FROM DAVID CARRADINE IN HONG KONG

MOVE OVER Xi Jinping, and make way for the Fist of Fury. because a secret poll taken among China’s billions reveals that, while they’re okay with the current regime, and not overly concerned by the Marx, Lenin, Mao arguments, deep down in their not so atheistic souls, your average Chinese, if he or she were given a choice, would choose Kung Fu Superstar Bruce Lee for President, politics aside.

“Forget Chairman, Mao, forget Deng Xiaoping, even Jackie Chan, the man who gave modern China back its mojo was Bruce Lee. A century of humiliation didn’t end with the 1949 Communist victory, it ended with Enter the Dragon. That’s when the Mandate of Heaven was restored.”

So says Michael Xanadu, historian and jazz musician, whose recent book A Perfect Harmony: China in War and Peace, has been published to acclaim. People’s Republic, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, it doesn’t matter what kind of Chinese you are, Bruce Lee wiped away the decades of indignity in a single move. Yes, he’s been dead for five decades but his spirit reigns. And deep in the heart of every Chinese, no matter where the are, that spirit lives. So unless Xi Jinping has some moves he isn’t showing us, he has to accept that reality. And live with it. And watch the master’s movies. Again and again.”