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Originally Posted by davidmash
I assume TS stands for Tienanmen square but I cannot understand the rest of what you said.
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What I meant was that the Chinese people are not going to risk another Tianemen square. Thus the leadership probably do not have to worry about not being around.
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Gorbachev .... I think he realized that they system they had was broken and it was time to call it a night.
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The system they had was communism. It was a failure out the starting gate and eventually died a deserved, and inevitable, death. China is not (despite the name of it's ruling clique) a communist country. It looked, and learned at what was happening in the USSR - even prior to it's collapse - and determined not to make that mistake. It's a capitalist country and as such the peoples standard of living will rise.
People will continue to make noises about freedom, but economic prosperity is vastly more important to them than freedom.
- Peter.
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