Victor Shih

And so basically, the whole thing, once all the decisions got pushed into leading small groups, basically became Xi Jinping.

And it's very hard on him because basically,

Before all these meetings, there's a briefing.

You know, someone gets out a briefing book and say, OK, this is what we're going to talk about.

Here are the policy options.

Which one do you want?

He has to make up his mind.

I mean, sometimes I'm sure he consults with other people and so on and so forth.

So then he has to be really engaged with a large number of policy area on a day-to-day basis because the decisions that he make becomes the law, basically.

But if you have read thousands of these things, sometimes it's quite revealing actually.

Yeah.

It is general.

Yeah, that is difficult.

So I would say because of his upbringing as a princeling for internal party matters, how to control the party, how to control the military from the speeches, you know, some of these, they're not secret speeches, but they're like sort of

more geared toward other members of the Chinese Communist Party.

So some of these speeches, like if you go to China, you can read some of these speeches, which I have.

He has a really good political nose.

Like he knows what it takes to control the party apparatus, control the military.

On especially economic issues, yeah, it seems like some advisor gives him some talking points.

He talks through it.