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Peas

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1. He introduced "capitalist joining party" in the party constitution. Regardless its necessity, it does make many grassroot people feeling uneasy, how could a communist making wealth out of comrades? Why would a grassroot communist do selfishness work while his comrade can exploit him?

2. He was overtly "artistic" and "entertaining", showing off his musical and singing talents in front of foreign VIPs, especially Americans. Being entertaining is something that a Chinese leader should never do unless the audience is regarded as family or best friend. American politician is not. He made himself appear eagerly please the enemy, therefor weak.

Historical reference: 《
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·廉颇蔺相如列传》, King of Qin tricked King of Zhao to play music for him, Lin Xiangru forced King of Qin to bit drum for King of Zhao in return.

3. He stayed on the post of Chairman of CMC for a year after handing over presidency to Hu Jintao. This makes Hu Jintao like a puppet. This made him like a "tai shang huang" and is bad in Chinese political norm. I know, Deng did that to Jiang as well, but that isn't an arrangement that people prefer. It is also different since Deng was one of the funders of PLA, if he didn't leave the Army in 1950s, he would have been a grand general. Jiang has no such history, giving him no reason to stay on.

Jiang's prolonged stay is also perceived by many to have weakened Hu's authority over other big power players such as Bo Xilai who dared to challenge the succession. The perception may be wrong, but it fits the negative view on "tai shang huang".

Historical reference: Qian Long emperor of Qing passed the throne to Jia Qing but kept many powers while his confident He Shen is eating the state inside out.

4. Jiang accepted interview by Mike Wallace during which Wallace referred to Jiang by the word dictator. Jiang is seen as appeasing and weak when he stayed on the interview and tried hard to defend him not being dictator. From Chinese stand point, such insult can only be met by forceful counter act. On top of that, many people are not happy that he made that interview in the first place. Mao Zedong accepted lots of foreign interviews, but never a person like Wallace who acted as a moral judge. Jiang just tried too hard to emulate Mao but doing it at wrong time, with wrong people and wrong tactic.

In contrast: he is expected to act like Deng Xiaoping treating Thatcher with more blunt and harsh words. If it was Mao or Deng, the answer would have been "I am proud of being the dictator serving the people".

I remember the TV program "Rome". When Brutus told Marc Antony "I have men of quality", Antony replied "I have the mob with me". That is the kind of proper answer to challenge from morally pretentious arrogant.

I must say that, all these things do not negate what he did right.
So waht Xi be like? A tough man?
 
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FriedButter

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Yee, been sleeping like absolute shit lately due to waking up in the dead of the night because the heating turns off at 2 am and at 4 am it is basically 3 degrees due to shitty isolation.

Global Germany.
Just wrap oneself in aluminium foil, for the extra feels :D

Just get an RTX 4090. I heard Nvidia has included a FireplaceTM technology to keep you warm all winter. It’s a premium feature for your brick heater.
 

Temstar

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So waht Xi be like? A tough man?
It's too early to say, such things need many years of reflection before you can pass an accurate judgement.

Many people thought Jiang was a clown when he said "too young, too simple, sometimes naive". A lot of them have since come around to it after the Hong Kong protest and admitted that indeed they were too young and too simple back then to realize how right the Elder was.
 

caudaceus

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Western mainstream media in 2 headlines. The topic is the same here

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Sometimes in 2019, an analyst from UBS was remarking about Chinese pigs that sparked quite a massive anger in China, to the point that UBS lost a few deals in China and the analyst got suspended for a few months

Lots of folks ridiculed the responses, but seeing sh*t like that casually posted? I'd say that stronger responses should be mounted.
 

ACuriousPLAFan

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I live in a student dorm and the landlord is turning it off out of solidarity or some shit, I mean it is cheaper for the tenants too since "we" spend less gas, but I rather ay more than waking up with cramp in my leg at night....
You should get an electric mattress. Not a norm in Europe? Electricity bill has become too expensive? Or did the landlords turned off the electrical supply as well?
 
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supercat

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I remember seeing someone's response to that tweet: "the U.S. shakes off life like a wet dog shakes off water" or something like that.

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It's good to know that shivering in cold and darkness would be incredibly romantic. Maybe restaurants in other parts of the world should start to emulate them.

There is a chance that the Europeans will comply, and slap another arms embargo on China.

Like that other arms embargo due to the 6.4 incident.

Why not?

The Americans keep slapping on those Huawei bans, they must believe one day that will work.

The Europeans could go the same route and do another arms embargo, via the chips.

History repeats itself.

First time as a ... second time as a ... :D
She lied through her teeth. The fact is that not a single country is willing to join the U.S.' tech war against China.

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Doesn't look like Xi is happy meeting with this clown.
At least he said EU is willing to push forward the China-EU CAI.

Here is the clip of the Freudian slip I forgot to post yesterday: 100,000 deaths of officers and 20,000 deaths of civilians on the Ukraine side.
 
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