Comments on: Anti-government demonstrations in China

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:44:30 +0000

The Chinese people need guns. The US should be smuggling them in.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:31:08 +0000

We’re about in the same boat.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:37:24 +0000

I’d love to see the CCP fall, but sadly, I’m not expecting it. –Kate

That’s prudent. We’re not in the final ten-second countdown to the end of the CCP. But bubbles burst and I say the CCP is a bubble.

To be sure, the CCP is plenty ruthless and totalitarian. Nonetheless, if the Chinese economy collapses, accompanied by famine and deaths, that’s the end of the CCP.

Perhaps I’ve been watching too many Peter Zeihan videos, but that’s how it looks to me. Between Zero Covid, the Chinese mortgage crisis, the high youth unemployment, the Ukraine War sanctions, Chinese lag in tech, the US backing out of being the Global Policeman, and demographic collapse, I don’t see the CCP getting out of this decade alive.

One reads about all the Chinese dynasties in history. Great stuff. But the flip-side — like all the previous French Republics — is those dynasties collapsed.

Why not the CCP?

The USSR is gone.

Why not the CCP?

By: Ray Van Dune

Ray Van Dune — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:46:53 +0000

Tyrants sometimes use military action against the source of a perceived injustice to unify the country behind them, the way Argentina used the Falklands. The fact that the Falkland’s source of support was far away made it a tempting option.

Now let’s see, who might Xi conveniently use? Another nearby island with a far away ally would be…?

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:04:26 +0000

I’d love to see the CCP fall, but sadly, I’m not expecting it.

By: physicsguy

physicsguy — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:55:21 +0000

Yahoo Finance was reporting that the wonderful Apple corporation has been cooperating with the CCP in making harder for communication with cell phones for the protestors.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:32:57 +0000

China has essentially had 3000+ years of top-down centralized power.

The Chou dynasty was ‘top down centralized power’? The Warlord period?

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:14:45 +0000

China’s former “one child” policy has proven to have been a disastrous one.

Lots of YouTube videos about irreversible demographic decline coming to China in the next couple of decades, leading to a predicted halving of the Chinese population.

If true, I’d imagine that Xi or any other Chinese leader might take any number of risks facing such a bleak future, and while he still has the manpower available.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:33:53 +0000

Yeah, mega-microagressions ought to be something they can understand….

“Twitter Bans Multiple Antifa Accounts After Threats And Attempts To Burn Down Tesla Dealerships”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-bans-multiple-antifa-accounts-after-threats-and-attempts-burn-down-tesla
Opening graf:
“Elon Musk’s Twitter has suspended several accounts belonging to extreme leftist Antifa groups following years of incitement to violence culminating in threats to commit arson against Tesla facilities….”

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:22:41 +0000

I wonder if students on American campuses can even fathom what’s going on there…
Maybe the ONLY way to describe it is in terms of “a whole lotta microaggressions”….

Mega-microaggressions?