[seanmcdirmid]

All presidents rise to power on a message of anti-corruption, they all clean house when they start in office but usually it falls off until the next president takes over. The problem Xi has is that now that he is now president for life, the house isn't getting cleaned in the usual way every 10 years; he has to do a corruption purge every so often or things will get grimey.

[Terr_]

> All presidents rise to power on a message of anti-corruption

You mean in China specifically? Otherwise there are some pretty harsh counterexamples to that "all".

[seanmcdirmid]

I'm just talking about China, we were only talking about China right? We don't really have a lot of data points to go by since there have been only three presidents so far with supreme power (after it was combined with General Secretary and military chair head, before that president was more of a ceremonial role).