Two outstanding pieces that explain how and why China works.
1- Fascinating China Writers' Group email exchange, with a deep dive into Sino-culture and the people's longstanding democracy.
https://seektruthfromfacts.org/cwg/fascinating-china-writers-group-email-exchange-with-a-deep-dive-into-sino-culture-and-the-peoples-longstanding-democracy/
2 - How the Chinese Work: Communist Party of China in Brief. With a detailed flow chart of China's governance system.
https://seektruthfromfacts.org/guess-submissions/how-the-chinese-work-communist-party-of-china-in-brief-with-a-detailed-flow-chart-of-chinas-governance-system/
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Jeff, you are constantly repeating Chinese govt statements as truth. You know better than to repeat US govt statements or US (captured) mass media as truth, so you should know better than to do it with China. Any statements from any govt should be suspect as propaganda until you have hard evidence otherwise. Hence, regarding the Vandenbosch piece, a flow chart of a formal structure is not an authentic picture of how things really work in a society. As any reputable political economist knows.
Once you learn this and apply it across the board, you could become a good analyst and source of info about China, because you are a smart guy. Study and become a good political economist, which means expert in analyzing the real structure of power relations and its real flow chart. Start with Karl Marx. Then study how political economists like Michael Parenti and Michael Hudson analyze the political economy of the US Empire.
BTW, I am not necessarily anti-China, but clearly China has powerful capitalist factions, the claim that China is "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is at best a hypothesis of a society in constant flux.
Thanks Jeff. I hadn't seen your interview with Frans Vandenbosch until now. Great stuff. I will definitely be looking to source his book.
• Frans Vandenbosch shares his years living+working in China and book: Statecraft and Society in China - Jeff J. Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4R8wwerpyE