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by sgt101 1789 days ago
Hang on, what about all the people he's had executed? What about their interests? Shooting people doesn't seem benevolent to me.
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>_generally_ benevolent

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>PRC (national) interests

Governance priorities and development generally going right under Xi. Crack egg to make omelette etc. Incidentally, political executions also way down after his reforms, customary executions now "death with reprieve" sentences, where death is suspended. Way things are going, Xi's hagliography is going to be 10% bad and 90% good, especially if he can avoid war with US. Otherwise, hard to argue he isn't resolving or trying to resolves some of modern PRC's most entrenched problems across many domains.