The narcissist is spying on you if you were a good source of supply to the narcissist They are not just going to let you go They are not just going to forget about you when you try to move on from them They will still be watching you They will still be spying on you They will be looking at Observing you attentively over a long period of time They will be keeping you under careful protective or secret observation They will follow you closely and maintain an interest in you. They will be looking out for you They will be on the alert for you, and this isn't just something they do in their spare time This is something that they do full-time. It becomes a lifestyle for them It becomes a way in which they live There is always something triggering in their minds There is always something that they have read seen or hewed Which then causes them emotional distress It causes them anxiety sorrow or pain Where they then have to act on these thoughts and feelings in an attempt to relieve them By returning to the perceived source of their anxiety sorrow or pain They don't self reflect or look within So the only other way for them to resolve these painful emotions is by returning to you Checking in on what you are doing or harassing you This is how they medicate This is how they try to treat their condition By using you as their drug But it never heals or cures their condition. It might mask their symptoms It might give them entertainment or amusement but soon enough The anxiety sorrow or pain comes back again, and that is why they have to keep returning to you That is why they continue to spy on you They continue to watch you They have to keep returning to you to treat the symptoms of their condition But it never heals or cures their condition It only masks the symptoms That is why it never goes away That is why they have to keep returning to you The only way for them to really heal or cure their condition Is through self-reflection or going within But as we know That is something the narcissist is never going to do Their disorder is designed to block or deny any form of self-reflection That is why they deny, project, blame shift and gas light These are all their attempts of avoiding self-reflection That is why they cannot stop returning to you They cannot stop spying on you. It becomes a sickness The only way that they can find temporary relief Is by spying on you as long as they know what you are doing As long as they know where you are or who you are with It provides them with some relief They feel as though they have some level of control over the situation If they cannot keep track of you They begin to suffer from anxiety sorrow and pain They become depressed They become envious and jealous They feel as though someone or something is taking you away from them In their minds you are their possession Their property You belong to them. They feel that they own you They feel that they have the right to control you They feel that they should have the power to influence or direct your behavior And the course of events They feel that they should determine your behavior or supervise your actions or movements Because in their minds you are their possession You are their property You are an object that exists to serve them You are their medication You exist to relieve their symptoms of anxiety sorrow and pain To make them feel as though they exist To make them feel as though they are not alone In their minds that is your duty That is your purpose And if you are trying to divert or change course from the duty or purpose That they have established for you They feel that they have the right to spy on you They have the right to watch you Because in their minds You're just an object And they don't see you as though you have feelings of your own They don't see you as having wants needs or desires of your own In their minds You're just an object A tool That is faulty or not working correctly They don't care about you They don't have your best interest in mind when they are spying on you All they care about is their own selfish needs And what you can do for them All they care about is their overwhelming feelings of envy and jealousy Relieving the symptoms of their disorder and that is why they keep returning to you That is why they continue to spy on you Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you Please like comment share and subscribe Click the bell icon to receive notifications Of my future videos If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching inquiries, you can email me At nagsvivercoaching.com Check out the immersion dice in the Nagsviver store Where you can purchase your own Nagsviver t-shirt Tantop or mug The link is in the video description Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


This is a great thrill for me to have the chance to be here. And I've got a great tour. I've gone up and been able to view every aspect of the ship. But the greatest thrill is to watch those takeoffs and landings. That's a thrill I'll never forget. I have a chance to do that. This is a great ship. And all of you are great Americans who are serving in defense of this country. Even after 50 years of service, I have to tell you because of your tireless work on the Big E, that there is no other nation that can match this ship. This is a great ship. And all of you are great crew.


the latest weapons coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier stands ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country you the American people against aggression this is the big picture an official television report to the nation from the United States Army now to show you part of the big picture here is Sergeant Stuart Queen many of our infantry outfits contain units which go back to the earliest days of American history the third infantry division for instance contains units which have distinguished themselves in all wars where American fighting men have defended their country the history of this division is studied with honored names and deeds one of the most illustrious veterans of this division is a man named Aldi Murphy is the most combat decorated soldier of World War two now a motion picture star in Hollywood but still active as a captain in the 36 infantry division of the Texas National Guard that's right Sergeant Queen but you know I'm still a soldier at heart you see I never stopped being interested in my old outfit being a soldier is still very important to me in other words you mean you still keep in touch with your old outfit very much so I try to be with them whenever there's any kind of reunion or get together and of course I always watch for any mention of the division when they're in action well they certainly saw action in Korea and piled up quite a record yes the amazing thing is they did it in a hurry in the summer of 1949 the division was stationed at Fort Benning Georgia they paraded for the Joint Chiefs of Staff the ranks of the division were filled with new men and it was all spit and polished as the third helped carry out the peace time mission of the army which is prepared that mission developed meaning on June 25th 1950 you mean Korea we who were still in the third division were watching that situation develop hearing about the North Koreans moving against the government of South Korea and attempting to take over the whole works they were trained and prodded by the Congress and call themselves the People's Army of North Korea but it sure seemed as though their enemy was the people themselves soft Korean troops put up a rather disorganized resistance to this aggression their small US equipped army had been surprised and bewildered by the vehemence of the North Korean attack what began as a political argument was turned into a hot war United Nations intervened and by November 1950 the third division was in Korea we mobilized our men and equipment and moved up the east coast of the Korean Peninsula to engage the North Korean Army on their right flank the spit and polish of our peacetime training gave way to the tactical problems of the battle beam by December we'd advance beyond the Port of Wonsan but it was here that we discovered that our real enemy was the Chinese Congress millions of with the entry of the Chinese forces into the conflict and the subsequent fallback of the United Nation troops the third division assumed a defensive mission in the ham hung hung ma'am area trading time for space we took up positions to cover the withdrawal of two other divisions into the hung ma'am perimeter holding on to the beachhead until all the remaining units and equipment of the 10th U.S. Corps had been evacuated our artillery stood off the advancing carmenis while the troops were loading aboard landing ground and pushing out to waiting transports it was a bitter blow to a lot of us who thought we might be home for Christmas yes I'll never forget that Christmas we were almost the present tremendous mountains of supplies and stores but we got it all off the beach along with thousands of refugees and all of our wounded and disabled the beachhead narrowed as the communist net was pulled tighter but even then we weren't leaving anything for the Reds to make use of when we met them again with all of our troops safely evacuated the engineers gave the Reds a final salute one of the largest beachhead operations had been completed in reverse for us in the third division it was the end of a saga that had begun with extreme confidence and ended with a much wiser picture about the enemy we were fighting we rolled on to the beaches of South Korea with all of our equipment special attachments made it possible for vehicles to wait ashore without stalling out we moved out promptly to assigned areas about 35 miles north of Busan by New Year's Day all the troops in the division were ashore even the prisoners one portion of the Red Army that wouldn't get another chance to fight against us with the cold of the first Korean winter beginning to settle in we stood guard on the fringe of Busan but headquarters was making plans for taking the road back to the battle line and just before we moved out we were inspected by the commander of the UN forces General Douglas MacArthur the tactical aircraft led the way their objective wiping out anything their bullets and rockets could spot with increasing momentum we moved northward to engage the enemy our objectives were in the center of the battle line that extended across the breadth of Korea it seems simple enough on a map but it was a matter of moving fast in some places or inching along under withering enemy fire stalled until we could locate and wipe out the trouble spot it was up and down the Korean hill flushing out units and picking off stragglers or those who stayed to the last to harass our advance we chased