NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 12
th, 2021 at 1:02pm:
We're all aware of what cracks in a regime looks like...
Yes, witness the US Capitol riots....
Quote:The Chinese regime is showing them.
China's government has to deal with persistent deluded democracy ideology, a battle for rational government promoting well-ordered community relations over adversarial multi party 'democracy'.... which is merely justification for elevating individual self-interest over well-ordered community relations, so that fools like Bezos can sell joyrides in space to rich people, while entrenched poverty and soaring inequality in the richest country on earth (but not for much longer) are tearing the place apart.
Quote:Xi's paranoia about security at the 100-party was not because of foreign forces taking a potshot at him... It was a paranoid fear of internal forces taking him out.
All leaders have to take security precautions.
Quote:There's a rumour he was wearing a bullet-proof vest.
Smart move. Some right wing ideologues are particularly violent, sick animals, as grappler's remarks prove...and you only need one of them to show up: until the triumph of socialism leads to a universally peaceful and prosperous world, the nut jobs are always a clear and present danger.