My serious thoughts?

Good. I hope Xi and the CPC can continue their massive project and beat the West to death further. He has my critical support and I trust him to be a very capable leader in these tough times.

Its only good when White Civilized World be dictatorship

The dems raised more money when trump was president, threatening people with fragile majorities also helps, we need your money or else the other fascists might win and look what they did last time.

I’ve thought about this back a few years ago with the constitution rewrite. Xi’s third term was practically guaranteed at that time barring a coup.

Term limits are definitely not bullshit. They are immensely useful in limiting the powers of a leader, which in general is good for the country. Deng Xiaoping wrote term limits into the constitution so that no one after him will hold power for too long, increasing the risk of them doing too much harm.

Indeed, Chinese leaders are pulled through the ranks, and only those with immaculate cv’s have a chance at holding the ultimate office, but power corrupts, and extreme power extremely corrupts. They can keep their vision in sight for 10 years, but after numerous decades they could lose themselves and become tired, and hence become corrupt, indulgent, and short sighted. Take the Tang dynasty emperor Li Longji. He did a wonderful job at the start of his reign, improving the lives of many citizens and bringing the country to another level (kaiyuan era). But then he lost that drive and listened to music all day and during the tianbao era lots of bad things happened as a result.

Another thing is term limits help force retirement at a sensible age. I myself have no problem with Xi’s third term, as he is doing great and there is a lot of stuff he hasn’t finished yet and which are extremely beneficial to the country. But if he takes a fourth term, he will be old. Really old. Look how Biden is doing. Look at how confused Hu Jintao looks right now. People like that need to make way for the next generation, but without limits in place they likely won’t release their power, especially if they are old and confused, especially if power has corrupted them for quite a while.

I don’t know about you or others, but I definitely know myself. When I go to stuff like recreational skating, I have fun and then skate until I collapse, unless there is a time limit and I get kicked out after 2 hours. Is it good for me to overexert myself, causing blisters and muscle aches and stuff? Definitely not, but at that moment I’m just so caught up I don’t want to leave. Just one more lap, try one more thing. Sure I have shit self control, but I’m sure Xi Jinping feels the same way when he eventually thinks about leaving office.

When we are kids, are parents drag us away. Adults are expected to exert more self control, but we might be able to do so for normal things, but immense political power is to the grown man as halloween candy is to the child. Self control at that level is way too much to ask; after all our leaders are still human, not demigods.

Of course de facto term limits could be imposed. A retirement age perhaps (Xi is ignoring the 67 retirement tradition so something more enforceable). Since it is unlikely someone young makes it to party secretary then a suitable retirement age effectively limits their term length.

What are they saying?

Bro, we shouldn’t wear the “china bad” goggles and have a pessimistic view on things, but we shouldn’t be immensely naive either. Weibo in general is a shit gauge for public sentiment. The government will heavily censor stuff, PR companies will pay to censor some things and promote others (to promote or demote certain celebrities and consumer choices), and then there are the hordes of under educated and radical feminists, nationalists, racists, etc.

I feel that the r/sino subreddit and the old genzedong subreddit and this lemmygrad are actually a lot better to gauge sentiment. Most people here don’t have china bad prejudice, and are educated, and have seen the world (either lives abroad or has vpn, has okay english ability so can consume foreign content). Opinions and viewpoints formed by people like this actually makes sense and is logical. Most of the opinions, if allowed, on Weibo (also Douyin), are conceived “just because”, and they can’t really find any solid arguments as to why.

I’ve had my fair share of discussions with people on Weibo and Douyin (mostly non-political, as political stuff is discouraged), and I give an argument and they reply with slogans or arguments filled with fallacies, and do not rebuttal any of my points.

Unfortunately intellect is a scarcity anywhere, China included. If I get the chance I definitely want to revamp the education system in China. Make high school mandatory and free. Provide free lunches and uniforms so school isn’t cost prohibitive. Give non-Beijing|Shanghai|Guangzhou|Shenzhen schools the same great teachers, buildings, equipment. Okay I stray far. Main idea: analyzing weibo sentiment is great for appeasing certain groups of people, but horrible if you want to make the right decision.

And her party was never voted for by a majority.

And the one after him to be like or greater than him.

Sun Chunlan is vice-premier of the State Council, so what in particular do you mean by “highest instance?” This was also an election within the CPC, not the PRC itself, which, contrary to what the West says, has more than one party, so the makeup of the CPC proper isn’t inherently the makeup of the PRC as a whole.

For instance, the State Council Minister of Ecology isn’t a CPC member, though he’s currently the only non-CPC member holding a rank as high as State Council Minister.

As far as the recent CPC elections, there weren’t many women placed in high position, however you can’t say none. The CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) is the part of the party tasked with dealing with corruption and malfeasance. Yu Hongqiu was elected a deputy secretary (1 of 8), and Wang Xiaoping and Mu Hongyu are with her in the CCDI’s Standing Committee.

It’s a record low, true, but given the prevalence of women in the CPC since 1949 and the adoption of the Resolution on Women as far back as 1922 (more than twenty years before the party gained power), using representative metrics is a pointless task that capitulates to the West’s neoliberal narrative that assimilating token representatives of oppressed minorities into the power structure has any sort of reflection of the real conditions they face.

The fact is, that with the rise of “traditional values,” the clawing back of reproductive autonomy in the US, and the across the board vilification of queer people (while simultaneously China is taking strides to dissolve barriers and improve access to care for queer people), the West is truly in no position to talk about what constitutes women’s equality. It certainly isn’t girlbosses perpetuating imperialism.

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