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Which also tends to be the subset of people that have studied abroad, various repatriated huaqiao and college students at some of the more metropolitan colleges
by 50CNT 11y ago
Which also tends to be the subset of people that have studied abroad, various repatriated huaqiao and college students at some of the more metropolitan colleges and I guess tech people/white collar workers.
Cracking down on college students seems like a really dumb idea.
- zhemao 11y agoAnd yet, that hasn't stopped them in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1...
- Joof 11y agoI think this is a good reminder of why they would want to keep people just barely satisfied. China will go that far, but it's an expensive point to make.
- zhemao 11y agoSince Tiananmen, the party has basically bargained that people will accept economic progress as a substitute for political freedom. Now that the rapid growth of the last two decades is starting to slow down, we'll have to see how the CCP and Chinese people respond.