A commenter on a post where this was posted earlier pointed out that Diderot and other enlightenment thinkers admired Qing China's civil service, and that these thinkers (being part of a "radical" rather than mostly angloamerican "liberal" intellectual tradition), would influence Kant, Hegel, Marx and Engels.
I'm pretty sure Enlightened Absolutism in the ""enlightened Era'''' is partly based on or hasardly coincident with the idealized ruler in Mohism and Confucianism
This is as connected as Russian Federation giving grants to cultural events\produce
You know, how Atomic Heart received a grant from the government
they did tho, they killed a UN personnel in Lebanon a year ago IIRC
lol, unsurprising
I support Palestine not because they support me or because they align with me. I support them because my humanity transcends cynical rationality to not support palestine
probably because the Kushan look europeans and talk english
Also you can project the Kushan as a Zionist narrative: they used to be a dominant people in the galaxy until they got exiled and trapped into kharak. People are out to destroy them, they managed to win and get back into their righteous place. Ofc, you can say that this is not real but zionist narrative is also based on a persecution complex that give them the freedom to destroy their designed enemy
The closest thing is probably how the Vichy government is.
Abbas and Fatah's wages are distributed by Israel. In exchange, they handle the imprisonment of dissents within the West Bank's territory
Real Qinshi HuangDi legalism energy
euh like Crimea?
so are you going to sanction them or?
Funny how everytime pro-israel narrative tries to find palestinian atrocities the visual proof are overwhelmingly showing israel's atrocities
I wonder why that keeps happening to the most humane country in the Middle East
"Like foreign astronauts having their beliefs, we believe in Communism, which is also a spiritual power," said Yang. "We may not pray in the way our foreign counterparts do, but the common belief has made us more united in space, where there is no national boundary, to accomplish our missions."
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/17ct/17e/1019/17e1913.htm