Xi Jinping is not Louis XVI
Wang Qishan, Vice President of the People\u2019s Republic of China as well as the friend and mentor of Xi Jinping, has recommended the communist party cadres read the Ancien Regime and the Revolution by Alexis Tocqueville. The Chinese clearly believe that there are lessons in the collapse of the monarchy that China needs to heed. But there also lessons for America in de Tocqueville\u2019s book. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles looks at some of the things that we can still learn from Alexis de Tocqueville.