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My delay in commenting is because I read through the whole text trying to make sense out of it, and failing.

My initial analysis came up with a procedure for generating the propositions in the text. Take selections of abstract verbs, adverbs, nouns and adjectives and permute them into sentences in imperative mood without grammatical subjects but with abstract grammatical objects in the format: subjectless imperative verb + adverbial qualifier + abstract object + adjectival qualifier.

For example, VERBS: strengthen, improve, deepen, develop, optimise, standardize, implement, etc.

ADVERBIAL QUALIFIERS: [with antonyms for implied current status]: reasonably [unreasonably], appropriately [inappropriately], long-term [short-term], actively [passively], steadily [changeably], prudently [rashly], etc.

ABSTRACT OBJECTS (nouns): mechanisms, quality, supervision, docking, unification, rules, standards, system, governance, pattern, co-operation, modernization, etc

ADJECTIVAL QUALIFIERS: transparent, stable, predictable, high-standard, comprehensive, qualified, first-class, market-orientated, law-based, orderly, etc.

This produces plausible nonsense, such as:

“Optimize the open layout of the area.”

“Do a good job in the implementation of reform in the spirit of nailing.”

“Deepen zero-based budgeting reform.

“… solve the most direct and realistic interests of the people.”

“… strengthen the construction of social workers.”

“… building a highland for international high-end talents.”

“… grasp the environment throughout.”

reminiscent of Chomsky’s “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” or computer instructions such as "just zap your P-RAM".

Then it dawned on me that the whole thing was made up by a machine intelligence generating linguistic patterns, essentially without meanings. It is a creature of AI. I don’t believe that any human being could have written these auguries.

You get a set of variations on the theme: ‘do virtual good things better at the same time.’

The reader is invited to infer the intimations, allusions, implications, presuppositions which would allow the text to make sense. What you’re presented with is vague impressions in manager-speak, gobbledygook, repetitive worthy nonsense using figurative not literal meanings; abstruse metaphors.

The irony is that while while the discourse is nonsense, the actuality is that the Chinese authorities have been delivering all these wishful intentions, fabules progressively over the last couple of decades. The putative authors of the document, occasionally referring to themselves as “we”, are exhorting themselves to do what is already being done.

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Lantern Dude's avatar

Yea, one troll so far ZZ seems like it should be WW.

Went to the Sputnik article, which linked to a substack:

https://www.eastisread.com/p/full-text-xi-jinpings-explanation

The extract below WRT dealing with contradictions caught my attention,

"... the market system still needs improvement; the market itself is not adequately developed; the relationship between the government and the market needs to be further straightened out; our innovation capacity falls short of the requirements for high-quality development; the industrial system, while large in size and extensive in scope, is not yet strong or sophisticated enough; the over-reliance on key and core technologies controlled by others has not been fundamentally changed; the foundations of agriculture need to be further strengthened; wide gaps persist in development and income distribution between urban and rural areas and between regions; and weak links remain in improving the people’s wellbeing and protecting the ecological environment. In essence, all of these challenges reflect the evolution of the principal contradiction in Chinese society and are the result of ongoing development. It is essential that they are addressed by further deepening reform comprehensively on an institutional basis."

In the recent UK election Sir Cur Strarmfuhrer ran on a platform of 'Change'. So far it's more of the same. We in the UK have been short changed and nobody is surprised. If a UK government provided anything remotely similar to the Plenum there would be an epidemic of strokes ...

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