U.S. ambassador: Chinese government is unstable...

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Chinese revolution means one group of elites overthrow another group of elites and keep running the empire. The fact is deep in heart the majority of people in China are still satisfied with a strong handed central government and that fact hasn't been changed for over 5000 years.

What the fuck are you talking about? China's been through more changes in leadership and government in its lifespan than Lindsay Lohan's been through rehab.
 
lol pretty much, I don't think many westerners truly understand China.They are the opposite of America where we tend to trust our local and state representatives and hate the big bad federal government who wants to take our personal rights away..!! Or at least the Republicans think so. In China many seem to see their local reps and corrupt mofos and the State as the savior that lifted them from poverty and greatly improved their quality of life in just a few generations. The young people in general, those who you'd think would be leaders of the revolutionaries to topple the CCP.. are instead usually very nationalistic. Think Young Republicans, but asian~

Well, the Chinese are usually right to trust their federal government over their local governments, because corruption is greatest in the local government level in China.
 
What the fuck are you talking about? China's been through more changes in leadership and government in its lifespan than Lindsay Lohan's been through rehab.

Yes, but his point was that every new government was a strong central authority, and people don't seem to mind that.
 
What the fuck are you talking about? China's been through more changes in leadership and government in its lifespan than Lindsay Lohan's been through rehab.

What I mean is "meet the new boss same as the old boss". To put it simple enough for kids like you can understand: even if there's a revolution in the future, the new government will still be controlled by ONE party and it will be business as usual until another one overthrows it (mostly due to economy downturn).
 
What I mean is "meet the new boss same as the old boss". To put it simple enough for kids like you can understand: even if there's a revolution in the future, the new government will still be controlled by ONE party and it will be business as usual until another one overthrows it (mostly due to economy downturn).

I remember reading a book and I can't remember the title at this point where the crux of the argument is that china's government really hasn't changed even after the communist party took over. It's still a very Legalist one.
 
I give China 10 years for another radical movement in the country to occur. Might correlate with slower growth rates and rising inflation.

The Chinese government has been pretty good at adapting over the past few decades. Everything has changed except who's in charge.
 
BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE IPAD 3.

Don't worry Foxconn is building a bigger, badder, better factory in Brazil and will use cheap human labor there until they can get their robot workforce ready for use.

I'm not kidding google it up they told the Taiwanese government their plan for one in the future.

Anyway as to this issue I see it this way, the government is increasingly become close minded as they want tighter control over the country recently the government has taken over certain industries such as the rare earth metals mining since they currently hold a near monopoly of it in the world. They fear for international intervention since we all know countries tend to invade when resources get scarce.

Current lead hinted and warned that the ultra conservatives are gaining power and China could be under an even tighter grip. I would say the whole Arab Spring was a good warning for them to try and keep their people in check.

Either way I'll be watching with popcorn to see if this country does indeed implode it will be fascinating.
 
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Real China is already a democracy
 
Real China is already a democracy

I never really understood this point of contention. A bunch of government officials, soldiers, and elites evacuate to Taiwan and claim to be the "real" China and we should take them seriously, as opposed to the vast majority of people who were left behind.
 
People i think are upset at the local officials most of the time. They are the ones who do all the stupid shit. They are the ones who accept to like have a chemical factory right where people live etc. A chinese democracy would still have all the corruption of todays China. Its the corruption that makes people furious.

Also, if only this man (leader of China 1987 to 1989) could have kept power. I think China would have been better today.

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people usually attribute Deng Xiaoping for modern China but Zhao Ziyang the successor of Deng was basically even more liberal and for freedom, democracy and humbleness. Sadly he was sacked and imprisoned by Deng Xiaoping and the rest of the old hardliners. He even supported the students during the Tiananmeng Square Protest.
 
Democracy needs two things:
1. Rock n roll
2. Coca Cola.

Funnily enough, a Hong Kong TV drama about 'Rock n roll' just got banned in China around xmas and subsequently became a it in HK. 天與地 was its name, because music in inherently subversive or something.

Corruption's run through Chinese history for almost forever. Democracy won't fix it, nothing except a slow decrease in population will fix it.

Dunno about this, i think it is ultimately a local government issue, but cracking down on it isn't impossible. HK was far more corrupt in the 70s before the ICAC was set up and now it remains the city's few assets (along with the free press) that is slowly being eroded.
 
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