God, he sounds like one of these people who love to support the croney capitalists in Taiwan just because he hates the Chinese.

This guy has got to be some kind of internet troll. I think the bit about Taiwan “buying up all of China lock stock and barrel” tipped me off.

when you see photoes of the soviets looking down from the Kremlin during National day parade, I thought it was the weather that made them look glum, though Krueschev seem to some character its the face, i can see laugh lines

Well, the tutors remarks on my critique on some modernist/ postmodernist philospher whose name I have long forgotten was someting along the lines of ” needing to write effectively ,succinctly and in analysing and presenting well formed and balanced arguments.
(A hard task for a english as a second language student) and because I dont know when this blog will be closed off, Im making a n immediate response without taking time off to think about it.

I think its an area where the KMT need to exercise a little patience, be a little flexible, and try to leave it open for consideration at some designated time,…….. eg abit like the HK arrangement I guess…..HOwever i would like to see this happen,

the Government of the PRC have to use this time to win back the trust and respect of the people and become a credible party worth voting for. They could possibly achieve this by permitting genuine criticism and freedom of the press something along the lines of Mao’s let a hundred flowers bloom campaign, although I think his was done for diferrent reasons. By doing this and if the government can stand the heat.a great deal of the rorts and corruption could possibly be stopped and there would not be any need for these selected stage managed corruption trials.
But this itself would present problems because I have no doubt there would be an infinite amount of embarrassing criticism, so much so that China’s critics would take great delight in highlighting. This could lead to conservative elements putting the kybosh on these changes
Other problems include the fact that China currently lacks the leaders who have enough Mana/pull to effect such changes and a cant see any in the horizon. Its Leaders still have the soviet type imagery…. its a bit hard to explain but theres no Deng or Chou En Lai, people, who have actually lived in the West,got their hands dirty while earning a living (didnt deng work in a French automobile factory as a young lad/) and observe first hand , freedom of the press and democracy
functioning. I also think the PRC, let a greater cross section of skilled power, occupy positions of genuine authority.By this I mean lawyers, people educated in the social sciences, develop a different mindset on how to handle problems.
I think unless they can somehow effect such changes while agreeing to give up party monopoly, they will go the way of the dodo.
While I have no great affection for Chinas rulers, I am quite proud of some of their achievements, and would in some ways, be sorry to the way they ram things through, for good or worse disappear,only to be replaced by this political infighting as part of the decision making process

The American variety, for example, mainly accept the status quo, and take such terms as “representative democracy” seriously.

Americans have not even settled the issue of what “represent” might mean, if anything. They just keep repeating the word, whatever the practice, as if it carries some meaning and significance on its own.

This “representative” votes for what his constituents want, that one against, but they both “represent”, and act “democratically”.

An American would likely just say “nut”.

I think the mainland government mainland government lost two golden opportunities in regard to both Tiananmen and Falun Gong.

Brutal suppression in both cases sent messages exactly the opposite of what they intended.

It actually showed the regime’s political weakness in my opinion.

What sort of weakness in detail is complex. Just the Party?