the Reds to the bank of the Han River and that was the location of a weird duel opposing forces sniping away at each other we used every piece of firepower we could muster but this was a contest in which the Reds were holding the short end of the stick we just couldn't be stopped and we pushed our way across and kept advancing we steamroll it into Seoul the capital city and artillery continued to chase the enemy it was at this time that we heard the announcement the general Matthew B. Ridgway was our new commander we pushed northward into an area which later came to be known as the iron triangle the 3rd division got to know the place real well I'll never forget that triangle it was shaped something like a noose G2 had a line and a lot of communist activity in the triangle big build up they build up all right when they moved out against us there were 200,000 commies pitted against our part of the triangle it was the communist spring offensive and despite the fact that we threw everything we had at them their numerical superiority was just too big and the order came to pull back we moved south over terrain that would melt during the days of the spring thought and freeze up during the night that crazy Korean weather was true to form for some time now the enemy had been calling the signals it was time to seize that essential combat ingredient called initiative and our command had a plan of their own counterattack drive back up the peninsula the division received orders to reconnoiter counterattack routes despite mud tank ditches and mines tanks and infantry moved out to the north once more as we pushed the Reds back it was almost the same as once again bunching their resources for them through burned-out villages where every doorway contained the possibility of a sniper the advance continued into the Korean Central Mountain sector but the Reds still had some arrows left and in the middle of May they let loose the shaft and we were once again slugging it out toe-to-toe they gave way before our firepower as we gave them a real licking we were beginning to catch on to this hill fighting working close to the artillery support not giving an enemy bunker the chance to suddenly come alive or a haystack the opportunity to mow down a field of third division soldiers as we were catching on to the only way to go about conducting a campaign in this country just fight your way up and down the hills the drive carried us through rice fields and the pace increased as the enemy fell back this was a full scale United Nations offensive operation pile driver was what it was called and it was regaining all ground previously lost to the Reds in the high tide of their spring offensive for about two weeks we moved sometimes twice every day it was the same all along the United Nations lines keep swinging at the Reds while they were still dazed the Chinese were taking a terrific shell acting and we in the third division were getting in our links was developed for containing the communists in the iron triangle the third division was assigned the task of anchoring the western end and refugees came pouring through the 38th parallel the line which separated communist dominated Korea from the south and as they vacated the armor of the third division moved in to tighten up the battle line visitors came to look at these preparations general James van fleet he'd taken over command of the 8th Army from general Ridgeway who had become United Nations supreme commander in the far east our new commander wore his pearl handled side arms as he inspected our setup it was first softened by a barrage from artillery and aircraft when we moved out it was with the confidence of superior firepower but we jumped right into a hornet's nest the hills surrounding the Chorwon reservoir were deeply impressed Chinese commanders depended upon the weight of mass trying to smother the UN guns with the bodies of peasant soldiers the price paid by the Reds was great as many of their units disintegrated into disorganized brightness wandering aimlessly over the blood-soaked hills until they were captured ending general Robert H. Suley had elements of the third division on the moon units took up blocking positions or speeded to help other outfits as reinforcements the enemy developed a new wrinkle in defensive tactics and opened the reservoir gates to flood the area and harassed UN operations but the stunt was unsuccessful and the game of hair and howl continues the southern acres of the triangle were secured and the division moved in to mop up any remaining communist troops still no change in our attitude toward empty enemy bunkers but that the area was cleared no one told the Reds while we moved easily in the valleys they filtered back into the hills and counter attack with porosity their division artillery moved in to plug the gaps with firepower but even as the iron triangle was wiped clean it became evident that the Reds had to be eliminated in the Silbang mountains their occupation of hill tops gave them observation and an approach to our defense line operation donut was set up to neutralize the enemy advantages units moved out to completely encircle the entire triangle and blast the Reds off the hill tops Reds on just about every piece of elevated real estate deeply entrenched for artillery battalions ported by an APOM bomb carrying aircraft were brought up to support the assault everything from 30 caliber ammunition to bombs of jelly gasoline directed at installations on those hill numbers on a map digits like hill 717 and 682 became great smoldering miles again and again the aircraft came in to hit with bombs bullets and rockets infantry moved in to consolidate and put the finishing touches to a successful operation the Reds were ringed by operation donut and the triangle once a convenient breakout point had become neutralized the job of cleaning up began for all on the south side of the battle line civilians were assisted in the care of their sick and wounded initial peace talks tended to slow the progress of the war when we first heard about them the attitude of most men in the line was well hope it works but let's keep our powder dry general Suley welcome new strength to the division as the Philippine expeditionary force came to take their place with the United Nations forces these rugged troops fought with distinction although the topography of the Philippines resembles the Korean countryside they had to endure great changes in climate a condition difficult to overcome during a time of war there were troops of other nations to who fought with the rock of the Marne men Belgium and Greece sent battalions these units became part of the pool of strength which the 3rd division contributed to the fighting up and down the hills of Korea a brief lull came to an end with operation cleanup tanks went on the move as the plan was put into action it was designed to disrupt supply and communication fly destroy troops knock out artillery and mortar positions and occupy the ridge line running west of Churwai the division plan of cleanup merged with orders from core for the establishment of the line Jamestown tanks and infantry batted their way forward to secure positions that would simplify the problems of supply to the forward areas bunker positions were established as Jamestown was nailed down then the division was pulled out having been in the line continuously for more than 10 months a USO show played to more than 20,000 men and starred Jack Benny these were the first curves other than the profiles of the Korean hills that anyone had seen for months for a few days of rest then work began again building training integrating new men into the units our engineers shaped out a program of rebuilding that fitted in with the requirements of training but there was still a war going on and it wasn't long before the 3rd division was back in fighting our way up a hill and down the other side to find another hill in each new area of operation there was always the problem of those Koreans who had been caught in the world wind of swiftly changing battlefields they had little choice these old men and women mothers and babies they had to be evacuated whenever possible infiltrators were a constant problem sometimes they were just civilians from whom it was possible to obtain information and other times they were spies playing a deadly game of hide and seek but they were all interrogated and their answers evaluated more campaigns more battle plans more hills more numbers on a map like hill 477 355 369 goes right down to the day that General Mark Clark made an announcement we have stopped the shooting that means much to the fighting man and their families and it will allow some of the grievous wounds of Korea to heal therefore I am thankful it is however only a step toward what must yet be done the task now is to put the ceasefire agreement into full effect as quickly as we can and get down to working out an enduring settlement of the Korean problem October 29th 1954 was almost our fourth anniversary in Korea the day that we passed in review for General Maxwell Detailer and 3rd division commander Major General Charles Cannon and as the band played it was for the men we left behind men of the 7th 15th and 65th infantry regiments the 9th 10th 39th and 58th artillery battalion the 3rd anti aircraft and the 64th heavy tank battalion and the others in the engineers medics ordinance MP recon and signal outfit the quarter masters the band they all shared in any honors we got back home from the people of New Orleans including our old buddy Audie Murphy they all said welcome home 3rd division thanks for a swell job that's the story of the 3rd infantry division in Korea and we're most grateful to Audie Murphy one of America's fighting heroes for helping us to tell it Sergeant Queen is a story I get a big kick out of telling because the 3rd is one fine outfit I've always been proud of the division and accomplishments and very proud of the fact that I was one of his soldiers and I'm grateful to the big picture for letting me help tell part of the story there's a sergeant Stuart Queen be with us again next week for another look at your army in action on the big picture the big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the army at home and overseas produced by the Signal Corps pictorial center presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station you too can be an important part of the big picture you can proudly serve with the best equipped the best trained the best fighting team in the world today the United States Army


