Re: China: Mandate of heaven?

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> It was Mencius during the classical period of ancient China,
> who advanced that salient political concept of the Con****ian
> school, mandate of heaven. as the moral force for retraining
> the imperial power of the Middle Kingdom's monarchs.
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> Calamities were deemed expressions of divine displeasure.
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> And, it was the duty of the imperial astrologer to interpret
> and reveal the divine narrative. The ruler must find ways to
> placate the divine fury by redressing injustices perpetrated
> against the people. He was answerable to a higher power, and
> must rule in accordance with Dao:
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> CCP must take heed ....
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> Regards,
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> Albert K. Fung
> Casa Tres Palmas, Santa Ynez, California, USA.
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 did not realize that someone like yourself who is well versed in and
a true practitioner of quantitative economics could have come out with
celestial views like this one ...