The document discusses the Qing government of China and its interactions with the Bazai and Han people, indicating that the country being referred to is China.

Globalization is viewed as a threat to the Arabic language, and efforts are being made to protect it.

African countries, such as Nigeria, are facing a problem in addressing cultural identity loss due to the theft of their cultural heritage during the colonial era, and are now demanding the return of these items from Western museums.

In Taiwan, politicians often use Mandarin Chinese instead of their native language, such as Taiwanese, when giving speeches.

"The main focus of the proposed legislation in Hong Kong is national security, with a new National Security Ordinance being proposed in a consultation document."

The central and local governments in Taiwan are responsible for supporting local languages through policies and funding.

The document discusses the Qing government of China and its interactions with the Bazai and Han people, indicating that the country being referred to is China.

Title:

Content: From the north of the Tatu River, south of the Hulong River, east to the mountains, west to the sea (compiling, about today's Miaoli to Taichung), there are tens of thousands of them.
And how the earth will be destroyed, and how it will be destroyed, and how it will be destroyed.
In the 1960s, the Bazai people of Leyutan were almost unaware of the great work of their ancestors, and tried to disguise their symbols as "Ban".
It was not until President Lee Teng-hui's concept of governing the country was "based on Taiwan, with the mainland in mind, and the world in mind" that the aborigines woke up and discovered that they were the true masters of Taiwan, aroused the aborigines to attach importance to their own culture, and began to re-understand themselves and value themselves from their own perspective.
For hundreds of years, the main causes of the land loss of the Bazai people have been the "cutting of land for water", the lack of literacy, the recruitment of husbands, and so on.
1, cut land for water: Bazaar is basically a life based on fish hunting, even if there is a large area of land, or it is used as a hunting ground, do not attach much importance to the land, and there are not so many people guarding this land.
At that time, the Han interpreters Zhang Dajing and Liao's water conservationists proposed to the Bazhai people that they could open water channels and irrigate the fields, and that they would pay the construction costs of 300,000 taels after the completion of the project.
However, after the completion of the construction, Liao's family said that they did not want money, as long as I gave him land, so they gave him the land in the Xitun area of Taichung.
2, another way of saying, when the canal is ready, the wages do not have to be paid, as long as a small piece of land is cut every year to pay.
For hundreds of years, the land was gone.
This channel is the Fengyuan "Huludun Canal" that is still in use today.
3, beckoning: Bazai people for many years to help the Qing government to calm the war, the men lost a lot, so many Bazai women had to recruit Han people, help with agriculture, but many Han people are not good, the land as hands and feet off, ran away.
4, the Bazaar people do not know the Chinese characters, many of the purchase, sale, lease contract content are written in Chinese characters.
Because the Han people will collude with the escrow, the words and the books are different to deceive, so the court will almost lose the lawsuit.
The land is in such a situation, gradually being deceived.
The author is a doctor of education, and the elementary school principal is retired.
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# Bazaar # Land # Han # Importance # Taichung

Globalization is viewed as a threat to the Arabic language, and efforts are being made to protect it.

Title:

