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Possibly an unpopular opinion, but at least it is Xi Jinping. China's system I think is rather horrid but numerous reports over the years suggest Xi is moderate, not an ideologue and leans slightly pro-West. Classified cables released by Wikileaks also point in this direction. If I am off the mark on this, please correct me as I find the area interesting.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html

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Based on those cables, he was bred by the party elite to rule. He and his family have been the party for 2 generations, the entirety of that horrific stuff has gone on under their moderate watch.

Xi is scarier than others like Erdogan and Putin because he's not an outright villain, but that benign acceptance and normalization of humans rights abuses goes on while we buy phones from them and he and the party get further and further cemented into power.

That's horrifying, with a villain at least people would wake up.

>the party get further and further cemented into power.

The party is the power. There is no other power in China.

Not anymore. Xi is now the ultimate power in China and will eventually bend the party to his will by any means necessary. I would expect political imprisonments/assassinations to markedly increase moving forward.

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