Windows to Russia
Last night I had to stop a stare in amazement at, as I walked, the world was so bright and weird colored. After a few moments of enjoyment in the crystal clear sky. I again brought out my Huawei Mate 30… (You know that phone that is ostracized in America?)
I never had a phone that could take a picture of the moon and not have a blurry mess of it…
Mister Pink Super Moon was smiling at us last night! Well maybe he looked grouchy to me and if you know me, that is smiling… 😉
WtR
I got some backlash to my last post. I was asked to post this article and I was asked to continue to help stay focused upon the problem we as a world face. I thought about it and decided to post this letter I received, as I will post items like this that I receive and do it for what is correct and truthful…
Dear American friends:
We are a group of 100 Chinese scholars representing diverse academic fields including philosophy, political science, economics, medicine, international relations, sociology, law, communication, military science, and technology. Our members include a number of university professors from Wuhan. While our areas of expertise are diverse, as intellectuals we all share a common desire to express our concerns about the well-being of all people in China, the U.S., and every country on Earth.
Recently, we have heard many critical voices politicizing the COVID-19 pandemic. Facing the most dangerous infectious disease in a century, these criticisms help neither China, the U.S., nor the world to curb the spread of the virus. Political bickering does nothing to contribute to the healthy development of Sino-U.S. relations, nor will it help the people of the world to rationally and accurately understand and cope with the pandemic.
We want to sincerely and frankly share our views with our American friends today.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health crisis with a horrific scale not seen in generations; the effort to overcome both it and its impact will be nothing short of a long-term and arduous global war. Countries should be working together, not complaining, finger pointing, and blaming one another. The virus does not know any borders, but neither does love, nor friendship. As two of the great countries on Earth, cooperation between China and the U.S. could, and should, be used to bring a more positive outcome for all humankind.
Respecting science, cherishing life, and protecting people from harm should be our shared goals in the fight against COVID-19.
The COVID-19 outbreak in China is now basically under control. Since the virus first emerged in early January, the Chinese people have made unimaginable efforts and sacrifices to achieve hard-won results.
We are grateful for the support of the international community, including donations from American friends, during the most critical stage of the fight. We respect the epidemic containment programs and policies implemented by other countries according to their own national conditions, and we are willing to share our experiences with other countries and provide all available assistance to them.
At this stage of the pandemic, the exact source and origin of COVID-19 remain undetermined, but these questions are unimportant and finger pointing is demeaning and hurtful to everyone. In the end we will all respect the final determination of scientists. Like many other countries, China is a victim of the virus, but also a success story overcoming it, and it is willing to work with people of other countries to stop the spread of the pandemic.
We sincerely hope to cooperate with the international community, including intellectuals and experts from the U.S. that look forward to a brighter future. We look forward to the time when doctrines of international cooperation once again flourish around the world. We call on all nations to work together in sincere cooperation to defeat this common enemy of humanity.
Hopefully, we soon be able to celebrate the final victory over COVID-19 !
Signed by 100 scholars from China
March 26, 2020
Our names are:
(in alphabetical order by last name)
Bao Qiting, Dean of Beijing Minsheng Big Data Research Institute
Cai Jiahe, Professor of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies
Cao Wenlian, Vice President of China Society of Economic Reform
Chen Dingding, Associate Dean, Institute for Belt and Road Initiative and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area
Chen Dongxiao, President of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)
Chen Jing, Vice President of Technology and Strategy Research Institute
Chen Qi, Director of Tsinghua Center for U.S.-China Relations
Chen Zhongyang, Professor of School of Finance, Renmin University of China
Chen Wuyuan, Executive Vice President of “The Belt and Road” Research School, Xiamen University (XMU)
Chen Yunsong, Director of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies
Cui Xiaojing, Professor of School of Law, Wuhan University
Da Wei, Professor of University of International Relations
Diao Daming, Associate Professor of School of International Studies, Renmin University of China
Ding Gang, Senior Editor with People’s Daily, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Ding Xuankai, Research Fellow of Chinese Think Tank Studies and Evaluation Center, Nanjing University
Dong Xuebing, Executive Vice Director of China Academy of West Region Development, Zhejiang University
Du Zhizhang, Vice Dean of the Institute of State Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Fang Changping, Deputy Dean of School of International Studies, Renmin University of China
