World Leaders who are well read

[Anonymous No.19928205]

>“I have many hobbies and the biggest one is reading books. Reading is part of my lifestyle.”
-Xi Jinping (2013)

>"Reading helps keep our mind active, and it inspires us and cultivates the noble spirit."
-Xi Jinping

>"When I was young, I read a lot of Russian literature. The books by Russian writers such as Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Nekrasov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Sholokhov had a huge influence on me."
-Xi Jinping

>"As a young man, I read The Federalist Papers and Thomas Paine's Common Sense. I also like the stories and thoughts of Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. I read Thoreau, Whitman, Mark Twain, and Jack London."
-Xi Jinping

What other world leaders are engaged in constant reading and self betterment?

[Anonymous No.19928224]

>>19928205
I mean most of them are dude, they've all had decades of elite schooling. Boris Johnson studied Latin and Greek. Pic related is an excerpt from Obama's autobiography. Macron's referenced Georges Bataille and Simon Weil

[Anonymous No.19928226]

>>19928205
he projects an image of buffoonery but mop headed bumbler boris johnson is extremely well read. he studied classics at oxford. he has also written a few books himself, although they are a bit variable.

[Anonymous No.19928233]

>>19928224
Simone Weil i should say!

[Anonymous No.19928239]

what I don't understand about Xi is that he seems fairly smart and his life was pretty fucked up due to the communist party
and yet he supports it whole heartedly
or is it just an act, as he needs to tow the party line?
I mean it's easy to realize that the communist china of yesteryear is not the china of today, which is more like a national socialist state with heavy capitalist undertones

[Anonymous No.19928248]

Dammnn, is he a philosopher king?

[Anonymous No.19928267]

>>19928205
First banning video games and faggots on TV and now this? Is china the good guy after all?

[Anonymous No.19928280]

What I don't understand about Xi is that he was born a noble, then his family was fucked up by the communist party, then he rose to power through his own merit, and yet he still supports the communist party the fucked his family up.
He seems like a pretty smart guy, so I can't tell if he genuinely believes that the communism of Maoist china is functional, or if he's just towing the party line.
I think he's said that the 'sacrifices' of Maoist china were necessary for such fast advancement, but even then it seems like a strange position for someone so well read and educated.
Quite frankly Maoist china was a fucking mess. They melted all their tools for pig iron. They genocided the birds. They all starved to death. It was fucked.

[Anonymous No.19928286]

>>19928239
He has amassed incredible amounts of personal power through his actions. Why bite the hand that feeds you?

[Anonymous No.19928295]

>>19928280
this is an american brain on 4chan

[Anonymous No.19928299]

>>19928280
think you have to be 18 to post here

[Anonymous No.19928319]

>>19928295
>>19928299
make an actual post your kill yourself

[Anonymous No.19928331]

>>19928319
ESL pls

[Anonymous No.19928337]

>>19928280
Well, revolutions can be pretty bloody, so it's likely he secretly believes in gradual reform and promoting Chinese nationalism or so. You can't really just topple the state and just restructure stuff overnight. It will make the country vulnerable to outside intervention or exploitation.

[Anonymous No.19928366]

>>19928205
this is just larp, the guy can barely read off his speeches, he is smart but not in any sense well read or erudite

[Anonymous No.19928383]

>>19928224
The real sad thing beside not fucking is that after reading so much he also never learned how to use semi-colons

[Anonymous No.19928401]

>>19928299
No you don’t. I’m 10.

[Anonymous No.19928438]

[Anonymous No.19928445]

>>19928226
His reciting Homer in the original Greek, entirely from memory, was pretty impressive, ngl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQKRAJTgEuo

[Anonymous No.19928472]

>>19928383
There's nothing wrong with using semicolons to separate out long phrases that are ultimately items in a list.

[Anonymous No.19928528]

>>19928267
No, China is a completely and utterly hopeless situation.
>>19928280
I don't know either, I don't understand Chinese culture and the Chinese mind. >>19928295
>>19928299
What's your point?

[Anonymous No.19929000]

>>19928366
>but not in any sense well read
unfortunately i can't find a higher res version of pic related, but if it is correct, he is very well read.
of course the list does not include any children's classics such as alice in wonderland or winnie the pooh.

[Anonymous No.19929026]

Say what you want about Xi but at least he keeps up appearances. Our "leaders" are pathetic.

[Anonymous No.19929069]

>>19929000
basic bitch taste

[Anonymous No.19929106]

>>19929069
The 99th percentile of the general population, you mean?

[Anonymous No.19929487]

he's borderline moron. he doesnt have time to read, and never has. his life has been singularly focused on gaining ultimate power

[Anonymous No.19929592]

>>19928205
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Sayyid Ali Khamenei. Not only he is the head Islamic scholar, but he is also heavily interested in literature.

>Khamenei has stated that "poetry must be the vanguard of the caravan of the [Islamic] revolution... [T]hrough the arts and literature, the revolution can be exported in an easier and more honest way.”

>He suggested reading The Grapes of Wrath to "an audience of writers and artists" and Uncle Tom's Cabin to the high-level state managers as he thought it shed light on the history of United States.

>He praised the works of Mikhail Sholokhov, Alexei Tolstoy, Honoré de Balzac, and Michel Zévaco. However, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables "is the best novel that has been written in history."

[Anonymous No.19929978]

>>19929592
this guy is based
>Zevaco
wtf how is this literal who so famous in the middle east? reminds me of how russians love jack london

[Anonymous No.19929991]

>>19928280
Yeah, this is good. Keep it up my man!

[Anonymous No.19930028]

>>19929978
I don't think he is famous at all, just some obscure author he happens to have read. He often drops obscure book recs in his sermons and speeches.

[Anonymous No.19930031]

>>19929978
london was a socialist and wrote about russia, how is that weird?

[Anonymous No.19930085]

>>19929592
I really don't get world leaders who are notorious anti-western but are huge fans of western media. The whole Kim family were educated in western countries. Didn't Kim Jong-il even have his own private collection of Western films?

[Anonymous No.19930096]

>>19930085
Their problem isn't "the west" itself, but they are against western liberalism. He is praising classic western lit, which predates the global rise of liberalism after WW2.

[Anonymous No.19930166]

>>19930085
>>19930096
Kim Jong Un is a fan of the products of Western neoliberalism.

[Anonymous No.19930196]

>>19928280
>yet he still supports the communist party
He's in charge of it

[Anonymous No.19930204]

>>19928472
The last one is unnecessary though.

[Anonymous No.19930477]

>>19929000
Nigga do you think he writes his own speeches? You really are a dumb nigga gorilla nigga

[Anonymous No.19931374]

bump

[Anonymous No.19931400]

>>19928205
Why would anyone admire Xi Jinping?