This is why for all the fear of China, the country cannot succeed on its current trajectory.
Things look great until the leaders are doing well, but all it takes is for 1 bad set of leadership for all to fall apart.
And Xi Jinping has guaranteed failure by removing term limits. Term limits meant that other ambitious political leaders were willing to wait and try their luck next turn. But with no term limits multiple generations of leaders are locked out of even the possibility of becoming the party leader, which means they have become a threat to Jinping.
And since so many people are now a threat to him, his selection criteria for people to lead different parts of the party and government has to be based entirely on loyalty rather than competence.
Which almost guarantees a lot of counter productive incompetence.
Things look great until the leaders are doing well, but all it takes is for 1 bad set of leadership for all to fall apart.
And Xi Jinping has guaranteed failure by removing term limits. Term limits meant that other ambitious political leaders were willing to wait and try their luck next turn. But with no term limits multiple generations of leaders are locked out of even the possibility of becoming the party leader, which means they have become a threat to Jinping.
And since so many people are now a threat to him, his selection criteria for people to lead different parts of the party and government has to be based entirely on loyalty rather than competence.
Which almost guarantees a lot of counter productive incompetence.