Best way of understanding it in a single sentence: In the US, you can change the party but not the policies; in China, you can't change the party, but you can change the policies. I know which I'd rather have.
That's not true as, in the U.S., a change in parties always comes with a change in policies - in fact, that happens regularly, at the National, State, County and City level, as has been seen recently.
@@cra2cra226 Foreign policies never change, from the eyes of a foreigners like me. Not sure about domestic policies....but from what's I'm seeing it sure did change...for the worse.
@@kizugamixaizatou US foreign policy never changes? The country veers from complete isolationism to the Monroe Doctrine every few decades. Lol how is that not a changing foreign policy?
That's not the only choice that exists! Goodness me. Isn't something like the system in New Zealand better? Where you can choose parties in proportion and get a mix of policies I don't understand how a single party (or you) can think it is good for everyone to have only one party installed in power and no prospect of any alternative EVER. What happens when everyone gets sick and tired of those people in power, or they make one wrong move too many? They can have a spell in opposition and renew themselves. All parties benefit from a spell in opposition. That would includes the Chinese Communist Party. Transitions of power from one government to another (whatever or whenever) are *inevitable.* What you want is for this transition to occur *as part of a celebration of democracy* as you get in democracies like New Zealand. Not with fear and bloodshed which is guaranteed in places like China.
Brother watch this short video will show you how the Chinese political system work. Everyone start from the grassroots level and there is no one can escape that . The Chinese very proud political system that they develop are very competent and highly meritocracy. It’s been like this for thousands of years since the Han dynasty Imperial system and to this day the Chinese communist party is still hold true. Your promotion is based on performance and merit, and everybody must start from the bottom and work your way up to the top, and there is no way around this or trying to do a short cut. Even though if you are coming from princeling family or if you are well connected with the high ranking Chinese government official, you still have to start from the bottom and take examination and evaluation by your peers before you can get promoted to the next level. That’s why this Chinese political system is very proud and unique. Because of this system the Chinese develop, they can produce very high caliber leaders and competent leaders to run the country. Unlike the western model political system, it’s all about hook up and princeling and privilege people and identity politics to get in office. So, on my book I like the Chinese political system more because it does produce good leaders
An example of this is like George bush . He got hook up because his father is a former president . Unlike Xi Jing Ping even though his father is a high ranking Chinese government official , he still has to start from the grassroots bottom level and work his way up to the top of the hill. By the time he became the president of China or chairman, it takes him 40 plus years to get there. Not easy to become the top leader of China 🇨🇳😃👍💕
@@dannytadashi4235 And look what he has done to the Chinese economy because of his zero covid policies. He was supposed to step down after two terms, now he is the dear leader for life. Congrats on their new emperor.
We need more of this information. I'm a lay person and the Chinese system of governance has always been obscure to me. Maybe it's the language; I found the comparative western labels for the hierarchy helpful. China could do more to help us uninformed!
Lol they don’t want to help you be informed.. the whole point of the system is to be shrouded in darkness and confusion, because behind all the smoke and mirrors and pseudo elections, it’s an authoritarian, single party state. With Xi Jinping at the helm of power for life. So a dictatorship essentially.
@@chadcurtiss5965 No. The USA. We have a Huge propaganda machine in the US. We're not even allowed to speak the truth about Covid. We're supposed to think Ukraine is the Good Guys! Americans really know very little about the world, especially those who simply believe what they're told.
@@chadcurtiss5965 I’d say it’s the western media that chooses to label the CPC as a dictatorship and fail to follow up on why that is. We never hear the argument from the other side. It’s good to know. It seems like a more grassroots system where the ppl pick the politicians at the local level and then from there those ppl are either successful and move up or not. While also having a system to monitor performance. It seems very logical and agile. In our system ppl focus on the president and forget to care about local elections and there is little local participation whatsoever. Of course our systems will break down with this imbalance as we see.
I only focus on whether a government serves the majority of the people. If a government only serves a minority of capital, what is the use of such democracy?
Because the majority know what they want but not how or whether it is a good idea in the first place. That is why a majority democracy does not work. Most people do know nothing about the economy, civil engineering or even the military. But our nation is built on that. And that is why only those who actually have experience in building anything also can be the only ones leading us.
