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What? He's known for having been a quiet, bookish nerd for most of his life and has literally written and published volumes of theory.
"The perfidious asiatic communists are just lying and don't have beliefs and only do good things for the public for greedy, power hungry reasons and nothing else," is the usual anticommunist smear, not "these nerds who talk about theory all the time don't know as much about theory as I, a nepobaby writing for the wall street journal, do!"
It's the first racist argument just dressed up with a fancy moustache and monocle
Besides the Governance of China, what theory has he written? Given his major role in improving China, he seems like a good choice for checking out contemporary Marxist theory.
Ah yes! Listen to me, a very smart Western Man, lecture this silly foreigner on the complete political incompatibility of Marx and Confucus! His degrees are complete nonsense Chinese schlock, while mine are very real and very serious.
Also I am definitely not a fed, despite being the one to translate and publish the Tianamen Papers, and being really really concerned with international freedom for Hong Kong.
Also, really, this is what you are going to go after Xi for, not understanding Marx? I'd be fine with a leader who even half-understood Marx.
Marx himself would be helpless to explain dialectical materialism to a WSJ reader
So very weird that this article makes no mention of the multiple volumes of books that Xi has published about political theory and practice, that you can request English translations of, for free, from the party.
The author must have just forgot to mention that while they were accusing Xi of having faked his degrees
The Governance of China is notorious for mostly being boring, repetitive proclamations about how Deng was right and we must adhere to the path laid out by the principles of SWCC, etc. etc.
Yeah it reads as pretty much every conventional party speech ever, unless you noticed that everything he promised is either already delivered or in progress (except good relations with US, but he really tried). So it's not a good book for enlightening libs because they won't ever notice that.
I'm pretty sure that's because the majority of the book is a collection of speech excerpts?
How does one get a free copy of said books, asking an embassy? I sent one of ours an e-mail asking if it'd be possible to get an English copy of Governance of China Volume 1 almost a year ago and never got a response
I really want to read a profile on the person the WSJ keeps on their payroll to attack fucking China from the left.
That person has to have some of the most fucking buckwild opinions ever or be an incredibly talented left wing grifter.
He's a professional China watcher professor.
What a ridiculous thing to say. If he was a fake Marxist, surely he would have read the couple of books it takes to be able to explain the "concept" of dialectical materialism.
Noooo it’s not possible to be both in power and intellectually capable, otherwise I the writer of this article and an extremely intelligent person would be in power here, rather than what I’m actually doing which is 
for the WSJ.
According to the article his staff wrote his doctorate thesis, so presumably they wrote the books for him too?
Xi Jingping would be helpless trying to explain to you a concept like dialectical materialism
Well yeah, he doesn't speak English well, and also I'm a dummy.
thought he lived with a guest family for years in Iowa or something?
(seriously though i'd imagine he would lose quite a bit of what he picked up since he was in his 30s(?) then)
He hasn't spoken any English in public appearances, so I assume he's bad enough at it that he'd consider it unhelpful or embarrassing. And yeah, it's been almost 40 years, he has a demanding job, and that job gives him constant access to translators. I wouldn't keep up with a language in that environment either.
I doubt whatever media ghoul wrote this could explain a concept like dialectical materialism
