Toward The Anniversary Of The Tiananmen Square Massacre – Unlike Mao And Deng, President Xi Will Not Allow Another Beijing Spring
March 16, 2021 | By Prof. Vera Schwarcz
Introduction
Will there be a mass uprising for democracy again in Tiananmen Square this year? Probably not. This is because Chinese President Xi Jinping has learned key lessons from his predecessors, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) and Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997). Both Mao and Deng had dared to open periods of free thought during their time in power. Both were surprised by the depths of discontent with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as expressed in Big Character Posters [大字报
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Head Of Al-Nujaba Political Council Ali Al-Asadi: The Americans Will Only Pull Out Of Iraq By Force, Blows Of The Resistance; Trump, Biden Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin
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Source: Al-Nujaba TV (Iraq)
Iraqi politician Sheikh Ali Al-Asadi, the head of Al-Nujaba Political Council said that the Americans have a cowboy and gang mentality, so they will only pull out of Iraq by force and the blows of the resistance. He made these remarks in an interview with Al-Nujaba TV (Iraq) that aired on March 13, 2021. Al-Asadi said that Trump and Biden are two sides of the same coin, and the Republicans and Democrats have the same goals, but they employ different policies and methods. He added that the Americans have shut down Al-Nujaba’s social media accounts, because they had caused harm to the American home front, in addition to the harm inflicted by the missiles of the resistance on the military front.
March 17, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9239
Iran Unveils Missile City Of The IRGC Navy, Showcases Various Anti-Ship Missiles, Drones, Naval Mines, And Equipment For Electronic Warfare
March 17, 2021
IRGC Commander-in-Chief General Hossein Salami spoke at a ceremony marking the unveiling of an IRGC Navy Missile City, introducing the various weapons added to the IRGC navy arsenal. The unveiling was aired on Channel 1 (Iran) on March 15, 2021. He said that the IRGC has UAVs, land-based anti-ship missiles, anti-ship missiles, sea mines, and various types of naval systems for electronic warfare, intelligence, naval mine warfare, and weapons that cannot be unveiled. IRGC Navy Commander General Alireza Tangsiri said that the IRGC no longer needs to transport the shore missiles to the beach, because they can be launched behind hills and can be launched on the move. He added that the missiles can change their target after they have been launched. The reporter said that the capabilitie
March 17, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9238
Prof. Tang Yonghong, Deputy Director Of Taiwan Research Center At Xiamen University: China-U.S. Relations Can Be Normalized Only After Taiwan Reunifies With The Mainland
March 17, 2021
The U.S. s changed strategic posture toward a rising mainland China, and corresponding political and attitudinal shifts in Taiwan, make it more urgent than ever for Beijing to force Taiwan s unification with the mainland under Communist Party rule, a prominent professor at Xiamen University writes in Duowei.
Prof. Tang Yonghong, Deputy Director of the Taiwan Research Center at Xiamen University, analyzes the shift in American strategic thinking under former president Donald Trump and new President Joseph Biden in the February 28, 2021 article. He discusses the major political shifts in Taiwan away from the one China concept and toward independence, and concludes that Beijing must act quickly to absorb Taiwan.
You may not know me, just as you do not necessarily know all [the rest] of the victims of the terrorist militias you deploy in Iraq and in the other unfortunate countries that have become theaters for your score-settling with the East and the West and for barricades that keep threats away from your throne and your country… Addressing you fills me with shame, even if it is only to expose some of your crimes and your terror. But no disgrace that has befallen Iraq and the Iraqis throughout the history of their civilization can compare to the disgrace that has befallen them now, when their county has become just another small farm of the Iranian [ruling] jurisprudent [i.e., Khamenei]!! My only comfort is that you would have never defiled the Land of the Two Rivers [Iraq] had the American forces not brought you there in 2003 and allowed your militias and parties to take control of Iraq with iron and fire.