Also Intresting fact. Tatars in China are the only Tatars in the entire world that uses the arabic script (specificly the Iske Imla script).That's true, especially about foreign ownership of the oil and gas industry.
That's not true, there's a communist party in the parliament right now - the People's Party of Kazakhstan, which was formed after the split of the original communist party in 2004. They have actually been growing throughout the years - each election they get slightly more and more votes.
This is true for all CIS countries unfortunately, the unions are essentially castrated.
I feel like this is a Russian-centric point of view. The "language patrols" conducted by some overly eager Kazakh nationalists are absolutely condemnable but I don't see a problem in the overall trend of the Kazakh language superseding the Russian one. As you said, Russians make only 10% of the country's population - the language of the minority being more dominant than the language of the majority group is absolutely not a result of some natural process. It is a direct result of Russian imperialism pre-1917 and a later Soviet policy of Sovietization (essentially, Russification) which replaced the Korenization movement of early Soviets (which, on contrary, sought to preserve the language and cultures of the minorities). Plus there is some hypocrisy on the side of Russians - they refuse to learn the Kazakh language while being a minority in Kazakhstan but force the minorities within their country to learn Russian while sidelining their own native languages and act outraged if they need to take classes of some native languages (e.g. Tatar in Tatarstan - there has been plenty of scandals with Russian parents not wanting to have Tatar classes).
A bit offtopic, but you can see the difference between the approaches taken by the USSR (post-Lenin basically) and Mao's PRC (and previous Soviet Korenization) even today. The Buryat language in Buryatia is declining with most young people not knowing how to speak it; the language is not mandatory in most of the schools (only Russian is and English as the foreign subject); most of the ads, announcements, news sources, street signs, etc. are strictly in Russian; many Buryats retain their culture in a quite superficial way - through food or, more rarely, clothing during big celebrations, most have been Russified. On the other hand, in Hulun-Buir (which has a much smaller Buryat population btw, it is in the low thousands) the language is thriving among the youth - the more traditional ones even don't speak Chinese since they mostly own herds and don't need that much communication skills in Mandarin, while those who aim to go for the bigger cities are mostly bilingual. I can personally attest to this because I have relatives in HB who migrated there after the civil war and this is a reason why I facepalm every time some Westerner says bullshit about "cultural genocide" in China - it is merely a projection of what the European imperialists did to their minorities.
As for Cyrillic writing, it is a more complex issue since it did not supersede some native form of writing but the Arabic one which spread to the Kazakhstan region through Islam (e.g. Kazakh Chinese actually use Arabic writing). While Latinization has some roots in history (the Turkic minorities throughout the USSR used Latinized Yanalif in 1929-1940), I feel like it is more pushed by the Kazakh Turanists who are heavily backed by Turkey rather than being naturally promoted due to cultural reasons.
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Also Intresting fact. Tatars in China are the only Tatars in the entire world that uses the arabic script (specificly the Iske Imla script).
Chen Weihua is referring to this article in "Politico" about US puppet Ursula:
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Because of this news, during that time I searched related history materials of Kazakhstan in website and I found many kazakh people lives in China. Some of their ancestors flee to China because of terrible Russian empire agricultural policy.
The west is returning to the dark ages...
More poor people in the West lose dignity with inaction of governments
By Global Times Published: Oct 16, 2022 11:32 PM
Demonstrators protest outside Downing Street against the government's handling of the cost of living crisis as one in three British households is predicted to face fuel poverty this winter amid surging energy prices in London, United Kingdom on September 05, 2022. Photo: AFP
This October 17 marks the 30th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) established by the United Nations (UN). China has eradicated absolute poverty and is marching toward common prosperity. "We have ensured and improved public wellbeing as a matter of priority and pooled resources to wage a critical battle against poverty," a report delivered at the opening session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress on Sunday noted. Nonetheless, poverty-stricken people in the West see little hope for any improvement in their quality of life.
A complex global problem, poverty is also plaguing developed countries in the West. A report released by the US Census Bureau on October 4 revealed that the US had 41 million people, or 12.8 percent of its population, living in poverty in 2021, an increase of 2 million people compared to 2019. This is US' first poverty rate increase in a decade. At the same time, 73.7 million people in the European Union (EU) - about 16.5 percent of the population - are at risk of poverty. In the UK, around 14.5 million people are living in poverty, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's UK Poverty Profile 2022. That's more than one in every five people.
