The punishment of history A century after its formation, the Chinese Communist Party – and Xi Jinping – seem unassailable and increasingly hostile to the West The Chinese Communist Party was founded at a time when China was treated humiliatingly and with disdain by the Great Powers. On 23 July 1921, 50 delegates gathered in secret at an unprepossessing house in the French Concession in Shanghai and started arguing out the details of the new party. After a week of this, on 30 July, the French police raided the house. Only a dozen or so of the party members managed to escape. They headed off to Jiaxing, 60 miles away, and hired a pleasure-boat on a lake there. In this safer and more relaxed fashion they completed the business.
Tom Stathis
Karl Marx was an atheist for virtually his entire life. His atheism informed his belief system and crackpot political, economic, and social theories now known as Marxism. Here is an excellent description of the reasons for Marx’s atheism:
Marx’s theoretical atheism is the consequence of three postulates:
1) metaphysical or dialectical materialism which considers matter as the supreme and unique cause of everything;
2) historical materialism, according to which the economic factor is the principal and decisive factor, and the economic structure is the carrying structure of all the other structures that compose society;
3) absolute humanism, which sets man at the summit of the cosmos: man is the supreme being.
The first China International Consumer Products show will be held on May 7-10 in Haikou
HAIKOU, April 29. /TASS/. The Chinese authorities unveiled a tax-exempt program for a number of categories of imported goods that will be presented at the first China International Consumer Products EXPO in Haikou on May 7-10, reported the Hainan Daily.
The measures were prepared by the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the General Customs Administration, they will be valid for the duration of the exhibition. As noted in the joint document of the two departments, the main goal of the duty free policy will be to enhance Hainan s openness to the world, improve the image of the island, and promote the construction of Hainan s free trade port.
China presents a set of measures to liberalize trade on Hainan
The Chinese authorities plan to complete the creation of a free port on Hainan in 2025
HAIKOU, April 28. /TASS/. The Chinese government has unveiled 28 measures to liberalize trade in goods and services in Hainan s free port. According to a document published on the website of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, these measures will be implemented by 2025.
The Chinese authorities have outlined 13 measures to facilitate trade in goods on Hainan. In particular, they imply a weakening of control over the import and export of crude oil and oil products in the bonded port zone of Yangpu in the north of Hainan, an area with a special tax and customs regime. The harbor is also expected to end the regulation of tariff quotas on imported sugar.