22 December 2020
Author: Kerry Brown, King’s College London
Xi Jinping is a Party man. His first words in November 2012 after being made General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party were about closing the gap between the Party and the people. Ever since then, making sure that the Party can indeed create a sustainable governance model and not be washed away by the forces of history as the Soviet Union was has been his core task. Despite the vast and ongoing challenges through 2020 because of COVID-19, the Party has never looked more dominant.
That includes over the state. In China, the state exists in many shapes. While those formally designated as ‘civil servants’ (
The fake entertainment media is already trying to blame
Wonder Woman 1984’s crash and burn at the international box office on the pandemic. Don’t you believe it.
What we have here is nothing more or less than yet another Woketard franchise going down in flames. Number seven by my count.
Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to the 2017 blockbuster debuted on 30,000 screens in 32 international markets and went down like the Hindenburg with only a $38.5 million debut.
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That is not the fault of the pandemic. That is just a plain ‘ol box office catastrophe that comes from audience indifference.
For context, during this same pandemic, Christopher Nolan’s
Ten years after his elevation to General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Hu Jintao remains almost as much of an enigma now as he was on first taking power. What do we know about the man beyond his reputation as a somewhat robotic consensus-seeker, and how will history look back at his time in power? To discuss this question and all the other news that is fit to podcast, Sinica host Jeremy Goldkorn is delighted to be joined today by
Economist correspondent Gady Epstein, and none other than Kerry Brown, Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and author of the recent book
There is so much to learn about China and these books are a good start
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We still know so little about China, a country that has been the centre of global power for centuries and is reshaping the 21st century.
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The American Civil War comes immediately to mind but it isn t even close.
As many as 750,000 Americans died between 1861 and 1865 in the conflict between northern and southern states.
But a decade earlier, a civil war in China left between 20 and 30 million people dead.
The Taiping Rebellion ranks among the worst conflicts in human history.
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