{"id":100244,"date":"2020-05-29T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100244"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:43:17","slug":"an-update-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100244","title":{"rendered":"An Update for Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Map of Pag-asa Island – China claims it as property<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It seems that someone is in complete denial about the PRC, so here\u2019s some up to date information about the Communist government of China and Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/xi-jinping\/#3a328bca1601<\/a><\/p>\n

The government of China is, and has been, a Communist government since 1949, when Mao took over the government and began his Great Leap Forward, a disastrous plan that resulted in the starvation deaths of somewhere between 20 million and 80 million Chinese citizens.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/stories-49829435\/the-day-china-became-communist<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to bad weather, including drought and floods, as well as crop destruction by insects, there was no food available, and those desperate enough to do so killed and cannibalized other people. It was a lot like Joe Stalin\u2019s Holodomor in Ukraine, where people were kicked off their own land and starved to death to get rid of them, but none of this was admitted to until the Soviet Union fell apart and the real history of what happened in Ukraine was dug up.<\/p>\n

\u2026. because China is a Communist country with a Communist government, has been since 1949, and continues with it and its harsh rules and harsher punishments to this day. All that glitz in modern architecture and shiny stuff is surface glam, and nothing else. Under that surface lies the grinding poverty that keeps people in a subsistence existence. The glitz and glam of “modern” Beijing is a facade and nothing else. Yes, there is a high speed supertrain, but it has no passengers.<\/p>\n

And Xi Jinping is the head of the Chinese Communist Party;.<\/p>\n

There is this, as well:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-49631120<\/a><\/p>\n

Repression of those who speak out against the authorities shows no signs of abating and a crackdown on human rights has intensified under President Xi.\u00a0 The brutality that had existed under the emperors was simply carried forward into the modern world.<\/p>\n

Nor do the crackdowns spare high-ranking party members. Bo Xilai, once a powerful regional party chief, was found guilty of corruption and abuse of power in 2013 in a show trial and sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

China insists it is upholding human rights and justifies its harsh hand on dissent by saying that lifting millions out of poverty trumps individual liberties. The reality is that wages are barely $0.25\/hour, if that, and the factory workers, whether in textile mills or garment sweat shops or anything else, start work around 7AM and work until 9PM. They have no choices in housing, much of which is so shabby that it can only be termed slums worse than CHA housing in Chicago before those slums were demolished.<\/p>\n

It only makes sense in the real world that, if the Chinese government says that it is a Communist government, then that’s what it is. One would think the Chinese government knows how to identify its political leanings, right? So if someone is in complete denial about it, who is right?\u00a0 I’d put my money on the Chinese government’s opinion.<\/p>\n

After all, if Xi Jinping\u2019s position is head of the Communist Party, then what could be more realistic than his own statement about it?<\/p>\n

Therefore, if the head of the Chinese Communist Party is a Communist and the government is a self-declared Communist government\u2026 well, that\u2019s the reality of the world in Red China.<\/p>\n

Secretary Xi has been telling the military to prepare for war.\u00a0 https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/scale-up-battle-preparedness-xi-jinping-tells-chinese-military\/articleshow\/76011659.cms<\/a><\/p>\n

“Xi Jinping who is also the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China and head of the two-million-strong military with prospects of lifelong tenure in power, made the remarks while attending a plenary meeting of the delegation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and People’s Armed Police Force during the current parliament session being held here.” – Economic Times of India<\/p>\n

It may have something to do with a potential face-off between the militaries of India and China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), as well as those disturbances going on with the people of Hong Kong. China has, for decades now, claimed that Tibet is part of China, which may have something to do with a possible conflict at the LAC. That these distractions started a short while ago and so closely aligned is telling, as if both the HKers and India are talking to each other. It is a small step from police crackdowns or military border action to a massacre by the Chinese military. The massacres that shocked the world several decades ago were bad enough. To repeat that may not be as easy as it was then, but the Chinese military is quite capable of supporting pure brutality by a brutal government that hides behind a wall of tall buildings, glittering glass and neon lights.<\/p>\n

No Chinese citizen can access information about the events of the past, or photos of them. The current crop of Chinese citizens has no idea how brutal their own government was in the past and how bad it can be now.\u00a0 We Westerners can easily access events of the past 7 decades of Chinese misrule.\u00a0 It’s easy to control history these days: eliminate any access to the past to keep the Chinese people unaware of it.<\/p>\n

When you want to change reality to suit your need for control, you eliminate access to reality and lie repeatedly about it. Hitler did that by controlling the press so that the German people never knew what really went on in those death camps. Stalin did it by keeping a team of photo retouchers available to eliminate the evidence of existence of people who fell out of favor with him, and by blocking media access to information about massacres like the Holodomor in Ukraine and the mass execution of Red Army officers in 1918 in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

Since Secretary Xi is expecting trouble on his border with India as well as in Hong Kong, it’s possible that, as happened 30+ years ago, only Westerners will get the word out. The mainland Chinese will know nothing about any massacre that takes place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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