ellisonz
What is happening in China today - and have happened in China the last couple of years now, is rather interesting.. It tell a story about a China far more fractured than they want to show for the world. It show a government who is discover that some, want a different road for China to travel.
It also show, that "old times" under Mao, have some resonance with many people, as some of them, who are now under house arrest, and who is accused on trying to make a coup to take the power in China can play the MAO card, and win sympathies for it. Even though I doubt that most Chinese born after 1976, wil go back to a China who was isolated, and poor..
The consequences about this all, could be many. One is maybe a hard crack-down of dissent, that be true social media, as internet, and by force with other means in the city's
It could also end in the Communist Party looking down the abbeys of a growing resentment from the countryside, and the interior of China, who have not yet experienced the full force of the new modern China and who have not experienced the new form of wealth who are been made possible in the costal areas of China for more than 30 year now...
And, in the absolutely worse case scenario it could end in some form of political "civil war" where groups inside the communist party is using infighting to either make the governance of the whole of China far more difficult, or maybe even impossible, as parts of China is tearing apart from Beijing.. That have happened before in the long history of China..
It doesn’t help either, that Bo Xilai one of the premier accused of wanting to make a coup on Beijing, have innsuled the out going president and most of the higher echelons of the communist party of beeing like some of the late dynasties where the last emperors was more like a shadow, rather than emperors with powers.. The Chinese leadership is always keen on protecting their own history for the future - and be told that they are like some of the last emperors of long lost dynasties are not welcome... It is important to know, that in China, it is important to be known as good leaders.. Like in the old times, it was important to be known as "good emperors" it is today, important to be known as "good leaders" of the country.. And in many cases the absolutely leadership in China, rule the country, not that far away from the old emperors - even though the Chinese leadership doesn’t have any absolutely ruler, who rule for life.. That Experience they got under Mao, and it looks like China dosen't want to repeat that again anytime soon.. Even though the Chinese president, have a lot of power, and say in most cases in China, the leaderships is not as it as, when Mao was alive..
Another case, is that Bo Xilai, also have had the support of the PLA, who also is an important instrument and powerhouse in the Chinese political world.. The great generals of the PLA have a fair share of power, and even though they do have been known to be conservative in their use of force. It is not always known, if they want to choose to support the legal government in Beijing. And it is rumored that some generals, who are holdover from the old ages, is not happy with the pace China is opening up to the world... And they also want a fare more aggressive foreign policy, specially against the US, who many sees as the most important "enemy" for making China a Great nation
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NC29Ad02.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NC27Ad04.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NC23Ad01.html
Diclotican
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