To play Devil's Advocate nobody has tried to kill Xi Jinping even once; let alone three times.
But then again that just further drives the point home, doesn't it?
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)
Memes
4931 readers
6 users here now
Good memes, bad memes, unite towards a united front.
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
indeed it does
I think that's the point
how come the United States would happily try to assassinate someone like Castro 600+ times but not try even once with Xi? Is it because it's too late to change China's trajectory?
the usa only respects one thing 
- They're incompetent and they can't get to him
- While they paint him as the devil the US economy depends on China. Imagine what would happen if any US assassination attempts on Xi were to reach media and China
def main reason lol. the US NEEDS china for the treats. The only thing americans miss about cuba is cigars.
tbf i don't think the us is trying to kill miguel diaz-canel either. probably has to do with the fact that assassination isn't generally super useful, at least not against established, stable nations
The empire is too greedy for even short-term profit, why make someone a martyr when you can martyr and occupy entire country to exploit forever? It was actually one of the reasons Cuba moved on to imprisonment post-revolution, because making your class enemies martyr unite them. Cuban revolutionaries used to just line class enemies against the wall. It was a little disagreement between Fidel and Che on execution because Fidel wanted to spare noncombatant enemies but Che said line them up.
It was personal with Castro, he played the worst cold war ghouls in washington like a fiddle and won.
I imagine that China's security forces makes even Cuba's look like boy scouts.
he's the TV guy, he's GOTTA know how bad that looks, which has to mean that he's spooked.
nah he's victimmaxxing the conservative are into that these days if anything they think "look what precautions they made our president have to do"
Same sane country whose population lectures the other one for being authoritarian and dangerous.
The only bad things they know to accuse others of doing is what they see around themselves.
one is bad, and the other is also bad
Yeah, Xi Jinping should have more people praising him.
Yeeeee
革命造反派 ...
Seems like this is from the Cultural Revolution about counter revolutionaries?
Ye it is about counter revolutionaries alright
While Xi and the CPC is somewhat revisionist they're nowhere near close Trump level evil
There are some revisionist elements in the CPC (I'm wary of Li Qiang for example) but I definitely wouldn't call Xi a revisionist. His installment as General Secretary was more or less an orthodox marxist coup against revisionist Shanghai politicians.
I'm also curious where you see that Xi has mostly targeted revisionist Shanghai politicians.
I'm not disagreeing with you, or not entirely, but I feel like you have something specific relating to this.
Just read up on Xi's anti-corruption campaign, while it wasn't explicitly an ideological purge it's pretty clear that those that it removed weren't exactly devoted marxists.
I have alot of respect for Li Qiang, and while I understand being wary of officials advocating even for limited market forces, he seems to be one of the more genuine and driven and simultaneously pro-marxist officials in the party.
Is there anything in particular that makes you very wary of him?
He just seems a little more pro-private enterprise then I feel comfortable with. He at least seems competent and I don't think he is an outright revisionist like Gorbachev, but enough to make me skeptical.
How can you call the CPC revisionist? They are arguably the most orthodox (aside from mainly Cuba and Vietnam) of communist parties.
Since when does Orthodox Marxism-Leninism mean operating a market economy? Since when does it mean having billionaires? Since when does it mean having private ownership of the means of production? Since when does it mean having the landlord class?
https://www.theredspectre.com/against-dengism
While China is obviously not as bad as the US or European social democracies it neither is a socialist state nor even a dictatorship of the proletariat (capital seeks to control every state it's operating under!) how can you speak of a dictatorship of the working class when the CPC has bourgeois members within it?
a wild redditor appears, it's very confused
It's so weird that the Trump photo was taken from a position where someone could clearly pop him. Total incompetence.
Whoever took that photo had an angle and shoulda taken it.
i didnt see it the first time, but now that i look at it again… HOLY SHIT THE OPPORTUNITY WAS RIGHT THERE
“What? I see no difference here.”
- Average amerikkkan
The individualist fascist cowering alone vs. the collectivist communist hanging out and having a good time.
American security culture vs Chinese security culture
But people really hate them and are just begging for a regime change, we promise, let us do a regime change bro
Also, here's how things are going in the capitalist paradise of occupied Korea https://asiatimes.com/2019/12/75-of-young-want-to-escape-south-korean-hell/
@☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ Yeah it's batshit insanity down there even six years later. Westerners glorify it because Kpop dweebs are the modern weeaboo — the RoK has very successfully exported its culture to the west — but people who actually live there, or even pay attention to the politics, know it's a shithole.
Now that the US is putting economic pressure on them, things are going to get a lot worse. The regime might actually collapse at this rate.