The party’s promise to overtake the U.S. economy and make China the world’s dominant power will probably never come to pass, nor will its promise to raise Chinese living standards to a developed-world level. No wonder Xi Jinping is battening down the hatches politically, and no wonder the nomenklatura are going along with it. Stagnation awaits.
More than 200 Hong Kong police raided and shut down one of the last pro-democracy news websites in Hong Kong on Dec. 29, in the latest sign that the Beijing regime will no longer tolerate dissent of any kind. It was total overkill—a couple of cops with a court order would have sufficed—but they were ‘sending a message’ to other ‘malcontents.'LONDON, U.K.—More than 200 Hong Kong police raided and shut down one of the last pro-democracy news websites in Hong Kong on Dec.
GwynneDyer Changing our vocabulary can help take the adversarial tone out of the relationship between governments, and in doing so, engage towards establishing a new accord, with honest, open dialogue, exploring the advantages to both, creating the opportunity to effect change from within.
GwynneDyer Certainly one opinion Domestic political stability is a prerequisite for charting a steady strategic course in foreign and domestic affairs, and needed to become an economic superpower. That alone is why China will 'overtake the US.'