Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the "Awakening Society". In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.
While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.
After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.
Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou's assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.
Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 AsianβAfrican Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated "the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil."
Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong's death in September that year.
"Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown."
Zhou Enlai, from "Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
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All of my co-workers are on team Iran in this war. They were also pissed that our prime minister decided to declare our support of Israel and murica cause of that wasnt implied in the first fucking place. We're already the 51st state where it counts! Even the white dudes, one of whom I had to explain who Khamenei was and like...the bare basics of Iranian history cause this dude is powerfully ignorant, but he knew anyway that America threatened to annex us recently and that the word Canada is probably spoken less than 100 times a year in the Iranian government, who's the threat here? He's a smart dude, just amazingly politically and historically ignorant but he does admit that isnt a good trait and is eager to learn.
About half our kitchen is Phillino, and not too big on America. Our cranky older daytime dish and prep guy has a history degree and despite his incoherent politics and degree of social conservatism (dude is for sure homophobic but knows not to talk about it, but if someone is gay he brings it up every time that person is brought up) he understands geopolitics is aware that North Korea is alright. He knows people who have worked there. And has big respect for Gaddafi and doesnt get all sentimental about deterrence.
Death to America seems to be the overall sentiment. I'm just a Canadian, literally america but a different country but after all the tarrif bullshit and annexation threats, along with a domestic policy of disappearing people with a stare sponsored gang of jack booted thugs has made the general popular vibe here to be just a bit under 'beat up any American tourist'. If America is reaching that level of hostile feelings among the Canadian populace, the rage has to be burning fucking hot elsewhere. Eventually enough has to be enough even under a global capitalist order cause you cant just try to take the whole pie. You give just enough grease to turn the wheel slowly then apply just enough weight to hold people down. Eventually theyre gonna put their hands into the pockets of enough other rich people to make it a problem. The poor people dont even have a moth left to fly out of their wallet, they will need to eat their own soon enough.
I remember talking to a friend of mine who considers herself leftist and she was real politik pragmatism about the PMO issuing a statement on support being a good thing. And I was like "wtf are they gonna do, put more tarrifs on us if we dont support them like they already did?? Who cares? Norway and Ireland both dont support this, we could join them if we were serious about the whole 'taking the sign down' thing."