Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.
This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.
Read this part:
"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."
Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏
Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War.
Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.
Truth matters.
This is President Lai Ching-te kneeling at a statue of a Japanese engineer who built a dam in Taiwan while it was a colony of Japan.
« We are grateful to the Japanese for their contributions to Taiwan. Japanese and Taiwanese are family. When we drink water, we think of the source. The Ushantou dam is a sentimental connection between Japan and Taiwan. »
So there you go. According to Lai China can do what they want. In a few generations, the Taiwanese will be grateful and unctuous even to their colonizers who treated them like second-class citizens as long as they build some infrastructure. The Chinese knows how to do that, right?
Japan lectures Chinese tourists about manners because someone ate loudly or behaved “too Chinese.”
Meanwhile:
• A Japanese man was deported after exposing his genitals on the Great Wall of China.
• Japanese women are banned from entering the country due to overseas prostitution.
• Japanese tourists caught vandalizing trains in Bangkok
• Japanese men exposed for child prostitution networks in Southeast Asia
• Japanese male tourists use underage girls in Southeast Asia as sex toys
So maybe sit this one out.
“Japanese manners” are apparently sacred at home —
and optional the moment they land in another Asian country.
"No, es que en el TikTok de China el algoritmo les enseña contenido de ciencia y noticias mientras que el de aquí solo nos enseña contenido basura"
El putísimo TikTok de China:
Koreans have long tried to claim Chinese culture as their own. They have even distorted the Chinese farmers depicted in the murals of China’s Mogao Caves into "Koreans", as if doing so could turn another country’s culture into something that originated in Korea.