Content: Sociologists agree that there is a close relationship between language and identity, with language being the preeminent and most important identifier.
They consider that the most serious threat to the identity and culture of nations is linguistic and cultural appropriation by another party.
Language and identity are two sides of the same thing.
Language is not just words and words, but a vessel that contains the emotional components, beliefs and peculiarities of any society.
Hence, it is clear why every society is proud of its language, because language is the main way of protecting and fortifying identity so that it does not assimilate into another identity.
The history of the nations is a good witness, for example, the Arabic language has preserved the teachings of the Islamic religion, the Arab heritage and manuscripts and all the sciences, arts and literature provided by the Islamic civilization.
The Japanese refused and resisted any domination of their language, knowing that it would preserve their identity, as did the Koreans.
The goal of the powerful states, through the soft style of globalization, is to establish a state of linguistic, scientific and intellectual dependence to obliterate identity and block any path that may lead to creativity and development.
Ibn Khaldun in his introduction pointed out that the defeated is fond of the tradition of the majority, and this is what we see in some societies of a dangerous drift in the rejection of the mother tongue, and even ridicule it sometimes and link urbanization and development and call to keep pace with the times by speaking another language.
It is true that the learning of languages, whatever they may be, is desirable, provided that this does not lead to the alienation and obliteration of the identity symbol.
Experts believe that the pillars of identity are three: religion, culture and society, and that language is the official spokesman of identity and a means through which the world recognizes the power of states and the cohesion of their members and society.
There is no competition between nations except for language.
The language, interest in it and its rooting in various scientific, health, technical and other fields have a great role in the rooting of citizenship and the consolidation of belonging.
Protecting the Arabic language in our societies from the fierce attacks of globalization is a religious and secular duty, especially as it is a powerful and great language that has influenced many other languages.
The culture, strength and cohesion of nations are diminished when their people abandon their mother tongue and allow others to compete with it because language is the actual vessel of identity, and giving it the attention it deserves is what will push any country or nation to excellence and creativity.

African countries, such as Nigeria, are facing a problem in addressing cultural identity loss due to the theft of their cultural heritage during the colonial era, and are now demanding the return of these items from Western museums.

Title:

Content: The stolen history.
Britain plans to return 39 artifacts after 125 years of looting
The Smithsonian has announced that some of the treasures of the Kingdom of Benin that were looted by the British more than a century ago will finally be returned to Nigeria.
In a report published by The Washington Post, author Karen Attiya said the foundation will return 39 artifacts to the Kingdom of Benin once an agreement is reached with Nigeria ’ s National Commission for Museums and Antiquities.
This year marks 125 years since the British sent more than 1,000 troops to slaughter the population of Benin.
The 1897 raid, known as the "Punitive Campaign" in response to the ambush of a former British mission in Benin, resulted in a large number of casualties (estimated in the thousands according to some historians), but the killings and destruction were not the end of the crime carried out in Benin.
According to an intelligence officer involved in the mission, Reginald Bacon, when the British stormed the palace of the King of Benin, they found hundreds of unique bronze paintings inspired by Egyptian design and stole them, along with other works of art with thousands of pieces of ivory, copper, jewelry and clothing.
Australian journalist Mark Fennell explained that the British "not only plundered Benin's heritage, but also founded bloody art", the aim of which was to sell these artworks to offset the cost of the war.
For the Beninese, these artefacts were part of their spirituality and culture, but the British saw them as a source of funding for their imperial endeavors.
Bloody art.
The term "bloody art" originated in the 1990s from violent conflicts in Africa, and diamonds mined by African rebel groups are often referred to as a tool to finance rebellion against legitimate governments.
In the early 2000s, representatives of diamond-producing countries met and launched the Kimberley Process to try to curb the trade in conflict diamonds.
Blood Diamond, released in 2006, raised global awareness of the illicit diamond trade that fuels wars in Africa.
Returning works of art displayed in major Western institutions would be at the expense of being known, preserved and admired around the world, but efforts to raise real awareness of the history of these looted works have been curtailed, and the small information cards beneath these artifacts rarely show that they helped fund colonial violence.
Germany said last year it would return a collection of Benin Bronze to Nigeria, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned two of the Benin Bronze pieces out of a collection of 160.
In 2012, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts received a promise to acquire 32 "Bronze Boys" from Robert Owen Lehman's collection, and the museum displayed all the pieces and acquired five of them despite Nigeria's demand for their return.
In 2020, the global protests of the Black Lives Matter movement highlighted Western museums and demands by African governments for the return of their stolen heritage.
In November 2021, Malcolm Jay reported in The Boston Globe that the museum would temporarily halt the transfer of the remaining 27 objects, but museum director Matthew Titelbaum said there was no need to return them to donors.
The British Museum continues to maintain its bloody art collection of more than 900 items from Benin Bronze, with temporary loans to Nigeria (its original owner), revealing the ugliness of the colonial era.
Source: Washington Post

In Taiwan, politicians often use Mandarin Chinese instead of their native language, such as Taiwanese, when giving speeches.

