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Brigadier
China knows a hell of a lot more about the US than the US knows about China.
But I think in next several decades China only need to change the name of the political system, consider something like the Celestial Confucius Governing System, or simply Chinese Political System (thus Chinese Party) etc![]()
Exactly
CCP
Celestial Confucius Party
China Civilization Party
I am really curious as to what those Chinese scholars really meant with respect to China-U.S. studies not being on par with the U.S.-China studies. I think that those academics wants to use the heightened strategic friction and competition between China and the U.S. for more academic freedom i.e. doing away with meetings with the potential American intelligence personnel. Some eggheads are not too bright or street smart and recognizing potential pitfalls because in my perhaps dumb opinion, some academics can be also narrow minded/tunnel vision when it comes to pursuing their academic interests.China knows a hell of a lot more about the US than the US knows about China.
If you've posted this in response to my writing thinking that I want China to change and become capitalist, you are mistaken. I agree that China's unique system fusing everything that works with extra Chinese characteristics is the best, at least for China, the country for which and by which it was tailor-made. But after that, between capitalism and socialism, capitalism will win every time despite its imperfections because it is the only one that works between the two.Only the greatly fooled Chinese ever believe that millions of different ideas even thousands or simply hundreds of different ideas or thoughts contested in open are serving any good for the nation!!!
The current Chinese system is the best whereas competing ideas are considered and argued within the intern of the party, not being fought in the public in the wild. Majority of population have no capability to lead let alone to rule. To be good leaders need lots of talents and wisdoms, and only few selected people have such quality! Just cannot imagine the over 1400 million people have many political parties then fight each other like in many parts of the world incl. in the wealthy West.
India is the best example on how far a population over one billion (nearly 1400 million in more precise) may go in the situation of many political parties.... I have no envy at all to such Indian political system. Other large population (above 250 million) adopting the many political parties are the USA itself, fortunate with its WRC money printers thus can print continuously to give free allowances to millions of Americans each month, and Indonesia which is not in good conditions. Other relatively large populations that adopt the many political parties and remain wealthy are mainly the old Europeans plus Japan, but still each has population less than 100 million people except Japan (130 million) and Russia with vast landmass and natural resources (146 million). The remaining wealthy nations are having population in term of tens of millions or even less.
Look carefully at these population list.
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LIST OF COUNTRIES HAVING POPULATION MORE THAN 20 MILLION PEOPLE
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Note: Those countries being highlighted in yellow color are regarded as wealthy.
Basically for Chinese people the discussion about the alternative political system beyond the one-party CPC has no merit at all. Even for myself who is not a PRC subject does recognize the existence of Communist Party of China (CPC) is truly a miracle for the nation, building country from ashes, from the very bottom position, achieving such stellar results within such short period, attaining the progress of no precedence in human civilization
I won't give a thought at all about changing the current political system in China, on how the country is ruled.
But we may discuss again this subject next 50 years...But I think in next several decades China only need to change the name of the political system, consider something like the Celestial Confucius Governing System, or simply Chinese Political System (thus Chinese Party) etc
I care more about its efficiency and output than the mere name!
But frankly I NEVER BELIEVE the many political parties are good idea for a population of THAT many (more than 300 million is already tough to govern let alone exceed 1000 million people!)
One party adopting the MERITOCRACY recruiting the best talents of nation with hearts sharing the same ideals and dreams while keeps on rejuvenating itself is the best governance system for the nation of China (and each leader must be patriotic!!!). Of course, no place in any leading position for those "han jian" 汉奸〔漢奸〕however smart they are!! Each Chinese leader must preserve the Chinese way of life and Chinese characteristics! That's the essence of the nation in addition to prosperity, harmony, unity and strength!
Watch this presentation in Scotland, explaining Chinese Meritocracy system vs the Corpotocracy
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems :: with embedded Bilingual subtitles English & Chinese
Absolutely not. I say that that moment that the CCP were to be attacked by the Chinese people is the moment that China's rise is ended, because the CCP achieves results like no other government can. In general, if a country is growing, then overthrowing its leadership will cause immediate damage to its growth and the gamble will be that the government that replaces it will not only do a better job but be able to make up for a critical lag that occurred during the switch. If it was growing fast and well, it's a poor gamble to make, but if the country were failing already, then you've got nothing to lose so a mulligan might be the best bet. With the CCP performing on top of the world, mulligan is a very bad move to make.So you're saying China would have been better off if the CCP had been defeated in its insurrection against the Nationalist government - or it was still an absolute monarchy?
