>father was purged and imprisoned
>sister killed during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution
>mother forced to denounce him as a traitor
>criticized publicly in front of a crowd
>sent to labor in the countryside
>ran away from this but was caught and sent back to labor work
>now he's president
wtf
Father was purged and imprisoned
Sebastian Morgan
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Jaxson Hughes
And his life story is exemplary for hundreds of millions of Chinese, and explains why they're all soulless zergs now.
Austin Torres
>president
Jacob Rogers
So does he secretly hate commies or openly hate anti-commies?
Jeremiah Peterson
>the actual emperor shi
wtf did fallout predict the future
Isaiah Murphy
He will make China Great again.
Brayden Long
Redpill me on Xi
Blessed Korea.
Kayden Morgan
don't forget
>spent most of his teenage years and young adulthood working as a peasant
>come into power cracking down on corruption, kleptocrats
>hatred for mao zedong and refuses to embrace or glorify him
>takes down the biggest mao-boo and one of the most powerful politicians who tried to revive maoism and assassinate Xi multiple times
>destroys the political faction that gave him power, Jiang Zemin's network, and makes himself sole leader
he is literally a protagonist and the caesar of our times.
Luke James
neither. he's literally redpilling people about the cult of mao and said he's "just a human" and imperfect.
he likes communism because true communism = nationalism
he's also openly seized a corrupt bank and forces CEOs to kowtow to him. he's literally the most powerful person alive since he has more control than anyone.
Aiden Scott
>we require more minerals
Michael Adams
he's the most pro-communist chinese president since mao's death
Noah White
>Zhou Enlai
>Deng Xiaoping
>Xi Jinping
Modern Chinese history is just as interesting as their ancient history to be honest. Most people would go on a vendetta against Mao and the communist legacy, but those people were able of forgetting their pride to avoid letting China fall into chaos again.
Nicholas Mitchell
All Chinks are mentally ill.
Tyler Gray
Why does Trump love him so much?
Isaiah Baker
>what happened to me in my youth defines my actions and who I am in adulthood
>falling for (((Freudian))) psychology
William Perry
> true communism = nationalism
What the hell are you talking about?
Jackson Butler
>implying chinese labor camps don't actually brainwash ppl
Thomas Jones
bbc.co.uk
Great read if y’all have the time.
>There aren’t many 21st Century leaders who lived in a cave and laboured as a farmer before clawing their way to power.
>Five decades ago, as the chaos of the Cultural Revolution engulfed Beijing, the 15-year-old Xi Jinping embarked on a harsh rural life amid the yellow canyons and mountains of inland China.
>In a 2003 interview, Xi opened up about his experience during the Cultural Revolution. “People who have little experience with power… tend to regard it as mysterious and novel. But I look past the superficial things - the power and the flowers and the glory and the applause. I see the detention houses, the fickleness of human relationships. I understand politics on a deeper level.”
>Without parents or friends to protect him from the Red Guards dispensing the summary justice of the Cultural Revolution on the streets, the teenage Xi lived his second Beijing life, dodging death threats and detention. Much later, he recalled an encounter in a conversation with a reporter.
>“I was only 14. The Red Guards asked, ‘How serious do you yourself think your crimes are?’
>“I said, ‘You can estimate it yourselves. Is it enough to execute me?’
>“‘We can execute you a hundred times,’ they replied.
>“To my mind there was no difference between being executed a hundred times or once.”
Juan Young
He likes global markets (bloomberg.com
He is also pushing for Confucionism to make a comeback. Maybe he has Kolakowski-like centrist sympathies (creativeconflictwisdom.wordpress.com
Xavier Myers
He is a nationalist
>Xi’s resistance to the seductive power of liberal values has been ferocious. He has reached back beyond Marxism to China’s deepest sense of self, quoting an 11th Century Chinese statesman Su Shi: "The most dangerous situation for a country is when apparently everything seems fine, but hidden danger lurks. If one only sits back to watch, the situation will worsen to the point of no return.”
>“If our people cannot uphold the moral values that have been formed and developed on our own soil, and instead indiscriminately and blindly parrot Western moral values, then it will be necessary to genuinely question whether we will lose our independent ethos as a country and a people,” said Xi.
>In celebrating China’s communist history, Xi has been careful to balance reverence for Chairman Mao with equal deference to the economic reformer who succeeded him, Deng Xiaoping. Xi talks about Marxism and he talks about markets. But the essence of his “Chinese dream” slogan is clear - “the dream of a strong nation”.
