📌 TFF PressInfo # 754: Happy 75th birthday, dear China!
📌 TFF PressInfo # 754: Happy 75th birthday, dear China!
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Lund, Sweden - October 1, 2024
Dear friend,
October 1, 2024 - today - marks the 75th Anniversary of Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the People’s Republic of China.
There are many reasons to congratulate China today. This video documents just some of those reasons - among them that China has invented a new type of dynamic society based on its traditional values, lifted 700 million people out of poverty in 30 years and created a modern welfare state serving its 1400 citizens well.
In addition, China’s unique, rapid socio-economic and cultural development has benefited the world like no other country’s. Its Belt and Road Initiative, BRI, counts over 140 member countries with a perspective of a common cooperative future - win-win - for humankind.
Today, China is a thoroughly pleasant and safe society to visit. It functions extremely well and effectively for its people in big and small daily ways. Go anywhere, shoot photos as you like, meet its hospitable and helpful people - it’s easy - and enjoy cultural diversity, exquisite food and marvellous landscapes. There is a totally different real China that contrasts the Western mainstream media’s constructed image of it.
TFF and I are excited to be working with and in China since 2018. We shall stay seized with the matter and with the related world order change in the perspective of the globally desired peace through respect, knowledge, law, vision and mutually beneficial cooperation - a global Unity in Diversity.
We provide the following spaces for research and public education about China:
“China And Silk” with about 200 articles, the new specialised “Xinjiang” space - much more to come - and lots of videos on TFF’s YouTube Channel. We are working on the anthology “If You Want To Understand China.” And there is more here on my personal blog and lots of art photographics works on Oberg PhotoGraphics.
Here is now a new bouquet of articles and videos from your truly independent peace research and education source with 38 years of experience in promoting true peace through research and public education:
Why minority languages are disappearing from some classrooms in Xinjiang but not Tibet
“If You Want To Understand China” – Foreword and Introduction to a TFF anthology in the making
The Injustice and Tragic Circumstances Surrounding Johan Galtung’s Death
A regional strategy for sustainable peace for Israel and Palestine - Johan Galtung’s 1971 peace plan. It is still the most comprehensive peace plan! Think if anybody had listened, if not to all its single elements, then to Galtung’s approach…
Vestens moralske afrustning - en sump den kun kan synke dybere ned i
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Bonus video
From the one and only “FridayEveryDay”
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Check out more new and old videos on TFF YouTube Channel:
• TFF YouTube Channel - We’re reviving and updating it. It will contain hundreds of videos from over 17 years. New ones added every week…SUBSCRIBE!
• TFF 2 with diverse short news you probably don’t want to miss…
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Fundraising in honour of Johan Galtung and his daughter Irene
Johan Galtung’s last and very moving video from 2022. Read also how he was mistreated by Norwegian health authorities - and others - until he died: Peace researcher Johan Galtung’s human rights violated as he approached death. See here, too!
Over seven decades, thousands upon thousands have benefitted from Galtung’s 150+ books, his countless lectures on all continents and mediation efforts in lots of conflicts. When he died thousands also expressed their grief.
But it seems that very few of them meant it deeply enough to make just a small donation to this fundraising to redress his honour after the injustice and to help his beloved daughter whose human rights have also been violated grossly.
My best!
Jan Oberg
PhD, director and co-founder
And there is always more…
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Featured: “China and the Belt & Road Initiative - BRI”
Educate yourself & drop the mainstream … all the links you need
TFF Video Channel on YouTube
There is so much more at TFF YouTube: learning, education and documentaries. And more to come…
