[Dr. Marten]

History should also show that the Chinese people clearly desire a strong central government. In fact, they demand it.

[airborne]

A little history lesson: If you don’t know the answer make your best guess. Answer all the questions before looking at the answers.

Who said it?

1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common
good.”

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few,
by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared
responsibility for shared prosperity.”

A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) “(We)...can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means
something has to be taken away from some people.”

A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Jose f Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to
give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common
ground.”

A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”

> A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the
most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being
watched.”

A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

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Answers:

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/29/2004

(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
5/29/2007

(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid!

[snowsislander]

History should also show that the Chinese people clearly desire a strong central government. In fact, they demand it.

I think history does show that; historically, I believe that chaos has not been kind to the ordinary individual in China.

While there are always cycles in China, transitional periods have been on the whole hard on the Chinese people.

[TigerLikesRooster]

That is because they have never found a way to coexist as multiple states. They believe they should have one China at all costs. The cost to have one China usually is to get 2/3 of population killed.

China has the long cycle of demographic explosion beyond its carrying capacity. Coupled with decay of dynasty and run-away corruption, the country plunges into chaos, and lose large part of its population. It is a vicious cycle the mandate of one China cannot solve.

China went into a wrong track, unlike Europe and India.