re: #130 wheat-dogg

Yeah, there are factions within the Party, though the public perception is of one big happy Party. Xi seems to lead the more Mao-ist, China First faction, and he’s been using his anti-corruption office to weed out Party members outside that faction. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao are more moderate and less nationalistic than Xi, and being older are nervous about Xi becoming the next Mao aka dictator for life.

I’ve always found factionalism within dictatorships fascinating. I don’t know why.