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Mongolia achieved its independence from China. No simple task. If you look at China's moves, you know, they're aggressive. They're territorial. Look at Taiwan. Look at Hong Kong. Look at Tibet. But somehow Mongolia has come out ahead on that. Well, welcome to the show, Ralph. It's so nice to see you. Glad to be on with you, Jay. So let's talk about why. Well, I was fortunate to be able to visit the country of Mongolia back in 2005 when I worked for a boutique trade law firm that had a rep office in China. And the clients at the time thought they might want to relocate their forging factory operation from China into Mongolia. So I got an opportunity to go to Mongolia and get the lay of the land and make a final determination if that was going to be something viable for the client. Let me guess, Ralph, you thought it would be viable because Mongolia does have sovereignty, which is really important, no? They do have sovereignty, but the tax breaks and other incentives that they were supposedly going to provide are not what the client wanted at the time. That's over 15 years ago. But things are changing. So Mongolia is a significant country, as we know, bordered by China and Russia. The Mongolian people are the descendants of Genghis Khan. Mongolia has a glorious history and possesses strategic mineral resources. Throughout history, the Qing empire of China always considered this region as part of China's hegemony. Due to a series of historical events, Mongolia successfully achieved its independence from China in 1945. In order to clearly understand the status quo in Mongolia today, we have to explore the reasons that caused Mongolia to achieve its independence from a historical context. Historically, when we analyze a nation's independence, we pay more attention to domestic factors. However, when analyzing Mongolia's independence movement through the various bargains made between China and Russia, a new historic perspective emerges. The first historical period occurred in the late 19th century up until 1911. In this period, our report analyzes the origin of Russia's intervention in the region, which we now call Mongolia, as well as how the Qing government mishandled its policy towards the Mongolian people. This caused the Mongolian people to become gradually dissatisfied with how the Qing empire ruled the country. In 1911, the Qing dynasty was overthrown during the Xinhai Revolution. Russia seized this opportunity to provide Mongolia financial assistance and military support so that Mongolians could launch the first step towards seeking independence. The second historical period impacting Mongolia's independence started in 1912 and concluded in the late 1920s. And during this time period, China reasserted its domination over Mongolia. However, the Chinese civil war, which broke out after Yuan Shikai's death in 1916, severely hampered the ability of the Chinese government to exert its control over Mongolia. But that was a lucky break for Mongolia. Correct, it was. What happened was Chinese troops were forcibly withdrawn from Mongolia after the defeat by the White Russian army in 1919. With the assistance of the Soviet Union, a small group of Mongolian revolutionaries seized power in Mongolia and established the new regime that Mongolia was under the direct control of both the Russians and Mongolians. And the third historical period began in 1945 and ended in 1946. And as you'll see, I find this one the most fascinating. During this period, the Yalta conference directly addressed the issue of the sovereignty of Mongolia and recognized that China no longer had control over Mongolia. In this report, this was really important. Also a lucky break that Yalta would have acknowledged and confirmed that. Without that, who knows where we would be today. Exactly, because Mongolia, you don't think of it as a major historical power, but it's in the center of China and Russia, it has strategic mineral resources that make it very viable for the Soviet Union, for the United States, for China and also for the Japanese. And people forget the Japanese had not been defeated. It was taking another at least eight months for that to happen. In order to understand the process leading to Mongolia's independence, you have to introduce the historical background of the Sino-Mongolian relations during the Qing dynasty. Before the Qing dynasty was formally established in 1644, the geographic proximity enabled the Manchurians who wielded unlimited power during the Qing dynasty to have deep interactions with the Mongolian people. In 1619, the Manchurians fought with the Mongolian tribes against the Ming Empire. The first ruler of the Qing Empire, Nirhasi, established a formal alliance with one of the Mongolian tribes called Kalka. With the assistance of Kalka, Nirhasi conquered one of the important cities of the Ming dynasty called Shenyang. In the process of conquering the Ming Empire, the Manchurian alliance with the Mongolians made huge contributions to winning the war against the Ming Empire. After the Manchurians achieved several victories in their battle again with the Ming Empire, the Manchurian regime was steadily stabilized. In the meantime, the Manchurian elites realized that without subjugating the Mongolians, they could not properly invade mainland China. Furthermore, after the beginning of the 17th century, the Mongolian Empire was split into several princedoms, which were each hostile to each other. The Manchurians then decided to provoke internal conflicts against these princedoms. In 1632, under the leadership of Nirhasi's descendant Abahai, Manchurians initiated various attacks on Mongolians. Mongolia's leader at the time, Lingden Khan, was defeated by the Manchurians in 1634. He fled to Shanghai province afterwards. Following this victory, most of the Mongolian princedoms were conquered by the Manchurians. However, conflicts still ensued among the remaining princedoms. And not until 1691 was the Chinese emperor recognized as the great Khan by the Mongolians. This occurred after the Qing Empire responded to a request from the Kalko regime and were then defeated by Galdin Boschke. Afterwards, the whole Mongolian region was formally annexed under the control of the Qing Empire. So there you have a country that's been between Russia and China. It's near Manchuria. It's landlocked. It so easily could be swept into one or the other of those countries. And somehow they managed to preserve themselves as a separate sovereignty. That is remarkable. It absolutely is. Right. After Mongolia formally merged with the Chinese Empire in order to strengthen Chinese domination, what the Chinese government did is they granted a series of privileges to Mongolian nobles. This included allowing Chinese princesses to marry Mongolian elites, giving Mongolians tremendous economic benefits and protecting the religious rights of monks in Mongolia as a way to preserve Mongolia's independence. Before the Russian Empire expanded its sphere of influence to East Asia, the reign of the Qing Empire in Mongolia was peaceful and stable. From the late 19th century to 1911, Russia's intervention in the collapse of the Qing Empire is the next segment. In 1842, after the Qing Empire was defeated by the British in the First Opium War, China started undergoing what is called the Century of Humiliation. China lost a series of wars against other great powers. During this period, the world's great powers forced China to sign many unequal treaties, which severely weakened the reign of the Qing Empire, especially along its border areas. Due to the weakening of the Qing Empire, Russia began to expand its sphere of influence in Mongolia and attempted to take the area out of China's control. This became one of the major factors in the push towards Mongolia's independence. By signing a series of unequal treaties with Beijing, the Russian Empire achieved many commercial and economic benefits in Mongolia. For example, in 1860, China and Russia signed the Treaty of Beijing. According to this treaty, Russia was allowed access to extensive commercial privileges and trading opportunities in Mongolia. That all goes to a racial point too, it seems like to me. Here you have Mongolia, which is sandwiched between China and the Chinese and Russia and the Russians. And with all this trade back and forth and into marriage, what have you, you have a community that is a combination of both. And so if you look at the average Mongolian, he or she is not necessarily Chinese and not necessarily Russian, but a combination, am I right? You're right. There ended up being a lot of that intermarriage, especially after Russia was allowed to establish a consulate in Kunlun City, which provided Russian opportunity to engage in ironically spy related activities in the region. In 1862, China and Russia then signed the Sino-Russian Overland Trade Charter. Through this charter, Russia was granted the privilege of engaging business activities in Mongolia without the imposition of any tariffs. As a result, this privilege allowed Russia to expand its influence in Mongolia by utilizing its economic status most efficiently. The Russia also enlarged its sphere of influence in Mongolia by enhancing its relationship with Mongolia's upper class and established extensive bribery related networks. That also included the intermarriage aspect of this as well. When the leader of Mongolia, and forgive me, I may butcher his name, it's Jeb Uzan Damba. The leading monarch was still a child. The Russian council often presented gifts to him, which served to cultivate Jeb Uzan Banda as a friend and ally of Russia. Based on this close relationship that Mongolian leadership had with Russia, the Mongolian government always promoted a positive image of Russia and directly conveyed pro-Russian sentiments to the Mongolian people. Over a period of time with Russia's assistance, the Mongolian leaders sought autonomy and then established a regime that was favorable to Russia. Furthermore, a major mistake of the Qing Empire was to move a significant number of Han Chinese to Mongolia and then reduce the privileges previously afforded to the Mongolian elites. This accelerated disengagement of Mongolia from China. When the Qing Empire was established, the Chinese government was highly focused on maintaining a stable relationship with the Mongolian elites. However, following incursions from other countries, Chinese economic growth rapidly deteriorated. So as a result, the Chinese government not only reduced many of Mongolia's economic benefits, but also extracted more wealth from the region. In the late 19th century, except for the general excise taxes, the Chinese government also forcibly collected more cattle, sheep, and tobacco from Mongolia to improve Beijing's financial situation. So this created an honorous burden on the Mongolians. And the Chinese government also forced the Mongolian ruling class to pay back the debt