@YashengHuang Willingness to take and share blood + massive nuclear capabilities + a legacy of ideologically motivated fierce competition with the west
Who’s wasting money on high-speed rail?
A reader of the Wall Street Journal could be excused for thinking the answer is China. See their recent article subtitled: “China’s train system is one of the biggest public works in history, and it’s becoming a giant money pit.” It spotlights China’s $500 billion spend on new rail in the past 5 years. https://t.co/7aIQzBiuzX
@fawadchaudhry@alinashigri This article is such an oversimplified and biased analysis of an otherwise successful confidence restoring visit. It also shows the inept knowledge of writer about the working of Chinese system. The suggested reasons of failure in article bear no significance in bilateral context
@Qamarcheema SP remained successful in pulling OBC votes. Even they weren’t expecting such huge numbers. Other factor may be lackluster efforts by CM UP mr. Yogi. Rumours have him being pushed out of way by Amit shah. I think RSS will have an infighting soon. Keep an eye on Gadkari.
@Muneerakhalifa Western double standards being exposed with every passing day. The Genocide in Gaza will keep emanating ripples of chaos for times to come.
@MiftahIsmail Just amazed about the quality of materials used by Japs in those times. A building having direct hit of N. Bomb still stands today. Even the basic structure of iron dome and concrete walls is intact. Wonder if we could built anything this strong even today 🤔
@hajiramirza The IEA govt is welcoming them back. There is no threat to returnees. Not a single unfortunate incident reported.
The only threat is to Foreign funded NGOs, influencers, malicious activists & some western embassies. And yes to TTP/Indian sympathisers.
@INFANTRY28 It's the qandhari group of TTA, the backers of TTP who must have done this. One thing is sure, our State is finally on positive track and making right steps. The surge in terror attacks proves our enemies (on both borders) are hurt because of losing their established assets.
@Jana_Shah The Qandhari faction of TTA has come out in open by letting the TTP to make a surge in attacks of LEAs. The people against deportation of illegal Afghams must wake up and see what's happening. We must pursue deportation more vigorously now.
Two of 5 global conflict hotspots have erupted in last 2 years, Russia-Ukraine and Palestine-Israel. Remaining 3 are directly/indirectly related to China.
-Indo-Pak
- South & North Korea
-Mianiland China-Taiwan
Which is next?
My opinion: Modi going in election. We must prepare
China's secret sandwich: talent at the top, data in the middle, democracy at the botto:Why China Leads the World table of contents:
PARTY PEOPLE: The Communist Party’s ninety million members contribute a billion dollars in annual dues and billions of volunteer hours. They took an oath to ‘bear the people’s hardships first and enjoy the benefits last’. 48,000 of them flew into Wuhan when Covid broke out and 90% of staff deaths were members. Few work for the government and even fewer benefit from membership, yet they determine the country's direction.
THOSE WHO PLEASE THE PEOPLE. China chooses politicians the way the US Navy chooses admirals and treats them similarly. Chosen from the top two percent of university graduates, theyspend years away from home, are modestly paid, earn PhDs, take orders, perform distasteful missions, observe a restrictive moral code, are held responsible for subordinates’ mistakes, constantly assessed, scrutinized, tried in special courts and punished more severely than civilians. China's elite has always been non-hereditary, and they’ve been the country's heroes for millennia.
DATA-DRIVEN DEMOCRACY. Constitutionally, electively, popularly, procedurally, operationally, substantively, and financially, China is democratic. The Carter Center oversees elections, voter participation is higher than ours and, in survey after survey, they trust their government and say it responds to their needs.
RED HOT ECONOMY. For seventy years China’s economy has grown three times faster than ours and, by 2028, will be twice as big. They spend four times more on R&D and lead the world in science and technology.
THE GRANARY IS FULL. Because Beijing allocates 59% of GDP to wages, incomes have outgrown GDP for decades and, by 2023, 96% of people owned a home and had a job, plenty of food, education, safe streets, health care and old age pensions. Their mothers and infants survive childbirth better, their children graduate school three years ahead of ours and live longer, healthier lives. There are now more drug addicts, suicides and executions, more homeless, poor, hungry and imprisoned people in America than in China.
