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 Asian–African 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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MYTH: Your degree in a humanities field won’t get you a high paying job anywhere
FACT: Your degree in a STEM field won’t get a high paying job anywhere either
Having a humanities degree can make you slightly less unbearable as a person, which is not at all true of a STEM degree
Synthesis: both are true for most people
I have music degrees but I got my unrelated series of jobs because I think I might be good at talking to normies
Also when people hear that you have music degrees they often talk about music and whatever they like you compliment and then they like you more
why are you good at talking to normies lib
Im in the worst possible mood right now but basically because im an idiot
No thoughts, head empty
No thots, bed emptyFound out today that Russia also does the “pay us to draw memes on artillery shells” thing
The last military-age Ukrainian (67 years old) left in state borders when he sees the Chinese Kanna Kamui artillery shell heading directly towards his location
Jaysus Christ…
1 million nuclear weapons on the American healthcare system. Literally never been to the Dr without crying afterwards because they didn’t help me with a single issue while condescending at me the whole time for being unable to say the right word combination that enables the cheat codes (answers or solutions to a single health issue)
there has been a bunch of lemmy drama today, first an small instance admin complained about how lemmy has no future because the devs dont do what he tells them to do, they mod lemmy.ml and thats bad because they are evil tankies and that they used Rust instead of Java for lemmy and that bad because rust is some cryptic programming language (its not) and he was jumping ship to some java alternative and it going to be diffent because they do what he tells them, also that theres a silent majority of admins that doent like the devs
and another a journalist saying lemmy doesnt have a future because the devs are lazy and that the 2k euros a month they get should make them full time employees of the users. also that lemmy shouldnt care about making the site 3rd party compatible because those tools should be made by the dev team
just 2 really silly people that act like they paid 60 dollars for lemmy
also the beehaw admin also jump in the oportunity to act like angry customers, really a bunch of people that can only understand relations in a employee/boss dynamic
anyways
i swear to god the person running Libs of TikTok is one of the most vile pieces of shit on the planet. the account just posted that a teacher here is gasp nonbinary and even worse has an only fans and now community groups on facebook are going wild with
demanding that they be fired. I legitimately feel like LoTT is going to get this person (who by all accounts is a stellar teacher, not that that matters at all) hospitalized or killed.cat update:
literally spent the night awake due to the anxiety but glad you’re okay buddy
We had a bear scare once when someone couldn’t find their toddler. Kid was under the stairs reading the whole time.
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did a decent bit of reorganizing of the emote picker, let me know if it’s too inconsistent. I’m generally thinking of moving towards a potential deprecation of the larger sweeping categories (i.e. tendency categories that arent specific projects, porkies and their piglets, etc) and aiming for a less ephemeral and more functional categorization when possible; i.e. acab category, icons category, formatting category? idk, sort of making it up as i go too so
THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WORLD THAN THIS
fuck, i felt that
Israel shot civilians waiting for food aid again
Got my tax return today, it’s like a thousand dollars less than what TurboTax told me it was supposed to be. I’m going to speak to America’s manager and get to the bottom of this.
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