I’ve been in China the past few weeks working in Shanghai and some other big cities. While the government blocks Google and many other Western websites, Free Republic always comes through. It loads so quickly that I use it to test WIFI service.
In the big cities at least China seems very bustling and prosperous. There is a huge divide between rich and poor. I’ve heard older people say that in the old days everyone was poor, but at least they were poor together. I’ll see big pictures of Mao hanging in some restaurants and he’s all over their currency.
Of course they’re still a force, they’re armed and savagely violent. They will be a force until someone stands up to them and destroys them.
Pronounced: mousey dung.
The Maoists run the military.
Far easier to be the guy with the gun, and let people live with pretend freedoms, as long as they don’t get out of line.
“Millions of people were persecuted, publicly humiliated, beaten or killed during the upheaval ...” sounds bad but hides the truth.
Mao, the man who murdered 153,000,000 people ...