These guys transformed a medieval agrarian society into an industrious nuclear/economic superpower in 50 years. Who is your favorite?
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The Emperors of China
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Xi Jinping because he causes nuclear levels of American butthurt while constantly raising the quality of life in China year after year and making China more prosperous than ever before
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Xi Jinping was probably the wrong guy for China at this point. They should have went with another Hu Jintao technocrat to focus on diversifying the economy, trying to crack down on the real estate bubble, and figure out something to reverse the demographic collapse. Instead the internal CCP politics went with a hardline militant nationalist. To Xi's credit, he's probably cracking down on corruption, who also happens to his political opponents.
Instead the aggressive Wolf-Warrior tone is uniting the East Pacific staunchly against China. Korea somehow managed to elect a conservative pro-Japan President of all things (if barely), Japan has been anti-China since forever, and Taiwan is moving further away from the mainland. This could have been avoided if Xi avoided cracking down on Hong Kong and their 50 years of self rule (b***h really couldn't wait?) and now everyone's side-eyeing China. So much for their peaceful rise. His PR/diplo game is trash.
People forget how strong China's PR game was peaking in 2008 with the Summer Olympics. Meanwhile people meme'd the shit out of China 2022's Winter Olympics.
>he causes nuclear levels of American butthurt
American media always need a boogeyman. See how rabid anti-Japanese sentiment was in the US during the 1980s because Japan seemed unstoppable in their economic rise (at one point almost surpassing the USSR as 2nd largest economy with 1/4th the population). And now Japan is seem as a dying/weakened regional power/major economic power.
Mao was catastrophically bad. Hua Guofeng irrelevant. Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao made earnest efforts to unfrick the country. Xi seems to be patterning himself after Mao but is clearly more moderate. He seems to be moving things in the wrong direction, but perhaps his strongman approach is necessary given the hostility of the west toward China these days.
>but perhaps his strongman approach is necessary given the hostility of the west toward China these days.
These things move in phases. The three before Xi were reformists and moderates. Xi is an authoritarian as a reaction to that. The guy after Xi will be a millennial and likely be liberal as frick.
Deng was a reformist but he was just as authoritarian as Xi. Look at how that homie handled the 1989 protests.
Deng
mao
deng
xi
in that order
Deng is overrated. The majority of growth happened under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao
They were just Dengists though. They simply continued his policies. The only Chinese leader to try something different was Xi, and that's because China is powerful enough to frick around now.
>They were just Dengists though. They simply continued his policies
fanboyism is so cringe.
those nicknames are pretty slick
Why shill for china if you haven't even set foot in that shithole
>ITT morons who think chairmen aka the poster children have absolute authority
Newsflash, it's a communist country; Politics revolve around power struggles and cliques. Ironically not that different from feudal/dynastic power struggles.
Deng. Though for the post-Mao CCP, Maoism has been a thin veneer with which to paint the modernized Chinese Imperial State. Practical concerns always override ideological concerns with China. Nixon and Kissinger were right about that.
Everybody after Hua is a revisionist roader
I don't know anything about Hua Guofeng. I'm not well educated on China, but I've at least seen and heard things about Mao, Deng, Jiang and Xi.
I've always thought that's kind of sad. World leaders of the largest nations on Earth, yet they're unnoteworthy and mostly forgotten. like US president John Tyler. How many Americans do you think would know who John Tyler is if you asked them? Probably very few. You're at the absolute highest position of power out of millions and millions of people, and sure you won't ever be "forgotten" but only as a name on a list, a "title holder" rather than someone special in any way, someone worthy of remembering. You've achieved the highest you can aspire to, and yet of your peers in that position you're a nobody. You're not famous for your deeds, and you're not even infamous for being bad, you might be pretty good even. You're just "there". Still more than I'll ever do. Remembered enough for me to talk about, I suppose that's worth something.
>I'm not well educated on China,
we can tell
>World leaders of the largest nations on Earth, yet they're unnoteworthy and mostly forgotten.
puppets
>the frog
Was Jiang gay or something?
No. He was a notorious womanizer.
cause he looks like one.
Hu Jintao was extremely popular during his time because he is descended from some chad ming general
china is a shithole frick you
>t. Taiwanese
I don't understand. Aren't those pictures the same guy?
Is Deng the most underrated politician of the 20th century?
Yes. Mao might be the most interesting man of the 20th century, but when it comes to sheer political brilliance, there’s really nobody who can match what Deng did. Going from purged exile to absolute power in 4 years, leading his country though the end of the Cold War, developing a theory by which a communist China could thrive in a capitalist world- all while being 80 years old and 5’5. That takes genius.
An inspiration to manlets everywhere
Deng Xiaoping easily