Xi Jinping and the end of collective leadership (China)

Nikkei ^ | October 23, 2017 | KATSUJI NAKAZAWA

[central_va]

I’m so glad we off shored our manufacturing and technology to those loving and wonderful Chinese and created millions of unemployed Americans. So wonderful. / sarcasm.

[Simon Foxx]

Y’all beat me to it, but China indeed has, since Deng took power, become a pure fascist state, plain and simple.

The term carries a negative connotation in the West due to Mussollini (whose fascism also functioned relatively well from an economic standpoint, until his fateful decision to throw his lot in with Hitler), and Hitler (who blended fascism with an ancient type of mass-murderous pagan worship and outlook. Rome with panzers did not look any prettier than Stalin’s “New Communist Man”).

But in China, as has correctly been pointed out, this is simply an age-old way to run the culture and society that is not likely to change significantly and does not carry any negative social connotation - quite the contrary.

In a way, the fact the Chinese have managed to avoid the worst excesses of the culture-rotting aspects of the “social media internet” as seen in the West gives one hope in the survival of human civilization - which is entirely absent if one looks at the degenerate Western Europe, and is very much in doubt over here given the cultural mortal combat that we are engaged in here in the good old USA ...

My own hope in the future survival of civilization lies partly in the two Eastern nations that have proven most resistant to the brain rot that is Western Cultural Marxism - China and Japan. (While Japan’s negative natality rate is a truly worrisome prospect, their refusal to ‘throw open the borders’ makes this far less of a problem than it is in the West. In fact, Japan’s cultural cohesion - like China’s - will serve it well in the long run, as will Japan’s leadership role in developing robotic technologies that will largely ameliorate the ill effects of the labor shortage that their negative natality rate is creating).

[TigerLikesRooster]

The problem with Western Civilization is that the rotting (of culture and society) is not driven by complacency, neglect, and slow corruption of mind. It has in it a virulent ideology which has been surviving for more than 150 years. It is designed to systematically destroy the civilization. It has a well laid-out plan of targeting critical elements. Under such attacks, the system crumbles faster.

[ek_hornbeck]

No matter how much political power Xi accumulates, China cannot and will not go back to the Maoist model of state ownership. Xi realizes that if he wants China to remain a major power, it needs an economy based on some level of private property and profit. China can’t afford its military strength or its political sway over other countries (including the US) if it goes back to a Communist economic system. Xi will no doubt continue to crack down on any and all political opposition, but he won’t be re-nationalizing private property en masse anytime soon.

[j.havenfarm]

Well, Guo’s comb over is a crime against cosmetology, that much I know!