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Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead
Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead Ọbádélé Kambon 52 Views • 5 years ago

Original Sufferhead (1981) Fela Kuti
From the LP Original Sufferhead (CD release 1999)
http://fela.net/discography/

This video is part of a series of songs being posted on Fela's official YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/fela) each featuring, alongside the music, an informative commentary by Afrobeat Historian, Chris May.

The entire catalogue, released on Kntting Factory Records, is available on the Fela website (http://fela.net/), along with documentaries and recorded concerts, CDs and vinyl, tee shirts, posters and many other items.

Sanctions against China’s Huawei failed, birthed "Delete America" campaign across China
Sanctions against China’s Huawei failed, birthed "Delete America" campaign across China Kwabena Ofori Osei 52 Views • 2 years ago

Five years following strict technology exports bans aimed at Huawei, a Chinese electronics and telecommunications giant, the company is stronger and more profitable than ever. What's more, Huawei and thousands of other companies across China have embraced a "Delete America" strategy from all their supply chains.

Some officials maintain that the bans on Huawei exports and contracting have been successful, however, and point to laws that require US government contractors, the Pentagon, and allied countries to "rip and replace" Huawei gear from communications networks.

However, almost no real progress there has been made, as only a small percentage of US government contractors have made the switch, the Pentagon has asked for and received waivers each year so they do not have to comply, and our allies have flatly refused to replace Huawei telecommunications equipment.

When surveyed, Americans report historic low levels of confidence in our institutions, with corresponding high levels of distrust. Officials promised that tariffs will not lead to higher prices, that national security concerns necessitate banning affordable Chinese electric cars, and that Huawei represents a grave threat to the country. American citizens seem to reject most of those positions, as they continue to buy Chinese-made products in high volumes, and express to pollsters their hope to buy Chinese vehicles. As to Huawei, even the Pentagon and our biggest contractors are sticking with Huawei gear, given more costly alternatives.

Resources and links:
Wall Street Journal, The U.S. Wanted to Knock Down Huawei. It’s Only Getting Stronger.
https://www.wsj.com/business/t....elecom/huawei-china-

The US is moving very, very slowly away from Huawei
https://www.lightreading.com/s....ecurity/the-us-is-mo

Fortune, Even the Pentagon can’t completely freeze Huawei out of its operations
https://fortune.com/asia/2024/....07/03/pentagon-huawe

Bloomberg, Pentagon Has a Huawei Dilemma Congress Doesn’t Want to Solve
https://www.bloomberg.com/news..../articles/2024-07-03

The Economist, America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed
https://www.economist.com/unit....ed-states/2024/04/17

Gallup, Historically Low Faith in U.S. Institutions Continues
https://news.gallup.com/poll/5....08169/historically-l

One Year Later, Even President Biden Admits the “Inflation Reduction Act” Failed to Lower Costs for Americans
https://energycommerce.house.g....ov/posts/one-year-la

Obamacare Has Doubled the Cost of Individual Health Insurance
https://www.heritage.org/healt....h-care-reform/report

America’s campaign to kill Huawei has failed
https://www.afr.com/companies/....telecommunications/a

Bloomberg, China’s Record Trade Surplus Risks Further Straining Ties
https://www.bloomberg.com/news..../articles/2024-07-12

Closing scene, Lhasa, Tibet

How China Got Rich | ENDEVR Documentary [2019]
How China Got Rich | ENDEVR Documentary [2019] Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 52 Views • 5 years ago

How China Got Rich | Business Documentary from 2019

Over 40 years China has been transformed out of all recognition, the scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been astonishing. The country has seen the largest lifting of people out of poverty that has ever taken place in human history, and today China is a global force, predicted to become the world’s biggest economy in a couple of decades.

So how did an impoverished and backward communist country become an engine of global capitalism? What actually happened 40 years ago to set China on the road to prosperity?

Michael Wood talks to the people who were there; the men and women who had been sent to be ‘re-educated ‘on farms and in factories; the farmers who defied the government and broke with communism; the woman has given the very first private business certificate; and the US technical advisor sent to China by the UN to kickstart the change. He travels across the country to meet China’s highest-ranking female diplomat and the people who worked with Premier Deng Xiaoping. The film mixes these testimonies with a fascinating archive of the Chinese leader meeting President Carter in Washington and on fact-finding missions in Japan and Singapore. Interviews too with Deng’s biographer, Professor Ezra Vogel from Harvard University and Ambassador James Stapleton-Roy who lifts the lid on the intensive work behind the scenes which led to the US recognizing the People’s Republic of China in 1979.

The second part of the film looks at the results of those initiatives in today’s China, visiting high-tech global giants Tencent and Alibaba and China’s top universities Tsinghua and SUStech. We visit a high-speed rail workshop and the world’s fastest-growing container port; we interview the American lawyer who set up the first Chinese deals for multinationals including Exon Mobile and Roche Pharmaceuticals. Finally, we ask Robert Daly the Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and Ambassador Roy where they think China is heading, and if political reform will be on the agenda any time soon.

China’s decision to open up to the world 40 years ago has been called ‘the most important event of modern world history’, and it is one in which America played a crucial role. Today China is a major player, flexing its muscles on the global stage. In this film, Michael Wood tracks the beginning of their meteoric rise, looks at the extraordinary scale of present-day developments and asks both Chinese and US experts for clues to the future.

With extraordinary access to key witnesses, this timely and important film tells the story of How China Got Rich.
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