>“Shoes don’t have to be identical, but just to fit the wearer,” Xi told one audience.
Basically black cat or white cat does not matter, as long as it catches the mice (make China great again).
Asher Bennett
Trump wishes he could be king.
Ryder Kelly
He loves Putin and Xi Jingping because they effectively created a situation which puts them in totalitarian control - something which Trump greatly wishes for himself. To become a living God.
Thankfully America will never allow something THAT insane.
>inb4 bullshit bait replies
Redpill yourself on Trump's position. Nearly everybody - including his "allies" consider him a madman. Be it for their own personal gain, so they can replace him with somebody they can control more, or he's actually power hungry as FUCK, which dare I say, he definitely is.
The only thing keeping him in power at the moment is he may be a money grubbing power hungry crazy fuck, but he hasn't done anything truly bad - yet. But all eyes are on him waiting for something to happen. Multiple special investigation squads are really pissy, he's got some serious fucking heat on him. But I diverge.
Asher Campbell
not rare case tho
his family arent that special in mainland
most everyone got involved in some shitfest
Aaron Evans
based Xi, I hope he will defeat capitalism and bring based communism to the west too
Aiden Evans
Xi's vision for China is what Trump tried to do with America but failed utterly.
Dominic Smith
Or rather, anything bad that we've been able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt. No surprise that if he were brought before the supreme court some magical legal maneuvering would take place so anything brought against him would have to be more-than-air-tight.
Jace Bell
stalin was effectively a nationalist who destroyed the internationalism aspect of soviet communism.
he turned communism into a true russian nationalist state, revived soviet and russian art, glorified russian culture and so-on.
this stuff is a bit more complex than just words mate.
Oliver Cook
Actually, his family’s situation is an extremely special case. Only 2 million Chinese were CCP in 1965. It was/is an elitist group of urbanite Chinese.
The Red Guards were supposed to kill off the CCP.
Deng Xiaoping’s family went through a similar experience as Xi Jinping’s. One lost a son, the other lost a daughter. Both were sent to the countryside for a decade. Etc.
Carson Torres
Oliver Reyes
A secret: Almost all member of Communist party in China are actually businessmen and their like, barely any true Communists remain in the Communist party of China
Gabriel Smith
You're right. A well thought out and informative response on Sup Forums was stupid. I don't know what I was thinking. I'm gonna go back to my movie.
Thomas Reyes
He wanted to make china great but he didnt want to exploit its citizens. so hes slowly socializing the country so it becomes like western europe socially and bureaucratically but also very important in the global market.
Easton Cruz
>To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.
As quoted in "President Xi: Anti-corruption efforts need to draw on heritage" in cctv.com English (20 April 2013).
>Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
As quoted in "Xi Jinping meets model workers" in cctv.com English (1 May 2013).
Matthew Williams
The American Dream is Chinese now, laowai.
Adam Smith
>he likes communism because true communism = nationalism
communism is explicitly anti nationalist.
fucking canadian, shut the fuck up
William Mitchell
Remember that Xi has about 50 close friends and bureaucrats who implement the policies. Too often people ascribe too much importance to the quotes of the leader, while ignoring the people who make it happen.
Liu He, his closest economic ally, got caught laughing at Maoists in 2010 according to the State Department.
Same for Guo Shuqing who called “those party members who want to go backwards are fools stuck in the past.”
Xi has to balance the diverse interests of his people and the party. You have neo-Maoists on the left, liberals on the right, and nationalists all over. Right now the nationalists are the best group to pick because:
Goal - Make China Great Again
How to do - Whatever works, quote Mao, quote Deng, change the laws, cracdown on liberals, crackdown on Maoists, and fight all corruption even if it makes the Party look corrupt.
That’s basically Xi and his allies gameplan.
Parker Peterson
>western europe socially
>openly forces secularization on chinese muslims
>pushing for greater nationalism and national pride, reviving pre-modern chinese culture and sees communism as a tool
nah. he's the opposite of modern europe in every respect. his ideology at its core is just nationalism and patriotism.
Jayden Barnes
hes a closeted nationalist, as is china itself. once again showing which ideology makes the most sense.
Gabriel Anderson
not really. it doesnt mater who his family were. what matters is most chinese people, including ccp members, went through the worst time back then and a lot of people got killed for more irrational reasons. theres no point seeing him as a charisma or a tough guy who survived off of a messy political ghetto, because its not a rare case.
you dont know much about it because those stories, i guess, arent translated in english.
