• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I never said beginning at the local level automatically means someone is competent. Xi is enormously qualified as a leader, hence his overwhelmingly high approval rating among Chinese citizens and the fact that China regularly sets ambitious targets and beats them.

    • copingwithelmons@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Some systems don’t have hard requirements, but instead have selective systems that result in those higher qualified getting further along.

      Xi Jinping has a PhD in Marxism, and a degree in chemical engineering, for example. He had to work his way upward, because the system of governance in China begins from local council elections, who then send elected delegates to higher councils, and these councils elect delegates for higher councils than this. Systems that begin at the local level and fully integrate the selection process tend to place higher value on competency.

      You don’t actually say why him having a Phd and a degree in chemical engineering helps his chances of being selected for higher position. It is only implied that he started at the local level and hence was elected to higher office.

      I am not saying it doesn’t, I’d like to know if that is the case.

      Systems that begin at the local level and fully integrate the selection process tend to place higher value on competency.

      And you follow it up with this. Which I don’t think is true. At least depending on your definition of “competency”.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        1 day ago

        My point is that Xi had to work his way up each time. Not only did he need to be elected locally, but he needed to be reelected each time he climbed by a new, successive body. This isn’t merely someone coming from nowhere and buying a campaign a la Trump, but someone who had to start at the bottom and prove himself again and again.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            1 day ago

            No, I didn’t. It’s much easier for competent people to climb when they have to prove themselves capable of doing so. I think you may have mixed this up with me saying university degrees are necessary?