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To be fair, he was homeschooled for a while according to this 2014 article:
It reminds me of what you or another user said about these tech bros years ago: a bunch of weirdos who got power due to the rise of high tech and taking out their rage on the world (especially women) from their lonely years in high school
I mean I guess there is a cultural reason why Corruption is rampent in Latin America is because they got it from Spain. The Spanish Government including the Royal Family is corrupt.
All former Spanish colonies are all corrupt, because religion played a major part of propagating corruption. Just look at the Catholic teaching, you need to pay alms for religious services, from the moment you were born (baptism) to raising a family (wedding) till your death (funeral wake).
It's about time Beijing starts asserting itself more decisively in these kinds of situations that are primed to unravel and be exploited by the usual suspects—the Western powers and their allies—who have a clear interest in destabilizing countries vital to China's economic development and connectivity.
China can no longer afford to let those adversaries dictate the terms, the pace, and the framing of every conflict. Right now, Beijing is perpetually on the back foot: always reacting to their moves and countermoves, constantly playing defense while the other side shapes the battlefield. Worse still is the narrative control game. The West routinely portrays China as both the malevolent instigator (aggressively pursuing total domination) and the pathetic, desperate loser (a totalitarian, dystopian regime on the verge of demographic collapse, begging for acceptance it will never get from countries and peoples that view it with deep aversion).
This double-bind narrative isn't accidental—it's a deliberate strategy to delegitimize China, isolate it diplomatically, and justify containment, sanctions, and proxy conflicts. By staying reactive, Beijing allows adversaries to set the agenda: they provoke, China responds, the media spins the response as "aggression," and the cycle repeats.
How China process and proceed their moves within her periphery is going to be an interesting dynamics to witness.
Why 3 year that particular number, not 5 or 10?