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Good. Anything that rattles Red Emperor Xi is a good thing.

This is a bad HN comment, regardless of your views on geopolitics. Please don't unsubstantive and flamebaity comments, especially not on divisive topics.

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Well, you may be glad to learn that there has been lots of rumors on Chinese websites in the past few months that Xi’s position is being challenged and he might even be in danger

Ruler for life is an attractive title.

Slightly off topic, but I read somewhere that some online video games censor anything that has the word "Xi" in it. Not sure if that is to prevent badmouthing him or to prevent Chinese political discussion altogether.

> Slightly off topic, but I read somewhere that some online video games censor anything that has the word "Xi" in it. Not sure if that is to prevent badmouthing him or to prevent Chinese political discussion altogether.

They can't prevent it altogether. I don't speak Chinese, but my understanding it that it's a punner's paradise, and online political discussion in China occurs using a dense and ever-changing system of slang and puns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_puns_in_Mandarin_Ch...:

> Xiǎo Píngzi - Students participating in the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 smashed little bottles as a means of protesting Deng Xiaoping's handling of the movement. Deng's given name, Xiaoping (小平) sounds a lot like "Little Bottle" (小瓶子, xiǎo píngzi),

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Grass-mud_horse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_crab_(Internet_slang)

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