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Los anglos sí pueden nacionalizar empresas de terceros, pero si nacionalizas el petróleo de tu país como en Irán te montan guerras para echarte del poder. Occidente es un puro cadáver que se cree moralmente superior y todavía muchos no quieren darse cuenta.

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Arnaud Bertrand

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4 months ago

It's funny how China always announces official visits at the last minute. It's always been like that, especially with the U.S. If you read Kissinger, he explains that he and Nixon would already be **in Beijing** and still didn't know if they'd meet Mao. A hilarious episode is how they landed with Nixon in Beijing in February 1972, with zero confirmation they'd actually get to meet Mao because - in the writings of Winston Lord (who was there) - "the schedule was never fixed until the last minute" (https://t.co/IgKSWIfzXB). As he explains "this was partly intended to keep us off balance, and partly to make us feel grateful when the actual meeting took place and that it did take place." Kissinger himself wrote that he saw Mao five times and that "on each occasion [he] was summoned suddenly, just as Nixon was" (https://t.co/FWq3sz1NlR). That time in 1972, shortly after the U.S. delegation arrived at the official guesthouse in Beijing, Zhou Enlai popped in to announce to Kissinger that Mao wanted to see Nixon "right away." Kissinger immediately went to fetch Nixon whom he found with his clothes off, about to take a shower (https://t.co/SDXekGUHr6). Nixon urgently put his clothes back on and was whisked away in a Red Army car, accompanied by only Kissinger and Winston Lord, without any Secret Service agents. Bob Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, wrote in his diary at the time: “you wonder what's going on when you have the Red Army surrounding the president” (https://t.co/SDXekGUHr6). When they got to Zhongnanhai, the official residence of the Chinese leadership, they were very surprised by the modesty of the place. As Kissinger describes in On China (https://t.co/SGWJ5BKzyk), Mao's residence looked "no different" from any other official's housing, "had no visible guards or other appurtenances of power" and had "a small anteroom almost completely dominated by a Ping-Pong table." In another writing, Kissinger describes Mao's residence as "simple and unimposing; it could have belonged to a minor functionary. No special security measures were apparent" (https://t.co/FWq3sz1NlR). Meeting Mao, however, left Kissinger - a man not easily impressed, who had sparred with every 20th century leader of consequence - essentially awestruck. He wrote that he "met no one, with the possible exception of Charles de Gaulle, who so distilled raw, concentrated willpower... He dominated the room - not by the pomp that in most states confers a degree of majesty on the leaders, but by exuding in almost tangible form the overwhelming drive to prevail" (https://t.co/FWq3sz1NlR). Not sure how this particular meeting between Trump and Xi will go down but I like the idea of Trump being interrupted in his shower to be whisked away in a PLA car and sent to Zhongnanhai without any security detail. Would be a badly needed humble pie.

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