Deng Xiaoping Biographies

                              

   I took the book on Deng Xiaoping I reluctantly bought in the evening and read the first page of vile points of view from the Oxford published writer. It reeks of insult, like calling Xiaoping's father "Papa Deng" with the slanderous teenage implication, Mr. Shit,  but most facts can't be disputed; only half truths. I'm glad I saved $10 from the listed price. It will be put on the shelf next to the book on Lin Piao from Martin Ebon’s dated Lin Piao; The Life and Writings of China’s New Ruler, that at least has half the pages filled with actual speeches, meant mockingly, but the two men couldn't be more ideologically different. Piao almost destroyed China's revolution with too-much too-soon radicalism. Deng saved China from itself. 

  I started reading the Deng Xiaoping book by Alexander V. Pantsov (with Steven I. Levine)  I got on sale at a bookstore in Taipei. They didn't have the 825 page Deng biography I wanted; I am not buying anything on eBay until the international mail is back to normal. Interestingly, in the introduction, the author makes a case for their biography over the one I would have preferred to read saying their version covers Deng's whole life while the other concentrates on his last twenty-seven years. His book uses research from Russia and China that Ezra F. Vogel's book didn't have access to. He says Vogel was “quite uncritical and lacking in objectivity” of Deng claiming his book is more balanced about Deng's accomplishments and drawbacks, but so far I only see anti-China propaganda and half-truths if not out-and-out lies about the youthful “streets of blood” in Tienanmen and other two “T” (Taiwan, Tibet) of western slander about China; but that was in 2015. He could have added a H.K. and X (Hong Kong and Xinjiang) if it were published five years later. Alas, this was the only book they had in English about Deng and not the “uncritical and unrealistically positive” one I wanted, but this is Taiwan and rarely anything good about China can be found in media.  At least this bio should have facts and quotes from Deng. I can peel away the bullshit and chuckle at the attempt to defame China comparing it to the 'high standards' of US democracy. I wonder what the book would say if written after China’s successful fight against coronavirus and the U.S. falling into chaos and fascism. 

The gossipy anti-communist biography by A.V. Pantsov and S.I. Levine about Deng Xiaoping; A Revolutionary Life is horribly immature.  I’d much rather have the respectful Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel, and I finally found it  on the bookstore shelf in Taiwan. The imperialist, racist, regressive bias of history written by Western academics disgusts me.

October 23, 2020

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Only Taiwan Can Prevent a Needless War

Taiwan should be ashamed for not crediting China with the standard operating procedure that contained  the outbreak of COVID-19; not "proud" of itself.

The policy of the Taiwan government in cahoots with the USA is putting the people of Taiwan in danger. The DPP/KMT neoliberal media can control the rhetoric about China being the aggressor but who really is inciting violence but the denier of reality?

          Taiwan has been occupied by her Chinese mainlanders since the 16th century when the island was rid of colonial Dutch settlers by Koxinga of the Ming Dynasty. The Chinese and native population of aboriginal settlers in Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895 after China lost a war to it and it should have been returned to China when Japan lost to the US in WW II. Instead, the US kept Taiwan for the KMT, losers of the Chinese civil war between the communists and fascists, and still oversees Taiwan's international policy no matter which faction is in power, the KMT or DPP in neoliberal cahoots.

          Now the US is offering to sell Taiwan seven billion dollars in armament against international law. The DPP will take it in lieu of true independence so it can continue to preserve its political power and sustain corruption of Taiwan's ruling class. 

          The Taiwan government will be overthrown, by force if necessary if this sale is made because they are being enabled by the USA and unwilling by its own choice to accept historical reality and abide by international law recognition of China as Taiwan's legitimate government. Taiwan most certainly does not belong to the USA, independent perhaps, but not part of a fascist interloper turning its people against their cultural cohort and class interest.

          The people of Taiwan do not care who their government is so long as the economy improves and security is insured, not by a racist WASP imperial super power but by with its own people and culture. Already, many Taiwanese businessmen and workers have connected with China's growing economy and they will continue to do so since the COVID-19 outbreak was limited here through China's example of standard operating procedure to contain it, easier so in Taiwan, an island shorter than New York to Baltimore, with a population of 23 million. Instead of acknowledging the positive influence from China, its leader, Tsai Ying-Wen is claiming Taiwan did it all alone, without the help of WHO which, echoing President Trump's unfounded assertion,  was on China's side.

         The slogan "Proud of Taiwan" was flouted at the 109 anniversary of founding of the republic recently on Oct. 10, "Double Ten" day. The anti-China propaganda it shares with Angelo-American NGO's over Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang, is bent on fear-mongering and brainwashing its people but only serves the ruling class as breadwinners in families continue to be overworked, underpaid and in dangerous work environments. The price of real estate is exorbitant, for investment by the rich, and commoners cannot afford it. The capitalist hell of street chaos overcrowded with vehicles, scooters, and large trucks cause horrific accidents daily and highways are continually being built adding to the poor air quality. 

          Scenes of chaos in the USA presidential election, as a fascist fool fights against a senile opposition party stalwart, is slowly filtering into Taiwan media that can no longer bear the weight of covering up for its ruling class enabler. People are slowly realizing that aligning with China is better. In this regard, the ruling class is heading for trouble. No one wants war in Taiwan but the belligerence of the disengaged bootlickers may be leading Taiwan down a dangerous dead end. It will be the DPP/KMT that's to blame if the arms deal goes down, but the media doesn't allow for much leeway in dissension. When the PLA appears on the streets of Taiwan, no one but the ruling class will care when the last witch of western colonialism on Chinese soil is dead. Let’s hope the Taiwan government doesn’t make the good people of Taiwan die in a needless war.

October, 14, 2020

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