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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by travmatt on Saturday July 29, 2017 @10:10AM (#14881294)
I wouldn't call China a dictatorship... it's an authoritarian state, but calling Xi Jinping a dictator isn't really accurate.
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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by asdfologist on Saturday July 29, 2017 @10:22AM (#14881348)
What can a dictator do that Xi Jinping can't?
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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by travmatt on Saturday July 29, 2017 @12:07PM (#14881816)
Exercise unilateral control of government policy. Chinese political power is vested through the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. Although Jinping is first among equals, his exercise of political power is constrained by the other six committee members, all of whom exercise real political power themselves, and it is the Politburo, not Jinping himself, which controls China. Although Jinping has been consolidating power quite successfully, this does not qualify him to be a dictator quite yet.
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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by paradite on Saturday July 29, 2017 @10:44AM (#14881447)
> What can a dictator do that Xi Jinping can't?

Stay in power for as long as he wants, and then pass the leadership to his child.

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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by asdfologist on Saturday July 29, 2017 @11:08AM (#14881564)
It's unclear that Xi cannot pull that off.
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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by paradite on Saturday July 29, 2017 @11:21AM (#14881631)
Well if he does that, then I would call him a dictator.

But if he does not, I hope you would stop calling him that.

Also, there was no precedence in PRC for such thing.

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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by asdfologist on Saturday July 29, 2017 @11:49AM (#14881738)
Mao was as close to a dictator as you can get.
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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by yellowapple on Saturday July 29, 2017 @03:49PM (#14882744)
Nah, he was a Chairman! Totally different thing!

/s

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