I have been lurking on Chinese social media because I’m sort of a native Chinese speaker. In China’s leftist scene, a lot of the “patriot”, anti-imperialist, pro-CPC folks are extremely anti-feminist, anti-LGBT, racist, xenophobic, anti-semitic, and islamophobic.

Of course CPC itself doesn’t slightly take those stances. However I’m worried if it grows out of control it might be a problem in the future, as some of those leftist influencers have millions of social media followers.

    • quality_fun
      15·
      3 years ago

      the position that actually gives him power never had a term limit to begin with. “president of china” is a ceremonial role.

        • SaddamHussein24
          21·
          3 years ago

          General Secretary of the CPC is indeed the strong position. Thats how it is/was in most ML states, including the soviet union. Still, whats most important is the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Communist Party, since they can dismiss the General Secretary at any time. In fact, Deng Xiaoping was never General Secretary, but he was still de facto leader of China from 1978 to 1997, because he was very influential and trusted by the Politburo and Central Committee who implemented his policies.

          As a final note, power in ML states is very distributed and not concentrated, unlike what the west claims. In China, the General Secretary of the CPC is the ideological leader, since he leads the CPC. Hes responsible with analyizing the material conditions and then creating policies based on that, which will then be implemented and debated by others. The General Secretary is appointed by the Central Committee of the CPC. The President is the head of state, who appoints ambassadors, nominates the prime minister and oversees his work. The prime minister is the head of government, who appoints the ministers and implements the government policies created by the General Secretary. Both President and Prime Minister are appointed and dismissed by the National Peoples Congress, the chinese parliament. Finally, you have the Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CPC, who is appointed by the Central Committee and is the supreme commander of the armed forces. So as you can see power is very divided and can be centralized or decentralized at will depending on what people want. At present times, Xi Jinping is General Secretary, Chairman of the CMC and President at the same time, so he has considerable power.