Right...So the Chinese people have little to no inputs as to who would rule over them. An elite group of other career politicians selected him. He is a career politician in the worst way -- never an interruption. The Chinese people may be fine with that, given their docility throughout China's history in the face of authority.
Sure we have inputs. Every step along the way his administrative abilities are measured by how well the area developed. He is one of the countless lower ranking administrators who proved their worth at every step. Those who doesn't make the cut would not advance. I would hardly think it is "worst" by any stretch of imagination. Unless, of course, you are arguing that having a competent administrator is bad.
And please, Chinese are hardly docile. We are not the ones who have an entire continent of monarch and nobles all related to each other for thousands of years.
No. I mean the standing army. Like the one that ran over students in Tiananmen Square and continues to have an active role as the Party's enforcement apparatus.
You mean like this:
"U.S. Army intervention
At 4:45 p.m., commanded by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, the
12th Infantry Regiment,
Fort Howard, Maryland, and the
3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Maj.
George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered. the cavalry to charge them—an action which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"
Shacks that members of the Bonus Army erected on the Anacostia Flats burning after the confrontation with the military.
After the cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed
bayonets and
tear gas (
adamsite, an arsenical vomiting agent) entered the camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers. The veterans fled across the Anacostia River to their largest camp and President Hoover ordered the assault stopped. However Gen. MacArthur, feeling the Bonus March was an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, ignored the President and ordered a new attack. Fifty-five veterans were injured and 135 arrested. A veteran's wife miscarried. When 12-week-old Bernard Myers died in the hospital after being caught in the tear gas attack, a government investigation reported he died of
enteritis, while a hospital spokesman said the tear gas "didn't do it any good."
During the military operation, Major
Dwight D. Eisenhower, later the 34th President of the United States, served as one of MacArthur's junior aides.
Believing it wrong for the Army's highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: "I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there," he said later. "I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff."
Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army's official incident report which endorsed MacArthur's conduct.
