Don’t Be Naive! Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is Standing on the Side Against Human Civilization
Peaceful world order after WWII had been established upon the philosophy worshiping multilateralism. The cultural basis supporting such multilateralism contained an imagination believing in the ultimate good of the respect for diversity.
The Rise of China and the Naivete of EU
However, as time progressed into the Post-Cold War era of the 90's, globalization in trade became the dominant trend. Following the global embrace of multilateralism and respect for diversity, it was believed that China would have been influenced by open and positive values once she had participated in this big family of global trade. Indeed, China took advantage of its role as the "world factory" and gained a huge economic leap forward. After China joined the WTO in 2000, within seventeen to eighteen years, China had grown nine-fold compared in terms of its aggregate economic volume. Furthermore, it surpassed Germany in 2005 and Japan between 2009 and 2010, becoming the second-largest economy in the world.
In particular, due to the global financial crisis derived from the subprime mortgage in 2007 and Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy in 2008 in the United States, the PIGGS countries turned into victims in Europe. China thus took advantage of this crisis to expand its power, bridging China’s role as depicted in Hu JinTao's "China's peaceful rise" to that in Xi JinPing's "China dream." Finally, China has revealed its ambition to compete for the position as a world leader and a planner of a new world order. The United States has finally, recently woken up to this nightmare of Xi, who has long intended to use China's almighty economic power to achieve his political agenda and hegemony. Unfortunately, many EU countries who consider themselves as advanced, civilized, pro-human rights and respectful to diversification, such as Germany and France, still fail, or refuse, to see the CCP regime’s true color and remain extremely naive towards it.
Repulsion towards Vulgarity, Tolerance towards Violence
Ironically, the two leading EU countries, Germany and France, prefer a dictatorial emperor, Xi, over Trump elected by the Americans with their ballots. The two countries do not shy away from showing them disgusted by Trump’s vulgar behaviors, but reluctantly show intolerance towards Xi’s cruelty and dictatorship. As a result, the EU countries develop inconceivable and mysterious stubbornness: they loudly criticize countries practicing death penalty based on their own judicial system; however, they are generous and subdued when it comes to the violence happening in HongKong where the HongKong police and Chinese GongAn basically bypass all applicable, or reasonable, laws. We should find this contrast deeply disturbing.
Seeing CCP through the eyes of Mao
In fact, these european countries and the western world are deluded by the so-called “respect for diversity.” Let’s use the wisdom of the CCP’s spiritual leader, Mao Ze Dong, as a framework to rethink this diversity concept in civilization. In his work “Correct Handling of Contradictions Between People,” published in 1957, Mao clearly classified social contradictions into “contradictions of two different natures”: “contradictions between ourselves and the enemy” and “internal contradictions among the people”. Contradictions between ourselves and the enemy are antagonistic, for example the contradictions between the exploiting and the exploited classes; but contradictions among people is non-antagonistic. Therefore, the former can not be mediated and resolved, but the latter one can be. Mao further advocated that contradictions between ourselves and the enemy should be resolved by dictatorship, but contradictions between the people should be resolved by a method of “cooperation-criticism-cooperation.” In other words, incompatible contradictions between ourselves and the enemy can only be solved by suppression, but internal contradictions can be softened by cooperation.
Civilization and CCP - Two Incompatible Conflicting Systems
It is time for us to recognize that CCP, a sovereign of authoritarianism and digital dictatorship, should not have been regarded as a representation of the diversity of human civilization. Diversity should be defined based on a founded premise, i.e., a premise confined with certain agreements and consensus, necessary and beneficial for composing diversity. In fact, the value CCP stands for is against the universally accepted values of the world, just like the “incompatible contradictions between ourselves and the enemy”, as Mao said. As long as the existence of the CCP regime continues, human civilization will continue to be persecuted. It can be seen in the current situation of Hong Kong, where China approved the new bill of national security, thereby destroying the remaining freedom guaranteed to Hong Kongers, and assigned the “secret” police gangs to enforce the so-called “justice”.
To see the contracting natures of civilization and the CCP regime, we make an analogy with food. Normally, we respect other people’s choice for food. For instance, Ann prefers rice, Bob prefers noodles, John is a meat lover, Mary only eats seafood, etc. Although those four people have different choices of what they like to eat, they respect each other’s choices of food. However, when Daniel comes over and tells the group that he prefers to eat faeces and needs to be respected for his preference, we can start to see the ridiculousness in it. At first, the four people think eating faeces is a personal choice for Daniel, and Daniel can do whatever he/she wants as long as he/she does it at his/her home. The problem rises when Daniel starts to force other people to eat faeces, while the other four people think faeces is inedible, and should never be served on a plate.
The food analogy tells us that the CCP regime is inherently against human civilization. As a reasonable human being could not categorize feces as food, we should not be tricked to believe that the authoritarian regime of China can blend in and contribute to human civilization. The CCP regime is incompatible to human civilization just like we should not consider to eat a meal with feces in it. As the master of CCP, Mao, admitted, one can never resolve the contradiction between the authoritarian regime of China and human civilization. The existence of Chinese authoritarian regime is a symbol for deprivation of human civilization. For us to maintain and preserve human civilization, Chinese authoritarian regime must be eradicated. There is no room for the coexistence of the CCP regime and human civilization.
