[Dilbert San Diego]

Is anyone surprised that they will have a president for life?

While China has made many free market reforms, and moves away from communism, the country still has a totalitarian government.

[Olog-hai]

A president for life is not a president, of course.

Hsi² Chin⁴-p’ing²’s title is Zhǔxí (or Chu³-hsi² using Wade-Giles, from 主席), which means “seated lord”.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If you want to get a sidewise glance into how weird life in China is then search for serpentza on YouTube.

He's a South African that moved to China about 11 or so years ago. He's learned the language, married a Chinese woman, and settled in.

His tone is very upbeat and positive, and yet the content of what he discusses is mostly negative: the many ways to get scammed in China, the poor quality of workmanship, the difficulties of getting a good job if you aren't Chinese, the difficulties of getting access to the internet, the prevalence of contaminated food and pirated knockoff products, etc.

I don't think he realizes it, but he is something of a Tokyo Rose for China.

[RedStateRocker]

They actually meet the classical definition of “Fascist”:
capitalist (or somewhat so) economy combined with single party rule.

It always amazes me how on FB and elsewhere ignoramuses get ‘Fascism’ and ‘National Socialism” mixed up.

Fascism, in economic terms actually works pretty well sometimes- Mussolini revitalized Italy's economy and for the first few years Germany did OK in many respects; markets like stability in the political sense...