Comments on: The red elves on the other side of the world https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pol https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-111233 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:00:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-111233 In reply to A. Charles.

Wild Swans, by the same author (Jung Chang), is a must-read.

]]> By: 'Angus Black https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-111232 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-111232 In reply to Matt.

The speeches do not appear to be available just yet.

However if you bring up NET TV portal (not through maltarightnow.com) you may want to go ‘ON DEMAND’ where you will find the recent programme ‘Iswed fuq l-abjad’ of the 17th instant when the PM was interviewed. The speech you refer to should be up there soon, I hope.

I watched the PM’s speech at the conference and he was absolutely great. He did not skirt around issues and offered Joseph a ten point challenge which, no doubt, will be ignored or fudged by Joseph in his two hour speech tonight.

]]> By: Village https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110992 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:21:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110992 The atrocities committed in the name of Chinese communism are beyond belief.
But then even today most of the Chinese are living as slaves, and in the jungles almost naked, barefooted and subsisting on hunting.
No illusion of democracy at all but as Zizek put it, China’s authoritarian capitalism is a phenomenon and the day may soon come when the social situation will explode.

]]> By: Anthony Briffa https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110976 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:30:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110976 In reply to ciccio2011.

The resultant product – RUBBISH.

]]> By: A. Charles https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110964 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:41:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110964 In reply to Farrugia.

“On tiny and immeasurably more prosperous Malta ( pop.c. 300000), Mao lavished no less than US$25 million in April 1972. Its prime minister, Dom Mintoff returned from China sporting a Mao badge” –

from Mao, The Unkown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (2006).

I believe that this episode was also mentioned by the then British foreign secretary Lord Carrington in his autobiography.

]]> By: Pat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110819 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:43:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110819 45 million? That’s horrendous.

Almost as many as lost their lives in the Second World War. (55 million).

]]> By: Er Dai Wan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110818 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:42:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110818 Now these guys have become arrogant … posting on CNN US in Chinese.

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/20/zakaria-concerns-about-china/?hpt=hp_c1

]]> By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110805 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:22:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110805 In reply to ciccio2011.

With a tinge of Libya.

]]> By: Farrugia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110798 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:15:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110798 There are other published books about the millions that died under Mao’s regime. One Chinese author gives horrific accounts, not different from what we are accustomed to hear about the Nazi concentration camps. The only difference is that Mao killed more people than the Nazis or Stalin did.

What strikes me is that while Mao kept millions of Chinese at mere subsistance or even starvation level, his regime had offered large sums of money on generous terms to Mintoff’s government so that he can build the (useless?) Red China Dock.

]]> By: ciccio2011 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/the-red-elves-on-the-other-side-of-the-world/#comment-110766 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:31:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=14684#comment-110766 “When I wrote that much of the Labour Party’s thinking (and that of so many of its supporters) has more to do with China than it does with the liberal west, I wasn’t too far off the mark.”

You can summarise that as follows:
Labour’s thinking: Made in China.

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