So is it okay to call the president of China a "mandarin," the way theNew York Timesdoes in this article about his apparent successor? Because the reporters/editors clearly mean the Westernized use ofmandarin, meaning a bureaucrat, even though they are talking about an actual Chinese government leader who, in fact, speaks the Chinese dialect we (in the West) call "Mandarin." God, is everything going to be like this until the Chinese take away our press freedoms and unfettered Google so we can have some
She-is-the-very-model-of-a-folksy-major-general.
Now I'm confuzed. Hu's on First. Xi is on Second? What happened to What?
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