> You keep alleging this
I back up my assertions. You make sound like I just make random statements like, "Xi sucks" without offering a reason why
> Something Bo wouldn't do, and things Hu failed to do.
imo Bo seemed to be a clone of Xi with some slight variation. He's a little smarter, but more deeply flawed in terms of corruption. If my memory is correct, both want a return to Mao's style of rule.
Hu was superior to both of Bo and Xi. He is the last of the Deng era: rule by a moderate committee based in pragmatism and not Xi's bullshit theatrics.
> Destroying the old and uniting society under common national identity was paramount to enabling subsequent reforms. Destruction WAS the progress. It was the point.
Destruction is only 'progress' for insane psychopaths. Millions of Chinese people needlessly died due to a dangerous mixture of hubris and incompetence. There was no progress. Families were broken. Society was broken. Even the very people who engineered China's revival as a superpower were in mortal danger. The terrible ideas in the Great Leap Forward were comedic like getting villagers to smelt different grades of metal in homemade furnaces.
Mao's opus was his brilliant Modern Theory of Guerrilla Warfare, which still affects the world theatre. He was a legendary military strategist. Unfortunately, he was a really terrible statesman. I've already explained why multiple times. He would kill people who reported problems, allowing these problems to fester and get even worse. That alone is terrible enough. You have to be extremely delusional if not brainwashed to believe that the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were successes.
> India STILL has hunger problems on level of North Korea today
This is a good one coming from someone who's defending Mao's accidental genocide. I'm surprised that you're not calling it "progress". India has a lot of problems, but they also have a free press and transparency. It does NOT have the hunger levels of North Korea. North Korea is basically what would happen if Mao was an immortal ruler and there were no pragmatists like Zhou Enlai to eventually overthrow his flawed train of thought.
> Waiting is how PRC got embarassed in 3rd strait crisis and Belgrade embassy bombing with inpunity.
Embarrassment? It was a very temporary setback that everyone else in the world has more or less forgotten. The only people who really remember it is the US Navy. Even if Xi wasn't leading, I think we can both agree that it wasn't a matter of if China would surpass US naval power in Asia, it was only when. The Belgrade embassy bombing was clearly an accident. It's also yet another issue that everyone in the world has forgotten.
Do you know what Chinese embarrassments that people still remember today? The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong, and Xinjiang in reverse order. Those are embarrassments that the world will remember for generations to come. Half of them happened under Xi's watch. As a Chinese person, Xinjiang angers me the most. I will never forgive Xi for that, especially because millions of overseas Chinese will most likely be subjected to danger because of it for decades to come.
> Again, learn some history, US pivoted to Asia before Xi.
Where did I show my ignorance on this issue? The US pivoted to Asia immediately after WWII because Imperial Japan caught most US leadership by surprise. The humiliations in Vietnam and Korea bolstered this position. You make this pivot seem recent, but it's ancient. Everyone already knows about it and why it happened.
> Except Xi chose respond to US as equal. And it worked.
Trump is an idiot insurgent with a temporary hold on power, as designed in a democracy. All you have to do is wait until US elites regain their power. The US is another country that is essentially ruled by committee. The only time to worry is if Trump somehow miraculously holds on to power.
Regardless, the US is on a course for implosion. Only a "genius" would have the bright idea of moving into the blast radius. For some reason showmanship impresses is what impresses Xi's fans more than actual pragmatic leadership with real gradual progress. I guess I was right in calling Xi China's Trump.
> Except... none of this is true outside of western MSM headlines.
MSM headlines barely mention it. I don't even think Fox News glamorizes it because it's boring to the masses in the West, so I'm not sure what you're reading. No one outside of investment bankers and maybe tech company leadership care about TSMC foundries being built in multiple countries.
> Every one of these "cooperative" alliance has stalled or failed to affirm intent to contain PRC.
Yes, I've already mentioned that the TPP, the only true danger that Xi faced, failed because Trump unilaterally killed it. I find it comedic that the only true recent threat to China wasn't even mentioned until now and you didn't even name it. If Xi didn't emulate Trump's bravado and idiocy, new threats would emerge much more slowly. Instead, now we're seeing new cooperation amongst rival nations, even the very ones targeted by the TPP.
> Lost gen had enough political capita to block NSL and patriotic education and were gaining support.
They did not, until Xi broke the One China Two Systems policy which was pure 'genius'. No one cared about their little movement until everyone saw them being abused in the streets. This was exactly what the West wanted and the blame falls directly on Xi. Without Xi, their little movement would have died out to little fanfare. Of course, Xi loves theatrics even when it hurts China's standing and stability. He is Chinese Trump.
> That's not how it works. Did economic integration swayed PRC closer to US orbit?
Under Deng's policies it did. There certainly wasn't as much animosity as there is now, but that's a poor analogy because you're speaking of two nation states and not two provinces, or are you saying that Taiwan is a country?
> TW generations that grew up under democracy like HK generations that grew up under liberal educationisn't going to clamor for reunication with PRC under CCP... which it will be for foreseeable future.
Pro-PRC parties were gaining ground until the mess in Hong Kong. If HK was left in peace to meet their destiny of being fully swallowed by the mainland, Taiwan would have soon followed. China's economic tendrils are too deep. Now you have many countries going out of their way to provide more economic support to Taiwan. That is directly Xi's fault.
> Xi isn't some genius sweeping the west with grand strategy
That's putting it very lightly. The CIA report was very accurate. With Xi, the question isn't whether a disaster will happen due to his bumbling. The question is when and how big. His comparison to Winnie the Pooh is also accidentally accurate if you ever watch the cartoons.