Right on. My biggest beef with Xi is succession. One of the biggest mistake and the weakest link in Mao's rein is succession. So with no surprise, I believe Deng's biggest contribution to the Chinese governance mandarin system is that he has established a functioning succession mechanism within the party. But Xi has broken that without any replacement. As we all know, succession is full of bloody drama throughout the Chinese history. I can understand Xi wants to clean the house. But succession shall be his top-3 tasks in the next 5 years.Bro excellent analysis Bravo!!!! can I add one more, training and nurturing future cadre. The process he instituted will leave a mark as he instill his ideas on how the CCP should be run and manage. With him for another 5 or 10 years, Xi thought will institutionalized.
In a larger context, Xi has actually accomplished much in educating and nurturing cadre, through his poverty alleviation plan, which has also served as his talent pool or bull pen. I heard a lot of stories that many performers in the poverty alleviation program got promoted. It becomes clear to me that Xi likes to promote people from two types: (1) poverty alleviation program and (2) space industry, outside his own base in Zhe Jiang or Fu Jian or Shanghai.