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Bellum_Romanum said:

When was your road to Damascus moment and why?

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Funny to read all these testimonials. My situation is more like horse where there really isn't a singular moment that I can pinpoint in my past that lead me to Damascus. I don't know if this is a generational trait as horse suggests but, I've never fallen for idolatry nor zealotry. Yes, there were celebrities / people (do politicians count as celebrities? ) or concepts like religion that I supported in the past, but I never gave anyone or anything my blind devotion. I guess my view of people as not infallible and knowing that concepts can be misapplied, misinterpreted or, misused is the reason that prevents me from doing so. Sometimes this attitude leads to procrastination which I often find it saves my bacon on more than one occasion. It also piss off a lot of people too.

taxiya said:

Third example, Karl Max and many prominent Communists are Jewish, should this fact be repeated every time we face a political matter between Communist country and the west? As a Marxist, I regard him as just a great thinker, his ethnicity means nothing in what he taught or did, and has no bearing to actions that China should take.

As a Marxist. I attribute all human actions to be based on materialistic interests. Certain people do certain things are because they are in a certain materialistic interest group, not because of ethnicity. Suggesting a connection between ethnicity and action is to remove the true root cause from the picture, at best you will miss the real target, at worst you are doing damage to your goal of solving problems.

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Have you read Marx's <On The Jewish Question> ?

KYli said:

Talk about desperation to distract their current war crimes against Palestinians. Most global south countries have witnessed the hypocrisy of the Western liberal international order through the current Ukraine conflict and Israel conflict.

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I have the honour of delivering this cross-regional joint statement on behalf of the following 51 countries: Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Eswatini, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nauru, Netherlands, North Macedonia, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Marshall Islands, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United States, and my own country, the United Kingdom.

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many countries we hardly ever heard of ... noticed none of Asian, Africa and South & Latin America and countries apart from US colony

antiterror13 said:

many countries we hardly ever heard of ... noticed none of Asian, Africa and South & Latin America and countries apart from US colony

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Israel is one of them which is the most hypocritical of all.

coolgod said:

Have you read Marx's <On The Jewish Question> ?

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So basically Marx himself reject zionism. Making the argument of not whether thinking him as a jew invalid. In fact he is from a capitalist family, but that does not stop his view.

Where did I see that before? Isn't this censorship?

siegecrossbow said:

LMAO this thread has turned into a path to Wumao thread.

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I never really had a Road to Damascus journey. During my childhood, my family had always reminded me to be proud of being a Chinese. This was mainly due to the resistance fervor against the state-instituted racism against the ethnic Chinese by the Malaysian government. But at that time, we looked up mostly to the Chinese people in HK and Taiwan, and not yet the Mainland. But when mainland China started to arrive, many of us (but not all) started appreciating the rise of the PRC more. That is the short story.

The long story is me appreciating communism and the CPC after learning more about the history and the struggles of the Chinese people and communism in Malaysia. In school, all Malaysians are taught that the communists are the ultimate evil. Because of the legacy of the communist insurgency, and with Malaysia being part of the pro-West Commonwealth. The communists in Malaysia were often portrayed as an even worse evil than the Imperial Japanese Army. It also doesn't help their reputation, that most of them were ethnic Chinese, bringing Sinophobia into the mix. However, I was told by my elders that the communists in Malaysia were the actual heroes in WWII, but they were ultimately betrayed by the British and the local majority Malay population. The Malay population had a unenviable reputation for being willing subjects of any invading foreign power. When the Japanese invaded Malaya, and the British colonial administration surrendered, the Malays greeted them with opened arms and switched loyalties to their new overlords. They cooperated with the IJA to hunt down Malaysian Chinese. The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), along with some smaller allies were the only force who were seriously resisting the Japanese, aided by the British. When the Japanese surrendered, and the British returned, the Malays then switched their loyalties back to the British once more. But then the British betrayed the MCP and kicked off the communist insurgency. Now, those Malays who used to serve the Japanese as enforcers were tasked by the British to fight the communists and suppress the Malaysian Chinese population. Some of these Malays were lionized as Malay Muslim 'heroes' in history textbooks. It is this disgusting history that made me see the communism in general in a different light. It also got me curious about communism in general, and the more I learned about them, the more I like them. Eventually, I learned about the USSR and the CPC and I liked them even more.

