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.
“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.
Here's another long essay in Chinese that explains how the Plenum paper was drafted, https://m.guancha.cn/politics/2024_07_23_742377.shtml And then there's this essay by Xi Jinping doing the same but already translated into English, file:///C:/Users/karlo/Downloads/Eng_Xi_Jinping_Explanation_Of_The_Resolution_2024_Zcw.pdf
"Everything is explained here in nearly didactic terms, chronicling the birth of the “Decision of the CPC Central Committee on further comprehensive deepening of reforms to promote Chinese modernization”.
"What is now already referred to colloquially all across China as “The Decision” spreads across 15 parts and 60 articles, divided into three main sections, proposing more than 300 important reforms.
“The Decision”, in full, has not yet been published; only the road map of how Beijing planners got there. Of course this is no mere policy paper: it’s a quintessentially CPC-style dissertation where the details of economic and political measures are obscured by clouds of images and metaphors."
Others have broken down the Plenum paper into more understandable structures, but I didn't save any of them.
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 ...
Yeah, ZZ isn't worth wasting any time on. The Plenum as usual focused on solving China's domestic problems, of which there're many. As Putin constantly says, there will always be problems related to governance needing to be solved for that's how it is and will be. The problem is identifying what those problems are, which is where citizen feedback is essential to the process of good governance--AND--attention given to that feedback so citizens know the problem is understood and being worked on.
Genesis of the ‘Decision’ , the ‘Resolution’ of the Third Plenum
In his text 'The Explanation' Xi Jingping reveals the drafting process of the ‘Decision’ or the ‘Resolution’ is as being as whole process democratic as the putting into practice, as having taken 7 months in very widespread back and forth consultations by Xi, Wang Huning and the team
He is careful to call the already published document a draft, pending testing, feed back, trial execution, modification – the exemplar of whole process people’s democracy
This is remarkable
Have you any knowledge of the practices by which the important Executive Orders are prepared?
About ten years ago Zhang Weiwei came to the US and gave a series of talks explaining how and why China's system of people's democracy and its overall system of governance were superior to the US system, which at the time I presented to the bar at Moon of Alabama during a very sharp troll war on the topic. The evidence presented was overwhelming and the trolls surrendered. At the time, I made the point that the goal of China's system was good governance so balance and harmony within its huge society can prevail whereas with the USA's system that isn't a goal at all except at the very local level. Indeed, the very notion of participatory democracy is denigrated by elites of all stripes here; so, instead we get observations like that of Mencken: Americans get the government they deserve. And that's to be expected when that same pundit says the US Constitution's the greatest ever conceived.
This is interesting -I'm surprised that you gained victory over such a deeply ingrained topic with the trolls, Bravo
Perhaps they were less vicious about China then than now they are - the battles everywhere for everything have heated up
I know you are less interested in the gangland reactions to China than in understanding and appreciating China policies on their own terms and their significance for the allies and the RoW
Blooomberg has been the only the western MSM to react with any frequency to the Third Plenum - but from a narrowly partisan point of view that would, in the debates, be treated as quasi troll like - Bloomberg went so far as to express disappointment and shock that China had paid evidently little attention or respect to Janet Yellen's remarks
Xi's remarks are to the overall balance and knitting together of the people's economic and social policies into reforms and hence laws under organised direction- I believe the general term is 'security' if not 'prosperity'
To the point that B hardly notices the emphasis accorded to military reform and military defence security
The west is solely interested to the extent that they can influence or control China’s economy, they leave the rest unsaid, as unworthy of their interest
As Escobar pointed out to Judge Napolitano in their Monday chat, the Plenum is focused exclusively on domestic issues, so nothing related to foreign policy is allowed to intrude, meaning Bloomberg lacks understanding of China's system, which comes as no surprise. The same can be said for trolls as the longstanding Western formula of Communism=Authoritarian no longer applies yet they continually try to invoke it to no avail. IMO, the West is defeated ideologically.
