Is your country's leader an introvert?

>>212057701 (OP)

Deep down, all tyrants are inherently solitary types. They may have a certain charisma (like Hitler and Lenin), and indeed they must have some social skills to ascend. But in truth they trust no one, keep to themselves, and the most intelligent of them routinely liquidate their own friends, because your own friends are the very people who think and feel as you do, and who are most likely to challenge your own power.

The nihilist writer Emil Cioran brilliantly discusses these ideas in his short volume "History and Utopia", noting that Hitler was smart enough to get rid of Röhm and his whole faction in '34. Cioran himself noted that if he came to power, his first order of business would be to do away with his friends.

sexual tension between Xi and 'rump

General Secretary Xi Jinping is so cool, I wish I was Chinese

When youre the new boss but the old guy still stealing the show

wassup beijing..