In the years from 1830s to Mid 1940s China and the Chinese people suffered the worst outrage, insult and humiliation at the hands of Western imperialism and Japanese imperialism. It was a Dark Age when China was forced to cede large chunks of Chinese lands to the Western imperialists inclusive of England, France, Germany, Russia and Japan. China was reduced to a semi-colonial country where all the political and financial powers rest in the hands of the hordes of invading imperialists. All the major ports and cities were under imperialists control where they assume full control over customs, excise duties and taxes and thus depriving the Chinese of its revenues and impoverished China.
In the years from 1830s to mid 1940s China was weak because the Ching Dynasty and later the Kuomintang were corrupted to the core and were unable to stand up to foreign aggressions. Many European countries inclusive of England, Russia, France, Germany, Holland and Japan and US took undue advantage to invade China.
Each and every country that invaded China would after their victory in wars against China demanded from China to cede large chunks of territories to them . And on top of that they each forced China to to pay "indemnity " of several hundred million Chinese silver dollars. This indemnity money impoverished China for over a hundred years for China had to pay the extortion every year until the victory of Chairman Mao's Peoples' Republic of China in 1949 , when China stopped the payment.
In the years 1850s to 1860s there was a Chinese revolution - The Taiping Rebellion to get rid of the corrupted Ching Dynasty and to evict all foreigners from Chinese soil, The Taiping Revolution was led by a just as corrupted leader called Hong Siu Chuan.
The European powers , Japan and US saw no advantage in supporting a strong Chinese government where they would stand to lose all the advantages and benefits. Therefore they banded together to help the Ching Dynasty to destroy the Taiping Revolution.
With the corrupted Ching Dynasty back in control the Europeans and Japan were able to rob off big chunks of Chinese territories with impunity from 1850s to 1905. Russia occupied vast tracts of Chinese territories of a few million square miles from Lake Baikal to the Pacific coast including the Sakhalin Island. Russia also carved away large chunks of Chinese land from the western province of Sinkiang. England took away Hong Kong and many of the ports and cities inclusive of Shanghai, Tien-Ching, Ning-po and Amoy. Germany took control of the province of Shang-tung Peninsula and the Japanese took away Liu-Chiu Tao ( renamed by Japan as Okinawa ). In 1905 Japan also invaded Taiwan and some other smaller islands in the East China Sea.
All these stolen lands from China are still in foreign hands awaiting for the day of redemption when China is strong enough to claim back. The Chinese would never take an inch of foreign land but the recovery of all lost Chinese territories is a must.
Southernglory1
Monday, 25th September,2017
9/25/2017
9/24/2017
Rugao, Jiangsu, China
Rugao, Jiangsu, China
This is my third day in Rugao. Weather a bit cool, about 25C and clear sky, no haze.
Yesterday spent whole day on tour of city area and the main place of interest was a huge mansion of a Ming Dynasty gentry, Mo Pi Jiang and his consort Dong Xiaowan. It was as big as Chinese Garden and with the houses and ponds still intact. would post some of the pics to show the architecture on my return.
Friday was a big rush, leaving office at 10.10am for Changi, depart at about 1pm, arrived about 5.30pm. Then waited at Pudong Airport in Shanghai for 1 and a half hour for our coach to Rugao. It took another 3 and half hour travelling in the day. The highway was new and smooth flowing and did not travel at high speed. Had a couple of stops along the way. Coach was new and comfortable.
Reach Rugao almost midnight. First big problem was struggling with the local Sim card. It did not work. The phone did not support the card and affected several of us. Finally confirmed the problem and had to rent a temp hp costing 10rmb per day this morning.
Rugao is a small city, probably 4th or 5th tier, about 1440 sq km, twice Reddot but only 1.4m people. It is a booming little city and the high rise is taking over the city scape. The residential homes were low rise semi Ds or detached and low rise condos. My, anytime better than ours and the roads were clean and nicely landscaped, quite like Reddot but cleaner in many places.
