David Miliband，现任英国外相，最近在读他的一些著作，很赞同他关于社会主义的一些理解。

以下转自他的blog，第一次看到他关于中国的一些看法和论述。

Today I head to China - specifically Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chongqing and Beijing. I am immensely looking forward to my visit, which I expect to be instructive, thought-provoking and inspiring in equal measure. I will follow up the Prime Minister's highly successful visit to Beijing in January, and have the time to see how Chinese engagement with globalization is changing the face of the world's largest country. My aims are simple: to try to understand the country better, to compare notes on the challenges of equality, security and sustainability in our two countries, and to forge relationships that foster Anglo-Chinese cooperation at an international level in the pursuit of shared goals.

Change within China in the last thirty years is remarkable. Chinese resilience, adaptability and innovation equally so. Their contribution to the global drive against poverty ditto. And their part in the great global surge of technological as well as economic and social progress stunning. One small example but also telling example: this month China is expected to become the most wired nation on earth, with over 215 million internet users. The world's most popular blog ("Lao Xu") is Chinese. So the progress is large. But so is the potential: only the internet penetration rate is still only 16%. And of course access to the internet is not fully open.

I will take some time to try to get a sense of the economic and social forces at work within China. I will also discuss political forces. President Hu mentioned democracy 62 times in his Party Congress speech. This is important and needs to be understood. From a British perspective democratic accountability and individual rights are a bulwark for stability in a political system; they provide vents for concern within the system rather than forcing people to turn outside it. So I will want to discuss with Chinese hosts how they see political development and the place of individual political and civil rights within their system.

But with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and in other meetings I will also want to engage with Chinese hosts about China's role on the world stage: its relations with Europe, its vision for development in Africa, how it sees its own region, and its view of the development of the international system. China's growing strength brings clear responsibilities; expectations will inevitably rise; and in our own country and countries like ours, including the USA, the commitment to openness and engagement with China will need to carry public opinion that is buffeted by pressures of global change itself, and sees the responsibilities of globalization as critical to the enjoyment of its rights.

I do not support an Olympic boycott. I do support engagement with China on the need to work together internationally to nurture the potential gains of globalization. China depends on that cooperation; so do we.

1. Trip to Sheffield

2. The visit of  blueso

3. Preparation for the courses and experiments

4. Marking of the DL works

5. Posters of SCCUES

6. Registration form of the Cardiff conference and application for funding

7. Redistribution of SPARC module information and the addtional namelist

8. Other affairs of PRC conference

FILM star Maggie Cheung took to the red carpet at Edinburgh Castle last night to launch the Cinema China Festival.

The actress, who starred in Hero and In The Mood For Love, appears in a film masterclass today as part of the festival, which sees 20 classic Chinese films screened across the UK.

The 42-year-old arrived in the Capital without her usual entourage three days ago and went almost unrecognised, enjoying shopping on the Royal Mile, a walk on Gullane Beach and a Castle visit.

Maggie Cheung Masterclass

FILMHOUSE, EDINBURGH, TOMORROW

STUNNINGLY beautiful. Statuesque. Enigmatic. Just some of the descriptions commonly applied to Maggie Cheung, the Asian superstar whose sensuous performance in Wong Kar-wai's unrequited passion stunner In the Mood for Love permanently seared her into the memories of film fans the world over.

Making an exclusive appearance in Edinburgh as part of the inaugural Cinema China film festival this weekend, she's participating in a masterclass with the festival's co-director Mark Cousins.

Cheung, who spent part of her childhood in Britain, has been a model, an action star, a romantic lead and a Cannes-winning actor - so she's got an incredible career to dissect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       真高兴中国人民又可以度过一个欢乐、祥和、团圆、幸福的节日！
       我们这边的规矩也还是过五一节的，但是有的地方放假有的不放假：中小学似乎是放假的，邮局啥的似乎也放假啦，至于大学，有的学校放假有的不放假，同一所大学还有的校区放假有的不放假，也不知道啥规矩^
      可惜我是属于不放假的那群……
      继续努力学习中:(