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> Anyone who truly believes that the "authorities" in China are any more capable than the "authorities" outside of China isn't very smart at all. For the last
by kahawe 15y ago
> Anyone who truly believes that the "authorities" in China are any more capable than the "authorities" outside of China isn't very smart at all.
For the last 50-60 years, they have proven very capable of keeping 1.3 billion people under a communist regime that arguably lacks most of our understanding of constitutional legality, considering how they came into power through the "War of Liberation" and considering the lack of human rights.
- TheSkeptic 15y agoThe challenge for the Chinese leadership is not how to keep the Chinese people under a Communist regime, but how to keep them well fed (literally and figuratively). The game of politics is far more forgiving than the laws of economics.