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Chinese Vice Premier Meets Laos Deputy Prime Minister! (18.4.2023)

China is ready to work with Laos to make the China-Laos Railway more promising, continue to deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, jointly safeguard regional prosperity and stability, and push for new achievements in practical cooperation, Ding said.

For his part, Saleumxay thanked China for its support and assistance for Laos’ economic and social development, adding that Laos firmly supports and actively participates in the major initiatives and concepts proposed by China.

Laos is ready to strengthen bilateral practical cooperation in various fields, build well a Laos-China community with a shared future, and promote the development of the cause of socialism, Saleumxay said.

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The Beatles: What John Lennon Never Quite Managed to ‘Imagine’! (17.4.2023) 

The difference is that whereas Marx and Engels stood by the message inherent within their Revolutionary work – The Beatles steadfastly ‘stood apart’ from the Revolutionary message that is at the heart of their music! The capitalist system brought them off – but that is the nature of the music business and the entire point of all its machinations! The music industry generates very good capitalists but generally very poor Revolutionaries! It is as if the music itself, that is the collaborative effort, transcended the individuality of the four men who comprised The Beatles – and the general (limiting) attitudes of EMI! The interesting point is that The Beatles music remains dialectically forceful despite Paul McCartney’s Knighthood and all the other nonsense the Bourgeois State has draped around the historical image of The Beatles! Whether The Beatles like it or not, the music they produced in search of profit possesses a quality that ‘pierces’ through the very same ‘search for profit’! The music is itself a form of Revolutionary ‘force’ that John Lennon never quite managed to comprehend. Imagine that!  

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Film: Everything Everywhere All At Once! (15.4.2023)

The bodies (and minds) of non-White people belong to the individuals concerned and are not the play things of a group of non-Asian people who have possessed an unjust dominance in the world! An enforced gayness imposed upon the minds and bodies of migrants is nothing but a fascistic crime which the non-white victims are supposed to applaud because those doing the ‘forcing’ decide to grant Michelle Yeoh an Award! Genuine gay people should be condemning this film for the racism it exhibits and the cartoon-like gayness it portrays! No one comes out of this looking good. What makes it all worse is that Hollywood has fabricated a pathetic wave of critical acclaim – when all I see is nothing but shame. I support the Islamic countries for banning it! Thank you Saudi Arabia and Kuwait! Chinese people do not support arbitrary violence or the defiance of authority!

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China: Zhang Zhilei (张志磊) – Professional Heavyweight Boxer! (16.4.2023)

His punching combinations are fast, fluid, well-timed and accurate – whilst his evasive upper body movement and lower body footwork is both precise and compact! He skilfully makes the opponent miss whilst always staying in range to counter continuously. His fast (combination) hitting is reminiscent of that seen within advanced Chinese gongfu practice – particularly when Zhang Zhilei initiates exchanges! I suspect that somewhere in his training background lies the Internal Martial Arts of China! As he progresses through the ranks, he stoically faces the racist disdain he encounters in the West – and lets his ability and ever-growing tally of victories speak for themselves! Indeed, although 39 years old at the writing of this article – this might work for him in a sport that is usually merciless in its treatment of older competitors! Chinese martial tradition and culture possesses an entirely different approach to interpreting the ageing process!

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Hongshan (紅山) Culture (4700-2900 BCE): Ancient China – Transgenderism and Buddhism! (15.4.2023)

The concept of a female goddess in China existed thousands of years prior to the development of Buddhism in India – and yet when the ‘male’ Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva (evoking ‘Compassion’) was transmitted into China from India – ‘he’ morphed into a ‘she’ (becoming locally known as ‘Guanyin’ [觀音] or she who is ‘Attentive to Sound’) – whilst retaining all the Buddhist characteristics. Why did this ‘transgender’ event occur?

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