> I just can’t see the PRC and the CCP in its current form sticking around long enough. I took an upper-level course from a China expert in 1989. At the time,

> I just can’t see the PRC and the CCP in its current form sticking around long enough. I took an upper-level course from a China expert in 1989. At the time, a big question was exactly how long China's government could maintain national unity unity in the face of the many contradictory forces pulling at it. Turns out the answer was: longer than a lot of Westerners thought.