| I think the opposite: that China is a powder keg ready to go off at any moment - and the leaders know it very well and are generally pretty afraid of things blowing up. There are a lot of protests in China we don't hear about. Something about Chinese (in China) ... leads me to think they go big on memes. They revolt unlike anything we know of. Do you remember the video form Feb 2020 in Wuhan? The madness, hospitals flooded? Imagine all over China. As long as the economy is steaming forward, people will look the other way. But as soon as that starts to slow down, then I think it's going to get hot. Edit, for my naysayers: "The number of workers' strikes rose to a record level in 2015. The China Labor Bulletin mentioned 2,509 strikes and protests by workers and employees in China." That's just labour disputes and doesn't include disputes concerning appropriated land, safety issues with products - i.e. the kinds of things where there's some tolerance for dissent. [1] And note that it's increasing every year. Especially due to the power of Social Media, if China didn't have censorship the CCP would be out within months. They are well aware of this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China |