• Gsus4
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    Xi vented his frustration, pointing fingers at his three predecessors – Deng Xiaoping, Jiang and Hu.

    “All the issues that were left by the previous three leaders are on my shoulders” he is believed to have said. “I’ve spent the last decade tackling them but they remain unresolved. Am I to blame?”

    So Deng left the one-child policy, Jiang left financialization/inequality and Hu left the housing bubble?

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        In fairness, these are huge problems that he inherited, but that’s what you get when you wanna become leader of any country, even more if you wanna act like an emperor.

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          My bad. I forget we’re supposed to use the image of Winnie the Pooh when representing Xi.

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      “I’ve spent the last decade tackling them but they remain unresolved. Am I to blame?”

      Yes… unless he is admitting that the issues are unsolvable. People are calling for blood if the US president doesn’t solve the issues by his 3rd year, a decade is 2.5 cycles in the US, basically like a half century in democracy time equivalent because most of their time in office is spent fundraising and campaigning for another cycle.

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        Eh, but you have examples of long-term problems created by each president: you had Clinton’s half-baked Eastern European legacy, Bush II’s middle east legacy that lasted a while, Trump’s completely polarised political landscape. I’m not sure what Obama’s main fuckup was, but there were many small neglects (maybe the main one was how he handled the 2008 crisis that Bush II left him)…the more influence you have as a country and as a person, the more shit falls on your plate to deal with :/