>>18028274Commie systems are never meritocratic. Chinese Paramount Leaders gain their positions out of political clout and nepotism.
>>18028320ThisLooking at Xi Jinping's life it's pretty obvious that his position is 100 percent a result of nepotism. Man never saw combat a day in his life and was assigned to the Central Military Commission just because his father happened to be a high ranking revolutionary
>>18028331Yet hes a better leader than any of his western contemporaries
>>18028336What kind of stupid statement is this? Monarchy is a system that revolves around nepotism and it spat out both competent and incompetent leaders, the problem is is that this isn't a stable or reliable system, and is why it has largely been done away with. There's a reason why Western nations have been leading the world, and it doesn't have to do with phony strongman dictators.
>>18028336He's on-par with his western contemporaries. China is a country with high taxes, no social safety nets, a homeless population of over 4 million.etc You just like him because you're a retarded tankie and also because China is insular and is less pro-immigration than western countries.
>>18028347>MonarchySo not communism >>18028350>China is a country with high taxesNot higher than most western countries>a homeless population of over 4 million. California alone probably has more than that honestly >You just like him because you're a retarded tankieNot really, i just like him because hes not a kike worshipping warmonger and puts his country and people first
>>18028364>California alone probably has more than that honestlyNo it doesn't, not even close. The entire homeless population of the United States is around 0.17% of the population or around 600,000 people
>>18028336That's not really a high bar, honestly. Idiotic people elect idiotic rulers, and if you averaged Trump supporters' IQ, it'd be like 60 in the most optimistic scenario.>>18028350>homeless population of over 4 millionThat's 0.002% of the total population, which absolutely mogs any Western country
>>18028373>which absolutely mogs any Western countryNaw, it's on-par with the west, Xi isn't an exceptional leader, at best he's a Liberal like everyone else
>>18028331CMC is just the commander in chief that isn't included with GenSec or president in China. US and most presidents are the commander in chief by default and most aren't from the military, what retarded logic.
>>18028350>China is a country with high taxesAmazing how you proved you know nothing about China with your very first statement
Imperial Examination System for burrecrats started back in 206 bce, on some level china is just culturally gonna have a highly meritocratic system, today they have a Gaokao exam, also you cant move up ranks politically unless tested at lower levels of leadership in city, provincial, regional levels and being judged based on results
>>18028350>China is a country with high taxes, no social safety nets, a homeless population of over 4 millionSomething he inherited from his predecessors. Thee situation is being actively resolved. It's not 2015, it's not 2005, it's not 1995, etc.It's 2025.
>>18028331so then none of the american presidents in the last 50 years have been qualified? none of them have served in the military but they're all commander in chief
>>18028274On one hand, the Chinese have focused a lot on economic building so a lot of their leaders since Deng can claim to have made China more prosperous than they left in. On the other, their fuel for numbers-go-up has caused them to build ghost cities, a housing crisis, an extremely costly rail network that can't pay for itself, an aging male-leaning population with no safety net, and being on path towards the middle income trap.So it's hard to say. While there are public rules to the CCP, how it works behind closed doors is effectively a mystery at-large. It doesn't seem meritocratic. It's more like the leaders never had to resolve giant crisis since the Sino-Viet War and instead seem content to sleepwalking into a forthcoming crisis.
>>18028901Nice irrelevant whataboutism. We were discussing that Xi attained his position through nepotism and party politics, not "meritocracy"
>>18028911Don't forget how awfully they bungled covid with the "zero covid policy" where city blocks were forced to quarantine in their apartments by armed guards, and not given food while not being allowed to go out and get it because guards would beat them. Then people were locked in their apartments to not break covid quarantine and could not escape when a fire started, so hundreds died. Tons of other horrifying aspects of it, thats just the tip of the iceberg. No country really handled it well, but China's response was uniquely dystopiab.
>>18028913>whataboutismI accept your concession
>>18028920I refuse to engage, this thread isnt about comparing chinese leaders to western ones. It is about how Xi is a nepobaby, not someone selected merely for being the one with the most merit.
>>18028927then how did he move up the ranks from a provincial level? you need results to do so
>>18028331wasnt his father kicked out of the party and died a long time ago? is the supposed nepotism his epigenetics and muscle memory?
>>18028933Connections through his father, friends from going to the best school in the country (where only the children of top party members are admitted) and through his wife's connections (she is also a nepobaby who went to the best schools because of who her parents were)
>>18028911All of those are policies Japan and South Korea implemented. None of them are unique to China.South Korea and Jqpan both had forced population control in the 1950s and 1960s skewing sex ratio and aging them.South Korea also rapidly urbanised, building skyscrapers on farmland.All of these policies were pushed by the US>>18028919The Uyghurs burned themselves to death in the Urumqi apartment fire.
>>18028274I thought this was a photo of North Korean politicians for half a second when I only glanced at it from the catalog and now I’m disappointed. Fuck the Communist Party of China
>>18028347Western nations began leading the world when "dictators" were the norm, idiot
>>18028331>Man never saw combat a day in his life and was assigned to the Central Military CommissionDoes anyone actually believe you need infantry combat experience for that? This isn't an action movie>>18028974>wasnt his father kicked out of the party and died a long time ago?His father was repatriated after the cultural revolution like many others. In retrospect it was very to send Xi to the country side since it kept him out of the political game of thrones in the interior which caused the downfall of many other princelings.
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