• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yup, he didn’t just change them, he abolished term limits for himself, which were in effect up until that point since Mao died.

    Plus(among many other dictator-y things) he enacted indefinitely retroactive remote treason laws against a separate, sovereign country (hk), so that if you were 12 years old and once wrote on a message board " why Communism?"(Even though China’s capitalist) you can be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China at any point for the rest of your life and held indefinitely in mainland Chinese prison without appeal.