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I offer lots of free legal materials to help build the rule of law. E.g. free eBook at the end of this post. Corruption destroys capital formation and distorts capital allocation. Mallocation of what little capital is formed leads in turn to general poverty. The rule of law (anti-corruption, legal certainty) encourages capital formation and proper capital allocation. So, the rule of law is a necessary precondition to wealth. Wealth fosters peace because people that are not desperate are less likely to do stupid violent things. Thus the rule of law builds peace. We want good laws to build wealth and encourage peace. If you want to end poverty and end wars: end corruption.
Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore is the clearest positive example. Singapore grew rich because of the rule of law and anti-corruption. Kleptocrat Putin’s smash and grab war-crime in Ukraine is the clearest negative example of the fact corruption, poverty, and war are causally related. Putin is the opposite of rule of law, he is corruption-as-governance. Putin keeps everyone a bit dirty because then his authoritarian kleptocracy can crack down on anyone, any time.
Why is Russia poor? Corruption.
Why is Singapore rich? Rule of law.
Chinese take note!
All that thievery brings me right back to Vampire Putin. Consequent to Putin’s smash and grab ongoing war-crime, Maoist terrorists have been attacking Russia for months now. RUC veterans and “former” IRA have also been bringing the pain to Putin’s back yard! I don’t even bother pointing out all the successful sabotage attacks anymore: fire suddenly breaks out here, train mysteriously derails there, and yet another Russian munitions dump spontaneously explodes, what a surprise! Do you really think Haji has a monopoly on suicide strikes? Reverse engineering the Global War on Terror was easy: and that is what is being inflicted on Russia. There’s not much anyone can do to stop it, it’s Non State Actors, nor should you. These horrible things are necessary: A criminal regime is finally getting exactly what it deserves.
A better world is possible — after Putin is expelled from all Ukraine. We don’t reward thieves, liars, and mass murderers, just the opposite.
Word of the day: negotiation
La négociation, la negociación, die Verhandlung, läbirääkimine, переговори, переговоры, 谈判 (tánpàn)
[French, Spanish, German, Estonian, Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese.]
祝您们好谈判!I wish Secretary of State Blinken and Foreign Minster Qin (秦) successful negotiation! China is literally named for the Qin dynasty (秦). By the way, when China first discovered the Roman Empire they called Rome “Greater Qin” (大秦). 所以我们多是龙的传人,对吗?
Although it is impossible to negotiate with a war-criminal like Putin, China isn’t led by a crazy compulsive liar. It is not possible to negotiate with thieves let alone mass murderers like Putin. It is possible to negotiate with China because Xi Jinping isn’t a senile thief who murdered his way to the top, just the opposite. Thieves and murderers don’t stop unless we make them stop. We should give China a carte blanche to do whatever it wishes to Russia. The results might be pleasantly surprising!
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This congresscritter isn’t building national unity. If Members of Congress could discipline their backbench that would be good.
Democratic Peace Theory
Democracy and peace DO correlate, but correlation is not causation.
It is common ideology and adequate feedback and intelligence to leaders which enable democracies to obviate war at least among themselves. Basically democracies have much better intelligence, enjoy greater legitimacy, and so are less likely to go to war both against other democracies and against dictatorships. The UK should have gone to war against Hitler sooner rather than later. Democracies are perhaps too timorous of war.
Moreover, Britain and Germany and France were all equally democratic or if you prefer undemocratic in 1914. The idea Germany in 1914 wasn't a democracy is laughably wrong. Likewise, China is a dictatorship and hasn’t waged a single war in 40 years or more. So, Democratic Peace Theory (DPT) is somewhat inaccurate.
Ghost Weddings 鬼婚姻
Every mercenary is married, married to Death. She is very, very beautiful. She loves you very much, and does not want you to suffer. But she knows when she ends your suffering she also causes others to suffer. You see?Even Death has a hard fate. H
Here She is, to tell you about her chosen one.
The above video is about a “ghost wedding”. One of those to be married died before their appointed marriage. Sadly, this is a common theme in Ukraine currently. Let’s hope Ukrainian diplomats can hammer this fact home to their Chinese counterparts.
“to talk about romantic love is not a mere matter of an invitation to a dinner party”.
This takes Mao’s point, that “revolution is not a dinner party” and applies it to romance. But I am already married, and she is so beautiful, one day you will see her too!
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What can I say? Arson? Hell Yes. O U RSON!
Song lyrics are a great way to build your vocabulary!
Computational Linguistics Breakthrough re: Chinese language: Yes, as a matter of fact, I did work on computational linguistics.
America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
China and Japan: maintaining peaceful relations:
Deterring China with Respect to Taiwan
I guess everyone else noticed China now produces its own passenger jet, C119, huh.
Capitalist Restoration in China
Xi Jinping is a reaction against capitalist restoration. From that perspective it's easy to explain but also influence. Namely, by pointing out the party's best move is to consolidate gains rather than risk all the progress of the past three decades in foolish, irrelevant, and ultimately self-destructive foreign policy adventurism. One could easily broad brush the "wolf warriors" as "right opportunists" and "ultra leftists" and thus sideline them all thereby.
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Xi Jinping calls for palestinian-state
Xi Jinping is possibly naive or uninformed on this issue and it can easily be dismissed/handling as political posturing.
However, we must take people at their word and then compare their words to their actions.
Perhaps ask China for a few thousand peacekeepers and see the sudden stare as the opportunity blinds them to the risk and then their cultural prudence and temerity take over?
"No investigation, no right to speak." Mao Zedong
"Seek truth from facts." Mao Zedong
Movies like this one are also a great way to build your vocabulary!
情是什么? What is love?
Spoiler: Lei Feng tower is a tomb.
Can YOU lift up the world? Following this then: the vault of heaven! The square fields of earth! This song is full of culturally significant Chinese co-locations.
I really will burn in hell for all these terrible things I must do.
Old soldiers don’t die. We go to hell and regroup.
Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
I have fought and strove and perished Countless times upon this star.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me. -George S Patton
We shall treat Russia as Rome treated Carthage, for the exact same reasons. 轮回
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