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>China is going to need multiple revolutions at some point or another in the next few decades. Really, why? Because they have some problem according to western

• kijin 14y ago
  No, because their current economic growth is unsustainable in the long term. It's going to be very painful for them to make the necessary adjustments, and social turmoil tends to accompany any large-scale economic adjustment. That's just how human history works. People who are perfectly OK with "oppressive" regimes will still rise up with pitchforks if there's not enough food on their table. Not to mention that China will somehow need to resolve the apparent inconsistency between their government's professed ideology and their actual economic policies. Politics cannot escape unscathed from major economic developments. That's another recipe for political instability that has proven itself virtually everywhere, and it doesn't matter whether Westerners think it's wrong or right.
  • onetwothreefour 14y ago
    "No, because their current economic growth is unsustainable in the long term." Yeah, people have been saying that for a while. The problem is that China (or at least, the leadership) doesn't actually care what you (or the entire Western world) think. And that's a big problem for a lot of people whose job it is to write about China or try to tell them how they're going to fail or what they should be doing. And on an economic front, it's not like the Western world is doing any better right now. Additionally, no one knows what China should be doing because no one else is China, has had China's history, or has to support 1.3 billion people. They'll figure it out eventually, even if it means some unpleasantness along the way.