President of China Xi Jinping : To Remember History, To Open The Future

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President of China Xi Jinping : To Remember History, To Open The Future [1][2]
Anatoly Karlin
The Unz Review
May 9, 2015

[Y Although this article is exactly three years old – it nicely sums up the position of the Chinese people in relation to Russia through Xi Jinpeng on his trip to Moscow to celebrate Russia’s V Day 2015. Thank you for reading. Y]

President Xi Jinping penned an op-ed in a Russian newspaper on May 6th 2015 in which, in stark contrast to the typical Western bile and hostility, he acknowledges the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism and warns off against attempts to revise that outcome, be it on paper or in real life.

I am translating it in full for two reasons.

First, it constitutes a first-hand glance at official relations between China and Russia, which – much to the consternation of neocons, Russophobes, Sinophobes, and Western imperialists – are instead of fighting each other for make benefit of the US are instead building strong relations and continuing to ink dozens of deals whose total value now probably stands at close to a trillion dollars.

Second, to explicitly give the lie to Western propaganda that Russia is somehow “isolated” by the fact that none of Washington’s European stooges turned up at the Victory Day parade in Moscow this May 9th. Who cares? Not many Russians, at any rate. China, India, and dozens of other countries did turn up. That’s the world’s second superpower and the representatives of half of humanity.

As for Obama, Merkel, Hollande, and Dave – quite frankly, the air is cleaner for their absence.

Anatoly Karlin
May 9, 2015

Российская Газета 06.05.2015

On May 9th, Victory Day in the world war against fascism, at the invitation of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, I will visit Russia and take part in the celebrations in Moscow devoted to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This sacred day I will celebrate together with the Russian people and the entire world.

Everyone remembers that the aggressive wars begun by the fascists and militarists inflicted unprecedented damage and suffering on the peoples of China, Russia, and the countries of Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world.

The relentless struggle between justice and evil, light and darkness, freedom and slavery, was joined by the peoples of China, Russia, and more than 50 other countries, as well as by all the other peace-loving peoples of the world, who stood up as one and formed a broad international anti-fascist and anti-militarist front.

All these nations fought in bloody battles against the enemy, and in so doing defeated the most evil and brutal aggressors, bringing peace to the world.

I remember, in March 2013, when I first visited Russia on a state visit, I laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin walls. There was a depiction of a soldier’s helmet and a red banner on the tomb, and there burned an eternal fire, symbolizing the unbroken life and unwavering fearlessness of our fallen heroes. “Your name is unknown, your deeds are immortal.” They will never be forgotten by the Russian people, the Chinese people, or anyone else.

China was the main theater of military operations in Asia during the Second World War. The Chinese people stood up before anyone else in the struggle against the Japanese militarists, waged the longest war, fought in the hardest conditions, and, like Russia, suffered the most enormous losses.

The Chinese army and people fought stoically and persistently, locking down and destroying numerous contingents of the Japanese aggressors. At the cost of a huge national sacrifice – the lives of more than 35 million people – a great victory was finally won and an enormous contribution was made to victory in the world struggle against fascism.

The exploits of the Chinese people in the war against the militarists, just like the exploits of the Russian people, will be immortalized forever in history and will never die.

The Chinese and Russian peoples supported each other, helped each other, they were comrades in arms in the war against fascism and militarism, and built a friendship with each other forged with blood and life. In the most difficult times of the Great Patriotic War, many of the best sons and daughters of the Chinese people decisively joined in the battle against German fascism.

Mao Anying – the eldest son of Chairman Mao Zedong – fought on many battles as a political officer of a tank company of the 1st Belorussian Front, up to the storming of Berlin. The Chinese fighter pilot Tang Duo, as deputy commander of a fighter company of the Soviet Army, distinguished himself in air battles against the fascist forces.

Children of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and descendants of the fallen heroes of the Chinese Revolution, when studying at the Ivanovo international boarding school, despite that they were still only children, nonetheless went off to dig trenches, prepared Molotov c~~~tails, prepared food and clothes for the fighters, chopped trees, dug out potatoes, and looked after the wounded in hospitals. Apart from that, many of them regularly donated blood – 430 millilitres once per month for the soldiers at the front.

The Chinese female journalist Hu Jibang, small and weak, underwent the entire war from the first day to the last, through bullets and fire, writing about the resilience and courage of the Soviet people, the barbarous cruelty of the fascist hordes, and the joy of the Russian soldiers and people in their times of triumph.

