According to Agence France-Presse, Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died at the age of 90. As an old friend of Chinese, Fidel Castro has close contacts with many Chinese leaders. He is full of affection for China, and when China is being blamed for no reason, Castro has repeatedly stood up to refute the anti-China rhetoric of the West and praised China's economic achievements.
Fidel Castro, a former Cuban leader who was recovering from surgery in 2008, published a signed article entitled "Comrade Fidel's Reflections on ——— China's Victory" in the Gramma newspaper, the central organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, on April 1, in which he believed that "China will certainly be able to win in hosting the Olympic Games."
Criticize Western anti-China activities
Castro said in the article that it was the "imperialists" who planned the violent incident of smashing, looting, and burning in Tibet, and that the purpose of their "anti-China activities" was to prevent China and the Chinese people, who were the hosts of the Olympic Games, from winning victories
He argues that some suffer from "hostility to China," which is "common among many Westerners," and that Westerners are accustomed to "contempt for everything that comes from China" because of the educational and cultural differences they receive.
Castro said that in more than two centuries of history, no country in the world has recognized Tibet as an independent country and "all believe that Tibet is part of China." The opposite was true after World War II, however, when these countries saw Tibet as a "religious bulwark against communism."
Castro argues that imperialism has been extremely stubborn in undermining China's international prestige, directly or indirectly. He said Chinese law respects and guarantees the rights and culture of the 55 ethnic minorities. China respects the right of citizens to "believe or not believe" in a religion. In this country, there are Muslims, Catholics and adherents of other religions whose rights are protected in the Constitution.
He believes that the anti-China activities currently taking place in Tibet are aimed at the Olympic Games and are aimed at preventing China from hosting the Olympic Games. But Castro concluded the article by saying he had good reason to believe that "China will triumph."
Full of affectionate concern for China
Castro's "China's Victory" signed article, divided into two parts, was published in the Gramma newspaper for two consecutive days on March 31 and April 1.
The first part of the signed article "China's Victory" mainly deals with China's history before the 19th century, telling the history of China's aggression by imperialist powers and China's trade with Europe. The second part of the article deals with what China experienced since the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Castro said in the second part of the article that before the crystallization of human intelligence, Troy City, a civilization of hundreds of millions of people was born in the vast Yellow River Valley. He said that Chinese civilization arose more than 2,000 years ago, and "we are far from understanding the magic of the Chinese Chinese language, and the learning of this language has developed the natural wisdom of Chinese children."
He said affectionately: "Many inventions originated in China, such as gunpowder, compass, etc., but Europeans did not know anything about it at that time. If the winds were the opposite direction to Columbus's route, it might be Chinese discover Europe. ”
It can be seen from the article that in the nearly half century of leading the Cuban Revolution, although Castro was very attentive to the lives of the Cuban people, and his daily work was quite busy, he knew China's history very well, and it can also be seen from this that he had deep feelings and infinite concern for China, which is far away from thousands of rivers and mountains.
Marvel at China's economic rise
According to a report by the Latin American News Agency on March 31, 2009, the official Cuban website "Cuba Debate" published a column entitled "Reflections of Comrade Fidel" written by Fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, on March 30. Castro said that from an economic point of view, China's influence at the G20 leaders' summit in London will be enormous in the context of the global economic crisis.
In the article, titled "China, the Future Economic Powerhouse," he said, "This has never happened since The absolute dominance of American power." ”
In a separate article published On March 31, he emphasized China's importance to the world economy and noted that China holds $740 billion in U.S. government bonds and is "America's largest creditor."
In the article, titled "China in the International Media," Castro asked the international news agency to be more transparent in its coverage of the world financial crisis. "International public opinion has a right and an obligation to better understand the economic problems posed by the crisis sweeping the globe," he said. ”
In response to his article "China, the Future Economic Powerhouse," he criticized that "most international media reports only mention his accusations about [U.S. Vice President] Biden's speech in Viña del Mar, Chile," and avoid his assessment of China, with only a few media outlets mentioning the thrust of the article in a limited space, that is, to make Western countries recognize that China's role in the world economy is becoming more and more important, a fact that makes them drink a cup of "bitter wine."
