To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (175348 ) 7/24/2021 6:41:58 AM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to But i genuinely adore the Biden albeit i prefer the Trumpmhpbooks.com Peter Clark Donald Trump is not a reader. We’ve written about this here and here — suffice it to say that between sexually harassing a bigly number of women, surviving scalp surgery , and enduring a handful of marriages , Trump hasn’t found the time to read many—if any—good books.Xi Jinping . Xi has touted his love of reading and boasts an impressive array of favorite writers. At the Diplomat , David Volodzko has chronicled some of Xi’s literary pronouncements. “I read a lot of Russian writers, such as Krylov , Pushkin , Gogol , Lermontov , Turgenev , Dostoevsky , Nekrasov , Chernyshevsky , Tolstoy , Chekhov , Sholokhov ,” he told a Russian interviewer just before the Sochi Olympics in 2014. Speaking in France the next month, he cited a slew of that nation’s writers, including Voltaire , Balzac , and Maupassant . In Beijing recently, he concluded a speech before Secretary of State John Kerry with a quote from Marianne Moore .South China Morning Pos tTing Yan mentioned a recent story in Chinese state media about how Xi had as a teenager once walked nearly ten miles through the mountains to get his hands on a copy of Goethe ’s Faust . He lists both The Federalist Papers and The Old Man and the Sea among his favorite books. A few years back, he was even regaling audiences with the story of how he had stopped by Hemingway ’s favorite bar in Cuba to enjoy a Mojito in homage.James Vincent at The Verge explains:Chinese netizens don’t just pay attention to his words; they also scour the bookshelves behind Xi, analyzing the titles and authors found there to try and gain some insight into his mind. And the big additions this year? Well, two new texts on artificial intelligence — a topic of huge interest for the Chinese government. The two books in question, The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos and Augmented by Brett King , both argue that AI will change everything. It’s safe to guess Xi agrees, since it was recently announced that his government is building a $2.1-billion-dollar AI development facility. This could be a sign of what’s to come or an acknowledgment that China is already at the forefront of the technology. Last year, the Economist Peter Clark is a former Melville House sales manager.
