How does the Chinese government even work

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• CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I wish I had a source on this, but I heard that bribery of government officials is the norm. They don’t get paid much so it’s expected they take bribes. But their bosses keep them in line. And the weird thing is that it actually works kind of well to make sure things get done, compared to the gridlock faced when trying to build houses or public transit in most cities in the US.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay so you and a lot of people on .world aren’t probably going to like this because I am using an explicitly communist source, worse an explicitly communist wiki but I have read a good chunk of the source material here and don’t feel like rewriting all of it when I can just link it. Anyway here are some links that should be informative if you want to understand the philosophies that guide the CPC and the structure of its state.

  Socialism With Chinese Characteristics

  Reform and Opening Up

  Socialist Market Economy

  People’s Republic of China

  I ask you to be curious. Investigate the claims you see here, look at the sources used and judge them for yourself. I know you are not likely to be receptive to the communist perspective, most people are not and I am not trying to make you a communist through this. Its just that communists put a lot of time and effort into critically understanding other communists and their projects. Its a lot to investigate, don’t expect to read or understand it all in one night. Good luck ❤️

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• SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Think of the USA but now remove all political parties and just make One party, remove state governments and make them all federal. So every state has the same laws across the nation. When it’s time to vote, democracy is very limited and federally controlled.

  Some red flags of the CCP, because this is what trump and maga wants for the US ultimately. A CCDI which purges political rivals. Increased federal control which limits freedom of speech , expression and independent institutions.

  Also imagine a HUGE increase in censorship online. Republicans are also doing this now in the US with porn sites as well as locally forcing bibles and the ten commandments in schools.

  What’s funny though, even with all this Chinese still has a generally free healthcare system for its citizens and pretty good quality of life overall. Something apparently no US leader could ever achieve.

  Well that’s my understanding of it. I could be wrong about some things. I could be missing some things. I live in the US so I only know what I can research and learn.

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  • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The most glaring issue with their healthcare or other benefits is that the decision to have those things at all comes down to one party or even one man. That means there is nothing at all stopping those things from being taken away on a whim.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      China seems very stable to me. Their government is afraid of making people angry, and removing basic help like that is very likely to make people angry.

      But also, it seems to me that the “generally” in “generally free” is doing some work. AFAIK, some care is free, some care isn’t. And the pretty good quality of life doesn’t seem to be universally distributed. Both of those seem to be improving quickly, but the “people are better than in the US” impression one may take from that comment seems to be a misrepresentation.

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    • Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes but at the same time the population would likely be very VERY pissed.

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You didn’t explain anything about how they work just some of the things that they do.

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds good. I’m in

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    • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree with that. The only problem is we’re all opinionated now and the US is hardcore split into two. I say republicans have their land, democrats have theirs. Like North and South Korea. Let trump be the Alabama diddler leader and I’d give the northern parts to Gavin Newsom. Or Arnold again. Let Arnold run things

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  • Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks you! I didn’t know most of that

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• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s capitalism, but the government does it’s job and hammers down companies that get too big to fail

  There’s also all the one party authoritarian bullshit, but main concept is the government remain the strongest power

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• bradorsomething@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imagine China as a company. There is a board of directors, and Xi is the head of that board. The board runs a lot of lower ranking boards that control all the aspects of government operation.

  Have a problem with your plumbing? Go to your local province or city board. A whole region experiencing drought? The regional board has an action plan that they impose on the local boards to implement with government regional help. Xi is responsible for steering the overarching policy of China moving forward as a country. His role is to say “make China control the South China Sea and receive deference from those countries” to the military, and then it’s there problem to figure out how to harass shipping.

  You get promoted to higher boards for good work, and the board votes for its leader. Read Xi’s promotion history. I would die after that many years of office politics, myself.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Read Xi’s promotion history.

    Do not believe everything that you read, especially if it is history of very powerful persons.

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    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean usually yes, but in the history in question here is public and very easy to confirm.

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  • Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess a company model does make sense considering the toilet paper ads

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