The Communist Party is abolishing limits on presidential terms, effectively allowing President Xi Jinping to lead China indefinitely. Credit Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press
Tuesday morning brief
The world tilts toward authoritarianism, Angela Merkel grooms a successor and the colosseum gets snow.
“The basic principle of Chinese privacy law is that the underlying owner of all information about people (and the underlying owner of everything else, really) is the state.” https://t.co/DwYkOuCKTW
— Craig Bryant (@simplesider) February 24, 2018
Refers to an article on Apple’s move
of personal consumer data to China.
Here’s what the NYTimes really asks: “Are we in the era of the strongman?” Details how China’s move to extend the rule of President Xi Jinping fits into a global shift toward unabashed authoritarianism, unchecked by the U.S.
Wicki and the strong men
Each era is also the era of the strong individual (power loner)
As you might know, the strongman desire is not exactly a call for a strong individual. Au contraire, with a healthy citizen, the strong individual (power loner), as the German author and international campus darling, Thomas Meinecke nailed it in the early eighties. Allow me to ad, at best she is free-spirited and on her own.
A wild spirited one is by no means liberal. She allows herself what she rather often denies others.
Angela Merkel Craig Bryant Thomas Meinecke Xi Jinping Yonatan Zunger