Should term limit for China's presidency remain the same, be extended, or eliminated?

siegecrossbow said:

They haven't banned this website yet? Holy cow... Maoists are way bigger threats than the Chinese Democracy movement.

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It's unlikely to be banned. The support for mao (leftists) is increasing especially among younger Chinese generations. Deng's reforms (privatization) brought economical growth, better living standards along with increased wealth disparity, unaffordable housing prices and vastly diminished workers' protection (996 working condition).

Just like in US, many Chinese got rich but wealth didn't really trickle down. Now young people are starting to rediscover Mao, reading his selective works and using his arguments to combat against reformers' (rightists) orthodoxy that free market will solve everything. This trend has intensified since the covid outbreak due to the irresponsible conducts of private hospitals played in covid crisis compared to public ones.

lcompocida said:

Anyhow, these leaders are absolutely not flawless. All have their own issues to some extent or another. Xi's family members have shown to be extraordinarily wealthy and probably corrupt (no direct evidence that Xi himself is actually wealthy, plus the fact most of his siblings live abroad)

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thats was my point, Xi may doing its anti-corrupt campaign, which is needed, but of course he wont touch his family members asset. doubt anyone inside china can criticize him on this. many of them presume have wealth oversea and/or have family living aboard.

s002wjh said:

least we are bashing US mishandle of covid.

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There's really no way to bash something done that poorly.

s002wjh said:

hey if someone doesn't even allow to criticize them without been get into trouble, wonder what else is in the closet.

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This is not even a logical sentence. What else other than what? Criticism?

s002wjh said:

absolute power corrupt absolutely.

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Awww, aren't you a lil' Western puppy. Nobody has absolute power just because everyone is a man amongst many men and anyone can be held responsible by the masses. Only a god can have absolute power.

s002wjh said:

US did a bad job on Covid handling, but there are other place did better, SK/new zealand/taiwan and China.

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Yeah, pretty much everywhere did better than the US on COVID, even the places that didn't do anything because at leas the president didn't tell people to inject UV light and inhale bleach. What's your point, that people can make fun of this comically terrible response? Let me tell you, there's not a place in the world, not a method of censorship that could possibly stop people from poking fun at that. China's honestly doing too well; small criticism just stating that something isn't perfect isn't prohibited anywhere and large criticism doesn't make sense.

s002wjh said:

thats was my point, Xi may doing its anti-corrupt campaign, which is needed, but of course he wont touch his family members asset. doubt anyone inside china can criticize him on this. many of them presume have wealth oversea and/or have family living aboard.

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There's no evidence that there are any family assets he's protecting. Oh, yeah you only take random Western propaganda/slander as truth LOL

siegecrossbow said:

They haven't banned this website yet? Holy cow... Maoists are way bigger threats than the Chinese Democracy movement.

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A sizeable number of party officials support their views (i.e. are neo-Maoists, New Left).

Plus they act as useful attack dogs against liberals for the CCP

s002wjh said:

thats was my point, Xi may doing its anti-corrupt campaign, which is needed, but of course he wont touch his family members asset. doubt anyone inside china can criticize him on this. many of them presume have wealth oversea and/or have family living aboard.

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Xi is probably a little corrupt, as was everybody else both supporting him and opposing him (including his family)

He also genuinely reduced corruption by an impressive degree and increased control

And he also he genuinely believes in anti-corruption

These three things can be true simultaneously.

voyager1 said:

Are Maoists such a huge faction? I thought they were kept down by the CPC

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A sizeable faction of Maoists comprise part of the CCP. They don't have much power, but have some degree of influence still.

lcompocida said:

A sizeable number of party officials support their views (i.e. are neo-Maoists, New Left).

Plus they act as useful attack dogs against liberals for the CCP

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It seems like lots of higher-ups want to eradicate them though, but are concerned of the backlash from young people and the uneducated. They are the single greatest threat to the stability and future of the country and it's people, along with the demographic problem.

Anything and everything else can be fixed, modified, improved, mistakes remedied, etc. But the shitheads that want to go back to the 1950s and 1960s need to go to hell.

sinophilia said:

It seems like lots of higher-ups want to eradicate them though, but are concerned of the backlash from young people and the uneducated. They are the single greatest threat to the stability and future of the country and it's people, along with the demographic problem.

Anything and everything else can be fixed, modified, improved, mistakes remedied, etc. But the shitheads that want to go back to the 1950s and 1960s need to go to hell.

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I agree neo-Maoists are dumb, but alot of people on the New Left are quite right in pushing left against neoliberals in the party. Besides, most of New Left's views center around things like better labor rights, more economic equality, universal healthcare, improved social welfare, among other things, which are quite sensible.

sinophilia said:

It seems like lots of higher-ups want to eradicate them though, but are concerned of the backlash from young people and the uneducated. They are the single greatest threat to the stability and future of the country and it's people, along with the demographic problem.

Anything and everything else can be fixed, modified, improved, mistakes remedied, etc. But the shitheads that want to go back to the 1950s and 1960s need to go to hell.

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The 5th columnists in China are the ones buying real-estate in Vancouver and sending their children overseas for education. The communists are the real patriots.

canniBUS said:

The 5th columnists in China are the ones buying real-estate in Vancouver and sending their children overseas for education. The communists are the real patriots.

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No, one can say they are bad too. One doesn't have to choose.

But I 100% agree those people are fucking abominable, an absolute embarrassment. There is nothing wrong with Chinese schools at this point. Many are honest-to-god equal or better than Western ones. The biggest reason Chinese send their kids to schools overseas is SELF-HATE.

They really don't believe in their hearts that at a genetic level people with their skin color and eye type could ever equal those 'sexy', 'strong' White people. That's how they think. It's very revolting.