Okay...all right...okey-dokey.
Psychologists, psychiatrists, analyze those statements for us.
Shrink #1: ...That's classic paranoia.
Shrink #2: Sig, it's not paranoia if they really are all against you.
(general laughter)
Shrink #2: Seriously, it is paranoia or certainly deep fear. Paranoia is irrational fear.
Shrink #3: I would be deeply concerned for a patient who made statements like that.
"By the time of his death...he had become a recluse."
"As he receded from the scene, [he] decided to buttress his successor by leaving behind a set of maxims for his guidance and that of the next generation of leaders. In issuing these instructions to Communist Party officials, [he] chose a method from Chinese classical history. The instructions were stark and succinct. Written in classical Chinese poetic style, they embraced two documents: a 24-character instruction and a 12-character explanation restricted to high officials. The 24-character instruction read:
'Observe carefully; secure our position; cope with affairs
calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at
maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.'
"The 12-character policy explanation followed with an even more restricted circulation among the leaders. It read:
'Enemy troops are outside the walls. They are stronger than
we. We should be mainly on the defensive.' "
Deng Xiaoping in On China by Henry Kissinger (437-8). (1)
I can think of no more compelling evidence than these statements by Deng that the soul of China is survival.
1. Dr. Kissinger's endnote 40 reads in full: "Deng Initiates New Policy 'Guiding Principle,'" FBIS-CHI-91-215; see also United States Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, "Military Power of the People's Republic of China: A report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year 2000" (2007), 7, http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/070523-china-military-power-final.pdf.
Psychologists, psychiatrists, analyze those statements for us.
Shrink #1: ...That's classic paranoia.
Shrink #2: Sig, it's not paranoia if they really are all against you.
(general laughter)
Shrink #2: Seriously, it is paranoia or certainly deep fear. Paranoia is irrational fear.
Shrink #3: I would be deeply concerned for a patient who made statements like that.
"By the time of his death...he had become a recluse."
"As he receded from the scene, [he] decided to buttress his successor by leaving behind a set of maxims for his guidance and that of the next generation of leaders. In issuing these instructions to Communist Party officials, [he] chose a method from Chinese classical history. The instructions were stark and succinct. Written in classical Chinese poetic style, they embraced two documents: a 24-character instruction and a 12-character explanation restricted to high officials. The 24-character instruction read:
'Observe carefully; secure our position; cope with affairs
calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at
maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.'
"The 12-character policy explanation followed with an even more restricted circulation among the leaders. It read:
'Enemy troops are outside the walls. They are stronger than
we. We should be mainly on the defensive.' "
Deng Xiaoping in On China by Henry Kissinger (437-8). (1)
I can think of no more compelling evidence than these statements by Deng that the soul of China is survival.
1. Dr. Kissinger's endnote 40 reads in full: "Deng Initiates New Policy 'Guiding Principle,'" FBIS-CHI-91-215; see also United States Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, "Military Power of the People's Republic of China: A report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year 2000" (2007), 7, http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/070523-china-military-power-final.pdf.
