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[aaronjb]

But nor, interestingly, did most of the ordinary people I've been talking to seem terribly interested in western-style democracy. Not even a group of extremely bright young students, some of whom have spent years studying in foreign countries, including Britain.

Yes, they thoroughly enjoy their new freedoms and they want political reform to continue. And they also want their country to keep growing richer.

And so long as the Communist Party continues to deliver all that, they don't particularly see any reason to look for a different system.

They seemed genuinely baffled by my insistence that the ultimate freedom is the freedom to throw out the people in power if you don't like them.

"You do that in your country all the time," one of them pointed out to me, "and it doesn't seem, to make much difference. What we want is stability - and that's what we've got.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11575942


Just found it interesting.. hopefully this won't turn into a 'light blue touch paper, run away' kind of thread..

One of these days, I'd really love to visit mainland China - having been to Taiwan a couple of times (and I absolutely adore that place), it would be interesting to see the difference, considering the relationship the two places have.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I think the Chinese have had enough of 'cultral revolutions' at the moment, and all they want is a greater degree of personal freedom and wealth that steadily their political masters are delivering, albeit in a controlled fashion.  They probably also recognise, as a lot in the West do, that China is steadily becoming the new world power in economic and industrial terms.

The big question is, knowing Chinese history to a point, that they naturally do not expand greatly outside their huge existing borders, with them keeping themselves to themselves within.  Will this change? Who knows!!