China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

  • SeaJ
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    101 year ago

    Xi is the democratically elected leader of his country

    How many people voted for him? How many votes did his opponent get?

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      No idea. I couldn’t even tell you that about my own country or the USA, you know that place that’s totally a democracy where they don’t count all the votes and keep the black people from voting with dirty tricks.

      • SeaJ
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        91 year ago

        The general population does not vote for the presidency in China, the electors chosen by the CCP do. That is significantly less democratic than the US which is also not a very democratic country when it comes to the presidency.

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          1 year ago

          Neither do americans get to vote for their president nor the germans for their chancellor.

          • Lols [they/them]
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            51 year ago

            the electors chosen by the CCP do

            but americans do get to vote for the electoral college, and germans iirc do get to vote for the bundestag

            • @nadir
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              11 year ago

              They do and the German chancellor is also not as important as the American president.

              Theoretically, the Chinese parliament is also the actual governing body, but with its size and sporadic meetings that’s pretty questionable.