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Monday, June 27, 2022

Blue Monday

Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and now, China.  Blue is the new Black (shirt):

The Blue Shirts Society (藍衣社), also known as the Society of Practice of the Three Principles of the People (Chinese三民主義力行社, commonly abbreviated as SPTPP), the Spirit Encouragement Society (勵志社, SES) and the China Reconstruction Society (中華復興社, CRS), was a secret ultra-nationalist faction that modeled Italian fascists in the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party).

Not going into the history of China, though.  Just adding this rather awkward quote to update the list.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Shirts_Society

Chinese Democracy Fascism

The Blue Shirts during the 1930s became one of the most influential and feared political movements in China. To both contemporaries and historians, however, the Blue Shirt movement has been a shadowy force, known mostly through hearsay, with little solid information regarding its doctrine or its activities. Now, on the basis of memoirs, interviews, and especially Japanese intelligence reports of the 1930s, a rough picture of this secret organization can be pieced together. And the image that emerges is not simply a terrorist organization, but a political faction that reflected the concerns and ideals of many Chinese during the troubled Nanking decade.

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