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“On January 28, 1996, Ren Zhengfei held Huawei’s first “mass-resignation ceremony.” Each head of a regional sales office was told to prepare two reports: a work summary and a written resignation. “I will only sign one of the reports,” Ren said.

Huawei had started out in rural markets, and many of its early sales managers were provincial in their experience and network of contacts. As Ren sought to go national and international, he decided to make the entire sales staff resign and reapply for their jobs. “The mountain goat must outrun the lion to not be eaten,” he had told them ahead of the event. “All departments and sections must optimize and eat the lazy goats, the goats that do not learn or progress, and the goats with no sense of responsibility.”

They were following the strategy that Mao had used to win the Chinese Civil War of “encircling the cities with the countryside.”[9] They’d won over villages and towns in the beginning, building their strength to take on the big cities.

Ren told his followers that demotions built character and that the demoted would only be stronger when they worked their way up again.... “Even Deng Xiaoping could go down and up three times. Why can’t you go down and up three times?”

-- Eva Dou. “House of Huawei.”

BEIJING—Microsoft is asking hundreds of employees in its China-based cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence operations to consider transferring outside the country, as tensions between Washington and Beijing mount around the critical technology.

...700 to 800 people, who are involved in machine learning and other work related to cloud computing, one of the people said.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-asks-hundreds-of-china-based-ai-staff-to-relocate-amid-u-s-china-tensions-b626ff8c

“We highly value the balanced position of our Chinese friends when it comes to the Ukraine crisis,” Putin told Xi, according to a Kremlin transcript. “We understand your questions and concerns about this. During today’s meeting, we will of course explain our position, though we have also spoken about this before.”

https://www.ft.com/content/d1a1e185-0668-4f5f-b5a5-bd37a615e4eb

Все российские самолеты Boeing не могут летать в воздушном пространстве Китая до последующего уведомления, говорится в письме для клиентов логистической компании Global Link, которое распространено по российским Telegram-каналам. В нем отмечается, что данное уведомление получено компанией от Администрации гражданской авиации КНР.
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речь идет о закрытии Китаем неба «для российских эксплуатантов всех самолетов, в том числе Boeing и Airbus, с двойной регистрацией».

https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2022/05/27/924013-kitai-ogranicheniya-rossii

The result indicated that, for the 12 US states, the possible dates of the first infection, with a probability of 50 per cent, fall mostly between August and October 2019, while the earliest is April 26, 2019 on Rhode Island, and the latest is Nov 30, 2019 in Delaware.

All of the dates indicated by the data are earlier than Jan 20, 2020, the officially announced date of the first confirmed case in the United States, showing that the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States started to spread around September 2019 with a high confidence probability.

The result also showed that the date of the first Covid-19 case in Wuhan, with a probability of 50 percent, is Dec 20, 2019, and the date for Zhejiang is Dec 23, 2019. It infers that the Covid-19 in China is most likely to have started in late December 2019.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/covid-19-might-have-started-to-spread-in-sept-2019-in-the-us-chinese-study

1. LING, Duke of Wei, asked Confucius about the line of battle.
Confucius answered: “Of temple where I have learned: arms I have not studied.’
On the morrow he went his way.
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39. The Master said: “Mingle not in projects with men whose ways are not thine.”
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41. When the music-master Mien was presented, the Master, on coming to the steps, said: “Here are the steps.” On reaching the mat, the Master said: “Here is the mat.” When all were seated, the Master told him: “Such an one is here, and such an one is here.”
After the music-master had left, Tzu-chang said: “Is this the way to speak to a music-master?”
The Master said: “Surely it is the way to help a music-master.”

https://www.bartleby.com/44/1/15.html