Thank you Karl - the treatment of Russia resembles that of China -Communist, authoritarian, one madman in demonic control : hence the emphasis on Xi's 'takeover' ‘Economics minister’ ‘all outside observers will have by way of information from China will be speeches by Xi’ and other foolishness
As for the 'nothing related' to foreign policy in the 'Decision'- that's not quite true - in Xi's 'Explanation' there is a short but pointed paragraph in the next to last 'security' section, where security is presented as internal and the rule of the law, etc but which then moves on to military reform, and the need to bolster defences against foreign interference
'Furthermore, the draft also proposes measures such as establishing sound coordination
mechanisms for promoting security in neighboring regions; strengthening
mechanisms for countering foreign sanctions, interference, and long-arm
jurisdiction; and improving mechanisms for preventing and controlling trade
risks, improving the system of foreign-related laws and regulations and the
systems for enforcing the rule of law, and deepening law enforcement and
judicial cooperation with other countries.
To continue deepening reform of national defense and the armed forces,
the document puts forward requirements such as improving the institutions
and mechanisms for leading and managing the people’s armed forces,
deepening reform of joint operations systems, and deepening military-civilian
reforms. '
Joint operations systems must refer to those in particular operated with the RF armed forces
This is parallel to the economic reforms discussed, which are to do with the internal economy primarily, but which does not ignore multipolarity and the BRI
‘The draft resolution also outlines plans for refining the institutions and mechanisms for high-standard opening up, which involve steadily expanding institutional opening up, deepening the foreign trade structural reform, further reforming the management systems for inward and outward investment, optimizing the layout for regional opening up, and improving the mechanisms for high-quality cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.’
Given the increasing importance of knitting China into the RoW, and out of the west, especially of course with RF, it is unavoidable to refer to the way internal affairs are reflected in foreign – ‘opening up’
In a strange co incidence – Big US Business visits Beijing -From the Foreign Ministry Press Conference July 24
“Hubei Media Group: A US delegation of heavyweight business executives from Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, and the United Family and so on is visiting China. Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Premier He Lifeng met with them respectively. US business leaders said they welcome the important message of the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC to further deepen reform comprehensively and the US business sector is confident about embracing the Chinese market. What’s your comment?
Thanks - he makes the point that China is increasingly interested in improved quality and less in sheer quantity - high level socialist market economy, more engineers less factory workers
Just about all western MSM were very 'worried' that China could not sustain 5% growth
More docs from the Third Plenum - including an ‘Explanation’ provided by Xi Jingping, with some China side comments followed by some Gangland side comments
Please can I suggest reading this transcript of the Official Press Conference given by senior officials, which took right after the closing of the Plenum and the publication of the initial communiqué and before the publication of the 'Decision'
Otherwise reading and understanding the ‘Decision’ on it’s own is very tough going for the western brain – but essential ; this is how intelligent government functions
The Press Conference transcript explains and gives further information about many points of the communiqué - such as opening up the market, consumer consumption, knitting of rural and urban - but more importantly the process of implementing filling out and live testing with grass roots feedback and modifications of all the reforms proposed
It is made very clear that the document is consultative, and produces rather than imposes a great number of approved by the people practical and pragmatic reforms
This has parallels with VVP’s May 7 Executive order which also explicitly describes how consultations with various representative councils and committees, the Duma, will flesh out the proposals, and institute administrative reforms the better to put into practice
Please note – China does not produce official translations for such important documents, as per the Joint Declaration, neither China nor RF bothered to do so
The rapid pace of modifications--reforms--in both the Chinese and Russian political-economies is astonishing, and the West really has no clue and is doctrinally incapable of making similar modifications. There's a gap that's growing but is too slim at the moment. By 2028 it's going to be very evident.
The relevant China and RF administrations must be puzzled - surely not even they could have predicted the extent of the corruption and the speed of the breakdown into chaos - which, I guess, has only just started to get going
Who do they call? Who's going to pick up the phone? Is the President eevn alive right now? Even if he is what good does that do
Say the Taiwan government has another panick attack - who can they call?
