Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for pluggy misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton.

Over the last two years, folks here in the West have spent a good deal of time and effort

trying to climb into the mind of Vladimir Putin,

but not very much time getting into the head of Jijin-Peng, the leader of Communist China,

a nuclear power with a much larger economy and much larger population,

run by a decidedly authoritarian regime, one which I think is far more competent and ambitious than Russia.

Now if we were Chinese students,

we would have a very good idea of what Jejian-Ping thinks

because, in addition to centralizing power,

abolishing term limits,

and increasing domestic surveillance,

Jizinping's thoughts, ideology, and speeches

have been incorporated into the educational curriculum of China. It would actually be very difficult, if not illegal, to evade his opinions on how the government and society ought to operate.

However, I, a humble part-time comedian from Oklahoma, have not had the opportunity to study his

thoughts and worldview in detail. Which is why I have sought out one of the foremost gizienping experts in the world to pick

his brain and get a feel for how one of the most powerful men on planet Earth thinks, what the leader of China thinks and what the

leader of China wants, right here on the political orphanage.

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