One of Xi Jinping’s many trademark policies is his “4 comprehensives”, one of which is “comprehensive law-based governance”. What cracks me up is that his insistence on the adjective “comprehensive” means he expects bureaucrats to act half-assedly, hence his need to insist.https://twitter.com/jc_mittelstadt/status/1037989349965611009 …
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To be fair bureaucrats being lazy and self-serving is universal, not some Chinese trait, although Chinese tend to be so devious they have brought untold heights to Goodhart’s law. The thing in the West we tend to leave this realities unmentioned as a matter of politeness.
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While in China they openly talk about the need for being Comprehensive 全面 and the dangers of “lazy governance” 懒政. I mean, yeah, dude. That’s government for ya. Politically motivated denials of reality are *not* a Western thing, and in fact in China they are often worse.
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Confucianism after all its an ideology based in a complete faith on the power of education and government to change behavior.
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