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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man even if there wasn't all the plagiarism stuff i would be so mad at james somerton for this video. some of his takes are just incredibly disgusting,
gross, bad takes and utena spoilers
making a joke about a victim of csa being a bottom and completely removing any agency she might have (she may not have much, but the show makes it very clear that she has agency even in her terrible situation!), calling akio a "chaotic bisexual", pitting utena and anthy against each other and saying they were fighting over akio, the idea that it's doing magical realism(???), says akio isn't dios, saying wakaba isn't involved with the duels and is therefore representative of the actual literal events of the show that it's possible to tear away from the symbolism and surrealism (and that the abuse is not literal sexual abuse but instead metaphorical. james, it can be both! it can have broader thematic applications while still being about the actual abuse!), but the symbolic view of the show is also a unique pov that hasn't been heard before...also he makes a joke about how the stuff with nanami is weird but dismisses it having meaning. the show just looks at the camera and says "touga is raising nanami to be slaughtered," and "nanami is reaching maturity and realizing things about herself and this will lead to touga rejecting her," this isn't subtle! the show tells you what it's about! it's wacky and weird, but very blatant in the themes! her turning into a cow is representative of how she's willing to let the illusion of status blind her to the reality of her situation even as things get worse and worse, like the frog in a boiling pot. the fact that the cowbell is high fashion means she doesn't notice that she's been cursed! the status associated with being touga's sister means she doesn't notice how he's grooming her and would drop her in a heartbeat if she was "the type of girl who laid eggs"
bad video. lots of just flat out untrue stuff, and also just deeply evil. i know some of that stuff was cut from this version, but still mad. i assume this was a bit, but if it wasn't please just watch utena, it's a good show!