To: TigerLikesRooster
The word which describes China's current situation is "oligarchy", where an entrenched elite runs the country for its own benefit. This increasingly describes the US as well, but that's another story.
The Chinese "princelings" are effectively the new nobility of China, each guarding his own feudal turf.
12 posted on
12/07/2010 7:12:52 AM PST by
PapaBear3625
("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
To: PapaBear3625
Part of my view of China is shaped by a historian who called the establishment of Communism in China the “Peasant Dynasty.”
From a SF/Future History point of view, I see an empire ruled by an emperor called a Chairman and served by Ministers drawn from a nobility called the Commissioners.
Or something along that line, anyway.
16 posted on
12/07/2010 7:32:01 AM PST by
Little Ray
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