Title:

Content: After the election, he was the only one who spoke the language.
* What a hon.
This election for mayor is over.
If you listen carefully to the speeches of the elected / lost candidates for the mayor of the county, in the speeches of the candidates of the six parties, the only Taiwanese language is the mayor of New Taipei City, Hou Youyi (Hakka and indigenous languages, of course, not to mention).
Other candidates, including the mayoral candidate in the southern part of both parties, spoke in “very pure ” Chinese.
For most Taiwanese, this phenomenon seems to be very natural, but if you think carefully, you will find that it is a very paradoxical phenomenon: if you observe the situation before the election, many mayoral candidates (especially in the south or DPP counties and cities) are still mainly Taiwanese.
This means that the main constituency of these candidates is the Taiwanese-speaking community (should this be the case in the Hakka / Aboriginal scene?).
But these candidates' speeches after the election were all changed to Mandarin.
What is the reason for this? If the establishment uses the local language to promote the main supporters and encourage them to come out and vote, then who are the people who are trying to promote the election / defeat speech in Chinese? Those who do not support them?
Over the years, the support and achievements of the central and local governments for local languages in terms of “policies and funding ” are obvious to all.
However, at the same time, most of the people on the table still use Chinese in public, rather than their own native language.
This phenomenon has caused a special phenomenon of local languages in recent years: in some specific areas, due to the support of the government, the local language has good development; but in the larger area, because these leaders take the lead in not using their own native language (and then use false reasons to convince themselves that it is to respect people of other ethnic groups), resulting in the language use habits of many people to transfer to Chinese.
This phenomenon is not conducive to the development of local languages.
Just as parents give money to their children, but they do not lead by example, so the effect of discipline is naturally limited.
Language has many meanings, and naturally involves the movement of votes.
Central and local governments should give careful consideration to how local languages are managed in the future.
(The author is Associate Professor, Department of Taiwanese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University of Education)
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Speaking at a press conference, the Secretary for Security, Mr Tang Ping-keung, said that the Government had proposed a new National Security Ordinance with nine chapters in the consultation document.
Chapters I and II of the Consultation Document outline the constitutional responsibility of the HKSAR to safeguard national security, the national security risks faced by the HKSAR and the need for legislation, and explain the principles of legislation, considerations and research methods, Tang said.
Sections 3 to 7 cover the five major categories of acts and activities endangering national security. Most of the recommendations are to improve the existing legislation.
In addition, the Government also proposes to introduce new offences in accordance with the actual situation and needs of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to effectively prevent, deter and punish various acts and activities that endanger national security.
Mr Tang pointed out that Chapter 8 of the Consultation Document recommended the establishment of appropriate extraterritorial effects for some of the above offences, taking full account of the principles and international practices of international law, the extraterritorial effects of offences under the National Security Law of Hong Kong, the provisions of the existing laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the existing practices of other countries.
Chapter 9 puts forward some "shortcomings" and shortcomings revealed by the experience of handling national security cases, such as in complex national security cases, the police need to complete the search and decide whether to prosecute (arrested persons), inviting everyone to submit opinions on this, in order to improve the legal system and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding national security.
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In this legislative exercise, the SAR Government will make appropriate reference to the national security laws of other countries, but it will not transpose all foreign laws into the legal system of the HKSAR.
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The document discusses the Qing government of China and its interactions with the Bazai and Han people, indicating that the country being referred to is China.