that Mongolia owed to China. This forced the ruling class to impose stringent economic measures on the Mongolian people. And these harsh economic measures led to increase animosity and hostility between Mongolia and China. So in order to improve economic growth, the Chinese government started encouraging many Han Chinese to move to Mongolia to reclaim the cultivated land. Mongolians are nomadic people, they're herders. And so this caused several regions of Mongolia to become farming areas. The Mongolians felt their living areas were shrinking by this policy imposed on them by the Chinese government. And the Chinese government also set up special zones for Han Chinese in Mongolia under the direct jurisdiction of the central government that would be taxed by Beijing directly. So they got various preferential economic benefits through these zones. Thus economic benefits of the Mongolian ruling class ended up being impaired. Jebu Zan Banda expressed these complaints of the Mongolian people to Beijing directly. Most Mongolians felt that the Qing Empire was trying to destroy the traditional way of living of the Mongolian people and thereby depriving the Mongolians of their autonomy and sovereignty. All of these disparate factors led to the determination of the Mongolians to seek, to separate from China and seek independence. In the early 20th century, due to a series of rebellions, the Qing government had to utilize more resources to suppress the revolutions. In 1911, following the Qing high revolution, several southern provinces in China claimed independence from the Qing Empire, which distracted the Chinese from recognizing the internal animosity within Mongolia towards Chinese rule. Consequently, the Mongolian ruling class began to seek active independence from China while the Qing government, Qing Empire, spiraled it down. Russia also realized that this would be a great opportunity to get Mongolia out of China's control during this turbulent time during the Qing high revolution. After the outbreak of the Qing high revolution, the Russian foreign minister to China immediately delivered a message to the Mongolian ruling class that due to the internal unrest in China, it was the right time for Mongolia to seek independence. Russia then privately aided Mongolia's opposition to the Qing Empire. In the spring of 1911, the Mongolian ruling class delivered a letter to St. Petersburg specifically asking for arms and economic assistance against potential Chinese military intervention aimed at suppressing Mongolia's independence. In exchange, Mongolia agreed to grant Russia very significant economic interest in the country. Following the Wu Chang uprising of 1911 under the leadership of Jeb, Jebsoom, Damba, Toghs, Orcherin, Nam, Nonsurin, and other Mongolian nobles, a provincial government was established in November of 1911. Mongolia was controlled by this new provincial government. After the defeat of the Qing Empire by the Chinese revolutionary forces, the Qing army, which was stationed in Mongolia, didn't launch any large military operations in reaction to the establishment of the provincial government. Simultaneously, senior army officials of the Qing government, which were stationed in Mongolia peacefully withdrew from the region. As a result, on December 1, 1911, the provincial government issued a general proclamation of independence. The Shanghai rebellion accelerated the collapse of the Qing Empire, so Mongolians decided to establish a new nation based on Mongolian traditional values. Simultaneously, Jebsoom, Damba, Kutku was installed as the Boga Khan, basically the ruling leader of Mongolia. From 1912 to 1920s, we'll look at the power bargain of Mongolia between China and Russia. 1912, the Qing Empire was replaced by the new Chinese regime, the Republic of China. Even though the Mongolians claimed their independence, the new Chinese government refused to recognize the sovereignty of the Boga Khan regime. One of the political ambitions of the President of the Republic of China, Zeng Zhang Shen, was building a harmonious country among the five major Chinese ethnic groups. Mongolia was an indispensable part of this plan. In order to ensure Mongolia was an indivisible part of China, the Chinese government made several political statements to exercise its sovereignty over the region. In 1912, Russia sent its Chinese ambassador to China to negotiate the issue of Mongolia's autonomy. The Chinese government not only refused Russia's proposal, but also emphasized that the Mongolian issue was solely part of China's domestic affairs and should not be interfered with by any foreign power. Does this sound like some of the things they do in Hong Kong and Taiwan and Tibet? I mean, it's the same kind of manifest destiny thing. Well, China is very conscious of their sphere of influence and they make it known that these are China's internal affairs and they don't want any interference. Oh, recovering from the century of humiliation. Yes, yes. I mean, they're starting to slowly recover at this point. But in August of 1912, the Chinese government proclaimed the regulations on the treatment in Mongolia. According to these regulations, the new Chinese government would grant the Mongolian ruling class more economic interests, but the sovereignty of Mongolia would not be recognized. While China was seeking to reintegrate Mongolia through a policy of appeasement, it also planned to take back Mongolia by force if necessary. However, due to concerns of a potential Russian threat, the new regime dared not to engage in any kind of military action. Initially, Russia refused to recognize Mongolia as an independent country because of possible interests that other countries had in China, including and especially Japan. Nevertheless, in 1912, after Russia signed the secret treaty with Japan that guaranteed Russia's interests in Mongolia, Russia and Mongolia signed the Russia-Mongol Treaty in November, which granted Russia a series of commercial rights, as well as Russia's right to intervene in Mongolian politics. The Chinese were annoyed and upset by this treaty. In order to oppose Russia's expansion into Mongolia, the Chinese government started to openly oppose Russian commodities trading and then accused Russia of violating Chinese sovereignty. Nevertheless, in 1913, a series of internal conflicts broke out within the Chinese government. Based on the situation, Russia directly contacted one of the Chinese most powerful leaders, Yuan Shikai. Russia promised Yuan that St. Petersburg could recognize Yuan's legitimacy as a ruler of China and would give him economic assistance in order to win this particularly important power bargain. However, in exchange, Yuan's regime needed to recognize Russia's economic interests in Mongolia. Yuan Shikai decided to accept Russia's offer. Therefore, in November of 1912, the Chinese government of Yuan Shikai and Russia signed the Sino-Russia Statement. This treaty recognized China's nominal sovereignty over Mongolia. However, the Chinese government had to respect the Russia-Mongol Treaty of 1912 and recognize the autonomy of Mongolia. Through signing the treaty, the Chinese government paid more attention to their internal power structure within China. During World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution of Russia, the Chinese government seized the opportunity at that point to take back Mongolia. In 1918, while Russia was engaged in civil war, the Chinese government dispatched General Zhu Zhejiang to lead an army into Mongolia. Without Russia's assistance, the Boga Khan's regime realized that they could not stop the Chinese army on their own, so the Mongolian government had to acquiesce to the Chinese army entering Kulun. In December of 1919, the Chinese government held a negotiation regarding the cancelling of Mongolia's autonomy in Kulun. During this discussion, the Mongolian parliament insisted on keeping autonomy rights. However, the Chinese government threatened Mongolia with force, so in November 1919, the Boga Khan approved the treaty, abandoning Mongolia's autonomy. However, after only one year after the Chinese government regained control over Mongolia, China once again lost effective control. After Yuan Shikai's death in 1916, mainland China was falling again into a civil war among its various warlords. When the war broke out, General Zhu Zhejiang had to pull most of his forces out of Mongolia. Only 3,000 Chinese troops stayed in Kulun under the leadership of Zhu Zhejiang and Gao Zaitian. Concurrently in 1920, a small contingent of forces controlled by the white Russian military under the leadership of Semyonov, Unger, Sternberg, and several Japanese military advisors crossed into Mongolia. With financial and military support from Japan, Semyonov and Ungberg were seeking to establish a new regime in Mongolia to fight against the Red Army. From December 1920 to February 1921, a sequence of fierce conflicts broke out between Chinese troops and the Russian White Army in Kulun. Since the White Army had superior weaponry and troops compared to the Chinese, the Chinese army was easily defeated. The remaining Chinese forces had to withdraw from Mongolia shortly thereafter. And on February 4th, Kulun was fully occupied by the White Army. Under the control of Unger and Sternberg, the Boda Khan became the nominal top monarch of Mongolia once again, and reclaimed Mongolian independence in 1921. On the other hand, after the Bolshevik achieved victory in the Russian Civil War, the Soviet government also hoped to expand their sphere of influence in Mongolia. In 1920, through the help of the Communist International, you had a small group of Mongolian Communist revolutionaries led by Sukhbatar and Choybalsan entered Mongolia in order to subvert Unger and Sternberg's regime. However, after the revolutionaries arrived in Mongolia, the White Russian army had rapidly expanded to 20,000. After realizing the surge in situation, the Mongolian revolutionaries, Sukhbatar and Choybalsan, they recognized they couldn't defeat Unger and Sternberg on their own. So in November of 1920, Sukhbatar and Choybalsan, they asked the Soviet government to dispatch the Red Army to Mongolia directly. In March 1921, the Red Army crossed the Mongolian border to unilaterally assist the Mongolian revolutionaries. The White Army was crushed in July with the military assistance provided by what is now the Soviet Union. The new Mongolian government was established in the same month. And on August 10th, 1921, the Soviet Union declared that the Red Army would stay in Mongolia until the remaining White Army was wiped out completely. So Mongolia was under Russia's control again. Now since the Soviet Union at that time was isolated from the international world order and also