China's Xi could rule for life, as two-term limit set to be scrapped
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China's Xi could rule for life, as two-term limit set to be scrapped
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#2I don't know if WaPo changed the headline or if this was an attempt to shorten it for HN, but the article currently has "could rule for life" rather than "to rule for life."
The latter may well happen, but at least for now, it's only the former.
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#3I don't know if WaPo changed the headline or if this was an attempt to shorten it for HN, but the article currently has "could rule for life" rather than "to rule for life." The latter may well happen, but at least for now, it's only the former.
We really won’t know until Xi dies in office. Seeing as the NPC is just a rubber stamp congress, there are no other checks and balances on the core leader’s power except what happens between old men in smoky rooms. What will happen is entirely opaque.
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#4I don't really understand why power obsessed people don't seem to recognize that at some point retirement is graceful. (Thinking of Robert Mugabe, for example.)
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#5I don't really understand why power obsessed people don't seem to recognize that at some point retirement is graceful. (Thinking of Robert Mugabe, for example.)
Fear that the new power won't overlook the misdeeds they (the old power) undertook while in power.
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#6I don't know if WaPo changed the headline or if this was an attempt to shorten it for HN, but the article currently has "could rule for life" rather than "to rule for life." The latter may well happen, but at least for now, it's only the former.
We really won’t know until Xi dies in office. Seeing as the NPC is just a rubber stamp congress, there are no other checks and balances on the core leader’s power except what happens between old men in smoky rooms. What will happen is entirely opaque.
>We really won’t know until Xi dies in office.
We would also know if he is replaced 5-10 years down the line while still very much alive.
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#7good thing - he will be able to finish all planned his reforms
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
We really won’t know until Xi dies in office. Seeing as the NPC is just a rubber stamp congress, there are no other checks and balances on the core leader’s power except what happens between old men in smoky rooms. What will happen is entirely opaque.
> We really won’t know until Xi dies in office. We would also know if he is replaced 5-10 years down the line while still very much alive.
Sure, I was talking about the if true happens case.
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#9I don't really understand why power obsessed people don't seem to recognize that at some point retirement is graceful. (Thinking of Robert Mugabe, for example.)
"Power obsessed" is the answer to your own question, I think.
And it's not just because they enjoy power. It's more like riding a tiger. There is no time, ever, when it is safe to get off.
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#10I don't really understand why power obsessed people don't seem to recognize that at some point retirement is graceful. (Thinking of Robert Mugabe, for example.)
If they were capable of thinking like that, they wouldn’t be in the position they were in. It must take a really incredible lust for power, and a very high opinion of oneself to be what amounts to a dictator in the first place.
Humble, sensible, rations, people don’t become the Mugabes of the world, in the same way that people who can measure rewards and risks don’t rob liquor stores.