@@techpriest4787 you are right but also not even the top elected official of democratic gevernment know nothing about those issue, just look at the economic advisor of biden, who don t even know or has never though about, how national debt works. better to have competent leaders even if not elected than stupi elected assholes
@user-rj9rv8qj9zXi is not incompetent, get your head out your a*s. You could hate a system but try and be honest to yourself, for your own sake. WTF !🤦♂️
@@motoKJnepotism?! Hahahahaha, in the US every president has been rich. In rare cases not before becoming president, but definitely stinking rich after.
China is doing it right, democracy is not just an action you do once every so many years, but rather a whole process that involves the people constantly.
lol. Democracy means elections and transparency. China's leader is not subject to removal, and none of the parties except the CCP have any power. They make a show of "electing" representatives - in fact, thousands of them in order to wash out any effectiveness or power any one of them might have - but the representatives have no vote in anything except what the CCP tells them. Loyalty is above all else, and you are not permitted to go against the CCP (who is lead by Xi).
@@cra2cra226 "China's leader is not subject to removal" what do you mean? of course they are. "none of the parties except the CCP have any power" well sure in certain ways, but there is a difference between non democratic parties such as we have plenty of and that of a party with internal democracy such as the CPC. "They make a show of "electing" representatives" I really dont think its "for show" mate, have you lived there? or this just what you got off of twitter? "but the representatives have no vote in anything except what the CCP tells them" these representatives from all across the nation, and their popular base IS the CPC, thats the whole point of spending decades introducing mass grassroot politics to all of China and building a full process democracy.
Thank you for this great explanation! I love how it takes decades of experience to get to a high position. Politicians in the UK are generally so unqualified and unfit to lead anything...
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You should come to Africa and see how much worse it could be. Where unbelievably unqualified people staff the entire bureaucracy from top to bottom, that it's an unbelievable cycle of incompetence all round no matter who gets into power. This land is cursed !!!
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To quote Lenin: "Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society... the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament"
Very insightful, thank you! also, minor correction at 4:00 , if Vietnam is 98 million and 16th, Iran is 88 million and 17th, the CCP being 96 million would replace Iran as 17th.
in order to get the top of the state, you need to work your way up, in other words you get promoted, not elected, this is kind of tradition in china where we believed that only can you know how to operate from the bottom knows how to run at the top, we have an old saying： how can you run the world without knowing how to manage your house, reflex one of the confucianism philosophy that is the achieving of great thing start from achieving every little thing at the base level bit by bit. So you will find in China history most of the great chancellor who directly under the king or emperor started from running a vallege or a county.
This is a GREAT video explaining clearly and with a degree of detail , the structure of the Chinese government. What is really good about this video is that it is read by a real human person with very clear, good diction. Unfortunately, there are some good videos on YT in English that shows China’s progress in technology, etc but are read by AI. It féministes the credibility of these videos. More excellent quality videos like these need to be produced to debunk biased, anti-China narratives and geo-political questions people have about China. China’s internal social and economic issues should also be addressed honestly and factually. In this video, the simple and honest statement about the CPC being “not perfect” is an HONEST statement that viewers can accept, because ALL forms of government and types of democracy are not perfect. There is no “perfect” country and we ALL know this. So there is no need to pretend to have one. North Korea pretends to be “perfect”, but it has no credibility with most people. Could you please make a video about an issue the Western media has started asserting. It’s about Chinese cities running out of money because of Covid spending and the cutting of pension funds because of it. I’m glad I found your channel. 👍👍😍
i liked the review system and the promotions as per merit, would like to gain more insight over whether there is hint of corruption involved in promoting officials or there are checks and controls to counter it.
Corruption will occur in any country, and corruption in China was once quite serious. However, after Xi Jinping came to power, he implemented strict and resolute anti-corruption actions and reversed this phenomenon. The Communist Party of China originally had a Discipline Inspection Commission, but this institution can only combat corruption within the party and cannot cover all corrupt personnel; and before Xi Jinping's actions, this institution itself suffered a lot of corrosion. So on this basis, Xi Jinping established the National Supervisory Commission. The new institution is independent of government departments. All public officials, regardless of whether they are party members, are included in the supervision of the new institution.