Agence France-Presse reported on March 31 that the aging Castro criticized the way several international media outlets reported on China on the eve of the G20 summit.
This is a profile photo of Fidel Castro meeting intellectuals from 22 countries during the 21st Cuba International Book Fair (taken on February 10, 2012). Xinhua News Agency
【Extended reading】Immortal body? The CIA assassinated Castro 638 times
Castro has dodged countless CIA assassinations, so how many assassinations has the Cuban leader dodged? A British media outlet has revealed that Castro has evaded 638 CIA assassinations. In fact, each of the 638 assassinations used different means, that is, the CIA used 638 assassination methods to assassinate the Cuban leader, but each one was unsuccessful.
A retired Cuban general named Fabian Escalante wrote a 638 astonishing CIA assassinations of Castro. During his tenure as chief of the Cuban Secret Police, Escalante directed and foiled numerous assassination plots. One of the "cigarette bombs" that were planned to explode in front of Castro, although Castro survived, the incident still made the secret police chief unforgettable. The picture shows Castro smoking a cigar.
After the "cigarette bomb" plan was aborted, the CIA carefully developed the famous "cigar bomb" again. But Castro himself never "enjoyed" these poisonous cigars. Castro is pictured lighting a cigar, next to his comrade-in-arms, the famous Che Guevara.
The CIA took great pains to make cigars, all of which were Castro's favorite brands. However, from 1985 onwards, Castro began to quit smoking. Pictured here is Castro, smoking a cigar, who could barely keep his cigarette in his hands when he was young.
In the early 1960s, relations between the United States and Cuba became increasingly tense, and the United States not only cut off cuba's economic lifeline, but even tried to violently overthrow the Castro government by invading Cuba, and when the United States was under strong pressure, Castro had to seek assistance from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was unusually concerned about the situation in Cuba at that time, precisely out of the need to compete with the United States for hegemony and to find a foothold in Latin America. The picture shows Castro and Khrushchev.
On another occasion, the CIA obtained information that Castro liked to dive off the Cuban coastline and began breeding one Caribbean shellfish after another. The aim was to get a shell large enough to hold a large amount of explosives, and they painted it blood red and bright colors so that Castro could catch his attention when he dived to the bottom of the sea. As soon as he approaches the shell, the shell automatically explodes. However, this "shell bomb" program, like many other programs, did not achieve the desired results. Castro visits the Cuban Aquarium, where he told staff that he was able to hold his breath underwater for two minutes when he was young and had swam with dolphins in eastern Cuba.
The CIA was not willing to miscarry one after another of the assassination plan, so it prepared a diving suit for Castro that would infect people with fungi in order to cause him chronic skin diseases, so that his physical strength would be slightly exhausted until he died. However, this plan was also fruitless. Pictured here is Castro as a young man.
In 1961, under the direct planning and command of the CIA, Cuban exiles landed in the Bay of Pigs and raided Cuba, also with the aim of assassinating Castrostro, but ultimately failed miserably. The picture shows the captured Cuban rebels.
Castro and Khrushchev.
On the same day that President Kennedy was assassinated, an American agent was also sent to assassinate Castro, using an assassination weapon he had received in Paris in advance, but the plan also failed.
Castro at the United Nations.
Although the CIA has also tried to poison Castro by putting bacterial poison on Castro's handkerchief or mixing it into tea and coffee to poison Castro, none of them has been able to achieve satisfactory results for the Americans.
Castro enjoys hot dogs.
On October 23, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban leader Castro responded to the president's speech on the blockade of Cuba.
At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on October 25, 1962, representatives of the United States presented evidence of Cuban missiles to Council members.
In the absence of many assassination methods, the CIA used its housekeeping skills and decided to send a beautiful and beautiful agent to carry out a secret plan to assassinate Castro. The picture shows Castro surrounded by beautiful women.
Castro is handsome, funny, charismatic, and very girly.
To the surprise of the CIA, this time the secret assassination plan that was originally seamless was because Castro's handsomeness and iron fist tenderness actually escaped the disaster of the assassination of the beauty killer, which although it put the CIA into a very embarrassing situation, but it added a touch of rose to Castro's legendary life. Pictured here are Castro and Marietta. Marita is a CIA killer and Castro's lover.
