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I expect China to clamp down harder and harder on its population as well as deflect attention from it as the economy slides to try keep the party in power. Look
by christkv 7y ago
I expect China to clamp down harder and harder on its population as well as deflect attention from it as the economy slides to try keep the party in power. Look for the social credit system to expand even more and also more rhetoric about it all being the fault of evil foreigners.
- spectramax 7y agoIt is scary. Man's psychology is vulnerable and governments taking advantage of it can only end bad as history has taught us.
- AFascistWorld 7y agoTo better understand China, you will have to understand that the CCP was nothing but peasant rebels not too long ago, the notion of "the country was built by us" so that anything is our rewards and have to be governed by our progeny, is deep-rooted. And think of the core governning clique as a criminal gang.
- ashildr 7y agoNowadays that last sentence alone does not give away whether your post is about China, the US or Russia.
- thepaperone 7y agoHyperbole serves no one
- t0ughcritic 7y agoAgreed most upper echelons of governments can be seen as gangs.
- rqs 7y agoHate to say it but it's already happening and getting more clear day by day. I start to suspect all of this is intentional, including all of those trade war "failures". You have a threat (The trade war with USA, well and maybe South China sea etc) and a slowing economy. Now many Chinese companies are in need of help from the CCP government, and the help is not for free. In Zhejiang, their government want to send "Government representatives" to private firms[0] to "help" them on site. I will not be in total surprise if one day all of those companies turn themselves to "State controlled". [0] https://www.voachinese.com/a/China-To-Send-Officials-To-100-Private-Firms-20190923/5094648.html https://www.voachinese.com/a/China-To-Send-Officials-To-100-... (Chinese, but the URL already told the story)
- throwaway2048 7y agoThe idea that "free enterprise" wasn't state controlled to begin with in China is a western illusion that a lot of people seem desperate to believe.
- Yizahi 7y agoIf huge country enters recession and crisis then, with some exceptions, it usually goes to war with its neighbors. See Russia waging war for last 20 years constantly, see Iran expanding to nearby countries to shut internal crisis. China does the same - nine dash occupation of south china sea, cold war with Taiwan, conflicts with Japan and nearly all other neighbors. If big crisis will happen in China it will cause a big war in the region. All dictators do this without a fault.
- NonEUCitizen 7y agoUS (and UK) have been in more and longer wars than China and Russia in the past 70 years, recession or no recession. And their wars cause damage on a global rather than regional scale.
- birdyrooster 7y agoConvenient window of time to pick.
- NonEUCitizen 7y agoPRC has only been around for 70 years.
- birdyrooster 7y agoI am sorry, but you mentioned countries and not government regimes so it wasn't clear at first.