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I feel like none knows how to deal with the Chinese, there's a cultural gap that the US and Europe are not accounting for, the Chinese care a lot about saving f
by gdsdfe 7y ago
I feel like none knows how to deal with the Chinese, there's a cultural gap that the US and Europe are not accounting for, the Chinese care a lot about saving face and status
- baybal2 7y agoTo me it feels like Trump did it more or less intentionally. He seem to know that behind a stone faced facade, Xi is an anxious and insecure person — the same 7th grader he was when his family was purged.
- ethbro 7y agoHow could you not be anxious as a Chinese politician? In Western democracies, if you lose political power at worst you get indicted (and usually pardoned). Half of the country still likes you. In China, you face serious prison time, your family's assets are seized, you're expelled from politics, and media runs a solid month of anti-you propaganda. Harsh consequences for what many times is a roll of the dice.
- jggreg 7y agoOh please. Trump is an absolute fucking moron and everything he has done has been failing upwards.
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- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's what we're trying to not do here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html p.s. Could you please not routinely create accounts? That's not allowed here, except for occasionally when posting sensitive information. For more information on this, I've posted a bunch about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...