Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the "Awakening Society". In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.
While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.
After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.
Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou's assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.
Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 AsianโAfrican Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated "the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil."
Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong's death in September that year.
"Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown."
Zhou Enlai, from "Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
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Every episode of Frieren i watch Im reminded of how incredibly wrong everyone who says "the show is fascist!" is
I think many say it because recognising the world needs
scares them. Others say it because they know they would be shot by her.
I mean like I get it that having a sentient race that explicitly exists to be and do evil and which explicitly, and according to the ideology of every character within the show, need to be exterminated isn't a great look and yes sure like I get it the author could just not write that stuff in but like
it's just so not "about" fighting demons? I like the demon fighting shit because I'm a slop loving piglet who just wants to see animated fight scenes of people zwee fighting around
but that's like 3% of the show and the rest of it is about autism, connecting with people, caring about others, cherishing the memories you share with the people you love, etc etc.
Like the last episode I watched was all about them trying to help a random dwarf find this legendary liquor
spoilers about the Boshaft episode
which ends up being an incredibly dogshit brew that is so not worth dedicating your life to finding. Frieren already knew this because her previous party already found it decades ago, but her current companions want her to help the guy anyway because he's offering a lot of money. She was reluctant, knowing how finding it to be a disappointment might crush Fass, the dwarf, but she does it because her friends want her to. In the end, rather than be disappointed, he's amused, and they all happily share some of it together even though it tastes awful.like it is literally nothing but a show about connections between people and how they change and affect us even decades after the passing of the people involved. How the fuck can that be fascist? It's not like it's some retvrn to tradition nostalgia shit
before that there was an episode where they go on a long journey through the mountains to find a hot spring
spoilers for the episode
And Frieren doesn't really want to go, but her friend Stark does, because he remembers his teacher (the dwarf warrior from Frieren's party) talking about the experience of finding it with her before, and he wanted to share this experience that his teacher had. And they get there and he finds out that it's only an ankle deep hot spring, hardly enough to have a foot bath, but they all sit and enjoy the scenery (even if it wasn't really worth such a journey)i dunno, I like stuff like that, and like maybe I'm just a nerd but I get actually angry when it gets written off like it's fascist media >:(