It emboldened the armies and peoples of both countries, raising their will to fight to the end, to the final victory. Alongside the above heroes there are many other representatives of the Chinese people who contributed to the Great Patriotic War while remaining unknown soldiers.

The Russian people gave the Chinese people valuable political and moral support in their war against Japanese invaders. This included large convoys of arms and war material. More than 2,000 Soviet fighter pilots joined the Chinese air force and helped in the air battles over China. More than 200 of them died in battles over Chinese soil.

In the closing phase of the war, Red Army soldiers of the Soviet Union were sent to north-east China. Together with the Chinese army and people they fought against the Japanese militarists, which helped China tremendously in achieving final victory.

The Chinese people will always remember the Russians, both soldiers and civilians, who gave their lives for the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation.

The famous Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky said, that, having forgotten history, our soul can get lost in the darkness. To forget history is to commit treason. The Chinese and Russian peoples stand ready, together with all peace-loving countries and peoples, and with the automost determination and decisiveness, to oppose any actions or attempts to deny, distort, and rewrite the history of the Second World War.

This year, China and Russia will hold a series of events to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. There will also be many other events conducted by the UN and other international and regional organizations.

The purpose of these events and celebrations is to demonstrate our determination to defend the results of the Second World War, to protect international equality and justice, and to remind out contemporaries that it is necessary to preserve and guard the peace that was won for humanity at too high a price.

The hard lessons of the Second World War tell people, that humanity’s coexistence is not subject to the laws of the jungle; that world politics is diametrically contradictory to belligerent and hegemonic power politics; and that the path of human development is not founded on the principle of “winner takes all” or in games with zero-sum outcomes.

Peace – yes, war – no, cooperation – yes, confrontation – no, mutual gains are honored, while zero-sum results – are not: This is what constitutes the unchanging core and essence of peace, progress, and the development of human society.

Today, mankind has unprecedentedly good opportunities for the realization of our goal – peace, development, and the formation of a system of international relations that is ever more strongly based on the spirit of cooperation and mutual benefits. “Unity – is strength, while self-isolation – is weakness.” Cooperation and the win-win principle should be adopted as the basic orientation of all countries in international affairs.

We have to unite our own interests with the common interests of all countries, find and expand on the common points of interests of different parties, develop and establish a new conception of multilateral win-win, to always be ready to extend a helping hand to each other at difficult times, to partake together of rights, interests, and responsibilities, and to collectively collaborate to solve growing global problems such as climate change, energy security, cybersecurity, national disasters, and so on. In short, we are in it together on our planet Earth – the homeland of all humanity.

The Chinese people and the Russian people – they are both great peoples. In the years of grief and misery, our indestructible camaraderie was cemented in place with blood. Today the peoples of China and Russian will hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder defend peace, promote development, and make their contributions to lasting world peace and human progress.

Xi Jinpeng
Peoples’ Republic of China

Citation
[1] http://www.unz.com/akarlin/translation-xi-jinping-remember-history/
[2] https://rg.ru/2015/05/06/knr-site.html

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

all those idiots who died for nothing. i salute you stupid pile of bones and ashes.

Mother f~~~ers where equally brave and stupid as s~~~ rat ass.

to all men that where soldiers and died for other people freedom, ROT IN HELL YOU USELESS BASTARDS.

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[GregB0Participant]

Thanks for posting this Yumbo. It is amazing how often people, communities and nations forget or dismiss how humanity as a whole is directly tied with history. Avoid, relive or dismiss it, History is always present to be used in placing present and future activities into a context.

Micro or macro, what happens in the past needs to be remembered in a non-political manner.

Europe is in denial that Germany would have been defeated if it were not for the Axis forces trying to conquer Russia. Britain would have been invaded, Spain and all other “neutral nations” would have been crushed and Europe would have been rebranded.

Russia and China have a special bond because of WWII and this will continue allowing them to develop and implement strategic and corporate partnerships at the expense of other nations.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Excellent post man! There is only one way the US can stop China from becoming the pre-eminent world power:
Sell them California. That would eliminate our national debt and saddle them with this albatross. With that stone around their necks they can only go down!

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GregB0 wrote:

Thanks for posting this Yumbo. It is amazing how often people, communities and nations forget or dismiss how humanity as a whole is directly tied with history. Avoid, relive or dismiss it, History is always present to be used in placing present and future activities into a context.

