You seem to have already forgotten your own comment, Xi can be “turfed at any moment.”
That’s the pressing need, to not be turfed.
Its internecine.
It’s unstable because there is no system and no leadership.
[You seem to have already forgotten your own comment, Xi can be “turfed at any moment.”
That’s the pressing need, to not be turfed.
Its internecine.
It’s unstable because there is no system and no leadership.]
All dictators have similar worries. People in that line of work look at it as the cost of doing business. Doesn’t prevent them from rolling the dice. What’s all that power for, if not to reach for greatness? Xi could have contented himself with being a mid-level bureaucrat, instead of vying for the top spot. No one would have noticed him and he could have coasted all the way through to retirement. Instead, he propelled himself into the arena, and conducted purges unprecedented since the Mao era. That’s not an accident. He cleaned house domestically and ramped up military procurement to get ready for one big push abroad. Xi is a man in a hurry, and he’s not getting any younger.