Stay on twitter and find out, doubt same people are on cyclonefanatic. If they are, pretty sure they are full of sh!t.
Is something going on in China?
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Twitter is a toilet but every once in a while accidental journalism happens.
I am wondering if a coup is possible at this point. The problem with Xi (and Putin) is that he created his own cult of personality. Xi has suppressed any dissent by force by ultimately imprisoning or assassinating his foes within the CCP. This produces a group-think mentality where there is no new ideas or innovation. Anyone with new and good ideas is afraid they will get shot or imprisoned. Sadly, a strong police force, state-controlled media, and modern technology (for example China's social credit scoring) keep the population under control. The way China is trying to control covid with draconian lockdowns makes no sense other than that is what Xi wants.
Agree but Xi would only be replaced by another tyrant supported by the communist party.
I don't even know how you define communist these days. The communist countries today, as for most of their history, are just single party systems supporting a dictator. North Korean isn't even that, it's just a family cult dictatorship.
What, CF isn’t a good enough source for geopolitical news for you? Damn you elites.
One party rule even if it starts out with noble intent ends up as authoritarian rule because we are all human we can't help ourselves.
Send jared to beijing for some old school vice news style guerilla journalismWhat, CF isn’t a good enough source for geopolitical news for you? Damn you elites.
Has anything like BBC, NY Times, WaPo, CBS, NPR, The Atlantic, WSJ, etc. reported it? The trashy cable news stations would be all over this trying to be the first to report it also. Im just skeptical.
Yeah I guess it's possible the politburo has kicked out Xi. The Communist Party isn't going anywhere.
Communists have no issue killing their own people to stay in power - it's part of the playbook. Xi can try to stay in power but the CCP will do what's necessary to control the masses and if Xi has lost the confidence of the people and party then he gone. Who knows what's really happening there if there are reports coming out of India they may be worth paying attention to.
The sad thing is, given the current state of journalism in the U.S., I can’t.