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Rituals create community by translating our love into action - Article on Xunzi by Curie Virág
For Xunzi, the Chinese Confucian philosopher of the third century BCE, emotions such as love and gratitude are not just feelings in response to events – things that happen to us – but possibilities for action. Through ritual, he declares, we ‘give a shape to that which is without physical substance and magnificently accomplish proper form’.
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Will China bail out Biden? Prominent Chinese academic's warning that inflation might bankrupt the US government will be read carefully in Washington (Asia Times)
"At present, the interest on US Treasury bonds is more than 1 point, and the annual interest payment is about $300 billion US dollars, which is considered to be affordable. But if inflation approaches 5% or even exceeds 5% (interest rates will definitely follow after inflation exceeds 5), then the United States will need $1.5 trillion a year to repay the interest of 30 trillion federal treasury bonds, which will definitely lead to the bankruptcy of the government."
Related: 💣 As of 2019, the U.S. has an inventory of 6,185 nuclear warheads
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China's Giant Ionosphere-Zapping Radar Is a Defense System Masquerading as Science
The Navy and DARPA ran a similar facility–the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska. The South China Morning Post recently revealed plans for a new Chinese radar facility on the island of Hainan, China’s southernmost point. Described as a “high-powered incoherent scatter radar,” this installation will bounce radio waves off the Earth's high-altitude layer of charged gas called the ionosphere. Although the project is in step with the county’s other mega-science projects, experts think the new facility is more interested in military matters than discovering the secrets of Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Related: ⚔️ Strongest U.S. Earthquake in 50 Years Hits Alaska ⚔️ Unprecedented floods hit central China ⚔️ HAARP is reborn ⚔️ Russian parliament concerned about US plans to develop new weapon ⚔️ Chavez: US 'Tectonic Weapon' Caused Haiti Quake ⚔️ Environmental Modification Convention ⚔️ etc.
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The Chinese ‘lying flat’ movement (tangping, 躺平)
An illustration making the rounds on China’s internet in May 2021 shows a man “lying flat.” “You want me to get up?” he asks. “That’s not possible in this lifetime.” The drive toward self-reliance has encountered an unlikely form of resistance in a generation of young Chinese who balk at the Party’s high-minded calls for “continued struggle” alongside an deeply engrained culture of overwork without the promise of real advancement. They opt instead for “lying flat,” or tangping (躺平). The “lying flat” movement calls on young workers and professionals, including the middle-class Chinese who are to be the engine of Xi Jinping’s domestic boom, to opt out of the struggle for workplace success, and to reject the promise of consumer fulfilment.
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China’s after-school tutoring crackdown goes nuclear
New draft rules circulated today would force China’s private education companies to turn nonprofit. Share prices of tutoring companies plummeted, and some see the end of a highly lucrative industry.
A popular Chinese commentator argued on Twitter today that turning the education companies nonprofit would be a big blow to investors, but not necessarily for parents and children. Even if this new policy is problematic, “the direction is right.”
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Kua Kua groups: pay your way to adulation
If you say "I lost my bicycle today. I have looked for it for a long time, but failed." How will you expect others to reply? If you are a member of a "Kua Kua" online chat group, you will receive positive responses like "In spite of losing your bike, you are not irritated, which shows your elegance. Well done!"In recent days, WeChat "Kua Kua" groups have drawn increasing attention in China, especially among young people. In Chinese, "Kua" literally means to praise. The "Kua Kua" groups are online chat groups, in which group members can respond positively to whatever you say, even if the things you tell them are negative.
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Photos from the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing on July 1, 2021.
