MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 1
st, 2022 at 11:16am:
thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 1
st, 2022 at 10:47am:
your assertion that China lacks rule of law is absurd.
Law is not dependent on blind leading the blind, adversarial parties who supposedly gain legitimacy via 'democratic' elections (despite the murder and mayhem surrounding these elections in many countries).
Rule of law requires that all citizens of the state submit to it, as all parties within a democracy do. The CCP and its officials do not submit to, and are not required to submit to, the rule of law.
The CCP composed the original Chinese constitution, to which all citizens must submit (which is why Xi has spent much time weeding out corruption, a problem faced by all governments). Naturally, the constitution can be changed by consensus, with input from all citizens since all citizens can enter government based on merit (hence 'consensus meritocracy').
Quote:The CCP is riddled with adversarial parties that undermine each other whenever they can
oh dear, don't look in the mirror....you will see adversarial parties wasting time attacking one-another...reversing the other mob's policies, creating chaotic development and policy gridlock.
Quote:and disappear or imprison those rivals whose power and influence weaken to the point that the dominant faction can successfully disappear/imprison them without serious consequences or reprisals.
I think you are describing corruption and greed, universals in any government.
Quote:In China under the CCP, the law is applied to those whom the dominant faction wants to be removed. This is how Xi removed many of his rivals - by accusing them of corruption, (despite the fact that the Chinese practice of guanxi necessarily requires the capacity and willingness to act corruptly). No Xi-faction member in favour has been accused of corruption.
Is Xi corrupt?
Quote:Rule of law also requires that the judicial system is independent of influence and control from the political process. In China, the CCP instructs the judge on the required outcome and the sentence.
Naughty of the CCP...like a governing party instructing judges to jail whistle-blowers....
Quote:So, you see, you support a system devised by a people you have no comprehension of - a lonely old codger with a teenager's understanding of his pet subject.
Refuted above.