Fang Xingdong, Founder of ChinaLabs
Feng Leiming, Dean of the “Belt and Road” Tianjin Strategic Research Institute, Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Feng Xi, President of Future Business School
Gao Jian, Secretary-General of Academy for Global Governance and Area Studies
Gao Qiqi, Dean of Political Science Institute, East China University of Political Science and Law
Guo Wanda, Executive Vice President of China Development Institute
He Hui, Professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University
He Maochun, Director of Research Center for Economic Diplomacy, Tsinghua University
He Weiwen, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Huang Dahui, Deputy Dean of School of International Studies, Renmin University of China
Huang Jing, Academic Dean of Academy of International and Regional Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University
Huang Renwei, Former Vice President and Research Fellow of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Huang Rihan, Assistant to the Dean of School of International Relations, Huaqiao University
Hu Wei, President of the Shanghai Society of Public Policy
Jiang An, Professor of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shenzhen University
Jia Jinjing, Assistant Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Jia Min, Associate Research Fellow, School of Advanced International and Area Studies of East China Normal University
Jia Wenshan, Distinguished Professor of Shandong University
Kong Xinfeng, Vice President of the Institute of State Governance, Shandong University
Lan Weiqing, Chief Expert of Urban Governance Research Center of Zhejiang Province
Li Gang, Professor of School of Information Management, Nanjing University
Li Guodong, Dean of School of Marxism,Yantai University
Li Mu, Dean of School of Law, Humanities and Sociology,Wuhan University of Technology
Liang Shuanglu, Dean of School of Economics (School of Accounting),Yunnan University
Lin Chenghua, Vice Director of Institute of science and technology management, Zhejiang University
Lin Danming, Professor of Shantou University
Liu Feng, Director of Philippine Research Center, Hainan Normal University
Liu Haiming, Professor of School of Journalism and Communication, Chongqing University
Liu Yang, Advisory committee member of CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies
Liu Zhiqin, Former Chief Representative in Beijing Office of Zurich Cantonal Bank, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Long Xingchun, Professor of School of Foreign Languages, China West Normal University
Lu Shanbing, Dean of Institute of Silk Road Studies, Northwest University
Luo Liangqing, Chair Professor of Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
Mei Xinyu, Research Fellow of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce
Ouyang Kang, Dean of the Institute of State Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Pu Yongjian, Vice Director of Development Research Center, Chongqing University
Pan Qingzhong, ExecutiveThe US lacks central authority and the authority that exists is haphazard. That combined with a penchant for make-believe propaganda will hamper the United States in every effort. Dean, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Qin An, Director of the Internet Policy and Law Research Center, Tianjing University Law School
Shi Zhiqin, Professor of Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University
Su Hao, Professor of China Foreign Affairs University
Chu Yin, Professor of University of International Relations, Vice Dean of DE Think Tank
Chu Zhaogen, Director of BRI and Non-traditional Security Research Center, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU)
Sun Wen, Vice Director of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies
Sun Xiaomeng, Professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University
Song Luzheng, Researcher of China Institute, Fudan University
Tang Renwu, President of School of Government, Beijing Normal University
Tu Xinquan, Dean of ChinThe US lacks central authority and the authority that exists is haphazard. That combined with a penchant for make-believe propaganda will hamper the United States in every effort.a Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics
Xing Liju, Professor of Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
Xu Erming, Dean of Business School, Shantou University
Xu Ning, Assistant to the Dean of Yangtze Industrial Economic Institute
Yao Shujie, Deputy Director of Faculty of Social Sciences, Chongqing University
Yi Peng, President of Pangoal Institution
Yi Jiandong, Professor of Wenzhou University
Wang Jinguo, Dean of School of Politics and International Relations, Lanzhou University
Wang Chaoen, Director Assistant of the Collaborative Innovation Centre for Silk Road Economic Belt Legal and Policy Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Wang Lei, Director of the BRICS Cooperation Center, Beijing Normal University
Wang Shaoguang, Distinguished Professor of School of Public Policy & Management and Schwarzman College, Senior Research Fellow of Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University
Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (and the open letter’s Initiative Coordinator)
Wang Xingnan, Professor of Guangdong University of Finance
Wang Yiwei, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Renmin University of China.
