Like how we have mayors, governors etc. Well they do also. But at each level there is also a party secretary/political commissar, same in military except at platoon level

Xi Jinping actually holds more than one office, as President is not the same position as General Secretary/Chairman

Years ago they were different people but right now it's just him, and he has no term limit

Sounds like a great job to have

No

They're not allowed to leave the country even after they retire

Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, all those guys can never leave

Well that blows

He keeps saying CCP is evil. CCP persecutes people. CCP makes it where no one wants to innovate. CCP is gonna collapse. CCP is etc etc.

True

Both things could be true

CPC just is.

It doesn't persecute any particular group. You can be Christian, Muslim, whatever. Legally you cannot join a religion if you're a party member, or you automatically lose your party membership.

But churches are full, sadly so are mosques

Problem with innovation there is they are capitalist with private companies and publicly-traded companies, but also socialist with state-owned enterprises

Imagine if Ford was created by the US government, and belonged to it, there's automatically some preference there. Kinda like the whole bailout thing but continuous and not just a one-time deal

The Chinese dude said he and his family "escaped" when he was young

And that he wants to go to Singapore to escape the collapse

Some state-owned enterprises make good shit. Norinco for example makes great guns.

That and have his sex doll

But having government prop up these, it disadvantages wholly private companies

You won't see a collapse though, likely ever. The people *love* the military and law enforcement. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. You can't get a mostly-unarmed populace to declare war against their beloved armed forces.

One other thing I found weird was his insant support of HK

And how the CCP is just taking over HK to continue their evil reign and hold off the decline

It's like you're gonna go in a cave full of bears, unarmed, and make them move out.

The PLA already has a base in HK. Guess what flag flies over it. The PRC flag. It's theirs.

If Nixon had never normalized relations with China I would think there could be a collapse a la Soviet Union

National People's Congress can make whatever laws they want in regards to HK, it's in their Basic Law.

However given that China has enough capitalist influences and has diversified beyond pretending to pay their workers I don't foresee a collapse in an imminent

Yeah it probably would have been the opposite. USSR would remain, and PRC would fall.

That was part of the motivation to warm up to China, because it was a deterrent against Russia after the Sino-Soviet Split

And now ironically, Russia and China are very tight

Well Putin knows what he's doing that's for sure

We sometimes forget here that not everyone can be just given free reign

I've seen them fuckers standing in line and then what happens when the door finally opens

Freedom is not for everyone

And there's also old grudges. The Red Guards, similar to Antifa but without gays and drugs, hurt a lot of people way back. 99% of them were teenagers too. So they're still alive. A lot of people have grudges about that and haven't forgotten.

Certain societies have serfdom so ingrained in the psyche of the average citizen

They were like those people who think owning two houses means you're literally killing people because it makes them homeless

Some people are too stupid to be left to their own devices

Xi's dad was arrested and tortured by Red Guards, despite having fought in the revolution. That's how extreme they were.