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Wish you forever Simple, forever Naive

Do we not have any Jiang emojis here? What travesty!

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it is that time where the party clique threw the zhongshan suits for the business suits

didn’t know that one, cool

which implied there is indeed a dynamic of grooming of the future leaders by the previous leaders

i see

to be fair, that tends to be the dynamic in every political institution, but it probably gets more pronounced within china’s system

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It is more pronounced because of the term limits. If you establish an arbitrary term limit, It would imply that there is a risk of rupture for long term political planning once the previous leader is out. Therefore, there is this system of the Elder imminence/influence.

I’m also not saying that no term limits is good either. There are drawbacks with a long term ruling leadership such as a stratification and a certain lack of flexibility within the party

TLDR there is no perfect ruling system, it’s kind of asking what is better btw a parliamentary system and a presidential system. The key is to have some flexibilities to control the variables

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