大侨务与小侨务

相隔11年，习的大侨务言论显然比温的小侨务强势。习的overseas Chinese nationalism具前瞻性；而温则是在缅怀过去的悲情。

2003：温家宝纽约会见侨胞第一句话：“祖国想念你们” https://www.mfa.gov.cn/...//chn/zt/2003zt/wzlsg/t55832.htm 

2014：习近平会见第七届世界华侨华人社团联谊大会代表 https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2014/06-06/6254229.shtml

Taiwan's long walk to freedom of speech

In summary, although the Constitution of the Republic of China (ROC) 1947 remains in force in Taiwan after the loss of mainland China to the communist in 1949, many local Taiwanese dissidents sought to make Taiwan independent from the ROC controlled by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) of mainland Chinese origin, especially during the White Terror Period (1949-1992).

Errors

When the editor mentions "[Chiang's] goal [...] to make Taiwan independent," this implies that he fails to understand the concept of Taiwan Independence. Taiwan Independence is NOT about making the ROC independent from the PRC, it is about making Taiwan independent from the ROC and Chiang's rule.

Having moved his ROC government to Taiwan and enforced mainland Chinese rule in Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, Chiang was the mortal enemy of Taiwan Independence, how come he became a pro-independence supporter? I have seen many editors made such conceptual mistake before. Some do not even understand the differences between the PRC and the ROC.

There is no need to make Taiwan independent from the PRC, because the PRC never ruled Taiwan. The ROC is still ruling Taiwan.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-40657878 ...

My very simple explanation on the international position on China's sovereignty (ROC, PRC, and Taiwan Independence)

Apart from the ROC and PRC, the third option is to make Taiwan legally independent by ending the ROC Constitution (enforced in 1947) in Taiwan, while preventing the PRC (established in 1949) from landing on the Taiwan Province (returned to the ROC in 1945 by Japan).

This is based on the premise that as long as the ROC still rules Taiwan, Taiwan is not independent from the old China (ROC) and hence still subjected to the eventual goal of Chinese unification on the ROC's terms. Moreover, the ROC rule was seen as a transplanted regime originated from mainland China, rather than of locally independent Taiwanese origin. 

However, Taiwan is already independent from the new China (PRC) as the PRC never rules Taiwan and hence never achieves Chinese unification on the PRC's terms.

When the ROC was founded in 1912 in mainland China, Taiwan was still under Japanese rule following the result of the First Sino-Japanese War (1895). At the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Taiwan and surrounding islands were returned to the ROC. The subsequent Chinese Civil War (1946-1949) resulted in the ROC-PRC split as the ROC was evacuated to Taiwan and the PRC was proclaimed in Beijing in 1949. The ROC retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971. 

The PRC insists that it inherited all the territories of the ROC, including Taiwan but excluding Mongolia and Tannu Uriankhai. The ROC pretends itself as the sole legitimate government of all of China, despite the fact that it now only rules Taiwan and surrounding islands. 

It is very hard to explain the conflicting views among 1) ROC, 2) PRC, and 3) Taiwan Independence. While Taiwan officially calls itself the ROC, but the ROC is actually the mortal enemy of Taiwan Independence; this is because both the ROC and PRC are of mainland origin and are aspiring Chinese unification.

>>> My very simple explanation on the international position on China's sovereignty (ROC, PRC, and Taiwan Independence) <<<

如果要扭轉命運和改善際遇，那你就必需馬上做出極為反常的改變，包括改變自己和改變環境。

Beside internal self-improvement, why does the external environment matter? 

---> "Exceptional talent or intellectual prowess is no guarantee of exceptional achievement. And exceptional achievement is, of course, no guarantee of recognition."

https://bigthink.com/the-well/einstein-hawking-genius/ ###

John Lennon

他們問我：長大後的志願夢想是什麼？

我寫下「快樂」

他們說我沒搞清楚題目

我告訴他們：是他們沒搞清楚人生

--- 約翰藍濃

Modern History of China

The Chinese Revolution of 1949

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/chinese-rev

Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)

Grünberg, N. and Drinhausen, K. (2019). The party leads on everything: China’s changing governance in Xi Jinping’s new era. Retrieved from https://merics.org/en/report/party-leads-everything

“China is a civilization pretending to be a state.”

Every sinologist must read Tu (1991). The boundary between political China (nationalist identity as per Wang (1988)) and cultural China (historical identity as per Wang (1988)) is unclear. According to Pye (1990), “China is not just another nation-state in the family of nations,” rather “China is a civilization pretending to be a state.”

 

Pye, L. (1990). China: Erratic State, Frustrated Society. Foreign Affairs, 69(4), 58.

Tu, W. M. (1991). Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center. Daedalus, 120(2), 1-32. https://faculty.washington.edu/stev.../culture-periphery.pdf

Wang, G. (1988). The Study of Chinese Identities in Southeast Asia. In J. W. Cushman and G. Wang (Eds). Changing identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II (1988, pp. 1-22). Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press.

#Sadhguru The Root of Violence and Conflict

The root cause of conflict is that you identify yourself with too many things at once. When there is no conflict within yourself, then there will be no conflicts in your outside world.  

As all the harms come to you through either your mind and body, thus when you detach yourself from your mind and body, you cannot be harmed.

Therefore, if everyone stops such unnecessary identification and attains such detachment, there shall be no conflicts in this world and no one can be harmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-jqfGaCFVI ###

我們回不去了。-- 張愛玲

《錦瑟》唐 李商隱

錦瑟無端五十弦，一弦一柱思華年。

莊生曉夢迷蝴蝶，望帝春心托杜鵑。

滄海月明珠有淚，藍田日暖玉生煙。

此情可待成追憶，只是當時已惘然。

來吧來吧~

一不做二不休。要做就做到最好！由於韋特(Waite)塔羅太容易上手了，而且我每次占卜和預言都神準，因此我一定要向高階的托特(Thoth)塔羅挑戰。

回家第一件事情就是

炫耀我新買的

紫色占卜布

我選紫色是因為「大紅大紫」、

「紫薇斗數」、「紫禁城」，

而且還是古羅馬帝國的貴族顏色，

以及代表基督教聖靈的力量。

晚點還要練習更複雜的牌陣。

10 vs 1,000

目前我在台湾只成功撮合了10对情侣，距离我的1,000对目标还很远。而且我其中一位把妹师父还转型去教女生如何驾驭男友。我则凭塔罗而如虎添翼。

灵姐分享：这就是无欲则刚、降低需求感、展现高价值，甚至无意中达到欲擒故纵的最高境界（我不是在和妳玩欲擒故纵，而是我真的在忙着做高价值的事情，导致产生了"妳以为我在欲擒故纵"的效果）。

当年我的各位师父解救我于水火，让我停止收集好人卡，并建立了一个产生源源不绝桃花的自动化系统。如今我不仅掌握了谈恋爱的正确技巧和健康心态，更能善用塔罗占卜来替朋友辨识合适的好对象，甚至预言他们未来的感情结果。

塔羅魔法占卜：愛因斯坦與霍金

巧合是上帝保持匿名的方式。-- 愛因斯坦

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. -- Einstein

塔羅魔法占卜講究的是「共時性」，也就是過去、現在、未來都同時存在這個宇宙的時空。因此可以通過檢測目前的能量，來分析過去和推算未來。

另外，還有「集體潛意識」的概念，也就是說人與人之間的下意識其實是互通的，所以我能偵測到對方的某些想法。 

智能是適應變化的能力。-- 霍金

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. -- Hawking