I am asking, I am ignorant. I’m not JAQ I’m literally asking the question.
I have not heard of a minority but competitive party in China, or heard of any leading, but not succeeding candidate that has attempted to run/win.
From my western perspective, I’ve only ever heard of loud critical voices in the Chinese political sphere “disappearing” for “education” or similar.
I acknowledge my position (western media influenced), but have never heard of a single actual competitor to xi
But you can imagine how that seems, to anyone from any flavor of western democracy, including social democrats and democratic socialists…
If the party officials are having closed door discussions on who will lead, the mandate of the masses seems obscured, or absent.
If xi’s popularity took a nose dive, how would the common citizen express their opinion? On what schedule? If the “elected” officials strongly favored keeping xi, but the citizenry strongly favored large leadership change, how would that occur?