Marita was sent to Cuba by the CIA on a mission to assassinate Castro. Her box contained highly toxic pills, ready to be put in Castro's milk cup. When they met again, Castro stared at her for a moment and asked in a skeptical tone, "Are you here to assassinate me?" Maritta was distraught and had to reply, "Yes." After just these two sentences, the two looked at each other and were speechless. At this time, Marita, who had a deep affection for Castro, could no longer bear to poison her beloved, and she threw the poison into the toilet. A few days later, she returned to the United States. The CIA did not spare her, punished her severely, and continued to destroy her physically and mentally, causing her to almost commit suicide in despair. Marita, 74, said in an interview that although the past half century, she still has feelings for Castro.
Castro once said humorously: "I think it is possible to show off this uninviting 'record': no era or any politician in any country has been the target of assassination plans many times like me." The picture shows Castro looking at a tiger at the zoo.
The uninhibited Castro.
With the repeated failures of the CIA assassinations, anecdotes about Castro's lucky escape have become a topic of conversation among Cubans. In April 1959, Castro met with Nixon, then vice president of the United States, in Washington.
Castro with his brother Raul Castro.
Castro gave a passionate speech at the Unipotentiated General Assembly.
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In 1962, a Cuban Missile Crisis that shocked the world occurred in the Caribbean. It was triggered by the Soviet Union's deployment of missiles in Cuba and the United States' insistence that the missiles be removed. This was the fiercest confrontation between the two great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Although the crisis lasted only 10 days, the United States and the Soviet Union hovered next to the button of the nuclear bomb, bringing mankind closer to the brink of destruction than ever before, and the world was at a moment of first-handing. This set of diagrams will show the crisis event that threatened to lead humanity to the end of the world.
The Soviet Union decided to deploy medium-range missiles in Cuba, providing the Il-28 jet-bombers, which began implementation in July 1962. The Soviet Union transferred the goods destined for Cuba to Soviet ships, and dismantled dozens of missiles and dozens of aircraft into containers for shipment to Cuba. At the same time, 3,500 military technicians also arrived by boat. The first camouflaged weapons arrived in Cuba in late July by merchant ship. A spy photograph of Cuban medium-range missiles deployed in different locations in October 1962.
During this period, the Soviet Union publicly denied possessing any offensive weapons in Cuba. In a letter to Kennedy, Khrushchev said that the Soviet Union did not need to transfer its weapons to any other country, such as Cuba, in order to defeat the aggression and to carry out retaliatory strikes. Pictured here is the Cuban Missile facility photographed by a U-2 U-2 aircraft on October 17, 1962.
It was only on October 16, 1962, that President John F. Kennedy received a report on the real situation. He was very angry at Khrushchev's deception of him and immediately realized that the stakes were high. He did not expect the Soviets to act so rashly and riskily in a place like Cuba, nor did he expect that in the blink of an eye Cuba would dramatically possess the largest and best-equipped military force in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. Kennedy felt that Soviet missiles posed a serious threat, and that if they did not fight back violently, they would damage his government's image at home and abroad, provoke public distrust of him, and make the United States look like a man. Kennedy decided to make the Soviet Union understand the determination of the United States not to hesitate to fight a war. On October 23, 1962, the United States Department of Defense confirmed that the Cuban missiles were supplied by the Soviet Union and shipped into Cuba on October 14, showing other equipment in addition to the canvas-covered medium-range missiles and other equipment attached to the missile launch.
On October 18, 1964 Kennedy returned to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
On October 22, 1962, Kennedy gave a televised address to the United States at the White House, announcing a total blockade of Cuba and vowing to respond in the strongest possible light to the Soviet invasion.
As soon as the blockade was ordered, U.S. ground, air, and amphibious combat forces began to concentrate. In addition, the munitions needed for the dispatch of troops to Cuba have been mobilized and preventive measures have been taken to protect the United States from nuclear attacks. U.S. militaries around the world are also on alert. The President of the United States ordered United States bombers carrying nuclear warheads to enter the skies around Cuba. On October 23, 1962, Kennedy signed an order that U.S. armed forces begin to blockade Cuba and inspect all supplies destined for Cuba.
On October 23, 1962, Cuban leader Fidel Castro responded to the U.S. President's blockade of Cuba.