Colton Moore
>the unironically look up to xi jinping and when I feel lazy and sad think what would xi do
Ayden Flores
>”In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship, invasions, and economic difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period in its history. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.”
>”The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is no walk in the park or mere drum-beating and gong-clanging.”
>Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and beautiful virtue.”
And my personal favorite
>”Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.”
Jordan Miller
He's a dictator
Nathaniel Martin
You are literally wrong.
The Red Guards were ordered to purge the entire CCP.
The Cultural Revolution almost solely affected the cities. There were no bourgeoise capitalists in the collectivized countryside.
The CCP in 1965 had 2 million members. Xi Jinping was the son of the most liberal reformist in China. Xi’s father and Deng were best frieds, and both got purged.
Xi’s father was imprisoned for 9 years, and Xi could not join the CCP until his father was released to house arrest.
Acting like this happened to “most Chinese people” is pure fiction.
Nicholas Evans
Every Chinese communist leader is a dictator, amigo.
Do you remember Deng ordering the slaughter of thousands of protestors? Jiang Zemin executing Falun Gong members en masse? Hu Jintao broadcasting live the shooting of “drugs dealers”?
Chinese leaders are all dictators. This isn’t some revelation.
Robert Cooper
Is this true or are these all paid Canadian/Chinese shills?
Thomas Bell
Yes I am a paid Chinese shill here in New Mexico!
I get paid like $50 an hour. It’s a fucking great job dude
Juan Thompson
unironically i'm vietnamese and dislike xi's foreign policy.
i just love xi's ability to completely remodel his country and set it on a better path. he is destroying the power of kleptocrats and has instituted the greatest form of socialism in modern china, developing the poor interior. xi jinping revived his own country's nationalism and cultural values like putin did in light of the arrogance of modern western liberals.
every leader has their own flaws, but xi is truly one where his vision and ability outlives his flaws.
David Miller
I think he is saying most Chinese families went through serious shit in some form or another during the last century, not political persecution specifically.
Adrian Wilson
i'm concerned for his love of surveillance of citizens
John Gonzalez
It was none of those things.
It was stupid, wildly unhinged, and nothing but a string of cuss-words and delusional assumptions against Trump.
>huuuuurrrrrrrrr Trump wants to be a living god
And you think you're fucking Immanuel Kant?
>bipolar retard
Nolan Barnes
hardly a secret 2bh
Isaac Campbell
Most Chinese seem to not even slightly care, which is even more concerning.
Though that being said it's not like the US is that much better.
Samuel Cooper
He's trying to break the system from the inside. At least that's what most commies said later on.
Chase Baker
>true communism = nationalism
How the fuck?
Jace Turner
They did, but how many had their father imprisoned for a decade and got sent to work in the countryside for 8 years?
Xi was not the only one of course. Many of his closest friends were persecuted with him.
But acting like somehow “most Chinese” faced that level of persecution is historical fiction.
Imagine if you couldn’t get a job for a decade and had to work as a farmer because your dad was a political prisoner.
Carter Young
amp.theguardian.com
Turns out that EVERYTHING we do online is recorded in NSA super computers. Even our calls and texts are recorded. Even WhatsApp has a backdoor now.
China and the USA are similar in surveillance of their citizens. It’s fucked, but people don’t care
Cameron Fisher
The NSA/CIA/FBI even get companies like Microsoft and Intel to cooperate, and pretty much every single Intel processor made in the last few years is literally spyware now.
It begs the question: when will other countries like Russia and China actually work on developping alternatives? Surely they must be aware of the spying capabilities of Western hardware and software, and while they probably already have workarounds for highly secretive stuff, it still can't possibly be desirable to have millions of foreign spying devices all over the country.
Nathan Martin
He's making enemies left and right. I bet you he gets couped within 5 years.
Dominic Lee
the USSR was the continuation of russian nationalism
Christopher Hughes
lol
Cooper Bennett
While the country is developping at such a rate? Unlikely. Maybe if there's a sudden economic slowdown (of which there don't appear to be any signs for the immediate future), but until then I'd wager he's quite safe.
Wyatt Powell
yes i saw a documentary about a new city in south korea where there were cameras everywhere and the citizens said that it was good. i don't think privacy is a thing in most of east asia
while true, there is a big difference between spying on your citizens in secret that seem like a threat to your country vs. spying on all your citizens and giving out points to people who don't criticize the government, aren't unemployed etc. which will affect your opportunities in life and such.
both are bad but one is worse than the other
Levi Bennett
russia is trash, though. china is okay.
