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Daily Inspiration Quote by Li Peng

"Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one"

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Li Peng’s line reads like diplomatic wallpaper until you notice what it’s quietly doing: reassuring you that difference is beautiful, then reminding you it’s also a management problem. “Colourful and diversified” borrows the warm, brochure-ready language of multicultural harmony; it flatters a global audience that wants to hear its own ideals reflected back. The follow-up sentence pivots hard. “It is also a complex one” doesn’t just add nuance - it introduces a rationale for caution, control, and slow-walked change.

That two-step is the signature of a career public servant, especially one speaking from within a state tradition that prizes stability over spontaneity. The first clause signals openness without committing to any particular kind of openness. The second clause is where the power sits: complexity becomes a solvent that dissolves responsibility. If the world is complex, then decisive action can be framed as reckless, demands for reform can be cast as naive, and centralized coordination can be sold as prudence rather than coercion.

The subtext is less celebration than preemption. Diversity is acknowledged so it can be contained; complexity is invoked so intervention - from outside critics, international pressure, or domestic impatience - can be portrayed as simplistic meddling. It’s a compact rhetorical shield: an invitation to appreciate pluralism paired with a warning that only seasoned governors should touch the machinery. The sentence doesn’t argue; it inoculates.

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