Chinese Internal Politics

caudaceus said:

Sorry it's written in Mandarin

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586041595614269441

But apparently the new chief propaganda guy was once studied in a Harvard executive class back in 90s and he already postulated conflict between business leftist (woke?) and conservative blue collar (MAGA & populist right wing). Something that just exploded at most 10 years ago.
Brilliant I must say.

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What's your take on this Alphabet Chinese-American "journalist" take on Xi Jinping and his alleged drive for total control of China from top to bottom.


I feel that all these western propaganda about Xi Jinping being x,y,z has really taken a life on its own and then some.

Bellum_Romanum said:

What's your take on this Alphabet Chinese-American "journalist" take on Xi Jinping and his alleged drive for total control of China from top to bottom.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586993460787048448

I feel that all these western propaganda about Xi Jinping being x,y,z has really taken a life on its own and then some.

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Xi is not someone you can just dial-up, unless of course you are his homies

Those precautions resembled the checks and safeguards employed during Cold War, Campbell said, but noted that China had been reluctant to use them.

"So we do have a hotline, it's known to have, the couple of times we've used it, just rung in an empty room for hours upon hours," he said without elaborating.

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QUESTION: Just a quick follow-up on that. Talking about the cooperation, what’s the next step? Would we see more engagement between Secretary Blinken and Wang Yi before the potential summit in Bali?

MR PRICE: I couldn’t speak to any forthcoming phone calls. What I can tell you is that the Secretary has made clear to his counterpart on at least a few occasions now that he should feel free to pick up the phone anytime. The Secretary also adopts that approach. The Secretary believes that we need to maintain these open lines of communication. So if there’s a need from our side or from Beijing for Secretary Blinken and Wang Yi to speak before the upcoming G20 meeting in Bali, I have no doubt that will happen.

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Biden is still desperate to get a meeting with Xi at G20, which still isn't confirmed.

Even Biden can't reach Xi, who does Zelensky think he is?

coolgod said:

Biden is still desperate to get a meeting with Xi at G20, which still isn't confirmed.

Even Biden can't reach Xi, who does Zelensky think he is?

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Nguyen, Scholz, Sharif >>>> Biden
Baaseed!

Forced re-opening?

Maikeru said:

Forced re-opening?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587416499827855360

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Your message is a crappy twitter translation of a wechat message of an unnamed source.
Even 4chan is more reliable than that shit you just posted.

Steady pair of hands...

Strangelove said:

Steady pair of hands...

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Just a tiny correction.

Bellum_Romanum said:

What's your take on this Alphabet Chinese-American "journalist" take on Xi Jinping and his alleged drive for total control of China from top to bottom.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586993460787048448

I feel that all these western propaganda about Xi Jinping being x,y,z has really taken a life on its own and then some.

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Typical make up random stuff in their head, post it on twitter and claim it must be true. If is proven false, then China must have censor it.

I'm wondering if it's possible to reform China's political system to allow for direct election of the General Secretary. However, only members of the Central Committee can chose to run for the position, and must be endorsed by one or more other members. The rest of the current political system will be unchanged (i.e. how to become a member of the Central Committee is the same, etc).

Is such a reform possible? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a system?

Reclaimer said:

I'm wondering if it's possible to reform China's political system to allow for direct election of the General Secretary. However, only members of the Central Committee can chose to run for the position, and must be endorsed by one or more other members. The rest of the current political system will be unchanged (i.e. how to become a member of the Central Committee is the same, etc).

Is such a reform possible? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a system?

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does not work, because China has more than CPC as the party. They also have 8 minor parties.

you'd have to open up direct election for the presidency and grant the presidency more de jure executive power.

China is legally a semi-presidential system with 2 executives: both a powerful president and a powerful premier (like France and Russia). This is in contrast to a pure presidential system like the US or a pure parliamentary system like UK. So the entire framework of how the president works with the premier has to be worked out, how the Politburo (a party organization) interacts with the State Council (a state organization), etc. This is not impossible, but it is not something to be done lightly and frankly, if it were to be done, should've been done by either Mao or Deng, or if/when Xi has overwhelming political legitimacy. Otherwise, nobody has the political capital to make such big changes not just legally but in actual government mechanics.