A SAN FRANCISCO EVERY MONTH. China has built the equivalent of one San Francisco every month since 1951. Now they’re building City V2.0, a clean, green home for six million people that integrates 5G, driverless electric cars, maglev trains, vast wetlands and prevailing winds. Designed to pay for itself by doubling inhabitants’ productivity, it opens in 2024.
EDUCATION. Chinese youngsters graduate high school three years ahead of ours. Tier One urban teachers are limited to fifteen hours of classroom instruction weekly and their principals have chauffeured limousines and overseas sabbaticals. They take education more seriously than heart attacks.
LOST GIRLS AND HALF THE SKY. The first bill Mao, a lifelong women's libber, signed in 1949 was the Equal Rights Amendment. The ‘missing’ thirty million girls have been found–beating boys in school–and their big sisters lead gigantic science and defence programs and comprise most of the world’s self-made female billionaires.
RELIGION. Two-thirds of Chinese are atheists and one-fourth non-religious Taoists. Though a Christian uprising killed thirty million people and brought down the Qing dynasty, the Constitution guarantees freedom of worship and the government supports seventy-four seminaries, one thousand seven hundred Tibetan monasteries, three thousand religious organizations, thirty-nine thousand mosques, eighty-five thousand religious sites and three-hundred thousand clergy.
CONFUCIAN ETHICS AND RULE OF LAW. Of all government services, the Chinese are happiest with their legal system. With one-fourth of our security budget, their police are unarmed, streets are safe, prisons are empty and reoffense is rare. The Supreme Court's chatty website has had two billion visitors.
EARTH IS MY MOTHER. The Chinese have lived on the same land for thousands of years and it’s more productive today than ever. Thanks to the EPA, they avoided our environmental disasters and emulated our successes. Today, 42% of the country is wilderness and Giant Panda National Parkalone is bigger than Massachusetts.
HUMAN RIGHTS: Of the original thirty rights in the UN Declaration, China leads America in twenty-six and has proposed three that the US opposes: rights to food, shelter and national development.
CORRUPTION: The government, which tells the truth and keeps its promises, is the most trusted on earth. Though many local officials became dishonest during the boom, policy-making remained untouched. NowAI and a dedicated, Cabinet-level anti-corruption department have the upper hand.
PROPAGANDA: xuānchuán, ‘transforming the people through exemplary behavior and instruction,’ has been a government responsibility since ancient times. China’s success in rolling out new programs depends on it.
DISCUSSION IS SUSPENDED. The Office of Chief Censor is two thousand years old and its incumbent is, and has always been, the country’s leading intellectual. Today, he's a famous author and also a Cabinet member. He oversees the world’s largest, richest, most trusted media and his mandate is constitutional: “Once a policy has been widely discussed, voted on and legislated, discussion is suspended while everyone unites to implement it”.
THE TIANANMEN CAPER. Inflation, race, sex, wages and loss of university scholarships triggered the Tiananmen Square demonstration. President Clinton discussed it on Chinese national TV for an hour, but the story ended with an in camera trial in London's Crown Court.
TIBET AND THE DALAI LAMA: More Tibetans can read and write their native language today than all the Tibetans who have ever lived, and those who have lived under both governments prefer the current one. Running water, schools, universities, hospitals, airports, high speed trains and forty years of rising wages have made a difference. As has the Lhasa Hilton.
HEGEMONY AND HUMANE AUTHORITY. China’s military, which humiliated ours in 1951, has more firepower than the US but plans to lead the world by virtuous example. Failing that, they'll blow the US Navy out of the water with weapons a generation ahead of ours.
A DATONG WORLD. Ten years ago President Xi founded the BRI, promising to, “Jointly promote democratization of international relations by building an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security and common prosperity–a world community of common destiny, a shared planetary home for humanity.’
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