The people are well dressed, looking very well off and modern. But they are locals and were quite surprised that we could converse in Mandarin. Our Indian colleagues were celebrities and sought after for photo taking as novelties.
Oh, the lunch for the tour was unbelievable. About 14 courses in a restaurant private room. Cost, 38 rmb or about $8 per head. We were speechless as they kept pushing out the dishes non stop. And the dishes were good, very good, with green tea.
We had another great feast for dinner. When they served the cold dish, 8 plates, including cold steam prawns, cold beef, cold pork jelly etc etc, we were stoned. Definitely could not finish, the cold dish alone. And they served another 15 or so dishes, more prawns, crabs, big fish, pork leg, chicken etc etc, we gave up by the 4/5 dish. There were 6/7 of us per table.
Help came when another 6 late arrivals came to join us. Even then so much food were left unfinished.
Cost 600rmb per table. That is the cost of living here. Unspoilt by commercialism in a small ancient city with all the modern facilities. The shopping malls were no different from ours. I did not bring my shaver, thought it would be provided by the hotel and had to get a new Philips shaver, the cheapest at 119rmb.
In the evening there was a stage performance out our hotel next to a shopping mall to promote the opening of a gym. The stationary bikes for for the gym were the latest models, nver seen before. And the performers, all young people not different from our Orchard Rd kids. The drummer of the life band was a 12 year old boy and whacking the drums like a pop artiste.
Posted by Chua Chin Leng
Sunday, 24th September, 2017
The Hubris of Trum's Speech At UN General Assembly Part Two
In his speech at United Nations General Assembly on 19th September,2017 , Trump also labelled Syria and Venezuella as rogue regimes. But the fact is US historically has been a rogue country throughout its 242 years of nationhood. Every American president starting with George Washington is guilty of serious unforgivable war crimes against humanity. Rogue America has been carrying out wars of aggression and conquests every year for over 230 years out of its 242 years of independence from its rogue forbears England.
Nobody can beliecve America when it says this or that country is a rogue regime except America itself. The fact speaks for itself when big and small countries have been attacked and swallowed by America during the last over two hundred years. Every present existing American president should be hauled up by an international court of justice and sentenced for war crimes against humanity and every past American president starting from George Washington should likewise be posthumously denounced and sentenced for war crimes especially against Native American Indians, African Americans and Mexicans.
President Bashar Assad was democratically elected by his countrymen. His government sees to the needs of the people. Syria is the only country in the Middle East where more than 90 percent of the people are educated. Until the American aggression most Syrians have a decent job and a standard of living well above the surrounding sea of of fanatic militant Sunni Islamic Arabs. Syria has a secular government and unlike fanatical wahabists Saudi Arabia, it respects every faith and women's rights and is friendly to all nations.
All hell let lose when in 2011 Saudi Arabia wahabists with the support and complicity of America planned to topple all secular governments in Middle East. US and Saudi Arabia wanted to occupy Syria and impose the brutal sharia law on the Syrians.
At the same time in that year 2011, US NATO Commander Wesley Clark disclosed US plans in 2001 to overthrow seven seven countries in the Middle East inclusive of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya and Sudan.
In 2006 US embassy in Damascus published plans to instigate a revolution in Syria in 2011. In that year CIA plans for wars of aggression and covert operations were set in motion in their deadly plans to invade Syria and topple Assad. President Assad put up a good fight but he could not hold for long against overwhelming odds and the all powerful US and its hordes of allies in NATO, Saudi Arabia, Turkey Kuwait, Israel and Australia.
Assad legally sought Russia's help and with timely Russia's intervention the American rogues and its cohort of of allied aggressors were stopped in their path of conquest against Syria. But evil Rogue America has not given up hope of destroying Assad and Syria. But Russia is just as determined to protect Syria at all times.
