Or being able to do a chemical engineering degree for free shortly after deserting his post during the cultural revolution. How despotic.
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CIA sources said that Xi spent his time studying the blade (Marxism) instead of partying or talking to girls.
teleports 50 years in front of you "Heh. Nothing personal gwailo."
Yeah what I've read so far here and there is really interesting.
I had a similar thought when I read about his father being imprisoned and then after his release being busted down to the lowly station of... factory manager. Still a major fall from grace, but again purged from the party and imprisoned. But not ruined. Not destroyed. (not that Xi's father or the family would agree with this I think? heh)
Compared to what we consider normal/acceptable (and compared to the lies about China) it seems almost utopian.
tracks with how the two branches of my ancestors were treated:
- the capitalists, to my jewish grandmother from a poor background: not allowed to go to university, beaten up by fascist thugs in the street leading to major medical complications, being hunted by nazis and nazi collaborators, having to live under a false identity to survive. her parents got holocausted.
- the communists, to my landowning nobility great-grandfather, an absolute class enemy of theirs: he eventually got put in charge of a huge state-run agricultural concern. got to use his university education (agrarian engineer). retained 2 houses, got a nice pension, lived to a peaceful old age. yeah yeah they took his land. compare this with the previous.
Yep, it's very interesting from the outside, and helps us see how the political system in China actually works.
This is likely the origin of his greatest flaw. His deeply rooted desire for stability and trade maxing makes perfect sense in this context. This is the only man in the universe that can look at the nuclear launch codes and feel nothing.
Also his distrust/apprehension of more leftist, mao era policies and rhetoric
He did get to live out the American dream
shooting a home intruder?