Yet he certainly has a point, and not just for himself alone. In coming days, weeks, and months, the eyes of the world will be watching very closely events as they unfold in China, during this Year of the Buffalo. Currently, it is being concealed. Both are mythic. The following is a telling for the historical record, not for the controversry.
Controversy is present because there are two versions, two ideologies.
If they meet, which has been too rarely, they then talk past each other, arguing that their definitions are the only terms of debate. This naturally results in public humiliation, in suffering. Both sides lose. And yet both sides are interconnected, interdependent, and need reconcilation. The following is submitted in the spirit of reconciliation.