I'm afraid to consider now that China's main problem besides climate change is its No.1 leader Mr. Xi , though quite handsome and purportedly well educated both east and west Mr. Xi Jin ping is married to a romantic view of China's past under Chairman Mao ze doing(stupid-Google keyboard)
MAO TSE TUNG's exclusive rule of China was dependent on the majority of Chinese being very poor, lacking education and having had no exposure to western tech and markets. A quotation in his little red book extolled the "virtues" of no knowledge saying "the masses minds are like blank paper on which the party's ideas can be written" !
But as Mr. Xi should know today's Chinese masses are far more educated, have been saturated with Western ideas, traveled to Western countries and experienced the technology and consumer lifestyles of today's world. So much of Mr. Xi's attempts to roll China back to 1969 are dangerously incompatible with reality.
Then there's the thinly veiled secret plan to use covid mass lock downs and the suffering they bring to prepare China's masses for the sacrifice and discipline of WARTIME which Mr. Xi, like Putin, is determined to inflict on his people for no other reason than because he considers it is UNFINISHED BUSINESS from the the revolution of 1949 and a democracy so close to the communist mainland could be subversive to CCP rule.
But if the PRC were a democracy and the majority of the public or "masses" were asked whether or not they wanted to start a war with other Chinese on an island just off Fujian province they probably would say what a crazy idea from political men who's minds are stuck 50 years in the past!
WE VOTE NO TO WAR WITH CHINESE ! Would most likely be the popular chant from youth across China including many in the PLA-NAVY. So will Mr. Xi act like Old Mr. Putin and assume he can drag the "masses" through the mud and blood of war using 50 year old CCP propaganda, censorship and goose stepping bayonets?
Well he'd better remember that the Party was put in power by the ANGER OF THE MASSES and the masses still have plenty of fighting spirit if pushed to far by dictators and emperors.
