People do have power. That’s literally what China does. The assembly holds all the power and there’s like 2000 members. So they have a guy be the leader to keep things organised. Xi Jinping doesn’t have the power to do whatever he wants he just has the power to guide 2000 people in a room so you don’t have 2000 people all arguing over each other.
I agree it’s stupid to say “let’s give one guy all the power to literally do whatever he wants” but that isn’t the case here. You also can’t give all the power to someone in countries with term limits. There’s checks and balances in place like having a congress or whatever. It’s not like countries with new presidents every few years hand over the keys to the entire country and the president can do whatever the fuck he wants like madating everyone who meets him has to suck him off and the only thing that stops him becoming a full blown dictator and declaring that actually there will be no more elections is that humans are stupid and the thought to do that only crosses a presidents mind after 6 years and this is circumvented by replacing him with a new guy before that happens.
Those same checks and balances that exist in other countries also exist in China. Government power exists in the hands of the assembly not the president. Xi Jinping can’t do whatever the fuck he wants he just the team leader.
You’re just assuming because they don’t have term limits that means they give one guy literally all the power and let him do whatever he wants and they all have to listen to him. Again this is the equivalent of seeing the same person at the grocery counter as last week and screaming at them calling them a dictator. When they’re just in charge of scanning your items and the same power that put them in charge of that role can take them out of that rule of they start being shit at their job. Well actually this analogy runs thin when you bring up that you can’t change who your boss is but that’s not my point.
He might not have absolute power in the state but your comparison with a common employee is frankly laughable. He is the agenda setter for the highest tiers of Chinese Government, he has the power to appoint multiple executive positions and he is the supreme military leader. He’s not just a random cog in the machine like the grocery clerk, he has real, actual, abusable power and democratic systems must limit any person’s access to abusable power, even if you believe there hasn’t been abuse yet. The issue is not that, the issue is that some day, a person with ill intent might maneuver themselves into holding Xi Jinping’s office and abusing said power, hence the need for the newcomer’s terms to also be limited.
For the record, though, I think the fact that Xi has managed to remove his term limits is in and of itself an abuse of power, regardless of what else he has done.
he has real, actual, abusable power and democratic systems must limit any person’s access to abusable power, even if you believe there hasn’t been abuse yet.
This is the key part about what I’m saying. People are assuming Xi has absolute power when he doesn’t. His role in the assembly is basically being the figurehead. It’s the assembly that has power and passes laws and shit. But because its politics people use the no term limits thing as evidence that his power is absolute but they’re wrong. That’s why I used the grocer example. No one behaves this way with any other scenario but because it’s politics that must mean he’s a dictator and not that hey maybe if he’s doing a good job running the assembly the assembly should keep him in charge instead of swapping him for someone else to do the exact same shit. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
The Chairman of the Central Military Commission is the head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the commander-in-chief of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the People’s Armed Police (PAP) and the Militia. The officeholder is additionally vested with the command authority over China’s nuclear arsenal.
Access to the nuclear arsenal seems like excessive power for a figurehead. Xi Jinping holds that office.
No that’s a separate role. That’s power he has because he’s in charge of the military. Every country has a guy in charge of the military is that guy the dictator of every country?
People do have power. That’s literally what China does. The assembly holds all the power and there’s like 2000 members. So they have a guy be the leader to keep things organised. Xi Jinping doesn’t have the power to do whatever he wants he just has the power to guide 2000 people in a room so you don’t have 2000 people all arguing over each other.
I agree it’s stupid to say “let’s give one guy all the power to literally do whatever he wants” but that isn’t the case here. You also can’t give all the power to someone in countries with term limits. There’s checks and balances in place like having a congress or whatever. It’s not like countries with new presidents every few years hand over the keys to the entire country and the president can do whatever the fuck he wants like madating everyone who meets him has to suck him off and the only thing that stops him becoming a full blown dictator and declaring that actually there will be no more elections is that humans are stupid and the thought to do that only crosses a presidents mind after 6 years and this is circumvented by replacing him with a new guy before that happens.
Those same checks and balances that exist in other countries also exist in China. Government power exists in the hands of the assembly not the president. Xi Jinping can’t do whatever the fuck he wants he just the team leader.
You’re just assuming because they don’t have term limits that means they give one guy literally all the power and let him do whatever he wants and they all have to listen to him. Again this is the equivalent of seeing the same person at the grocery counter as last week and screaming at them calling them a dictator. When they’re just in charge of scanning your items and the same power that put them in charge of that role can take them out of that rule of they start being shit at their job. Well actually this analogy runs thin when you bring up that you can’t change who your boss is but that’s not my point.
He might not have absolute power in the state but your comparison with a common employee is frankly laughable. He is the agenda setter for the highest tiers of Chinese Government, he has the power to appoint multiple executive positions and he is the supreme military leader. He’s not just a random cog in the machine like the grocery clerk, he has real, actual, abusable power and democratic systems must limit any person’s access to abusable power, even if you believe there hasn’t been abuse yet. The issue is not that, the issue is that some day, a person with ill intent might maneuver themselves into holding Xi Jinping’s office and abusing said power, hence the need for the newcomer’s terms to also be limited.
For the record, though, I think the fact that Xi has managed to remove his term limits is in and of itself an abuse of power, regardless of what else he has done.
This is the key part about what I’m saying. People are assuming Xi has absolute power when he doesn’t. His role in the assembly is basically being the figurehead. It’s the assembly that has power and passes laws and shit. But because its politics people use the no term limits thing as evidence that his power is absolute but they’re wrong. That’s why I used the grocer example. No one behaves this way with any other scenario but because it’s politics that must mean he’s a dictator and not that hey maybe if he’s doing a good job running the assembly the assembly should keep him in charge instead of swapping him for someone else to do the exact same shit. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Access to the nuclear arsenal seems like excessive power for a figurehead. Xi Jinping holds that office.
No that’s a separate role. That’s power he has because he’s in charge of the military. Every country has a guy in charge of the military is that guy the dictator of every country?
The other countries have a term limit for who wields that power.