Thread: New Chinese Leadership

Don’t expect reform from China’s new leaders - The Washington Post


Seems the story is that the new leadership is a swing back towards the Hardline old party leadership...


So what do you guys think ???

Yes, I'm afraid change won't come quite as quick or quite as notable as many would have hoped.
With just two regarded as reform-friendly to any extent, The other five will pretty much uphold Status quo or worse.

Sad really, China had a great opportunity this time to really take steps towards a more open and democratic society...

While not the outcome on a social level most in the west would have liked to see, not much will change. Western companies will still do ever increasing business in China because after all profit is what matters most. Pretty much status quo in that respect. More worrisome is how she may deal with international matters and disputes in the future. Time will tell.

Bob

The chinese populace (the majority of them) have become so westernized they would not stand for an attempted return to the old ways.
You would see a major civil war.

Order that extra PHIG now .

Money and prosperity will win out in the end.

James.

Here in the USA we owe them so much money they won't mess with us. Besides, if they went to war with us we'd run out of equipment and supplies fast. It's all made in China.

Yea, nothing like a "Mexican standoff".

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Yea, nothing like a "Mexican standoff".

Bob

More like a Chinese fire drill if we get caught w/ our pants down.

The thing about China is that they think long term. We tend to think short term, and change has to happen tomorrow or we're not happy.
Change will happen in China, but it will happen very gradually. For example, when hongkong was transferred back to China, the Chinese happily agreed to the proposed laws, leaving the kapitalistic way of life there intact for another 50 years. 50 years is nothing to China. It is also why China is happily shoring up the US national debt. They're already thinking of collecting their debt while for the US this is so far away that noone is really thinking about it.

In the meantime, it sucks to be a chinese resident if you are not one of the movers and shakers. Civil rights don't exist there and the nail that sticks out get hammered down. Recently there was a case where someone whose land was seized for some project or other, and he didn't agree. In the end, the steam roller just rolled over him and the work continued. That is quite literally how China works.

I remember seeing an interview with a shifty CEO from a huge Philips plant in China, and when asked about the human rights issues, he just avoided the question. Between the lines, he indicated that as long as you hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil, the Chinese government gives foreign companies everything they want, and then some.