Their Freedom™ world can’t even comprehend a leadership that unanimously knows what’s the best for their people and acts as one to achieve that. But can you blame them when actual politics in their understanding is at large laughing at each side’s puppets which one is painted more orange.
Especially that you can see unanimous or nearly unanimous votes in liberal democracies too, but those are nearly always voting for bourgeoisie interests or for imperialist bootlick.
Videos like these are kinda poor representations of the democratic discussion in the party. That happens way before the voting, so that practically everyone is in agreement during the National People’s Congress.
Aside from the different class that’s in charge, that consensus building is the key difference I see in the Chinese system compared to the west. Chinese representative bodies can and do vote unanimously for things because so much work has happened in advance of the vote to adjust the proposal for maximum benefit and educate the people and representatives on what it means, for them and for society at large.
The National People’s Congress (NPC) of the PRC is not the same as the National Congress of the CPC, this video is about the 20th CPC National Congress. The NPC is the highest state organ of power and exercises the legislative power of the state.
I think I saw this one in a Monty Python scene
Where did they get this video? Is there an archive of the footage from the congresses?
See my comment for a YouTube link. All of the congresses since the founding of the PRC are filmed and archived somewhere. Here’s a clip from 1954 of the First Session of the First National’s People Congress: https://v.ifeng.com/c/8EIUfKqdeBN, and another from 1956 of the 8th CPC National Congress: https://mil.ifeng.com/c/8C3H2giE3AC.
Original 12-min colour footage of the founding ceremony of the PRC on Oct 1, 1949: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1DJ411u71f/. This was released by the National Archives Administration in 2019 for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This short clip is from a live broadcast of the closing session of the 20th CPC National Congress on Oct 22, 2022, and I think the exact video is this one on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UXm9C2ZGri4, note that the camera angles are exactly the same starting from around 49:40 to 50:40. This particular vote is on a resolution on an amendment to the CPC Constitution, and the resolution draft is read before the vote.
The 20th CPC National Congress was held on Oct 16 to Oct 22, 2022, the resolution drafts were given to the various delegations to discuss on Oct 18.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The various live broadcasts on YouTube seem to use the same feed, presumably from CCTV. Here’s a more complete version without any watermarks, it includes the opening and a few more minutes of reading the draft resolutions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZUreJ8ntTxo
Not pictured: everyone discussing, making efforts to understand conflicting positions, making compromises, and arriving at a course of action everyone is willing to move forward together on.
Liberals prefer this: for any divisive issue, a line in the sand is drawn: for vs against. Everyone chooses a position on either side of the line. Sometimes, additional unrelated issues are added to the same line. You can vote in favour of both, or against both, but you can’t vote for one and against the other even though they’re conceptually unrelated. Why? Because fuck you, that’s why. Anyway, everyone votes for or against and the winner gets everything they want and the losers get nothing. Even if they’re 49% of the population, they get nothing. Then everyone goes home to watch war movies about how ‘no one gets left behind.’
