Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
They understand in a continent sized country with over a billion souls, across regions of peoples who are just as antagonistic to each other as Northerners and Southerners in other countries, that a half a pie is better than no dessert at all, and tomorrow is a great day to get back in the hell's kitchen of cage fighting politics, to concoct and promote the next dish. Westerners, especially Americans have serious attention deficit disorder when it comes to the weighty issues of the day. It's all about the 24-hour news cycle, today's bond prices and upcoming corporate quarterly reports. Over here in Sinoland, the internal dialogue of Baba Beijing goes something like this,
So, only half of our dreams got realized this go around? No matter, we've got the rest of the 21st century to keep moving forward, sometimes a step backward or no gain at all, but keep on keeping on, as our Heavenly Mandate dictates.
That's what the West is up against: triathlete technocrats, who are patient politicians, with a strong compass fixated on deep history, and who dream of the future in decade long timescales. Sitting here in Sinoland, gazing East at the rapidly degrading debacle across the Pacific and westward to the tip of the Eurasian continent, which is trying so hard to imitate Uncle Sam, it really seems like an unfair fight to me. Maybe Baba Beijing should fight with one arm tied behind the back, you know, just to make it more entertaining.
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2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/obama-brag-new-book-im-really-good-killing-drones/
3- http://www.shmoop.com/of-mice-and-men/lennie-small.html Lennie Small was the gigantic and physically powerful, mentally retarded character in John Steinbeck's dramatic masterpiece, Of Mice and Men (1937).
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