There are only tribes. Broader assemblages arise and are kept through. tyranny. Warring tribes are as civilized as humans can be.
Xi may be out of office long before Trump.
Whodathunk making an atavistic Maoist your leader would cause your country to regress?
They’re Muslims, right?
Why would the West take up their cause?
[The Central Committee is the ultimate arbiter of what China does, particularly if the president weakens and loses his way. There must be some in the Central Committee who remember Xi’s inauguration and have concluded that China’s evolution has not gone the way they expected and Xi promised. The Central Committee is usually opaque, as it is now, but if there is opposition developing to Xi, and it is hard to imagine there is not, then release of these documents merely turns a known event into a global event, further showing Xi’s incompetence.]
The man the First Emperor hand-picked as regent for his young heir apparent was the Chief Eunuch, Zhao Gao. When the First Emperor died, despite also being his closest confidant, Zhao Gao had his son, the new emperor, killed.
This kind of thing isn’t even particularly exceptional in the annals of dynastic histories. When Alexander the Great died, his generals killed most of his closest relatives.
Xi Jinping’s direct subordinates are all people he appointed personally. But each of them has his own personal ambitions. And Xi Jinping is said to have been promoted by Jiang Zemin because Jiang perceived him to be lacking in ambition. And yet the first thing Xi did when he became head honcho was to purge Jiang’s men. It’s possible, perhaps even likely, that some of Xi’s hand-picked men are secretly plotting against him, either individually or as part of pick-up ball-style factions. Not for some perceived greater good, or ideological reasons, but because his concentration of power is becoming a threat to them individually and collectively.
I CANNOT believe I am the first to note that the Chinese call then “reakers.”
And the problem is?
Do you even ponder the thought of the Chinese letting the likes of Comey, Brennan etal and committees like Adam ShiffForBrains rail at the leaders on a daily basis?
The whole lot of them would have either been exiled to Upper Outer Mongolia or Lower Slobbovia and stripped nekkid and told to do the best they can.
Here, outfits like CNN will hire the worst of the lot and make heroes out of them.
Oh yes, and ANY news outlet that would even dream of tearing apart any of the hierarchy would be swiftly dispatched.
The CCP has only one objective: to remain in power and everything else is subordinated to it.
A Gorbachev-type figure isn’t going to emerge from the Communist leadership.
The moment they democratize, its the end of the party-state. That’s the last thing on earth they intend to do.
The people running China aren’t liberal democrats.