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President-for-life Xi Jinping Facing Massive Pushback From the CCP, Insider Claims
A former professor at China’s elite Central Party School has issued an unprecedented rebuke of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, accusing him of “killing a country” and claiming that many more want out of the ruling Chinese Communist party.
Cai Xia, a prominent professor who taught at the school, a higher education institution for top officials, was expelled from the party on Monday after an audio recording of remarks she made that were critical of Xi was leaked online in June. She is no longer in China. The school said in a notice that Cai, a professor at the party school since 1992, had made comments that “damaged the country’s reputation” and were full of “serious political problems”.
In her first interview[*] with English-language media since her expulsion, Cai told the Guardian she was “happy to be expelled”.
[*] 'He killed a party and a country': a Chinese insider hits out at Xi Jinping.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday August 21 2020, @02:15AM (1 child)
Perhaps we'll soon meet the devil we don't.
Though, to be fair, I think if China got any worse than it currently did, it would certainly collapse. So who knows.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 21 2020, @01:05PM
We in the West think of China as a monolith, but it's not. It's fractious, and they have no civil society to buffer dislocations. The Communist Party, though not really communist anymore, still suffers no rivals to its power. There are no checks and balances to it.
So, it can operate by diktat, but that also means any misstep they make is not buffered by anything, and can quickly cause things to get out of control.
The jury is still out on how that's gonna work out for them during this dislocation.
Washington DC delenda est.