Why wouldn’t they?
The Chinese are clever.
Respect of the Alpha male cross language and cultural barriers.
Fromm the article:
“Interestingly, China has well-known Internet censorship, but there’s no “thought police” to prevent people from expressing opinions that are not “politically correct.”
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This is what I mean when I say that in someways there is more freedom of speech in China than the US. The rub comes when the Chinese go from the spoken to the written. There are things you can’t write down. There isn’t much, among friends that you can’t say.
A man who says what he means and backs it up with action always gets respect. The fact that our American President already had a worldwide following is a “Trump card.” The anti-American media gets crazier by the day trying to make this somehow a bad thing in order to make Hillary feel better.
This article is from March.
Great article. I respect the Chinese more and more as I learn about them. I don’t agree with everything they do but they have a lot to recommend their society.
I’m an expat living in China, and this article is dead on the money. It leaves out two details, however:
1) On a business level Trump will be well aware of the Chinese need to save ‘face’. Therefore whatever rhetoric or posturing we may perceive, is almost never what it seems. By giving Peng a way to preserve his respect, he is winning their respect also.
2) He is tall, handsome, blond, and a billionaire. He has a wife decades his junior, and beautiful children who are also smart and successful. He lives in a golden palace, flies in his own jets, and his granddaughter caused an internet sensation by singing in Chinese. In short, he is everything the Chinese aspire to be, rightly or wrongly.
*Bump*