The Chinese government appears to be aware of the problem. The Communist Party’s top leadership acknowledged in a meeting on Monday that the epidemic is “a major test of China’s system and capacity for governance.”
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So many officials have denied responsibility for the epidemic that online users joke that they are watching a passing-the-buck competition.(It’s “tossing the wok” in Chinese.) The crisis offers a rare glimpse of how China’s giant, opaque bureaucratic system works or fails to workhttps://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1224696611772567552 …
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The crisis also exposes the tension between the technocrats, who were the backbones of China's bureaucracy in 1990s and 2000s when the country grew the fast, and the political cadres, whom Xi prefers. The outbreak and lack of disclosure suggests the political cadres are winning
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Chinese officials are spending as much as one third of their time on political studying sessions, a lot of which are about Mr. Xi’s speeches. Political loyalty weighs much more in performance evaluations than before.
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On social media, low-level cadres are complaining that they spend most of their time filling out spreadsheets instead of getting real work done.“Most people in the system don’t do things to solve problems.They do things to solve responsibilities.”https://nyti.ms/394h7so
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Communist China’s covering up from the very beginning once month ago created this man-made catastrophe
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Excellent essay. Thank you for introducing me to Xu Kaizhen. I’m looking forward to reading his stories.
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If this happened in Austin, Stockholm or Osaka, would they have handled it better. Almost certainly. But China is a developing country, anyone who lived in one, knows what that means.
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