Re:Why Canada Will Bear the Brunt of the American War on Huawei
by JumpCrisscross on Monday December 31, 2018 @11:10AM
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> Mr Putin and Mr Xi are well educated and have a grasp of how the world works well beyond what we lay people think we know
They’re dictators. But no man rules alone. Irrespective of how well they understand the situation, they are constrained by their sources of political power. There is no evidence those sources understand the rule of law or separation of powers.
This is a common failure mode for authoritarian regimes, by the way. A competent leader forced to make incompetent decisions by an elite corroded by years of corrupt rule.
They’re dictators. But no man rules alone. Irrespective of how well they understand the situation, they are constrained by their sources of political power. There is no evidence those sources understand the rule of law or separation of powers.
This is a common failure mode for authoritarian regimes, by the way. A competent leader forced to make incompetent decisions by an elite corroded by years of corrupt rule.