2 BIRTHDAYS : A CONTRASTING TALE

Some people love to announce their birthdays with big celebrations. It is as if everyone must know about it. Some people do not even celebrate their birthdays. I fall into the latter category as I find celebrating a person getting older pretty meaningless (even though other people take the effort to have a simple one for me). 

What do birthdays reveal about a person? I firmly believe that in the case of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, everything.

14th June: Donald Trump turned 79. 15th June: Xi Jinping turned 72. 

One threw a US$45 mln military parade, creating all sorts of loud headlines worldwide and was criticised for wasteful extravaganza. The other’s birthday was a very low-key affair which most people would have missed.

TRUMP’S PERFORMATIVE PARADE

Trump’s birthday was a full-blown demonstration of military muscle. US military aircraft flew ov