Cuban troops were on the defensive during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
At the meeting of the Council on 23 October 1960 (from left to right) representatives of the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States.
On 23 October 1962, during the Security Council's special session on the Cuban Missile Crisis, a large number of women held up plaques outside the venue in prayer for peace.
In the five days after Kennedy's radio address, tensions were almost "unbearable," with the shadow of nuclear war hanging over the entire Caribbean Sea and the entire world at stake. On October 24, 1962, US President John F. Kennedy held a press conference to brief him on the Cuban missile situation and decided to impose a blockade on Cuba.
On October 24, 1962, escorted by 68 Air Force squadrons and eight aircraft carriers, a large U.S. fleet of 90 warships was launched. The U.S. warship formed an arc from Florida to Puerto Rico, blocking Cuban waters. At the same time, the US missile forces were all ordered to be on "high alert" and the missiles were on command on the launch pad. In 1962, A U.S. patrol plane flew over a Soviet cargo ship.
On October 25, 1962, the U.S. Navy monitored Soviet submarines near the blockade line.
In October 1962, large numbers of New Yorkers lined up to buy newspapers to keep up with the latest developments in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
President John F. Kennedy met with Air Force generals to discuss the use of U-2 aircraft for reconnaissance over Cuba.
On October 24, 1962, at a missile launch base in Cuba, Kennedy used this as evidence to declare a blockade against Cuba.
Anti-aircraft missiles deployed off the coast of Florida on October 27, 1962.
On October 27, 1962, two soldiers were on alert in a fortification on a Florida beach.
In November 1962, the U.S. military barracks in Florida, in a state of war readiness.
On October 28, 1962, anti-nuclear groups in London marched to protest the rapid escalation of the situation during the Cuban Missile Crisis by the United States.
On October 29, 1962, Kennedy presided over a meeting of the National Security Council.
On November 2, 1962, Kennedy reported to the United States on the latest developments in the Cuban Missile Crisis and stated that soviet missiles deployed in Cuba must be removed and that the U.S. military would continue to implement its policy of blockade of Cuba.
Khrushchev realized that a blockade that could not be broken over time was not good for the Soviet Union, and that the longer the blockade dragged on, the greater the losses of the Soviet Union than the United States. By the time this decision was made, he had been too late and did not want to consult with the stubborn Castro, because he had learned through the intelligence services that if he did not reply to the United States the next day, the Us military would bomb Soviet missile equipment and Cuban military targets on the 29th or 30th, and then invade the island. If you delay any longer, it means death. Pictured is a medium-range missile deployed in Cuba on November 1, 1962.
In his letter to Kennedy, Khrushchev wrote, "I understand very well the concern of you and of the American people about what you call an offensive weapon, which is indeed a terrible weapon." You and I both know what kind of weapon this is. In order to eliminate this conflict, which endangers the cause of peace, as a guarantee to the peoples who aspire to peace, the Soviet Government, in addition to the previous order to stop construction at the construction site of the weapons, has issued a new order to dismantle what you call offensive weapons and to pack them back to the Soviet Union. On November 6, 1962, a U.S. reconnaissance plane photographed a Soviet vessel moored in a Cuban port, loaded with six missiles and technicians.
With the broadcast of this letter, this severe Cuban Missile crisis came to an end. The letter did not mention the withdrawal of United States missiles in Turkey as a reciprocal condition. The picture shows a map of Cuba marked by President Kennedy, and the place where the "×" is drawn is the missile launch site.
The United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement to supervise the withdrawal of Soviet missiles, and the picture shows U.S. helicopters monitoring Soviet submarines.
On November 11, all 42 Soviet missiles deployed in Cuba were withdrawn. Pictured here is a U.S. Navy ship tracking a Soviet cargo ship on November 10, 1962.
On November 20, Kennedy announced that Khrushchev had promised to withdraw all Il-28 bombers from Cuba within 30 days. Kennedy also announced the lifting of the maritime blockade against Cuba. At the same time, the Soviet government ordered the Soviet armed forces to release the maximum state of readiness. The Soviets withdraw 15 Il-28 aircraft from Cuba.
On November 21, 1962, the U.S. military began removing missiles deployed in Florida.
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