Why Xi alone should be termed as dictator? Are elected prime ministers and presidents ,not dictators? Are the laws not abused in democratic nations? Why blame a single nation? A secretary of a cooperative housing society can also abuse his/her powers,although he/she is elected by members. Those in authority have enormous scope to abuse power. Who can stop them? Do not judge a person,merely on the basis of tears.
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This is a ridiculous article. I guarantee you that Uncle Xi doesn't cry anywhere near the amount as his citizens who are routinely punished and crushed by the Comminust state's goon squads.
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Rubbish !!
He sheds no tears for the People of Tibet - who's Country Mao stole at gunpoint in 1959, from a non-aggressive, non-threatening peaceful Nation.
To this day, Tibeteans are denied their Religion, their Language, their Customs and their Land. Display a Tibetean flag, or a picture of the Dali Lama, and you go to prison, in very harsh conditions.
Xi's "tears" and false smile are disgusting. I doubt that man even has a heart.
He sheds no tears for the People of Tibet - who's Country Mao stole at gunpoint in 1959, from a non-aggressive, non-threatening peaceful Nation.
To this day, Tibeteans are denied their Religion, their Language, their Customs and their Land. Display a Tibetean flag, or a picture of the Dali Lama, and you go to prison, in very harsh conditions.
Xi's "tears" and false smile are disgusting. I doubt that man even has a heart.
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This seems very similar to Obama's tears for gun violence victims:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/us/politics/obama-gun-control-executiv...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/us/politics/obama-gun-control-executiv...
For most of the past 2200 years, China has been a world scientific, technological, socioeconomic, political, military, civil, secular and educational superpower. Mostly by avoiding contact and alliances with foreigners the ethnic Han have thrived.
With the exception of the Mongols, the Manchus, the British and the Japanese, the Han succeeded in keeping foreigners at bay. The Han absorbed the Mongols and the Manchus. While the British managed to humiliate the Chinese and the Japanese slaughtered about a claimed 30 million Chinese during World War II.
From the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang to the Last Emperor Pu Yi the Han usually reigned and ruled. Mao Zedong's rule mostly resembled the inhumane royal imperial past. On the other hand Deng Xiaoping created the model for the current collective term limited leadership and the move towards capitalist free market one party state. China's population is aging and shrinking with a massive male gender imbalance. China's air, water and land is environmentally stressed by pollutants. China's natural resources are limited. China has few allies. Having moved 300 million Chinese into the middle class there are still millions of working poor left in China.
Is Xi Jinping the next Mao Zedong or the last Deng Xiaoping? Greed and corruption among the Chinese Communist Party elite threatens stability. Along with nearly 100 million non-Han in 54 different native ethnic groups. The challenge that Mr. Xi faces is enough to make any human cry.
With the exception of the Mongols, the Manchus, the British and the Japanese, the Han succeeded in keeping foreigners at bay. The Han absorbed the Mongols and the Manchus. While the British managed to humiliate the Chinese and the Japanese slaughtered about a claimed 30 million Chinese during World War II.
From the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang to the Last Emperor Pu Yi the Han usually reigned and ruled. Mao Zedong's rule mostly resembled the inhumane royal imperial past. On the other hand Deng Xiaoping created the model for the current collective term limited leadership and the move towards capitalist free market one party state. China's population is aging and shrinking with a massive male gender imbalance. China's air, water and land is environmentally stressed by pollutants. China's natural resources are limited. China has few allies. Having moved 300 million Chinese into the middle class there are still millions of working poor left in China.
Is Xi Jinping the next Mao Zedong or the last Deng Xiaoping? Greed and corruption among the Chinese Communist Party elite threatens stability. Along with nearly 100 million non-Han in 54 different native ethnic groups. The challenge that Mr. Xi faces is enough to make any human cry.
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It's interesting that a number of comments have a kind of "second language" or a "translation tool" kind of feel to them. We 2nd language practiobers always stumble over two-way prepositions and the like...
China's "nickel brigade", in which a ready host of Mandarin and English speaking Chinese respond to EVERY article about.China with praise for Xi and the leadership, while attacking the sources of the story? They have been a model for the use of social media in influencing political discussions and opinion.
We see this now in the US with our own social media in which politicos have dominated and destroyed the capacity of the internet to bring about a super-democratization of the Internet hoped for in the beginning...
China's "nickel brigade", in which a ready host of Mandarin and English speaking Chinese respond to EVERY article about.China with praise for Xi and the leadership, while attacking the sources of the story? They have been a model for the use of social media in influencing political discussions and opinion.
We see this now in the US with our own social media in which politicos have dominated and destroyed the capacity of the internet to bring about a super-democratization of the Internet hoped for in the beginning...
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George Orwell said it all. 15 minutes of weeping.
Dont forget folks. The most powerful army and economy are soon to be a totalitarian one.
Lets hope the mandate of heaven runs out soon.
Dont forget folks. The most powerful army and economy are soon to be a totalitarian one.
Lets hope the mandate of heaven runs out soon.
SCIENTELLA, when you said "The most powerful army . . . " were you referring to the United States army or the Chinese? Your words made me immediately think of Trump's expropriating funds allotted to the education and health of American citizens to feed the war machine.
