Often overlooked in media portrayals of China, provincial and local officials in fact have the greatest impact on day-to-day governance, and their actions actively shape national politics.
From what I know it’s a fairly common thing too, hence why there are a bunch of libs in China now who went through indoctrination in US education system. Hopefully that trend will stop now that the US is doing witch hunts and Chinese universities are starting to be seen as being of a similar standard.
What’s funny is the author is Chinese and faculty at Peking University, but went to US universities up to the PhD level.
From what I know it’s a fairly common thing too, hence why there are a bunch of libs in China now who went through indoctrination in US education system. Hopefully that trend will stop now that the US is doing witch hunts and Chinese universities are starting to be seen as being of a similar standard.