Thursday Dressage Update from AEC

Competition officially began bright and early this morning, with the first horse in the ring at 8:30. The Preliminary Horse and Training Horse competitors have completed dressage, leaving native Texan Heather Morris leading the Preliminary Horse on Charlie Tango, a six-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding (Shannondale Sarco St. Ghyvan – Our Queen Bee) owned by the Team Express Group.

There is currently a tie for the leader of Training Horse; both Beau Guimond (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) on Filibuster ST and Lisa Mendell (Flint Hill, Va.) on Teslin Bay scored a 28.2 and will battle it out for the lead on cross-country tomorrow.

Carrie A. Poloson and High Maintenance scored a 37.7 to lead the Training level USEA Adult Team Championship group.

Intermediate, Sr. Preliminary Amateur, Jr. Training, andmedia seeking to outbid one another in their lurid denunciations of China. A particularly filthy comment published in the Washington Post on November 3 was entitled “In China, every day is Kristallnacht.” It provocatively likened China’s cultural oppression and internment of ethnic Uyghurs to the Nazi genocide of Jews in which millions were murdered in concentration camps during World War II.

The World Socialist Web Site holds no brief for, and gives no political support whatsoever to, the CCP regime in Beijing. As it has implemented capitalist restoration from 1978 onwards, the CCP leadership has increasingly relied on the whipping up of Chinese nationalism to try to cement its shaky social base. Its resort to greater Han chauvinism has alienated ethnic minorities not only in Xinjiang, but in Tibet