Hu Jintao Answers an Eight-Year-Old Japanese Boy’s Question
An interesting tid-bit from Hu Jintao’s tour of Japan, via news.sohu.com:
Yesterday [May 9, 2008] afternoon, Hu Jintao visited Yokohama Yamate Chinese School, marking the first time any high-level Chinese leader has visited an overseas Chinese school. During his visit, Mr. Hu audited a third grade Chinese class and taught children to read the Tang Dynasty poem “Reflection in the Quiet Night.”
During Hu’s visit, eight-year-old Songtian Haoji stood up and asked the Chinese leader: “Grandpa Hu, why did you want to be the president?”
His question inspired laughter in the classroom.
“I want to tell you, I myself did not want to be the president,” Mr. Hu answered. “It was the people in the whole country who voted me in, and wanted me to be the president. I should not let the people throughout the whole country down.”
POSTED COMMENTS: 4 Responses
“It was the people in the whole country who voted me in”
When did we have a vote? Who was the opposition?
I don’t remember voting in any election either.
well i want to be the president of china just to make it any better a country, lol
If you can’t accept the current system of voting in China, fuck off then. If you are in the USA, Australia or UK, stay there and don’t go to China if you don’t like it. Why do we have to accept the western system of voting as the only and the one????? Fucking traitors