sought help to get China's help to defend against any potential invasion by Japan, the Soviets pursued a friendly relationship with the Chinese government. So the Soviet government thereafter made several public statements to convince the Chinese government that the Red Army would withdraw from Mongolia and would return the region's control to China immediately after the remaining enemy was destroyed. Furthermore, in 1924, both countries signed the agreement on settlement of outstanding issues between China and Russia. In this agreement, the Soviet government emphasized Chinese sovereignty of Mongolia and reassured that the Soviet Union would move troops out of Mongolia as soon as possible. Nevertheless, under the table, the Soviet Union signed what's called the Agreement on Diplomatic Relations between the Soviet Union and Mongolia, which recognized Sukwatar and Jorbausan's regime as the only legitimate government in Mongolia. So you see how the Soviet Union is playing both sides. Both governments established formal diplomatic relations, established consulates, and sent ambassadors to each country. After 1924, China was engaged in civil war once again. Then Japan invaded China in the early 1930s. So the Chinese government had to pivot attention away from Mongolia's region over the next two decades. Without any Chinese opposition, the Soviet Union deeply enhanced its control and influence over Mongolia. Now from 1945 to 46, we have the Altar Conference and the Republic of China's formal recognition of Mongolia's sovereignty. From the mid-1920s to the end of World War II, China underwent a series of catastrophic wars, so the Chinese government didn't have the adequate capabilities to bargain with the Soviet Union over the Mongolian issue. However, Mongolia was still nominally part of China. Not until 1945, during the Altar Conference, did Mongolia's sovereignty resurface between China and the Soviet Union. In 1945, before the Altar Conference, World War II was nearing its end. Only two months after the Altar Conference, Germany and Italy surrendered. However, Japan still insisted on fighting against the Allies. So based on the estimation of the US United States, the US troops still needed to fight roughly an extra 18 months to defeat Japan, even after a Nazi Germany surrendered. At least the thought was at least one million American soldiers would die in battle in any kind of invasion of Japan. Therefore, before nuclear weapons were ever successfully used by the United States, Washington had this urgent need for the Soviet Union to attack Japan as part of the Second Front. Stalin accepted America's request to attack Japan. In exchange, though, he needed the United States to accept several of his demands. One of the demands of Stalin was to preserve the status quo of Mongolia. In other words, because Mongolia's practice control was already held by the Soviet Union and Mongolia's already, China needed to recognize Mongolia's independence. In Stalin's opinion, Mongolia had geopolitical importance. Once China controlled Mongolia, it could easily cut through the trans-Siberian roads of Russia, which severely threatened the Soviet Union's project capabilities from Europe to Asia. On the other hand, if Mongolia was controlled by the Soviet Union, Russia could rapidly deploy its troops to China's Xinjiang province and invade the political center of northern China most efficiently. Therefore, it was crucial for the Soviet Union to maintain a pro-Russian regime in Mongolia. Although the United States worried about increasing the Soviet Union's expansion, for the purpose of quickly ending the war, Roosevelt had to accept all of Stalin's demands. Because Roosevelt worried that Stalin's demands might discourage China from fighting the Japanese, he planned to not leak the content of the agreement finalized as part of the Yalta Conference until Japan surrendered. However, the American ambassador to China, Patrick J. Hurley, over Roosevelt's objections informed the Chinese government of the agreement between the Soviet Union and America in advance. The Chinese president at that time was Chiang Kai-shek. He was shocked by this agreement between Stalin and Roosevelt. He realized that if Mongolia were to be recognized as an independent nation, it would lead to a national backlash that would threaten his power. On the other hand, the issue would also bring about extra obstacles for China to have to deal with to defeat the remaining Japanese troops. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek sent a message to the Chinese ambassador to America immediately, hoping the ambassador would convince the new American President Truman to withdraw from the agreement. However, Truman made it clear that he would not go back on the agreement that was finalized during the Yalta Conference, since the United States still needed the help of the Soviet Union to crush Japan. Instead, he suggested the Chinese government immediately hold unilateral negotiations with the Soviet Union in order to bargain for complete control over the Chinese territories. On July 27, 1945, a group of Chinese senior officials went to Moscow to negotiate rewarding Stalin's various demands in the Yalta Conference, and the Mongolian sovereignty issue was the top priority. In Chiang Kai-shek's opinion, China could accept Mongolia's autonomy over Mongolia, but the region still needed some nominal control by China. Even though the United States did not interfere in the negotiations, the American ambassador to the Soviet Union messaged the Chinese government that Washington hoped China would immediately accept all the conditions imposed by the Soviet Union, since America was facing large pressures against Japan. We're going to run out of time in a minute. I did want to get to the central question, so if you could go fast forward and bring us to today and the status of Mongolia's independence and sovereignty today from China and from Russia. My question is the title question of the show. How did they achieve that? Was it luck? Was it the natural process of being a buffer state for both Russia and China and having the moxie to play the two off somehow diplomatically? They weren't always successful, but over these past few hundred years, they have been successful in, I guess, mostly in diplomacy and playing one off against the other. And here we are in 2022, and it looks like they have a certain independence. And that's really Akamai. Yeah, so what Chiang Kai-shek did is he emphasized that losing Mongolia was unacceptable for the Chinese on an emotional level. And because of both American and Soviet demands, Chiang Kai-shek had to abandon his initial stance, but he asked Stalin to compromise on several other issues, including recognizing the Kuomintang as the legitimate government of China. And Chiang Kai-shek asked that Mongolia's independence be decided by a referendum of the Mongolian people. So what happened was Stalin promised that he would not raise the Mongolian issue in public until after the war with Japan was over. So the China and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance on August 14th, 1945. And as a result, on October 20th, 1945, more than 90% of the Mongolian people voted for independence in the referendum. In January 46, the Chinese government formally recognized Mongolia's independence. And after the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, the new government formally recognized the treaty's legitimacy. So in the end, China lost the bargain of power with Russia over the Mongolian regime. And Mongolia's independence was formally recognized. You know what strikes me from your historical analysis of this, which I find fascinating. And I held back on asking you lots of questions that popped into my mind. But, you know, one thing is that if you look at these historical events and forces and vectors, if you look at the way the, you know, the, you know, the countries, the three countries operated over hundreds of years, you do wonder, Ralph, you do wonder whether Mongolia's independence, its sovereignty will stick in the future because these forces haven't gone away. Russia, you know, under Putin, they want buffer states. Chinese feel stronger than they ever did before about manifest destiny and the like. And they could make the case that they have deep ties with Mongolia, just as they say they have deep ties with Ukraine and try to try to take over. So my question to you, my final question to you is, is this going to stick with these factors in place? You know, these factors suggest that maybe it won't stick. Well, I think the Mongolia leadership is very conscious of the role that their country plays and the political maneuvering they have to engage with with China, Russia and the United States. I was fortunate to meet the Mongolian president in 2011 when he came to Washington, D.C. And that was one of the issues that I was able to wanted to address with him. You know, I said, it's highly, it's very remarkable that a, you know, a small country that's fairly landlocked has such close ties between China, Russia, and the United States, and even North Korea, you know, in terms of engaging in these kind of negotiations. And it's a lot of political maneuvering.  You know, you have to go in with that being the utmost to ensure the autonomy of the nation of Mongolia. You can't have any emotional baggage, but focus strictly on the goal, which is to keep Mongolia independent, to preserve their autonomy. And that's the mind of that. As a matter of American foreign policy, we would like to see that. It's a remnant of the liberal world order. And it behooves us on both a diplomatic level and on a, what do you want to call it, a moral level to have them remain sovereign. And I think the Mongolians realized that. At least when I met the President and mentioned this and talked with him briefly, he respected and understood because we're the bastion of freedom and democracy. The Russians are control, order, discipline, etc. which the Mongolians respect as well. And they understand, you know, how to maneuver and engage in that kind of system. But they have a very good view of how to preserve their autonomy. I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Mongolian government. I also have been able to engage with them through the sport of wrestling. I'm on the board of the U.S. Wrestling Foundation and Mongolia is a wrestling power.  Because it starts as well on the sports side. You develop the personal and professional relationships that help move as you move forward, you know, dealing at the geopolitical level in the government. Ralph Winnie, international lawyer in Washington, thank you so much. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at ThinkTechHawaii.com. Mahalo.