If you want to argue that the overthrow of the Nationalists was a mistake because it set China back, and that you only support the CCP because it is in power now, that is a brave statement that I might not agree with but can respect to a degree. But if you were to say that all the revolutions up until now were justified but that there can be no more then I would struggle to understand your POV.
Yeah, so? Competition is fierce; no problem with that.The thing about the elite is that by definition they are the minority. Elites can only exist if there are people around to clean their houses and cook their meals - normally on low wages. Rich people do not pay their maids $100,000 a year.
Correct, it is not possible for all of them but the struggles and hard-work of every person as he fights to join that elite is the energy that drives the nation. It matters not whether this guy or that guy succeeded in the end to become elite; it matters that they both gave it their best shot and on that route, produced for the country as much results as they could.It is not possible for more than a tiny number of Chinese to join the elite, and usually these will be people who are related to or close friends with those who are already wealthy and powerful.
No country is a complete meritocracy, but China is at least as much as any country that you would vaunt.China is not a meritocracy, nor can it be under its current political system.
China mints more billionaires than any other country in the world, last I checked, it was almost equal to the rest of the world combined. You can just pretend that they all had guanxi but that's just an ostrich shoving its head into the sand. The myth is that China is not a meritocracy and has no upper mobility for the clever and innovative.So the idea that people can rise to the top if they're clever enough is largely a myth in that part of the world. Guanxi is king, and the vast majority of Chinese do not have nearly enough.
To be honest, the CCP made so many mistakes in its early days that it would have been defensible to want to overthrow it, but it didn't happen and it matured and evolved to become the most competent government in the world. The CCP met with failure after failure while it stuck to its socialist guns but after it evolved its own system that is only jokingly still called socialist or communist, it began China's rise. It's quite amazing and unexpected in retrospect. On the other hand, the KMT suffered from fundamental illness and that is the desire to follow (the West) rather than lead and thus, it would have gotten a faster started but ultimately had no (good) place to go. I would certainly not have supported them either.Oh jesus, the irony of that statement when China is ruled by a Communist party. If you'd been in the KMT in the 1920s and 1930s, Mao would have had no chance.
Been through this so many times. The elites have the big ideas and the vision; they are the cohesive component to workers which don't know how to do anything except move their hands as instructed and developers, most of whom are niche and won't be able to do much with their individual narrow fields of expertise. The elite has the big idea and puts them together so that the system that they become is worth so so much more than the sum of their individual values. The elite are the force multipliers while those they employ are linear workers. Every country and entity has linear workers but the ones with the best force multipliers are the ones that lead the world. That is why they are rare, valuable, and deserve to be paid exorbitantly.Another thing about the elites is that although they tend to get capital for something, they then pay ordinary people as little as possible to make things for them. A billionaire doesn't actually make their products personally, and they usually do little to no coding themselves. Sometimes they have the specific idea for a product, but they pay other people to make it suitable for mass manufacture. Those other people are the ones that have the ideas and work hard, not the elites.
The stupid never see the brilliance of others because it goes over their heads. If you were put into a room with Ren Zhengfei, do you think you can hold a conversation on 5G? (Yes, his engineers can, but only in their niche fields, NOT on every aspect including global trends.) How about one with Sundar Pichai on search engine development? Steve Jobs on the OS/phone development? Dr. Liang (SMIC) on semiconductor design? You get the point, right? These are obviously not regular dipshits who fell into a vat of money.So I have no idea why you think elites are these super-smart or super-capable people. They're just those best placed to use the system to print money for themselves.
As I said, Chinese people just need to do their best to develop themselves as best they could, because the government has already made a system that will harness that energy to drive the nation with. As long as they don't hate or try to attack the wealthy and successful Chinese, they can find by natural competition where they'd like to work, do their best for their bosses while the smarter ones look for opportunities to start their own businesses, and the system will do the rest.None of this means Chinese people should hate wealth or successful individuals. However, they also have no reason to defer to or trust them.
Watch this space, this bit of news looks like it will blow up
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