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>>24880169
translation is incorrect. It should read: "That image is too beautiful, I don't dare look".

t. wasted five years studying ChingChong and the girls aren't even cute

>>21201474
Sure.

Xi is actually a very strong and popular leader in China. He's brought a lot of stability to the country and has (selectively) gone after corruption and cleaned the country up a lot. He also adopted a MUCH more muscular posture in foreign policy which is wildly popular --- because so far, it has been extremely successful. Previously, the current in Chinese government for foreign policy could be summed in in this quote by Deng Xiaoping (the last big charismatic leader who held anything close to the power Xi has now): "Hide your strength, bide your time, never take the lead". Xi has rejected this, arguing in his book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (this is not a joke title, it's actually the book name) that China needs to be more aggressive against foreign countries, especially the West. 2019 was the year of the world waking up to this more aggressive posture, and 2020 has been the year where they seem to have abandoned all all pretense of peace. The invasion of India, the full-on genocide in Xinjiang, the major acts of aggression in the SCS against Vietnamese/Filipino/etc fishermen and sailors, the National Security law in Hong Kong... they're going for broke. So far, the people in China fucking love it, but many seem to have forgotten that while riding the tiger is a crazy feeling of power, eventually it means you're going to have to fight for your life.

Right now, they are steered on a course set straight for a symbolic confrontation with the West (and Japan) that will signal retribution for the Century of Humiliation (1840s-1949 --- Opium Wars to the Maoist Communists winning the Chinese Civil War). This is the implicit message: Great Leader Mao ended the Century of Humiliation, China has rebuilt itself, now is the time for the New Leader Xi to avenge it.