Damn Commies...
The ChiCom foreign minister screaming "Communist China has become history".
Why don't they change their name from Chinese Communist Party.
They are whacked.
and they STILL can't drive!!!
What a bunch of lunatic losers
This is going to seriously depress Bill and Hillary Clinton.
COMMIE COMMIE COMMIE COMMIE COMMUNIST COMMUNIST COMMUNIST COMMUNIST RED RED RED RED
I said it you dorks, and I'm FREE to say it again!!!!
FOAD to commies everywhere!!
Communist China no longer exists? Not according to Jiang Zemin --
However, I've never lived anywhere else where appearances were so obsessively supremely important. . . . actually kind of fascinating in a maddening way. . .
Underlying substance can provide limits to options . . . but surface appearances can decide many things in the twinkling of an eye--pro or con.
This allowed, in my experience, a routine way of being fairly upfront--candid--even "in your face" to be a welcome change for many associates to confide in, depend on me etc. uncommonly compared to routine contingencies among their local networks. Of course, being authentically caring at a deep level and to an intense degree can go a long way to touching people where they live in any language.
All the more so when memories of the Cultural Revolution are still vivid enough--when no one--not mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, etc. were trustworthy. . . anyone could turn you in resulting in your tortured murder or "merely" torture.
They would go to great lengths to keep up appearances that their extended family was one big happy family when it was rarely the case. Seething anger from the Cultural Revolution betrayals haunted virtually every family. So an authentically reliable and caring foreigner was often latched onto somewhat as a log of hope in a hurricane.
They KNOW they are no longer "Communist" in any logical sense. But they are still intent on hanging on with a death grip to power and privilege. . . therefore appearances of a "The Party" as a gracious, beneficent, grandfatherly leadership group becomes an issue of virtually religious fervor.
And, many Party people--even 40 years old and younger--are groping around desperately trying to find a model of government that they could believe would be viable, doable, transferable to China. . .
The rule of law has taken on somewhat of an aura of the Holy Grail. And, comparatively, it's a LOT better than the rule of "the back door"--corruption as usual. . . but how to drag more than a billion people into the modern world--with very vested interests still in power and corrupt newer leaders cropping up aplenty--makes it no easy task.
Then there's the truth The Bible points out--the law is deadly. The Spirit alone brings life. Nazi Germany demonstrated the deadliness of "the law" quite dramatically.
It's an easy shot to say the current leaders are whacko. Their arrogance, their still backward ways (decreasingly), their greed, their obsession with control and power. . . all cause them to do some realllllly dumb things. But in their context, from their background, they aren't so dumb.
China's hope is the same Hope for any part of and the whole of the world. The Word of God declares that the evil people of the world will be removed from the world. I'm increasingly convinced that the humble gentle, compassionate [all of which takes more strength than fierceness] really will literally inherit the earth. China has a lot of such people--the minority though they are.
Ironically, the arrogant leaders expecting to be long remembered for their clout, stature, power, wealth--will have every evidence that they ever existed wiped from the planet.
That's dumb.
Heaping up gilt covered chaff to be blown to the four winds along with all evidence of one's existence? That's dumb.
Ozmandyous (sp?) here we come.
But the Chinese have no monopoly on that insanity. Mirrors around the globe everywhere are full of such people.
Matthew 6:18-20 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Matthew 6 Matthew 6:19-21 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Matthew 12:35 Matthew 12 Matthew 12:34-36 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
It's equally dumb to have gloried in the "majesty" of the World Trade Center. It's equally whacko to pretend that our own feeble might; our own feeble pride; our own feeble skills can lastingly protect us from much of anything. . . they can't even protect us from our own flaws in our own homes.
The world is being called to school. The tuition will be steep. The Chinese citizens, in many respects, have repeatedly been through many of the courses. They have PhD's in suffering earned the very hard way. The citizens are not all as whacko as many of their leaders.
Many Chinese citizens know that Loving God wholly and their neighbors as themselves is the only sanity. They have learned the hard way that eternal values and eternal treasures are the only things worth spending resources and time on.
Anything else is truly whacko.