Draw a Bottom Line to the Respect for Diversity
Therefore, among western countries, the United States have started or should start to realize that although diversity needs to be respected and tolerated, a reasonable bottom line should be drawn to such respect. Like what I have mentioned above, rice, noodles, meat, seafood and so on should be viewed as food; however, as we can all reasonably agree, feces should not be a part of the league. The United States is now acting to exclude “feces” from the democratic league and draw a bottom line for respect-worthy diversity. However, leading EU countries are still trapped in their fancy, unconditional acceptance to “respect for diversity.” Such respect is hypocritical, empty and baseless. Now, you should be able to understand why leftards in the EU would vigorously criticize death sentences executed under a legitimate judicial system but remain indifferent to the CCP regime’s merciless, relentless and oppressive killings. Namely, they simply set a wrong premise, including feces as an eligible option for “diversity.” As for those who embrace the CCP regime because of economic benefits, they do not even deserve to be viewed as EU leftards, but merely gold diggers in the EU.
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🥊 Boxing Idioms Part 2
本週繼續拳擊諺語 👊 Round Two!先來猜猜以下3個用語的意思:
1. beat sb. to the punch「搶先出拳」→ ❓
2. roll with the punches「順著對方出拳躲避」→ ❓
3. down for the count「輸了」→ ❓
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In boxing, it’s all about the punches, so there are plenty of punch-related idioms. Every boxer wants to beat his opponent to the punch—i.e. punch the other guy before the other guy punches him, 📌 so “beat sb. to the punch” can also mean “to do or achieve something before sb. else.” Ex: I wanted to ask Kate to dance, but Dan beat me to the punch.
When your opponent is throwing punches at you left and right, you need to roll with the punches—move in a way that lessens the damage—if you want to stay in the fight. in everyday life, 📌 “roll with the punches” means to adjust or adapt to difficulties to lessen their impact. Ex: Life has many ups and downs, so you’d better learn to roll with the punches.
If you’re not able to roll with the punches, you may get KO’d (KO stands for “knock out”). When that happens, the referee counts to 10, and if you don’t get up before he finishes, you’re “down for the count,” and the fight is over. Outside of boxing, 📌 “down for the count” can mean failing, defeated or sound asleep. Ex: The company has so much debt that it’s likely down for the count.
【 ✍ 關鍵單字 】
1. punch:「出拳、揮擊」
2. lessen:「減輕、降低」
3. adjust/adapt to:「適應、習慣~」
4. KO:「擊倒」,原為拳擊術語,為knock out的縮寫。
5. referee:「(運動比賽的)裁判」,拳擊除了有台上裁判referee,也有judge,即台下的「評判員」。
【 ✍ 中譯】
拳擊簡單來說就是出拳的運動,所以有不少跟出拳有關的生活用語。拳擊手總是想比對手搶先出拳,📌 因此beat sb. to the punch也有『搶先某人一步、捷足先登』的意思。如:I wanted to ask Kate to dance, but Dan beat me to the punch.(我本來想約凱特,卻被丹搶先一步。)
當對手朝你左右揮拳猛烈攻擊時,你就需要順著對方揮拳躲避,以降低傷害、爭取站在場上的時間。所以,若是說你要在日常生活中roll with the punches,就是要你順應困難情況做出應變,以降低傷害,也就是『隨機應變;兵來將擋、水來土掩』。如:Life has many ups and downs, so you’d better learn to roll with the punches.(人生有起有落,你最好要學會隨機應變。)
當你招架不住對方攻勢而被擊倒在地,裁判會從十開始倒數,如果你在倒數結束前都無法站起來,那你就是down for the count「輸了」,這回合也隨之結束。📌 出了拳擊場,片語down for the count也有『失敗、被擊倒;熟睡』之意。如:The company has so much debt that it’s likely down for the count.(公司負債累累,快完蛋了。)
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Juz 6: Reflections (al-Maidah:6)
By obligating wudu before salah, Allah intends to purify His servants, both physically and spiritually, and complete His favour upon them. A blessing for which we must be ever grateful.
Wudu may seem like a simple act of washing specific limbs of the body, but it is actually an act of worship, through which a person attains closeness to Allah, it is half of imaan and holds great virtues.
💦A means of forgiveness:
The Prophet ﷺ said, "None of you who uses water for ablution and rinses his mouth, sniffs up water and blows it, but the sins of his face, and his mouth and his nostrils fall out. When he washes his face, as Allah has commanded him, the sins of his face fall out from the end of his beard with water. Then (when) he washes his forearms up to the elbows, the sins of his arms fall out along with water from his finger-tips. And when he wipes his head, the sins of his head fall out from the points of his hair along with water. And (when) he washes his feet up to the ankles, the sins of his feet fall out from his toes along with water. And if he stands to pray and praises Allah, lauds Him and glorifies Him and shows wholehearted devotion to Allah, his sins would depart leaving him (as innocent) as he was on the day his mother bore him." [Muslim]
The Prophet ﷺ said, "He who performs Wudu' perfectly (i.e., according to Sunnah), his sins will depart from his body, even from under his nails.” [Muslim].
✨Radiance on the Day of Judgment:
The Companions said, “O Messenger of Allah! How will you recognize those of your Ummah who are not born yet?” He said, “Say, if a man has white-footed horses with white foreheads among horses which are pure black, will he not recognize his own horses?” They said; “Certainly, O Messenger of Allah!” He said, “They (my followers) will come with radiant faces and white limbs because of Wudu’; and I will arrive at the Haud (Al-Kauthar) ahead of them.” [Muslim].
🌟Adornment in Jannah:
The Prophet ﷺ said, “The adornment of the believer (in Jannah) will reach the places where the water of Wudu' reaches (his body).” [Muslim]
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