#xi xinping

[paulthepoke]

Developing... China

Something is happening in China. Lots of rumors and speculation. Developing story...

September 24, 2022: Something is happening in China. Lots of rumors and speculation. Developing story… #BREAKING | Chinese President #XiJinping is currently under #HouseArrest, several media reports claimed, adding that the capital #Beijing is currently under army control. The reports have not been confirmed by either Chinese credible media.#China #chinacoup #BreakingNews…

[theythemitalian]

is cgtn or rt on tumblr i need a news organization to follow i need something to engage with

[uboat53]

Well, after years of outright lies, half-truths, and omissions out of the Russian government, here is a statement that, as far as I can tell, is entirely true (SHORT RANT (TM) ahead):

"[W]e are at war not so much with Ukraine and the Ukrainian army as with the collective West. At this point we are really at war with the collective West, with NATO." -- Sergei Shoigu, Russian Minister of Defense

This statement is worth analyzing because I believe it is entirely true. Understanding what he means will mean a greater understanding of what the next several decades, perhaps even the next half-century, will look like.

So yeah, Russia's attack on Ukraine, not just the most recent one but all of their bellicose actions back to and even before their 2014 invasion of Crimea and the Donbass, is actually an attack on NATO, the west, and the very concept of western values such as individual liberty and liberal democratic governance.

These values threaten authoritarian and autocratic governments like Vladimir Putin's Russia and Xi Xinping's China among others. Putin's moves against Ukraine have all been motivated by a desire to suppress the rising embrace of western governance and values by the people and government of that country.

Ukraine is particularly important to Russia in this regard because of the close connections, linguistically, culturally, historically, and personally, between people in Ukraine and people in Russia. This closeness means that ideas that spread in Ukraine are also likely to spread to Russia, this is the reason that Putin has acted aggressively in ways that the leaders of other authoritarian countries have not.

But that doesn't mean that this will continue to be an isolated event. The fact that other authoritarian countries are not currently threatened by cultural ties to populations that are beginning to embrace these kinds of western ideals does not mean that they won't be in the future. In fact, we already see China building up its military capacity for a likely assault on the island of Taiwan.

This is similar to the conflict that we faced in the Cold War, though even more drawn on ideological lines. The conflict in the Cold War was largely defined along the lines of economic systems; communism and capitalism; the state control of industry vs the free market. The conflict now seems to be different, a conflict of systems of governance. Autocratic governance pitted against, not democracy, but liberal democracy, democratic governance but with strong protections for individual rights.

And that last is important. An autocratic or authoritarian government can exist in a democracy. What western values truly mean in this context is a respect for individual liberties, the right of individuals to protest and even oppose the government short of violence if they wish. It is a society in which the government itself cannot use its powers over society to privilege the views of those in power or punish the views of those who oppose them.

Those who have been listening to the rhetoric of authoritarian leaders such as Xi Xinping, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, or even the leaders of more open countries such as Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump will have noticed that they have increasingly crossed the line in terms of using the power of their governments to promote their own views and suppress those that oppose them over the past decade.

In my view, this will likely be the defining conflict of the next several decades. When the Cold War ended, liberal democracy, free market economics, and the countries that practiced and promoted them were ascendant, that is no longer the case. The rise of China in particular has shifted the balance of global ideology and created a powerful actor devoted to autocracy. It may be that it is possible to avoid further direct conflict between the major powers involved in this conflict, but I do not believe that this conflict of interests will be settled amicably anytime in the next several years.

The conflict in Ukraine, then, is genuinely as the Russian Minister of Defense says it is; a conflict between autocracy and liberal democracy. It is important, then, that those of us in the west who believe in the values of individual rights and liberties as well as representative government commit to supporting Ukraine. The conflict is likely to be long and grinding and there will be a good deal of suffering and bloodshed before it is finished, but if we do not then autocratic nations will be encouraged to attack their neighbors and suppress individual rights and liberties anywhere in the world in order to preserve their own autocracies at home.

That's not a world I want to live in, I hope I'm not alone in that regard.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-come-top-putin-official-201022301.html

[determinate-negation]

got three xi xinping shirts today #buildingsocialism

[bookofjin]

Administrative geography of Western Han (30,107)

According to Ban Gu's Book of Han.

