With regards to Xi Jinping sending a coded message to his closest aides with his Zhejiang trip, Xi's closest aides from his time in Zhejiang are referred to as the "Zhi [vice zhe] Jiang New Army" for the following reasons. Xi Jinping, as Zhejiang Party Secretary, between 2003 and 2007 wrote a column in the Zhejiang Daily titled “Zhi River’s New Tales” [zhijiang xinyu] where ‘Zhi River’ is the ancient name of the zhe river, the main river that runs through the province and from which the province derives its present name Zhejiang. The title itself, Zhi River’s New Tales, as Sinologist Geremie Barmé points out, pays literary homage to the New Tales of the World [shishuo xinyu], a 5th century compilation of clever remarks and witticisms that chronicles the Chinese intelligentsia’s growing adaptation of Buddhism [Cf. Erik Zurker, The Buddhist Conquest of China, the Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China, Brill, 1957]. Some 232 of Xi’s articles were later published as a book with the same title as the column “Zhi River’s New Tales.” Xi’s faction of personally loyal officials also takes its name from the media’s play on the words in the title of the column and book by referring to the faction as the “Zhi River’s New Army” [zhijiang xinjun].
I highly recommend people to go through WHO press conference transcripts from late Jan through to late Feb. And weep. Not to mention all scientists and doctors warnings ever since early Jan.
That there are democratically elected Western politicians seeking to blame the WHO to deflect from their own criminally negligent actions, which if i may remind everyone has led to 10s of 1000s of preventable deaths and will, ever more in the days and months to come, is beyond even my most cynical and darkest of expectations.
A question for the legally and politically knowledged, is there any international body with the necessary mandate and authority to comprehensively examine and determine the entire outbreak and perhaps even dispense charges/verdicts against governemnts and officials afterwards? Is it possible to organise one at all? Nürnberg Style perhaps? Any of our leaders dare? I guess am asking turkeys to vote for xmas. But surely there should be calls for that.
"Sun again stresses the importance of the decision to place everyone with mild symptoms or who may have come in contact with someone infected in centralized quarantine facilities."
Holy shnykees - he did a Cultural Revolution-style imprisonment.
With regards to Xi Jinping sending a coded message to his closest aides with his Zhejiang trip, Xi's closest aides from his time in Zhejiang are referred to as the "Zhi [vice zhe] Jiang New Army" for the following reasons. Xi Jinping, as Zhejiang Party Secretary, between 2003 and 2007 wrote a column in the Zhejiang Daily titled “Zhi River’s New Tales” [zhijiang xinyu] where ‘Zhi River’ is the ancient name of the zhe river, the main river that runs through the province and from which the province derives its present name Zhejiang. The title itself, Zhi River’s New Tales, as Sinologist Geremie Barmé points out, pays literary homage to the New Tales of the World [shishuo xinyu], a 5th century compilation of clever remarks and witticisms that chronicles the Chinese intelligentsia’s growing adaptation of Buddhism [Cf. Erik Zurker, The Buddhist Conquest of China, the Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China, Brill, 1957]. Some 232 of Xi’s articles were later published as a book with the same title as the column “Zhi River’s New Tales.” Xi’s faction of personally loyal officials also takes its name from the media’s play on the words in the title of the column and book by referring to the faction as the “Zhi River’s New Army” [zhijiang xinjun].
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-51916707/who-head-our-key-message-is-test-test-test
And did any of our beloved leaders listen?
I highly recommend people to go through WHO press conference transcripts from late Jan through to late Feb. And weep. Not to mention all scientists and doctors warnings ever since early Jan.
That there are democratically elected Western politicians seeking to blame the WHO to deflect from their own criminally negligent actions, which if i may remind everyone has led to 10s of 1000s of preventable deaths and will, ever more in the days and months to come, is beyond even my most cynical and darkest of expectations.
A question for the legally and politically knowledged, is there any international body with the necessary mandate and authority to comprehensively examine and determine the entire outbreak and perhaps even dispense charges/verdicts against governemnts and officials afterwards? Is it possible to organise one at all? Nürnberg Style perhaps? Any of our leaders dare? I guess am asking turkeys to vote for xmas. But surely there should be calls for that.
"Sun again stresses the importance of the decision to place everyone with mild symptoms or who may have come in contact with someone infected in centralized quarantine facilities."
Holy shnykees - he did a Cultural Revolution-style imprisonment.