I notice Western leaders study political science in college, while Chinese leaders study engineering. This include chairman Xi Jinping who studied Chemical engineering. What does this mean/imply? I know Any Forums prefers engineering over political science due to ideas of “objective truth” (?)
Chinese engineers in power
Nathaniel Gray
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Angel Sanders
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Joseph Nguyen
well op please do tell us how well the electrician Trotsky fared against Stalin
Jacob Gray
Kek, but all of China’s premiers study some form of engineering. The point is, might engineering be useful for critical thinking in politics, rather than *modern* day political science classes which may not encourage critical thinking and objectivity?
Trostky isn’t a modern example
Luke Nguyen
"modern" and "worthwhile" rarely goes in hand
Nathan Hernandez
Political science takes a lot from the social sciences. Engineering requires a good grasp of calculus and concepts such as parsimony. Political science teaches math for tenors.
Julian Hall
Chinese sure as shit don't study sustainable infrastructure...
Charles Sanchez
Nothing, all of them are big nosed psychopaths and exactly the same effeminate idiots.
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Camden Perez
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Ryder Miller
Kek
Michael Richardson
Spoilers - all Chinese politicians who studied engineering in college bribed and cheated their way through the program, spent six months working on a job site arranged by their parents and then spent 10-15 years working as career bureaucrats in The Party rising up the ranks.
Eli Robinson
Most British politicians (and even political journalists) come through an exclusive machine called the Oxford PPE:
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A notable exception: Maggie Thatcher did Chemistry.
And they rule over a nation that is more like pic related.
Mason Morgan
>Chinese sure as shit don't study sustainable infrastructure...
There is nothing sustainable about American infrastructure or way of life generally. Can't just keep invading countries and printing money forever. Within a generation USA will look like Brazil and you know it.
Bentley Kelly
>And they rule over a nation that is more like pic related.
I audibly kekked but this was also sad lmao
Aaron Ward
That's what every big nosed piece of shit does.
Landon Johnson
>This include chairman Xi Jinping who studied Chemical engineering.
>chemgineer
>bans drugs and drug manufacturing
Bullshit. That ugly chink knows dick and ass about chemistry, just like Merkel knew nothing of chemistry.
Actual chemists do not tolerate bans on chemistry or chemicals.
Aiden Kelly
Political science is underrated in some areas overrated in other areas.
Jace Edwards
Because poli sci is sophistry and BS and engineering means you actually have brains
Austin Rivera
fuck commies
Mason Thompson
Retarded take. Can't tell if bait.
Most Chinese would openly cheat at my Uni. Just carrying out full conversations in Mandarin during exams.
>What does this mean/imply
Engineering is probably a useful skill in general especially in a command economy, but unless he read a lot of political philosophy on his own it probably isn't enough. Good leadership involves studying character flaws and ethics which engineering disciplines wouldn't cover. That being said, in the case of Xi Jinping it means very little, because I believe he's read a fair bit of political philosophy on his own and isn't relying solely on his chemical engineering degree.
Eli Wright
They enjoy high tech infrastructure but suck at propaganda
Jace Perez
user, chemical engineering is heat transfer, mass transfer, processes etc. It is not chemistry in strict sense
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Brandon Fisher
Tbh it's not sustainable infrastructure. They just prefer profit over morals, and that's how they got rich.
Nolan Rodriguez
People that love and understand chemistry are, at our core, naturalists and libertarian-minded, even when we begrudgingly take orders from the boss. But we cannot as a rule govern people. It's just not in our character.
For better or worse.
I don't believe for a second that Xi has done anything beyond associate's level chem. Most educated Chinese seem to have at least that level of chemistry skill so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there.
I myself have NO degrees, but I have more lab work under my belt than most master's degree holders. far less paper writing and far more actual smells and pops and burns and fizzes.