Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity

“...This war was completely tilted to one side. There was almost no doubt as to the outcome. As soon as Chiang exhausted within one or two years the military resources he accumulated in the latter part of the Anti-Japanese War, the war was over. And the industrial zone in the northeast would be able to continue to produce. If the Northeast had been an independent country like Manchuria, it would have no difficulty to beat a big country like China, just as it would be no problem for Israel to defeat a big country like Egypt. One was a small industrialized country and the other a large agricultural country without industrialization. The large agricultural country had only scattered and disorganized peasants...”

Season 2 - Lords and Wanderers
The first two episodes are excerpts from an invited talk of YiXi, which was first published on April 12, 2014. The full video (in Mandarin Chinese) is at https://youtu.be/edB7ly0_KSc .
"One thing is different though, the Chinese dream does not really exist. The so-called American Dream is a stable consensus that runs through history and permeates across society, such as individualism, personal striving, a sense of protagonism by ordinary people, that sort of thing. There is no such consensus in China, and the Chinese Dream is merely a cosmetic phrase, used for perfunctory purposes. "

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Season 1 was translated from an invited talk given by William Liu in Guangzhou, March 2015.
“...The Communist International raised the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party by feeding them with flesh cut off from its own body. The excruciating pain of this sacrifice can only be compared with China's aid to Vietnam in the 1960s.”

“...As a very cunning man with a deep understanding of imperial court politics, under the desperate circumstances of 1972, I believe, Mao had no better choice. China was in the same situation as Assad and Damascus today: the Soviets wanted him to die, the Americans wanted him to die, his own party comrades wanted him to die, and the people had been tormented by you almost to death, so as soon as he breathed his last, his end would be very terrible, and he may even be killed before death...”