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Charlotte Gao, The Diplomat: How Were China's Top Leaders Selected?
China’s state media says the candidates have to meet four criteria.
One day after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revealed its new generation of top leaders — the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) — China’s state news agency Xinhua published a report elaborating on how the top leaders were selected from the “black box” of CCP elite politics. While it contained lengthy propaganda and numerous ambiguous descriptions, the article still implied the fundamental selection criteria for China’s top leadership: loyalty to the party and to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
According to Xinhua, Xi presided over a PSC meeting on April 24 and approved a plan on the selection mechanism for the 19th PSC members. The plan said the 19th PSC members would be selected through “recommendation and direct talk” with some restrictions on age and experience.
Xinhua disclosed that, from April to June, Xi personally had face-to-face meetings with 57 current and former party, state, and military leaders and consulted their opinions accordingly.
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WNU Editor: Personality cults never end well for those who follow the leader, and for the country as a whole. I am already hearing through the grapevine that city and provincial administrators/leaders are not happy with the obedience that they must now show (and give) to President Xi. My prediction .... on the outside everyone will be expressing their loyalty to the Party and its leader for the next few years .... on the inside and behind closed doors .... the opposite. I have lived long enough to have seen this happen more than once.
Update: Not everyone is unhappy .... it is true that the neo-Maoists are ecstatic .... China's neo-Maoists welcome Xi's new era, but say he is not the new Mao (Reuters).
4 comments:
Xi is at a crossroads for China and he knows of the size of the opportunity. He could be bigger than Mao in term years time. If he's bringing reform and stops china's illegal actions, and maybe even post for their crimes over the last decades, I'm all for it.is this going to happen? Of course not. Xi has seen China rise by sticking to their demands. It's china's way or the highway sort of... but that will bring China on direct collision course with the rest of the world who lost trillions to china's theft and thuggery. We want our money back and won't accept more of this sh*t
Can you have absolute loyalty of a personality cult and a high enough degree of competence across the board?
"many Chinese shells appear to have been filled with cement or porcelain"
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Always pegged Xi as an ambitious man. Did not think his ambitions would take him to such lofty heights.
He has made a lot of enemies on the way to the top, a lot of enemies.
If I was Xi, I'd be looking over my shoulder...
Anon,
What thuggery on China's Part?
- The South China Sea certainly is.
- Their economic policy is not thuggery. If it were, then the Kiwis would be complicit as well. It is not a crime for a nation to manipulate its currency. China has done just that. It might be considered 'boorish', but not thuggery. That the U.S. did very little shows the short sightedness of political, business, & union leaders.
Can the Chinese help it if people & the AL Gore sell themselves for less than a pornoi? I guess we should not complain. Legal Scholar Al Gore said ""There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law." So I guess, if Charlie Trie throws some pocket change the DNC's way, we should not complain or some good Leftists will Gulag us.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/op030797.htm
www.campusreform.org/?ID=10044
- Has China stolen tech? Yes. So have the Russians and others. Even France spies on U.S. commercial interests.
European countries routinely routinely use the courts for economic warfare.
The Chinese leadership is crap, but I do not see any economic thuggery.
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