Oh yeah. I know a Chinese expat who was in line for a ministry post and he declined and left China. He said that being a deputy (something, I forget) was attractive because of the privileges until he learned that the privileges attract ambitious people like spiders attract flies. And like spiders do with flies the job will kill its victims.
It’s one bit of nuance about China that speaks volumes about their system.
[Oh yeah. I know a Chinese expat who was in line for a ministry post and he declined and left China. He said that being a deputy (something, I forget) was attractive because of the privileges until he learned that the privileges attract ambitious people like spiders attract flies. And like spiders do with flies the job will kill its victims.
It’s one bit of nuance about China that speaks volumes about their system.]
China’s system is one of pure power politics. The “Communist” aspect is just cant, just like all of the previous versions, including the ones where the ruler was supposedly revered as a god king. It’s a hereditary aristocracy with a somewhat wider circle of blue bloods than its predecessors.