No... Xi was a member of the CPC in his village since young, elections are taken place at different levels, from towns to municipalities and so on, until you get to the National People's Congress where there members elect a president.

For the first level, the NPC elects the head of State and the heads of the judicial organs, i.e., the President of the State, the President of the Supreme People's Court, the Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Director of the National Supervisory Commission, and, upon nomination by the President, decide on the leaders of the central administrative organs, namely, the Premier of the State Council. (Article 62 of the Constitution)

For the second level, the people’s congresses of provinces shall elect the heads of the administrative and judicial organs at the provincial level, namely, the governors of the provinces or municipalities directly under the Central Government, presidents of high people’s courts, chief procurators of the procuratorates at the provincial level and directors of the supervision committees at the same level. (Articles 8 and 44 of Local Organization Law)

For the third level, the municipal people’s congress shall elect the leaders of the municipal organs, institutions, and judicial organs, namely the mayor, presidents of intermediate people’s courts, chief procurators of the municipal procuratorate, and directors of the supervisory committee at the same level.

For the fourth level, the people's congresses of districts and counties shall elect the responsible persons of administrative organs and judicial organs at the district/county level, namely, the heads of the district/county, presidents of primary people’s courts, chief procurators of procuratorates at the district/county level, and directors of supervisory committees at the same level.

For the fifth level, the people’s congress of townships and towns shall elect the heads of the administrative organs and institution at the same levels, namely, the heads of townships/towns. There are no judicial organs in towns and townships, only agencies dispatched by judicial organs at the district/county level.

Source.

He exerts as much power as any other president, or less, he can't do whatever he wants, there are democratic processes involved to take decisions...

Same here. So ; argue, downvote, report or "don't feed the troll"?

I agree

I guess you don't read, because when people engage in discussion I respond with facts. Generally it ends with people like you insulting me, with some racist/classist argument which ends up being banned, or with people not responding or responding fallacies. I could write a wiki about being critical of the US. I am an Argentinian so I know from first hand what it feels to have a fascists installed by the US, and to have a history of debt trap enslavement at the hands of the very same people.

Nazi Germany literally just copied from the book what Usonians did to aborigenes, which if you don't know was a whole ethnic state thing, that without taking into account the treatment jews had in the US and black people. Mussolini didn't invent fascism, that was a thing that built over the years while he certainly gave it more form.

Here you have a video that goes mroe in depth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1gcipAvplY

I think that is not nice way to communicate with people.

They have their opinion and they shared it, it is not rare to be person in current era angry at US and The Global West.

For some people being pro-China or pro-Russia actually means being against US or against NATO, which can be understandable for some parts of the world that were under attack from them in last few decades.

Ask them what happened to them and why they think like they do, maybe we can learn something new.