The White House Chief of Staff as alluded to has long been the supposedly "mystery power man" within the administration going back decades and acts as the president's personal Whip, although his real loyalties might lie elsewhere.
It's not so infrastructure building centered as Russia's plan but its internal restructuring and "modernization" as reform is greater because more people.
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.
Here's another long essay in Chinese that explains how the Plenum paper was drafted, https://m.guancha.cn/politics/2024_07_23_742377.shtml And then there's this essay by Xi Jinping doing the same but already translated into English, file:///C:/Users/karlo/Downloads/Eng_Xi_Jinping_Explanation_Of_The_Resolution_2024_Zcw.pdf
Hmm...., I see the pdf file didn't hyperlink. This link in English goes to an abridgement with a link to the full paper at page bottom, http://it.china-embassy.gov.cn/ita/xwdt/202111/t20211118_10449896.htm
The problem is with Chinese thought and the way the paper's organized, not some AI construct. Escobar in his latest article says the following, https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/07/24/china-has-achieved-escape-velocity-it-is-now-unstoppable/
"Everything is explained here in nearly didactic terms, chronicling the birth of the “Decision of the CPC Central Committee on further comprehensive deepening of reforms to promote Chinese modernization”.
"What is now already referred to colloquially all across China as “The Decision” spreads across 15 parts and 60 articles, divided into three main sections, proposing more than 300 important reforms.
“The Decision”, in full, has not yet been published; only the road map of how Beijing planners got there. Of course this is no mere policy paper: it’s a quintessentially CPC-style dissertation where the details of economic and political measures are obscured by clouds of images and metaphors."
Others have broken down the Plenum paper into more understandable structures, but I didn't save any of them.
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 ...
Yeah, ZZ isn't worth wasting any time on. The Plenum as usual focused on solving China's domestic problems, of which there're many. As Putin constantly says, there will always be problems related to governance needing to be solved for that's how it is and will be. The problem is identifying what those problems are, which is where citizen feedback is essential to the process of good governance--AND--attention given to that feedback so citizens know the problem is understood and being worked on.
Genesis of the ‘Decision’ , the ‘Resolution’ of the Third Plenum
In his text 'The Explanation' Xi Jingping reveals the drafting process of the ‘Decision’ or the ‘Resolution’ is as being as whole process democratic as the putting into practice, as having taken 7 months in very widespread back and forth consultations by Xi, Wang Huning and the team
He is careful to call the already published document a draft, pending testing, feed back, trial execution, modification – the exemplar of whole process people’s democracy
This is remarkable
Have you any knowledge of the practices by which the important Executive Orders are prepared?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zi3Y7-7Z21_ISPQk8oGq5H4EXUJiwclV/view
"'II.The Drafting Process
In November 2023, the Political Bureau decided that a document drafting
group would be established for the third plenary session of the 20th Central
Committee under the auspices of the Political Bureau’s Standing Committee. I
am chief of this group, and my colleagues Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Ding
Xuexiang serve as its deputy chiefs. The drafting work started following our
first meeting on December 8. Over the past seven months or so, we carried
out thorough surveys and studies, extensively solicited opinions, conducted
debates on major topics, held multiple discussions, and revised the draft
many times.
In drafting the document, we focused on the following priorities:
First, we laid down the principles to adhere to and ensured the right
political orientation on the basis of reviewing and applying the valuable
experience we have gained since the launch of reform and opening up,
particularly from our endeavor to comprehensively deepen reform in the new
era.
Second, we stuck to a problem-oriented approach and worked out plans
for further deepening reform comprehensively with a focus on advancing
Chinese modernization and on implementing the major strategic plans set out
at the Party’s 20th National Congress.
Third, we sorted out our priorities. We have prioritized institutional
reform, reforms of strategic and overarching importance, and the leading role
of economic structural reform, thus underscoring the guidance of reform
measures.
