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Journalist Alice Su on the Challenge of Reporting From Today's China

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What's the Driving Motivation for Sijimping?

i'm really curious as to what you think is his kind of driving motivation. We in the west tend to see him as a kind of a dictator who's power hungry and theure all these oppressive policies, et cetera. And i do think it's a little bit reductile. An autocrat doesn't care what happens to the country. They just want power for themselves. But sijim ping sees himself as kind of th redumptive figure who is bringing everyone back to their true beliefs. I actually wanted to share this, like, cause we just had dragon bot festival ri so em. You know, we all eat song like the lutinous rice d

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