I agree, and hope that doesn’t happen. There must be some younger party members who are both committed and ready to move up, and would like to learn more about who they may be.

His proximity to capitalists doesn’t inspire much confidence in me, and Shanghai is a liberal mecca.

I’m not the most knowledgeable about Li (or the inner workings of the CPC), so I could be quite off base as to what he would do. The western press was pretty happy as they see him as someone to give capital more free reign (even if they then try to deride him as a Xi “loyalist”). Though I think they said the same about Xi at some point lol.

Iirc there was some hukou reform under Li in Shanghai, which is good and I hope to see it go further.

Regardless, I think Xi has done enough to set China on a specific path that will likely not be altered beyond recognition depending on who is next, nor would a less influential leader necessarily lead to a power vacuum. It will be interesting to see what happens next though.

Yeah I agree about Wang, he’s been high up in government so long but doesn’t face the public in any way that I’ve seen. He’s also just a few years younger than Xi. I was hoping there would be some younger members appointed in the last politburo to give a gesture as to where things may be heading once this generation is out.

I’m curious to see how he does, but tbh I hope it isn’t Li Qiang.

Chen will become the leader and China will move to a dunk-based economy.

Really though, I have no idea, but a “return to the policies of the Four” seems like the least likely outcome. Looking at the politburo it’s hard to make a guess. Maybe Li Qiang, but it depends on how he does. I’d want to say Wang Huning, but I don’t think he’d want to be in the public eye like that.

I deeply care about human rights

Must be one of the most nebulous and abstract things you can stand for. What rights? The right to die on the street? The right to monopoly?

Lemmy.ml banned my account there lol. Why are they so concerned with a little bullying of liberals?