Probably, once everyone in the hostile US bloc becomes so economically degraded, even India will reign as a king among them. China will get the first dibs from forcing open their markets, but it's not like Chinese people will be interested in handling things such as hotels or museums. They are content sitting mostly out of the country, selling in goods and taking back resources.
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LoL! Mahathir is not a Jai Hind. Its more complicated than that. He hates India because of its policies against the Indian Muslims. In Malaysia, he treats the Hindu Indians just as badly as the Chinese.
However though, Mahathir still has that Indian DNA. So that explains his twisted racist mindset. He declares himself a "pure Malay", and to justify that even further, he officially made the Muslim Indians of Malaysia to be "Malays" too, and they would enjoy the same favoured status as the original Malays. All this while the Hindu Indians get treated as second-class citizens with inferior rights. Yes, this is effing confusing, but only an Indian mindset can come up with a race-hierarchy system as f**ked up as this. So, Mahathir is not a Jai Hind, but is his own Jai-Muslim-Indian-Malay prick.
If Taiwan has funding to create so much discontent and terrorist attacks but China cannot do the same in Taiwan with vastly several times more funding then China should be really worried about its governance and social situation. Chinese society is essentially sick right now if 5% growth can cause this level of discontent when other countries can easily handle negative growth.
I think China's biggest problem is too much western worship and lack of faith in Chinese way of governance by the general public. The public blames Xi Jinping for the anti-China policies and actions by the US and the west. The public blames Xi for economic slowdown.Finally, they blame the Chinese system itself. Anything even slightly negative gets hugely blamed by the educated class as problems with CCP leadership and becomes a challenge against the government. Sooner or later I think we are looking at another Tiananmen style color revolution in China.
Same shit, different flavor, but it's still shit.
That's the price the party must pay and burden itself with from the sole governing power of China. At least they're not going to be able to rest on their laurels and be on the back foot whenever any crisis flares up.
If the Chinese people themselves give up on the party it's on the party to take the blame and no one else.
If these retards going postal were in the US it would be just usual. In China, a country with several times the population, it is a civilization ending catastrophe. Please.
Knowing China the central government will clamp down and reduce this sort of activity.
Knowing China the central government will clamp down and reduce this sort of activity.
Tell me about it
Completely incomparable.
Actual surveys including some already posted here (I can't find easily on mobile but you probably can easily) show that the most discontent fall into 2 categories:
1. Urban, post 70s/80s who are the "bagholders" of the real estate crisis that bought high and are seeing their imaginary wealth go down.
2. Boomers in rural areas who missed out on the benefits of reform altogether.
Both demographics are now relatively old and have something to lose. Boomers have their pension to lose and the urban middle aged have their remaining property to lose, as well as their lives.
In 1989 the protestors had nothing to lose except their lives but had absolute power to gain if they won.
The problem is that unlike in 1989, mere reform is not enough to solve the problem. The issue is that these people are entitled. They are not satisfied with living in a safe society with good infrastructure. They want a society where they personally benefit from privilege and fuck anyone else who gets in their way. This toxic mindset has already brought down several other countries. A policy change to accommodate them would destroy actual trust in the government by everyone else, as privilege is inherently exclusionary.
Since reform will not work, further repression is the obvious solution. They might not be happy but making them powerless to lash about it would safeguard society as a whole.
They can always self deport elsewhere - without much of their money that will be prevented from leaving with capital controls - if they believe that China is too harsh on them.
You can't scapegoat everything on the KMT, especially when there's no ties.
But there is some truth that you can unify the society by focusing on internal problems, finding an "other" to beat as a scapegoat. Though there isn't anywhere a significant enough issue with disunity that it would be needed to employ tricks.
In my view, China should wait until the US invades first, because China's up arming pace is faster than the US. While the so called "one China policy" humiliates our country much like the Minsk agreements, in the same way, they pragmatically also serve to buy us time to rearm, for the inevitable day where we'll return to the territories US want to annex.
Remember the goal for China is not just to defend it's territorial integrity, but to draw in the American aggressor, bleed him dry, destroy all the cities of his collaborators, and bury the spirit of American revanchism.
This is the maneuver that the Chinese vessel made above the cables that likely made the cut, could be explained away by the possibility it was just cleaning the anchor, but doing that right above a cable is unlikely. Could be sabotage.
