Hu and Jiang were engineers, but Xi isn’t. After the schools re-opened, he was rushed through an accelerated program at Tsinghua and given a degree in chemical

Hu and Jiang were engineers, but Xi isn’t. After the schools re-opened, he was rushed through an accelerated program at Tsinghua and given a degree in chemical engineering, and then went off to be an official full time never actually doing any engineering work. He is a pure official like his father, and unlike his predecessors, never even bothered learning a foreign language. As much as I think of his background and his authoritarianism (getting rid of the two term rubber stamp for the presidency), he has actually delivered for China. This is the most dangerous part: imagine if Trump was actually smart, if he actually delivered, we would be really confused about democracy.