in washington americans at war with each other, tearing democracy apart. the chinese government saw that. xi jinping is said to have watched january 6th with revulsion. that cannot happen in china. no. none of that is acceptable to the chinese government. that was a moment of the chinese saying, those americans, they re not who they think they are, and they re not who we think they are. he sees the united states as in a real decline, and he sees a lot of dysfunctionalty in american society. systemic racism, black lives matter, political gridlock in washington, the trump years, charlottesville. they see themselves as promoting order against the forces of chaos.
viewed with so much hope, how did he become this xi jinping? xi jinping making a veiled threat against the united states. anyone who tries to bully china, he says, will be banging its head bloody against a great wall of steel. this indelible phrase that struck people around the world. many china scholars do not recognize the xi jinping they see now. i didn t see i don t think any of us saw the dig toirl, sycophantic control freak that he has become. china is much more of a dictatorship today because of xi jinping. that s a recipe for serious danger. xi jinping is the most repressive leader china has seen since chairman mau. in just the last few months, he