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Do you think Xi is more well read than Biden?

>> No.18341040

Over 40 years ago a teenager fascinated by Faust, a masterpiece in Western literature written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, walked over a dozen kilometers of bumpy and dusty country road only to borrow the book from his fellow student.

The teenager was Xi Jinping.

It was towards the end of 1960s, an age of scarcity with little to read, when Xi was sent from Beijing to work as a farmer in a poverty-stricken village in China's northwestern Shaanxi Province.

An avid reader of not only Chinese but also foreign literary works, Xi read whatever books he managed to find during his seven years there, from old Chinese text books to plays written by William Shakespeare.

"To be or not to be," Xi pondered the question on the barren Loess Plateau, and eventually made up his mind to dedicate himself to serving his country and the people.

Like other young men, Xi would emulate his favorite protagonist in the books. After reading "What Is to Be Done?", a novel written by Russia's Nikolai Chernyshevsky, in which the leading character lives an ascetic life, even going so far as to sleep on a bed of nails to strengthen his will, Xi removed his cotton-padded mattress and chose to sleep directly on a brick bed so as to strengthen his own willpower.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/14/c_138057794.htm

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>>18341034
By far. He might easily be the most cultured and inteligent world leader right now.
I think that comparing him to such a sad figure as Biden is disgusting. He should be compared with great men, such as Augustus or Napoleon.

>> No.18341052

DO YOU THINK
>communist leader
IS MORE WELL READ THAN
>american president

No. No I do not.

>> No.18341055

>>18341034
Yes but unironically.

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>>18341034
Oh great, the Chink shills have spilt over from /pol/.
I knew this day would happen.
Pucker your asshole /lit/, it's about to get pretentious

>> No.18341074

>>18341044
Xi is a bureaucrat and definitely not a modern day caesar or napoleon

>> No.18341082

>>18341071
accfag has been doing this for a year now.

>> No.18341096

>>18341071
one of those posts are mine. glad to be immortalized.

>> No.18341102

It doesnt matter because Biden cant remember anything from any books hes read

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>> No.18341111

>>18341071
Pure schizophrenia

>> No.18341113

>>18341106
based...

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>> No.18341152

>>18341071
I don't care about your schizo boogeyman shit, I just hate the West.

>> No.18341163

>>18341074
Bureaucrats are better read than politicians.

>> No.18341169

>>18341106
i kneel...

>> No.18341207

>>18341106
Holy based

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>>18341111 Wasted
>>18341152

>> No.18341247

>>18341044
This picture looks like Leonid Brezhnev and I can't unsee it