On October 9, a farmer named Zhang Jinying appeared on the television show Please Forgive Me, a program usually dedicated to public apologies by unfaithful husbands and wayward sons. But the sixty-one-year-old Zhang’s apology had a depth and a historical weight rarely seen on that program. In 1969, Zhang had denounced one of his teachers as a “rightist,” a traitor to China’s
they re all important. and it s so important to understand how donald trump himself so effectively participated in creating this mobilization. and that goes to what we do about it going forward. maya, thank you. ayman, appreciate your work here. american radical is out now. you can check out the first episode and the second one drops tomorrow. coming up, new evidence of republicans losing control of the party, including some self-criticism in public. and you may have seen some of these christmas cards that invoke guns and seem to glorify weapons primarily designed for war, in the context of the recent school shooting. and one of obama s top medical advisers on dealing with pandemics. that s tonight. stay with us. that s tonight stay with us
It can be embarrassing for a China scholar like me to read Eileen Chang’s pellucid prose, written more than sixty years ago, on the early years of the People’s Republic of China. How many cudgels to the head did I need before arriving at comparable clarity? My disillusioning first trip to China in 1973? My reading of the devastating journalism of Liu Binyan in 1980?
negotiations, you are a business guy. if you are negotiating with somebody, and you are trying to get them to do something they don t care about, china doesn t care about climate change. they don t care about emissions. we seem to be obsessed with that what does it do to their dynamics? we are demanding do something they don t care about. they are still holding out on that by the way. what are those back channel conversations sound like? sound like well the americans want us to stop polluting so much. we will not do that we will get a bunch of other things if we make a few concessions on climate. you are hitting the nail on the head. actually, china has told the greatest joke of all positioning itself as a developing country. second largest economy in the world. we are effectively entering the cold war can china exhibiting aggression in the pacific and every other way it can. when it comes to china a victim and developing nation and we are following for the trick. the real trick is t
would use today. there is a big difference. there was a state of war in the 80s. i m notjustifying censorship. i m notjustifying the state of emergency. but there was a real war. these days in nicaragua, there is no war. there s no civil war. there is just the state repressing the citizens. in the 80s, there was the contra war, and there was the reagan finance of the contra war. ok, those were the justifications that i supported at those times. i think there were many errors during the 80s revolution, including censorship, and, well, i myself went through a process of self criticism about. ..assuming our responsibilities, about what happened in the 80s. and there was a transition, a democratic transition process, starting in 1990 in nicaragua, that lasted 17 years. and unfortunately, it failed.