How the heck did he pull that off? I am surprised. Hell, the formerly quasi-official New York Times called it a "surprise move." Xi is passive-appearing, obviously appearances are deceiving!, inscrutable,
I could never get a handle on that face. I would have thought that annoying, hyperactive guy who was his predecessor, the one at the Beijing Olympics, what was hi...Hu...Hu Jintao?, Hu something, I would have pegged Hu for a power move like this, hell, total power. Very surprised at this. The only thing the Quasis advanced for a reason was to keep party control over a modernizing society. That sounds (if it's true, with China you never know) like the "bubbling cauldron" thesis. Certainly the move itself seems, reversing decades of power limitation, like paranoia, not desperation, China is not desperate, paranoia.
Remember this, friends and enemies: the soul of China is survival and in the Party's eyes the Party is China. Their skin is very sensitive to the slightest breath of wind of change.
I could never get a handle on that face. I would have thought that annoying, hyperactive guy who was his predecessor, the one at the Beijing Olympics, what was hi...Hu...Hu Jintao?, Hu something, I would have pegged Hu for a power move like this, hell, total power. Very surprised at this. The only thing the Quasis advanced for a reason was to keep party control over a modernizing society. That sounds (if it's true, with China you never know) like the "bubbling cauldron" thesis. Certainly the move itself seems, reversing decades of power limitation, like paranoia, not desperation, China is not desperate, paranoia.
Remember this, friends and enemies: the soul of China is survival and in the Party's eyes the Party is China. Their skin is very sensitive to the slightest breath of wind of change.
