>Clinton administration tries to hold Jiang accountable for Tiananmen >Jiang pretends to be moronic >"wtf this guy is moronic. it's ok guys, we'll let him be"
Only the biggest, most influential ones like Shanghai and Beijing. Lower-income inland prefectures find it hard to break through into prominence at the higher echelons of power.
You can see this with the extremely high degree of support from Fujian and Zhejiang officials for Xi, it’s where he largely began his career in the Party and his historical links to Fujian are by and large that province’s only real opportunity for relevance at a federal level.
Are there major policy differences between the cliques or is it just a "you get cucked out of any office of significance if your clique isn't in power" kinda thing?
>Are there major policy differences between the cliques
Only moderate differences, by and large. Things like how to streamline investment between provinces are the biggest arguments. Media is another thing, some smaller cliques are a bit like Southeast Asia in that they’re authoritarian, but too corrupt to actually enforce censorship laws so you can use a VPN watch whatever movies you like without the cops ever harassing you (except if they want to extort a parking ticket’s worth of money out of you.) as you can imagine this makes the rich cliques seethe hard as it makes them look bad
provincialism/regionalism is still a large thing in china and the country is a lot more decentralized than people think. it's still closer to an empire like russia than a nation state like japan or germany. but that may finally be changing however slowly. xi is the first ccp leader to speak standard mandarin without a heavy accent for example.
Oh yeah, China is far more fractured than meets the outsider’s eye, but it is absolutely being centralized. There was a wikileaks article a while back where Li Keqiang mentioned that China’s high-speed rail project wasn’t just to help transportation, economic buzzwords, etc etc, but to make any potential separatism harder by interlinking the provinces together even more tightly.
2 years ago
Anonymous
When I went a bit deeper into Chinese politics I was a bit surprised at how the local governments can exert some level of power over the central government, for instance with regards to debt creation.
Also the Chongqing Model and Bo Xilai's zealotry was fun to read about and made me realize that Xi is more of a moderate than the western media make him out to be.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Thanks changbro
Guys, this is a history thread.
My apologies
What was Jiang Zemin's haplogroup/Could Jiang Zemin have won WW2 for the Nazis if he was in Hitler's place/What was Jiang Zemin's IQ?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>What was Jiang Zemin's IQ?
He was an engineer so probably a 125IQ turbotard.
provincialism/regionalism is still a large thing in china and the country is a lot more decentralized than people think. it's still closer to an empire like russia than a nation state like japan or germany. but that may finally be changing however slowly. xi is the first ccp leader to speak standard mandarin without a heavy accent for example.
too simple, sometimes naive
What's frog man up to these days?
i hate shanghai zoomers so much bros
Dont worry, Xi’s about to deport them en masse to the countryside any day now
>Clinton administration tries to hold Jiang accountable for Tiananmen
>Jiang pretends to be moronic
>"wtf this guy is moronic. it's ok guys, we'll let him be"
he was a tactical mastermind
>the frog with glasses was merely pretending to be moronic
sure.
i miss this lil homie like you wouldn't believe
So does every major city/region in China have a CCP clique or is it just the main ones like Shanghai etc?
Only the biggest, most influential ones like Shanghai and Beijing. Lower-income inland prefectures find it hard to break through into prominence at the higher echelons of power.
You can see this with the extremely high degree of support from Fujian and Zhejiang officials for Xi, it’s where he largely began his career in the Party and his historical links to Fujian are by and large that province’s only real opportunity for relevance at a federal level.
Are there major policy differences between the cliques or is it just a "you get cucked out of any office of significance if your clique isn't in power" kinda thing?
>Are there major policy differences between the cliques
Only moderate differences, by and large. Things like how to streamline investment between provinces are the biggest arguments. Media is another thing, some smaller cliques are a bit like Southeast Asia in that they’re authoritarian, but too corrupt to actually enforce censorship laws so you can use a VPN watch whatever movies you like without the cops ever harassing you (except if they want to extort a parking ticket’s worth of money out of you.) as you can imagine this makes the rich cliques seethe hard as it makes them look bad
Oh yeah, China is far more fractured than meets the outsider’s eye, but it is absolutely being centralized. There was a wikileaks article a while back where Li Keqiang mentioned that China’s high-speed rail project wasn’t just to help transportation, economic buzzwords, etc etc, but to make any potential separatism harder by interlinking the provinces together even more tightly.
When I went a bit deeper into Chinese politics I was a bit surprised at how the local governments can exert some level of power over the central government, for instance with regards to debt creation.
Also the Chongqing Model and Bo Xilai's zealotry was fun to read about and made me realize that Xi is more of a moderate than the western media make him out to be.
Thanks changbro
My apologies
What was Jiang Zemin's haplogroup/Could Jiang Zemin have won WW2 for the Nazis if he was in Hitler's place/What was Jiang Zemin's IQ?
>What was Jiang Zemin's IQ?
He was an engineer so probably a 125IQ turbotard.
provincialism/regionalism is still a large thing in china and the country is a lot more decentralized than people think. it's still closer to an empire like russia than a nation state like japan or germany. but that may finally be changing however slowly. xi is the first ccp leader to speak standard mandarin without a heavy accent for example.
Jiang Zemin singing Love me Tender and dancing the Cha Cha with Ramos
Guys, this is a history thread.
If Jiang had been born in the United States or Canada I think there’s about a 30% chance he’d have been a furry in his teenage years
Post historical evidence for the existence of North American furries in the 1940s.
Based on the apparent state of development I'd say that's modern day Manitoba.
Hard to rate this literal who when most people don't know who he is
In another world, he would be a diehard libertarian capitalist giving lectures together with Milton Friedman.