Posted on 10/19/2025 9:00:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
No.
Many of these maneuvers occur in the background. Most of the time, the people looking at long odds acknowledge they have lost, give up in hopes of leniency in the purges to come. But sometimes, they round up supporters and duke it out, with rival military and paramilitary units fighting on each side. That’s when it gets interesting, and the specter of civil war rears its pretty little head.
Let me rewrite the article.
But it should have said is, I have no idea what happened in China and I have no idea what the consequences are for what happened in China and if I was not being paid somehow for the text that I just wrote, and I was thinking rationally, I would not have written it.
The CPC 4th Plenum has opened, and Xi appears to be on task outlining the economic and social goals for the next 5 years.
I think some of the predictions of Western and Western influenced experts are wishful thinking.
So, he's only off by a couple of decades..... So far.
Photo of General He.
After I failed as a standup comic I never recovered. The world will pay.
The west should wish Xi stays. He is incompetent in the same vein as Brain-dead Biden and Hor-izontal Harris. He has damaged the CCP to the point it is now facing a USSR-style collapse. The largest bureaucracy in the world is broke and needs to loot Taiwan for survival. Xi is the communist idiot that took them there.
[Photo of General He]
In the Democrat Joe Biden Administration it would have been:
Photo of General He / She / They / Them / Two-Spirit
Your 屁股 hurt?
This is all coming from other Chinese.
It may be wishful thinking or otherwise internecine and/or psychological warfare.
But it’s not originating with “Western and Western influenced experts.”
A fascinating response, given that the thread's title is to an article by American China-expert, Gordon Chang. His resume includes the title about China's Collapse, but interestingly doesn't mention the dates, having incorrectly forecast said collapse by decades now.
Gordon Chang -- author bio
The Wiki on the thread's China-expert includes:
"When 2011 was almost over, Chang admitted that his prediction was wrong but said it was off by only a year, asserting in Foreign Policy that the CCP would fall in 2012. Consequently he made the magazine's '10 worst predictions of the year' twice."
That's a good summary of every Gordon Chang article.
*** This is all coming from other Chinese.
It may be wishful thinking or otherwise internecine and/or psychological warfare.
But it’s not originating with “Western and Western influenced experts.” ***
When I used the term Western Influenced I include Hong Kong dissidents, Falun Gong (Epoch Times), Taiwan, and ethnic Chinese influenced by the idea of illusory freedoms they imagine the outside world enjoys.
Where do you think Gordon Chang gets it?
Ok Chairman Mao.
You mean, like being over two decades wrong about that collapse?
Non sequitur response.
Which ends our little exchange, for the response was not unrelated to Gordon Chang, evidence of his public errors, the title of the thread which logically dictates the comments which follow.
nounWhen trotting out Latin and rhetoric, it is wise to know of which you speak.
-- An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence.
-- A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it.
-- Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
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