> My understanding is that China's upper leadership is largely intelligent and engineering-oriented. This kind of thought scared me. It is a shame to admit tha

> My understanding is that China's upper leadership is largely intelligent and engineering-oriented. This kind of thought scared me. It is a shame to admit that about 3 years ago, I held the same belief. But through my experience in doing startup and get in touch with several high level official's children in China, I think that it is totally wrong. Maybe they are intelligent but their intelligence are definitely not used in the right way. How can you expect one who spent the whole life on plotting how to kill politic opponents to be a visionary? From my experience, the high level officials in China are corrupted. They buy luxury goods, pay for the most luxury sex service all that stuff. There is an old Chinese saying which describes the current regime in China perfectly: 肉食者鄙，未能远谋。 It says, the one who eat meat everyday (the one in power) lost the ability to envision the future.