Venezuella , Central America and South America have been at the receiving ends of US aggression throughout history. To hold sway over the countries of Central America and South America US enacted the sinister Monroe Doctrine which forbids other foreign powers or countries to have strong political or commercial relationships with the countries in the region. This type of illateral and illegal self assertive control over the region is evil extraterritoriality dictatorship and hegemonic control par excellence.
America has a history of overthrowing Central American and South American regimes which it disapproves. In 1954 CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of President Jocob Arbenz in a CIA sponsored military coup in Guatemala . In 1961 US tried to invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro in the failed invasion known as "The Bay of Pigs." In 1963 in Ecuador CIA backed military forces overthrew the democratically elected preseident of Jose Velasco and replaced him with Carlos Arosemans and the vice presidency with a CIA approved person. In 1964 in Brazil CIA backed military coup overthrew democratically elected government of Joao Goulart and replaced him with junta ruthless rule for 20 years under the watchful and evil training system of CIA. In 1965 US toppled the elected leader of Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic. A sponstaneous uprising by the Dominicans to reinstal Juan Bosch was brutally crushed by US marines directed by CIA.
In 1968 ihn Bolivia US in contravention to interventional sovereignty rights illegally used extraterritoriality power to infiltrate into Bolivia in a CIA organized military operation captured the legendary guerilla Che Guevara and had him executed by the demeaning pro US government. However in 1971 Bolivia had a elected leftist government in president Juan Torres who was than deposed by a CIA backed military coup.
In 1973 in Chile CIA overthrew and assassinated president Salvador Allende and replaced him with CIA backed General Augusto Pinochet who under CIA command murdered thousands of Chileans of labour leaders and political opponents.
In the 1980s and 1990s US tried to destabilise Venezuella with CIA sponsored organized demonstrations that culminated in the Curacozo riots of 1989. In 1992 CIA organized two military coups which however failed badly. In 1993 pro USA president Andres Perez was impeached for corruption . In 1998 Gugo Chavez was elected president and in 1999 his Constituent Assembly wrote a new constitution of Venezuella. Hugo Chavez was a good president who look after his people and country and because he was all for nationalising the Venezuella oil industry and strongly against CIA clandestine activities in Central and South American countries he was a marked man by CIA who plotted to assassinate him . It was claimed that Hugo Chavez might have been poisoned by CIA fifth column in Venezuella or in US A when he was undergoing treatment for a medical problem though he finally succumbed to cancer .
With Hugo Chavez 's death US has not given up hope to interfere in Venezuella's politics and internal affairs and is now using traitors and fifth columns to create choas and uprising against his successor president Maduro.
US is a deadly rogue country unsurpassed in history and must be eventually destroyed and eliminated for the safety of mankind
Southernglory1
Sunday,23rd September, 2017
Nobody can beliecve America when it says this or that country is a rogue regime except America itself. The fact speaks for itself when big and small countries have been attacked and swallowed by America during the last over two hundred years. Every present existing American president should be hauled up by an international court of justice and sentenced for war crimes against humanity and every past American president starting from George Washington should likewise be posthumously denounced and sentenced for war crimes especially against Native American Indians, African Americans and Mexicans.
President Bashar Assad was democratically elected by his countrymen. His government sees to the needs of the people. Syria is the only country in the Middle East where more than 90 percent of the people are educated. Until the American aggression most Syrians have a decent job and a standard of living well above the surrounding sea of of fanatic militant Sunni Islamic Arabs. Syria has a secular government and unlike fanatical wahabists Saudi Arabia, it respects every faith and women's rights and is friendly to all nations.
All hell let lose when in 2011 Saudi Arabia wahabists with the support and complicity of America planned to topple all secular governments in Middle East. US and Saudi Arabia wanted to occupy Syria and impose the brutal sharia law on the Syrians.
At the same time in that year 2011, US NATO Commander Wesley Clark disclosed US plans in 2001 to overthrow seven seven countries in the Middle East inclusive of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya and Sudan.