Title:

Content: From the north of the Tatu River, south of the Hulong River, east to the mountains, west to the sea (compiling, about today's Miaoli to Taichung), there are tens of thousands of them.
And how the earth will be destroyed, and how it will be destroyed, and how it will be destroyed.
In the 1960s, the Bazai people of Leyutan were almost unaware of the great work of their ancestors, and tried to disguise their symbols as "Ban".
It was not until President Lee Teng-hui's concept of governing the country was "based on Taiwan, with the mainland in mind, and the world in mind" that the aborigines woke up and discovered that they were the true masters of Taiwan, aroused the aborigines to attach importance to their own culture, and began to re-understand themselves and value themselves from their own perspective.
For hundreds of years, the main causes of the land loss of the Bazai people have been the "cutting of land for water", the lack of literacy, the recruitment of husbands, and so on.
1, cut land for water: Bazaar is basically a life based on fish hunting, even if there is a large area of land, or it is used as a hunting ground, do not attach much importance to the land, and there are not so many people guarding this land.
At that time, the Han interpreters Zhang Dajing and Liao's water conservationists proposed to the Bazhai people that they could open water channels and irrigate the fields, and that they would pay the construction costs of 300,000 taels after the completion of the project.
However, after the completion of the construction, Liao's family said that they did not want money, as long as I gave him land, so they gave him the land in the Xitun area of Taichung.
2, another way of saying, when the canal is ready, the wages do not have to be paid, as long as a small piece of land is cut every year to pay.
For hundreds of years, the land was gone.
This channel is the Fengyuan "Huludun Canal" that is still in use today.
3, beckoning: Bazai people for many years to help the Qing government to calm the war, the men lost a lot, so many Bazai women had to recruit Han people, help with agriculture, but many Han people are not good, the land as hands and feet off, ran away.
4, the Bazaar people do not know the Chinese characters, many of the purchase, sale, lease contract content are written in Chinese characters.
Because the Han people will collude with the escrow, the words and the books are different to deceive, so the court will almost lose the lawsuit.
The land is in such a situation, gradually being deceived.
The author is a doctor of education, and the elementary school principal is retired.
● Column article, does not mean i-Media love media position.
# Bazaar # Land # Han # Importance # Taichung

The Russian government is discussed in the document as needing to be involved in supporting literary periodicals in the Far East.

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Content: "Makhina of the Russian language and literature in the Far East should be dragged not only by ascetics"
The difficult situation with literary periodicals in the Far East requires the active involvement of the state - both in the face of federal structures and the authorities of specific regions of the Far Eastern Federal District.
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Himalayan nations face territorial threat from Beijing using 'salami-slicing technique'

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Beijing [China] November 1 (ANI): China has been effectively using the salami-slicing technique to not only strengthen its position along the frontiers but also gradually cut-off piece by piece the other nation's land as Beijing encroached Bhutanese land and Nepal's Humla territory in line with such thoughts.
China has also strengthened its military facilities in Tibet while the region is also witnessing an upgrade of military infrastructure, including heliports and missile bases.
Reinforcing the Tibetan borderland is China's long-running attempt to outmanoeuvre India. In this context, China has either surreptitiously occupied vantage points along the borderline or has staked claim to the areas considered strategically important, IFFRAS informed.
Beijing's claim over Bhutanese land and encroachment upon Nepal's Humla is also a part of the same strategy from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Beijing first nibbles like a silkworm and later swallow the targeted land when the other country is unaware.

In an attempt to show its presence, China has put up fences and wires Nepal's territory in Humla district, informed a report by a study panel formed by the Nepalese Ministry of Home Affairs.
Citing Ministry of Home Affairs, Kathmandu Post reported that a host of issues has been identified along the Nepal-China border in Humla.
The report has made a dozen recommendations, identifying the problems along the Nepal-China border in Humla, from border pillar numbers 4 to 13, the publication said.
According to the report, since the 1963 Boundary Protocol has marked the area from pillar number 5 (2) to the middle of the Kit Khola as the boundary between the two countries, the territory belongs to Nepal.
Meanwhile, China's bordering nations are feeling the heat as Beijing's greed to usurp and covet territory of another country seems to be never-ending, IFFRAS informed. (ANI)

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The document discusses the Russian government's involvement in Africa, particularly through the Russian-African summit.

