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China's indoctrination in state elementary schools (and beyond) is a worthy subject of study, and was recently explored in a three-part series looking at Chinese history books.
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
If yesterday was typical, about 1,400 children in Africa died of malaria. It is a preventable, treatable disease, and the young victims lost their lives through no faults of their own. Why it is that human beings accept a fact like this as an unremarkable daily event, whereas one murder can grab a headline, is an awkward question. And it raises related questions: Why, for
Since the Tiananmen Square killings it has become fashionable within the Chinese leadership to refer to dissident intellectuals as “scum.” That was Mao’s view, too. In 1942, the chairman, his armies besieged by both Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese army, took time off for zheng-feng, or rectification movement, in which he laid down rules for “unclean” Chinese authors.
Partnerships between Indonesian and Chinese research institutes are an increasingly prominent part of Beijing's soft power strategy to improve its image in the country.