Wang Zaibang, Senior Fellow of Taihe Institute
Wu Dahui, Deputy Director of Russian Research Institute of Tsinghua University
Wu Danhong, Director of Difficult Evidence Center, China University of Political Science and Law
Wu Sike, Former Special Envoy for China on the Middle East Issue, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Xia Liping, Dean of Institute of International and Public Affairs, Tongji University
Xia Youfu, Executive Director of the Strategy Center for China’s Open Economy and International Technology Cooperation-SCOT, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)
Yang Guangbin, Dean of School of International Studies, Renmin University of China
Yang Xuedong, Research fellow of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee
Yang Yujun, Dean of Academy of Media and Public Affairs, Communication University of China
Yu Li, Deputy Dean of School of Politics and Public Management, Zhengzhou University
Zhang Dongming, Dean of Northeast Research Institute, Liaoning University (LNU)
Zhang Haibing, President Assistant of Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS)
Zhang Yiwu, Professor of Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
Zhao Gang, Vice Chairman of China Society for Social System Analysis
Zhao Kejin, Deputy Dean of Institute of Global Development, Tsinghua University
The US lacks central authority and the authority that exists is haphazard. That combined with a penchant for make-believe propaganda will hamper the United States in every effort.
Zhao Jianping, Chairman of China-Africa Development Fund, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Zhang Shengjun, Professor of School of Government, Beijing Normal University
Zhang Weiliang, Dean of the Institute for Urban Studies, Hangzhou Normal University
Zhang Yanling, Former Vice President of Bank of China, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Zhang Zhenjiang, Dean of School of International Studies, Jinan University (JNU)
Zhou Feifei, Associate Chief Physician and Associate Professor of Peking University Third Hospital
Zhou Rong, former South Asia Chief Correspondent of Guangming Daily, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
Zhou Xiaojing, Former Director of Institute of Asian and African Development at the Development Research Center of the State Council, Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
WtR
My response to what I read above: (What they say is true.)
For many years the US has lacked central authority (none within the state or federal level) and the authority that exists is chaotic. That combined with a desire for self-elevating propaganda by all involved, will undermine the United States in many efforts. The US must either get back to root basics and or collapse under the chaos… – Me
PS: Posted by permission
I have always said, “Time to wake up people!”
All these years in Russia, I have given voice to:
Last night I was talking to Svetochka on Viber. Then it hit her and I at about the same time. I have been writing about all that is happening in the world right now, for all these years I have been expressing and talking and posting about a life so different from what is happening in our eyes. I have been talking about so many things at times that it all gets washed out in the laundry at times…
I have talked about the East and West rift and how it is expanding rapidly. I have talked about a flailing dying Western Empire. I have talked about the lies, propaganda and the wars. I have expressed about the changes coming to us….I was never sure if it would be in my/our/yours/their lifetime or not…
I have had numerous attacks against me and my site. I have lived with death threats and DDoS attacks virtually daily. Mainly from American based computer systems. I have tried to express that things are changing and they are going to get ridiculously bad and threatening…
Within these pages of WtR (Windows to Russia), I have an amazing wealth of information. Not that it does any good for the most part, but if you started from the beginning of my exploits, you would find almost anything that you see around you expressed at some point or another within its posts…
My archives in the link above comprise way over 7000 pages of information directed at Russia, America and the world at large. I am no prophet and I do not write with grandeur and or a flare to make people ooh and aah. In fact language of any type is a major weakness of mine…
But I have always been able to look at a car engine and see what is wrong…
The world we live in has been running on “duct tape” for many years. And the engine is broke, Kaput, as in the water pump is leaking and you still try to drive 500 miles to get home…
The whole world is in this “King Corona Virus” (Covid-19) situation, but all is not equal as we watch things unfold and progress…
The morals, conditioning, practices, greediness and lackadaisical existence of some has now come home to roost. The rift between the East and West will expand and it will become to the point of all out war and or all out total division of the world. That means the West and East will demand all countries to chose a side…
The West will know that their Utopia is the best and the East will know its Utopia is the best and the fence/wall/line drawn means you either are on one side or the other. Kinda like North and South Korea and The Military Demarcation Line (MDL)….