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Content: The Russia-Africa Summit is a new episode in the international conflict over the region
The competition between the world ’ s major powers over the extension of influence and domination over the African continent in various forms dates back decades, but the recent Russian-African summit came as an indication that the next stage will witness the intensification of this competition.
The Russian-African summit, hosted by the Russian city of Strasbourg in the past few days, came as a new episode in the file of international conflict on the African continent, after decades of global disregard for the continent's suffering from crises.
It seems that the transformations in the global economy and the effects of climate change on the wealth and resources of the major countries have prompted them to seek new resources and wealth in new areas of the world, especially Africa, whose countries enjoy treasures and riches that have not yet been discovered.
Over the past few years, the kiss of the major countries has turned towards Africa, and countries such as China, Russia and America have sought to attract African countries to walk in their orbit, and lavish them with grants and aid to covet the wealth, resources and material and human potential of these countries.
The Chinese influence
Digitally, China is the largest trading partner for many African countries, where the volume of Chinese trade with the African continent in 2021 amounted to about 261 billion dollars, compared to 64 billion dollars the volume of US trade with Africa, and Beijing was able to translate these economic investments into diplomatic influence represented by the convening of a China-Africa summit every three years, in addition to African voting support for Chinese positions in many international forums.
American warning.
Washington, for its part, concluded 2022 with the US-Africa Summit, the second of its kind after the one organized eight years ago in 2014 under the presidency of Barack Obama.
During the summit, the US Secretary of Defense warned African leaders that the influence of China and Russia on the continent could be destabilizing, and the summit also saw the announcement of $55 billion in US aid to African countries.
The US-Russian competition on the African continent continued with the entry of the new year 2023, and in mid-January, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, following the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to South Africa.
According to observers, there is fierce competition between the major powers to extend influence and dominance over the African continent in various forms, considering that the Russian-African summit is a clear indication that the next phase will witness the intensification of the Russian-Chinese-American competition to attract African countries.
Russians and Africa
The deputy head of the Iraqi Center for African Studies, Dr. Farida al-Bindari, said that the participation of 49 countries out of 54 in the Russian-African summit, in the presence of 17 heads of state, as well as more than 25 heads of government, confirms the African desire and determination to deal with the Russian side.
“We have seen many industrial summits between Africa, Russia and China, paving the way for a balanced relationship between the Western and Eastern camps in international relations, pushing for the development of economic relations to high degrees between Russia and the African continent, to ensure the protection of the developing world from US hegemony, ” she said.
The researcher believes that "the near future will witness large trade exchanges between Russia and many African countries in local currencies, which raises the terms of trade and investments in the region, and is reflected at all levels and serves African countries, especially in light of Moscow's role in the BRICS and Shanghai."
Putin also announced that the network of Russian embassies and trade missions in Africa will be expanded soon.
She stressed that "the summit gives a strong boost to the volume of trade exchange between Russia and African countries, as well as opening the way for Russian investments within the base of" win-win ", contrary to the Western policy, which robbed the continent of its resources for decades and left African countries indebted, poor and full of conflicts."
Mutual benefit
According to Farida, “Africa has benefited from the Russian rapprochement, the most prominent of which was Russia ’ s exemption of the African continent from its debts, estimated at $20 billion, as well as in the field of technology transfer, especially infrastructure technology represented by roads, bridges and dams, ” pointing out that“ the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency and the Transport Agency signed an agreement with the Central African Civil Aviation Authority on July 27, 2023. ” In addition to the existence of cooperation between Russia and African countries in the field of modern agricultural irrigation, and the security field, "stressing that" the summit was very important for the countries of Africa, and also for Russia because Africa is the external outlet of international sanctions. "
The researcher believes that "the Russian-African summit was very important for Russia as it is for Africa, and therefore insisted on holding it despite the circumstances of the war in Ukraine and international sanctions, in order to send messages to the West that Russia is still active in international politics and strongly."
“Although the geopolitical context is different from what it was in 2019 at the time of the first summit, Russia ’ s strategy in Africa has not changed, and its broad outline is to exploit the power vacuum left by the West at a low cost and a different policy from the West. ”