Liam Long
Actually what I was getting at is that Jiang Zemin's people have gotten immensely, fantastically wealthy from graft and they won't appreciate having that fucked with.
William Bell
That and also China's economic growth slowed quite a bit since the 2008 recession.
Lincoln Nguyen
I actually do not see why one is worse than the other. Our system can easily be turned into the Chinese system. We have no clue if it already has been either because it is top secret.
As for China’s social credit system, do you know who suggested it first? Not the CCP.
Alibaba. They have a problem with liars and cheats on their website and so that system creates trusted and untrusted accounts.
You know how credit scores work in the USA? That information goes into predictive crime software, something perfected in the USA. China is copying us.
Camden Long
>china is okay
costanza.jpg
Elijah Scott
Source?
You do know that someone gave Xi Jinping the presidency in 2012, right? He didn’t just appear out of thin air.
By your logic, Xi should’ve been couped over the last five years when he was weaker and catching corrupt officials.
Joshua Martinez
Jiang put Xi in the presidency, user.
m.scmp.com
Yet the economy is doing far better than predicted in 2012 when Xi was elected.
Jace Adams
These neo-Maoist reformers have come to the surface occasionally and challenged the Dengist orthodoxy in place since the 80s, most of the time they get purged like Bo Xilai.
Jordan Smith
I get the feel that he's an accelarionist Marxist.
Jaxon Foster
IIRC Jiang's sons are his biggest political foes. The old man himself is like 90 and long since retired but apparently still influencing politics behind the scene. There was an editorial in the People's Daily which cricticized (without naming names) "retired party officials who continue to finagle in politics".
Charles Watson
I'm very sure the NSA cares about you viewing R34 of Rainbow Dash.
Daniel Wood
>le nothing to hide
dumb american
Jacob Garcia
Too bad, you shouldn't have stored 50GB of Captain Planet on your hard disk and you wouldn't be paranoid.
Evan White
>if you want privacy then you are a pedo
Carter Bell
not now, but if user happens to get into a position of power in 20 years, they can blackmail him with his porn browse history
Wyatt Diaz
Nah, he offed the pro-cultural revolution guy
He's Hillary Clinton - neoliberal with an iron fist
Thomas Thompson
Actually what I was trying to say is that sounds like something out of InfoWars. The government has finite resources, you think they're going to waste time keeping records of some random asshole in Atlanta, Georgia looking up pizza restaurants on Google?
Nathan Reed
I fucking hate communism, but somehow i like him and what he did for China and a wish the same happened here.
Jayden Howard
M E R I T O C R A C Y
Owen Torres
Yeah...in 2044 some guy running for president it will come out had a collection of Shadman pics on his PC when he was in college.
Austin Miller
China is communist in name only
Carson Rogers
This
Lincoln Clark
I'd say only on social level, on economics they are capitalistic as fuck.
Brody Bell
It's probably the only country today that could actually be described as fascist.
Bentley Gray
Yeah, China today is authoritarian nationalist, but economically pragmatic. Not sure if that's possible in Brazil desu. Bolsonaro pls.
Camden Bennett
it wont matter. if leaks are commonplace then you say its a fabrication, if its not then you say providers cant leak info otherwise they would get sued so its also a fabrication
Sebastian Martin
Very interesting post, liked & subscribed
Caleb Long
>authoritarian nationalist, but economically pragmatic
Sounds breddy good to be quite honest
Austin White
Is there a single leaf poster on this board who isn't actually Chinese?
William Baker
>China is not communist because it is successful
Love this maymay
Ethan Allen
So communism is where private business exploit the proletariat? I thought it was the opposite but today I learned something new
Nicholas Wright
no
Bentley Hall
god that's me
Easton Campbell
I must defend my sultan. I must defend my sultan.
Wait wtf whaddya mean a lot of Turks like Erdogan
Ryan Jones
Holy fuck I need a source.
Anthony Smith
Nah India/Turkey/Russia/Egypt all are fascist as well.
Everyone’s copying Xi’s anti-corruption campaign. MBS, Modi, Macri, Temer, Putin, Rouhani, Vietnams’s leader, Honduras, Sisi, Ramaphosa, etc. All since 2012-2013.
People absolutely loath corruption nowadays. They will accept authoriarians in exchange. That is good and bad.
Liam Kelly
*laughs at your economy*
Wtf he is so mean to us
Eli Baker