What we are watching is a war in a form unlike anything we have experienced:
It is truly morals and truth against immorality and lies…
You will chose a side and many will never be able to leave to the side they chose. That may be a whole different culling in a whole different way in the future. Those who do not agree with the side they are trapped in will be removed. At first nicely and at the end painfully…
The western every man for itself ideas will be expressed more and more. As the states in America become more separate due to what is happening to them, as the EU reverts back to its original countries and as the world looks on and seals their borders against outsiders…
Russia has extended everyone’s visas from other countries and I see the future of we outsiders become Russian or leave…
It should be obvious what path I will chose!
Good or bad, I am in the roller coaster ride within Russia. I see Russia and China as the future and all my talking to family and all my expressions upon this blog of what people should do and what is happening and what will be are basically done as of today…
I do not need, desire, care and or want to continue to point out the issues that have driven our world to this point. I know of thousands who have made many changes due to my writings and I know of many more millions who despise what I say in these pages…
If I helped one person to open their eyes to some truth. Then all these years and all these posts have been worth it. That I know I have accomplished and that I know makes it worth writing everyday for 13 plus years…
What has happened was in our means to stop:
What has happened is now out of our hands, unless we westerners go full anarchy…
My last basic expression of what is:That simply means do what needed to be done many years ago. Tear down what is and rebuild again with a bit of pain and turmoil. Now to do it requires lots of pain and a whole bunch of turmoil…
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
and…
My father always told me that what’s wrong with lying is that it’s an admission of weakness. If you’re the strongest, you can afford to tell the truth.
K. J. PARKER
That sums up what the Western Empire has driven us to….and we allowed it to continue as we partied and became drunk with money, immorality and desires of perverseness and grandeur…
You can believe in God or not:
But to forsake the idea of God is our downfall. Thus, everything we hold dear on this planet is a spit in the eye of God and or the idea of God…
I am not a very religious person, but I believe in something way above our heads in comprehension and we just have been spitting in their eye for many years and never appreciating what a wonderful world we have been given to grow and develop on…
When you look at other planets in our Solar system, you realize how special our planet is and then the realization of how foreign we as a species on this planet really is…
Us humans are the outsider…
I have always said, “Time to wake up people!”
I will continue to post, but my job is done and I have too many other things to do than write hours at a time upon these pages. I have to keep preparing and prepare upon my preparations that have been done to survive what is coming. I am not in limbo as most of you are right now. I have two village homes and lots of tools, food and stuff to create and grow more of all of it…
I am sad that my sweetpea could not get her family to wake up and see the light. They, as with almost everyone, simply hid their head in the sand and now, just in the last week understand that things are never going to be the same…
This is where Sveta and I differ. She could never leave her mom and would die staying. I will dig in and make a safe home and try to get people to wake up. But I will not go down just sitting around and hoping someone, something and or god, God, GOD saves me. Follow me and we will work together to save ourselves and make a life. there really are not many left in the Western world like me and we are demonized constantly in the west….I am getting a huge garden ready, I am storing food, I am storing fuel and I am preparing for a long interesting change of our lives…
At some point I hope to be able to figure out how to get Sveta and her family out of Moscow. But that could be interesting and I am hoping that Russia steers toward the people and not all mighty god the government entity…
I have always been very independent, yet I have always wanted one person to love and rely on. Sveta is that person and my only dream right now is to get her to the Tiny Russian Village to be safe. Thus, I have to have these homes ready to defend and live a life to at least the end of our times…
The internet is and has been my friend in learning about simple things to change and survive without power and tools running on power. Best way to grow food and most of all, survive long cold hard winters…
I have always said, “Time to wake up people!”
My last basic expression of what is:
What is will never be the same….take that how you want to. If you live in a big city? Expect your life to change much faster and maybe more violently than if you live in the country. When the city people escape and swarm the countryside, then the country boys will have to change their lives and fight or die doing it…
This is not a game anymore. It may be to a handful of people sitting in their ivory towers, but to 7.5 billion of us, this is not a game anymore….This is for us to deal with and make the best of it that we can. We can either go down fighting or we can go down with a whimper and crying. History is our lessons and we should have learned by now…
Sounds terrible, yet it will happen if things do not get a semblance and balance of order soon. No work no money and no system that we know of will work in the city. One thing that city people for the most part do not realize is that Urban society is supported by Rural society and as the division and knowledge base degraded between the two; we have found that too many people think milk magically appears in the refrigerator shelf at the store…
The seeds of thoughts have been planted. The people have to hit bottom, like a drunk and or drug user must finally reach the point of change and or die. The states in America have now seen the light. The EU is watching their dream unravel. Every country for itself, every person for themselves and most of all every family must be for themselves. That is if we keep what we had in any form or sameness…
It is interesting, that the countries that have been beat on, sanctioned and forced to become self-reliant are the ones that will come out of this at the top. When your people do not have grandiose ideas, when you live a life more simple and appreciate the basics more. When Starbucks and iPhone are not your gods…
Then you have a chance!