PistolPete wrote:

Excellent post man!

Thanks to both of you. Both the Chinese and Russians are very loyal peoples and this is a bond that was sealed in blood by their forefathers.

There is an old saying I have found to be true in my many travels. We are all really one people.

There are no strangers here; Only friends we haven’t yet met.”
– William Butler Yeats

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22524]

PistolPete wrote:

Excellent post man! There is only one way the US can stop China from becoming the pre-eminent world power:
Sell them California. That would eliminate our national debt and saddle them with this albatross. With that stone around their necks they can only go down!

China already controls Mexico and through Mexico, China controls California. Your bad idea would only give China a military foothold right next to the U.S. mainland.

China controls many major seaports in Mexico. Mexico officials let it slip out during NAFTA talks that the Mexican government takes their orders from various Asia powers, including China.

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PistolPete wrote:

There is only one way the US can stop China from becoming the pre-eminent world power:
Sell them California.

Paraphrase

There is only one sure way the US cannot stop China from becoming the pre-eminent world power:
Keeping California.

LMAO.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Faust and Yumbo—you guys are both wrong. Selling CA to them pros/cons

Cons: OK they set up military bases—so what

Pros: National debt gone
Subsidizing CA costs the rest of the tax payers MILLIONS Not anymore
Illegals crossing the border? Let the Chinese deal with that HA HA
Thousands of homeless in crime infested cities let the Chinese deal with that too
OPPPPS No more paying for Chinese imports to cross the pacific—THEY pay for it to go to CA HA HA
Dealing with all this would cost the Chinese BILLIONS of dollars, and wreck any dreams of empire
they have.

Did I mention the mother of all earthquakes that is going to hit that place someday—soon? Who is going to pay the billions for that little clean up?

NOPE you guys got it wrong CA is a GIANT POISON PILL—after a time the Chinese might pay us to take it off their hands! THIS is a WIN WIN FOR THE USA!

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Addendum:

Hey if the Chinese get out of line we can always cut off the water supply and return CA to the desert it once was. And as for the military bases—HA HA Have a good time move troops and supplies across the Rockies HA HA HA.

AND if the Chinese sweeten the deal by throwing in Taiwan and the Panama Canal we can give them a BOGO–take Oregon too!

[iMickey503Participant 12465]

If they took over Oregon, California,and Washington. I don’t think anyone would notice.

MINUS THE WELFARE Kings and Queens.

Besides, it will never happen. TOO much Military hardware in California, and Washington.

What would they be fighting over? If california really did anex itself. No one would bat an eye. It would just be business as usual. Realestate might actually go up if they new the US government through the IRS could rush in and take it away from them. The Chinese are tough negotiators. But even they know that they are playing the long game. There is nothing to be had with short term gains like land grabs and wars. You make more money and gain power through influence. Just like the USA has.

Hell, consumerism in Africa has risen solely due to China. Even in South Africa, the Chinese do not mingle with blacks, and have a strong center towards eventual infiltration there through hard work and due diligence. There is no animosity towards Chinese like there are to whites. So, there is not real threat to them for now. And Chinese people that go there are not going to fight back. They will just hire more of their own kind to kill their own kind.

Simple solution.

Besides, the more people they have the more they plan to put their asses to work.

THe Chinese are not looking for diversity. They don’t care about sharing culture. They care about the bottom line. If it does not make dollars, it does not make sense.

There will always be a few outliers. But other then that, unless blacks start upping their game in south africa with education and real competition, they will be happy living as wage slaves to the powers that be.

Their own politicians will be bought, and they will all tell them everything is grand.

People are stupid.

But then again, people value peace over freedom. Even here in the Good Ol USA, If you said something was better, they would just believe it. Maybe it is for some. But whatever. I don’t see the Chinese government taking your kids away. Don’t think anyone would mind.

Besides. The chinese pay for their weapons. Why waste the money if you don’t need to?

You are all alone. If you have been falsely accused of RAPE, DV, PLEASE let all men know about the people who did this. http://register-her.net/web/guest/home

[MonkParticipant 16995]

An astute westerner would see Xi’s words as a warning. The East – of which Russia is a part – has a very long memory.

The Opium Wars and the use of poison gas by the British against Russia in 1919, will not have been forgotten.

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