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2011-02-24 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese call for more Tunisia-inspired 'Jasmine rallies'

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 More out-of-touch overseas idiots. The CCP isn't going anywhere because there's no massive discontent. Things are better in China right now than they've ever been in its 5,000 year history and only getting better every day.

Posted by gromky 2011-02-24 03:31|| 2011-02-24 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 The CCP needn't go anywhere in order for change to happen. Chinese history is full of alternating periods of centralized power and decentralization and confusion. While I doubt we are likely to see a return to the fractured state of the Spring and Autumn centuries, my own Chinese friends are quite frank about their anger at local corruption, pollution etc. The impact of the one-child-rule generation, with its massive gender unbalance, has yet to be measured, but will almost certainly include much increased militancy, both political and military, as the authorities seek to divert all that testosterone outward.

Posted by lotp 2011-02-24 05:26|| 2011-02-24 05:26|| Front Page Top

#3 The US is being pulled into the conflict. It looks like a set-up, but then again, people have been known to do stupid things/
Video of US Ambassador Jon Huntsman at "Jasmine Revolution" protests in Beijing hits the Chinese interwebs

Posted by tipper 2011-02-24 06:09|| 2011-02-24 06:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's see:

1. corrupt, authoritairian gov't
2. decently-to-well-educated populace
3. tech-savy, hardworking
4. overabundance of young, single men

As long as they don't buy into the gov't line of "All our troubles are due to ~~juice~~ Western meddling", then things could continue to get interesting -- maybe on a calmer scale, like Czechoslovakia.

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-02-24 18:33|| 2011-02-24 18:33|| Front Page Top

#5 China has issues:

There is still a housing bubble that hasn't popped over there.

Massive amounts of single men with no women and fewer employment opportunities

Massive government corruption

Pollution at never before seen levels

Crushing poverty in the rural areas

Will the government be brought down? I doubt it. Will they be forced to change and bring more reforms and more freedom. I believe so.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-24 18:40|| 2011-02-24 18:40|| Front Page Top

#6 China has issues:

Not to mention recent reports of severe water and grain shortages. Grain can be bought, using some of that excess balance of payments money that China's let pile up, but where is the water to come from?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-24 21:13|| 2011-02-24 21:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Also, the state run banks have huge amounts of debt that the government backing to keep the housing market afloat.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-24 22:35|| 2011-02-24 22:35|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 - was that China or the US (Fed) you're talking about?

Posted by OldSpook 2011-02-24 22:44|| 2011-02-24 22:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I suspect he's talking about China.

Also, over the past ten years the money supply in _China_ has been expanding greatly. Even more than ours, even considering the "qualitative easing." It's worked for them for the moment because they have the whole world to spread out the inflationary effects, and also because they're a lot better at getting actual stimulus out of their spending than the mandarins in Washington are. (They used it to corner the market on rare earths, among many other things, while the US QE2 just goes to transfer payments and covering various forms of derivative casino).

But it's still inflation and it still has deleterious effects, especially when they bet that food will be cheap forever, and it turned out not to be the case.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-02-24 22:52|| 2011-02-24 22:52|| Front Page Top

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