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Posted on 04/22/2005 8:10:12 PM PDT by quidnunc
I am still hoping for a democratic revolution in Canada, but while I am waiting, let me return to my more usual turf as a commentator on "world affairs". It appears to me that the Communist regime in China is beginning to crumble. I know that remark reeks of optimism, and my reader should know that I have expected the Beijing regime to join the Soviet one on the trash heap of history for some time.
This is because I do not share in the almost universal, though seldom spoken, journalistic and academic assumption that the Chinese are an inferior race. It is widely held that democracy could never work in China; that Chinese history conspires against this; that the Chinese culture is such (insert the word "Confucian", or delete, to taste) that Western individualism will always be rejected, by a people well trained to the yoke. The view that "the Communist Party is the only political force capable of holding modern China together" is as well-entrenched in journalistic cliché as the notion that China's dictatorship has found a miraculous way to accommodate modern capitalism.
(This is not, incidentally, much different from the general media assumption that Canadians are an inferior race; a people only capable of being governed by their Liberal Party; in a country that can only be held together by Liberals; that we are a people who neither want nor need elections.)
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FYI
There's even better news in the article.
I suppose some will argue that the Chi-coms will attempt to focus the citizens' attention on a war. Taiwan?
The Chi-coms have murdered tens of millions of their own citizens. The Party is supreme. Who could possibly believe that the Party was going to wither away on its own?
I can't believe that the Chinese people haven't bothered to count their guards. There's 2 million CCP members for 1.3 BILLION Chinese. The CCP should be overthrown in mere minutes once that realization sets in.
That's true of every dictatorship in history.
Key point noted in the article is contrary to the mythology that the Chinese military is rapidly expanding and incorporating lots of angry young men, the Chinese military is rapidly DOWNSIZING and now there are lots of angry (somewhat trained) men OUTSIDE of the military. More of a threat to the government than to other countries.
But...but, what will this do to the deals at Wal-Mart?
Well, he's right about the Canadians : )
Well, he's right about the Canadians : )
Actually when the Chinese economy implodes Walmart will have a huge sale. The government and the entrepreneur class will be desparate for funds to offshore for safe keeping and will dump product below cost. After that its anybody's guess, but I think that the government will be too busy trying to save their sorry a$$es that they won't have time to worry about Taiwan. The internet has changed everything there. The people now know what's is going on in the world and they will not sit still for long.
Surely nobody at Freerepublic has ever said anything offensive to the Chinese government?
Just to give you an idea of the explosive growth in China-- Shenzen was a tiny village on the beach 20 years ago, now it has an estimated 8 to 9 million people, with skyscrapers that rival Manhattan.
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