Everyone has their own beliefs, dictatorship or not is one’s choice of words, what matter is what you can do for your country and your people. Leadership’s report card speaks itself 🇨🇳👍💪
I just found your channel. This video absolutely helps in understanding China's internal political structures, and I hope you can make more of these. Western style multi-party democracies sound good on paper, but in practice it's all about getting votes, and not actually serving the people.
@@DisobedientSpaceWhale "Who gives their votes?" I ask you: What's the point of voting for a political party in the first place? It's to get people in power to represent you to solve the country's issues, right? Well what happens when you can just skip to solving the issues? The CPC gets their legitimacy from the approval of the people. Look up "harvard survey china". Harvard conducted a survey to see if people in China were truly happy with their quality of life. And I quote, "The survey team found that compared to public opinion patterns in the U.S., in China there was very high satisfaction with the central government. In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing. In contrast to these findings, Gallup reported in January of this year that their latest polling on U.S. citizen satisfaction with the American federal government revealed only 38 percent of respondents were satisfied with the federal government." But what if they've all been brainwashed? Then how do you explain the 100,000s of Chinese tourists who travel abroad every year? Or the over 300,000 Chinese international students studying in the US every year where they have access to the open internet? And they're not immediately complaining about their lives back home in China? Or going to an Embassy to seek political asylum?
@@DisobedientSpaceWhale "plenty of citizens protested in Hong Kong... plenty of citizens protesting the CCP lockdown measures...." - And the CPC reverted their Zero Covid policy within weeks. Did you forget about that? That's called: Listening to the people. About the whole Hong Kong 2019 protests: do you know how it started? Because a Hong Kong native killed his girlfriend in Taiwan, and then escaped back into Hong Kong to avoid capture. And because Hong Kong does not have an extradition treaty with any other country, including the mainland, no one can arrest the murderer. The Hong Kong government wanted to pass the extradition law, but a lot of Hong Kongers who grew up under British rule has been taught that China's system is inferior to western style government, even though Hong Kong itself treat their residents like trash, putting people into cage apartments all because the government is making too much money leasing the land in Hong Kong to the highest bidder instead of creating affordable places to live. But anyway, the student protesters did more harm than good to their own city, almost burning the place down. China finally had to enact their national security law that they could've passed back in 1997 on Hong Kong, but held off because they didn't feel a need to do so. Oh, and the murderer is still walking free.
@@yojimbo3681 protestors sound completely justified to me. They don't want a law that can send them to China to face a non independent judicial system. You could then get sent there just for the 'crime' of speaking out against the CCP. But you know all this already I suspect. This conversation is a waste of time.
An example of this is like George bush . He got hook up because his father is a former president . Unlike Xi Jing Ping even though his father is a high ranking Chinese government official , he still has to start from the grassroots bottom level and work his way up to the top of the hill. By the time he became the president of China or chairman, it takes him 40 plus years to get there. Not easy to become the top leader of China 🇨🇳😃👍💕
@@dannytadashi4235 "He got hook up because his father is a former president " No, he got an advantage (connections) in winning the RNC, but had he blundered or made a faux-pas, the "state media" wouldn't have censored that (in fact, they'd be ALL OVER IT) and the world would've known. Then, presumably, another RNC candidate could've taken his spot, and in the final election, a Democrat could've won. It's a direct election (though we have that stupid electoral college thrown in there just to screw things up). Unlike an "appointment" to lead the Country. And even has "leader" of the country, he has to fight and negotiate with all of the representatives from various regions of the country to enact any policy. Unlike China, in which the CCP can say, "THIS is the policy," and all of the minor parties are required to agree.
Honestly, the ppl of China can only vote for members of the lowest of the hierarchy, namely the ministers. But even the voting results are quite suspicious. And with so much in between to the higher-ups and low transparency of the CCP, corruption is a major problem. And with Xi Jin Ping extending his presidency again ( All voting members agreed, but there’s absolutely no way a 100% is possible without some ‘manipulation’ ), the CCP leans far more to the authoritarian side rather than democratic. It wasn’t this autocratic until Xi Jin Ping came and took over
But there¨s no Democracy in China though. If you say anything criticial about the regime you will likely go to jail or consequences by lowering social score so you become a bum or something. And there¨s no national elections there either outside districts, since CCP runs everything
Fantastic video! I am learning Mandarin and trying to find a course to learn more about China's political system but it's hard to find one that isn't biased against China 😞
Thanks for the Great explanation. It is clear that different cultures might need different government systems. Chinese political system has clearly proven its effectiveness. Western democracy might not work well with such a vast population.
