JORGE RODRIGUES SIMAO

I know nothing is going to last forever,”  Stephen King said. “But the key to life and being happy is acting as though it is.”

Many of us have had our illusions about security and permanency shattered. The longer we’re alive, the more it gets beat into us: nothing is forever. We can plan on many things, but the only thing we can plan on with any certainty is change.

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“New China’s was not a capitalist economy on the basis of private ownership, as in European and American countries, nor was it a socialist economy on the basis of public ownership, as in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. It was something altogether novel: a new-democratic economy, with both a capitalist sector and a socialist element. The regime of the new democracy was a system of democratic centralism designed by the National People’s Congress. It was totally different from the parliamentary system of the former democracy, and belonged to the classification of the representatives’ conference of the socialist Soviet Union. However, it was also completely different from the Soviet system, because it eradicated class, while the Chinese system was based on an alliance of all revolutionary classes.”

Characteristics of the Common Programme Draft by the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, September 22, 1949.

Zhou Enlai,

 O primeiro-ministro chinês Zhou Enlai, apesar do seu motivado discurso em Bandung, e das  suas negociações com Kissinger, não era visto pelo Ocidente como um diplomata. A sua visita a África, em 1963, deixou-o muito desiludido quando os africanos rejeitaram o seu pensamento sobre a revolução, pois era o última ideia que os recém independentes  países africanos procuravam. Tais países desejavam estabilidade. A China talvez tenha cometido erros com a África, assim como esta cometeu muitos erros consigo  mesma, dado que o continente ficou dividido em cinquenta e cinco países e com duas mil subdivisões históricas, culturais e linguísticas. A China aprendeu como ser um estado o mais rápido possível, especialmente com os poderes coloniais que foram enfraquecidos pela II Guerra Mundial e que começaram a sair com mais avareza sem preparar as estruturas governativas e a administração pública dos estados que rapidamente se tornaram independentes.

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“Zhou Enlai was a quintessential Chinese leader and devoted his postwar career to preserving and promoting Chinese national interests until his death.”

The Making of China’s Peace with Japan: What Xi Jinping Should Learn from Zhou Enlai

Mayumi Itoh

 O Imperador Napoleão afirmou que o mundo devia ter cuidado com o dragão adormecido, para que não o despertasse. A China não estava apenas adormecida, mas perdida em um tempo, antes da modernidade e incapaz de emergir do sonho denso de um mundo anterior, no qual tinha sido o país mais avançado do planeta, certamente o mais virtuoso e sábio, mas de alguma forma foi submerso pelo poder e pelos saques, do que antes eram Estados bárbaros com regras primitivas e populações rudes. O arrastamento de uma China sonâmbula para a globalização foi um enorme choque para um império que se tinha isolado. As potências imperiais do século XIX, unidas por uma rápida modernização do Japão, sujeitaram a China a enormes humilhações que continuaram no século XX, especialmente por parte do Japão que ocupou uma grande parte do seu território nos anos anteriores à II Guerra Mundial.

Basic income: a human rights approach

China human rights work: it’s emotionally draining, but country is the story of our lifetime, says Amnesty researcher

 Human rights work still ‘relevant’

Work

Various national and local struggles for workers' rights have encompassed the fight against slavery and forced labour, claims for decent working conditions and fair wages, the right to form and join trade unions, and the right to strike. In some ways, these movements antedate the human rights movement. International standards and procedures were elaborated through the work of the International Labour Organization (ILO), established in 1919 at the end of the First World War, and against the background of the Russian Revolution. At that time, an international focus was regarded as crucial to counterbalance the increasing appeal of an advancing Communism promising to vindicate workers' rights. Social justice was seen in the context of both World Wars as essential to achieve lasting peace. The ILO developed detailed Conventions and elaborate mechanisms for monitoring compliance with the various standards.