How the Cultural Revolution shaped China's leaders today
Chinese Whispers
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Borris Johnson's Sense of the Bitterness of the Country
Boris johnson has never worked a farmfield in his life. He is surrounded by an increasingly small group of trusted advisers. His capacitys to relate to the kind of problems everyday chinese persons living in the 20 twenties will have to face, i think, i just isn't there. When you go through that door and become a significant provincial or national leader, you will never stay in a hotel where other people are staying. There's no way you can get through that barrier if you're a member of your lalbi shinging,. You'll always be in very privileged places.
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