Re:China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit
by tonylinn80 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:07PM
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The concept of "Party" works in very different ways in China as it does in western world.
When people in western governments started to form conflicting opinions, they'd say, let's create different parties and compete with each other.
When people in Chinese government started to form conflicting opinions, they'd say, let's keep the conflicts internal and unite under the same party.
Re:China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit
by fjsolwmv on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:31PM
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As long as the opinions weren't so disagreeable that the Party leaders don't through the opposition into dungeons
Re:China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit
by zdky on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:57PM
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The inner disagreement in Communist party of China could be as big as whether to adopt democracy or more central control of power; whether to stick to communism or drop it. That hadn't break the party into multiple ones so far
Re:China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit
by candiodari on Sunday March 04, 2018 @06:10PM
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That must be what happened in the Chinese civil war.
Or during the Tiananmen massacre.
In both cases, for reasons unknown, thousands or more (hundreds of thousands) got slaughtered. Most had nothing to do with it.
There are still intra-party factions. Xi’s anti-corruption drive is an effort to defang them. An arguable strength of China’s one-party system was that it had an odd sort of internal democracy, neatly contained to the party elite. Xi is disabling that internal disagreement, which bodes well for short-term stability but points, long-term, towards China becoming a normal sort of dictatorship.