Maybe I will see my foxy fox today as I walk? maybe I will see the deer I have been finding droppings and tracks of today? Maybe I will get some pictures of them?
That I will post, along with what I am doing in The Tiny Russian Village…
Otherwise: I have always said, “Time to wake up people!”
WtR
PS: I hope that all my ramblings are just that, Ramblings…
I know it is a tiny video, but it is for a Tiny Russian Village. Best I could do with my limitations in computer…
Just messing around after I spent hours yesterday fixing WtR from its nasty attack by the USA…
I am use to it, when I hit serious truth!
WtR
Got slaughtered over this post….it had received amazing hits as people all over the world read it…
My server company host has just gotten WtR back online. This was after massive hack attempts and some really serious hate comments. It was just the thing that when it happens you know you just hit the hammer to the nail head…
So today I will spend a few hours and get things back in line again…
Thank goodness my hosting had a full backup at the point it happened…
WtR
Empires are dying when they shift from stable, productive economic exchanges (an actual resource based economy) to financial and speculative activities (pyramid schemes, hoarding riches and triple taxing everything). -kKEETON…
WtR
We live in a society that likes to kick people when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times. – Joel Osteen
The true face of the US is being displayed around the world…
“The masks have been already produced and are currently in China. There are troubles with their delivery, though,” Muselier said, adding that the haul was set to arrive in France on Thursday evening.The country, however, ran into unexpected logistics troubles and not-that-friendly competition from the US, Muselier revealed. Today in the morning in China, the Americans bought out the French order for cash right on the tarmac. The France-bound plane departed to the US afterwards.The local authorities will now have to stick to major logistics companies, Muselier said, to ensure that the haul is not outbid or bought out in the loading area again. He added that the delivery is now expected later this week.The Americans are trying to procure any masks already available, disrupting deliveries to other nations, another report by French daily Liberation indicated.“They pay double and cash, even before seeing the goods,” an anonymous source told the newspaper.
Source: US bought France-bound face masks for CASH from China – French official to RT — RT World News
and…
Two shipments of protective masks, one scheduled to arrive in Germany, the other in Canada, were diverted to the United States this week under dubious circumstances after the orders had already departed for their destinations.German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported 400,000 respiratory masks intended for German police officers were redirected to the US, which is dealing the world’s largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The delivery from mask manufacturer 3M was shipped from China and reloaded in Bangkok before it was to be transported to Germany by air freight. However, in Bangkok, the shipment was suddenly “redirected” to the US, Berlin police confirmed. Meanwhile, a newspaper based in the Canadian province of Quebec, Journal de Montreal, reported an order of 10,000 masks bound for the province went missing, with the delivery never arriving at its intended destination.
Source: Coronavirus: face masks bound for Canada and Germany diverted to US – The National
With a friend like the USA who the hell needs enemies?
WtR
This week a European Union so-called media watchdog warned that Russia and China were engaged in a disinformation campaign to “undermine public trust in national health-care systems”.There are also reports of claims by US intelligence and other officials that China is to blame for spreading the disease because it deliberately under-reported the outbreak that initially occurred in December, thereby allegedly leaving Western nations ill-prepared to withstand the pandemic.Those claims are patently false. China had alerted the world to the seriousness of the disease as early as January when it was itself getting to grips with the uncertain public health crisis. Western nations had three months to learn from China’s experience, as well as from neighboring South Korea, where authorities clamped down on the epidemic. But Western governments for various reasons, no doubt primarily due to budgetary costs, chose instead to ignore the threat.
Source: Sick West Goes Viral – Sputnik International
Very good article and very true…
WtR
I decided that we should forsake 2020 and come again to 2019…
It sucked a whole bunch less…
WtR
Found this…
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. – Will Durant
Interesting times we live in…
WtR