Merit, Money & Power: US vs. China Systems Compared

the fact that then Trump brings in people like Pete Hegseth to be the secretary of defense who has literally no such experience at that level managing any large group. I mean, he was a Fox News host. Yeah. It seems to me like that also would be utterly unthinkable in China. You you wouldn't take a TV host and make them and put them in charge of the entire Chinese military. No, you you certainly wouldn't. And that's crazy. It is crazy and that's crazy that that's how the United States is running. But yeah, as soon as you're, you know, win the election, you get to appoint whoever you want in whatever positions you want. So, all of a sudden, you know, like the Secretary of Defense, well, you know what? It's going to be my boy Pete, you know, because why? Because he's loyal to Trump and, you know, he he's going to follow orders from Trump. not that he's qualified for that. And so there's a big difference there. and kind of bringing back to your original question, talking about with students and things like that, you know, you might have heard of the Gau Gau, ...