alt Hacker NewsNo it’s not. Xi has power as absolute as Newsom and manages just fine. When your country has large, but solvable problems, absolute power works great for quelling unrest by fixing problems quickly and efficiently. Newsom is just generationally incompetent.
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The argument isn't that authoritarians can't solve problems.. It more about how they do it.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/china-still-n...
Every argument against California can be easily disproven by the fact that people aren't moving out in droves like everyone says, and house prices are still very high because people want to live there.
Covid should have dropper the house prices drastically in Cali since people had the option to do remote work in a cheaper cost of living state, but all it did was just move the rate negative for like one year - everyone who couldn't afford it was able to get out, only to be replaced by people who can afford to live there.
With all do respect, I do not want to live in anything remotely close to the Chinese CCP. (laughs in Free Floridian)