Fourth, we adhered to the principle of putting the people first to see that
reforms are designed and advanced with the overall, fundamental, and
long-term interests of the people in mind.
Fifth, we made overarching, integrated, and systematic plans to ensure
that reforms in different sectors work in concert and produce desirable
results.
Throughout the drafting process, we have taken a democratic approach in
order to draw on a vast pool of wisdom. On November 27, 2023, the Central
4 Committee issued a notice about soliciting opinions on the agenda of the third
plenary session of the 20th Central Committee from all localities, departments,
and sectors, as well as some officials and individuals.
There is a broad consensus among all those consulted that the 20th CPC
Central Committee’s decision to focus its third plenary session on further
deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization is a
reflection of the Party’s firm determination and strong sense of responsibility
to carry reform through to the end and a restatement of the answers it has
given to the questions of what banner to uphold and what path to take on the
new journey in the new era. They believe that this decision holds far-reaching
significance for building a great country and advancing national rejuvenation
on all fronts through Chinese modernization. The localities, departments, and
sectors consulted have also made many valuable suggestions on the theme
and framework of the draft, as well as major reform measures to be included.
This has provided us with an important reference for drafting the resolution.
On May 7, 2024, the text of the resolution was issued to select Party
members, including retired senior Party officials, for consultation. Opinions
were also sought from the central committees of other political parties, from
leaders of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, from
prominent figures without party affiliation, and from relevant enterprises,
scholars, and experts.
The feedback shows that all those consulted believe that the strategic
measures for further deepening reform comprehensively presented in the
draft resolution closely focus on the theme of advancing Chinese
modernization. The draft follows the right political orientation and sets forth
reform plans for resolving the major institutional problems hindering Chinese
modernization. With a distinct theme, clear priorities, and feasible measures,
the document will, in their opinion, serve as an overall plan and call to action
for comprehensively advancing broader and deeper reform on the new
journey in the new era. They also agree that the draft evinces a historical
initiative with regard to upholding and improving the system of socialism
with Chinese characteristics and modernizing China’s system and capacity for
governance, and it will provide strong impetus and institutional support for
Chinese modernization.
Based on a careful study of the 1,911 opinions and suggestions received
from all sides, the drafting group incorporated as many of these as possible
into the draft, resulting in 221 revisions to the text.
During the drafting process, the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau met three times and the Political Bureau convened on two occasions
for the purpose of reviewing the draft versions. The culmination of all this is
the final draft that we have submitted to this session for deliberation.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zi3Y7-7Z21_ISPQk8oGq5H4EXUJiwclV/view
About ten years ago Zhang Weiwei came to the US and gave a series of talks explaining how and why China's system of people's democracy and its overall system of governance were superior to the US system, which at the time I presented to the bar at Moon of Alabama during a very sharp troll war on the topic. The evidence presented was overwhelming and the trolls surrendered. At the time, I made the point that the goal of China's system was good governance so balance and harmony within its huge society can prevail whereas with the USA's system that isn't a goal at all except at the very local level. Indeed, the very notion of participatory democracy is denigrated by elites of all stripes here; so, instead we get observations like that of Mencken: Americans get the government they deserve. And that's to be expected when that same pundit says the US Constitution's the greatest ever conceived.
This is interesting -I'm surprised that you gained victory over such a deeply ingrained topic with the trolls, Bravo
Perhaps they were less vicious about China then than now they are - the battles everywhere for everything have heated up
I know you are less interested in the gangland reactions to China than in understanding and appreciating China policies on their own terms and their significance for the allies and the RoW
Blooomberg has been the only the western MSM to react with any frequency to the Third Plenum - but from a narrowly partisan point of view that would, in the debates, be treated as quasi troll like - Bloomberg went so far as to express disappointment and shock that China had paid evidently little attention or respect to Janet Yellen's remarks
Xi's remarks are to the overall balance and knitting together of the people's economic and social policies into reforms and hence laws under organised direction- I believe the general term is 'security' if not 'prosperity'
To the point that B hardly notices the emphasis accorded to military reform and military defence security
The west is solely interested to the extent that they can influence or control China’s economy, they leave the rest unsaid, as unworthy of their interest
As Escobar pointed out to Judge Napolitano in their Monday chat, the Plenum is focused exclusively on domestic issues, so nothing related to foreign policy is allowed to intrude, meaning Bloomberg lacks understanding of China's system, which comes as no surprise. The same can be said for trolls as the longstanding Western formula of Communism=Authoritarian no longer applies yet they continually try to invoke it to no avail. IMO, the West is defeated ideologically.
