[dartharva]

China is fundamentally anti-elite. It is the whole principle the PRC was founded on. China does not have "the same type of leadership" at all. It has well-raised technocratic cadres who compete within the system, not above it unlike the US.

[red-iron-pine]

ITT: we think the CCP is not "an elite"

[cyanydeez]

Yeah, the same people who claim nazis were socialists and north korea is a democratic peoples republic.

A lot of semantics and no dsire to evaluate real world implementations.