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What can a dictator do that Xi Jinping can't?
by asdfologist 9y ago
What can a dictator do that Xi Jinping can't?
- paradite 9y ago> What can a dictator do that Xi Jinping can't? Stay in power for as long as he wants, and then pass the leadership to his child.
- asdfologist 9y agoIt's unclear that Xi cannot pull that off.
- paradite 9y agoWell if he does that, then I would call him a dictator. But if he does not, I hope you would stop calling him that. Also, there was no precedence in PRC for such thing.
- asdfologist 9y agoMao was as close to a dictator as you can get.
- yellowapple 9y agoNah, he was a Chairman! Totally different thing! /s
- travmatt 9y agoExercise unilateral control of government policy. Chinese political power is vested through the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. Although Jinping is first among equals, his exercise of political power is constrained by the other six committee members, all of whom exercise real political power themselves, and it is the Politburo, not Jinping himself, which controls China. Although Jinping has been consolidating power quite successfully, this does not qualify him to be a dictator quite yet.