Although the poverty threshold is set a bit higher in the West than standards typically used by international organizations, those alarming figures still demonstrate how much worse the life of those facing poverty in Western countries has become over recent years.
Poverty is at the root of many social and economic problems. To many extents, a number of contradictions and conflicts are now emerging within the West from the failure to address the widening wealth gap between groups. However, Western political elites have long neglected poor people.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said at a UN conference last year that he comes from a country that not only doesn't care about the world's poor, but it also doesn't even care about its own poor. And poverty is an almost unsolvable problem in Western countries. At a political level, the inaction of some Western governments has led to the uneven development of the capital market and the growing prominence of poverty and other problems it generates. What's more, many Western politicians are unwilling to tackle the issue of poverty, because it would be unprofitable for them and may even negatively impact their own personal interests.
Fan Peng, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Political Sciences, told the Global Times (GT) that in the face of poverty, the West would rather choose to shift the blame onto globalization and other countries, using politicized actions to replace cooperation within the international community focused on global governance.
"The West's failure eventually led to intensifying political conflicts at home. And to distract people from these domestic issues, Western countries begin exporting wars to other parts of the world, causing more suffering and creating more poor people," Fan noted.
In stark contrast to the West's failure to deal with poverty, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of extreme poverty over the past four decades, contributing to almost three-quarters of the reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide. China's victory has not only solved a major global governance issue, but also added a lot of certainty to the global community.
Ding Yifan, a researcher at the Institute of World Development, Development Research Center of the State Council, said that China's victory in poverty alleviation reflects the advantage of the country's socialist system. The CPC has never forgotten its original goal of improving people's lives. Deeply rooted in the mass people, the CPC has a well-developed organizational structure to implement poverty governance at the grassroots level and achieve precise poverty alleviation.
Though unique, China's valuable experience in poverty alleviation still can help other countries in need. In a recent interview with the GT, Sachs claimed that China's success in poverty alleviation is "not only a wonderful and remarkable accomplishment, but also a road map for Africa and other places still facing extreme poverty."
While striving to achieve common prosperity at home, China is also actively taking steps to promote global cooperation to tackle poverty. The Global Development Initiative proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping has made poverty reduction one of its key areas, and cooperation projects have focused on dealing with problems, including poverty alleviation. This is what a responsible great power looks like.
Western countries have always had an ambivalent feeling of admiration and jealousy toward China's poverty alleviation efforts. In fact, the West does not need to feel confused over this issue. As long as they are willing to put aside their prejudices against China and view China's success against extreme poverty pragmatically, these nations can also learn some lessons from the Chinese model. But the question is, are Western politicians willing to do so and take meaningful action?
"Dignity for all in practice" is the umbrella theme of this year's IDEP. Today, many people living in persistent poverty are deprived of dignity and respect. If Western elites fail to recognize the urgency of addressing poverty, it is afraid more poor people with the loss of dignity will be found in the West.
More poor people in the West lose dignity with inaction of governments
By Global Times Published: Oct 16, 2022 11:32 PM
Demonstrators protest outside Downing Street against the government's handling of the cost of living crisis as one in three British households is predicted to face fuel poverty this winter amid surging energy prices in London, United Kingdom on September 05, 2022. Photo: AFP
This October 17 marks the 30th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) established by the United Nations (UN). China has eradicated absolute poverty and is marching toward common prosperity. "We have ensured and improved public wellbeing as a matter of priority and pooled resources to wage a critical battle against poverty," a report delivered at the opening session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress on Sunday noted. Nonetheless, poverty-stricken people in the West see little hope for any improvement in their quality of life.
A complex global problem, poverty is also plaguing developed countries in the West. A report released by the US Census Bureau on October 4 revealed that the US had 41 million people, or 12.8 percent of its population, living in poverty in 2021, an increase of 2 million people compared to 2019. This is US' first poverty rate increase in a decade. At the same time, 73.7 million people in the European Union (EU) - about 16.5 percent of the population - are at risk of poverty. In the UK, around 14.5 million people are living in poverty, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's UK Poverty Profile 2022. That's more than one in every five people.
Although the poverty threshold is set a bit higher in the West than standards typically used by international organizations, those alarming figures still demonstrate how much worse the life of those facing poverty in Western countries has become over recent years.
