Political System Highly Unstable: China Continues to Cling to Power Despite Badly Needed Political Reform | Democracy, elections, and voting at DC
Chinese political system could ‘blow up’, says US academic China’s top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to “blow up at some point,” US academic Francis Fukuyama told AFP in an interview. “China has always been a country with a big information problem where the emperor can’t jump.
Dissident Chinese writer brands Mo Yan a ‘state poet’ Dissident Chinese writer Liao Yiwu, who lives in Germany, on Saturday savaged China’s Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan as a “state poet”, close to the communist regime. “I was shocked,” Liao told German news magazine Der Spiegel, according to excerpts from an interview published on Saturday. Mo Yan: Political System Highly Unstable.
Michael Chow says
“China’s top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to “blow up at some point,” US academic Francis Fukuyama told AFP in an interview.”
Well, it’s been 10 months now. Is Fukuyama still anxiously waiting for the blow up?
Adrian Tawfik says
Predictors of economic/political trouble in China have proven wrong time and again but I think it is still a major likelihood. China’s capitalist dictatorship is not original in anyway and they will find that capitalism without democracy creates problems. Can you say that the Tibetans or Chinese Muslims feel that things are going just fine? There are serious issues being swept under the table.