Oh sorry, do CEOs not exist on your planet? Are they not in executive control of a hierarchy, with only theoretical means to remove them? Do they not set long-term plans and broad strategic goals, within the context of a global market economy? Y’know - the thing you acknowledge Xi Jinping does, as you try to say he shares no qualities whatsoever with people who do the same thing in the private sector?
Because that’s what it would take for your response to be anything besides empty signalling to people who dogmatically agree with you just because of who you’re defending. Fairies aren’t real. CEOs are. National executives share enough in common, at the best of times, that idiots and assholes think states should “be run like a business.”
What happens when a state does control half of a country’s business, and “heavily plans” the other half?
Xi can be recalled, he just hasn’t because he’s wildly popular. The other aspects, such as having some level of control, becomes “Xi is a leader.” Not a leaders are CEOs.
Hey look, an argument! Why’d you jerk me around seven times before trying that?
He’s a leader in charge of goddamn near an entire economy. Half of it - by your own reckoning - directly under the state he controls. The other half - as you say - “heavily planned.” How is he not as responsible for those industries as any CEO is responsible for their company? Is it just because he’s even higher up the chain?
