Indeed! This western so-called "China expert" knows 100% nothing about China's history and development, let alone the thoughts of Mao, regurgitating every chance he has of the anti-Mao, anti-China, anti-Xi propaganda crap proliferated by Western media. Mao not only appreciated the importance of market economy in the development of a nation, he praised and recruited the assistance of several mega-industrialists in the early period of PRC🇨🇳 history, particularly during the period of the two Sino-Japanese wars and the Civil War that followed. It was in this period the concept and terminology 红色资本家/Red Capitalists came to be. Mao had no taste for petty bourgeoise and hereditary land owners whose sole interest and contribution to the building of New China was expansion of their personal wealth - that is to say, NO contribution. Those who have watched the television series The Disguiser (2015) about the Ming family would have encountered this term 红色资本家 over and over again spoken by 明镜 the older sister and matriarch of the family. The story of The Disguiser is fictional . In real life mega industrialists like the Ming Family existed. Their businesses were in mining, textiles, flour. And their reach was global. An example would be 荣毅仁. Just tap the name and google. One thing I cannot get over with these charlatan extraordinaire China experts - they are not only shallow, they are LAZY. They troll all day looking for people who don't hate China to attack and they don't even have ammunition to attack with, being 100% ignorant and stupid to boot.

Two different styles of communication altogether. American diplomats express themselves in the manner of gangsters. They insult, threaten, and extort to extract what they want. They are incapable of good manners in civil society. If you are subtle and polite, they interpret that as weakness. America has seen better days.

Good heaven! What is the aim of this idiotic TE article?! Another one of its usual insinuating celebrity gossips posing as some kind of Freudian character analysis of which it has no qualifications to render, just to cast a negative light on anything at all that has to do with China and China’s leaders? Why doesn’t it write one on the agonizing relationship King Charles had with his dad and how it had shaped him? Or Prince Harry with his mom? Or George VI’s with his mom and dad that resulted in his lifelong debilitating stuttering? And what’s “grim” about a childhood where a boy would wash in his father‘s bathwater and the next morning the water used for laundry? Xi was born in 1953 in BJ. In 1960 when he would be 7, it was not at all uncommon for many homes at that time where hot water had to be boiled in kettles for bath. Ask how many minutes were kids in English public schools allowed in taking hot bath in 1960. I know the answer because my oldest brother went to such a school! And what’s wrong with Chinese performing the traditional kowtow ritual before our parents in a display of reverence. I do that every year on the anniversary of my mom and my dad’s passing. I have an altar in my living room right now as we speak where I keep a pair of battery operated candles in front of their pictures and fresh flowers on the altar around the year, changed every week. This is the 11th year I am doing it and I will keep doing it until the day comes when I physically am not able to. Just because the British are used to their barbarian way doesn’t mean the whole world should model after it. What petty stupid smut TE is writing these days and getting worse every day!