GODFREE ROBERTS—His Rural Cooperative Medical System trained Barefoot Doctors – who lived in their villages all their lives and were available day and night – to administer vaccinations, demonstrate correct handling of pesticides, introduce new sanitation methods and, by teaching nutrition and child care, cut infant and maternal mortality in half. Urban doctors, now required to tour the countryside, provided free treatment and trained promising barefoot doctors at urban hospitals. By the end of 1976, every village in China had a clinic and the death rate had fallen by 18%.
CHINESE WAY OF LIFE
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Taiwan opposition has shot itself — and the island — in the foot
18 minutes readALEX LO—As a former envoy for the island in Washington with plenty of connections with both the Republican and Democratic parties, Hsiao will make the perfect conduit in Taipei for anti-China hawks from the US. Instead of moderating from Tsai’s constant cross-strait provocations, the pair may well worsen them.
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A critique of the recent article in The New Yorker Magazine by Evan Osnos, “China’s Age of Malaise”
145 Mins readJEFF J. BROWN—Baba Beijing did not elect Xi Jinping because he was going to be China’s Gorbachev and sellout the people to Wall Street and NATO. They elected him, because they knew he had what it takes to be China’s 21st century Mao, to defeat Uncle Slaughter and its global Wehrmacht. It is almost comical how MSM writers transform in lockstep the West’s enemies’ leaders into cardboard cutouts, Dell Comic fiends. From Lenin to Stalin and Mao to Xi, the descriptions become lurid and fantastic, like lumbering James-Bondesque Frankenstein evildoers hellbent on snuffing out humanity.
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CHINA—MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS—To build a global community of shared future, all peoples, all countries, and all individuals – our destinies being interconnected – must stand together in adversity and through thick and thin, navigating towards greater harmony on this planet that we call home. We should endeavor to build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity, turning people’s longing for a better life into reality.
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Syria’s president receives warm welcome in China
2 minutes readPROLETARIAN TV—Xi Jinping and Bashar al-Assad meet to announce a strategic partnership with Xi noting that the establishment of the strategic partnership will be an important milestone in the history of bilateral ties. This marks a huge shakeup in the current situation in the middle east and brings the Syrian people much closer to an end to a war foisted on them by the imperialists and their proxies. The days of the US rampaging across the globe are ending.