Posted by
Tim Blessing on Monday, April 07, 2008 7:30:05 PM
What is the fate of China?
I have watched and read about China's internal developments since I can remember.
China has an unemployment rate at 10%,, which sound's like a lot unless you see the bigger number of roughly 100 Million unemployed.
They wonder the country looking for work with no way of settling down.
There is tension between the Central Government in Beijing and the Provincial Governments over economic policy.
The Chinese speak two main dialects: Mandarin and Cantonese.
Economic Development is along the coast and the interior is just starting to grow in the last few years.
There were riots in China 3 years ago by College Students that were put down.
The key to understanding the Communist Party is Chinese call the Mandate of Heaven. If the government loses this mandate then a revolt alway's follows.
The Chinese Communists fear a word called Chaos. Meaning, social unrest that may lead to destabilization of the regime.
The Chinese have a Middle Class of 300 Million by their standards.
There are 800 Million still on the farm.
The population number's about 1.3 Billion.
They opened up their economy to foreign investment so as to create an economic infrastructure.
Outsiders viewed this as a way to moderate the authoritarian tendencies of the Chinese Government.
You have in China today what Richard Nixon called Communist Capitalism.
Communist Government with a Capitalist Economy.
A Contradiction that has never been resolved by any government.
In essence, the Chinese Communists sought to advance economic issues and tightly control social issues.
That two pronged approach is held together only by the power of the Communist Party.
In China, the top man in the government is called Maximum Leader or Paramount Leader. Right now, that man is Hu Jintao.
What he say's serve's as an order an the other members of the party follow his lead.
Deng Xiaoping had this title even though he supposedly retired.
Jiang Zemin was called Maximum Leader at one point, but for some mysterious reason he was retired.
China's provinces each have their own culture.
China is supposedly 90% Han Chinese with a lot of other ethnic groups.
China has 100 Million Young Males in excess of the female population do to abortion.
China is not in charge in North Korea. North Korea is quietly working with the Russians and the United States.
If Taiwan declare's independence and the Chinese Communists do nothing about that lead's to a loss of the Mandate of Heaven.
Hong Kong broke away in part several years and the Chinese Communists lost face.
China has a growing Christian Movement of some 80 Million Adherents.
The Chinese Christians project 500 Million Chinese Christians within 30 years.
The Chinese view surrounding countries as their tributary states. Their word not mine.
The only Country they fear is Japan because of WW II.
The Indians have opened their border with China in an attempt for trade and cultural exchanges.
Russia has closed its borders with China from what I have read and forced the Chinese back into China.