In 2006 US embassy in Damascus published plans to instigate a revolution in Syria in 2011. In that year CIA plans for wars of aggression and covert operations were set in motion in their deadly plans to invade Syria and topple Assad. President Assad put up a good fight but he could not hold for long against overwhelming odds and the all powerful US and its hordes of allies in NATO, Saudi Arabia, Turkey Kuwait, Israel and Australia.
Assad legally sought Russia's help and with timely Russia's intervention the American rogues and its cohort of of allied aggressors were stopped in their path of conquest against Syria. But evil Rogue America has not given up hope of destroying Assad and Syria. But Russia is just as determined to protect Syria at all times.
Venezuella , Central America and South America have been at the receiving ends of US aggression throughout history. To hold sway over the countries of Central America and South America US enacted the sinister Monroe Doctrine which forbids other foreign powers or countries to have strong political or commercial relationships with the countries in the region. This type of illateral and illegal self assertive control over the region is evil extraterritoriality dictatorship and hegemonic control par excellence.
America has a history of overthrowing Central American and South American regimes which it disapproves. In 1954 CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of President Jocob Arbenz in a CIA sponsored military coup in Guatemala . In 1961 US tried to invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro in the failed invasion known as "The Bay of Pigs." In 1963 in Ecuador CIA backed military forces overthrew the democratically elected preseident of Jose Velasco and replaced him with Carlos Arosemans and the vice presidency with a CIA approved person. In 1964 in Brazil CIA backed military coup overthrew democratically elected government of Joao Goulart and replaced him with junta ruthless rule for 20 years under the watchful and evil training system of CIA. In 1965 US toppled the elected leader of Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic. A sponstaneous uprising by the Dominicans to reinstal Juan Bosch was brutally crushed by US marines directed by CIA.
In 1968 ihn Bolivia US in contravention to interventional sovereignty rights illegally used extraterritoriality power to infiltrate into Bolivia in a CIA organized military operation captured the legendary guerilla Che Guevara and had him executed by the demeaning pro US government. However in 1971 Bolivia had a elected leftist government in president Juan Torres who was than deposed by a CIA backed military coup.
In 1973 in Chile CIA overthrew and assassinated president Salvador Allende and replaced him with CIA backed General Augusto Pinochet who under CIA command murdered thousands of Chileans of labour leaders and political opponents.
In the 1980s and 1990s US tried to destabilise Venezuella with CIA sponsored organized demonstrations that culminated in the Curacozo riots of 1989. In 1992 CIA organized two military coups which however failed badly. In 1993 pro USA president Andres Perez was impeached for corruption . In 1998 Gugo Chavez was elected president and in 1999 his Constituent Assembly wrote a new constitution of Venezuella. Hugo Chavez was a good president who look after his people and country and because he was all for nationalising the Venezuella oil industry and strongly against CIA clandestine activities in Central and South American countries he was a marked man by CIA who plotted to assassinate him . It was claimed that Hugo Chavez might have been poisoned by CIA fifth column in Venezuella or in US A when he was undergoing treatment for a medical problem though he finally succumbed to cancer .
With Hugo Chavez 's death US has not given up hope to interfere in Venezuella's politics and internal affairs and is now using traitors and fifth columns to create choas and uprising against his successor president Maduro.
US is a deadly rogue country unsurpassed in history and must be eventually destroyed and eliminated for the safety of mankind
Southernglory1
Sunday,23rd September, 2017
9/23/2017
The Hubris of Trump's Speech at UN General Assembly - Part 1
Trump in his speech on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at the UN General Assembly labelled North Korea, Iran , Syria and Venezuela as rogue regimes. He conveniently left out mentioning the world's most evil satanic rogue regime and that is the United States.
