John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Friday, 28 October 2016
In its very special bloke-way, this holiday over the past 8-9 days has been the second best holidays in my whole life. I have stared at the wall, not gone out, slept heaps, watched Star Trek (Series One) over and over again. It is my idea of MINDFULNESS. My best holiday in this same genre was in 1985 when I spent a month surfing and drinking champagne on Sydney's Northern Beaches, and that's all I did. It was great. It prepared me well for the next 40 years or so. Tomorrow I will start thinking again, and starting to deal with all the various complexities of life...but, goodness me, this has been a great time.
The China/North Korea bond is complex. Yes, Imperial China did give full legal independence to The Whole of Korea some centuries ago. Still the family and business links remain alive and well, especially in the border region between China and North Korea. Many tens of thousands of Koreans escaped from both North and South Korea during the Korean war, and settled in the China border region with the hundreds of thousands of Koreans who have always lived there and are well and truly Chinese citizens with very strong kinship ties to Korea. Woe be to any power on earth, Chinese Govt or others, who seek to break up the Chinese family, held together very effectively by Chinese women.The bond is made of struggle, war, motherhood, kinship and is made of human living blood, past, present and future.
The China/North Korea bond is complex. Yes, Imperial China did give full legal independence to The Whole of Korea some centuries ago. Still the family and business links remain alive and well, especially in the border region between China and North Korea. Many tens of thousands of Koreans escaped from both North and South Korea during the Korean war, and settled in the China border region with the hundreds of thousands of Koreans who have always lived there and are well and truly Chinese citizens with very strong kinship ties to Korea. Woe be to any power on earth, Chinese Govt or others, who seek to break up the Chinese family, held together very effectively by Chinese women.The bond is made of struggle, war, motherhood, kinship and is made of human living blood, past, present and future.
The Editor of The Cairns Post, Mr Dan Murphy, said the newspaper was a strong bastion of comunity support, journalistic integrity and ethical excellence and that there was no truth in the rumour that the newspaper was influenced by the massive advertising revenues from the alcohol industry. He then went on to note this week's specials at their Smithfield store.
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