Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- near in time; in the near future; very soon; recent
- specialist; person appointed for specific task
- to write personally; personal letter
- outward devotion but inner opposition (idiom); to pay lip service; to agree overtly, but oppose in secret
- to withhold; to hold sth back (and prevent it being known)
- trickery; tactics
- irrigation ditch; (fig.) channel; avenue
- unfinished; incomplete
- community
- to go off the stage; to fall from position of prestige; to step down (from office etc); to disentangle oneself; to get off the hook
- to be estranged
- rampant; unbridled; arrogant; aggressive
- vulgar; coarse; uncouth
- to refuse to say anything about (idiom); to remain tight-lipped; to avoid mentioning
- swindle; abduct
- to covet; envious
- remnant; relic; residue; vestige; surplus; to remain; to leave surplus
- successor
- in the end; finally; as a result
- a lie; a falsehood
- object of ridicule; laughingstock; to laugh over sth; to make light chat
- ruling; adjudication
- concluding remarks
- general secretary (of the Communist Party)
- Jiang Zemin (1926–2022), politician, president of PRC 1993–2003
- Jiang Zemin's 江澤民|江泽民[Jiang1 Ze2 min2] eight propositions on developing relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, presented in a 1995 speech
- strategy; overall plan (esp. high-level or policy)
- first third of a month
- historical development; background
- public opinion; popular will; public will
- political situation
- a news service (e.g. Xinhua)
- People's Daily (PRC newspaper)
- pun; play on words; a phrase with a double meaning
- official (government-operated) newspaper