I pretty much know nothing about it, and would like to learn.
Wikipedia is probably terrible, and I don't know where else to go besides there.
Also, let's throw in some information about the DPRK too while we're at it. All I've ever read about them are ridiculous stories about how they consider Kim Jong-Un to be a god-king and that they set up entire fake cities to fool western tourists.
I would just like to make it very clear, in a broad sense, that there is not and never will be "an unbiased source of information" in regards to any subject. Every piece of information reported or ignored is informed by the biases of the person behind it. What you are looking for is a source that has a different bias, that doesn't have the imperialist/Cold War 2 aims of the US State Department and the various complicit/uncritical media organizations parroting its talking points. Some of the links shared in here are from Chinese government-owned media companies. Obviously biased. You're bound to get the Grayzone link, which is a website of avowed communist, media critical sources. Again, they have an obvious bias to dispel negative information about China. No one is giving information without an objective or opinion.
Agreed, but I think the cgtn NPC breakdown is about unbiased as you can get from any official source. It's presenting statistical data in an interesting way. Not to say statistics can't be biased, but this isn't really making any serious claims with the stats, just showing demographic representations in the NPC and most popular words in their reports over the past 100 years.
Do you know the actual significance of the NPC, though? I was interested in that article too, but for all I know it could be equivalent to a party convention in the US in terms of its bearing on what finally happens.
It's the body that appoints officials, enacts laws, and amends the constitution as well as drafts the 5 year plans. It's outside the party (it has other party officials inside it, including KMT members), but is still mostly controlled by the party because of the high ratio of party members.
I think the party still has final say? Like let's say a small group of Taiwan Democratic Self-Governance League and Revolutionary Kuomintang members decided they wanted to put up a vote about bringing the dynasty back or something, the party sould just shut that down.
I'm not totally sure exactly how that works though.
This infographic is one of my favorites shows the makeup of the NPC (National Policy Committee, basically China's version of the Senate, but they actually do stuff and create the 5 year plans)
They only have a new one every 5 years, this is the 2019 one so we'll have to wait for 2024 for a new one.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/jo9kn0/hey_i_want_to_understand_chinas_government_it/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvdixWoOBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd6_6nKSMmQ
There is almost certainly no such thing as an unbiased explanation of either of these country's political systems.
I think that would require and space alien to write.
Just going to have to look at a range of sources and try to make up your own mind.
Any space alien capable of traveling to earth and studying our social systems would have a social system of their own and an initial contact point that would color their description and, thus, be biased.
I'm not sure I agree. I think people have a tendancy to project human society like attributes onto hives, but they are fundamentally different.
Like a multi celled organism is essentially a complex sweet of micro organism symbiosis. You could draw parallels with human societies, but they are fundamentally different.
Regardless, you are right. Aliens would have some kind of bias because their experience of consciousness would be shaped by the limitations of their perception in some way.
I also intended it as not entirely serious hyperbole.
Why not ask Xi Jinping himself? Here he is explaining China's system. Reminder: the man is a scientist by profession.
https://palladiummag.com/2019/05/31/xi-jinping-in-translation-chinas-guiding-ideology/
These people aren't stupid though, the supposed intelligence/education standards of these systems aren't the issue. What should be more focused on regarding the PRCs system is how you have to serve in smaller local roles and get elected upwards to advance, instead of turning into a popularity contest that the bourgeoise will inherently and forever have a massive advantage in winning.
"All power to the Soviets...but only the ones of smart people" -Vladimir Lenin
