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This is not your everyday beer cup made
of glass. To start with, when this cup was produced, the
beer has yet to be introduced to China, and then when this
container was created, the glass has yet to be invented.
So you’ve got a bit idea: this must be an ancient artifact.
Yep, it is. In fact it is so ancient that when this piece
of article was crafted, Confucian was
attending a tea party hosted by Lao
Tzu - that was some 2,500 years ago during China’s Warring
States period. And the cup, cut from a single piece of crystal,
was unearthed in Hangzhou about 20 years ago.
Sometimes some things just remain the
same over the time.
The following is part of Joint Shanghai
Communiqué by China and USA on the establishment of diplomatic
relations between two countries. And that was year 1972:
"6. The Chinese side stated: Wherever
there is oppression, there is resistance. Countries
want independence, nations want liberation and the
people want revolution -- this has become the irresistible
trend of history. All nations, big or small,
should be equal: big nations should
not bully the small and strong nations should not bully
the weak. China will never be a superpower
and it opposes hegemony and power politics of any kind. The
Chinese side stated that it firmly supports the struggles
of all the oppressed people and nations for freedom
and liberation and that the people of all countries
have the right to choose their social systems according
their own wishes and the right to safeguard the independence,
sovereignty and territorial integrity of their own
countries and oppose foreign aggression, interference,
control and subversion. All foreign troops should be
withdrawn to their own countries. The Chinese
side expressed its firm support to the peoples of Viet
Nam, Laos and Cambodia in their efforts for the attainment
of their goal and its firm support to the seven-point
proposal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government
of the Republic of South Viet Nam and the elaboration
of February this year on the two key problems in the
proposal, and to the Joint Declaration of the Summit
Conference of the Indochinese Peoples. It firmly supports
the eight-point program for the peaceful unification of
Korea put forward by the Government of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea on April 12,
1971, and the stand for the abolition of the "UN
Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of
Korea". It firmly opposes the
revival and outward expansion of Japanese militarism
and firmly supports the Japanese people's desire to
build an independent, democratic, peaceful and neutral
Japan. It firmly maintains that India
and Pakistan should, in accordance with the United
Nations resolutions on the Indo-Pakistan question,
immediately withdraw all their forces to their respective
territories and to their own sides of the ceasefire
line in Jammu and Kashmir and firmly supports the Pakistan
Government and people in their struggle to preserve
their independence and sovereignty and the people of
Jammu and Kashmir in their struggle for the right of
self-determination. "
Are you sure this communiqué was indeed produced 40 years
ago not 40 days ago? The world hasn't changed much since
then, has it? Whoever (比如吴x民) says that the humanity has
already entered an utopia phase of peace and that the war
is no longer in fashion is a man either too stupid (which
is a huge risk for China to have him hold his current position)
or too smart (which is a great danger for China to have him
hold his current position).
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