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DeFitz's avatar

Thanks for the insight, Neil. China has Two Sessions and America has AIPAC. China's ascent and America's decline tells us all we need to know about which system works best for its citizens.

钟建英's avatar

I admire China’s democratic political system. Hope one day Malaysia can adopt elements from the Chinese system, especially the part that prioritises consultation and unanimity. There is too much rivalry and animosity in Malaysia’s political system.

Neil Zhu's avatar

waste too much time and tax money for infighting.

Donald Williams's avatar

Your right when you say two dimensional view and I'm sure your referencing the cartoonish U. S. system which is a farce at this point in time. The uniparty.

"There is no difference in the Liberal (Democrats) and the Conservative (Republican) party, they are both cheeks of the same political ass. There is no democracy in America, it is Shamocracy" - George Galloway

Christine Tara's avatar

My term: Republicrats and Demicans

Neil Zhu's avatar

Both are pretty much the same, just different language.

Christine Tara's avatar

Republicrats and Demicans

Untitled's avatar

Thank you for providing this insightful explanation. I was just in China for 2 weeks, and would love to learn more about the systems that make sure impressive progress possible.

Neil Zhu's avatar

I will post more in the future, thanks for reading!

Bonzo's avatar

I just returned from a multi-month trip in China. I was blown away with what I saw and experienced. This conference is clever. Bits surface. Ideas take shape. Alternative futures are proposed. Policy is shaped. I think this is great. Note, China if Scalia has a life after death, don’t let him near your courts or law making ability. Otherwise, this conference just becomes an auction for the haves.

Christine Tara's avatar

I'm jealous. I want to spend a month seeing the geography, technology and the top 20 and low 20 populated centers of China.

Neil Zhu's avatar

come to travel.

Also I will do live stream when I back to China, walk around in Wuhan and other cities

Christine Taraskiewicz's avatar

I'm 73, and most of my budget is spoken for. Air fare is $2,000. In my next life.

Daniel Beegan's avatar

As a person interested in political science, I appreciate your explanations of how the Chinese system works. I've been impressed with the progress China is making in improving living stanards as well as its advances in science and technology, especially AI and robotics.

Neil Zhu's avatar

thank you, also, after the meeting, the almost all corperations small/big, local goverments will study and review it. And they will know what to do next. The meeting point out the general direction of the country

Christine Tara's avatar

In my opinion, AI is a job killer in the US of the Bewildered America. I admire China's handle on Communism. I believe China's people benefit from being taken care of through this kind of culture. In the meantime, the US of Bewildered America, rule by the Oligarchy gets to experience control by greed.

Antoinette Kunda's avatar

thanks for the education!

Christine Tara's avatar

As usual, an succinct educational piece on China's political system. China is advanced in technology, could it be there is acceleration software that recognizes key phrases to put the 'almost' ideas together?

Are you familiar with any decisions with a deadlines? Many decisions in various organizations are tabled for 2 and 3 years.

I like the' low-altitude' economy term because I live at approximately 12,000 kilometers in Denver Colorado.

There is a country in our global community that shows brilliant examples of how to proceed in technology and taking care of 'commoners'. It's called China.

Is there enough data to post a comparison about how AI is perceived in various countries, but in particular China and the US of Bewildered America? My opinion is that AI is a job killer in the US.

Neil Zhu's avatar

I am not exactly sure what the feed back deadlines, but usually a lot decision making in China required within 6 month… especially, some of those legal matters.

Adam Cheklat's avatar

What if i were to bring that system to North American shores?

Duane Mitchell's avatar

Love the details in this article. I live in Boston and we have a large Chinese population. Lots of students. I’ve had discussions of government with them but I like this structured approach. Very well done. My question is how is the law from a proposal created? Is there another body that codifies a proposal into law?

Neil Zhu's avatar

yes, for example, Lei Jun from Xiaomi submitted proposals about speeding up auto driving regulation, this will go into ministry of transport. Then the ministry will debate and response to Lei Jun, after that, maybe start some pilot programs, if everything works out it will draft into law by the ministry of transport.

äDn Sukhāvatī's avatar

These sessions look great in theory. But how can such a large gathering of delegates, with each delegate representing specific local or regional concerns, expect any meaningful attention in just 10-14 days ? It just seems to be more of a ceremonial token of local representation, rather than a genuine and effective participation in government.

Neil Zhu's avatar

All proposals will submitted to related government agencies, and the agencies have to reply to the people who submit it. You might think this is a big meeting, but not really, consider how many people work within the goverment.

äDn Sukhāvatī's avatar

It seems to me that these “Sessions” would be more relevant and effective if they were conducted more frequently. They really don’t serve the same function as do a Congress, a Parliament, a Diet, a Duma. Not that any of those actually accomplish much either.

Christine Tara's avatar

I wonder the same. Is there an acceleration software that looks for key words to bring the 'almost' same ideas together?

äDn Sukhāvatī's avatar

These sessions look great in theory. But how can such a large gathering of delegates, with each delegate representing specific local or regional concerns, expect any meaningful attention in just 10-14 days ? It just seems to be more of a ceremonial token of local representation, rather than a genuine and effective participation in government.

Christine Tara's avatar

In my town of Denver Colorado, the recycle guidelines change and when a friend or people complain, I know that talks about these changes have been going on for one, two or even three years.