The raise of China, especially in the aftermath of the COVID19, exposed the weakness of the western political system. Democracy is a great idea - people, after thoughtful discussion and analysis, caste their votes and pick a leader to govern. Alas, there is less and less thoughtful discussion these days. Most people are manipulated by the media, which is manipulated by the powerful and wealthy.
The democracy become just a name, it has become the marriage of two extreme negative forces - populism and plutocracy. The lower class, easily fooled, voted with anger and fear, to the detriment of themselves. The rich become powerful and the powerful become rich, and their kids become rich and powerful!
Chinese Communist Party, with all its faults, has lifted more than half of billion Chinese out of property. The lower 50% of the Chinese people, have never have this level of prosperity. One can argue that this has happened in spite of the CCP, but it is never easy to argue of success.
One process of that makes the success of the CCP is strict meritocracy, most government workers are selected thru a huge human resource department, the CCP’s organization department, since the person is admitted to the party. They go thru as small roles as a village chief, to a town, a county, a province, a small city, big city and to the central government. At least from my observation, in the public sector, there is no “royal family”, such as Trump, Kennedy, Bush...
CCP pick their leader as a CEO, while the west pick their leader as rock star. The result is drastically different style and personality of the leadership.
It is said every 60-80 years, three generations, there will be a regent change and political paradigm shift. A shift is happening to bigger, more controlling, more effective, and merit based government. We shall see.
Eric Tao
05 22 2020 Carmel
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