CCP leaders are largely technocrats unlike in the US. There are many engineers a...

resonancel · 2026-04-23T03:13:57 1776914037

Well, Xi Jinping and his lackeys are known for their poor educational background, maybe not quite well known in the West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYQpaAI90A

robocat · 2026-04-22T21:27:58 1776893278

Many of us have personal experience watching good engineers become bad managers.

Politics is harder than it looks.

In theory an engineering background should help make better politicians. In practice it isn't the slamdunk you imply.

jqpabc123 · 2026-04-22T21:49:05 1776894545

In practice it isn't the slamdunk you imply.

In practice, China is very different from the USA. For example, China doesn't have open presidential elections.

satvikpendem · 2026-04-23T03:16:11 1776914171

My statement was descriptive not prescriptive. I make no claims about, in a vacuum or for all situations, whether a technocrat is better than one who is not, just that many of their government is made up of them and they seem to be doing well.