http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/11/china-a-meritocracy-of-mediocrity/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Mon, 20 May 2013 14:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/11/china-a-meritocracy-of-mediocrity/#comment-60044 Will Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:30:10 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=146855#comment-60044 The Party-state’s system is based on patron-client relations and family networks among the Party elite. It is hardly a so-called meritocracy. If the Party were to allow the populace to vote for the nation’s top leaders like every other country in the G-20 except for Saudi Arabia and China, then I might start taking this loose talk about meritocracy more seriously.

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