Did the honey moon between China and the USA complete? The article in NYT on Mr.Xi in the past few week signals "Blow Hot Blow Cold" !.
Let's not be fooled and misled by Xi's propaganda machines. Let's pay attention to the timing of showing a dictator can also cry -- just like you and me. At the time when a dictator is condemned for his ruthless suppression of freedom and democracy for the people, he always wants people to believe he is just an ordinary guy with a soft heart. Believe the opposite of what Xi's propaganda machine want you to believe!
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remind me of sadam hussein ... when he was about to execute people during his party meeting
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Yeah! Crocodile tears before it consumes!
totally different!
Powerful leaders, who have a sense of political acumen know that it doesn't hurt to show emotions, if it helps humanise them and win hearts and minds of their citizens.
On YouTube one can see Putin shedding tears on several occasions. He cried when he learnt that he had won the presidential election in March 2012. A year later he was moved to tears by a song honouring the police force. In 2014 he appeared emotional when the Russian national anthem was played during his state visit in Mongolia.
Even Angela Merkel showed emotions. Last year she tried to comfort a crying girl whose Palestinian family faced the threat of deportation.
On YouTube one can see Putin shedding tears on several occasions. He cried when he learnt that he had won the presidential election in March 2012. A year later he was moved to tears by a song honouring the police force. In 2014 he appeared emotional when the Russian national anthem was played during his state visit in Mongolia.
Even Angela Merkel showed emotions. Last year she tried to comfort a crying girl whose Palestinian family faced the threat of deportation.
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A pro-China candidate of the recent by election in Hong Kong- Holden Chow- did the same thing on a televised debate. Hongkongers had a good laugh over that for days.
It’s a big country still the most populist on earth though India will soon have that honor. The CCP has not done that bad a job of governing. There were 30 years of Mao with little to show for progress save some land reforms needed, 30 years of Dong Xiaoping and his followers and the most dramatic transformation in history of a poor nation to a world power, and now the next 30 years will go where?
Xi Jinping has the first 10 of them to try and bring a reformed system of transformation giving up on growth to support a broader social transformation toward a more urban society with broader networks of medical and educational and legal reforms; at least according to released plans. Do you want the job? He does not have to face an election but he does need to keep the image alive that the party and its leaders are pursuing national interests.
His advisors are looking to lay off and relocate 1.8 million steel and coal workers; if they fail Xi will have reason to cry again; as we all will if China goes down.
Xi Jinping has the first 10 of them to try and bring a reformed system of transformation giving up on growth to support a broader social transformation toward a more urban society with broader networks of medical and educational and legal reforms; at least according to released plans. Do you want the job? He does not have to face an election but he does need to keep the image alive that the party and its leaders are pursuing national interests.
His advisors are looking to lay off and relocate 1.8 million steel and coal workers; if they fail Xi will have reason to cry again; as we all will if China goes down.
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I didn't know that Xi is a crocodile. Xi must be an insecure man, that's why he needs to built up a cult around him to feel reassured, powerful and invincible. He has cracked down of journalists and media which can only sing his praise (that's why he has a high approval rating from Chinese people). He also has purged his potential political adversaries through the so-call anti-corruption campaign. I bet he didn't shed a tear for them. He is in somewhat of a pickle now, have no good idea of how to keep China's economy growing and prevent unemployed people from rioting.
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Xi's father was one of the reformers of his era and that has likely influenced Xi himself. However Xi due to the chaotic era he grew up in his number one priority is to maintain law and order. Russia's chaos after the fall of the Soviet Union reinforced that law and order thought. I think that he has done a lot of good and is genuinely trying to battle corruption among other social problems. However he is also using nationalism to maintain unity in the face of mounting economic problems which is terribly dangerous. We can only hope that in his heart there is still some of that reformer that was his father.
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Xi's father is one that contributed enormously towards successful defeat of Japanese invader and then defeat KMT.
Xi was not seen as possibly a good leader but he was quite and survived Prez Chiang JieMing 's corruption and cronism for 10 years + 10 more years by Jiang with remote control on Hu).
Xi has shown his color and purged many of Jiang's corrupted officers incl. the Security Chief and top military generals, etc.
He won supports from more than 87% of Chinese population and overseas Chinese. Whereas, Obama's support has dropped to about 42%.
No matter how dirty are American's lying news media demonizing China on East and South China Sea, Xi did response in kind.
Obama does not have a single document or historical occurrence or incident to prove his lies about China's territory.
Harry Harris must ask his own Japanese mother if Japan indeed returned all the China's SCS islands to China in 1946 (and China sailed in American warships to come to SCS to accept the return from the Fascist Japanese - now American's darling Bedrock Alliance to help American own Warmongers.
Table turns and role changes. In another few years, American will be listening to Japanese.
Xi was not seen as possibly a good leader but he was quite and survived Prez Chiang JieMing 's corruption and cronism for 10 years + 10 more years by Jiang with remote control on Hu).
Xi has shown his color and purged many of Jiang's corrupted officers incl. the Security Chief and top military generals, etc.
