facts facts facts, all this would happen at a slightly slower pace under a Democratic, at least with JDPON Don, we get the destruction of US soft power with it

That it makes sense that Xi would be supportive of Deng while also improving upon the direction he took the CPC. I think my friend just felt that while market reform was needed for China, Deng’s policies did not need to be so laxxed towards corporations. “You didn’t need to let them dump waste wherever they wanted”.

I got an anarchist buddy who hates Deng for the implemention of the market reforms, but loves Xi for his work on stamping out corruption and focus on the ecosystem / fixing a lot of the issues with the market reforms under Deng

I love seeing the same kinda “math” that is used to bullshit numbers on a resume used in this context, so good and cool