There's a long tradition in the US media of treating Chinese government policy as subtle and inscrutable expression of grand national strategy, so it's particularly funny that the CCP put a guy in charge who is simply a Marxist-Leninist fundamentalist.https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-corporate-crackdown-tech-markets-investors-11628182971 …
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The foreign policy of Vatican City, Saudi Arabia, or Iran becomes a lot less mysterious if you understand the sincerely held beliefs of those country's leaders. The long recess from needing to understand Chinese ideology is over, but no one wants to go back into the classroom
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My advice to people is basically the same as Xi's: study Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. Not the pre-Deng version of it, but the highly developed modern faith. Study it because that's the frame all public figures in China, whether they're believers or not, have to operate in
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And if you work at Facebook, you're already one step ahead of the game. Just drop by Zuck's office to get your free copy of Xi's magnum dopushttps://qz.com/308023/facebook-is-making-employees-read-chinese-propaganda-to-impress-beijing/ …
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360 degree flamethrower burns for everyone, love it
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What objective measures would you propose to judge a government’s success? Let’s agree to those and then see how China and the US compare and judge which is the more rational system.
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A reasonable starting point would be satisfaction with the government’s performance by those governed. With the CCP at 95% approval, I invite you to compare with US approval rates.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/ …
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