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The Chinese Communist Party’s fear of its people spells trouble

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Re: The Chinese Communist Party’s fear of its people spells trouble

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Historically, autocracies rarely end well. Even the USSR’s dissolution led to a decade of chaos. In any case, can you tell me how the people will remove Xi if they ever become unhappy with him? I mean, peacefully of course. China has no choice to keep pumping their economy. Even a mild recession could lead to really bad things.

> In any case, can you tell me how the people will remove Xi if they ever become unhappy with him? Xi answers to the communist party. The communist party is more invested in staying in power than keeping Xi in office. Every five years the National Congress of the Communist Party of China convenes, which selects the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee, and has the authority to chan…

The CCP Congress has been a sham, decisions taken during the Congress are already made long before it.

On any given day, there are a few hundred protests in China; eg some migrant workers didn’t get paid. Your question is not hypothetical.

Re: The Chinese Communist Party’s fear of its people spells trouble

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It is really hard to get promoted as an idealistic CCP functionary, so if anyone makes it to the somewhat upper stages, they will most definitely be in on whatever their peers are doing (meaning, they have enough dirt so that their peers don’t have to worry about them ratting them out, and they will put on great shows to please anyone higher than them so they can keep getting promoted). In the west, it is like findin…

Sean, are you now in Shenzhen by any chance?

Nope. Moved back from China almost 2 years ago.
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