From a personal conversation with a well-informed party insider I know that he is also alienating many rank & file CCP members.
They can not stand his rule by fear anymore.
The party will split.
Xi has antagonised pro-establishment figures within the Chinese Communist Party, the people whose support he needs most to stay in power.
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His article titled "Bureaucratic strategies of coping with strongman rule: How local officials survive in President Xi Jinping’s new order" is essential reading.
prcleader.org/pei-bureaucrat…
"(...) it has become more difficult to monitor local officials or for them to be held accountable"
So much about the supposed efficiency gains by centralisation and strongman rule.
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Why would people join the mafia if they cannot benefit from the protection racket?
If the party-state was sincere in its desire to combat corruption it would have to engage in political reform
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