(TRUTH BY REALITY) If the dream’s realization is close at hand, what is there to fear ??? Plenty, it turns out. One specter that continues to cause anxiety is a possible recurrence of the wave of protests that erupted in 1989. Newer fears include a Chinese variant of the Arab Spring and a possible economic crisis, triggered by a collapse of the inflated housing bubble, that would undermine the party’s basis of legitimacy: Its Ability To Steadily Raise Living Standards; The party’s anxiety over these bad dreams can be seen in many things —in its calls for official think tanks to study carefully the “Color Revolutions” that toppled East European and Central Asian autocrats, and in the suggestion that party cadres read de Tocqueville’s account of the French Revolution, -- to ensure that China avoids the mistakes of the ancien régime.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:45:13 +0000
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