CCP leaders are largely technocrats unlike in the US. There are many engineers and doctors in the upper ranks.

Well, Xi Jinping and his lackeys are known for their poor educational background, maybe not quite well known in the West.

robocat 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Many of us have personal experience watching good engineers become bad managers.

Politics is harder than it looks.

In theory an engineering background should help make better politicians. In practice it isn't the slamdunk you imply.

	▲	satvikpendem 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My statement was descriptive not prescriptive. I make no claims about, in a vacuum or for all situations, whether a technocrat is better than one who is not, just that many of their government is made up of them and they seem to be doing well.
	▲	jqpabc123 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In practice it isn't the slamdunk you imply. In practice, China is very different from the USA. For example, China doesn't have open presidential elections.