Open Questions | Political theorist Daniel A. Bell reflects on China’s melding of Confucius and Marx https://www.byteseu.com/775450/ #Beijing #CentralInstituteOfSocialism #China #ChineseCulture #ChinesePolitics #Confucianism #CulturalRevolution #HuJintao #legalism #MaoZedong #PoliticalMeritocracy #Politics #Qufu #SouthKorea #XiJinping #Zedong
We need to keep an eye on him to keep him honest 
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The Philippine president is set to address what Bloomberg has described as a “rare” joint sitting of #Australia’s #Parliament (the highest governing body in #Canberra) on Thursday, February 29.
Previous invitees include past American presidents #BarackObama, #GeorgeBush and #BillClinton plus Chinese leaders #HuJintao and #XiJinping. #BBM #BBMinAU
Marcos in Canberra: What the #Philippines and its president gains
https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/explainers/marcos-jr-speech-canberra-australia-what-philippines-president-gains/
Pretty chilling to see #HuJintao being removed from his prime seat next to #XiJinping at the People's Congress in #Beijing in public.
This not only means a drastic loss of face for the man who was leading #China in its most prosperous period from 2002 to 2012. It also signals a break with #CCP tradition and the dawning of a new era where party power is turned into the power of one person, the #newMao.
This will not end well, I'm afraid. These are regressive steps. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/22/former-chinese-president-hu-jintao-unexpectedly-led-out-of-party-congress
