> The Communist Party of China wants to appear to have a unified will. To this end, they tend to allow whatever the Central Committee wants ... This is the pri

> The Communist Party of China wants to appear to have a unified will. To this end, they tend to allow whatever the Central Committee wants ... This is the principle of democratic centralism[1]. A case could be made for conceptions of democracy other than the western one, but with the abolishment of term limits China is not making that case very well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism