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The issue of life long leadership tenure of China is a bit odd and a bit of a paradox.
Volunteering obedience to a master/ superior in perpetuity has been mentioned since the Code of Hammurabi.
The duty to comply with lawful directions is accepted by individuals in military, religious and legal matters subject moral commonsense.
Rousseau and Mill more recently have rightly contested the limits of individual ethical choice concerning compliance with authority.
I may be wrong but the American and French Revolutions, the 1848 revolutions and the English Civil War not to mention the Protestant Reformation sought quite ethically challenged absolute authority and check the power of, in general terms, an irremovable monarch/ leader.
My humble view is that the new Chinese irrevocable leadership is a metaphor irrevocable power held elsewhere.
Given most of Chinese business entities are owned by the people/state the new leader has not been appointed for his business acumen alone.
Mar 29, 2018 03:28 AM
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