China media, 'Gorbachev made serious mistakes, naive to the US'

(ANSA) - BEIJING, AUGUST 31 - Mikhail Gorbachev is a "tragic figure who has satisfied the needs of the US and the senseless West", responsible for "serious errors" and "naive" in assessing the international situation, causing "chaos in the internal economic order ": a political parable that represents a" reminder "for other countries to be cautious towards the West.

This is the heavy judgment of the Global Times, tabloid of the People's Daily, on the last leader of the USSR who disappeared yesterday a few hours after the announcement on the date (October 16) of the XX Congress of the Communist Party that will give President Xiun an unprecedented third term as secretary general.

(HANDLE).