This is a good point, and a legitimate reason to temper optimism about China. At worst, though, I think of China as a system where it’s possible for a committed Marxist to come to power (and it seems Xi is that). That’s already miles ahead of any capitalist government, which regularly drum out even halfway decent capitalist reformers.
Yeah it’s the same system. Deng xiaopings reforms didn’t guard against the corrosive tendencies of capitalism well enough which almost endangered the whole Chinese experiment. The CPC official position is that despite Deng’s successes, he made some rightist deviations which need to be corrected.
Is it the same system that created omnipresent and blatant corruption Xi’s been purging locally for the last decade?
I say locally because exploitation and cultivation of corruption is still the basis for their relations with developing countries.
This is a good point, and a legitimate reason to temper optimism about China. At worst, though, I think of China as a system where it’s possible for a committed Marxist to come to power (and it seems Xi is that). That’s already miles ahead of any capitalist government, which regularly drum out even halfway decent capitalist reformers.
Yeah it’s the same system. Deng xiaopings reforms didn’t guard against the corrosive tendencies of capitalism well enough which almost endangered the whole Chinese experiment. The CPC official position is that despite Deng’s successes, he made some rightist deviations which need to be corrected.