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  • The Chinese system is divided into provincial leadership, districts, cities, ect… And they each have their own funding mechanisms and quite a lot of leeway in how they govern at their set domain of government. So they’re running their own versions of America’s “States Rights” system, in that different areas resolve similar problems in different ways.

    I’ve heard when Xi believes someone coming up the ladder is a threat to him, he assigns them to a particularly difficult province. However if they’re very competent they’ll keep solving problems and coming up the ranks.

    If he can’t get rid of them any other way, it stands to reason he’d purge them. The long term problem is that creates a pool of well informed, critical agitators who are competent political leaders.

    100 years ago China was promised democracy (when Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao Zedong were all in the KMT Chinese Nationalist Party TOGETHER)… And that promise will be fulfilled one way or the other.












  • That there is a playbook when these uprisings are imperialist, doesn’t prove or disprove which ones are, or are not imperialist.

    There are funded uprisings, which aid Imperialist aims, and there are uprisings that do not aid imperialist aims.

    Saying (and presenting an substack screed that says) uprisings are imperialist, is not the same as proving that the uprisings mentioned, which are current are Imperialist backed. If you’re going to make that claim, and have it be believed you’ll need more than “other uprisings have been western backed”.

    It’s kind of trash to see a protest and just assume that without evidence. It’s defeatist doomer rhetoric.