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 Asian–African 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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there has been a bunch of lemmy drama today, first an small instance admin complained about how lemmy has no future because the devs dont do what he tells them to do, they mod lemmy.ml and thats bad because they are evil tankies and that they used Rust instead of Java for lemmy and that bad because rust is some cryptic programming language (its not) and he was jumping ship to some java alternative and it going to be diffent because they do what he tells them, also that theres a silent majority of admins that doent like the devs
and another a journalist saying lemmy doesnt have a future because the devs are lazy and that the 2k euros a month they get should make them full time employees of the users. also that lemmy shouldnt care about making the site 3rd party compatible because those tools should be made by the dev team
just 2 really silly people that act like they paid 60 dollars for lemmy
also the beehaw admin also jump in the oportunity to act like angry customers, really a bunch of people that can only understand relations in a employee/boss dynamic
anyways
What kind of a loser prefers Java.
skill issue. common bazinga L
I feel really bad for dessalines in having to deal with these infantile entitled r*dditor nerds. It's an open source project provided for free. Fork it if you don't like it.
i'll say this: if you run an open source project and you're not wasting at least 50% of your time on drama your project isn't popular enough to matter.
also what lol
It's you! You were doing this just two paragraphs earlier!
ew why would anyone want to use java for a web app?
like i dont know rust at all, but java fucking sucks for most things.
Beehaw is still going on about moderation tools and I still have no idea what they're on about. Like, just going by the federated modlogs over there and also here, one or two people with enough free time could probably manage moderation on their own. Kinda reminds me of Metafilter, which is also stuck on the idea that fast and intense moderation is the most important part of an online community and not, like, meaningful interactions lol
Bonus: Beehaw admins acting like using the software for a long time (for free, of course) entitles them to polite and responsive customer support. Are we still calling people "Karens" or has someone come up with a better pejorative?