China officially scraps term limits on presidency
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China officially scraps term limits on presidency
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Re: China officially scraps term limits on presidency
#2How did China manage to maintain a rotating system of supreme leaders for as long as it did? It's a fairly rare achievement.
Re: China officially scraps term limits on presidency
#3This is the norm for China, and it has worked (for its large part of world domination history), so nothing to hold your breath for. In that aspect, Deng Xiaoping was rather an anomaly (although his large part is still the norm). China produces anomalies every now and then. For anomalies to become the norm is atypical.
Re: China officially scraps term limits on presidency
#4How did China manage to maintain a rotating system of supreme leaders for as long as it did? It's a fairly rare achievement.
The system never rotated.
Re: China officially scraps term limits on presidency
#5How did China manage to maintain a rotating system of supreme leaders for as long as it did? It's a fairly rare achievement.
China doesn’t have a “Supreme leader”. To conflate North Korea and China in such a way is terribly ignorant. Just say “head of state” if you’re in doubt on such matters.
And the issue of title leads to something of an answer: China is (used to be) run more by committee than a single leader with cult-of-personality authority. This is reflected in the official title: General Secretary of the Communist Party (who is also the President, but that role used to be mostly ceremonial). That, plus a healthy dose of racism, is why you’ll find it hard to name any two former Chinese politicians by name (cue “Who?” Joke).
That system probably remained stable in much the same way western democracies remain stable: there were certain rules that, by custom, convenience, or well-engineered competition between centers of power happened to remain mostly respected. Even among undemokratic governments, there are huge differences in how they actually work. China (and also the Sowjet Union after Stalin) have/had something not entirely unlike a resemblance of rule-of-law with regards to the political process within each country’s communist parties.
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#6Strap yourselves in for 200+ replies. The chinese sock puppet forum sliding is about to begin!
Re: China officially scraps term limits on presidency
#7This is the norm for China, and it has worked (for its large part of world domination history), so nothing to hold your breath for. In that aspect, Deng Xiaoping was rather an anomaly (although his large part is still the norm). China produces anomalies every now and then. For anomalies to become the norm is atypical.
If it's the norm, why would China ever put terms limits in in the first place?
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#8This is marked as a dupe, but I can't find any other stories on this topic that are more active / higher-voted. Can someone provide a link if they have it?
Re: China officially scraps term limits on presidency
#9How did China manage to maintain a rotating system of supreme leaders for as long as it did? It's a fairly rare achievement.
China doesn’t have a “Supreme leader”. To conflate North Korea and China in such a way is terribly ignorant. Just say “head of state” if you’re in doubt on such matters. And the issue of title leads to something of an answer: China is (used to be) run more by committee than a single leader with cult-of-personality authority. This is reflected in the official title: General Secretary of the Communist Party (who is als…
I think the question is, how did it end up like that in the first place?
And as far as I can tell, the answer is that the party leadership was sufficiently spooked by the craziness of Mao and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution that they decided to spread out power rather than vesting it entirely in a single person.
Re: China officially scraps term limits on presidency
#10Strap yourselves in for 200+ replies. The chinese sock puppet forum sliding is about to begin!
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