That guy is useless, in all honesty I wonder how long the USA can mask its problems until the people cannot take it anymore because all those food shortages and energy and infrastructure issues and thus overtures to Africa failing cannot be hidden forever. All those retail stores closing down should mean more to the American people then Kevin Rudd gaining some random position that I highly doubt anyone in Australia gives a literal fu@k about. I mean most people in Australia have already forgotten him already, just like Scomo
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Kevin Rudd is a pseudo-intellectual China-watcher so it makes sense that he got the job.
You watch him for 5 minutes, you might think he is a genuine China scholar. You watch him for 15 minutes, you think he is just a level or two better than mainstream CIA media
So Australia just appointed a Chinese speaking envoy to the US.
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That's why very serious people were writing in the People's Daily, calling it a major 理论创新 theoretical innovation 理论创造 theoretical creation, etc. They knew this step would *open the door* to, for example, what Yao Yang has been doing.
Crucially, I want to add that Yao Yang has been trying to frame - or steer - China's ongoing pursuit of 共同富裕 Common Prosperity as part of its history and tradition, and not Karl Marx's egalitarian utopia. The key difference is in the 1st scenario, investors and businesspeople
needn't worry that their riches would be taken away by the Communists. In other words, 共同富裕 Common Prosperity is about 天下大同 making everyone better as imagined by Confucius, not Karl Marx's egalitarianism.
Came across a classic example where he says China is NOT "importing the market economy from the West, but recovering its own market economy" b/c he says China had a market economy in Song dynasty [960-1279 AD]. In other words, NOT rebuking Marx but rediscovering the Chinese roots
China already has a domestic theoretical rationalization for socialism. Mohism is China's proto-socialist philosophy from 400 BC. It isn't just me saying it, it is the official stance of CPC Party History.
No big deal.
Confucian ideas, existing side by side with Taoist ideas, for like how long?
Let's not forget something about K-man Marx.
Marx is a foreign religion. It will change to suit Chinese tastes.
Marx will know flavour.
That Confucianism and Taoism, appear to be diametrically opposed on certain points, did not exactly collapse Chinese civilization.
In fact, it probably was this internal debate that kept Chinese civilization going.
How do we like that?
The Chinese actually believe in diversity, like real diversity, and not some token minority sort of thing.
One can only hope that these scholars are continuing the fine tradition of 外儒内法 and that they don't actually believe Confucian political theory is a viable way of running a state. After all, it was Legalism that made China, not Confucianism. Confucianism is also an idealist philosophy putting it in fundamental contradiction with Marxism while Legalism (Mohism too) are materialist philosophies and are therefore compatible with Marxism.