Sili司隸

Hongnong弘農郡

Danshui丹水

Shang商

Xi析

Shangluo上雒

Yu 豫州

Yingchuan潁川郡

Kunyang昆陽

Yingyang潁陽

Dingling定陵

Xinji新汲

Xiangcheng襄城

Yan郾

Jia郟

Wuyang舞陽

Linying臨潁

Fucheng父城

Runan汝南郡

Pingyu平輿

Yang'an陽安

Yangcheng陽城

Yinqian㶏強

Ruyang女陽

Zhouyang鮦陽

Wufang吳房

Ancheng安成

Nandun南頓

Langling朗陵

Yichun宜春

Xincai新蔡

Xinxi新息

Quyang灈陽

Shenyang慎陽

Shaoling召陵

Yiyang弋陽

Xiping西平

Shangcai上蔡

Xihua西華

Changping長平

Anchang安昌

Anyang安陽

Boyang博陽

Chengyang成陽

Dingling定陵

Yan 兗州

Huaiyang淮陽國

Chen陳

Gushi固始

Xinping新平

Jing 荊州

Nanyang南陽郡

Wan宛

Chou犨

Duyan杜衍

Zan酇

Yuyang育陽

Boshan博山

Nieyang涅陽

Yin陰

Zheyang堵陽

Yi雉

Shandu山都

Caiyang蔡陽

Xinye新野

Zhuyang筑陽

Jiyang棘陽

Wudang武當

Wuyin舞陰

Xi'e西鄂

Rang穰

Zhi酈

Anzhong安眾

Guanjun冠軍

Biyang比陽

Pingshi平氏

Sui隨

She葉

Deng鄧

Zhaoyang朝陽

Luyang魯陽

Chongling舂陵

Xindu新都

Huyang湖陽

Hongyang紅陽

Lecheng樂成

Bowang博望

Fuyang復陽

Nan南郡

Jiangling江陵

Linju臨沮

Yiling夷陵

Huarong華容

Yicheng宜城

Ying郢

Ji邔

Dangyang當陽

Zhonglu中盧

Zhijiang枝江

Xiangyang襄陽

Bian編

Zigui秭歸

Yidao夷道

Zhouling州陵

Ruo若

Wu巫

Gaocheng高成

Jiangxia江夏郡

Xiling西陵

Jingling竟陵

Xiyang西陽.

Zhu邾

Dai軑

E鄂

Anlu安陸

Shayi沙羨

Meng鄳

Yundu雲杜

Zhongwu鍾武

Wuling武陵郡

Chanling孱陵

Hengshan佷山

Yi益州

Hanzhong漢中郡

Xicheng西城

Xunyang旬陽

Nancheng南鄭

Fangling房陵

Anyang安陽

Chenggu成固

Yang鍚

Wuling武陵

Shangyong上庸

Changli長利

Ba巴郡

Linjiang臨江

Quren朐忍

Danqu宕渠

Yufu魚復

Not located

Runan汝南郡

Guide歸德

Jiangxia江夏郡

Xiang襄

County locations and ancient rivers, lakes, and shorelines from The Historical Atlas of China.

I have intentionally stuck to the Hanshu where it differs from the Historical Atlas.

[hawthornvisual]

i have zero following so the people who need to see this won't, but please stop including Uyghurs in China when listing ongoing genocides! the situation in China is not ideal but the united states has spent years trying to radicalise Uyghur Muslims into destabilising China, much like they used Tibet and the Dalai Lama decades ago to attempt a coup! the "re-education camps" are literally vocational schools that are rehabilitating radicalised Uyghurs and fast tracking them to employment in an attempt to fix the issues that have allowed this problem to begin in the first place! the video evidence of Uyghurs being tortured was literally Taiwanese bondage kink videos!

don't fall for any of the shit that the west is telling you about China, learn about the real issues in the country, like their participation in the destruction of indigenous land in Canada for oil drilling! don't get your information from people who make racist jokes about Chinese people!!! (don't pretend that you didn't know calling Xi Xinping Winnie the Pooh was racist)

[our-mideast-aladdin-blog]

Putin and China just dealt a KNOCKOUT blow to the west with this move - Redacted News

23.03.2023 #redacted#claytonmorris#natalimorris #redacted #claytonmorris #natalimorrisThe Presidential powwow between Russia and China wrapped up with more than a dozen new cooperative declarations. Video of Chinese President Xi Xinping departing company with Russian President Vladimir Putin showed President Xi saying this: “Right now there are changes the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100…

[ivoire-tv5]

Corée du Nord: Joe Biden veut solliciter l’aide de Xi Xinping

Corée du Nord: Joe Biden veut solliciter l’aide de Xi Xinping

Face aux différentes initiatives du dirigeant nord-coréen sur le plan du nucléaire, l’actuel patron de la Maison-Blanche compte demander le secours de son homologue chinois Xi Jinping. C’est du moins ce qu’annonce, le conseiller à la sécurité nationale, Jake Sullivan lors d’une rencontre qu’il a eue avec les journalistes. Selon l’officiel américain, il est de l’intérêt de la Chine de « jouer un…

[jakez19]

Revue d'actualité - Octobre [XXe CONGRÈS, XI XINPING, HU JINTAO, BILAN,...

[paulthepoke]

Watchmen: Shanghai Cooperation Org; Mahsa Amini & Iran; Russia & Ukraine; Food & Water Security; Rosh Hashanah & Trumpets

Welcome to the Watchmen. We are just a couple of dudes sitting on the wall watching the world go by. On this episode of the Watchmen… The Shanghai Cooperation Organization met about a week ago. This is the last time Chinese President Xi Xinping was seen in public. There are currently 8 member states that make up the organization. Iran signed a Memorandum of Obligations to become a permanent…

[rajeshbarasara-blog]

How to make our country great again?

In short, in our country of India, almost everybody thinks that thy are prime minister, that they can take the law into their own hands (pun intended). Then how can our country be great again? There in China only Xi Xinping can do so – not each and every Chinese citizens. That’s why it zoomed past us after 1980 and now past the US. Due to an overdose of democracy, The UK and The US – once…

[cormancatacombs]

Found a funeral urn for Xi Jinping

[themostrussianvodka]

Putting this out there to stand in solidarity with all those giving their lives in Myanmar, fighting to oust the coup leaders and military dictatorship 🇲🇲