In the context there, he might well be talking about Xi.
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These are two very large countries with a lot of people and a lot of stuff Their poverty and political weakness was notable because it was *paradoxical*, these were countries that had in the past been very powerful empires that in the 19th century devolved into "basket cases"
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Not due to some "national character" that made Russians and Chinese just suck, the popular theory at the time, but due to some pretty obviously perverse behaviors and incentives among their autocratic rulers, which the people who overthrew them were specifically trying to stop
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