Pretty ignorant of China’s politics myself, who to follow for good coverage of what’s going on in China? This latest consolidation of power by Xi, is it more of the same or is this something we haven’t seen before?

  • @SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world @jaxxed@lemmy.world

    I’m a native mandarin speaker and China’s politics seems so opaque af. All I really know if the real life experiences as like a civillian, and stories my parents told me, and my 8 years of childhood memories there. No clue what the fuck is happening inside Beijing.

    I mean I can tell you about my personal experiences of what life is like, but I don’t know about how the political system even fuctions. Even my parents that grew up there and lived there for decades there doesn’t know wtf is going on in the politics. Its blurry, it’s confusing. In my view, it feels kinda like another imperial dynasty, but with CCP as a party at top instead of a traditional monarch.