What is going on guys it's your boy the EPJ here today with another destiny video and in today's destiny video I'm gonna showcase to you guys my weekly loot results for the past week on all three of my characters my hunter My titan and my warlock now the prison of elders along with the house of wolves I should have said that they're very round the house of wolves and the prison of elders will be here tomorrow Meaning looting is gonna get a shitload more exciting and I just cannot wait for that shit to drop I really cannot I'm itching out really am But getting straight into this video. We're gonna start with my hunter and from the weekly heroic about three blues and nine strange Coins moving on to the nightfall. I got the mg 18 a harm's way now the roller muds are going It were pretty bad to be honest got taking me and feeding frenzy It's basically rubbish compared to the one I already have so I just dismantled it moving on to my titan and from the weekly heroic I got one legendary engram two blue engrams and nine strange coins I decrypted their legendary engram and I got the jackknife helmet for the hunter Which is no surprise to me as I always get shit for the hunter on my titan always I get more shit for the hunter of my titan they do for the titan on my titan It's just a way it goes for me really is moving on to the nightfall and I got the admonisher Rocket launcher now I've had this thing a couple of times and it doesn't get any better It's as bad now as it will always be dismantled straight away Moving on to my warlock and from the weekly heroic about three blues and nine strange coins And from the nightfall I got ten shards. I got ten damn shards I mean I've almost got a thousand of these things already. I don't need another ten more I so so so wanted the vanquisher with field scouts Don't look like I'm gonna get that now because when the house of wolves comes out I believe it will not be available a part of the new monarchy armory So I ain't gonna get it. It's fine with me. I really bother to be honest Well I'm bothered but it's just one of the things and nothing I could do about it There's plenty of other weapons which come with the house of wolves from looking forward to owning But guys what did you get this past week? Did you get anything you wanted? Did you get anything you needed? Did you get any exotics? I didn't get no exotics this week. This week for me it's been pretty bad Probably one of the worst weeks I've had. Let me know what you got down below in that comments section Let me know also if you're looking forward to the house of wolves and their prisoner valediers Thanks for stopping by as always. If you drop a like, I'll do a part of Rishi ex-support and peace out until next time. Peace!


Users of Instagram, this is a key skill that all of us need to learn. We just do spot the fake accounts and report them instead of following them and then getting direct message by them and getting misled into a scam or fraud. Okay, so let me show you my screen on my phone real quick, because I just got followed by a fake account and I want to show you how I can quickly tell that it's a fake one. So here is my phone screen now and let's go to Instagram. And I want to show you this one. Okay. One that in the middle, Suzanne Mikula, actually a real person, I'll show you the real account later, but I'm like, I thought I was already following Suzanne. So let me go ahead and click on over. And you can't tell just by this whether it's a fake account or not, but here's how you can tell. Scroll down to one of the older posts. So I'm just going to scroll down to let's say this one, older one. And notice even an older post was posted two days ago. It has no likes, no comments or anything. Same thing oldest post. Okay, two days ago. And what about the newest post newest post was posted two days ago. And that's a clear sign to me that this is a fake. I mean, this is all these posts instantly. And with this many followers. Okay. And following this. Okay, so let's go and find this real person because I'm like, I'm pretty sure I was following Suzanne already or you know I don't think this is real one so let's go back. And let's go to let's go to let's find the real sedan. Oops, sorry about that. Okay, now do you spot the difference between the fake and the real account. Well, the real account. Well, the fake account you could see has an extra I in the last name it's really tricky they usually have one extra letter one extra character to their name and it's everything also exactly the same now I can also tell because the real account is being followed by some people that I follow as well that's why it's as followed by thickness Fari heart flow plus for more. But let me go to the real account and show you. Okay, so real account let's go back to that old post again. I think it might have been this one right. Okay, old post was posted. 10 weeks ago. You see this 10 weeks ago. Let's see if I can find another. See I think that was that was the that was the old post. And then even the new post let's take a look here. The new post that was posted three days ago already has a couple comments and a bunch of likes. So this is how you can tell. Now it's really amazing they got, they got almost the exact same number of followers 1825 you see 1825 followers, and they're following 400 people this is the real account for Suzanne, and the fake account.  Now I'm sure some of these are probably real followers, but some of these I don't know how they're able to get just about the same number. That's why it's so tricky and that's why you have to check for it and once you know that this is a fake account, you click on the three dots on the top right. Click on report this account and report account. And it's pretending to be someone else.  Okay, and then you can simply block block the person. Okay, there you go. All right, so I hope this helps you to, you know, not get fallen to scams and following the wrong people and helps to keep Instagram and your, your friend circle, more healthy. Yeah.


