Friday, February 18, 2011

The Economist keeps at China

The Economist loves nothing more than keeping China's feet over the fire.  Banyan's article points out the similarities between China's repressive "democracy" (one party democracy because that one party is unanimously popular?!?) and the Muslim-world autocracies Tunisia and Egypt that have fallen, and the others that could be lined up like dominos. The only area I would not agree with him is that since China doesn't a single, central polarizing figure like Hosni, this defuses some resentment.  They don't need one - all Chinese know who their target is - their government - and whether it has a face or not its policies and lack of freedom is still as equally stultifying.

http://www.economist.com/node/18178177

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