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Cobras and other small snakes (venomous or not) are maligned (unfairly, I know) in Vietnamese culture as sly, slick, and wily animals. Hence the comparison.

Previously, the Buddhist Association of China announced in July that it has agreed to revoke the ordination certificate of Shi Yongxin, former abbot of the renowned Shaolin Temple, over suspected criminal offenses, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Shi Yongxin is suspected of criminal offences, including embezzling and misappropriating project funds and temple assets. He has also been accused of serious violations of Buddhist precepts, maintaining long-term inappropriate relationships with multiple women and having at least one illegitimate child, Xinhua reported, citing the Shaolin Temple management office.

If the investigations would substantiated those allegations against Shi Yongxin, then Shi Yongxin would be indeed a cobra monk (from Vietnamese 'sư hổ mang').

The State of Palestine also quote-posted the Italian progressive magazine L'Espresso:

My rough translation from Italian:

The annexation of Cisjordan (a.k.a. West Bank), with the soldiers complicit with the colonists. Gaza annihilated. The advance into Lebanon. The border violated in Syria. The war against Iran. Ethnic cleansing and massacres. Thus the Zionist right gives shape to Greater Israel

[...]

THE ABUSE

The late Palestinian poet and writer Refaat Alareer accurately observed thus:

May he rest in peace!

Reminder: Zionist propagandist Bari Weiss sicced the IOF on Alareer; they then murdered him and many of members of his family.

The Iranian gusanos who cyberbullied OOP were not even monarchists but anarchists & others in their radlib ilk.

I remember that incident only vaguely now: TOliveFern had posted comments critical of the CIA-hijacked and Mossad-hijacked protests in Iran, and those radlibs cyberbullied them into deleting their comments

From Bác's speech "Bài nói tại Hội nghị đại biểu những người tích cực trong phong trào vǎn hoá quần chúng", delivered in Vietnamese on 11 February 1960 and later published in print on Nhân Dân newspaper's issue 2156 on 12 February 1960. Later, that speech is included in Hồ Chí Minh Toàn tập (2011), volume 12.

This is the quote's Vietnamese original:

Muốn tiến lên chủ nghĩa xã hội thì phải phát triển kinh tế và vǎn hoá. Vì sao không nói phát triển vǎn hoá và kinh tế? Tục ngữ ta có câu: Có thực mới vực được đạo; vì thế kinh tế phải đi trước.