Xi telling Trump and Western leaders to grow up

I came across a video of an interview on the site 'Global Insight Hub' during which the guest was John Thornton, the former co-President of Goldman Sachs and Director of Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, who gave an outstanding piece on Xi Jinping and why Xi is pursuing his present agenda and path for China. Xi had a very difficult time in childhood caught up in the Cultural Revolution of 1966, that coated his desire to lift the Chinese people out of poverty en masse. Xi's thinking is not a flash in the pan, but a long-term approach he harbored, working his way up the hierarchy in the Chinese Communist Party to became Chairman. His background is tempered by his experience during his early difficult years, which has been put into very humanistic terms for his vision for China.

The West never understood the Chinese Communist Party, using it mainly for demonization purposes without looking at the underlying agenda that resulted in the rise of China and how it came to dominate global manufacturing and innovation, that even Western industrialists are awed. The USA and the West never move beyond the thinking of the cold war period harping on Communism being a threat to Democracy, a stand that they never grow out of even today.

China is now telling Trump and Western leaders to grow up and move beyond the restricted and narrow mindset of containing and hampering China's and every country's growth, mainly because China's socialist system is now doing better than the highly touted democratic system. But with the propaganda machine working overtime, China's voice has never been heard or will be heard.

The USA refused to work with China, just obsessed with the mindset of wanting to put China down and out. The USA was even invited to join the BRI earlier, with Xi sounding out John Kerry if I am not mistaken, who returned home with the suggestion, but was shot down by the war hawks in Washington. Of course, how could the USA work with China when the BRI was the brainchild of Xi. It resulted in all the brickbats and demonization thrown against the BRI to sabotage the move. Co-incidentally, India also was invited but refused to join, a doggie following in the footstep of its master.


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