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https://archive.is/g4uZH https://archive.is/g4uZH HN can call him virtual Xi, or "V-Xi" for short! I'm sure he can "add value" to startup ideas. More seriousl
by contingencies 2y ago
https://archive.is/g4uZH https://archive.is/g4uZH
HN can call him virtual Xi, or "V-Xi" for short! I'm sure he can "add value" to startup ideas.
More seriously, surely this is someone in the CCP's discordant art project masquerading as a serious party effort. In which case - what's the bet heads will roll when he wakes up to the fact he's been Pooh-beared again?
I'd like to ask it: "When your whole country wants you dead, your only friends are dictators, your economy is tanking, the youth are unemployed, capital exodus is matched only by brain drain, macro-demographic impacts of bad policy are eviscerating the size of your workforce and the age of your population, and your remnant control rests upon cutting off heads, could it perhaps be time to retire?"
- gds44 2y ago[flagged]
- rurp 2y ago> could it perhaps be time to retire? Yes, but it's not going to happen. One of the (many) problems with a dictatorship is the lack of rule of law and what that means for giving up power. There is no such thing as a safe retirement plan, Xi and his loyalists would be at the mercy of the next ruler. Leaders in such systems almost always surround themselves with loyalists and cling to power, especially as they age and their effectiveness diminishes.