KEVIN DOLGIN—These three religions were no more contradictory in the minds of the Chinese over the millennia than three different philosophies might be and most people kind of mingle them (certainly the first two). Indeed, once again, they are more philosophies than religions in many respects. You don’t go to church, you don’t even really pray (although Taoism and Buddhism are big on meditation), there typically is no concept of a creator god, and none of them are really big on proselytising.
CHINESE WAY OF LIFE
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CHINA TECH: INVENTION, INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT – PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE – 5,000 YEARS OF PROGRESS.
65 minutes readJEFF J. BROWN—Many people still harbor images of China’s century of humiliation, 1839-1949, as a technological point of reference, when Western and then Japanese parasitic colonialists sucked this country’s people and their resources dry with illegal drugs, expropriation, exploitation and war. That was China’s nadir, 110 years out of five millennia of progress. Except for those 110 years, the reality is that China has been the world’s innovation leader for most of written history. Please listen to my 600 Years podcast below and study the bilingual table I created, based on Robert Temple’s work, cited just after that. You can even print out the table on nine sheets of A3 or A4 paper, if you’d like, suitable for framing.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Historically, China and Persia were, for centuries, wealthy, settled agricultural civilizations having to deal with occasional swarms of desert warriors – yet most of the time in touch with each other because of the Silk Road. The Sino-Persian entente cordiale is embedded in solid history.
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AN EMAIL EXCHANGE BETWEEN WILLIAM ENGDAHL AND JEFF J. BROWN. CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND
34 minutes readJEFF J. BROWN—As far as Baba Beijing working with Rome to normalize relations and the appointment of bishops, like you, I’m no fan of the imperial Vatican, historically and currently. But there are millions of Chinese in underground churches (which I have witnessed first-hand, as well as gone to public churches) and because of the current Vatican-Beijing impasse, many of them are Catholic. The CPC (nor the people) will never forgive Western churches for their critical role in maintaining China’s century of humiliation, 1839-1949. But Xi realizes that to bring transparency to China’s religious groups and sects, Baba must normalize relations with the Pope.
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MAO ZEDONG WAS THE GREATEST LIBERATOR OF WOMEN IN HUMAN HISTORY.
25 minutes readJEFF J. BROWN—In 1950, China had a population of 500 million. That means overnight, Mao’s sincere interest in helping the communist revolution, by liberating 250 million females and today, 700 million Chinese women, makes him the greatest women’s liberator in human history. During his childhood and adolescence, Mao saw the plight of rural women, where he grew up in Hunan Province. He saw that country women had no rights, no voice in their finances and marriages and were treated worse than chattel property, like farm animals.