Regional coveted
For his part, the researcher on African affairs, Mahmoud Manna, believes that "the conflict on the African continent is not limited to the major powers only."
He explained to our agency, "There are regional powers such as Turkey, Iran and some Arab countries competing for the presence within African countries," pointing out that "everyone wants to exist and control Africa because of the great resources it has, as well as the quality and richness of these resources as well."
Between the past and the present.
The researcher pointed out that the African continent has always been in the mind of the European colonizer in general, pointing out that "the beginning of interest in Africa was in the stage of geographical disclosure, specifically by Spain, France and England, which are empires seeking to discover areas of wealth in the world."
According to Manna, "the period from the 15th to the 19th century saw the sharing of the great empires of the African countries.
France, on the one hand, was interested in the Sahel region of West Africa, and Britain focused on the regions of Central and East Africa, while Italy had only a small presence in the Horn of Africa, "pointing out that" the Berlin conference in the nineteenth century was a witness to the division of these colonies to exploit the resources of African countries. "
“What is happening now is similar to what happened in the 19th century, but now competition is courting Africans differently, ” he said.
He pointed out that "China, for example, provided during the China-Africa summit 40 billion dollars in financial assistance to the countries of the continent," pointing out that "Beijing adopts an economic and trade strategy that enabled it to expand in the continent significantly, and there is a military base in Djibouti since 2017."
"America is aware of the extent of Chinese influence in Africa and seeks to besiege it, so it hosted the US-Africa summit at the end of 2022," he said.
Russia, in turn, is strengthening its presence and seeking closer ties with Africans and hosted the Russia-Africa summit a few days ago.
As for France, the researcher confirms that "there is a decline of French influence in the Sahel countries, especially Mali, Burkina Faso and currently Niger," considering that "the sight of Russian flags in the capital Niamey is the best evidence of this."
The researcher believes that "the new leaders in Africa have orientations based on the realization of the interests of African countries with the major countries, whether Russia, America or China," noting that "the inevitable result of this rapprochement between Africans and the major countries is a shift towards the end of dependence on the colonial origin completely."
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Content: Sociologists agree that there is a close relationship between language and identity, with language being the preeminent and most important identifier.
They consider that the most serious threat to the identity and culture of nations is linguistic and cultural appropriation by another party.
Language and identity are two sides of the same thing.
Language is not just words and words, but a vessel that contains the emotional components, beliefs and peculiarities of any society.
Hence, it is clear why every society is proud of its language, because language is the main way of protecting and fortifying identity so that it does not assimilate into another identity.
The history of the nations is a good witness, for example, the Arabic language has preserved the teachings of the Islamic religion, the Arab heritage and manuscripts and all the sciences, arts and literature provided by the Islamic civilization.
The Japanese refused and resisted any domination of their language, knowing that it would preserve their identity, as did the Koreans.
The goal of the powerful states, through the soft style of globalization, is to establish a state of linguistic, scientific and intellectual dependence to obliterate identity and block any path that may lead to creativity and development.
Ibn Khaldun in his introduction pointed out that the defeated is fond of the tradition of the majority, and this is what we see in some societies of a dangerous drift in the rejection of the mother tongue, and even ridicule it sometimes and link urbanization and development and call to keep pace with the times by speaking another language.
It is true that the learning of languages, whatever they may be, is desirable, provided that this does not lead to the alienation and obliteration of the identity symbol.
Experts believe that the pillars of identity are three: religion, culture and society, and that language is the official spokesman of identity and a means through which the world recognizes the power of states and the cohesion of their members and society.
There is no competition between nations except for language.
The language, interest in it and its rooting in various scientific, health, technical and other fields have a great role in the rooting of citizenship and the consolidation of belonging.
Protecting the Arabic language in our societies from the fierce attacks of globalization is a religious and secular duty, especially as it is a powerful and great language that has influenced many other languages.
The culture, strength and cohesion of nations are diminished when their people abandon their mother tongue and allow others to compete with it because language is the actual vessel of identity, and giving it the attention it deserves is what will push any country or nation to excellence and creativity.