So you have a rig but you don't know how to connect it to your character, not a problem. In about 10 seconds you'll have the rough draft of your rig painted and ready for detail. Alright, let's do this.  You're done. Now you can get an idea of what your character is going to look like when it starts to move around. If you enjoyed this video, please don't forget to like and subscribe. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you guys have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Hi there, so our next speaker with Yenny Cheng. Thank you very much. Yeah, nice to see you all here, even though we're gathered around, I guess, in the virtual environment, but it's still really nice to be with the community here. So hi, my name is Yenny Cheng, and today I'll be sharing with you my perspective on creating an inclusive team culture in times of change, which I think it's pretty relevant to what we have here. And I will focus on navigating the changes that COVID-19 has brought to us. Before we get into that, you might be asking, hey, Yenny, why are you online here presenting this session? And how is that relevant to what I do? Brief introduction. I'm an engineering manager at Yelp. I lead the Women in Tech Employee Resource Group at Yelp here in Germany. And I spend quite some time in the diversity and inclusion space. I've given a couple of ally-skilled trainings and talks on unconscious bias, on workplace culture, and of course, Python. And that's why I'm here with the Euro-Python community. Inclusion is a really important topic when we talk about workplace cultures. This concept is especially important during the times of change. So today I'll be sharing with you my perspectives on creating an inclusive team culture, especially during the turbulent times, so that we can navigate that together. The main audience for the talk is leaders of a company. Leaders, however, though, to me is not defined by title. That means it will be relevant to you if you're an individual contributor, folks in management, technical leadership, as long as you have the will to lead. If there is anything I would like you to retain after the talk, it is people first. We will want to treat our colleagues as human beings before employees. So how we communicate and manage the changes during COVID-19 really matters. Our employees, our teammates, and our colleagues will never forget how they were treated during this time. So all the content for the rest of the talk, we focus on how we can achieve this people first mindset and also inclusion. So to give you a better idea, we can start with leadership styles described on Lara Hogan's blog, I'm a big fan. And I'll give you a minute to read through all of these leadership styles. During the COVID-19 crisis, we want to focus on the green and blue. So what it means is having maybe high emotional intelligence and also we want to appear calm, cool, and collected because during times of change, people are afraid and they want direction. Great, so here is our agenda for today. We'll talk about safety and self-care. We'll revisit our expectations for the team. And during this time, communicating effectively is important. We want to conduct inclusive meetings and last but not least, check our biases. So let's get started. Safety and self-care, that's really the most important one. So we put it first. I'll tell you a little anecdote. Early March, I had a meeting with other engineering managers in the office and we're talking about the possibility of working from home. Some companies in the industry had already started doing that. But it was well before there were guidelines from the government that we need to do that. Some engineers in the office, they request to work from home and we're discussing as a group whether we should start having engineers do that. There was some concerns raised on engineers' performance and also like worrying that they might not perform given that they're already given feedback about communication. But multiple managers disagreed and we came to the consensus that safety trumps all the other concerns. And today I think I stand by this principle as well and we agree that safety just trumps all the other considerations. So after we address the physical safety, let's talk about our emotional safety and wellbeing during this time as well. We're coping with a global pandemic and we're advised to stay home depending on which region you're in but staying home is a wise choice usually. Schools could be closed and if you're a caregiver for parents, attention could be split between childcare and work. And with the economic downturn, we might even have to worry about financial stability and something basic like toilet paper could run out any time. All of these factors come into play while we're supposed to stay socially distant from our friends and family when like right now it really is the time that we need them the most. So it's really an understatement to say that we're under stress. There are several things that we can help the team do. So 22% of the people rated unplugging after work as the biggest struggle when we're working from home. As leaders we can promote people to take breaks to log off after work and really check out and also provide mental health resources. And the best way to do this is to lead by example. Model the behavior you would want to encourage your team as a leader. The best advice I've gotten from my direct reports from my team is to take care of myself first and then other people would follow. And I think this was a great advice that I got. Ever since the work from home day started or during the pandemic times, we had different initiatives for example, having virtual water coolers. It means we're keeping a video channel on to kind of mimic the kitchen conversations that we normally have in an office. We would also try out virtual team lunches, virtual daily breaks to keep everyone connected. But keeping them optional is a good idea so that people don't get overwhelmed over more compulsory meetings to do when there are other things they might need to attend in their lives. So we have established that we want to care for ourselves and the team. Then I guess this question really popped in my mind is what does the team really need right now? I came across this interesting read on GitLab's definition of remote adaptation. Since right now, a lot of us are being forced into remote work. So I think it might be worth it to look at companies who have always done it that way already and that can give us a bit more ideas on what to do there. The first phase they highlighted is skewer morph. So we're gonna go through that to see what that means. We tend to imitate the design structures and norms of an office environment. So some examples we can think of here is replacing hallway conversations with private Slack messages so that it's likely to directly talk to people and keeping the meetings with the same people with the same etiquette. Or we ask ourselves this question. I think a lot of teams do, right? What tools can I use to replace the white boarding experience? We need to design stuff. We need to draw diagrams like what are some of the software that can replace that experience? But staying in this mode prevents us to utilize the whole benefits that the remote situation can bring. And we move to the second phase of remote adaptation which is called functional. So here are some of these examples here. We start asking the questions. What if we don't do things the way we've always done them? Some examples include we want to record meetings. It helps filling the gaps created by these undocumented discussion that could happen in private chats, right? So we also want to replace private chats with the public messages so that more input can be gathered in the public channel and we can also use the team more. And the third phase of remote adaptation is asynchronous. So it depends on how well a company does in completing work without being synchronous. So we focus on the asynchronous part of things. And we want to save that precious online time that we use within formal and social events. So information sharing is more centralized at this stage. We rely on issue trackers like JIRA that we use or at GitLab that use GitLab. And documentations are done first and then it becomes a source of truth. So in this case, we can prevent information from being segmented across different channels. And in the following sections we'll look into solutions mostly in the phase two and phase three of the remote adaptation phase. So while it's helpful to look at frameworks, I think for developers or engineers, we like structure and frameworks to see what kind of things the team would need. The best channel as leaders is still to understand the team's concerns and gather their feedback through conversations. Like for me, I do regular one-on-ones with a team. So that's a good way for me to gather feedback. Try not to assume what is going on in their lives and also the impact I think actively listen to really understand. And sometimes like being a good listener to absorb the negativity out and helping your teammates find a new path forward that's the most valuable thing a leader can offer at this time. Now let's move on to the second section which is to revisit our expectations. So I am reiterating here, this is not a normal work from home situation. And sometimes like people might be back to the office but this is not normal. Firstly, our colleagues need to attend to their lives and second of all their employees. And hence the same kind of guidelines shouldn't apply. There will be people who didn't have good enough connections during this time. There will be disruptions and most people don't really have a good enough setup to work at home. And hence we want to set clear expectations. But there might be a need to be more flexible. We reminded that while our mindset changes that we need to be more flexible and we adjust our expectations we should revisit that along with the team. So ask our team members what they need right now and what we can do best to support them and help them meet expectations and try to be as specific as we can. Here are some examples here. Apart from revisiting the expectations like here are a list of things that we can offer. For example, flexible hours, list out some tasks that they're on and we think about what to drop or delegate so that we can adjust the workload accordingly. Another thing to pay attention to is maybe not scheduling team events in the evening because teammates might need to attend to other engagements like that they need to. Feedback, that's a big part of a leader's job to give feedback. But on giving feedback again, people first especially when we notice areas that people can improve on try to assume good intention especially when giving that feedback be genuinely curious about the coworker and understand that their behaviors might be coming from a different place before we make a judgment call there. One example could be a team member constantly looks disengaged in meetings and we might assume that they're not serious about their work. But the backstory could be that their partner also had work engagement at that time and it's their turn to look after the kids. So in this case, we don't wanna straight out go with harsh feedback. We want to understand the story. We also talked about the stress that we need to manage during this time and how folks are performing now might not be the best indication at all on how they're performing when things are normal. It's also likely that we sub come to recency bias which means that we will judge people mainly because mainly based on what they recently do compared to really looking at the whole track record there. Later on, we'll dive deeper into the bias section but my take here is this is not the time for formal performance management. We covered corrective feedback but there is also the other side of things which is positive reinforcement praise, right? When a team does great work, we still wanna celebrate and it's actually a great way for us to build a positive team culture especially during now. These days, I found myself using Yelp Love More. So this is something that we use at Yelp to show appreciation to your colleagues. It could be that they did great in a project launch. It could be that, I don't know, they posted puppy pictures on the team channel and brought joy to our lives, different things. It even has a slack integration, so it looks like this but this is a tool, right? It doesn't have to be this tool. It's the spirit that I want to emphasize on the positive reinforcement and building positivity in the team. Next up, we have effective communication. It's an interesting one. It is