I agree I stress this too someone regarding a post about “how would change the china” and stress the fact that due too cultural & diversity among the Chinese ppl western liberal democracy would not work it would literally destroy Chinese society and cause cultural & societal unrest
@@lordhe11iaon95 True, I believe that the Western model of democracy can sometimes create division and unnecessary rivalry among the population. It's important for Westerners to recognize that there are different worldviews and systems.
@@smdanny1 They will listen to opinions, but that doesn't mean they will tolerate chaos. Nevertheless, when protesters in Guangdong were surrounded and beaten by the crowd, the police still protected them. And most of them didn't get punished.
Thank you for saying "the Chinese people", not "the Chinese". It irks me whenever people refer to the Chinese population as a monolith. I'd always hear people admonish the term "the Africans" but never bat an eye to saying "the Chinese".
i'd add a little research i did through an argue a couple years ago i seached the background of the top policy makers in china roughly 1/3 of them started as factory workers/farmers,let's say from the bottom 1/3 came from the second or third generation from the founders of the state 1/3 came from the top tier engineers(most),scholars,and business family i wonder what proportion in western democracy countries
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, elections have been highly constrained by the CCP's monopoly on power, limitations on free speech, and party control over nominations.[5][6][7] Elections are not pluralistic as no opposition is allowed.[8][9] Rory Truex, a researcher of Chinese politics at Princeton University, states that "the CCP tightly controls the nomination and election processes at every level in the people's congress system...the tiered, indirect electoral mechanism in the People's Congress system ensures that deputies at the highest levels face no semblance of electoral accountability to the Chinese citizenry."[ Basically you need to be approved by the government to run even at the local level
I see some merits to China’s system. However, the biggest issues appear to be the concentration of power, the laws, the lack of accountability by the people which ultimately result in the government being able to just do whatever they want like seal everyone in their homes during covid. In America, the CIA similarly controls everything behind the scenes and does whatever they want, but a certain facade must be kept up, so they never take things past a certain point with their own people. Anyway, both systems are fucked
Agree with this. I like the indirect election of the national representatives but it got overshadowed by the concentration of power into a single leader, namely the General Secretary. It would be much better if the National Party Congress would do away with the Standing Committee of the Politburo, and let the Chairman of the Politburo be a separate post and the head of the Party instead of the General Secretary.
There’s no government accountability here in the us states have power and make their own laws and don’t have to abide by government if unconstitutional which is freedom you don’t have to give in to capitalism or you can it’s up to you you can go start a farm go start business want to do it in china impossible you can’t do it..
Could you explain how the party organization department works or how it’s members are selected or elected and how do they make sure the judges are both vetted and also approved by the people? There is very little information about this online. Thanks for the video!
This depends on the position, and some officials are directly elected. But most officials adopt an examination system. Then, by accumulating experience and achievements, one can be promoted. The core officials at the highest level are usually determined in advance by political leaders in the preparatory meeting - Beidaihe Meeting, and then nominated by the President, and then submit to the National People's Congress for voting. The promotion of intermediate officials depends on their achievements and experience, but they also need to be voted by their colleagues. Each level has its own meeting and voting system.
Current PRC power structure can best be termed as party dictatorship rather than one person dictatorship, hence all these elections, sub elections and political structures are only to serve the party and not the state. Party owns everything in China including it’s military, there is no opposition and there is no free judiciary. Party’s word is final in PRC, Xi Jinping is powerful not because of its position as President rather from being the general secretary of CPC
Yes but he’s extremely powerful in the us president is not as powerful here as it is in china president still can’t just veto everything and pass insane laws
Nice propaganda, but that's not what happens. People don't have the freedom to express themselves, they don't have the freedom to vote, they don't have the freedom to criticize the Chinese Communist Party, and much less to protest or protest against the government in the streets. A dictatorship is one of the non-democratic or anti-democratic regimes, that is, governments ruled by a person or political entity where there is no popular participation, or where this participation occurs in a very restricted way. Conclusion: it is a dictatorship.
