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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C# made me enjoy programming again, although I am a programmer, I enjoy the process and i don't consider it just an end to a means. It really is great, though. I need to branch out to Rust or something next to see what everyone loves about that.
rust would be my #1 worst language btw
Ouch. Good to know. I just hear everyone talking about it all the time.
Yeah i dunno why. It fixes problems that I've never personally had when i'm coding and its soooo fucking strict to write. You can never really 'prototype' stuff out because the compiler will complain if you are even a slight bit lazy. I tried to print out a string once for debugging and it was a nightmare that took me like 30 min to figure out
I do wonder how much of it is me using a language that has created bad practices over the years and getting burned out vs. me just not liking programming (we all don't have to like programming lol)
Like if little me learned that doing STEM actually means coding all day, little me would be sad.
Honestly, not everyone finds it fun and interesting. For most, it is just a means to an end, and I think that's okay, too.
Hell, I was starting to get burnt out, too, but recently I've been making some game mods for fun and that has kind of revitalized my interest. It's made me realize that it's possible it's just my job, and all that surrounds it, that has made me hate it lol.