For translation I would recommend Pleco as you can have the person you are communicating with draw the characters and then translate that. It isn’t perfect but I used it heavily when I lived there

People’s Daily is my go to for Chinese news but there are others as well like CGTN and Xinhua

More or less yes you did American English correctly. More often I just refer to them as semis without adding the truck part, some also call them tractor trailers. It was clear what you meant though so only need to change it slightly if you are going for full American English

• https://english.www.gov.cn/services/studyinchina
  • Government site with links to more info
• https://apply.china-admissions.com/
  • private company that helps, disclosure I did not use them but I am aware of them from when I lived in China

I did find it eventually but only after following your direct link to it and going back to the main page after language selection, I meant put it on the landing page before language selection so https://prolewiki.org/ as opposed to https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Main_page

The non language landing page doesn’t have that sidebar and I only ever hit that page and searched immediately so never saw the other one with a lot more on it

As someone who didnt know you had a library and just checked it out few suggestions if you are open to them:

• link to the library from the main prolewiki landing page, otherwise it isn’t clear that a library exists
• add an easy way to export the texts as pdf’s or ereader compatible formats
• where possible highlight what was edited in the MIA version of texts that you host

Happy to write out longer use cases/feature requests if you’d like

A couple ideas for you:

Work on easier people, tons of people are only a couple good conversations away and are a better use of your time. I know it is tough cause it is your mom but definitely something to consider.

Get away from the two party discussion. Focus on concrete issues she faces and ask a lot of questions on how she thinks it should be handled. If she is a hard work and no handouts sort who has had factory experience maybe unions could be an in. Or ask about what she considers the minimum acceptable lifestyle and dig in to how to get society there for all, even the hardworking and down on their luck. Like what hoops is she willing to jump through if she got hurt or sick.

This list is quite disingenuous and requires a whole lot of caveats to be even technically true.

Let’s take Liberia for example. European powers had trading posts established and the country was later colonized by the US. So only in the strictest reading of definitions of being colonized by a European power would it be on this list.

Great post! Tried it out this weekend, when I make it again I’ll likely leave out some of the spices and the tomato paste/sauce to make it a little more traditional.

Also this inspired me to create https://lemmygrad.ml/c/commissars_cookbook since I didn’t see a community for recipes yet

They think I am one of them

Jellyfin is great! As for a suggestion I’m a big fan of How Yukong Moved the Mountains

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/823038

Quite a few good ones there

This post from a week ago has some good links

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/823038

President nominates people and congress has a hearing and either confirms or rejects them.

So, yea essentially except usually it isn’t their kids but rather people that have written enough legal opinions that they like and can bribe

I am not familiar enough with the immigration situation in Cuba to answer that. Will need another comrade to assist with that information

Yea it isn’t generally a great industry as it is most often private sector work. Some enjoy it though.

As for fluency it is very country dependent if you need to speak the local language. A decent amount of the roles don’t actually require it though obviously if you speak the language you will have opportunities for better roles.

I was just mentioning it as one of the few non STEM opportunities that exsist.

Non STEM fields are generally less in demand. Though English(and to a lesser extent other languages) teachers who are native speakers can get visas relatively easily to some countries. The impression I’ve gotten living in different countries is that for non STEM and non language you’d need at least a master’s to be kind of in demand.

That said if you have a non STEM degree but canactually do the work in a STEM field you can get a visa.

Yea I can definitely understand how towards the end of the GPCR that reform and opening up would look tempting particularly with the state of the USSR and the lack of revolutions in the imperial core.

I think the comparison to the NEP is fair, however the NEP was only around for 7 years and reform and opening has been going on for close to 50 years. So this looks less temporary to solve an immediate issue and more like a permanent fixture. The increase in opening that they are pushing for also makes me think it is less likely to be reversed any time soon.

I think the controlling the new captialist class is a big if. Not in the sense of individuals but more on the promotion of capitalist ideology and their influence on culture which will lead to further erosion of communism. When I lived in China it did seem a lot more consumerist and capitalist than a lot of places I have lived in the West.

The CPC has done a good job of getting western capitalists to want access. They do have many skilled politicians and leaders. I would happily take Xi over many world leaders today, but I see the CPC as having stepped off the correct path. I don’t think they are irredeemable in any way, I just don’t see them pushing towards communism in the same ways they have in the past.

From The Governance of China vol 4 I would say the two sections that most make me think this way are:

• High-Quality Development - pg 209-256
• Further Reform and Opening Up - pg 259-274

Both of these sections deal with the special economic zones and free trade zones. Throughout vol 4 there are other points where more market oriented things are discussed but these two are where it is more of a focus. If I recall correctly from vols 1-3 there was a bit less discussion around these topics.

Additionally Xi’s “Up and Out of Poverty” is very much about reform and opening up. It has a collection of his works from 1988-1990 so it makes sense that reform and opening up was a topic he mentioned frequently.