"A Blue, Blue Blue Blue Xmas"
("Bleu, bleu de Noël")
[Updated on Nov. 30, 2011]
Yesterday, the BBC radio broadcasting on the Internet reported on calling of a Chinese naval ship at a Japanese port.
They are interested in how the two countries will develop their ties over the complicated and strangled memory of the past, since such a port call by a Chinese naval ship is the first since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Yet, I am interested in how many Chinese elites as well as poor Chinese are viewing this blog EEE Reporter.
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A month ago or so, the Chinese Communist Party introduced new politburo standing committee members.
The China's supreme commanding team now includes two new rising figures: Mr. Li Keqiang (Ri-Koku-Kyou in Japanese pronunciation of the kanji letters) and Mr. Xi Jinping (Shu-Kin-Pei in Japanese).
Interestingly, Mr. Katusya Okada, one of leaders of the Democratic Party of Japan, wrote then in his blog that he has met Mr. Li Keqiang several times in this decade.
According to the Japanese Parliament member Mr. Okada, Mr. Li looks like growing to be a leader of larger caliber along with his promotion in the Chinese Communist Party.
( http://katsuya.weblogs.jp/blog/2007/10/post_f737.html#more )
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But more interestingly, a certain Japanese scholar also showed his concern about the new two Chinese top leaders on his blog mainly discussing his concern with global warming and CO2.
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/reforestation/e/ed1982786a2fee67d85423c031dd7d77
He took note of the fact that Mr. Li Keqiang has an arts background (namely law, economics, philosophy, etc.) though other eight members of the politburo standing committee have a science background.
But, it is Mr. Xi Jinping that took more attention from the Japanese scholar, since the scholar and Mr. Xi seemed to share one memory, though without a direct link, on a certain prefecture of the Shaanxi Province of the Chinese mainland.
Mr. Xi, when he was a student, was ordered to go and work in a certain local village in the prefecture of the Province as part of the Rustication Movement or the Down to the Countryside Movement ("Ka-ho" in Japanese) which had been vehemently driven by Mao Tse-tung for the purpose of humbling elite youths in big cities and universities and thus making them obedient to the power, namely, Mao Tse-tung.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_the_Countryside_Movement
The Japanese scholar visited a village in the province on the Ocher Plateau in 2003 for his academic survey on reforestation policy in China. He however happened to meet an old farmer who happened to talk about a young man who had come to the village as part of Rustication Movement decades ago and thus suffered severe local life like all the other students all over China from late 1960's to early 1970's under the Rustication policy of the Party.
The old farmer said that the young man, nonetheless, had conquered the hardship and learnt agriculture and wisdom in the village to be an exemplary youth respected by everybody in the village.
But, the young man returned to Beijing as the political situation changed in the Chinese Communist Party; yet, people in the village heard nothing from him since.
The Japanese scholar wrote in his blog that he checked the precise location of the village Mr. Xi Jinping had worked hard decades ago to find that the village the scholar visited for research recently was different, since the prefecture the village belongs to has more than 300 villages.
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It might be one of big surprises and mysteries in history for you, especially if learning in the U.S. or Europe or the Islamic world, that Japan and China would not tie up to encounter aggression and invasion by Western Powers, such as Russia and the U.K., to protect the glory of East Asia in the 19th century and the 20th century.
Therefore, the divine providence must have specified that China had to introduce a specific form of Judaism, namely Marxism, while Japan had to introduce a specific form of Christianity, namely an American style of Democracy, for each to develop and stabilize its society and civilization or become a true regional and global leader.
In this context, the God seems to be sterner to China and more benevolent to Japan, since China is conditioned to be anchored by a harsh and extreme political system, that is, Communism-based administration, for the cruel nature of its past history.
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The Rustication Movement or the Down to the Countryside Movement is not a traditional Chinese concept, though it seems to have stringently trained Chinese youths of the era in the manner no Japanese or American politicians and elites have experienced except those who have been directly engaged in the Vietnam War or the Iraq/Afghan War or any other tough mission the God has posed.
("Any young elite should go to a local village to be sternly treated as a useless assistant to local farmers living in poor conditions. Then, they will appreciate the power that can give them a chance to live in a big city and study in a university to be the elite of the nation." This is however an aim of Mao Tse-tung.)
Now, Jesus Christ came down to the human world 2000 years ago as if He had ordered Himself to accept the holy rustication, probably due to a certain urgent condition, most probably such as the shadow of the Roman Empire decisively extending to Palestine at the time, namely 30 years after the era of Caesar and Cleopatra.
Accordingly, if you are ordered so by the God, you had better accept it, since it is a divine providence regardless of your present stage of activities for whatever purpose.
And, you may later become a fully tried and tested leader in your country, whether it is the U.S. or Japan.
(A certain stone, namely the material of an LED lamp, emits light when an electric voltage is applied while diamond is useless in this respect.
Indeed, if you discover a stone which emits light according to a change in the ambient temperature, you will win the Nobel Prize and become a super-rich man/woman.
Truly, if you discover a stone that spontaneously starts to glow when the surrounding environment gets dark and darker, you will also win the Nobel Prize and become a super-rich man/woman.
In future, Paris, New York, and Tokyo may be shining with a new type of solid-state lamps we will have discovered together, for whatever consequences, though I am now going to have...)
"SPIRITUAL TREASURE IN CLAY POTS"
(Kein Grund zur Uberheblichkeit)