Posted on 10/24/2022 11:01:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hahaha...that is the second time in as many days I have had that exact quote posted to my attention in the forum!
It IS appropriate to a degree. The difference is, Tom might have WANTED to find a way to let Tessio off the hook, but Xi is the one who PUT that guy on the hook!
One less Communist is never a bad thing.
Stalinists vs Trotskyites.
He’s lucky. In Putin’s Russia he would have fallen out of a window or been given poison tea.
Based on the link below which I saw a few weeks ago, I suspect 2). This article describes the warnings from a 105 year old Chinese political actor. He supported the Hu just removed, and if you read the entire article not just the top of what is posted, you will also find described information about “the 2 Hus” and their political importance. Based on this article I think this definitely was a Xi power play as the centenarian urged Xi to go in a very different direction. Reading this article gives a clear idea of two important veins of political thought in China. One comment there suggests we should hope Xi wins, because the other view would probably result in a stronger China if followed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4096746/posts
Here are more details on the 2 views mentioned in my previous comment,
“In a congratulatory message for an event on Sept. 12, the centenarian said that the policy of reform and opening-up “has been the only path to the development and progress of contemporary China and the only path to the realization of the Chinese dream.”
These are words that President Xi Jinping himself spoke nearly five years ago. Song cleverly used Xi’s own words to send a message to the top leader. But Xi has rarely repeated the remark.
More recently, Xi has switched to his own economic policies, such as “common prosperity” and “the prevention of the disorderly expansion of capital.”
Entering his third term, Xi wants to show that he has overtaken Deng Xiaoping in terms of achievements. It is crucial to pave the way for a fourth term and possibly being leader for life.
Song has raised a red flag. Born in 1917, even before the Chinese Communist Party was established, the centenarian has signaled that Deng’s reform and opening-up policy is to be defended at all costs.”
RE: “In a congratulatory message for an event on Sept. 12, the centenarian said that the policy of reform and opening-up “has been the only path to the development and progress of contemporary China and the only path to the realization of the Chinese dream.”
Some people just live too long for their own good and the good of the world at large.
Xi’s mistake - China now had some 30% of their economy ties up in real estate, which under Xi’s new edict “the 3 red lines” makes it impossible for builders and reals estate companies to refinance their properties, which are largely ghost cities - poorly constructed, unlivable concrete shells. Where each apartment sells in the neighborhood of US$1 million. But the buildings themselves cannot meet their debt and are US$60 Trillion liabilities.
The Secret Behind China’s Ghost Cities: SerpentZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8JBTIVUVw
Xi’s on first?
China the manufacturing superpower. Turns out to be degenerate gamblers. Real estate speculation has been propping up their GDP numbers. Their real estate is now in collapse
The Secret Behind China’s Ghost Cities: SerpentZA (great guy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8JBTIVUVw
I just posted that link also.
I cribbed the link from you. In fact I have watched it on y-tube one and a half times
Around the year 2000 we would drive each year to visit my son and family in Miami. We came in the back way driving down from Lake Okachobi. There were more and more houses each year being built from the edge of Miami westward into the brush. I would think, who is building all these houses? Were are they going to get buyers for so many houses? Could this be laundering drug money? There were just so many empty nice houses.
Then I saw a movie, I think it was called The Big Short. These 2 guys figured out there was something strange going on with the housing market. They traveled around doing research. They visited one of those vacant west Miami new houses with an alligator in the swimming pool. They did a very large short sale on some aspect of that market just as it crashed in 2007-8 and made a fortune. Will the Chinese be as clever?
But Hu let the dogs out.
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