The Man Who did not Change China

Sometimes foreigners help the CCP with it's Censorship and propaganda. Today at the bookshop at Hong Kong Airport I leafed through a book called "How China's Leaders Think" by a guy I guy called Kuhn. Apparently he also wrote another book about Jiang Zemin which was a hit in China.
I used to see this book on sale all over China, "Jiang Zemin, the man who changed China", and I never bought it, because it looked like sycophantic propaganda to me.
For me, Jiang Zemin was the guy who missed the chance to change China, the guy who kept China the same, postponing political reform, allowing China's problems of corruption snd pollution, to rise and rise, while allowing China's health and medical systems to decay.
Zhao Ziyang's book "Prisoner of the State", is more interesting. It was secretly recorded while under house arrest because he did not support the repression of the democracy movement.
Zhao could have gone along with the repression like Jiang, but unlike Jiang, he didn't want to go down in history as a Premier who had supported the massacre of its own people. He said he "had a responsibility to history".
I think a more interesting book from Kuhn would be "Why the leaders of China don't think".
Kuhn says he is critical of China but I had a look at the section on corruption in his latest book: in it, he says that the leaders are very concerned about corruption. Of course there are, they are concerned to keep it going, as their sons and daughters are all making a lot of money out of it.