Kennedys Inspire Great Families in Other Nations: The People’s Daily, China

It’s hard to know how to react to this article in China’s state-controlled People’s Daily. But it’s certainly interesting.

An ode to the ideals held by the Kennedy family and the recently deceased Senator Ted Kennedy, columnist Li Hong writes that ambitious families in so-called communist China and other countries like Brazil, could learn a lot from the Kennedy clan, and ‘run for the highest office and endure to realize the greatest ambition.’ Has anyone informed the author that China doesn’t elect its leaders?

In any case, Li compares Ted Kennedy favorably to former Chinese Communist Party chief Deng Xiaoping and writes of the youngest Kennedy brother, in part:

“Not everyone is endowed with the ‘rock and compassionate heart’ for the practice of politics. Not Emperor Guangxu (picture, right), one of China’s last, who always had to kowtow to the Dowager Cixi who was the real powerbroker, and certainly not the traffic police of Beijing, who hide in corners and pin tickets on cars for illicit parking after seeing the drivers leave.”

By Li Hong

August 29, 2009

Peoples’ Republic of China – The Peoples’ Daily – Original Article (English)

The Boston-bred Kennedy family was one born for politics and its ups and downs over the past 80 years have intrigued readers the world over. The death of Edward Kennedy last week, the youngest of four powerful brothers, speaks of an era’s end that will prompt historians to write a ton about its magnitude and impact.

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