Thank you Karl - the treatment of Russia resembles that of China -Communist, authoritarian, one madman in demonic control : hence the emphasis on Xi's 'takeover' ‘Economics minister’ ‘all outside observers will have by way of information from China will be speeches by Xi’ and other foolishness
As for the 'nothing related' to foreign policy in the 'Decision'- that's not quite true - in Xi's 'Explanation' there is a short but pointed paragraph in the next to last 'security' section, where security is presented as internal and the rule of the law, etc but which then moves on to military reform, and the need to bolster defences against foreign interference
'Furthermore, the draft also proposes measures such as establishing sound coordination
mechanisms for promoting security in neighboring regions; strengthening
mechanisms for countering foreign sanctions, interference, and long-arm
jurisdiction; and improving mechanisms for preventing and controlling trade
risks, improving the system of foreign-related laws and regulations and the
systems for enforcing the rule of law, and deepening law enforcement and
judicial cooperation with other countries.
To continue deepening reform of national defense and the armed forces,
the document puts forward requirements such as improving the institutions
and mechanisms for leading and managing the people’s armed forces,
deepening reform of joint operations systems, and deepening military-civilian
reforms. '
Joint operations systems must refer to those in particular operated with the RF armed forces
This is parallel to the economic reforms discussed, which are to do with the internal economy primarily, but which does not ignore multipolarity and the BRI
‘The draft resolution also outlines plans for refining the institutions and mechanisms for high-standard opening up, which involve steadily expanding institutional opening up, deepening the foreign trade structural reform, further reforming the management systems for inward and outward investment, optimizing the layout for regional opening up, and improving the mechanisms for high-quality cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.’
Given the increasing importance of knitting China into the RoW, and out of the west, especially of course with RF, it is unavoidable to refer to the way internal affairs are reflected in foreign – ‘opening up’
In a strange co incidence – Big US Business visits Beijing -From the Foreign Ministry Press Conference July 24
“Hubei Media Group: A US delegation of heavyweight business executives from Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, and the United Family and so on is visiting China. Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Premier He Lifeng met with them respectively. US business leaders said they welcome the important message of the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC to further deepen reform comprehensively and the US business sector is confident about embracing the Chinese market. What’s your comment?
