[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I agree. Sooner or later, those 1 billion folks in the backwoods are gonna want a slice of the faux prosperity pie. There's already unrest in some of the Muslim provinces in western China, and Tibet is always a hotspot. Throw in the fact that communism is completely antithetical to basic human nature(why else would they so fear Falun Gong?), and I could see the regime folding like a house of cards within the next 20-30 years.

[Paul Ross]

I could see the regime folding like a house of cards within the next 20-30 years.

It certainly "could". But not necessarily...and not without help. These kinds of regimes don't fold easily. The Soviets didn't. They didn't "just" collapse, or by the milk of human kindness springing from Gorbachev's breast, as the liberals want to believe.

They were pushed over the cliff by Ronald Reagan,

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Reagan's administration empowered the internal opponents and dissenters by our strongest shows of support.

We had a confrontational strategy then. Which was magnanimous in victory:

Unfortunately, what we have now is one of denial and self-delusion about the nature of their regime. And with that self-delusion, we have empowered their regime, rewarding them immensely with an exponentially-increasing economic windfall...all for merely pretending to be one of the club.

[Strategerist]

why else would they so fear Falun Gong?

That tells you a lot about the hidden fragility of the state there; they're scared s***less of what is basically a yoga club.