The Chinese population as a whole has seen an increase in disposable income and standard of living. You don’t riot under those conditions.

Panther on February 23, 2013 at 4:02 PM

This is another good point. I seem to recall reading that they have the fastest advancing standard of living in the world right now.

Oh, and it was thanks to capitalism. Think they call it a “socialist market economy under Chinese conditions.” Whatever, it is free-economic zones enacted under Deng Xiaoping.

Panther on February 23, 2013 at 4:02 PM

In some ways, the Chinese market is much more free. If you want to start a business, you just roll up the garage door and start selling stuff. As long as you grease a few palms now and then, you’ll be fine. It depends on where you are.

Here, your kids can’t even sell lemonade without a permit.

The Chinese population as a whole has seen an increase in disposable income and standard of living. You don’t riot under those conditions.

Oh, and it was thanks to capitalism. Think they call it a “socialist market economy under Chinese conditions.” Whatever, it is free-economic zones enacted under Deng Xiaoping.

The ChiComs delude themselves by pretending their Communists… The United States(and the American Right)_ deule themselves by pretending they are not Communists.

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But America has so many problems! No, she doesn’t. America has only one problem: America is a communist country.

Experienced tyrants.

Count to 10 on February 23, 2013 at 3:38 PM

Exactly. Arab tyranny boils down to “bunch of bullies with guns (or swords in years gone by) led by a priests of said fruitcake religion and/or some mouth-breathing strongman.” They have no real analog to the KGB, just glorified schoolyard bullies whose ‘tattling’ is lethal.

The Chinese may not have a world-spanning religious system but they run a way tighter ship.

I’d say the Chinese are for more adept at virtually everything, including tyranny.

trigon on February 23, 2013 at 3:44 PM

That’s not even the half of it! Arabs don’t even bother stealing anything from Westerners that isn’t a gun/bomb, materials for same, or for counterfeiting their money. They literally have no use or interest for something as simple as making knockoff video games. Only implements of death.

Even the ChiComs aren’t THAT one-track-minded, and they occasionally manage to come up with something on their own. And compare their economic rise to that of Terrorland. The latter had nothing and never would have had anything, but for their economic lottery win of “By Allah! That stinky black stuff is worth a fortune to the infidels!”

It takes courage to change – even, as many Chinese and Russians found out throughout the 20th Century, when the alternative to risking death is death.

Americans, especially Americans on the Right, should know that any nation which adopts multi-party representative democracy will be hijacked against it’s own people.

China is more “democratic” as a spiritual expression of it’s Demos than any nation in the West.