
Carl Zha
@CarlZha
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Host Silk & Steel Podcast on China, history, culture, politics @SteelSilkn, [email protected] wife:@BaliEarthSoul
Bali, Indonesia
Joined August 2009
We got our pre-Wedding pictures back! . Our traditional Balinese Wedding is Oct 23rd next Friday at 9:00AM Bali time. I’ll livestream on my YouTube channel once I figure out how lol.
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CIA was conducting bombings of Indonesian oil fields from Taiwan in the 1950s.
4/ 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 1957. the CIA backed Indonesian rebels to overthrow Sukarno, fearing communist influence. US provided arms & support to military dissidents. The operation failed when a CIA pilot was captured, exposing US involvement. Video, Sukarno hosting Badung Conference
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"My Spanish roots fought communists in the Civil War".
I saw children killed, women raped. My grandma, a Finnish war refugee whose village Russians destroyed, cried seeing Ukrainian refugee kids. My Spanish roots fought communists in the Civil War. This war is deeply personal to me — Kyiv Independent with Azov foreigners. 1/
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Jianzhen aka Ganjin 鑒真 traveled to Japan to spread Buddhism, arriving in the year 753 and founding Tōshōdai-ji 唐招提寺 in Nara. Japanese sculpture of Jianzhen in Tōshōdai-ji temple. Nara period, 8th century AD.
I don’t understand why some people come to Japan and try to spread their own culture. And I also don’t see why questioning that is automatically labeled as discrimination.
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Nietzsche made it up. There's no such Chinese proverb.
Nietzsche: "Basically all civilizations have the same deep fear of the 'great man' that the Chinese alone have admitted to themselves in their saying: 'The great man is a public misfortune.' Basically all institutions are organized so that he arises as infrequently and under.
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Has anyone been told by their Chinese friend that the economy is doing great and life is great in the last 20 years???. Yet, China continues to grow.
Spoke to a Chinese friend today who was recently home in a Chinese major city for a few weeks. He said al of his late 20s friends are bummed out and don’t think their futures will be good. 9-9-6 is real but the work is performative to keep your boss happy. All bullshit. Tons.
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