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"Their government doesn't work on 4-year competitive cycles like ours does..."

Not that I don't agree with your idea that the CCP work on a longer time horizon than the US govt, but China does run on short-term cycles, namely its 5-year plans:

https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/t0284_14th_Fi...

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Goal of the short term cycles is different. In the US the goal is to remain in power through votes. In China, where remaining in power is a given, the goal is to use the time to make impact on the country's progress, for better or worse

It's not so much that they have to plan for 100 years at once, but that they can execute strategies lasting more than one power cycle. Their pendulum (and with it, bills and executive orders and social effects) doesn't reset every 4-8 years.

Edit: basically what michaelscott said already

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