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The document, a summary of the party's 100-year history, addresses its key achievements and future directions. It is only the third of its kind since the founding of the party - the first was passed by Mao Zedong in 1945 and the second by Deng Xiaoping in 1981. It was passed on Thursday at the sixth plenary session, one of China's most important political meetings.

As only the third Chinese leader to have issued such a resolution, the move aims to establish Xi as an equal to party founder Mao and his successor Deng. Some observers see the resolution as Xi's latest attempt to turn back decades of decentralisation by Chinese leaders that began under Deng and continued through other leaders like Jiang Zemin - a sign that China might be [is!] moving back to a so-called cult of personality.

The four-day closed door session was the last major meeting of party leaders ahead of the national congress next year, where Xi is expected to seek a historic third term as president. In 2018, China scrapped the two-term limit on the presidency, effectively allowing him to remain in power for life.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59229935 .

21-11-15 On Monday November 8th, the Chinese Communist Party kicked off a four-day closed-door session. The so called the 6th plenary session of the 19th central committee was attended by more than 3 hundred 70 full and alternate members of the Central Committee, the party’s highest governing body. Those attending the session hold the country’s most important offices and include members of the party leadership, ministers, regional party chiefs, senior generals and the executives of state-owned conglomerates. As general secretary of the Communist Party, President Xi Jinping led the session which is one of the most important political events in China and a common venue for the party to make consequential announcements. Xi likely addressed different groups as well as the general assembly, but his remarks won't make public in the near future. Like most things in Chinese politics, the agenda is top secret and only revealed in a communique afterward - with any squabbling and infighting edited out.

1:53 First plenum picks politburo and a standing committee
Second plenum confirms key roles in state council
Third plenum focus on economic policies

Fourth plenum is about CCP governance and party buildings

Fifth plenum will draft a five-year development plan

Sixth plenum deals with intra-party plans and social policies

Seventh plenum will set party congress agenda

The sixth plenum is more important than the others. It is the final chance for
horse trading before big decisions are made at the following year's congress. The plenums are a key venue for the party to display unity among the party leadership and indicate the direction of key policies.

Resisting Tyranny

2018 Path to Authoritarianism: Historian Timothy Snyder - Bernie > .

1: Do Not Obey In Advance - Timothy Snyder > .

2: Defend Institutions - Timothy Snyder > .

3: Beware The One-Party State - Timothy Snyder > .

4: Take Responsibility for the Face of the World - Timothy Snyder > .

5: Remember Professional Ethics - Timothy Snyder > .

6: Be Wary of Paramilitaries - Timothy Snyder > .

7: Be Reflective If You Must Be Armed - Timothy Snyder > .

8: Stand Out - Timothy Snyder > .

9: Be Kind To Our Language - Timothy Snyder > .

10: Believe in Truth - Timothy Snyder > .

11: Investigate - Timothy Snyder > .
12: Make Eye Contact and Small Talk - Timothy Snyder > .

13: Practice Corporeal Politics - Timothy Snyder > .

14: Establish a Private Life - Timothy Snyder > .

15: Contribute to Good Causes - Timothy Snyder > .

16: Learn From Peers In Other Countries - Timothy Snyder > .

17: Listen For Dangerous Words - Timothy Snyder > .

18: Be Calm When The Unthinkable Arrives - Timothy Snyder > .

19: Be A Patriot - Timothy Snyder > .

20: Be As Courageous As You Can - Timothy Snyder > .

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1) Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. [Foolish RWAs support dangerous SDOs.]

2) It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about – a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union – and take its side. [But, in the age of increasingly extremist CONservativism and amoral Libertarianism beware of politically-conservative +/- deceptively-named think tanks and institutions (eg Freedom Foundation, Heritage Foundation, Discovery Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Heartland Institute, Acton Institute, Claremont Institute, Lexington Institute) created with the long-term goal of undermining democracy.]

3) The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can. Consider running for office.

4) The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so. [On the other hand, mobs' ripping down statues reminiscent of long-defunct colonialism achieve nothing other than a petulant display of pique.]

5) When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.

6) When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.

7) If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no. [When malcontents can easily purchase arsenals of handguns, semi-automatic rifles and bump-stocks, society is in danger of usurpation by thugs.]

8) Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow. [Unfortunately, such advice also promotes the mob-rule of moralistic, intolerant, neo-bigotry, power-mongering "cancel culture".]

9) Avoid ~~pronouncing~~ regurgiquoting the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

10) To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights. [Sometimes the big wallet belongs to enemy states.]

11) Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate to others.

12) This is not just polite. It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society. It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.

13) Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them. [Jan 6, 2021 illustrates the problem with this suggestion. Credulous malcontents, who fancied themselves "patriots", treasonously attempted to overthrow a legitimate election.]

14) Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware on a regular basis. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the internet, or simply using it less. Have personal exchanges in person. For the same reason, resolve and legal trouble. Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks. [In other words, learn to distinguish between self-promoting emotional "populist" hooks versus rational policy.]

15) Be active in organizations, political or not, that express your own view of life. Pick a charity or two and set up autopay. Then you will have made a free choice that supports civil society and helps others to do good. [Supporting only causes that are dedicated to promoting socially-supportive, rational policy.]

16) Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends in other countries. The present difficulties in the [tRUMPist] United States are an element of a larger trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure you and your family have passports.

17) Be alert to the use of the words "extremism" and "terrorism". Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. [And be alert to media empires that specialize in peddling politically-expedient LIES to credulous, poorly-educated, violence-prone, overly-emotional IDIOTS.]

18) Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit [terrorist incidents] in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it. [This is particularly the case in the USA, where wrong-wing terrorism and gun ownership present far greater threats than foreign terrorism and "wokist" snowflakery.]

19) Set a good example for what America means for the generations to come. They will need it. " [True, alas. For significant subsections, America is a failed experiment in which malevolent Americans lust for power over out-group others, instead of upholding democratic values and supporting noble founding ideals.]

Patriotism vs Nationalism (quotes) ..

20) If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.

Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians:

Libertarians [narcissism and sociopathy relabeled?] are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S. politics, yet they have been largely unstudied. Across 16 measures in a large web-based sample that included 11,994 self-identified libertarians, we sought to understand the moral and psychological characteristics of self-described libertarians. Based on an intuitionist view of moral judgment, we focused on the underlying affective and cognitive dispositions that accompany this unique worldview. Compared to self-identified liberals and conservatives, libertarians showed 1) stronger endorsement of individual liberty as their foremost guiding principle, and weaker endorsement of all other moral principles; 2) a relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional cognitive style; and 3) lower interdependence and social relatedness. As predicted by intuitionist theories concerning the origins of moral reasoning, libertarian values showed convergent relationships with libertarian emotional dispositions and social preferences. Our findings add to a growing recognition of the role of personality differences in the organization of political attitudes.

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Sinicization - hànhuà

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Taiwan ..

Sinicization, sinofication, sinification, or sinonization (from the prefix sino-, 'Chinese, relating to China') is the process by which non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture, particularly the culture, language, societal norms, and ethnic identity of the Han people—the largest ethnic group of China.

Areas of influence include diet, writing, industry, education, language/lexicons, law, architectural style, politics, philosophy, religion, science and technology, value systems, and lifestyle.

In particular, sinicization may refer to processes or policies of acculturation, assimilation, or cultural imperialism of norms from China on neighboring East Asian societies, or on minority ethnic groups within China. Evidence of this process is reflected in the histories of Korea, Japan, and Vietnam in the adoption of the Chinese writing system, which has long been a unifying feature in the Sinosphere as the vehicle for exporting Chinese culture to these Asian countries.

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The Kuomintang pursued a sinicization policy, which foreign observers understood as "the time had come to set about the business of making all natives either turn Chinese or get out." It was noted that "Chinese colonization" of "Mongolia and Manchuria" led to the conclusion "to a conviction that the day of the barbarian was finally over."

Ma Clique: Hui Muslim General Ma Fuxiang created an assimilationist group and encouraged the integration of Muslims into Chinese society. Ma Fuxiang was a hardcore assimilationist and said that Hui should assimilate into Han.

Xinjiang conflict, Xinjiang re-education camps, and Uyghur genocide: The Hui Muslim 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) governed the southern region of East Turkestan (named Xinjiang by the Chinese government) in 1934–1937. The administration that was set up was colonial in nature, importing Han cooks and baths, changing the Uyghur language-only street names and signs to Chinese, as well as switching carpet patterns in state-owned carpet factories from Uyghur to Han.

Strict surveillance and mass detentions of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang re-education camps is a part of the ongoing sinicization policy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Since 2015, it has been estimated that over a million Uyghurs have been detained in these camps. The camps were established under CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping's administration with the main goal of ensuring adherence to national ideology. Critics of China's treatment of Uyghurs have accused the Chinese government of propagating a policy of sinicization in Xinjiang in the 21st century, calling this policy a cultural genocide, or ethnocide, of Uyghurs.

Taiwan: After the Republic of China took control of Taiwan in 1945 and relocated its capital to Taipei in 1949, the intention of Chiang Kai-shek was to eventually go back to mainland China and retake control of it. Chiang believed that to retake mainland China, it would be necessary to re-Sinicize Taiwan's inhabitants who had undergone assimilation under Japanese rule. Examples of this policy included the renaming of streets with mainland geographical names, use of Mandarin Chinese in schools and punishments for using other regional languages (such as the fāngyán of Hakka and Hokkien), and teaching students to revere traditional ethics, develop pan-Chinese nationalism, and view Taiwan from the perspective of China. Other reasons for the policy were to combat the Japanese influences on the culture that had occurred in the previous 50 years, and to help unite the recent immigrants from mainland China that had come to Taiwan with the KMT and among whom there was a tendency to be more loyal to one's city, country or province than to China as a nation.

The process of re-asserting non-Chinese identity, as in the case of ethnic groups in Taiwan, is sometimes known as desinicization. This is an issue in, for example, the Taiwan independence movement and Taiwan localization movements.

Sinicization of Tibet; Antireligious campaigns in China: The sinicization of Tibet is the change of Tibetan society to Han Chinese standards by means of state propaganda, police presence, cultural assimilation, religious persecution, immigration, population transfer, land development, land transfer, and political reform. It has been underway since the Chinese regained control of Tibet in 1951. In present-day Tibet, traditional Tibetan festivals have "been turned into a platform for propaganda and political theater” where "government workers and retirees are barred from engaging in religious activities, and government workers and students in Tibetan schools are forbidden from visiting local monasteries.” According to president of the Central Tibetan Administration, Lobsang Sangay, with the ongoing expulsion of monks and nuns from monasteries and nunneries, and destruction of the Larung Gar monastery, Tibet's largest Buddhist institution, "unfortunately what is happening is that the Chinese government is reviving something akin to cultural revolution in Tibet."

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