It is kinda like if Taylor Swift married the deputy mayor of Miami (Xi & Peng married in 1987, when he was deputy mayor of Xiamen), who also happened to be a Kennedy if the Kennedys had fallen out of favor & gone to prison in preceding decades. Then 25 yrs later he became president.
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I was about to say "hey remember all these ppl saying Xi had a stroke last week?" Turns out this guy is still saying it, only now it's "several strokes." Trust me, bro: guy who had stroke last week would totally be out here waving to the crowds.
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OK this is definitely at the denial stage
Funny: when it comes to China, it’s acceptable for reporters at major publications just to repeat baseless claims. Rumormongers say this stuff once every couple of months like clockwork. Xi should’ve died dozens of times by now if they were right.
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It's been brought to my attention that he also feels strongly about calling it "Lake America"
But there are lots of contronyms in English! To sanction means to approve & to punish. "It's all downhill from here" means both "it all gets worse from here" & "it all gets better from here."
Altho our stereotypical image of a Chinese emperor has him wearing a yellow dragon robe, in reality that was a ceremonial robe, not something he wore everyday.
Culturally, the Song Dynasty set its emperors the mission of 與士大夫治天下 "to co-govern the country with the mandarins," so Song emperors wanted to appear closer to being one of the mandarins than a paramount figure above them.
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