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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  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Hahahahahahaah no shit

    I also have one of those, and am also dailying it since my android phone broke like 6 months ago. Also having problems, but not quite as severe since I have some disposable income to throw at it/don't rely on it as much as you might think even though its my only phone.

    I could ship you a less shot battery, for sure. I don't thiiink they sell the ones I'm using anymore unfortunately but I have a spare. You using rk2aw? working suspend is kinda a game changer on having the battery actually last a while (so is the keyboard case but that's a whole other plethora of issues you probably don't want)

    I haven't been bitten by the SIM tray issues yet but call audio issues have been ever present, though it was working pretty well recently for a while, and I found out yesterday fuckin SMS isn't working for me either randomly (tried to set up 2fa for a work thing... never got the texts). Oh and despite having a case and tempered glass screen protector I cracked my screen, underneath the protector. I bought a replacement panel but I've heard of people having mysterious hardware issues after doing the replacement so I'm sticking with the cracked one until it gives out (the protector is still intact over it lol)

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      7 months ago

      rat-salute-2 A fellow Pinephone Pro daily driver

      I'm glad it's not giving you as many problems as it is me

      Thanks for the battery offer, I really appreciate it, but I'm probably just gonna try to acquire some other phone as soon as possible

      I don't think I'm using rk2aw (first time hearing of it) but I did get suspend working at some point and that's the only reason that phone was usable for me at all lol. The 30 mins figure is 30 mins of active use. I just miss doomscrolling as much as I want away from a charger and the RK3399 just seems like it eats a ton of battery power any time it's not suspended (and I've tried clocking all the processor cores at the lowest speed or even turning all except one off).

      Sorry to hear about your SMS and call quality issues (edit: and your cracked screen!) :(

      It's just like a constant fight to have the most basic functionality stay working. Although I was running PostmarketOS edge for some reason lol. I stopped updating for months cuz I was afraid something else would break and I just haven't been in the state of mind to deal with that lately

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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        7 months ago

        yeah, it's kind of a mess. I've had people tell me suspend doesn't work without rk2aw (megi's stupid pre-bootloader and patched uboot or something, replaces tow-boot), but it worked for me until mid december without it. Finally was told I needed rk2aw and such in february and got it working again but its brought its own set of problems. I spend a lot of time at a laptop so I just do my scrolling that way most of the time.

        I definitely get more than 30 mins active use but regardless yeah, the 3399 is a hog. If calls and SMS were just rock solid though I would have no qualms with this thing honestly. Add the keyboard case (sans the horrible pogo pin connection issues) to the mix and I'd genuinely love it. But no. Shit regresses as much as it progresses lately. I'm on arch but it's been similar to what you describe. I may switch from phosh to sxmo, it seems cool. Not sure it'd be usable without a keyboard but maybe. It seems semi-usable on the original pinephone without one...