[Standard précis from the Explanation was given]
You'll want to read Escobar on the Plenum, https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/07/24/china-has-achieved-escape-velocity-it-is-now-unstoppable/
Thanks - he makes the point that China is increasingly interested in improved quality and less in sheer quantity - high level socialist market economy, more engineers less factory workers
Just about all western MSM were very 'worried' that China could not sustain 5% growth
Someone with the handle Han Feizi at Asia Times makes, in his own inimitable way, the same points -https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/chinas-subsidies-create-not-destroy-value/ - he's zany but spot on
More docs from the Third Plenum - including an ‘Explanation’ provided by Xi Jingping, with some China side comments followed by some Gangland side comments
The ‘Explanation’ by Xi Jingping, 21 July 2024
https://pekingreadout.substack.com/p/ten-quick-takeaways-of-the-resolution
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zi3Y7-7Z21_ISPQk8oGq5H4EXUJiwclV/view
Reactions from China side commenters
https://www.fredgao.com/p/several-takes-on-the-third-plenum
https://pekingreadout.substack.com/p/ten-quick-takeaways-of-the-resolution
Reactions from The Gangland
Typical concern troll article
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-long-blueprint-for-economy-falls-short-on-details-raising-concerns-0b965041?mod=china_news_article_pos2
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/business/china-economy-plenum-takeaways.html https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-leaders-point-to-economic-threats-but-show-no-sign-of-changing-tack-27790d88 https://www.ft.com/content/2d3af467-e8c8-45ca-84c0-7798b95b9bc7 https://www.ft.com/content/e286b893-40f7-410c-ad3d-12e422876799 https://www.ft.com/content/2e78ddde-0b32-40ca-8dc4-6bee73a1109e https://www.ft.com/content/7213a24e-e4d7-4e41-ad2d-849ee3eea5c1-The one good article, quoting Han Wenxiu’s press conference analysis
Reactions from The Gangland
Typical concern troll article
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-long-blueprint-for-economy-falls-short-on-details-raising-concerns-0b965041?mod=china_news_article_pos2
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/business/china-economy-plenum-takeaways.html https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-leaders-point-to-economic-threats-but-show-no-sign-of-changing-tack-27790d88 https://www.ft.com/content/2d3af467-e8c8-45ca-84c0-7798b95b9bc7 https://www.ft.com/content/e286b893-40f7-410c-ad3d-12e422876799 https://www.ft.com/content/2e78ddde-0b32-40ca-8dc4-6bee73a1109e https://www.ft.com/content/7213a24e-e4d7-4e41-ad2d-849ee3eea5c1-The one good article, quoting Han Wenxiu’s press conference analysis
Dear Karl Thank you
Please can I suggest reading this transcript of the Official Press Conference given by senior officials, which took right after the closing of the Plenum and the publication of the initial communiqué and before the publication of the 'Decision'
Otherwise reading and understanding the ‘Decision’ on it’s own is very tough going for the western brain – but essential ; this is how intelligent government functions
The Press Conference transcript explains and gives further information about many points of the communiqué - such as opening up the market, consumer consumption, knitting of rural and urban - but more importantly the process of implementing filling out and live testing with grass roots feedback and modifications of all the reforms proposed
It is made very clear that the document is consultative, and produces rather than imposes a great number of approved by the people practical and pragmatic reforms
This has parallels with VVP’s May 7 Executive order which also explicitly describes how consultations with various representative councils and committees, the Duma, will flesh out the proposals, and institute administrative reforms the better to put into practice
Back to work!
The Official Press Conference in English-very useful explanations of content and procedure -https://www.fredgao.com/p/transcripts-and-key-points-of-official
Please note – China does not produce official translations for such important documents, as per the Joint Declaration, neither China nor RF bothered to do so
The rapid pace of modifications--reforms--in both the Chinese and Russian political-economies is astonishing, and the West really has no clue and is doctrinally incapable of making similar modifications. There's a gap that's growing but is too slim at the moment. By 2028 it's going to be very evident.
compare and contrast the current politics reports from RF and China with the gangland dramas going on in DC
I just commented on Simplicius's article on that topic.
The relevant China and RF administrations must be puzzled - surely not even they could have predicted the extent of the corruption and the speed of the breakdown into chaos - which, I guess, has only just started to get going
Who do they call? Who's going to pick up the phone? Is the President eevn alive right now? Even if he is what good does that do
Say the Taiwan government has another panick attack - who can they call?
The White House Chief of Staff as alluded to has long been the supposedly "mystery power man" within the administration going back decades and acts as the president's personal Whip, although his real loyalties might lie elsewhere.
Wow! What an ambitious plan.
I can't imagine anything like this that would benefit ordinary people in our western countries.
It's not so infrastructure building centered as Russia's plan but its internal restructuring and "modernization" as reform is greater because more people.
What a bull shit column.
The size dont matter.
Xi had a stoke and he is not viewed in public last 10 days..
Maybe because 40 banks bankruped last month in china.
What mules you are.
Whats the paycheck?
I am sure i would be payed more.
The colulmn, absolute Bull shit.