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Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts) Wed Jun 19, 2019, 05:58 PM Jun 2019

Are they both not dictators?

The Chinese president and north Korean leader?

Just struck me as I watched a CNN story. The Chinese president was referred to by name and although the north Korean leader was also it was always prefaced by "dictator"

President for life sounds like a dictator to me.

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Are they both not dictators? (Original Post) Watchfoxheadexplodes Jun 2019 OP

Xi Jinping is General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #1

Ty for clarity Watchfoxheadexplodes Jun 2019 #2

comradebillyboy

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1. Xi Jinping is General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Original post)

Wed Jun 19, 2019, 06:04 PM

Jun 2019

the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. The kindest description is that Xi is the leader of the one party oligarchy that runs China. Kim is Supreme Leader and Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea.

So yeah, they are both dictators.

Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)

2. Ty for clarity

Reply to comradebillyboy (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 19, 2019, 06:20 PM

Jun 2019

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