He won supports from more than 87% of Chinese population and overseas Chinese. Whereas, Obama's support has dropped to about 42%.
No matter how dirty are American's lying news media demonizing China on East and South China Sea, Xi did response in kind.
Obama does not have a single document or historical occurrence or incident to prove his lies about China's territory.
Harry Harris must ask his own Japanese mother if Japan indeed returned all the China's SCS islands to China in 1946 (and China sailed in American warships to come to SCS to accept the return from the Fascist Japanese - now American's darling Bedrock Alliance to help American own Warmongers.
Table turns and role changes. In another few years, American will be listening to Japanese.
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Hmm...translated from the Chinese.
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"He won supports from more than 87% of Chinese population and overseas Chinese."
And the other 13% who didn't agree are in prison.
Also, what would the nationality of the mother of the current Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific have to do with what happened during WW2? BTW, He's an American citizen and so is his mother , who is naturalized.
And who exactly is militarizing the SCS and ECS ?- Has the US, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei or Vietnam installed missiles? No, only China has.
Who has unilaterally created an ADIZ over the ECS ? Not Japan, but China.
Who threatened an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over the SCS this past year? It wasn't the US, it was China.
Shall I go on, there's more...
And the other 13% who didn't agree are in prison.
Also, what would the nationality of the mother of the current Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific have to do with what happened during WW2? BTW, He's an American citizen and so is his mother , who is naturalized.
And who exactly is militarizing the SCS and ECS ?- Has the US, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei or Vietnam installed missiles? No, only China has.
Who has unilaterally created an ADIZ over the ECS ? Not Japan, but China.
Who threatened an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over the SCS this past year? It wasn't the US, it was China.
Shall I go on, there's more...
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Though the outline of the article makes one to sense a fun in the four cries of Mr.Xi Jinping, I could realize that the tears of
Mr .Xi carries indeed a message of thought provoking. Though I have reservation against China's over ambitious external policies , its elevation based on the communism and reaching to the level of world's number two economy is a remarkable achievement of the century. In my observation, I could say that Xi has attained the state of second most popular leader of China after Mao in China but in the world's eye , Mr. XI could seal his era as " a transition phase of China from communism to democracy ". Mr. Xi's crusade against corruption is going to be a "reference to the world leaders to follow in the years to come. On analysis, the tears of Mr.Xi shows natural and not the crocodile tears to earn credit in the name of communism.
Mr .Xi carries indeed a message of thought provoking. Though I have reservation against China's over ambitious external policies , its elevation based on the communism and reaching to the level of world's number two economy is a remarkable achievement of the century. In my observation, I could say that Xi has attained the state of second most popular leader of China after Mao in China but in the world's eye , Mr. XI could seal his era as " a transition phase of China from communism to democracy ". Mr. Xi's crusade against corruption is going to be a "reference to the world leaders to follow in the years to come. On analysis, the tears of Mr.Xi shows natural and not the crocodile tears to earn credit in the name of communism.
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Its not a remarkable achievement. Its called industrialization .And it happened a lot sooner in England, Germany, the USA and Japan. The scary thing is that this time its happening late and in a totalitarian state. .
Cults of personality precede cults of blood.
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What a guy...he can cry! I wonder if he sheds any tears when the people his regime throws in prison on trumped up charges, just happen to die? My guess is a resounding NO, he just says bye bye!
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Surprisingly to most westerners, the Chinese do not act stoical, as the Japanese tend to do. Just watch their reactions to natural or manmade disasters, such as earthquakes and airplane disasters or disappearances. It's just another false stereotype.
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Xi Jinping is building a cult of personality unseen in China since Mao Zedong. His iron-clad authoritarianism and expeditious militarism do not bode well for China's neighbors, or their allies (including the United States).
Like Japan in the 20th century, Chinese industry will not be able to meet the need for resources domestically; so Xi Jinping is creating a China that can take what it needs by force, if necessary.
Like Japan in the 20th century, Chinese industry will not be able to meet the need for resources domestically; so Xi Jinping is creating a China that can take what it needs by force, if necessary.
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I'll cry too if I lost so much money in the stock market crash like that of China's.
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Next up: a beefcake calendar of Xi Dada, bare-chested a la Putin.
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If he would just write these stories for the Chinese press, it would seem to save a lot of time and effort (and perhaps prison time) for everyone else.
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Hopefully his tears will be more effective than Obama's
All this superficial talk equating Xi with democratic leaders misses the point of the tears shed by those millions persecuted in China. Obama is a man who cried tears for others; Xi cries tears for publication.
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Holding babies and shedding tears once awhile, politicians emulate each other everywhere.
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'... Mr. Xi wrote a poem in memory of Mr. Jiao that describes the struggle of being an upright official....'
the tears of a Communist?
pls spare us the drama.
being human is fine but being a Communist thug ruthlessly repressing a billion of your people is more like the truth.
the tears of a Communist?
pls spare us the drama.
being human is fine but being a Communist thug ruthlessly repressing a billion of your people is more like the truth.
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A renown world leader weeping over his losses.
Would that I had such misplaced power.
I would surely weep every day for those who are powerless.
I would weep for every one of my subjects.
Every single one.