African countries, such as Nigeria, are facing a problem in addressing cultural identity loss due to the theft of their cultural heritage during the colonial era, and are now demanding the return of these items from Western museums.

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Content: The stolen history.
Britain plans to return 39 artifacts after 125 years of looting
The Smithsonian has announced that some of the treasures of the Kingdom of Benin that were looted by the British more than a century ago will finally be returned to Nigeria.
In a report published by The Washington Post, author Karen Attiya said the foundation will return 39 artifacts to the Kingdom of Benin once an agreement is reached with Nigeria ’ s National Commission for Museums and Antiquities.
This year marks 125 years since the British sent more than 1,000 troops to slaughter the population of Benin.
The 1897 raid, known as the "Punitive Campaign" in response to the ambush of a former British mission in Benin, resulted in a large number of casualties (estimated in the thousands according to some historians), but the killings and destruction were not the end of the crime carried out in Benin.
According to an intelligence officer involved in the mission, Reginald Bacon, when the British stormed the palace of the King of Benin, they found hundreds of unique bronze paintings inspired by Egyptian design and stole them, along with other works of art with thousands of pieces of ivory, copper, jewelry and clothing.
Australian journalist Mark Fennell explained that the British "not only plundered Benin's heritage, but also founded bloody art", the aim of which was to sell these artworks to offset the cost of the war.
For the Beninese, these artefacts were part of their spirituality and culture, but the British saw them as a source of funding for their imperial endeavors.
Bloody art.
The term "bloody art" originated in the 1990s from violent conflicts in Africa, and diamonds mined by African rebel groups are often referred to as a tool to finance rebellion against legitimate governments.
In the early 2000s, representatives of diamond-producing countries met and launched the Kimberley Process to try to curb the trade in conflict diamonds.
Blood Diamond, released in 2006, raised global awareness of the illicit diamond trade that fuels wars in Africa.
Returning works of art displayed in major Western institutions would be at the expense of being known, preserved and admired around the world, but efforts to raise real awareness of the history of these looted works have been curtailed, and the small information cards beneath these artifacts rarely show that they helped fund colonial violence.
Germany said last year it would return a collection of Benin Bronze to Nigeria, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned two of the Benin Bronze pieces out of a collection of 160.
In 2012, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts received a promise to acquire 32 "Bronze Boys" from Robert Owen Lehman's collection, and the museum displayed all the pieces and acquired five of them despite Nigeria's demand for their return.
In 2020, the global protests of the Black Lives Matter movement highlighted Western museums and demands by African governments for the return of their stolen heritage.
In November 2021, Malcolm Jay reported in The Boston Globe that the museum would temporarily halt the transfer of the remaining 27 objects, but museum director Matthew Titelbaum said there was no need to return them to donors.
The British Museum continues to maintain its bloody art collection of more than 900 items from Benin Bronze, with temporary loans to Nigeria (its original owner), revealing the ugliness of the colonial era.
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In Taiwan, politicians often use Mandarin Chinese instead of their native language, such as Taiwanese, when giving speeches.

