Ukraine has launched a “large-scale” drone attack against Russian military bombers in Siberia, striking more than 40 warplanes thousands of kilometres from its own territory, a security official said.
The claims could not be independently verified. But if confirmed, the attacks would mark Ukraine’s most damaging drone strike of the war to date, amid an escalation in cross-border incursions before planned peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.
“Ukrainian security services are carrying out a large-scale special operation aimed at destroying enemy bombers far from the front, in Russia,” the official was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying, adding a fire had broken out at the targeted Belaya airbase.
China is working towards higher stages of Socialism, they have been Socialist since 1949. The large firms and key industries in China are firmly in the public sector, and as the medium firms grow the CPC exerts more control and gradually folds them into the public sector. They aren’t Communist yet, but by Marxist understanding they have been Socialist for a long time.
I’m telling you what they themselves have stated: they are working towards socialism. They haven’t achieved it yet, yes they control major industries but that still isn’t enough to call them socialist.
They haven’t even achieved universal healthcare yet, there are western nations that have come closer to universal healthcare than they have.
They’re working towards socialism, but they’re still capitalist.
No, this is a common misconception. The official stance of the CPC in the Two Centenary Goals are to complete a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the centenary of the CPC (founded in 1921), and to build China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, and harmonious by the centenary of the People’s Republic of China (founded in 1949). The official economic system of China as described by themselves is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, they already consider themselves to be in the “Primary stage of Socialism.” You are confusing the “modern socialist country” for being a Socialist country in general, but a passive investigation proves this to be wrong, the emphasis is on modern.
Indeed, you are correct, they are behind in Universal Healthcare, and other areas. This is why they do not consider themselves a “modern” country, but do consider themselves Socialist. Further, the European countries providing universal healthcare do so using Imperialism, ie massive exploitation of the Global South, while China funds its own safety nets from its own production. Very different.
I suggest you read the articles I linked and this SWCC Study Guide if you want to learn more about Socialism in China. I also have a Marxist-Leninist introductory reading list if you want to learn more about Marxism-Leninism in general, and not just as it’s applied in China.
Thanks for the information; I just want to clarify a few things:
I don’t think that socialism is when universal healthcare, my point was that China does control a significant amount of capital but they also have more they need to control i.e their healthcare industry.
I know that Europe funds all of its social safety nets via imperialism and bleeding the global south dry. I know China is not doing that, and that’s why it’s taking a seemingly long time for them to offer universal to their citizens. I don’t fault them for going about this the honest, peaceful, and quite frankly moral and good way.
You’re correct about my misconception, I thought they meant socialist in general when they said they don’t consider themselves a modern socialist country.
Then again, I’m not sure why they would use “modern” in that regard considering they’re going to be the first country in human history to achieve this form of socialism. There are no standards to by since China is setting the standards for something that most people believed wasn’t possible.
No problem, I’m not faulting you! Just trying to correct some misconceptions, I’m a big ML nerd so I spend a lot of free time studying theory, I don’t expect everyone to find it interesting like I do.
China says “modern” in a way comparing it to developed, western countries, not to other Socialist countries like Vietnam and Cuba. Many areas of China are still quite poor, even if extreme poverty has been eradicated. They want to be developed everywhere, not just in major cities and the coastline, and that takes more time. It’s also a general ideological goal, not a hard-set rule, the Five Year Plans are closer to hard goals than the Centenary goals.
I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me, after reading my replies I think I came off as an arrogant, know-it-all.
I’m also an ML, although I haven’t read as much theory as you.
I believe China’s plan is socialism by 2030, or was it 2050? Either way I’m excited to see what they achieve in the next few years/decades.
No worries! Again, China already considers themselves to have been Socialist since 1949, the goal is to be a modern and developed Socialist country by 2049.