There is actually a lot of unrest in China, most just never gets reported.
It’s not a new phenomena either, back in their imperial days they had a lot of local rebellions and revolts, and they similarly didn’t even record them unless they surpassed a threshold.
But they have a lot of incidents of villages throwing out their government officials, or hounding them during the party congress, or so I read, although that was around 2011 when I read that incidentally.
Yeah, from what I’ve heard, China has much more localized government and policies than people in the West think, and local government catches flak from people regularly.
So they have a system where towns are appointed a mayor who gets changed out every 5 years. The mayor is then graded on things like education, economy, popularity, and how many veggies the village ate.
The purpose of this is to prevent local fiefdoms from developing and to quickly identify and remove underperforming leaders.
This has the effect of people appealing to the provincial government to either keep or remove candidates who are exceptionally good or bad.
There is actually a lot of unrest in China, most just never gets reported.
It’s not a new phenomena either, back in their imperial days they had a lot of local rebellions and revolts, and they similarly didn’t even record them unless they surpassed a threshold.
But they have a lot of incidents of villages throwing out their government officials, or hounding them during the party congress, or so I read, although that was around 2011 when I read that incidentally.
Yeah, from what I’ve heard, China has much more localized government and policies than people in the West think, and local government catches flak from people regularly.
So they have a system where towns are appointed a mayor who gets changed out every 5 years. The mayor is then graded on things like education, economy, popularity, and how many veggies the village ate.
The purpose of this is to prevent local fiefdoms from developing and to quickly identify and remove underperforming leaders.
This has the effect of people appealing to the provincial government to either keep or remove candidates who are exceptionally good or bad.