Atlantic please touch grass
yeah but that's state propaganda,. If he is posting on twitter, it would bypass the censor
Yeah but are those published speeches and writings in the NYT best sellers list? I think not.
:xigma-male: : Gives a 2 hour speech in front of the central committee
:liberalism: : We have literally no idea what Xi is thinking
They should tweet those five year plans, preferably in the form of memes based on characters from Marvel or Star Wars, so western journalists will have a chance of knowing about them.
Yes well you see for a Westerner this is very confusing. Politicians are supposed to say one thing and do another. If they say and do the same it makes no sense
Don't they also have much longer term planning that lays out a rough road map for about the next century?
Well yeah they have a bunch of newspapers and channels directly headed by the CPC, so why would he. Anywho, link to the article por favor?
Link: https://archive.ph/Nkd62
Xi inaugurated an anti-corruption campaign, began locking up liberals, set anti-poverty targets, and announced the Belt and Road Initiative, a multibillion-dollar project to invest—and build influence—in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond.
:xicko:
Are they saying those are supposed to be bad things?
Also he didn’t just set anti-poverty targets, he met them. Libs can’t even conceive of this
Hey, those 2050 climate targets we set will be met!
In 2100
Because we no longer have enough industry to pollute
Because of climate change
Why the fuck would he communicate via an american platform that most Chinese don't use? You're not his audience Atlantic, the Chinese people are. Americans are not the center of the universe.
I bet the people saying this also assume he'd be writing in english or something lol
This is actually quite an interesting thing to think about. The fact that every single major internet site is American causes this, they believe they ARE the center of the world and that it should just be a given that everyone in the world use their platforms to communicate.
In my opinion these global platforms need control to be given to a non-nation entity to avoid this. I would much prefer to see Meta and Twitter and other platforms that have become critical to global communication under the control of the UN.
I don’t even like the UN very much but I 100% agree
It has a lot to be desired but short of constructing something entirely new it's what we have. The idea of it is great but it needs to be given more power and vetos should be taken away.
Agreed. I’d also like to see some sort of system to give countries with higher population a bigger say, but I don’t know how to strike that balance because you don’t want the huge countries just completely overshadowing the tiny ones, but also China should definitely have more say in things than Luxembourg
I don't know if you would get participation out of all of them if they weren't all equal. Of course they're not all equal because of the veto but you get the point. A nation is a nation and one nation gets the say of one nation.
What your envisaging is more of a international people's congress. This would be representative of people rather than nations and I totally agree with aiming to achieve that. It is what I imagine would occur after achieving global socialism, organisations imagined around states and nations would give way to organisations built instead for the international people.
The best you can get out of an American president is a 300 page biography that was ghost written.
No western politician seems interested in writing anything outside of petty bickering and short comments on the topic de jour of the news cycle. There seems to be an active disinterest in formulating any kind of abstract theoretical thought.
Umm excuse me, Barack Obama had extensive theories on lying to college girls about political theory you've read to get them to sleep with you.
I feel like I shouldn’t laugh, because when I actually think about it its really fucking gross sex pest behavior, but it’s so fucking dumb that it’s hilarious
This is not an era of great figures of state developing new theories of governance. All the US government produces are new ridiculously specialized grifts.
The best you can get out of an American president is a 300 page biography that was ghost written.
And the first 5 chapters detail how they used to wipe their ass as a kid or their favorite diner in Small Town, USA to make it seem relatable to the working Joe. Then chapters 6-10 is about the meritocracy of graduating from Yale and landing a job at Daddy’s Consulting Firm
As horrific as its consequences were, when Putin wrote that essay about the ethnic and political history of Ukraine and Russia, I was like, "damn, could you imagine Joe Biden writing something like this?"
That's because American presidents' political views can sufficiently be summarized with "Number go up"
Somehow I don't think china watchers would appreciate if Xi started tweeting the same way trump did
"The westerners think they can compete with our belt and road initiative. I predict their attempt will be as poor as their COVID response. SAD!"
[recordbreaking 800 million likes, millions of Chinese and global south commenters praising him] :xi-lib-tears:
liberal reply guys: but lockdowns are authoritarianism! Winnie the Pooh free Tibet! :wojak-nooo:
I'm assuming that the article's working title was "Xi Jinping - Inscrutable Oriental".
Libs revealing that they only care about the most superficial of appearances
you know if he did this things the Atlantic would accuse him of trying to foster a cult of personality instead :parenti:
I suppose if you're the kind of brain damaged spud that takes government officials' twitter accounts seriously, and if you were also enough of a mouth breather to assume said officials were always honest when using it, that would be seen as a significant negative in terms of transparency.
But we all know how honest the various presidential admins have been on twitter, so.
:biden-rember: :blue-check:
Someone ought to do something about the thing!!!
His office does not preannounce his domestic visitor or travel log
The PRE qualifier in "preannounce" implies to me that they do announce it, just after the fact.
When was the last time an American government official got punished when their travel logs were exposed
Xi could just simply eat a sandwich, and western publications would nitpick the sandwich and how he eats it.
Tbf, I remember when we were calling Pete Buttigieg a rat for how he eats his chicken. Not that I don't stand by that.
Because he doesn't post the price of sandwich to show off wealth, like good westoids do
Yeah easily. This literally happened with the British Press and a dull centrist pre-Corbyn Labour Party leader that the press tried to paint as a dangerous leftwing radical a bit before the 2015 election. Here's an example of just one of the many articles dissecting Ed Miliband eating a sandwich: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-fails-to-look-normal-while-eating-bacon-sandwich-ahead-of-whistlestop-campaign-tour-9409301.html
