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?
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.