A correction of a mistake at 1:27: "National People's Congress" = "人大" "Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference"="政协"; the video does not match them correctly.
Good content. BUT the cover image you used for this video can easily invoke red scare, the image looks like a typical old ‘iron curtain’ propaganda image, which is not today’s China. Also I’m trying to figure out why the people in the crown are pointing their arms forward like the Nazi’s?
It is very factual when it breaks down the political system. But where it starts to lose me is when it says “the people have a say in what the government does” which they clearly do not. If the people speak out against the Chinese government they are prosecuted, vanished and imprisoned. The Chinese national peoples Congress serves as a rubber stamp and never have direct supervision power over government administration. If they had them, the current leader of China wouldn’t have been in power for so long. Democracy isn’t just the elect election system but how do people can check the governments power? China doesn’t have a check in balance system to which government policies can be checked by a judiciary or directly by the people or even by the legislator. If prosecution of citizens is anything other than democracy, then I don’t know what it is. The Chinese government doesn’t even guarantee the protection of the peoples rights if the citizen does speak against the government instead, they are challenged and jailed.
This is correct in the us you say anything about government and nothing happens you go on social media say bad things nothing happens you tell a police officer he’s terrible nothing happens to you you go to china you get killed if you say it
Great content. China has trialled over the years various gov systems & finally found one that suits it by lifted 800m people out of absolute poverty & much increasingly better livelihood over the last 40 years is not an easy feat without their people support (>90% based on polls by Harvard U & Lowy Institute). Not one democratic country on earth has their gov approval rate close to it. It's close to a famous quote by the former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln "government of the people, by the people, for the people". The USG today has completely lost it considering the current scale of homelessness, gun violence & racial discrimination locally. Worst, the USG causes wars & chaos around the world to protect the interest of the military industrial complex but at the expense of its people.
CCP is getting closer and closer to being a fascist government than anything else. Single party rule with strong (absolute) leader with a mixture of economic systems but all with heavy government influences with strong nationalism. If there is no one else to vote for, does it really matter?
Sir all I hear is bs coming from you Chinese democracy works for them and you’re version of western liberal “democracy” doesn’t work for them as the person below said stop trying shove you’re failing neoliberal capitalist “democracy” down other ppls mouth
Opps! You made a mistake. Yes, China has two constitutions. One for the CCP, one for the PRC. The National People's Congress is established by an Article in the PRC Const, and is said to be the top legislative institution for the PRC. However, the CPPCC is NOT established by any Article in the PRC Const. The CPPCC has NO legislative power. Its just a place where people can go and make comments and recommendations, or blow off steam. Your graphics show the CPPCC as parallel to the NPC -- but that is not true. China does have many elements of a "consultative democracy." Both the CCP and the PRC definitely seek out public input and are open to public input prior to making policy decisions. China is not a top-down dictatorship. But your graphics misrepresent the formal structure of the Chinese political system.
" definitely seek out public input and are open to public input" Seeking out input is like having optional consultants around whom you have hired ("elected" in this case) and whom you can ignore (or have silenced - "State Media") at will. Input is irrelevant if the representatives (and thus, the people) can outvote the leadership. Which they cannot. Therefore it's not democratic at all.
1:10 The chinese in the back are all wrong….. The “president” of state should be “主席” instead of “总书记” which is the “general sectary of the Party” (Can be different people) The “National People’s congress” should be “人大” while the “Political Consultive Conference” should be “政协”, while in the video they’re swapted
Reason China will over take USA. No arguments over is global warming real or abortion to divide them. I always said China has the ability to get stuff done. Take the investment of high speed rail. Just imagine politicians in America arguing over this. Which corporation would get the deal to build. Would be the bickering.
Here's the truth unfortunately with China's population they need a special government and eventually this policy isn't the answer but neither is the standard westernized model.
Good Political system is good but great capable administrators is more important if you have capable leaders they’ll do great in any political system for their strong trait is being great administrator