Korea was brutally torn asunder and conquered by Japan in 1905. At the end of the Second World War the Koreans threw out the Japanese and attempted to form a unified country. But to suit their insidious agenda the Americans and the Russians would not allow a single political entity of a unified Korea. They staged the Korean War which lasted from 1950 to 1953 and only an armistice was signed without both the American camp and the Russian camp committing to a peace treaty. Without the American and Russian intervention in the Korean Civil War , Korea would have been a unified country albeit notwithstanding whatever political system it decides to uphold. It is the rogue American intervention that resulted in a divided Korea to this day, just as its illegal intervention in the Chinese Civil War between Chairman Mao's People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the Kuomintang ( KMT ) of the treacherous Chinese traitor Chiang Kaishek which resulted in the false division of China into Mainland China and offshore Taiwan. The rogue Americans by stationing its 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Strait prevented the PRC from recovering Taiwan to achieve a successful completion of a unified China.
Iran just as all the Middle East Arab countries face constant subversion by CIA. CIA covert clandestine operation overthrew the dully elected government of prime minister Mossadeq of Iran in June, 1953. Mossadeq was murdered by CIA's henchmen in Iran. Rogue America then installed a pro American Shah. The Shah regime did not last long when the Shah himself was overthrown by the Iranians in 1979. Iran was then ruled by Islamic clerics headed by Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini wanted to nationalise the Iranian oil industry which was then under US full control. CIA and Pentagon then armed Saddam Hussein of Iraq to confront Iran in September 22nd, 1980. CIA armed and supported an Iraqi invasion of Iran resulting in a war which lasted for eight years.During these eight years of war America not only sold weapons to Iraq but covertly sold weapons to Iran and thus reaped hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit profits. To rogue America it is alright for the Iraqis and the Iranians to fight and kill themselves while they laughed all their way to the bank.
In Part Two of the next article we will learn how Rogue America destabilise Syria and Venezuella and destroy the two countries.
Southernglory1
Saturday, 23rd September, 2017
Korea was brutally torn asunder and conquered by Japan in 1905. At the end of the Second World War the Koreans threw out the Japanese and attempted to form a unified country. But to suit their insidious agenda the Americans and the Russians would not allow a single political entity of a unified Korea. They staged the Korean War which lasted from 1950 to 1953 and only an armistice was signed without both the American camp and the Russian camp committing to a peace treaty. Without the American and Russian intervention in the Korean Civil War , Korea would have been a unified country albeit notwithstanding whatever political system it decides to uphold. It is the rogue American intervention that resulted in a divided Korea to this day, just as its illegal intervention in the Chinese Civil War between Chairman Mao's People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the Kuomintang ( KMT ) of the treacherous Chinese traitor Chiang Kaishek which resulted in the false division of China into Mainland China and offshore Taiwan. The rogue Americans by stationing its 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Strait prevented the PRC from recovering Taiwan to achieve a successful completion of a unified China.
Iran just as all the Middle East Arab countries face constant subversion by CIA. CIA covert clandestine operation overthrew the dully elected government of prime minister Mossadeq of Iran in June, 1953. Mossadeq was murdered by CIA's henchmen in Iran. Rogue America then installed a pro American Shah. The Shah regime did not last long when the Shah himself was overthrown by the Iranians in 1979. Iran was then ruled by Islamic clerics headed by Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini wanted to nationalise the Iranian oil industry which was then under US full control. CIA and Pentagon then armed Saddam Hussein of Iraq to confront Iran in September 22nd, 1980. CIA armed and supported an Iraqi invasion of Iran resulting in a war which lasted for eight years.During these eight years of war America not only sold weapons to Iraq but covertly sold weapons to Iran and thus reaped hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit profits. To rogue America it is alright for the Iraqis and the Iranians to fight and kill themselves while they laughed all their way to the bank.
In Part Two of the next article we will learn how Rogue America destabilise Syria and Venezuella and destroy the two countries.
Southernglory1
Saturday, 23rd September, 2017
9/22/2017
Redbean’s Art of Management
Many are familiar with such concepts like Murphy’s Law, Peter’s
Principles, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. I have just had an enlightened
and would like to share with everyone about a new management doctrine or
principle while I proudly claimed and called Redbean’s Art of
Management.
