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On paper they're directly under the command of the CCP, but Xi Jinping only has so many hours in his day like any other human and can't personally monitor every
by makomk 5y ago
On paper they're directly under the command of the CCP, but Xi Jinping only has so many hours in his day like any other human and can't personally monitor everything that's happening in a billion-person country. That seems to leave plenty of room for government branches to have their own internal politics and interests in practice.
- temp8964 5y agoSo why the hundreds of thousands of mouths of Chinese Doctors and Nurses and medical researchers are kept shut now? Well, apparently the CCP told the truth, the whole truth to the world. Authoritarian regime doesn't work. /s
- makomk 5y agoAs far as I can tell from the outside, there were actually multiple overlapping cover-ups within China by different organisations with different interests that resulted in doctors, nurses and medical researchers being silenced - starting with local-level coverups that tried to keep the national government from knowing there was a problem, and ending with multiple national-level coverups, including attempts to cover up the fact the local government had covered stuff up because that in itself was embarrassing to China as a country.
- totalZero 5y agoThat's what you get with authoritarianism. Both the carrots (political advancement) and the sticks (punishment from above) encourage underlings to obey what they think their superiors would command, even when those superiors are not involved. The pithiest example is the death of Li Wenliang. The doctor who was threatened and silenced for warning others of a SARS outbreak, himself died of the disease when it spread due to inaction.