China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

  • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    the electors chosen by the CCP do

    but americans do get to vote for the electoral college, and germans iirc do get to vote for the bundestag

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      1 year ago

      They do and the German chancellor is also not as important as the American president.

      Theoretically, the Chinese parliament is also the actual governing body, but with its size and sporadic meetings that’s pretty questionable.