China says it wants a ‘calm’ resolution to ongoing trade war with U.S. (China Blinks?)

Reuters/Global News Canada ^ | August 25, 2019 | Staff

[Steve Van Doorn]

Romanian Communist Party dealing with the rebellion?
Prison was out of the question those two might run off /s
Almost makes you want to cry looking at that picture of two grandparents gun down. It reminds me of the the very young girl that was kneeling facing the wall during her execution by the Chinese communist party. She was dressed as best as she could knowing this was her end.

[Zhang Fei]

Almost makes you want to cry looking at that picture of two grandparents gun down.

They needed to bring the rest of security services to heel. The only way to do that was to show the corpse of the dead ruler(s). The potential alternative was civil war, as military commanders fought for the right to rule under various banners. In fact, I am surprised that things worked out as well as they did among the Warsaw Pact countries. Under no circumstances would NATO have intervened, if a dictator had set himself up in any of those countries. The Russians certainly had their hands full with Yeltsin's insurrection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Flight_on_December_22nd

During the course of the revolution, the Western press published estimates of the number of people killed by Securitate forces in an attempt to support Ceaușescu and quell the rebellion. The count increased rapidly until an estimated 64,000 fatalities were widely reported across front pages.[37] The Hungarian military attaché expressed doubt regarding these figures, pointing out the unfeasible logistics of killing such a large number of people in such a short period of time. After Ceaușescu's death, hospitals across the country reported a death toll of fewer than 1,000, and probably much lower than that.[38]

The manner in which the trial was conducted has been widely criticised inside and outside Romania. However, Ion Iliescu, Romania's provisional president, said in 2009 that the trial was "quite shameful, but necessary" in order to end the state of near-anarchy that had gripped the country in the three days since the Ceaușescus fled Bucharest.[41] Similarly, Victor Stănculescu, who had been defense minister before going over to the revolution, said in 2009 that the alternative would have been seeing the Ceaușescus lynched on the streets of Bucharest.[42]

[Steve Van Doorn]

Wait. Those two supposed to have been Ceaușescu and his wife? Those two are far older. That wasn't them.

[Zhang Fei]

https://www.romania-insider.com/execution-spot-of-romanian-dictator-ceausescu-and-wife-becomes-museum-opens-for-tourists

[Zhang Fei]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/07/romanians-seek-a-reborn-revolution-25-years-after-ceausescu

[Steve Van Doorn]

you think that guy in the photo is 71 years old?
Your opinion

[Zhang Fei]

[you think that guy in the photo is 71 years old?
Your opinion ]

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I think the stress of dealing with the gradual collapse of the Warsaw Pact and questions of personal political survival would have given the guy many sleepless nights. Mel Gibson is only 63, but he’s looked 70 for a while now. Ceausescu, after months of insomnia, would look like someone at death’s door, i.e. the guy in the picture. Heck, Nick Nolte looked 70 around the 2000 time frame, when he was only 60.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Ok thanks

[bert]

Although I do not know and have no solid evidence, I don’t think the situation in China is to the point you mention. I see more or less peaceful folks in the streets of Hong Kong expressing oppostion for the proposed changes.

I believe there will be some internal agreement that will allow China to somehow muddle through.

[Peter ODonnell]

What is trade??

(don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more) ...