Originally Posted by
percysmith
Originally Posted by
percysmith
Local governments seems to be a convenient bogeyman for policies set by central government and not influenced by them.
- they can’t criticise the central government back
- central Govt set their resourcing or lack thereof
- all “costs” (death toll) are blamed on them, general social order is credited to central govt
For much of April and May, the local government in Shanghai effectively was the central government. They have also taken active roles in other spotlight situations.