The basis of this management doctrine is derived from age old practices, culling from the great religions, the essence of their teachings and why they are so popular with the people. It is all about the promise that everything would be alright in the future. You see, all great religions promise a great future, a glorious future waiting for the believers if they believe. Great religions don’t want to talk about the trouble and pain the believers are suffering in the present. Some even claimed that the pain today is good and part of the process to reap the rewards in the future. Suffer now, never mind, the future is good, must be good, very good.
In a way the religions are deceiving the people into forgetting their present sufferings and pains and hope, and hope that the promised future is really good. In the long run, everything is good, or the prophets of good future would be dead anyway. No wonder Mao Zedong called religion the opiate of the people.
Putting this great stuff from the religions into management principles is akin to applying Sun Tzu’s Art of War to management. Redbean’s Art of Management is about talking about how good the future is, or promising the future and not talking about the present.
In short, Talk about the future and Sell hope!
There are many advantages to this Art of Management. Yes, when you promise the future, you would not be around to answer if it fails. You also can buy time to sort out the problem or pretend to be sorting out the problem. And the people would forget about the present problem when no one is talking about it and would forget to complain about it. The best part is that the current problem is gone, not solved, but shelved. The people are in a way expected to accept the plight of the present.
The assumption of this Art of Management is that the people are daft and you can pull wool over their eyes. The daft would not question when you talk about the future, how good is the future. They would just believe and stop thinking about the problems right in front of them. They would not know that their attention has been directed away from the present to the future. Some call this kicking the can further down the road, procrastinating, or passing the buck to the future, buy as much time as you can. Some may call this bluffing, a deception. Anyway, it is a good management tactic for the inept when they could not solve the problem at hand. Why not, can continue to keep the job and pretend to be working very hard and all will be fine in the future when one is no longer around, but the problem still around.
Think can write a book about this, Redbean’s Art of Management…for the daft.
PS. I will be away for a week. Will try to post whenever I can find the time.
The basis of this management doctrine is derived from age old practices, culling from the great religions, the essence of their teachings and why they are so popular with the people. It is all about the promise that everything would be alright in the future. You see, all great religions promise a great future, a glorious future waiting for the believers if they believe. Great religions don’t want to talk about the trouble and pain the believers are suffering in the present. Some even claimed that the pain today is good and part of the process to reap the rewards in the future. Suffer now, never mind, the future is good, must be good, very good.
In a way the religions are deceiving the people into forgetting their present sufferings and pains and hope, and hope that the promised future is really good. In the long run, everything is good, or the prophets of good future would be dead anyway. No wonder Mao Zedong called religion the opiate of the people.
Putting this great stuff from the religions into management principles is akin to applying Sun Tzu’s Art of War to management. Redbean’s Art of Management is about talking about how good the future is, or promising the future and not talking about the present.
In short, Talk about the future and Sell hope!
There are many advantages to this Art of Management. Yes, when you promise the future, you would not be around to answer if it fails. You also can buy time to sort out the problem or pretend to be sorting out the problem. And the people would forget about the present problem when no one is talking about it and would forget to complain about it. The best part is that the current problem is gone, not solved, but shelved. The people are in a way expected to accept the plight of the present.
The assumption of this Art of Management is that the people are daft and you can pull wool over their eyes. The daft would not question when you talk about the future, how good is the future. They would just believe and stop thinking about the problems right in front of them. They would not know that their attention has been directed away from the present to the future. Some call this kicking the can further down the road, procrastinating, or passing the buck to the future, buy as much time as you can. Some may call this bluffing, a deception. Anyway, it is a good management tactic for the inept when they could not solve the problem at hand. Why not, can continue to keep the job and pretend to be working very hard and all will be fine in the future when one is no longer around, but the problem still around.
Think can write a book about this, Redbean’s Art of Management…for the daft.
PS. I will be away for a week. Will try to post whenever I can find the time.
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