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'China's Donald Trump' kicks off communism debate
BBC Online ^ | 100American

Posted on 10/03/2015 8:52:39 PM PDT by 100American

Ren, the former chairman of the Hua Yuan Property Company, has been compared to American businessman (and now Republican presidential candidate) Donald Trump. In China he's nicknamed "Cannon" for his outspokenness, which has earned him more than 33 million followers on the Chinese microblogging service Weibo.

So when one of his recent posts criticized the youth wing of the ruling Communist Party, it started a huge debate about the past and future of the country's politics.

"We've been deceived by these slogans for years," Ren wrote, responding to a patriotic message posted by the Communist Youth League on Monday which declared: "We are the successors of communism."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; change; china; communism; election2016; newyork; trump
Looks like The Eastern side is awakening, abandoning Maoist dogma and slogans that never worked to improve anything but Government Apparatus to support it...

Winds of Change keep blowing...

1 posted on 10/03/2015 8:52:39 PM PDT by 100American
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To: 100American

I wish the wings here on our side will change. Interesting the other side is having an awakening and here were stuck with a bunch of brainless zombies (no offense to Zombies who are actually more smarter)


2 posted on 10/03/2015 8:56:43 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: 100American

His 33 million followers will be upset after he commits suicide with three bullets to the head.


3 posted on 10/03/2015 9:13:30 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Three seems to be a reoccurring number in your life.


4 posted on 10/03/2015 9:16:21 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: Fhios

Yes. My second favorite digit after 2.


5 posted on 10/03/2015 9:23:54 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Nah the Commies will find a crime to pin on him, have a spectacle trial and take him to their death van.


6 posted on 10/03/2015 11:30:43 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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So lemme guess, the GOP establishment will coordinate with the Chinese Communists hoping to make Trump’s candidacy an impossibility...


7 posted on 10/03/2015 11:35:55 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: VanShuyten

I was thinking the same thing...


8 posted on 10/04/2015 9:57:29 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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