Poverty is at the root of many social and economic problems. To many extents, a number of contradictions and conflicts are now emerging within the West from the failure to address the widening wealth gap between groups. However, Western political elites have long neglected poor people.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said at a UN conference last year that he comes from a country that not only doesn't care about the world's poor, but it also doesn't even care about its own poor. And poverty is an almost unsolvable problem in Western countries. At a political level, the inaction of some Western governments has led to the uneven development of the capital market and the growing prominence of poverty and other problems it generates. What's more, many Western politicians are unwilling to tackle the issue of poverty, because it would be unprofitable for them and may even negatively impact their own personal interests.
Fan Peng, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Political Sciences, told the Global Times (GT) that in the face of poverty, the West would rather choose to shift the blame onto globalization and other countries, using politicized actions to replace cooperation within the international community focused on global governance.
"The West's failure eventually led to intensifying political conflicts at home. And to distract people from these domestic issues, Western countries begin exporting wars to other parts of the world, causing more suffering and creating more poor people," Fan noted.
In stark contrast to the West's failure to deal with poverty, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of extreme poverty over the past four decades, contributing to almost three-quarters of the reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide. China's victory has not only solved a major global governance issue, but also added a lot of certainty to the global community.
Ding Yifan, a researcher at the Institute of World Development, Development Research Center of the State Council, said that China's victory in poverty alleviation reflects the advantage of the country's socialist system. The CPC has never forgotten its original goal of improving people's lives. Deeply rooted in the mass people, the CPC has a well-developed organizational structure to implement poverty governance at the grassroots level and achieve precise poverty alleviation.
Though unique, China's valuable experience in poverty alleviation still can help other countries in need. In a recent interview with the GT, Sachs claimed that China's success in poverty alleviation is "not only a wonderful and remarkable accomplishment, but also a road map for Africa and other places still facing extreme poverty."
While striving to achieve common prosperity at home, China is also actively taking steps to promote global cooperation to tackle poverty. The Global Development Initiative proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping has made poverty reduction one of its key areas, and cooperation projects have focused on dealing with problems, including poverty alleviation. This is what a responsible great power looks like.
Western countries have always had an ambivalent feeling of admiration and jealousy toward China's poverty alleviation efforts. In fact, the West does not need to feel confused over this issue. As long as they are willing to put aside their prejudices against China and view China's success against extreme poverty pragmatically, these nations can also learn some lessons from the Chinese model. But the question is, are Western politicians willing to do so and take meaningful action?
"Dignity for all in practice" is the umbrella theme of this year's IDEP. Today, many people living in persistent poverty are deprived of dignity and respect. If Western elites fail to recognize the urgency of addressing poverty, it is afraid more poor people with the loss of dignity will be found in the West.
Good. These people are always saying "we" (by which they mean everyone but themselves) should consume less for the sake of the planet. They should welcome the chance for their money to be put where their mouth is, willingly or not.
Europeans consume far too much, and freezing in the dark will teach them important lessons about humility and frugality that they sorely need to learn.
American think they can mess with the world's largest consumer of semiconductor and emerge unscathed.... Peak retardedness of American politicans.
The same Islamaphobic Westerners feigning faux outrage over Muslim human rights in China....
Question: if Sweden is found to have been involved in the terrorist attack/sabotage of Nordstream, is that grounds for Russia to declare war on non NATO member Sweden?
Especially when the Swedes are blocking an international investigative team from accessing the site?
Is that perhaps why the Swedes are racing to ink a protection treaty from the Anglo Americans?
What has the world come to when the heirs of Gustav Adolphus have to bend the knee to the Anglos of all peoples?!
Especially when the Swedes are blocking an international investigative team from accessing the site?
Is that perhaps why the Swedes are racing to ink a protection treaty from the Anglo Americans?
What has the world come to when the heirs of Gustav Adolphus have to bend the knee to the Anglos of all peoples?!
Saudi forums are already discussing how KSA can covertly acquire nuclear capabilities rapidly (i.e. 1-2 years) to prevent itself from being threatened by US nuclear blackmail. Logical partner would be Pakistan in this respect, although Chinese assistance might be sought on less sensitive areas (i.e. delivery assets). Multiple nuclear shields from Iran, Russia, Pakistan, and KSA, would supplement China and help push out american interference in the Asian battlespace.
Occasionally I go read older messages to see if some people's predictions came true or not.
I found this comment by @Overbom back in April and I thought it was an interesting comment given the current Saudi actions regarding OPEC.
Of course, it isn't just Saudi Arabia but all of the Middle East, which, if China can consolidate that region into China's camp, will be a humanitarian miracle given how the Americans kept setting them at each other's throats over the years.