Posted on 11/28/2011 2:16:47 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Children of the Revolution
China's 'princelings,' the offspring of the communist party elite, are embracing the trappings of wealth and privilege—raising uncomfortable questions for their elders.
By JEREMY PAGE
One evening early this year, a red Ferrari pulled up at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Beijing, and the son of one of China's top leaders stepped out, dressed in a tuxedo.
Bo Guagua, 23, was expected. He had a dinner appointment with a daughter of the then-ambassador, Jon Huntsman.
The car, though, was a surprise. The driver's father, Bo Xilai, was in the midst of a controversial campaign to revive the spirit of Mao Zedong through mass renditions of old revolutionary anthems, known as "red singing." He had ordered students and officials to work stints on farms to reconnect with the countryside. His son, meanwhile, was driving a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and as red as the Chinese flag, in a country where the average household income last year was about $3,300.
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To some extent, its counterbalanced by term limits for party and state leaders, that have been strictly observed. The Communist Party’s greatest challenge is avoiding even the appearance of corruption or favoritism. But its certainly difficult to combat in a country where the state controls key sectors of the economy and in which no public criticism is allowed of the Party or its policies. When most Chinese people believe people with insider connections get ahead of those who don’t, there is a problem. And its questionable whether more democracy within the Party and greater government transparency will come to grips with the problem of elite entitlement.
Sounds like the US, recently.
Looks like the Chinese have come full circle and are doing a reprise of the Manchu Dynasty
Seems as though Communism is royalty revisited.
Animal farm explains it perfectly
100,000,000 excess men will come looking for the Butchers of Beijing.
chicom bump for later........
Or they will stampede west toards Russia in search of hot Russian babes.
Vladimir Putin has a big, big problem and it is coming from the east.
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