Li, an avid reader of world history and literature, has apparently not taken to heart the lesson that so many Chinese have learned, through great personal tragedies, since 1949. The core values of China’s government are not informed by the humane civility of Tang or Song poets, but by the twisted dialectics of Marxism-Leninism and the amoral militaristic tradition of a party that still cherishes its often brutish and violent habits of governance.
李是世界历史和文学的狂热爱好者，但显然未能吸取1949年后很多中国人通过巨大的个人悲剧所得到的教训。中国政府的核心价值不是来自唐宋诗人的人道文明，而是来自扭曲的马克思列宁主义辩证法和依然珍视自身粗野暴力执政习惯的违反道德的军国主义传统党派。