Xi Jinping, the Unrivaled Helmsman and the Core of China
Stupid people in the West love him, too, mostly because they think their meal ticket depends on him.
Posted on 11/19/2017 6:02:42 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
'Unrivalled helmsman'? We read Chinese media's enormous ode to Xi so you don't have to
Xinhua has issued a lengthy hagiography of president Xi Jinping. Here are the essentials so you can pass the pub test
Tom Phillips in Beijing Saturday 18 November 2017 04.10 GMT Last modified on Saturday 18 November 2017 05.16 GMT China’s official news agency, Xinhua, has released a titanic and oleaginous 8,000-word profile of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping. Pushed for time? Here’s a quick Xi-nopsis
Name: Xi Jinping.
Age: 64.
Job titles: Lots. General secretary of the Communist party of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist party of China, president of the People’s Republic of China … AKA the chairman of everything.
Number of times his name appears in Xinhua’s 7,649-word opus: 113.
Which words crop up more? Only six: “the” (534), “of” (264), “and” (250), “to” (188), “a” (180) and “in” (175).
How often is democracy mentioned? Just once.
Why write such a long article now? Because Xi has just been crowned China’s most powerful leader since Mao and recently declared a new era of Chinese prosperity and power. Xi is also, in effect, Xinhua’s editor-in-chief.
OK. So who is Xi then? According to Xinhua’s fawning profile, he’s China’s “unrivalled helmsman” – a title that harks back to the country’s revolutionary founder and great helmsman, Mao Zedong. But that’s not all – Xi is also a reformer, a world leader, a philosopher, a servant of the people, a pathfinder, a consummate communicator, a man who makes things happen and an architect of modernisation. Oh, and he’s also the core.
The what? The CORE.
Anything else? Yes, he’s also “the doer”. “Imagine what he will bring next,” Xinhua wonders.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Stupid people in the West love him, too, mostly because they think their meal ticket depends on him.
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His predecessors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao never received such treatment. They were simply equals among a collective leadership.
Ji Xinping is much more. He is China’s first paramount ruler since Deng Xiaoping.
Sounds almost as fawning as any biography the Guardian ever wrote about their idol Obama.
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If it's pronounced "she" why don't we just spell it that way....She. The Chinese don't use our alphabet.
Who would you rather have leading us, Xi or Hillary?
I would not be surprised to find that the Chinese had advanced more under Xi, than the Illinois economy in the same time period.
Yes, he is a Chicom and good at too.
China has been ruled by dynasties for 5000 years.
I truly believe Deng Xiaoping was the start of the latest dynasty. Xi is a continuation of that, and I think it will last quite a while, long after Xi is gone.
After thousands of years of being under that type of rule people get used to it, probably even get culturally and genetically “bred” to like it, simply via survival and thriving under such a system.
What China has accomplished in the short 30 years since Deng Xiaoping is nothing short of a miracle.
While I was there recently I saw a country very serious about its future development and the role it wants to play in the world. Also I sensed the people were optimistic, confident and proud of their country. Whereas, we are more devided than ever, half of our population hates this country and trashes it on a daily basis. Our biggest concerns are whether delusionals can use the bathroom of their choosing and whether the military should allow them to serve and pay for their sex change operations, and of course we also have to provide snowflakes with protection from microagressions and safe spaces.
I like the direction China is going better than the path we’re on. Sooner or later we’ll have to pay for our foolishness.
What the heck is a Xi Jinping thought anyway? I could probably say a few sentences about Mao Zedong thought or Deng Xiaoping thought, but I don’t have a clue what this guy stands for, other than consolidating power around himself, clamping down on political opponents (sorry, I meant corruption), and making China a great power...
For the entire last generation, both political parties in America have been selling everything to the Chinese. Not like goods. But like production. They have been selling China the actual might, we once had.
EVERYONE.
Trump may be different. But he has a massive, hugely-sold out conglomeration of all of what used to be America’s industrial might, now in China.
Sure China is optimistic. They have bought America’s entire way of life.
Both parties. Everyone.
MCGA does not rhyme well in English, but that is the idea.
Imagine if our press were as supportive of Trump as they were of Obama. The opportunities for the people of this country would be unlimited.
How about “Make the Orient Great Again” — MOGA.
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