Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
Deng Xiao Peng can be a good model for such a non-aligned movement. Leaders should be accountable, objective, willing to sacrifice for the country and is accountable and self-less.
Deng has served his country with honour not for his own glory. Even though he has all the power and influence to make himself the supreme leader, he has set himself an example to be an objective and self-less leader. Without him, China would be plunged into a power struggle today and there will be no one to follow up with modernisation for the good of their fellow citizens. Deng has shown himself to be someone China needed at that crucial moment. He had demonstrated high standard which future leaders found difficult to ignore. He had found a team to take China higher and let other more capable person take over.
Pay and self-reward is not Deng's major consideration. A leader of course needs pay not soya sauce or a few vegetables so that he can survive with reasonable health or dignity. It is a fallacy to say that leaders must be talents who must be paid the highest salaries. This kind of assumption is too simplistic and has no basis as explained in other thread.
I think the very day our leaders changed their early self-less devotion philosophy to self-adulations and self-rewards, considering themselves the talents and paying themselves the highest pays, one of the main pillars of our nation has got slanted and we had begun to experience that sinking sensation.
Despite all the superlative efforts of leadership and talents we are today still struggling from that wrong policy decision. Only a major movement will help to address that fundamental error.