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This is why Xi Jiping is making stamping out corruption one of his top public priorities, more so than any previous Chinese leader in modern history. And/or th

by hga 11y ago

This is why Xi Jiping is making stamping out corruption one of his top public priorities, more so than any previous Chinese leader in modern history. And/or this campaign is destroying rivals to his power.... He is also on record that he wants China to move forward to have proper rule of law. And if so, we'd better hope he's a 2nd Lee Kuan Yew. Except as you note, the scales don't even vaguely match, trying to effect such a policy change without well neigh unimaginable reforms all the way down to the local level strikes me as equally unimaginable. One of the reasons to equate the rule of law with "democracy" is checking the power of local potentates; hard to see how a huge, all powerful state like the PRC can do that from the top down.

PakG1 11y ago
Yes, definitions and platitudes aside, feasibility is a completely different matter. It would be interesting to see whether the PRC really can implement proper rule of law from the top down, and it is quite possibly not feasible. That doesn't necessarily imply that the desire and effort are false. Xi Bolai was an example of a campaign to destroy rivals to his power using the claim of wanting to clean up corruption. He had goals to achieve not yet achieved. Xi's already at the top. It would be very difficult to remove him from power, given the way the Chinese government operates. It would be tantamount to revolution. If revolution happens, I can't see it being because power rivals plot it.