Mao might be playing Wei Qi, but Jiang definitely is not playing Xiang Qi... The difference is simply Mao sees a larger China and much better than Jiang. If yo

Mao might be playing Wei Qi, but Jiang definitely is not playing Xiang Qi... The difference is simply Mao sees a larger China and much better than Jiang. If you look at both men's life experience, you can easily see that Mao won't be nice to intercultural and Jiang will be very harsh to the poor. And in a power struggle, one who effectively mobilize the majority always won. This by itself will make Mao the winner in the power competition. As for other aspects, eg, Mao being a better military strategist. It's just a derived results of Mao knows the larger China better than Jiang.