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Future historians will look back on the beginning of the 21st Century as the end of one era and the beginning of a new one – thanks in no small measure to two gifted leaders –both much misunderstood and even demonized as enemies of “freedom” and “democracy”.
That’s Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, who, over the last decade, have not only done more for the people of their respective countries than any leaders in their national histories — but offered new paths and new choices to the global majority that allow them to realize the “freedom” and “democracy” that West knows only as slogans.
