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By: conscienceinchina

conscienceinchina — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:49:39 +0000

Cnnoway: Of course, the precondition is, that democracy has conquered dictatorship in China.

Separation is not a best choice for any economy and polity, including Europe, where now is more and more reunifying. Chinese history is many-time's alternates of separations and reunion, that separations were always longer than separations, thanks to the Qin Dynasty unifying the Hanzi (Chinese characters).

By: cnnoway

cnnoway — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:51:37 +0000

I seriously doubt the federation idea would work in any way given China's long reinforced belief in unification since the Qin Dynasty. The will to become one unity has been always so strong that the Chinese even wish there would only be one government in the world. In this regard, federation of any kind will eventually end up again in a centralized power. This is why I said separation is a better option as the autonomy of a smaller state is not given but seized and secured by and within its own power. In competition, any attempt of one state to control others with force has to carefully consider and evaluate cost politically and economically, very much like the way European countries always do.

By: john2008obama

john2008obama — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:01:05 +0000

Exactly, the top-down thing never worked in China.

By: conscienceinchina

conscienceinchina — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:17:53 +0000

Cnnoway: We don't need to "break China into a number of different small countries". The only way China will go is to become a federation, or commonwealth, in which each province(or state, region)will be really autonomous, just like the US, due to that the imbalances and differences between regions in China are so outstanding and large. The centralized, from-above-to-below governing system is sooo stupid and the base of corruption and sloth.

By: cnnoway

cnnoway — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:48:47 +0000

I don't see any hope that the dire situation will change in the future. Only will it get even worse as the government's 'money' power expands. If there is any solution to this problem, so far as I can see, it should be up to implanting freedom and democracy in a top-down manner. The other equally effective but more revolutionary way would be to break China into a number of different small countries so as to increase competition and mobility. However, few Chinese would fancy this idea as they have been long cultivated in an ideology that the state is bigger that a person. So, no way.

By: conscienceinchina

conscienceinchina — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:11:29 +0000

"200000 yuan ($29000)for dead , 30000 yuan ($4380) for serious cases of kidney stones, 2000 yuan ($290) for less severe cases"---That's the "compensation"! The life of Chinese is cheap, so cheap... If a message could "damp down public anger", a cup of water would put out an erupting volcano!