He seems to me to have been a mistake, Xi I mean. This is a completely bone-headed, tin-eared award that subjects China to derision. Like that promo video PLIP put out a year or so ago, the fresh-scrubbed young people singing of the purity and wholesomeness of the Chinese internet. They pulled that thing within 24 hours, it was so embarrassing.
Bo Xilai. Xi got him good.
The chemical explosions.
All of these make China look bad abroad and Zhongnanhai does not like to look bad abroad.
Maoie would be so mad. Maoie was not a big Confucius man, hoo-doggie. "Smash the Four Olds."
The most important thing to the post-Mao leadership has been to avoid Chaos but Mao encouraged it: "Beijing is too peaceful," "To rebel is justified," "BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS!" "Bombard the headquarters" is the new Old. You can forget that shit.
That's what this award to Mugabe is about, it's reinforcing with the subtlety of a sledge hammer New China's premium on stability, control. Honoring a complete dictator who has driven his country into the ground but who has kept control, that's the message. Makes China look stupid.
Bo Xilai. Xi got him good.
The chemical explosions.
All of these make China look bad abroad and Zhongnanhai does not like to look bad abroad.
Maoie would be so mad. Maoie was not a big Confucius man, hoo-doggie. "Smash the Four Olds."
The most important thing to the post-Mao leadership has been to avoid Chaos but Mao encouraged it: "Beijing is too peaceful," "To rebel is justified," "BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS!" "Bombard the headquarters" is the new Old. You can forget that shit.
That's what this award to Mugabe is about, it's reinforcing with the subtlety of a sledge hammer New China's premium on stability, control. Honoring a complete dictator who has driven his country into the ground but who has kept control, that's the message. Makes China look stupid.
