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His hardline anti Coca-Cola stance (that the version sold in China has been altered and is an American ploy to sterilize the Chinese people to maintain hegemony, the version Americans drink and appear in film is to lure us into thinking it's safe) is actually so absurd it's kinda funny. Like none of the scientists and doctors in China has noticed this massive conspiracy, it's just his gut feeling. He's let go of that theory in recent years but still maintains it's bad for you (which is true, but for a chain smoker who drinks 65% ABV grain alcohol, is kind of a moot point).

He does have a soft spot for Pizza Hut. I don't know why, but he likes 洋饼子 (literally "foreign pancakes"). He has that in common with Gorbachev but he didn't like it when I pointed it out.

I guess people of a certain age turn into conspiracy nuts or become a crank to internally justify why things are different and scary in [current year], but a fundamental understanding of the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism inoculates you against the worse, liberal strains of brainworms. He's out here rocking moderate cowpox while American boomers have full blown smallpox.