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Has Xi Jinping overplayed his hand?
The Spectator ^ | 1 July2021 | Melissa Chen

Posted on 07/03/2021 9:24:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The Chinese Communist party’s origin story, like so many of its official lines, appears to be an apocryphal tale. But a month-long patriotic extravaganza leading up to its centennial celebration has featured military parades, skyscrapers emblazoned with hammer-and-sickle decor and propaganda blitzes on TV.

None of the agitprop raised eyebrows as much as the main speech delivered by the Chinese president and general secretary of the party, Xi Jinping, in which he marked the milestone and praised China’s ‘tremendous transformation’ and the historical inevitability of its ‘national rejuvenation’.

Of course, the party has often neglected to point out that the abject state from which the nation has had to ‘rejuvenate’ was largely self-imposed by People’s Republic founder Mao Zedong. During the post-World War Two economic boom, Mao prioritized emulating other countries’ economic growth by commanding China’s agrarian economy into an industrialized one. Food production plunged as farmers left their fields and crops to work in steel production, resulting in a great famine that caused untold death. Some experts estimate the death toll to be as high as 45 million. To date there has been no moral reckoning of Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ by the CCP, which continues to primarily blame natural disasters for the famine in official party history. It wasn’t until the party gave up on its central planning and collectivist fantasies that the Chinese people were able to lift themselves out of the poverty for which the CCP was responsible in the first place.

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We have killed more people than any other regime in history!

And released a worldwide pandemic!

1 posted on 07/03/2021 9:24:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Yep, what a history to celebrate.

Are they going to hit the highlights, such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre?


2 posted on 07/03/2021 9:30:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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We have killed more people than any other regime in history!

And released a worldwide pandemic!

But wait there’s more!

We are working on a genetic bio-weapon which will eliminate all other races, except us Han Chinese.

The first stage is to eliminate 200 million Americans and then move millions of us to that land of clean water, soil and air.

We need living room for the ordinary Han people.

I, Xi Jinping, will lead this glorious leap forward, proving that the Communist Party of China is the greatest form of government ever conceived!


3 posted on 07/03/2021 9:34:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I have read a lot of Chinese history and the military philosophers. China has not changed in 2-3000 years. China is currently experiencing the Communist Dynasty or perhaps the Mao Tse Tung Dynasty, and that is what it is. The way the Chinese system was in the lo-o-ong past is quite the way it is now. I believe that extends to the Mandate of Heaven. Chinese rulers since Mao have acted as though they are looking over their shoulders at the sky trying to retain Heavenly favor and to grab things back when they seem to be losing it.

Mao and the Communists are no break with the past.

4 posted on 07/03/2021 9:49:40 AM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: PIF

“We need living room for the ordinary Han people.”

Lebensraum as it were.


5 posted on 07/03/2021 9:53:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ThanhPhero

Agree !


6 posted on 07/03/2021 9:55:06 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Rummyfan

Slit-eyed rubber-faced Hitler


7 posted on 07/03/2021 10:41:21 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Rummyfan

It wasn’t a pandemic even though it has been called one incessantly. It was never more than an epidemic which was hyped with fear by elites to exploit the populations of regular people so they would give up freedom and increase the power of the elites. It worked really well. Now people are giving up DNA samples so that they will be allowed to travel.


8 posted on 07/03/2021 11:00:39 AM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: Rummyfan

As nationalistic as the Chinese are, I find it somewhat amusing that the entire philosophy of their government is based on the writings of a white European Jew and a white European Protestant. At some point I expect that the Chinese will transition to a form of government that has its origins in China. But the transition will be tricky, because the leadership will have explain away the Marxist origins of the Party.


9 posted on 07/03/2021 11:03:11 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: webheart

Does anyone think Google would not love to add your genetic information to their databases? One thing I learned from computer programming is that there is a tendency to add fields to your records in your databases. Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, becomes First Name, Last Name, Number, Street Name, Apartment, City, State, Zip +4., Area Code, Prefix, Number, Extension. Then you want date of birth, place of birth, social security number, gender at birth. You can add fields for past addresses, employment, driver license number, bank information. If you have unlimited storage which google definitely does, you can just keep adding fields. Next thing you know, you are adding fields for DNA.

Certainly it becomes garbage in garbage out as they say but too much data is better than not enough data. You can do comparison searches over any field.


10 posted on 07/03/2021 12:21:46 PM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: Rummyfan

CHINA & AMERICA’S CIVILIZATIONAL SUICIDE!
https://www.brighteon.com/b224b34c-c347-446c-b64d-8079ecf05196


11 posted on 07/03/2021 12:45:16 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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CHINA & AMERICA’S CIVILIZATIONAL SUICIDE!
https://www.brighteon.com/b224b34c-c347-446c-b64d-8079ecf05196


12 posted on 07/03/2021 12:45:41 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: Rummyfan

Xi Pig oinked and people laughed.


13 posted on 07/03/2021 3:57:53 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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