difficult because right now the team craves direction and information and sometimes we don't have them, right? Transparency is key but if we don't provide information, the team will just make up stories and explanations or do that behind our backs, right? And rumors will spread. This is understandable, it's human nature and there are tricks and tips to navigate through that. To mitigate that, we might fall into some traps where as leaders we over promise. If we tell them, well, there are no changes to our product roadmap or our company could gain back its ground in three months. Well, that might not be true, right? We cannot predict the future, we won't know. And the other trap is we under communicate just because we don't wanna say anything wrong, we just don't say anything. We avoid communicating to the team so that we don't take back on our words. But that's not ideal either, right? People make up stories. So here's how we can navigate that communications. For the information that we already know, we can over communicate, like spam the team. A good practice in general, but usually during the work from home times, let's make sure, or we don't have work from home half office times. Let's make sure we work on better messaging and repeat them through different channels. Like sometimes I do that through one-on-ones and then through meetings, through emails and Slack, through blog posts. And this message we wanna craft, we want to acknowledge the distress and the difficulties that we are facing, but at the same time without giving into helplessness. In these few weeks, I'm spending much more time preparing presentations, blog posts and communications to the team so that I can be as transparent as I can. Now one tip I got from Lara Hogan. Lara Hogan again because I'm her number one fan. If we don't have the information yet, but if we can find out, commit to a time and channel that we can give that information so that your team feels better taken care of and it helps set the right expectation for them so that they're less anxious. We cannot predict the future for sure, but we could still keep absorbing the news in the company and then we can offer our more informed interpretations. That way we can curb the rumors before they spread too far. At the same time, before I'd be careful to what we commit for the team, there are a lot of things we don't know even though we're leaders and if we don't have the information, there are times when we need to say, I don't know. So we want to put on that leadership head on high emotional intelligence, common collected. We'll be assessing information as they come by, try not to over commit and also resist the panic mode. Now let's move on to conducting inclusive meetings. But before we even talk about how to conduct inclusive meetings, one thing to ask ourselves is, is that something we need to discuss in person? Think about like functional, the phase two of the remote adaptation that we looked at. If we can replace that meeting with other asynchronous channels, it might be more beneficial because we have other distractions in place. And even if we don't, at least from personal experience, a long day of video calls, it seems like an intense Netflix binge watching session for me and I don't really want that. I don't know if you're into that. But as we were speaking, like our team, we're looking into different alternatives for video conferencing because of the tiring screen time. One thing I've tried is doing walking one-on-ones. It could be like, so we do work from home still now. So I could be walking in my living room and my report could be walking in their living room or they could be taking a walk in a park. Another idea is usually we have these brainstorming meetings where it's quite long, right? And everybody gather. But what we try is to divide the teams into groups and we convene after a week or so. So they have time to work asynchronously on it. And then we come back to present to each other and discuss the results. And also let me know what you've tried so far. I'd love to learn from your experience. We're all trying to figure it out here. Now when we participate in meetings, here are a few things we can do to make the meeting more inclusive. We need to get away from phase one skewer morph of remote adaptation where we're just copying the meeting exactly as how we did it before. So what we can do is like for folks who are normally taking up more airtime in the meeting, try to step back and make sure other people have time to chime in. In video calls, it's common to talk over each other and we stumble upon the, oh, sorry, you go ahead thing. And we might want to leave a longer pause after we speak to ensure that people who want to participate can get the chance to. There are also other features like raising hands, for example, on Zoom, you can do that too, depending on the video chat platform. And we can pay attention to those and make use of that. Everyone is behind the screen now, so some context could be lost with our body language. One tip I got is to emote more. Okay, now I'm very self-conscious to convey our tone, to be more engaging and to avoid misunderstandings, especially when we give feedback or have crucial conversations. Now, on top of previous suggestions as a facilitator, we can send out an agenda before the meeting starts that way folks can be better prepared. In video chats, it's more often to have these long monologues and you don't really see people's reaction versus active discussion, like right now, a long monologue. For people who are more extroverted or more used to talking as they're thinking, it might be pretty normal, it doesn't affect their working style too much. But for people who are more introverted and that they prefer to have ideas fleshed out before they speak, preparing an agenda and distributing them beforehand really helps. And we could also get some discussion out of that document already, so that when the meeting actually takes place, it will be short and sweet, so that we can get out of there faster. Life captions also seem to work with apps like Google Meet, especially for people where the connection might not be optimal. As we've talked about, there are other distractions when meeting is happening. Now it became a pretty often thing where your family member can just photo bomb your video call. One suggestion I have to you is to make participation optional. We can open up more channel where folks can communicate, like for example, an agenda asynchronously. And we need to acknowledge that not everybody has the same capacity to participate right here right now. Recording meetings is also a good practice, as we talked about, so that people can revisit the content later and sending recaps and meeting notes after to make sure everybody is on the same page is good. In the end, it all comes back to over communication. Now this is more important than ever for us to check our biases. They're always here, but there are several traps that we can talk about here. Like we want to help and be more inclusive, but sometimes we fall into more traps. So here's one. We could be subject to availability bias. For example, during the work from home time, a team member had to go out on short notice because who knows, they might have found out that their supermarket has toilet paper again. Or another team member is taking longer lunches because now they have to cook for the family. And we might then just see them as less reliable members of the team, even though they have been great before. There is sort of stereotyping that could be dangerous. For example, if someone on a team, they have dependence and there are kids, you know they're not at school right now and you know they have to take care of them. We might fall into the trap of assuming that we want to help, right? Assuming that they don't want to take on extra responsibilities and we didn't ask them. So the key is to fight against jumping to conclusion too soon. Try not to assume what's going on or the impact that is having on people. Try to actively listen and really understand the team's needs before coming to rushed conclusions. So we're wrapping up here, coming back to this slide. We want to be able to put people first. We want to lead with empathy and calmness during this time. And that would bring about an inclusive team culture. And I want to close by this. An inclusive team culture helps us through crisis and it will continue to help us through peace. This is not something that's extra. I believe this is a core skill for all leaders now and it will continue to be in the future. What I have discussed with you here today represents like collective and diverse thoughts that I gathered from different places. So like I want to thank these individuals and conferences for giving me the ideas. And these are the image credits, some resources I used to prepare. And thank you all for attending. Now I'll open up for questions. If you didn't manage to catch me, we can talk on Discord or afterwards you can also tweet me at Yanishan. Thank you. Thank you very much for this talk. Thanks for inviting me. I see there are no questions yet on the Q&A. Please go and zoom. There is a Q&A button where you can ask questions. There is also the channel on Discord. If you want to join that channel, just press Control K or on Mac OS Command K and then you see a pop-up window and then you enter inclusive and then you will find this channel. There you can also, I see there is upload in the channel already, but if you want to ask questions here live, you can do that using Zoom. I see there are no questions yet, so let me start with the first question. One thing, I attended actually many, many, many meetings, online meetings the past couple of months and one thing I realized, I got really tired. You mentioned that too. Something I, in live meetings, I never have this and maybe you can explain this, why this happens, why I'm programmer, I can be 10 hours on the screen, it's no problem. Yeah, actually I'm curious about that, so I looked it up. So I can't quote the exact research, but they say that like, when you talk to people in person, there isn't a lag, but then when you talk to people in terms of video chats, then there's a slight lag and apparently it's really tiring for your brain to process that. Like it doesn't know what to do with this information when the person you're talking to is slightly slower than the speech, so there's that. But I guess like for my software, when I code, it's also usually dark mode, but then for video call it's very bright, so that might also contribute to that. So one thing we have tried is we do voice calls sometimes now, like not just stick to video calls, like in the beginning we say that it might be more personal to do video chats, but like sometimes we also switch to voice so that we can take a break from staring at the screen. Okay, thanks. I see there are some questions popping up now. First question from Mattias Kreske. Do you have a daily status video meetings? What do you call them? We still call them stand up, although everyone sits. Yeah, we still have that. We still call it stand up. Actually, I never thought about that. I don't think that changed drastically, actually. I think of anything like we brought more fun to it, like for a while we used the snap camera so you can add like different backgrounds or outfits or you can turn into a potato and stuff. So we started having fun with that, but we still call it stand up. I don't think that changed too much. Okay, thanks. Then we have one question from Diego Russo. You said there's no normal time for manager performance. What if this will be the new normal long enough in order to be forced us to treat it as a new normal? What's your suggestion here? That's a tough question. Yeah, I've been thinking about that as well. I think the way I would approach it is while we can have the formal performance management plan, but I think the way I would structure it would be more empathetic during this time. So instead of like, okay, you need to do this better. You need to like, this is not meeting expectation. Let's do one thing at a time. Let's focus on just one thing, do it well, and then we move on to another. So a more empathetic version of this. But I agree with you. At one point we need to get back to normal or whatever normal would mean in the future. So we gotta do something about it. Okay, there is one more question. Unfortunately, we're running out of time. So please take all the questions to the channel. Go to Discord, press Ctrl K or Command K on the Mac and type inclusive and you see first channel will be the chat channel of this talk. So Yanyi, thank you very much again. Yeah, thank you. I will cut back to the chat channel.