China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), concluded its annual ten-day conference in Beijing on Tuesday.
The meeting included extravagant promises from Chinese Communist Party leaders that they could boost consumer spending, revive their moribund economy, and win a trade war against the United States using artificial intelligence (AI) as their secret weapon.
The NPC, technically the only branch of government in the Chinese Communist system, is a purely theatrical organ that exists to make the decisions of a few authoritarian leaders look like they were reached through debate and informed consensus. The annual NPC conference is a window into the thinking of dictator Xi Jinping and his top henchmen, and occasionally offers a glimpse of political skulduggery among the vast
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