He went against two principles of Deng Xiaoping’s thought: collegiality and the end of the cult of personality.
Xi has added his ideology, named after himself, into the CCP constitution in 2017.
He removed the term limit of his power.
He is doing a third mandate.
I could go on with examples but if it is a topic of interest for you, I linked two articles.
You might think it is no big deal. But to answer you, Xi is having more power than its predecessors.
Following sentence is in the conclusion of the two articles.
There is no question that Xi himself is more powerful than his prede-
cessors and is better placed to impose decisions in this area to the rest of the CCP
leadersh
Again, how do you have not defined what having “too much power” means. You simply say that Xi has more power than his predecessors. The CPC made a decision to remove term limits and elect Xi for a third term. This should not be surprising in any way given that he has proven himself to be an effective leader and the world is entering a time of turbulent times. Having stable leadership is clearly desirable in such a scenario.
More power than his predecessors is too much power imo. They did not need more power to rule the country. Also, there is no immediate need for power concentration. I do not like it when I see it my country because I know that either this power will be abused immediately or by the successor.
We do not want it that way for China. It makes Chinese power more fragile. Xi may die as he’s already old. And because, there is no clear successor, it is a threat to the Chinese leadership. Or, Xi’s successor might be a power-greedy authoritarian leader.
That’s right, there’s finally a world power to put the west in its place.
I agrre, hence my critic of power concentration. It would be a shame if it ended because of political instability.
And I disagree with your opinion. There very clearly is an immediate need for power concentration given that US is openly talking about suppressing the development of China and even an open war with China to prevent China from surpassing US.
I also don’t know where you have got the information that there is no clear successor or that one can’t be elected exact same way Xi was elected.
Seems to me that you may be projecting what we’re seeing in western systems onto China.
He went against two principles of Deng Xiaoping’s thought: collegiality and the end of the cult of personality.
Xi has added his ideology, named after himself, into the CCP constitution in 2017. He removed the term limit of his power. He is doing a third mandate. I could go on with examples but if it is a topic of interest for you, I linked two articles.
You might think it is no big deal. But to answer you, Xi is having more power than its predecessors.
Following sentence is in the conclusion of the two articles.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12140-017-9271-4
pdf link
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1369148120974881?journalCode=bpia
pdf link
Again, how do you have not defined what having “too much power” means. You simply say that Xi has more power than his predecessors. The CPC made a decision to remove term limits and elect Xi for a third term. This should not be surprising in any way given that he has proven himself to be an effective leader and the world is entering a time of turbulent times. Having stable leadership is clearly desirable in such a scenario.
More power than his predecessors is too much power imo. They did not need more power to rule the country. Also, there is no immediate need for power concentration. I do not like it when I see it my country because I know that either this power will be abused immediately or by the successor.
We do not want it that way for China. It makes Chinese power more fragile. Xi may die as he’s already old. And because, there is no clear successor, it is a threat to the Chinese leadership. Or, Xi’s successor might be a power-greedy authoritarian leader.
I agrre, hence my critic of power concentration. It would be a shame if it ended because of political instability.
And I disagree with your opinion. There very clearly is an immediate need for power concentration given that US is openly talking about suppressing the development of China and even an open war with China to prevent China from surpassing US.
I also don’t know where you have got the information that there is no clear successor or that one can’t be elected exact same way Xi was elected.
Seems to me that you may be projecting what we’re seeing in western systems onto China.