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Re:Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month by _fat_santa on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:53PM (#31400163)
IMO it's all about Xi and the other folks at the top trying to "save face" [1]. Looking it from that lens it all makes perfect sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)

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Re:Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month by anthonypasq on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:58PM (#31400250)
no, it doesnt make any sense, because he is going to get himself assassinated or there is going to be a revolution if they keep this up.

there is no way, unless the government bureaucracy is orders of magnitude more deranged than we've thought, that destroying the country and the global economy is worth less than saving face.

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Re:Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month by steveylang on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:42PM (#31403489)
Among prominent world leaders, both Putin and Xi Jinping were able to handily remove term limits for presidents (Trump also floated the idea plenty of times on Twitter, of course you have to win 2 terms first before you seek a 3rd.)

I am no expert on Chinese politics and the inner workings of the Communist party, but I thought this viewpoint from a Chinese dissident was interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/china-cai-xia-...

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