China must reform or die?

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Considering EVERYTHING which comes out in China is censored heavily, it is a big surprise that these comments came out and the general isn't dead or in a Laogai. Either the CCP is testing the waters or he has gone renegade.... I suspect they are testing the waters.

Either way the CCP looks to be more devious than first imagined.... in something I ghost wrote a few months ago. I wrote a conversation between Beth and Robert. Where they spot the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong (where this is 100% legal and allowed).... Copyright assignment says Nein about posting this conversation as it is no longer mine anymore. I swapped it for some £££ But it went like this. Effectively our democracies have become kleptocracies and broken. We have two party systems where nothing ever changes.

The painting of the government a different colour changes nothing. In the UK I mean how different really is Tory from Labour? While there might be some peripheral differences such as Tories being slightly more liberal (Anti ID cards) and Labour being heavily authoritarian. Effectively the puppet masters pulling the strings are the same. Like in the USSA* (see footnote).... erm I mean USA. the Politicians are controlled by the same big companies and interests.



In that in Taiwan Lee Teng Hui in the 1990s moved Taiwan to a democracy (NK calls itself a democracy too!). Yet Taiwan has pretty much STILL been ruled by the KMT old men as previously. So in effect nothing has changed, bar maybe the political prisoners are released. But the wholesale theft and kleptocracy keeps going on as normal

Henry Ford said something similar to this:

"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black"


Interesting times, article is below verbatim.

A Chinese two-star general has warned his conservative Communist Party masters and firebrand People's Liberation Army colleagues that China must either embrace US-style democracy or accept Soviet-style collapse.

As officers of similar rank rattle their sabres against US aircraft carriers in the Yellow and South China seas, General Liu Yazhou says China's rise depends on adopting America's system of government rather than challenging its dominance off China's eastern coast.

''If a system fails to let its citizens breathe freely and release their creativity to the maximum extent, and fails to place those who best represent the system and its people into leadership positions, it is certain to perish,'' writes General Liu Yazhou in Hong Kong's Phoenix magazine, which is widely available on news stands and on the internet throughout China.

The fact of General Liu's article suggests China's political and ideological struggles are more lively than commonly thought, ahead of a rotation of leaders in the Central Military Commission and then the Politburo in 2012.

''The secret of US success is neither Wall Street nor Silicon Valley, but its long-surviving rule of law and the system behind it,'' he says. ''The American system is said to be 'designed by genius and for the operation of the stupid'.

''A bad system makes a good person behave badly while a good system makes a bad person behave well. Democracy is the most urgent thing, without it there can be no sustainable rise.''
General Liu was promoted recently from deputy political commissar of the PLA Air Force to political commissar of the National Defence University. His father was a senior military officer and his father-in-law was Li Xiannian, one of Chinese communism's ''Eight Immortals'' - and a one-time president of China.

While many of China's ''princelings'' have exploited their revolutionary names to amass wealth and power, General Liu has exploited his pedigree to provide protection to push his contrarian and reformist views.

But General Liu's latest writings are extraordinary by any standards. His article urges China to shift its strategic focus from the country's developed coastal areas, including Hong Kong and Taiwan - ''the renminbi belt'' - towards resource-rich Central Asia.

But he argues that China will never have strategic reach by relying on wealth alone. ''A nation that is mindful only of the power of money is a backward and stupid nation,'' he writes. ''What we could believe in is the power of the truth.

''The truth is knowledge and knowledge is power.''

But such national power can only come with political transformation. ''In the coming 10 years, a transformation from power politics to democracy will inevitably take place,'' he says.
General Liu inverts the lesson that Chinese politicians have traditionally drawn from the collapse of the Soviet Union - that it was caused by too much political reform - by arguing that reform arrived too late.

Since 2008 the Communist Party has steadily tightened the political screws to stifle dissent.
Many Chinese are concerned that reforms have been blocked by powerful military, security, corporate and family groups that benefit from the status quo.

General Liu was famously outspoken until he stopped publishing his essays about five years ago.
It is unclear how his latest article appeared and whether he has backing within the system.
Last year Hong Kong's Open magazine published a leaked report of one of General Liu's internal speeches which raised the taboo topic of how some generals refused to lead troops into Tiananmen Square in 1989.

General Liu returned to the subject of Tiananmen in his Phoenix article, saying ''a nationwide riot'' was caused by the incompatibility of traditional power structures with reform.
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USSA ~ I mean look at the bail outs, there is something fundamentally wrong with the fact that banks fuck it all up and the tax payer bails them out regularly