2025.12.15 - Our Great China Aims to Set Rules for the World

Title: 2025.12.15 – Our Great China Must Set the Rules for the World

The chapter on friendship should be… https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2UNg24-7jApT5KRL-IzKMQ
It may have no standard answer, but it must begin with feeling and be polished by time. It finds freedom in carefree jokes, maintains closeness across great distances, understands each other in moments of disappointment, and, on the long road of life, remains convinced that we are not solitary travelers. “Each walks his own path, yet the wind blows the same over a thousand miles.” The days we spent together—regardless of joy or sorrow, victory or defeat—are unforgettable scenery in our lives.

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Big‑Company “Patients” https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/uiJwRrErBjfEIlqBzy_bBA
Anyone who works at an internet firm knows that the company offers free psychological counseling as part of an EAP—Employee Assistance Program. When you feel anxious, sleepless, or on the brink of collapse, you can turn to a counselor. The less‑glamorous side of internet companies is laid bare here. On one hand, the offline or online counseling rooms carry the helplessness and pleas of countless tech workers: they are trapped in survival anxiety, loneliness, a sense of meaninglessness; they suffer insomnia, hair loss, cold extremities, shortness of breath, and some even doubt themselves after workplace sexual harassment. On the other hand, as a tool for corporate care, EAP is controversial: can it truly guarantee employee privacy? Are the counselors sufficiently professional? To some extent, it is still a corporate instrument—a different form of management and control. Often it resembles a decorative vase placed on display merely to prove that the company is “human‑focused.”

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Two Friends Died in One Month, and I Learned Something https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/m2q6Ax_UvbQnvCrmiotjkg
Last month a friend passed away. He was 40, a designer who suffered a heart attack while working overtime at home and couldn’t be saved. His family is still negotiating with the company over subsequent matters. Last week another friend died. He was 58, a university professor in good health until he was diagnosed with late‑stage lung cancer and died within two months. I stood outside the funeral hall, looking at the portrait, feeling deep sorrow—has the grim reaper started his harvest? It feels so early; he didn’t even qualify for retirement benefits. If tomorrow were my last day alive, what should I do?

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Open Your Mind to Relieve Nasal Congestion https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BA5GlqSPguVEuyw_TnvuQQ
Medicine isn’t a single, fixed method; it’s about using whatever resources you have at the moment. You don’t have to think “I must take pills” or “I must see a doctor” every time you fall ill. There are many flexible solutions.

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Cai Zhizhong: Do One Thing in Life and Be the “Protagonist” of Your Own Story https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Eajq2knKZFTu1N6osxmFbQ
One should walk the path of life they have chosen, not be swayed by fame or profit along the way, lest they drift with the current.

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Mao Zedong: “China Has No International Customs; Our Great China Must Set the Rules for the World!” https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1gZmLB1EPH/

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/13200070757
Mao said China has no international conventions and does not align with the world; we are not here to obey so‑called global rules. Our great China must set the rules for the world. What a bold spirit—establishing standards that bring the whole world into alignment with the new China. Mao was never afraid of power; he despised worldly conventions at his core. As a once‑in‑five‑thousand‑year figure for our nation, he embodied both integrity and pride, righteousness and dominance.

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on 拾一集 (Weekly Reflections). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.