• Dangerous Illusions

    From Byker@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 9 11:43:42 2021
    XPost: soc.culture.china, talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
    XPost: alt.politics.org.cia

    "bmoore" wrote in message news:878da7af-8672-4f99-8da7-602a248f9fbbn@googlegroups.com...

    Xi will remain president until he is forced out by a more skilled
    opponent.

    Xi wants the rules to not apply to him.

    There's an old poem referencing an emperor who burned books to suppress intellectuals, only to be overthrown by illiterates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykOKnO9R368

    This poem can be translated as a criticism of the emperor of the Qin
    dynasty. The CCP, however, sees this poem as this: "Xi Jinping, you're going
    to be overthrown by the people if you keep stifling us."

    THAT's how paranoid the Chinese government has become...

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