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They have this mericratic way of picking people for these government posts where you rotate into the university and really think about state allocation of resources and the welfare of the country and then you rotate back into some bureaucratic position."

This is baloney, he needs to get to know a few people there. Underlings find their way to the top by kissing ass. This is usually done in the form of "giving presents", (at least those are the words that my chinese freinds use). There may be people that are spotted as having an aptitude to advance, but that is not an automatic qualification, it is just the start of the process, where the supervisor starts the process of soliciting "presemts".

Kind of reminds me of the way some of our city governments work.