Random Thoughts about the COVID Lockdown in China

Author: Li Chengpeng

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The articles in Chinese was originally created and published on Yibao.com on December 5 2022(https://yibaochina.com/?p=248635 ) by the prominent writer and social critic Li Chengpeng. Once finished reading of the article I can not help myself not translate it into English and share with my readers to show there are Chinese writer with conscience although nearly all people are silenced by the dictator there.The pictures above is from BBC( https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-63511968 ). Thanks for your reading and sharing it to the one who concerns the fate of the ordinary people in China, as well as all creatures in peril in that land.

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Random Thought 7

Nowadays everyone praises the Japanese men's national football team as the most promising Asian team for their performance of outrivaling nearly all peer the other men’s national football teams in Asia. But, 30 years ago the Japanese men's national football team is just one average team regionally and do you know how did they achieve it? In 1992 Saburo Kawabuchi ,then-president of the Japan Football Association(JPA), resolutely resigned from the glorious position and established the Japanese Professional League completely decoupled from the Japan Football Association after found that the JPA is managed inefficiently by a group of politicians not capable of managing the football. From then on, along with establishment of the J League that strictly followed the rules of professional football, a complete set of echelon construction for Japan football begin, as well as a prosper era that the football team outrivals all other peer national teams in Asia.

It is known that the English Football Association cannot well-manage the Premier League, the Italian Football Association cannot well-manage Serie A, the Spanish Football Association cannot manage La Liga, and the Japanese Football Association cannot well-manage the J-League. So, in the eyes of people in all countries with developed football industries, this can be a common sense that the practice of enabling/authorizing the Football Association to manage a country's professional football league, is equivalent to allowing the government running a company, which will definitely lead to corruption that will definitely ruin the industry due to the negative impact on the talent cultivation.

In China, many people also called for following the above rules for football and put the proposal on the table of a certain national leader of the Communist Party of China for approval. At that time, the leader just declined with such sayings: what is your ulterior motive of your proposal of running football by kicking out the party committee? Therefore, afterwards the Chinese national men's football team kept losing in the football matches with other countries till they recently lost the match to Vietnam, a team notoriously for their poor performance for decades in Asia. In short, the Chinese men's national football team, did not lose because of the physical fitness of the team members, but because of their systems of managing the football.

Random Thought 8

There is a saying: Three years of campaign-style COVID epidemic prevention and control proves a fact that :once the grassroots people have power, they will cause huge disasters to the country. This sentence is very tempting, because the White Guards and neighborhood committees from the bottom of society in China did create huge disasters during this period, but on the other hand, power should come from the bottom and be authorized from the bottom up. Therefore, the question is not that the grassroots people have power and will cause disasters, but the opposite: the problem is that the grassroots people have no power to elect officials and authorize them developing and passing the various laws and decrees, on the contrary, it is the top that has supreme power and arbitrarily authorizes it to the hooligan groups it likes, which leads to the various disasters you can see with your eyes. For example, the various disasters that occurred during the Cultural Revolution, were caused due to the release of power by the top leaders of the Communist Party of China to the Red Guards.

So, don't believe those seemingly true golden sentences. Surely some pitfalls are there.

Random Thought 9

Recently, people in China have been learning the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. Today is Constitution Day. I took a look at the first article of the Constitution's general outline: The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship, which is led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

Unfortunately, the fact we see is that the workers working at Foxconn, as the leading class of the People's Republic of China, suffered for fake contracts and owed wages, and were beaten. They were even driven out of the factory during this three-years epidemic, which is equivalent to being exiled 70 miles in ancient times; the farmers, who are the basis of the above-mentioned worker-peasant alliance, cannot go to the fields to sow and harvest at will during this epidemic, because they will be punished by being tied to a tree if they do so.

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Attached the original article as below:

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都在夸日本队是亚洲之光。知道这束光是怎么绽放的吗？1992年也就是30年前，日本足协主席川渊三郎发现足协这帮政客是搞不好足球的，毅然辞掉风光无限的足协主席之职，建立完全与日本足协脱钩的日本职业大联盟。从此，严格遵循职业足球规律打造的J联赛开始了，一整套梯队建设也开始了。

英足总管不了英超，意大利足协管不了意甲，西班牙足协管不了西甲，日本足协管不了J联赛。在足球强国看来这是规律，足协管职业联赛，相当于政府开公司，一定会产生腐败，一定会破坏人才的诞生。

在中国，也有不少人呼吁按足球规律办事，并把提案摆上某个领导人的桌面。

领导说：你们想踢开党委办足球，到底有什么不可告人的目的。

所以，后来，一直……输给越南。

中国足球不是败在体质，而败于体制。

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有一种说法：三年的运动式防控证明一个事实，一但底层拥有了权力，就会给国家造成巨大灾难。这句话很具诱惑性，因为基层白卫兵、居委会确实制造了巨大灾难，可是另一方面，权力本就该源自于底层，并自下而上层层授权。所以，问题不在于底层拥有了权力，而恰恰在于底层人民没有权力，没权力选举官员、通过政令，反倒是高层有无上权力随意授权给它钟意的流氓群体，才导致了你目力可见的各种灾难。比如文革，就是来自于高层释放权力给红卫兵。

别轻信那些似是而非的金句。有坑。

九

最近人们流行学习《宪法》，今天正好是宪法日，我看了一眼，总纲第一条是：中华人民共和国是工人阶级领导的、以工农联盟为基础的人民民主专政的社会主义国家。

作为领导的富士康工人们被假合同、被欠薪、被打，被流放一百六十里；作为联盟基础的农民不能随便下地播种、收割，随便出门会被绑在树上。