China has been crazy insane on many levels for a year or more.
It had to blow.
Xi is not Deng and does not have the so-called Mandate of Heaven.
It’s hard to know what will happen.
Chicoms have had time to clamp down on info getting out so it’s harder to know if the rebellions are getting bigger or fizzling out or other etc…
RE: China has been crazy insane on many levels for a year or more.
It had to blow.////////
It all started with “I want my MTV.”
2012 article on PBS site (long ago):
XU FAN, professor, Communications University of China: The rules are meant to restrict two types of programs. The first is crime programs that show audiences how crimes are committed, how to steal and rob, criminal techniques and scenes of the crime. This is what ordinary people like to watch. But these types of programs are against law and order.
Second are dramas with contents of immortality, moral and ethical betrayals.
China’s older generation was defined by their ability to “eat bitter”—that is, to do hard things for long times with deeply delayed gratification. In a way, China’s economic history can be summed up by this generational evolution: The older generation ate bitter yesterday so that today the younger generation can eat hot pot.
The result is a divide in generational spending power that is pretty astounding. Seventy-nine percent of the spending on luxury goods and services in China is done by people under 40.
China has been insane since 1949 when Mao took over.