“The wind keeps its promises, the flowers never miss their time; year after year, we never let each other down. The setting sun and evening breeze, day after day, dusk after dawn.”
A small figure leading a great nation through a huge crisis can hardly be called great. A great figure in a small nation may demonstrate every quality of a great leader, yet never receive recognition. “This is a satisfactory answer.”
Nixon believed that outstanding leadership was a unique art form, requiring both extraordinary strength and remarkable imagination.
(After that, Luo Cheng fell silent again!)
In fact, politics is the art of compromise, of compromise and balance. It has little to do with the law alone! That is why unpleasant things, or things I find hard to accept, often happen in the course of my work. Discipline inspection and supervision commissions are political bodies, so handling a case involves many complicated considerations. From the moment a case is opened, you have to keep reporting and communicating with officials at the same level or above you. When a lead comes in, whether to investigate it, how far to take the investigation, and what result to seek are all complicated questions.
Although there is a time limit for holding people in custody during an investigation, I can tell you that in certain cases involving central-level authorities, detention can be extended, even indefinitely.