Excerpt from the speech party chairman Xi Jinping held on the CPC's 100th anniversary:
The Chinese nation has fostered a splendid civilization over more than 5,000 years of history. The Party has also acquired a wealth of experience through its endeavors over the past 100 years and during more than 70 years of governance. At the same time, we are also eager to learn what lessons we can from the achievements of other cultures, and welcome helpful suggestions and constructive criticism. We will not, however, accept sanctimonious preaching from those who feel they have the right to lecture us. The Party and the Chinese people will keep moving confidently forward in broad strides along the path that we have chosen for ourselves, and we will make sure the destiny of China's development and progress remains firmly in our own hands. ... We will continue to champion cooperation over confrontation, to open up rather than closing our doors, and to focus on mutual benefits instead of zero-sum games. We will oppose hegemony and power politics, and strive to keep the wheels of history rolling toward bright horizons.
We Chinese are a people who uphold justice and are not intimidated by threats of force. As a nation, we have a strong sense of pride and confidence. We have never bullied, oppressed, or subjugated the people of any other country, and we never will. By the same token, we will never allow any foreign force to bully, oppress, or subjugate us. Anyone who would attempt to do so will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.
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Sun Bu'er (c. 1119–1182 C.E.)
One of the Taoist Seven Masters of Quanzhen in the Shandong province of China. She was a beautiful, intelligent, wealthy woman, married with three children. At the age of 51 she took up the study of the Dao and herself became a disciple of Wang Chongyang, serving as a Taoist priestess. She eventually left her home and traveled to the city of Luoyang where after twelve years of practice, at Fengxiangu cave, she attained the Dao and, it is said, became an immortal. Sun was a teacher with several disciples, founding the Purity and Tranquility School, and wrote many poems.
Poems by Sun Bu'er
"Tie up the tiger and return it to the true lair; Bridle the dragon and gradually increase the elixir. Nature should be as clear as water, Mind should be as still as a mountain. Turning the breath, gather it into the gold crucible; Stabilizing the spirit, guard the jade pass. If you can increase the grain of rice day by day, You will be rejuvenated."
- Sun Bu'er
"Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of light. The day you see this, That day you will become it." - Sun Bu'er
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Enthusiasm for new terminal on New Silk Road
The new Dostyk TransTerminal at the China-Kazakhstan border crossing is proving to be successful. The volumes of traffic on the New Silk Road are growing tremendously.
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China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans (globaltimes)
Many Bitcoin mines in Southwest China's Sichuan Province - one of China's largest cryptocurrency mining bases - were closed as of Sunday, according to after local authorities ordered a halt to mining in the region on Friday amid an intensified nationwide crackdown against cryptocurrency mining. The ban also means that more than 90 percent of China's Bitcoin mining capacity is estimated to be shut down.
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Beijing Zhongshuge Lafayette store. A new bookstore in central Beijing, inspired by traditional Chinese gardens, connected with contemporary moongates to transport one into a flowing space.
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120 years later: same agenda, same people.
This years G7 event in Cornwall was all around a "wholesome" affair. Here is a picture of one of the attendees - Stanley Johnson (Father of Boris Johnson) participating in a peculiar ritual with the fine people of "Extinction Rebellion" (presumably a UK intelligence agency psyops). Just as refresher, Papa Johnson is a life-long die-hard Malthusian and the author of "life-affirming" books such as "Virus" (1982), "The Population problem" (1973) & "Life without Birth" (1970).
When asked in a 2011 interview what the ideal population amount for the UK is, he replied "oh Britain, i put it at 10 or 15million, i think that would be absolutely fine". This perspective on population is most likely shared by his clown son (the current UK PM) and the elitist "leadership" around him.
Ultimately, these people, institutions and ideas are all tethering on irrelevance and its very likely more productive to focus elsewhere - but its still fun to comment on the growing insanity of it all...
Related: Stanley Johnson 'broke wife's nose' in domestic violence incident
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Xi calls for unprecedented efforts to improve global environmental governance (xinhuanet)
"Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that the international community should work together with unprecedented ambition and action to strive for a fair and reasonable system of global environmental governance featuring win-win cooperation and promote the sustainable development of humanity. [...] Xi stressed that Earth is humanity's shared home, and a sound ecosystem is essential for the prosperity of civilizations."