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Content: After the election, he was the only one who spoke the language.
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This election for mayor is over.
If you listen carefully to the speeches of the elected / lost candidates for the mayor of the county, in the speeches of the candidates of the six parties, the only Taiwanese language is the mayor of New Taipei City, Hou Youyi (Hakka and indigenous languages, of course, not to mention).
Other candidates, including the mayoral candidate in the southern part of both parties, spoke in “very pure ” Chinese.
For most Taiwanese, this phenomenon seems to be very natural, but if you think carefully, you will find that it is a very paradoxical phenomenon: if you observe the situation before the election, many mayoral candidates (especially in the south or DPP counties and cities) are still mainly Taiwanese.
This means that the main constituency of these candidates is the Taiwanese-speaking community (should this be the case in the Hakka / Aboriginal scene?).
But these candidates' speeches after the election were all changed to Mandarin.
What is the reason for this? If the establishment uses the local language to promote the main supporters and encourage them to come out and vote, then who are the people who are trying to promote the election / defeat speech in Chinese? Those who do not support them?
Over the years, the support and achievements of the central and local governments for local languages in terms of “policies and funding ” are obvious to all.
However, at the same time, most of the people on the table still use Chinese in public, rather than their own native language.
This phenomenon has caused a special phenomenon of local languages in recent years: in some specific areas, due to the support of the government, the local language has good development; but in the larger area, because these leaders take the lead in not using their own native language (and then use false reasons to convince themselves that it is to respect people of other ethnic groups), resulting in the language use habits of many people to transfer to Chinese.
This phenomenon is not conducive to the development of local languages.
Just as parents give money to their children, but they do not lead by example, so the effect of discipline is naturally limited.
Language has many meanings, and naturally involves the movement of votes.
Central and local governments should give careful consideration to how local languages are managed in the future.
(The author is Associate Professor, Department of Taiwanese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University of Education)
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"The main focus of the proposed legislation in Hong Kong is national security, with a new National Security Ordinance being proposed in a consultation document."

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Secretary for Security, Mr Tang Ping-keung (photo by Lu Wenyu, China Review Agency)
Hong Kong, January 31 (Reporter Lu Wenyu) The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Li Jiachao, presided over a press conference on "Maintaining National Security: Public Consultation on the Legislation of Article 23 of the Basic Law" at the Government Secretariat on the morning of the 30th.
Speaking at a press conference, the Secretary for Security, Mr Tang Ping-keung, said that the Government had proposed a new National Security Ordinance with nine chapters in the consultation document.
Chapters I and II of the Consultation Document outline the constitutional responsibility of the HKSAR to safeguard national security, the national security risks faced by the HKSAR and the need for legislation, and explain the principles of legislation, considerations and research methods, Tang said.
Sections 3 to 7 cover the five major categories of acts and activities endangering national security. Most of the recommendations are to improve the existing legislation.
In addition, the Government also proposes to introduce new offences in accordance with the actual situation and needs of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to effectively prevent, deter and punish various acts and activities that endanger national security.
Mr Tang pointed out that Chapter 8 of the Consultation Document recommended the establishment of appropriate extraterritorial effects for some of the above offences, taking full account of the principles and international practices of international law, the extraterritorial effects of offences under the National Security Law of Hong Kong, the provisions of the existing laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the existing practices of other countries.
Chapter 9 puts forward some "shortcomings" and shortcomings revealed by the experience of handling national security cases, such as in complex national security cases, the police need to complete the search and decide whether to prosecute (arrested persons), inviting everyone to submit opinions on this, in order to improve the legal system and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding national security.
Tang Ping-keung said that the SAR Government has taken into account relevant foreign laws, existing laws applicable to the HKSAR, and the actual situation of the HKSAR into consideration.
In this legislative exercise, the SAR Government will make appropriate reference to the national security laws of other countries, but it will not transpose all foreign laws into the legal system of the HKSAR.
On the contrary, we will consider adopting measures that are necessary, effective and proportionate to Hong Kong, even if they do not exist in foreign countries.
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