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Brigadier
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Apologies in advance but I couldn't find a suitable venue where I could post this Malaysian armored vehicle called "Tarantula." But since Malaysia have made a recent noise about alleged Chinese PLAN incursion I figured that perhaps I can post this link to gauge some perspective from folks here that are knowledgeable and keen observers about these type of military vehicles.

 
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Petrolicious88

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weig2000 said:
Deng Xiaoping was firm and determined, but he was also pragmatic and realistic - he used to write an 80,000-word letter to Mao to self-criticize to get back during the Cultural Revolution when he was expelled and exiled from the power center. By the time he became the paramount leader, he had survived so much and with such a long distinguished political career, he was comfortable in his skin and was not obsessed with official titles. He set directions but was less obsessed with details (in contrast to Zhou Enlai, say); he was not a man of words (unlike Mao), but more of actions; he was not dogmatic but pragmatic (of which he was best known internationally). Deng was not as talented as Mao, but was the antidote to Mao's extreme and failed policies. Mao failed each of his chosen successors; Deng did his first two but was rather successful with Jiang Zeming and Hu Jingpao. So you could say Deng's legacy lasted three generations of Chinese leadership.

Neither Hu Jingtao nor Xi Jinping has anywhere near Deng's status and charisma when they became China's top leaders, even though both of them had risen through the party ranks based on their performance in various areas over several decades. To be fair, it's hard for China to create leaders like Mao, Zhou and Deng during the peace time.

Hu was humble and kept a low-profile but was determined when it is necessary - his handling of Tibetan riots in 1989 won him high marks among party leaders, showing his toughness. Hu was more tolerant and could work with others, and thus was considered to be a good leader with collective leadership style, which was considered the right leadership model for China at the time. His unassuming leadership style certainly had its pluses and minuses for the China during his time - just think what if Hu started South China Sea island building and Belt-and-Road initiative, which might please many Chinese nationalists and patriots no end nowadays, but would have proved totally premature and counter-productive. The US elites' hatred towrads Xi compared to Hu is NOT a proof that Hu was a weak and bad leader for China at the time. On the contrary, it had shown that Hu's leadership style and strategy, his "harmonious society" brand of preaching had navigated and bought time for China through a critical stage of China-rise. Also, contrary to some myth, Hu-Wen administration was not a doing-nothing-therefore-screwed-up-nothing one, they accomplished a great deal! I don't need to list them here, but those old enough should remember.

Xi is ambitious and audacious. He might be considered thin-skinned and obsessed with control. To be fair, this might have to do with him lacking the status and power base that Deng had. In order to accomplish what he deemed necessary, he had to be careful and play politics to accumulate and consolidate power. Xi is a man of mission and vision. He wielded power with certain swagger and ruthlessness shortly after taking supreme power, quite unlike his predecessor's humility and cautiousness. This is partly due to his conviction, but more to his upbringing as a first-generation princeling, who may feel to claim certain ownership to the legacy of the People's Republic, unlike the professional managers such as Jiang and Hu that were brought in as care-takers, so to speak.

Different times require different leaders and leadership styles. A leader that is right for a certain time period might not be the right leader in a different age. Even the same leader that was great for one era, might prove to be quite a disaster in a different era. Think of Mao.
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Den Xiaoping was the only Chinese leader I've seen that would smile during press conferences. He was confident and comfortable in his own skin. Had a sense of charisma that current Chinese leaders lack.
 
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ansy1968

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hashtagpls said:
Putin's not the only one who shares his beliefs in Eurasian sovereignty; Shoigu is another one.
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@hashtagpls bro I think he will succeed Putin, and regarding Russia backstabbing China, both countries have their self interest to protect , the Understanding between the three (Iran, China and Russia) had provide them with huge strategic leverage. The only way for the West to succeed is for them to lessen their adversarial attitude and it will be impossible due to competing interest. That is the fatal flaw in the US vassal system, Europe see Russian as a threat but not China, the same in the middle east and also in Asia aside from midget Australia and bowing Japan. So the US had to do all the heavy lifting and are stretch thin, they wanted to leave the troublesome middle east and Europe to focus on China but can't cause its allies won't allow them, that conundrum is the reason why trouble is brewing in the middle east and Ukraine, there is a vacuum and the leash need to be tighten again, that needs at lot of American tax dollar to grease the wheel which the American can ill afford to do.

But there are competing strategy within the Understanding between China and Russia, and they are exchanging notes, the Russian prefer direct action while the Chinese prefer a passive one. What they had strategize is to prepare both their economy and military, the Russian opening salvo regarding the dollar is an offshoot while the Chinese importance in the world economy is enhance with a rising Yuan. The Chinese are preparing with their Digitized currency and an alternative to SWIFT just in case of possible sanction. So there you have it any aggressive action by the US will be met by Russian hard power combine with China economic power.
 
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