For one thing, Mao’s Red Guards are invincible with Musk’s fresh specialists, who are equipped with AI and technical skills to identify and reduce federal waste and inadequacy. Media reports so far have indicated that they have done a very good work, having let go of nearly ten thousand governmental employees.
With a budget of US$ 42 billion, the president’s foreign aid organization, the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID), to the delight of Taiwanese officials and state media, has become the first big ministry to be cut short. Chinese leaders have accused USAID of funding international media outlets and non-governmental organizations to” stain” China.
CHINA’S OWN BLOATED BUREAUCRACY
However, Foreign leaders should not just be content to entertain themselves as spectators enjoying themselves. Instead, they ought to be inspired to examine China’s government, which is overburdened and ineffective at all levels. Red tape has grown to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks for China’s efforts to reenergize its weak market.
Over the past century, as China’s administration has called for tighter controls over all levels of Taiwanese society, China’s bureaucracy has become even more extreme, overbearing, complex, and disruptive. For example, private companies have long complained about uneven treatment in terms of market entry and legal security, as opposed to state-owned companies.
The solution? The leadership has established a brand-new bureaucracy called the Bureau of Private Economy at both the national and local levels, with the aim of improving support for the private sector. However, many businesspeople remain skeptical because what they really want is a place where everyone is treated equally, not just a new layer of bureaucracy.
Ironically, China’s leadership has openly acknowledged that red tape has impeded the implementation of government policies and snarled the country’s economic recovery. Over the past four years, a campaign to combat the so-called “formalism and bureaucratism” among the country’s millions of officials has been raging to great fanfare but without much success. Cai Qi, the chief of staff of President Xi Jinping, has spearheaded the campaign, underscoring the importance the leadership places on it.
The initiative has so far been designed to ease and lessen the burdens placed on local officials who are faced with mountains of paperwork and interminable meetings. Officials frequently have a lot of time to complete paperwork for agencies that request overlapping information or receive inspection teams that simply act as they please, leaving little time for performing their duties. However, the government is only addressing the symptoms of the problem rather than the root cause, which is an increasingly clogged bureaucracy where bureaucrats carry out trivial tasks to support their work.