>incredibly short sighted It's incredibly pragmatic, Chinese system was shit show in the 80s-10s going after easy gains while building up onerous contradiction

>incredibly short sighted It's incredibly pragmatic, Chinese system was shit show in the 80s-10s going after easy gains while building up onerous contradictions. A lot of toes needed to be stepped on to do something as basic as military modernization, meanwhile Xi hasn't even aggregated enough political power to pass wide scale property tax. The issue isn't Xi centralizing power, but power was never sufficiently centralized, and in many ways, still isn't.