>The only thing constraining Xi Xinping from going the route of Putin or Kim is his own self control. I believe you have been brainwashed by American Media if

>The only thing constraining Xi Xinping from going the route of Putin or Kim is his own self control. I believe you have been brainwashed by American Media if you believe Putin is on par with Kim Jong-il. There is hysteria in US media because Putin defends the interest of his own country against the interest of others like the US. It seems pretty unreasonable for me to expect Putin to abandon Sevastopol and access to the black Sea,or the Mediterranean in Syria, but that is exactly what US media wanted from Putin. They wanted a Russian leader to follow US' interest. If the Russian president were to do that, he would be loved in the US, and hated inside Russia, while the opposite happens. BTW, China is a very complex thing, it is almost a continent in size, lots of people and it is rotten inside in many levels. The population is old and the system extremely corrupt in levels you can not understand in the West. >China is only about 5 to 10 years behind the West on any given technology that is commercially available. I don't think so.