by RAY D’ALIO
Look, I’m not a numbers guy, OK? I can’t tell you what, how, or who won some tennis game or which, where, what country kidnapped who. I’m just a numbers guy.
All I know is, I got two things in life: My balls, and my principles. And I don’t break neither for nobody. Except my principles.
Now here’s the thing you gotta remember about the Chinese: they ain’t like us! They don’t get jokes. They don’t like democracy. And they don’t even eat cheese. On my mother’s life.
Now I ain’t saying there’s something wrong with Chinese cheese. But think about it.
Let’s say your wife leaves you or, God forbid, your kid goes missing. Maybe you’re worried. You’re thinking: “Where’s my wife?” “Hey, I want my kid back.”
The Chinese don’t think like that. I was talking to a friends of ours in the government the other day and he explained it this way: The Chinese live in a whole-process democratic society with process-oriented, indirect whatchamacallit, democracy, and they know if their friend or kid disappears, it probably means the state’s looking after them. Like a parent.
They got their system, we got ours.
I mean, you trying looking up “democracy” or “tennis players” on the internet in China, you won’t find it. They ain’t interested in that kinda stuff.
I guess what I’m saying is, if you really wanna understand China, you gotta talk to most senior members of its government.”
Ray D’alio is a capo di tutti capi in the Gambino family, and the author of Principles
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