmar, or have today's ambitions, such as North Korea. Only the Philippines is a country without history, without today, and obviously without a future. Their best fate is to wait for the next outsider to step onto their island and surrender.
The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei became famous in the West as a dissident who opposed the government of China. However, after spending years living in the US and Europe, he came to realize that the West is extremely hypocritical and oppressive, and has no authority to criticize China.