Posted on 09/06/2018 5:32:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has carefully crafted an image of himself as a big-picture visionary, tasked with turning China into the world’s preeminent superpower. While Xi has focused on taking over the world, however, the average Chinese citizen appears increasingly frustrated with his inability to provide competent government functions like adequate education and health care.
The result has been a wave of unprecedented public protests against Xi’s party, which has promised to bring all of China into a “new era” as a “moderately prosperous society.” From angry parents whose children received faulty vaccinations to Maoists outraged that a communist government would stand in the way of worker unionization, the outrage is coming from communities that Beijing once considered safely tamed, not the typical crowd of political dissidents and human rights activists.
Within the past week, Xi’s regime has had to contend with two major protests – one by parents in Leiyang, Hunan, who hurled bricks at police when they found out they were going to be forced to pay for private schooling because of a lack of government resources – and a protest that wasn’t in Shenzhen, Guangdong, where police arrested and broke up a coalition of Maoist students uniting in defense of laborers’ union rights.
The regime has issued little coverage in state media to these protests. Instead, once again, instead of covering the concerns of Chinese people, it has turned to its One Belt, One Road (OBOR) colonization project, inviting African heads of state to a lavish banquet and announcing $60 billion in debt relief for African countries, money that could have gone into Chinese infrastructure, health care, or education.
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Inviting African heads of state to a lavish banquet and announcing $60 billion in debt relief for African countries, money that could have gone into Chinese infrastructure, health care, or education.
Looks like they are trying to do the same crap as the US, handing out money while it is needed at home. A great way to steer up resentment.
My son travels frequently to China and is very tuned in to the situation there via his work. He says failure is way too strong a word, that the government does a very good job of blocking news from the outside world.
My son also adds that while protests are rare they are escalating in second tier cities due to high debt levels and collapsing school systems. And the violent crackdowns on worker protests are also real.
“announcing $60 billion in debt relief for African countries, money that could have gone into Chinese infrastructure, health care, or education.”
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Considering the money America has squandered in NATO, Iraq, Afghan, Syria......
The stupid journalist needs to fix his/her warped brain.
The author has been smoking so much of that devil weed. They haven’t a friggin’ clue as to what is actually happening in China.
Nonsense. I am in China and I can get every single friggin’ American news source.
Seriously? He says quite the opposite. Do the Chinese you know have access like you do? Genuinely curious.
OK, got some clarification from my son. He says that if you have a non-Chinese SIM card or VPN to go around the firewall on your laptop you can access everything. So he, like you, can get American news sources. But Chinese don’t have access to this. In fact, their Chinese SIM cards remain behind the firewall even when they aren’t in China.
The average individual in the world doesn’t care about world power. They want their governments to improve their lives and country. The real problem in this world is expansionist power seekers! If you follow a conqueror you are a fool. How has any culture made everyone’s lives better through war? I believe in a strong military. Primarily as a deterrent tom war. For conquerors seek out the weak.
The goal of expansionist wars have never been about making everyone's lives better.
They are about making another buck for the few people who already have lot's of them.
vote folks VOTE.!!!!!@
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