In my younger years, I liked the USSR for being badass, but as I learned more about them, I don't like them as much anymore. However, the CPC was special to me because it was much more personal. It was Chinese, and it had a connection with the struggles of the MCP and the Chinese community in Malaysia. I see the CPC and the PRC as the ultimate force that can bring justice to the Chinese people as a whole. Not only do they actually kick butt, but they have also developed China further than ever before. Imperfect as they are, they are the real deal. They have put substance into the meaning of being proud to be Chinese.

I am disappointed that many Malaysian Chinese still fell for the anti-communist propaganda in school, and definitely in media. They were ready to stand up for Chinese solidarity, but just not for the Chinese on the mainland. These days, these people are infected by Boba Milk Tea mental disease and have strayed away from Chinese solidarity to 'Taiwan and HK solidarity'. The HK riot of 2019 was an eye opener for me. Many friends and family whom I thought had been fervent defenders of Chinese rights in Malaysia became strong PRC haters. Unsurprisingly, these people loved Donald Trump and started loving America all over again, despite originally hating America during its War on Terror era. It is thanks to this madness, that I finally needed to speak out and become a proper Wumao.

Looks pretty similar.

KYli said:

Russia prefers Yuan and doesn't want useless Rupee.

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Russia has an excess supply of rupees, which it’s struggling to use, while at the same time its demand for yuan has grown sharply in the past year as the economy becomes more reliant on China for imports. Russian businesses have been settling more of their trade in yuan, with the Chinese currency this year replacing the dollar as the most traded currency in Russia.

Indian refiners mostly pay for Russian oil imports in dirhams — the currency of the United Arab Emirates — US dollars, and a small amount of rupees, if oil prices are above the $60 a barrel cap imposed by the US and its allies on Russian oil. While the yuan is sometimes used in smaller transactions, Russian oil suppliers are requesting that the Chinese currency be the main unit of transaction for oil trade, according to the senior Indian government official.


Russia has accumulated billions of dollars worth of rupee assets given its wide trade surplus with India, but it’s struggling to use the funds. The rupee isn’t a fully convertible currency internationally, making it difficult to use in global trade.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in May the build-up of rupees is a “problem” and discussions were taking place on how the funds can be transferred into another currency.

Indian refiners want to use dirhams over yuan in order to comply with the government’s instructions, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. However, some suppliers of Russian oil are not in favor of using the UAE’s currency since it requires them to conduct the transactions out of Dubai, which would result in more scrutiny of the funds, the person said.

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Russia now settles 75% of its trade with China and 25% of its trade with other countries with yuan (CNY).

Let's just condemn the blast!

Another day, another comparison of Gaza with Xinjiang:

The US will keep fighting trillion dollar wars like they did in Afghanistan and Iraq, as long as the coffers go to the MIC.

The problem of using quotes from anonymous social media account is that it often weakens your argument instead of strengthening it. Here the short answer is that China can do both. The end results are increased trade and prosperity for all countries involved. It's a win-win for everyone. What is shown on the anonymous social media account is typical false dichotomy.

TK3600 said:

As usual, when someone is convicted that one side is evil and one side is good, always better to convince "the good side is actually evil" than say evil side is good. HK riots and Uighur genocide things really opened her eyes that "medias are indepenent and truthful" is a load of crap. From there on it is on her own effort to notice more inconsistencies. Once the 'good guys' are not so good, suddenly 'bad guys' have some merits.

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All my Chinese girlfriends were and is pretty socially liberal, fiscally conservative, one was very pro-China but was very negative towards Pres. Zhang, Pres. Hu but and is very pro-Xi Jinping which at that time was perplexing to me.
So I dug up on Pres.Xi's background, upbringing from western sources and Chinese from the mainland opinion re: my then gf. Then I cam across the CIA analysis of Pres. Xi Jinping and I must say the way he was described as INCORRUPTIBLE and mission focused with a clear vision for what he wants the country to become it was an epiphany and a reminder of another great Chinese leader: Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore. From then on, I came to admire and respect the heck out of Pres. Xi and the overall Cadre of CPC leadership warts and all.