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I'm not sure how this statement from the parent: > The CCP had an incredibly tight control over the entire country. And your comment below really disagree wit

by tailspin2019 5y ago

I'm not sure how this statement from the parent: > The CCP had an incredibly tight control over the entire country. And your comment below really disagree with one another? > Of course once central leadership is aware of a situation they can mobilise vast resources and have absolute power to impose whatever strategy they choose. Anything or anyone in the way gets flattened. I'm totally ignorant on this matter but to my reading there seems to be more in common between your two viewpoints than not.

simonh 5y ago
The point is there are different stakeholders with mutually incompatible interests in China. It’s not monolithic and no one centre of power knows and directs everything all the time. That’s why when the central authorities come across local officials doing stuff that hurts it embarrasses them, they impose such harsh penalties, including death. You don’t have to punish behaviour that doesn’t happen.