The Chinese very much have local government, and they lack many of the tools we have to centrally manage those local governments, in part because their central

The Chinese very much have local government, and they lack many of the tools we have to centrally manage those local governments, in part because their central government is not at all transparent. The other issue is that only 6% of their government employees are at the central level. The US? 12%. EU? 14%. The Chinese have a saying for this: the mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away. Xi actually comes predominantly from the reformer branch of the Chinese political house. I think his biggest challenge is that his precedessors grew China too quickly.