Comment on Who will win ? Chinese Commies or Biden Commies ? Taking bets
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 3 years agoThe thing is, their fed has already been replacing the local governments. The is very central government driven. They have even banned other parts of china from seeing Shanghai weechat stories to try to curve the flow of information because the entire city is complaining daily.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
I don't fully understand the autonomy of local govts... my impression was they are puppets of Central, only existing to be scapegoats when things go bad
Xi himself rose through the ranks of local govt... but maybe things have changed in last decades
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
I think Xi had family connections going back to the days of Mao. Any stories about rising through the ranks are probably fake or exaggerated.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
His dad fell out of favor and was gulag'd AFAIK. You could be right though, hard to tell what is propaganda